marketing August 2008

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Spreading Fedora
by mhydra 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

Hello, I am a big fan of Fedora and recently I decided to increase my participation. I would love to see Fedora to become more popular and widely used. So, I created the site SpreadFedora.org with hope to do that. But I would like to ask for help. As I am concerned about some trademark questions and I would like to ask if such a site (since it is not part of any Fedora/RedHat projects) could be a breach of any trademarks or marketing rules of Fedora. The site would be about spreading and helping users to migrate to Fedora. It's main purpose is to help users to learn more and migrate flawlessly. mhydra a.k.a. Svetoslav P. Chukov

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counting packages (was Re: Fedora Package Status of Aug 12, 2008)
by Karsten Wade 20 Aug '08

20 Aug '08

On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 01:35 +0200, Christian Iseli wrote: > Owners stats: > - 6517 packages > - 10799 binary rpms in devel Darn, I was afraid of that. We are all perfectly aware that one package (tarball + spec file) can yield more than one binary rpm. So what are we counting when we count in public? Does it matter that we use the term "package" in two senses? We've been counting binary rpms as the "number of packages that Fedora has." Do we need different terminology here? - Karsten -- Karsten Wade, Sr. Developer Community Mgr. Dev Fu : http://developer.redhatmagazine.com Fedora : http://quaid.fedorapeople.org gpg key : AD0E0C41

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The Education Strategy
by Jack Aboutboul 20 Aug '08

20 Aug '08

Hello Everyone, I realize that some people have been confused, perplexed and perhaps annoyed at the lack of information being disseminated about what is going on vis-a-vis some programs being planned in the educational realm. After my brief comments at the NA ambassadors meeting a few weeks I would like to outline what has been going on to provide some clarity as well a grounds for discussions for everything. Let me start by saying that I apologize if it seemed like this was being done in secret, which it absolutely isn't, its just the choice was made to keep everything quiet until we could make some formal announcement in the coming months and that lead people to believe we were trying to cut people out of the process, which is not the case at all. First of all, let me make a few thing we are *NOT* trying to do clear, based mostly off concerns people have brought to my attention: 1. Create a private initiative - Again, we were just being mum until we could make sure we would get the most press punch out of this. 2. Uproot/Replace/Rename/Repurpose the Ambassadors program - This is absolutely not true one iota!!! The purpose that we are considering this initiative to be a separate entity has nothing to do with anything malicious. This is intended to be a pilot program and we thought it might be less of a burned on Ambassadors if it was run by one person initially, figure out if it has legs, gain some organic growth and then integrate it into the fold rather than stick in a whole bunch of new people with seemingly narrow-focused objectives into an already ongoing and vibrant Ambassadors program. 3. Replace current Ambassadors who are students - Again, not true. We really would like everyone to keep doing the great job they are already doing, day in and day out. We didn't start by approaching these ambassadors, because strategic partnerships with certain key universities are important to Red Hat as well as Fedora and we are, and I especially have been, working on building those bridges for the past few weeks. We don't want to kick anyone out of place, on the contrary--we are trying to make more places in which people can be. That being said, I am going to highlight some key pieces of strategy which for better or worse comprise our Fedora Education Strategy and feel free to comment on and/or disagree with any of these--thats why I'm putting this out, to get everyone involved in the process: 1. Open Source Curriculum - We are working with a talented group of people to try and put together both a platform and set of course materials in order to teach people and students world wide how to program using modern software engineering methodologies and with a focus on Free and Open Software tools and philosophy. 2. Campus Reps - A US Pilot program to try and get students on college campuses involved in Fedora and general FOSS advocacy. Initially, they will all report back to one person within Red Hat who can be help responsible and accountable for all this. Purpose is two-fold, first, students advocate for open source and fedora on their respective campus. Second, they provide eyes and ears on the ground and work with students and faculty to find interesting opportunities. Students also provide a face for us to the faculty which is familiar to them which doesnt seem like its some corporate backed scheme to recruit students without paying their sometimes insane fees. Reps have a few basic responsibilities, mainly holding one event a semester, whether it be a tech talk or info session about something fedora or open source related and maintaining good rapport with faculty to try and make new opportunities spring up. 3. Red Hat High 2.0 - Redefine RHH as a program working with the country's elite science and math high schools in order to get students familiarized with open source at the high school level. This ties in with the Open Curriculum. We know there are a number of similar initiatives but none which focus around getting students familiarized with open source. Thats basically that, I'm sure everyone will have more questions and comments and suggestions, so let's get everyone involved in this. What do you think? Jack

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Fedora 10 Takes Shape
by Rahul Sundaram 19 Aug '08

19 Aug '08

Hi http://www.internetnews.com/software/article.php/3766271 "Red Hat's next-generation Linux distribution shows off some early new features as it preps for release." "Among the features currently being tested in Fedora 10 is a new network connection sharing feature. Frields said the feature would enable ad hoc networks, in which one user shares their live connection to the Internet with others. Frields said he tested the feature in a literal road test -- he was able to maintain a network connection while riding in a car, courtesy of the ad hoc network created by users in a second car, which had a broadband Wi-Fi connection. " Rahul

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Fedora 10 Takes Shape
by Rahul Sundaram 19 Aug '08

19 Aug '08

Hi http://www.internetnews.com/software/article.php/3766271 "Among the features currently being tested in Fedora 10 is a new network connection sharing feature. Frields said the feature would enable ad hoc networks, in which one user shares their live connection to the Internet with others. Frields said he tested the feature in a literal road test -- he was able to maintain a network connection while riding in a car, courtesy of the ad hoc network created by users in a second car, which had a broadband Wi-Fi connection. " Rahul

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XO in Birmingham, AL
by Karsten Wade 19 Aug '08

19 Aug '08

http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/?i=54904;_hbguid=6572ae33-137a-4f5… -- Karsten Wade, Sr. Developer Community Mgr. Dev Fu : http://developer.redhatmagazine.com Fedora : http://quaid.fedorapeople.org gpg key : AD0E0C41

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Fedora promoting videos
by Christos Bacharakis 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

Hello guys, I am planning to give a presentation at my University, presenting Fedora and except a "boring" slide presentation I want to use one or some videos. I've searched at the wiki but I couldn't find a page with Videos about Fedora. I mean, it would be great to have a page with all videos about/from Fedora just like premade presentations. I am willing to help tracking down as many videos I can and post them to the wiki. -- Christos Bacharakis cmpahar(a)fedoraproject.org http://cmpahar.wordpress.com GPG Key: CCFA0AEB

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Acer Aspire One uses a Fedora derivative
by Allen Halsey 14 Aug '08

14 Aug '08

"The Acer Aspire One model I was looking at comes with Linux - Linpus Linux Lite v1.0.3.E, to be precise, a Fedora derivative... Since you are more or less using Fedora, you can use the official and Livna repositories to extend the functionality of the One quite easily." http://osnews.com/story/20176/Review_Acer_Aspire_One

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Reminder: marketing meeting today, 1900 UTC
by Greg DeKoenigsberg 14 Aug '08

14 Aug '08

That's 3pm eastern US time. #fedora-mktg on freenode, as always. The agenda: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Tasks See you all then. --g

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eeedora 2.0 ?
by Valent Turkovic 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

Hi, are there anybody interested in working on Eeedora? As I can see by eeedora page (custom Fedora version for Asus eee) [1] it looks like it is dead in the water (please corect me if I'm wrong). I would put al of my talents to work on this project but I'm not a coder so please point me in the right direction. I see Ubuntu doing a much [2] more so I'm wandering it there is not engough Fedorans using Asus eeePC or are they just happy with Xandros or Ubuntu [2] on their Asus eees? [1] http://eeedora.complexvalues.com/ [1b] http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:eeedora [2] http://www.ubuntu.com/products/mobile Cheers, Valent. -- 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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