marketing July 2008

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Fedora 9 & KDE 4 review
by Rahul Sundaram 03 Jul '08

03 Jul '08

Hi http://www.inatux.com/blog http://digg.com/linux_unix/Fedora_9_KDE_4_review "We recommend Fedora 9 and the KDE that comes with it, not to the average user, people switching to Fedora or to Linux itself for that matter, but to past Fedora and KDE users, that would like to play around with the latest and greatest to the Fedora Linux distribution." Rahul

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OSCON 2008 ?
by John Poelstra 02 Jul '08

02 Jul '08

Hi, I've been following the OSCON page and wondering if there are any more updates coming, particularly with the BOF, swag, and all the TODOs below? Three weeks to go! https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OSCON/OSCON2008#TODOs John

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Recruiting Students (Campus Ambassadors)
by Jack Aboutboul 02 Jul '08

02 Jul '08

Hey All, I'm sorry I missed the marketing meeting earlier today, but I was told that there was discussion of recruiting students to help out with Fedora and Fedora marketing efforts. I have been working for the past couple of weeks to put together something modeled after the ambassadors which I tentatively call "Campus Ambassadors". The mission of the campus ambassadors is something similar to what Mozilla does with the Firefox Campus Rep program--to have someone who can speak to the student body about Fedora and represent Fedora at relevant campus events. Also, I am looking to require campus ambassadors to hold one info session or tech talk type thing per semester to make sure that there is constant action and interest in Fedora. There will be a community architecture team meeting in Raleigh next week at which I would like to present the final plan for this and officially launch. I have already been in contact with a number of students from various universities (Berkeley, Oswego, CMU, Auburn, Texas A&M) and so far there is interest. Just thought I would kick the idea out to the list and see what people had to say. My plan is to put up a wiki page for this tomorrow or over the weekend, so that it can be presented next week. Thanks, Jack

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LinuxGlobe Podcasts Now Available! :D
by Markus McLaughlin 02 Jul '08

02 Jul '08

*Hey Guys!!!* My LinuxGlobe podcasts are NOW available through itunes!!! Here's the link : http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=284567837 OGGs are available too, just go to linuxglobe.wordpress.com! Spread the word about Fedora and LinuxGlobe, together, we can make a difference!!! Onward and forward, Happy 4th!!! *Markus McLaughlin Hudson, MA, USA*

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I was just thinking about a Fedora News Channel
by Markus McLaughlin 01 Jul '08

01 Jul '08

I too think there should a Fedora News Channel site covering success stories with Fedora, Red Hat related news concerning Fedora, educational uses of Fedora, multimedia uses, and FUN things to do with it as well. If anyone loves the idea too, let's propose : FedoraNews.wordpress.com, which anyone can add a blog posting, a photo, a video in Theora & QuickTime from a FUDcon, audio using OGG Vorbis & AAC... This site will automatically use RSS (which I add feeds to my most excellent RSS reader : Rhetoris, for MACs, which utiliizes text to speech.) *GOOGLE Rhetoris, Mac Users!* :D Have a great Fourth of July! Mark McLaughlin linuxglobe.wordpress.com Hudson, MA, USA

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Re: Recruiting Students (Campus Ambassadors)
by Chris Tyler 30 Jun '08

30 Jun '08

Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > I think there are a lot of people chomping at the bit to get something > done. A framework to work inside of would help a lot. But beyond > just being a rep... we need some guidance on how to tell students and > faculty how to take on Fedora relevant work as academic projects. > > >From my personal point of view, I already know what Fedora relevant > work I want to encourage students to work on. I don't need a list of > ideas, nor do I need a list of mentors. I'm pretty sure I can find > individual existing contributors who would take on a student if I > knock on the right doors inside our project. > > But what I need to know is some advice on how to approach both > students and faculty in a way that they continue to be open to the > subtly corrosive effects of my continued manipulation. What are the > selling points that I need to stress to the students? What are the > selling points I need to stress to the faculty who are going to end up > giving students some sort of academic credit and possibly a grade for > the work as part of their academic career? > > -jef Jeff, I think the role that you mention here -- being a matchmaker between a student, a potential need (project), and community resources -- is even more essential than that of a traditional 'mentor'. As for selling points for student-projects-within-opensource, there are many; here are two: - Open source projects give students an opportunity to work "at scale" -- on projects which have a larger codebase, are more established, have a larger user base, and which will have more real-world impact than most student projects. - Open source projects are "real world". The code has the warts and twists and ugly bruises of real-world code that's been through a few development iterations, which is exactly the kind of code that students will encounter in industry (whether "industry" is running particle colliders, modeling the stock market, or working on embedded systems). -- Chris Tyler

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