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F9 Beta blog for press.redhat.com?
by Kerrin Catallozzi 24 Mar '08

24 Mar '08

Hi All- I know that the beta release for Fedora 9 is upcoming -- still on 3/20, right? We announced the F9 Alpha release on press.redhat.com (http://www.press.redhat.com/2008/02/05/help-shape-fedora-9-alpha-release-no…) so I was thinking we should do the same for the beta release. I'm happy to take a stab at a draft working from the beta release notes, but if anyone else wants to give it a try, that works too. We'd be posting under the "Fedora Team" name. Let me know what you think. thanks, Kerri -- Kerri Catallozzi Red Hat Corporate Communications o: 919.754.4268 More news, more often: www.press.redhat.com

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Boxed version of Fedora
by Rahul Sundaram 23 Mar '08

23 Mar '08

Hi Something for the store SIG to consider as there is a good amount of support for it http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=184031 Rahul

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Fedora Project Brazil releases online magazine
by Davidson Paulo 23 Mar '08

23 Mar '08

Hi, We are proud to announce the release of the first issue of Revista Fedora Brasil (Fedora Brazil Magazine), an online magazine about Fedora made by Brazilian Ambassadors and Linux community members for those who speak Portuguese. Starting our release cicle, we've choosen "Fedora 8" as the cover story and central theme of the magazine, including articles about system-config-firewall and IcedTea. We also included an interview with FAmSCo member Rodrigo Padula, a column by Igor Soares and some Fedora news selected by Rodrigo Menezes and his team. Official release announce: * http://projetofedora.org/node/424 Download it now (PDF, 5.1 MB): * http://www.projetofedora.org/revista/arquivos/RevistaFedoraBrasil001.pdf We hope we have been done a good job, but we know we can do even better. To make this possible, we are working to turn easy for our readers to send comments, sugestions and, of course, content to be published. Any feedback will be very welcome. Thanks, -- Davidson Paulo Fedora Brazil Magazine, Editor-In-Chief Linux System Administrator LPI Certified Level 1: LPI000132770 Brazilian Fedora Ambassador http://daveandnaty.blogspot.com/ http://davidsonenatalia.blogspot.com/

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Informal/Irregular Fedora Podcasting
by inode0 23 Mar '08

23 Mar '08

I've seen from time to time requests for Fedora related podcasts. As a regular listener of various tech related podcasts I'd love to subscribe to a podcast on Fedora too. We all understand the various difficulties in managing and delivering a regularly scheduled podcast. For those interested in promoting Fedora through podcasts I'd like to make sure people are aware of a podcast that began maybe a couple of months ago, Hacker Public Radio (http://hackerpublicradio.org/) Episodes are generally daily however contributions can and are made by a lot of people. So there aren't fixed hosts and such. One nice idea is to thread the podcasts on HPR so if there were a Fedora thread (In-Depth Series) a listener can pinpoint the Fedora related episodes. So if any capable Fedora supporter would like to interview someone about new features coming in Sulfur and release an episode that would be possible. If the SA or EMEA groups would like to do a podcast on some Fedora issue of particular interest to them they could and all the contributed Fedora content could be tied together. There is a lot of flexibility offered by HPR. Might be something to consider for folks who could contribute a podcast on an irregular basis to help promote Fedora. John

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Need to do something about Freemedia India.
by susmit shannigrahi 23 Mar '08

23 Mar '08

Hi all, This is about current condition of Freemedia _India_. Saying in a line... It is badly messed up. Counting from Dec 2007 to March 2008 we have *17* fulfilled request and ~380 pending requests. That indicates only one thing, its going to shut down in near future. So lets do something about it. My suggestions are 1. Let's gather from contributors how many DVDs are available for the month and accept that many requests only. For that we can give contributors a week's time to declare and then open the request form. For a month if there is no contributor, there will be no requests. However, thats not going to increase the quantity of media. But this will ensure all requests are fulfilled. 2. Lets make posting of Blank Media compulsory for requesting Freemedia. Thats going to cost INR 20-25 at max. Well, that will create a negative impression no doubt, but the current situation is not bright either. For those who genuinely want to use Fedora but don't have that much bandwidth, it may be helpful. Any other suggestions? -- Regards, Susmit. ============================================= ssh 0x86DD170A http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/SusmitShannigrahi =============================================

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Whats New in Fedora 8/9
by Danishka Navin 22 Mar '08

22 Mar '08

Hi All, Is it possible to access above info with minimal amount of clicks? http://fedoraproject.org <http://fedoraproject.org/en/relnotes> page giving a link but we need to go here and there. What do you think about a single click or a information ticker concept. Regards, -- Danishka Navin

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New product utilising Fedora
by Stewart Campbell 22 Mar '08

22 Mar '08

To whom it may concern, Firstly, please accept my congratulations and thanks to the Fedora team and the Fedora community. My name is Stewart Campbell and I am the director of Nebtrex Distribution (a Brisbane based firm in Australia). My company switched to Fedora several years ago for our internal systems and servers, and it has provided us with an excellent platform. The purpose of this email is to inform the Fedora community (especially the marketing sectors) that we have just launched a new product in Australia running Fedora 8. This new desktop product comes pre-installed with Fedora 8 (also supplied on DVD). We have made many modifications to the image to provide, what we believe, is a easy to use platform for both business and home markets. I hope this information will be of some use to the Fedora marketing and also act as another example of what can be achieved with Fedora. If you would like more information regarding this product release, please do not hesitate to contact me directly. In addition, I would like to suggest the introduction of a Fedora site devoted to products utilising the OS. This would encourage promotion to new and existing Fedora users. As Fedora is used internationally, appropriate filtering would be useful. We look forward to the promising future Fedora is sure to embrace. Regards Stewart Campbell - stewart.campbell(a)nebtrex.com Nebtrex - www.nebtrex.com

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Store SIG Update - 2008-03-19
by Jeffrey Tadlock 22 Mar '08

22 Mar '08

The Fedora Store SIG [1] meeting was canceled today due to lack of attendance. As I mentioned on IRC though for anyone that came by later, I was going to post a brief summary of where we are at now. I ordered a sample shirt from spreadshirt.com earlier this week. I ordered it in similar style to the one I ordered from cafepress.com a few weeks ago and can compare it to some Fedora shirts I have that were made by a genuine screen printer. I am hoping it arrives by the end of this week, early next week. If the quality of that shirt is good I am inclined to recommend that we go with spreadshirt.com for the 3rd party vendor that we use for the user store front. Our fellow Ambassadors in France use them for their store and have been satisfied with the results. Once the vendor decision has been made I anticipate the Store moving forward at a more rapid place as nearly all of the pieces will have fallen into place. We do have one other major open action item open at this point and that is a mockup of what store.fedoraproject.org might look like. We still need someone to help us out with a mockup of this page. We have listed some general requirements [2] of the page in the wiki and I am happy to answer any questions regarding that page. I see we have a few art team members on the participants list for the Store SIG - any volunteers? I updated the meeting page [3] for next week. Some people have mentioned that the time is not good for them. I am open to moving the time of the meeting if a few people want to throw out a few alternate times. Otherwise, we will meet again next week in the #fedora-mktg channel on Wednesday at 18:00 UTC. Thanks! Jeffrey [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Store [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Store/GeneralRequirements [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Store/Meetings

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REMINDER: Fedora mktg meeting happening NOW
by Greg DeKoenigsberg 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

...on freenode, #fedora-mktg. Come on down. --g -- Greg DeKoenigsberg Community Development Manager Red Hat, Inc. :: 1-919-754-4255 "To whomsoever much hath been given... ...from him much shall be asked"

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Single summary (cont'd)
by Karsten Wade 19 Mar '08

19 Mar '08

... sort of dropped getting this organized for the Preview Release notes work, so we may have repeated ourselves needlessly, but lessons learned and on we go. :) http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/SingleSourceSummary/9 Everything I've found or written so far is jammed in there. The goal is to write one single page that has multiple potential audience pieces. We mark segments with useful comment blocks: ## USE_THIS_FOR_HIGH_LEVEL_OVERVIEW_OF_THE_RELEASE_FOR_PRESS_AUDIENCE_BEGIN Lorem ipsum dolor ... ## USE_THIS_FOR_HIGH_LEVEL_OVERVIEW_OF_THE_RELEASE_FOR_PRESS_AUDIENCE_END And we call them in to other wiki pages[1] with this (\ used for line breaks): [[Include(DocsProject/SingleSourceSummary,, from="^## \ USE_THIS_FOR_HIGH_LEVEL_OVERVIEW_OF_THE_RELEASE_FOR_PRESS_AUDIENCE_BEGIN$", \ to="^## USE_THIS_FOR_HIGH_LEVEL_OVERVIEW_OF_THE_RELEASE_FOR_PRESS_AUDIENCE_END$")]] Make sense? ;-D Have at that straw man page, right! - Karsten [1] Pages that might use this content: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/OverView http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/#/ReleaseSummary http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Press* -- Karsten Wade, Developer Community Mgr. Dev Fu : http://developer.redhatmagazine.com Fedora : http://quaid.fedorapeople.org gpg key : AD0E0C41

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