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[FW: Some questions for an editorial piece on Neowin.net]
by Paul W. Frields 17 Nov '08

17 Nov '08

Hello Marketing team, We received the following inquiry, and I thought this was a good opportunity to practice some of the "open marketing" concepts. Are there any folks on the list who would like to formulate answers to the questions here? To frame the answers I would suggest some of the following key points: * We don't "compete" with other Linux distributions; we advance free software in cooperation with upstream in a way that benefits everyone * Windows 7 is (presumably) aimed at an extremely large audience, much of which falls outside our target audience of free software enthusiasts, developers, and remixers. Nevertheless, the stability and features in Fedora are loved by millions. * Features are found on the wiki Feature List. * We have lots of desktop features for ease of use that do not get in users' way and help people get things done quickly, securely, and with respect for users' freedom. OK, with that I open the floor! :-) Paul ----- Forwarded message from Matthew Hopson <redacted> ----- Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:49:39 +0000 From: Matthew Hopson <redacted> To: press(a)fedoraproject.org Subject: Some questions for an editorial piece on Neowin.net Hi, I am on the news staff at Neowin.net, a technology site with a large community of over 800,000 members as well as our own Linux distro (Shift Linux). I am going to be writing a comparison editorial piece about Ubuntu 8.10 and the upcoming Fedora 10 and openSuse 11.1, to appear on the front page of Neowin.net. Basically I will be installing each of the distros, doing a quick review with things I like and dislike, and also a section on how each aims to compete with Windows 7. I was wondering if a member of the development team would be able to answer the following questions as I know our members would be extremely interested to hear of anything new about your Linux distro. Can you tell me what new features users could see in the next release, Fedora 11? Microsoft is currently aiming for a 2009 Holiday release for Windows 7 and it has been said their main rival now is Linux. Are there any concerns about how Fedora can compete with Windows 7 in the future and can you give any hints as to what features you hope to include to rival Windows? One of the reasons behind the popularity of Ubuntu, Fedora and openSuse is their improved ease-of-use, howeverLinux as a whole is still criticized for being too "techie/geeky". What else is being done to further improve the usability and ease-of-use of Fedora in the future? I look forward to hearing from you and thank-you, in advance, for taking the time. -- Matthew Hopson News Staff Neowin.net ----- End forwarded message ----- -- 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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Cody Cooper
by Cody C 17 Nov '08

17 Nov '08

a.. Cody Cooper b.. Feilding, New Zealand c.. Currently at school d.. Feilding Intermediate School e.. To promote Fedora f.. What do you want to talk about? Promoting Fedora g.. What would you like to see in Fedora? Faster load times h.. What other skills do you have that might be applicable? i.. Good Knowledge of Linux and Fedora, good at websites in general.

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Amazon.com needs some Fedora Love
by Karlie Robinson 16 Nov '08

16 Nov '08

http://www.amazon.com/Fedora-Card-OLPC-XO-Laptop/dp/B001L7EGA6/ is the new home of Fedora 10 on SD card for the OLPC Laptop. The product won't show as available until Monday, so we still have a little time to spiff it up if needed (have an opinion to share? I'd love to hear it). We also have the opportunity to show some love by adding user created content to the listing. Specifically; Customer Images, Tags, Ratings, Reviews, Customer discussions and Amapedia (?) articles. So if you have an Amazon.com account and have something you want to add, it would help the listing look less like a ghost town. Thanks, Karlie

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talking points for F10
by Karsten Wade 15 Nov '08

15 Nov '08

Having a common set of discussion topics (talking points) helps Ambassadors and others to remember key message points. It also gives us several key paragraphs we can request be included in any locale-specific release announcements. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Announcements/TalkingPoints Rather than have one, dry release announcement, or trying to figure out how to translate our whimsical announcement and still have it be relevant, the talking points let an Ambassador or L10n team write a native language announcement from scratch in a locally acceptable style. What should we have in that talking point list, with what language around it? Remember, the talking points aren't for using verbatim (although you can), they are for creating a common set of discussion topics when interacting about the release. - Karsten -- Karsten Wade, Community Gardener Dev Fu : http://developer.redhatmagazine.com Fedora : http://quaid.fedorapeople.org gpg key : AD0E0C41

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Fedora 10 Tagline
by Ricky Zhou 14 Nov '08

14 Nov '08

Hey, does anybody know if we have a tagline for Fedora 10? For example, with Fedora 9, we had "Fedora 9. Make waves." This is for the front page of the website (so that we can get all strings ready to be translated). Thanks, Ricky

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Short reviews of Fedora 10 preview
by Rahul Sundaram 14 Nov '08

14 Nov '08

Hi http://www.junauza.com/2008/11/geek-chicks-peek-at-fedora-10-preview.html "There are still a lot of new features that I have to see for myself. This is just to give everyone an idea of what's with the upcoming Fedora 10. And, I can say that this is a Linux distro worth waiting for. Being a Fedora user, I am pretty excited on what it can do and what I can do with it for the coming days/months or even years." http://distroworld.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/fedora-10-preview-release-is-ro… "Overall, Fedora 10 Preview Release indicates the final release will be strong and robust with a good mix of visual appeal and a solid playground for us tinkerers." Rahul

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Fedora Logo History
by Máirín Duffy 14 Nov '08

14 Nov '08

It turns out the original pages on the creation of the Fedora logo, once located at http://capstrat.com/development/fedora/index.php, are gone. I took some time to grab what I could from archive.org and reconstruct it here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Logo/History ~m

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Release Planning Meeting
by Jonathan Roberts 14 Nov '08

14 Nov '08

While I'm not sure there's anything we need to discuss, I'll be unable to attend the next release planning meeting and would like to see if anyone thinks a) it's necessary for someone from marketing to be there b) if so, would someone go in my place? The meeting is on Weds 19th Nov at 1800 UTC. If you're interested in going in my place, we'll have to arrange for you to be added to the list of attendees as it's a voip meeting. Cheers, Jon

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No Meeting Today 11/13?
by Jack Aboutboul 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

Hey All, I will not be around this afternoon due to a meeting of some open source groups taking place this afternoon from 1-4pm EST. Therefore, unless anyone objects, I would like to postpone this weeks meeting to next week. If anyone does object you can still run a meeting, I guess just agree upon a time and maybe mail the irc log to the list afterwards. Jack

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Deploying FEL for Centos/RHEL 5 users on EPEL
by Chitlesh GOORAH 12 Nov '08

12 Nov '08

Hello there, This email is cross-posted on: - fedora electronic lab mailing list - fedora epel mailing list - centos devel mailing list - fedora marketing mailing list It describes briefly what FEL and EPEL (if case you don't know) are and my intentions for this deployment. FEL stands for Fedora Electronic Laboratory. The later is about packaging, maintaining and shipping electronic simulation packages for real hardware development. It was initially started with my passion for ASIC design, but now covers various design tools for: * Digital Simulation * VLSI Layout and Verification * RTL and logic synthesis design flows * Circuit Simulation * PCB Layout and Circuit Design * Micro Controller (µC) Programming and Embedded Systems Development http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/ Now we are about roughly 8 contributors. It is already more than 2 years since the early bits of FEL were introduced to Fedora repositories. Many other Fedora packagers and Fedora-Arm SIG have contributed a lot this success as well. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM Packaging is good, but is not enough. One of the main goals is to act as CAD/EDA engineers and bring open source hardware design tools to a meaningful usage and ensure interoperability within the design flows. We are thriving for interoperability, because without this, design tools are useless and even if its open source. Most of these packages have not yet been packaged for any other distributions. More specific details on the blog posts. http://clunixchit.blogspot.com/ Building a community and do marketing around FEL is also another of our priorities and a _hard_ task. Knowledge in electronics is advised and recommended :) I have received a lot of suggestions to deploy FEL on EPEL repositories so that Centos and RHEL users can use them on a longer basis. As many universities around the world have deployed enterprise-class Linux distributions such as Centos and RHEL, I believe users, lecturers and designers can largely benefit from the EPEL repositories. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL http://www.centos.org/ I have no idea whether Scientific Linux can take advantage of these intentions or not. If you do, let me know. In the past and even till now, I had very good experiences with Centos contributors. With some of the Centos contributors, we (fedora) even shared booths and devrooms in Belgium and Germany. If ever a Centos packager is already packaging any electronic simulation packages, please send us a mail in our brand new mailing list. We looking forward to hear from you. We'll be glad if we can work together. I'm focussing on EPEL 5. As I'm writing, only %1 of the work for building FEL packages for EPEL repositories has been done. Thus during the Fedora 11 development cycle, most of the work will be carried out and dependencies solve, at least mine. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/chitlesh Nevertheless, some new tools will find their way to FEL very soon, e.g: verilator. The packages that I or any FEL contributor will push to EPEL repositories will not be as cutting-edge as they will on supported Fedora repositories. In the upcoming months, which I'm waiting for which desperately, we will see more mixed-level simulation support on the FEL platform. Now, FEL 10 will be out soon at the end of this month as a LiveDVD and packages are yum-able from fedora's repositories. Your suggestions and critics are welcome. We are only a small group of contributors who are working on a very specific application, "hardware design tools" and making their upstream benefit from the open source eco system. FEL has a lot of success since its official F8 release, and we are keen to keep that going and extend our umbrella. thanks and kind regards, Chitlesh GOORAH

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