marketing November 2008

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Fedora 11 already making the news
by Amit Caleechurn 22 Nov '08

22 Nov '08

Hi, We are still finalizing Fedora 10 talking points and Phoronix has already published an article on the upcoming features of Fedora 11 at http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Njg2OQ . Those working on the Neowin article might also want to have a look at it. Amit

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Misconceptions?
by Paul W. Frields 22 Nov '08

22 Nov '08

Hi fellow Fedora Marketeers, As we move forward in marketing Fedora, I wanted to say a few words about statistical presentation. There may be a tendency among people not familiar with the Fedora Project and its objectives to confuse some of our statistics. People often like to position Linux distributions as being in competition, which I believe somewhat obscures the commonalities of free software communities and especially Fedora's goal of advancing free software. We in the Fedora Project have a very comfortable position as a leader in technical innovation and community contribution to free and open source software. Unfortunately, I frequently encounter misconceptions about our statistics, and the amount of value we place on numbers of users or machines running our software. We continue to be completely open and transparent about the ways we gather statistics and the ways we present them. We don't document these statistics for purposes of competition, but because we believe our community and our sponsors are invested and interested in knowing some of the end results of the work they do in Fedora. We also use these statistics to help us construct and refine additional community-building strategies and initatives. In particular, there are statistics available which show the number of unique IP addresses that have checked in for updates for each of our distributions from Fedora Core 6 up through Fedora 9 and current Rawhide (and soon, Fedora 10). Although totalling those numbers is interesting, it is not meant to indicate a measure of users, only a total number of connections to repositories. We know that each of our releases tends to be installed on machines located at 3 to 4 million unique IP addresses. Some of those connections may represent a duplicated IP address from one release to the next. However, that IP address could mean: * one machine that has been upgraded to a newer release * two or more machines owned by the same person behind a NAT/router/firewall * two or more machines owned by different people behind a NAT/router/firewall * two or more completely separate sites where the IP address has been re-used (cable/DSL pool) Obviously this makes determining the total install base of Fedora across all releases somewhat difficult. We understand completely that IP address counting is not a scientifically valid way of determining a total number of users. That's why we don't claim a number of users from these counts; we only present them as what they are, sums of unique IP addresses. Anyone who's ever heard me speak to this issue knows it's never been my intention, nor interesting at all to me, to debate over user statistics. I am extremely satisfied that we have a geometrically (in some cases exponentially) growing number of account holders, contributors, and Ambasssadors involved in Fedora, all of which numbers we can openly and transparently document. This is far more compelling for the community, I think, than simply throwing large round numbers about, especially when those numbers aren't supported by completely open, transparent, and documented recording and reporting methods. Please keep this in mind as you provide feedback and information to people about Fedora. Our leadership position, I believe, is based on the total contributions our community makes to the entire free and open source software ecosystem, through our continuing, unwavering policy of upstream collaboration, and our continual efforts to lower barriers to contribution across the entire project. Thanks to all of you for being part of Fedora, and I hope all of you are looking forward, as I am, to the release of Fedora 10 on Tuesday! Paul

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Re: [Ambassadors] Review about Fedora 10
by Amit Caleechurn 22 Nov '08

22 Nov '08

Hi, There are two interesting articles you may want to have a look at, one covering the upcoming features of Fedora 11 ( I guess Fedora 10 talking points are not completed yet :-) ) @ http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Njg2OQ and another one @ http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3786726/Red+Hat+Fedora+Cla… that Fedora is the leading distribution with around 9.5-10.5 million users (The marketing guys will find this useful) Amit 2008/11/22 dj-sh <pankdh6006(a)gmail.com> > Great article , i too would write a review + an essentials guide as soon > as it is released. > > -- > Fedora-ambassadors-list mailing list > Fedora-ambassadors-list(a)redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list > >

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ZOMG STICKERS!!11 Proof
by Máirín Duffy 22 Nov '08

22 Nov '08

Hi folks, So I promised I'd send you a photo of the physical proof I received from the printing company (MaverickLabel.com) for the stickers. There were actually some issues with it (and the proof wasn't actually sample stickers, just the stickers printed out on-size on some nice paper for color comparison so the photo wouldn't have been super awesome anyway.) I've been through a few rounds with the printing company to correct various issues and I just received a digital proof from them that I'm pretty happy with. I've attached it for you to see. The colors are PMS-2935 and PMS-541. The pink lines show where the die cuts will be made and thus how the stickers can be peeled off the sheet. The proof is scaled pretty small: the sheet is actually going to be roughly 8'x 10' so there's plenty of space to write in the 'write your own' sticker bubbles. If we approve it by COB 11/24 I'll receive them by 12/02 which is in plenty of time for FUDcon Boston in January. Does this look good? If you see any errors or issues let me know and I'll have them fixed, otherwise I'd like to send to send them my approval ASAP. Thanks :) ~m

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Media Art
by Paul W. Frields 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

You'll find updated official media art for Fedora 10 here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/MediaArt/F10 -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug

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Write your own local release announcement
by Karsten Wade 19 Nov '08

19 Nov '08

Instead of writing a dry, boring English release announcement for translation ... You are encouraged to write your own announcement, in your native language, for your region of the world. Please collaborate with other members of your localization/Ambassador community for your 'formal' announcement. Ambassadors -- please lead this effort within your language/locale. Here are the points to discuss: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talking_points_for_F10 You do not need to cover most or all of those; pick what you think your audience wants to hear about the most. This page explains the process in more detail, with links to previous announcements: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_announcements Still fixing a few things on that page, but it's usable right now. :) - Karsten ps - pardon the cross post, mea culpa -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener http://quaid.fedorapeople.org AD0E0C41

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F10 CD/DVD label.
by susmit shannigrahi 19 Nov '08

19 Nov '08

Anyone knows where they are hosted? Cannot find out in the wiki. Thanks. -- Regards, Susmit. ============================================= ssh 0x86DD170A http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:susmit =============================================

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Re: Final release planning meeting
by Paul W. Frields 18 Nov '08

18 Nov '08

On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 20:04 -0500, Adam D. Ligas wrote: > On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 16:44 -0800, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote: > > * Need to find someone in Docs to help Nigel work the whimsical > > release announcement > > - Talking points are ready > > Do we have the talking points? Same as the preview release? More or less -- you can find the current talking points here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talking_points_for_F10 -- Paul W. Frields gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://paul.frields.org/ - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug

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Event Planning Brazil-TO
by Luiz Augusto Machado 18 Nov '08

18 Nov '08

People, I work as an instructor in SENAC Network Linux, and I am working with the implementation of some solutions for free here. * National System of Learning Program (SENAC) has committed to the development of individuals and organizations to the world of work, promoting educational activities and dissemination of knowledge. Every year is an event held between May / March called "Week of Work", this event is a series of workshops in the areas concerned by SENAC and if it includes the IT. The idea that I suggested, very well accepted, was to create spins (nothing official) for several specific areas, for example, for an office, one for home users, to support, for the development, for those working with infrastructure and so on. And using these spins hold such workshops, one for each spin, and all this with Fedora. I am here looking for suggestions and even help finding a material needed to mount such workshops, and in addition will also set a theme for conducting a lecture, and would be great if it was something related to Fedora. I count on the help of you to concentrate a bank of ideas to achieve that with this event and increase the number of users of Fedora. -- -- Regards Luiz Augusto Machado

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the 4f
by wonderer 18 Nov '08

18 Nov '08

hy there, I was was asking myself why there are no Logo and Banner changes made with the new 4 Foundations? Are these planned for launching with F10? mit freundlichen Grüßen / best regards Henrik Heigl - wonderer(a)fedoraproject.org

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