marketing June 2008

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Reminder: Fedora marketing meeting today
by Greg DeKoenigsberg 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

On #fedora-mktg. 1900 UTC, 3pm Eastern US. The agenda, as always: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Tasks * Talk bubble stickers. Mo, an update? * Wish list for Istanbul videos. MichaelBeckwith has some ideas. * Event box update from JeffreyTadlock. And then, I'd like to talk about collateral. It's all over the place. I think it might be useful to get one kick-ass repository of all the awesome Fedora content. (Maybe even... an RPM. Crazy? Shocking? "yum install fedora-mktg-stuff"? You tell me.) Let's kick some ideas around today. --g

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Michael Chen: India Third-Largest Contributor To Fedora Community
by Rahul Sundaram 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

Hi, http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/26965/news.htm http://digg.com/linux_unix/India_Third_Largest_Contributor_To_Fedora_Commun… "Michael Chen, director, Red Hat was recently on a visit to India. In an interview with Swapnil Bhartiya, assistant editor, EFYtimes.com, Chen elucidated upon various issues ranging from the awareness about Linux and open source to India's strengths and the challenges the country is facing in the open source world." Rahul

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I want a virtual Fedora coffee table book and you are going to help me get it.
by Jef Spaleta 06 Jun '08

06 Jun '08

So, does anyone remember a book called "Love" where this photographer found this cheap little plastic heart with the word Love on it and decided to get a candid picture of as many 'interesting' people holding that little chunk of plastic as they could. The photographer then compiled the pictures into a little coffee table book full of these pictures and little stories concerning the meeting. A book I repeatedly bought as a standard gift back when i was dating and V-day rolled around. But I digress.... I would really love, absolutely love, to see us compile a book like that..filled with pictures of our contributors holding up a certain trinket common plastic trinket which symbolized what our project stands for. Fill the book with pictures and short little testimonials concerning that person and Fedora. We'd have to decide on a trinket that people could easily get their hands on. If we make it a physical traditional publication, we sell it and give the profits to a charity. Or we can make it an at-cost on-demand publication. We could even hand them out as recognition awards. -jef

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Fedora on Slashdot topics
by Dimitris Glezos 06 Jun '08

06 Jun '08

I just noticed that Fedora isn't listed on the Slashdot topics: http://slashdot.org/topics.shtml And Slashdot editors fall back in using the Red Hat symbol with their Fedora announcements. Any reason not to request adding Fedora there? -d -- Dimitris Glezos Jabber ID: glezos(a)jabber.org, GPG: 0xA5A04C3B http://dimitris.glezos.com/ "He who gives up functionality for ease of use loses both and deserves neither." (Anonymous) --

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Ubuntu 8.04 vs. Fedora 9
by Valent Turkovic 06 Jun '08

06 Jun '08

http://osnews.com/story/19818/Ubuntu-8.04-vs.-Fedora-9 When it comes to Fedora, there were a few problems on the X.org side, but what they loved was the support for SELinux. " Most users will find that the biggest benefit of SELinux is its management of root user authority: The program alerts you when you've had root privileges activated for more than a few minutes, so you can minimize your exposure from this vulnerability." -- http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic

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Fedora contributor video series experiment
by Jef Spaleta 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

Just as an experiment... would anyone be willing to setup a laptop with a video capture camera running cheese at FUDCon so we can capture some candid documentary styled interviews of individual contributors? I want video of people sitting down, stating their names and answer a single pre-defined question. I don't need it to be high quality. I just want to experiment with this sort of footage as a way to put a human face on the project but doesn't need a lot of editting to be useful. So if you are going to FUDCon and think this is an interesting experiment, here is what I'd like to see. 1) A laptop with cheese running set up so that people can sit down in front of a reasonable neutral background...blank wall of any color would be fine. 2) A simple script that we ask everyone to follow where they are asked to state their name, state the question they are going to answer and state the answer. 3) Give people a time limit of a couple of minutes per personal theora video. So the only thing is really.. what question to ask people. If someone is willing to put the hardware together to attempt to experiment. I'll convince the Board to provide the question to ask and we'll see how this sort of thing goes over. If we like the result and think we can use it, we can replicate it by asking ambassadors to repeat this sort of thing at different global events and build up footage in different languages that we can edit together as needed for marketing purposes. -jef

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First Email...
by Indrayana MB. 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

Dear All, I'm Indrayana Mulya Bhakti from Jakarta, Indonesia I've join many Free Open Source Community in my country... Because I think, it's good for our country condition... I have been using Free Open Source Software (FOSS) since 9 years ago. And very interesting in Fedora for the last 2 years. Recently I was moderated Fedora Local Community sites (http://www.fedora.or.id) My dreams is to make our Fedora Local Community became bigger and bigger as big as other (Ubuntu-ID, openSUSE-ID, and OpenSolaris Indonesia community). I also prepared for Monthly Meeting in the next future. And build many regional community in Indonesia based on province and/or/ district. I also encourage to intoduce FOSS especially Fedora to every school and trainig center. best regards, Indrayana MB. Linux Registered User ID : 396254

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fedora, laptops, lwn
by Max Spevack 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/283555/51f734999a8a0477/ "Your editor must now make a choice as to which distribution will remain on these laptops. For the X31, the choice makes itself: Fedora. It works the best while installing only free software."

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Hello, this is my first message, wanna tell all first that is an honor to me joining this project
by RazGriz 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

Hello everyone, please let me tell you my history with Fedora and The Free software world. I'm Guilherme Gonçalves from Rio de Janeiro *(Brazil) but the community prefer call me "Razgriz"*(i really don't know why but perhaps...my ex-wife can explain this thing one day if...). My first contact with tux was in 1996 and i am a "pure"*(100% free software user) user since 1997. But my contributions inside the world of free software started only in the earlies of 2005 writing documentation about computer graphics with free software at "vol"*(www.vivaolinux.com.br), some months after my first doc, Davidson Paulo(the creator of the old project "Guia Bozolinux" and now a Ambassador) invited me to write a book about the "Gnu Image Manipulation Program*(Gimp), it was a huge and very ambitious project but in the end with hard work yeah we did it! =] then since that great moment my life was turned into a goal : the community must respect the computer graphics made with free software but first the community must know more about it ! Then i will continue doing documentation to teach all thing that i know and what i will learn about it in the future. Well, my history with Fedora starts in 2007, when i met Rodrigo Padula and Cristiano Furtado*(jasoonfedora) and he convinced me to get fedora and try it during the event, after some time inside the same event he invited me to join the ambassadors team, but thanks to problems with time we lost contact. A couple of months later he invited me to joying the artwork team of the project "Revista Fedora Brazil" <http://www.projetofedora.org/Revista> and now i feel that i can help more making my work in the magazine padronizing the layout, creating new visual stuff for the project and helping with other tasks and taking fedora to my classes in the Linux events that my default mini-course "The Gimp for creative minds" and other actions where invited. Well, here i am to help everyone and contribute with everything that i can, i will do my best to the project as you all make every time. just one last ask, if someone wanna know more about computergraphics, please just send me an email and i will help you, and if you know portuguese and think that stuff is usefull please translate this to other language =]. please use or read : http://www.projetofedora.org/Revista (since second edition) http://www.vivaolinux.com.br/perfil/verPerfil.php?login=razgriz (my documents inside that web portal) http://unilivre.sourceforge.net/Ba%C3%BA_proibido_do_Razgriz http://www.ogimp.com.br/ <http://www.ogimp.com.br/%28vide> (vide gimp zine) <http://unilivre.sourceforge.net/O_GIMP_para_Mentes_Criativas> http://unilivre.sourceforge.net/O_GIMP_para_Mentes_Criativas (my first book about computer graphics) <http://razgrizbox.wordpress.com/> http://razgrizbox.wordpress.com/ (personal documentation blog) http://www.gnu-lia.org/(another project that i contribute) Thanks to everyone again and i so sorry by some language errors (long time wihout write in english but i will fix it very very soon) Regards RazGriz.

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High flyer hangs hat on open source
by Rahul Sundaram 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Hi, http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,23797416-24169,00.html "Some people ask us why we aren't in the consumer desktop space, but we are. It's called Fedora. If you don't need high levels of support you shouldn't have to pay anything." Rahul

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