marketing January 2009

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Fedora 11 Talking Points
by Jack Aboutboul 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

Hello All, In anticipation of the alpha release, I put together a talking points page highlighting some of the new stuff we should be seeing in F11. Please take a look and also play around if you like! https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F11_Talking_Points Thanks, Jack

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Picture book....
by Doug Berry 26 Jan '09

26 Jan '09

Hey Community, Sorry I did not get back sooner. My friend at LSI called my cell phone -- I was waiting for an email. Did not check my messages until today. The gist of what she said is that we can indeed do a hard cover full color book, but we would have to do so using off-set printing. And she could not give a cost estimate, because the cost would depend on how much color and the degree of difficulty for the printer in setting up the book. Off-set would probably create a much better looking book, as far as image quality goes. It is the industry standard for printing high quality books. But using off-set, each color page would require that four separate plates would have to be made to produce a color image. Blue, red, yellow, and black is the way they used to describe it, but now it is CMYK (short for cyan, magenta, yellow, and key (black) We could, however, use a mixture of b&w and color pages. Then we would pay less for the b&w pages that don't have color on them. Still, since we are not driven to make a huge profit off of each book, we could adjust the book price to allow for the additional printing costs. -- w Douglas Berry -- slasherzee(a)fedoraproject.org

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FW: 2009 Symposium
by Matt Domsch 26 Jan '09

26 Jan '09

Andrew Hutton, organizer of the Linux Symposium (formerly in Ottawa, for the next 2 years in Montreal), has invited Fedora to host some form of event concurrent with this year's Symposium, the week of July 13. There was some positive interest on this when brought up in December, but then it went silent. Is anyone willing to take this on and drive such an event? -- Matt Domsch Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux -----Original Message----- From: Andrew J. Hutton [mailto:ajh@linuxsymposium.org] Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 10:48 AM To: Domsch, Matt Subject: 2009 Symposium I would love to pick up on the idea of hosting FedoraCon here in Montreal (I'm actually here for the weekend) and try to get something firmed up if possible.

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rawdog - feed aggregator
by Rahul Sundaram 26 Jan '09

26 Jan '09

Hi PlanetPlanet like feed aggregator used by Planet KDE http://offog.org/code/rawdog.html Rahul

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Q&A with Paul Frields at Red Hat
by Rahul Sundaram 26 Jan '09

26 Jan '09

Hi, http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/01/26/qa-with-paul-frields-at-red-hat "What makes us unique, as I mentioned earlier, is that we do everything the open source way. You'll never hear us announcing that Fedora is open sourcing a product we use, because we *start* with 100% free and open source, always. I think building a free software distribution without using free software completely defeats the point of what you're doing. Anyone should be free at any time to look at the Fedora Project, say, "I can do that better," and then fork whatever they want to do a better job. Our job, as Fedora, is to make sure they never need to do that." Rahul

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Vincent Danan, ex-Mandriva, now part of security response team at Red Hat
by Rahul Sundaram 26 Jan '09

26 Jan '09

Hi Another addition. http://linsec.ca/blog/category/linux/red-hat/ Rahul

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Adam Williamson hired by Red Hat
by Rahul Sundaram 24 Jan '09

24 Jan '09

Hi Former community manager of Mandriva and very active guy in the forefront in that community was laid off by Mandriva a while back. Red Hat has hired him now to work on automating QA in Fedora. http://www.happyassassin.net/2009/01/23/job-announcement/ Rahul

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Press Archive page on the wiki
by Steven Moix 24 Jan '09

24 Jan '09

Hello all, Lately, I was looking at the Marketing section on the wiki to update it a little bit, some pages are sadly not updated since a long time. My particular complaint goes to the Press Archive page, which is a useful tool to see Fedora's progression in the press. Currently, I seem the only one to maintain it with links to French press articles. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/PressArchive It would be very nice if people from the marketing group in other languages (Rahul, you are the first in line) could update this page when they see Fedora related articles on major news websites. Also, do we still need the https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/PressArchive/General page? It seems pretty useless to me. Thanks and have a nice day Steven Moix

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About the Marketing Meetings...
by Jack Aboutboul 24 Jan '09

24 Jan '09

Hello All, I think we need to discuss certain details surrounding the marketing meetings, such day and time. Over the last 3 meetings we have had very poor attendance and I think the meetings might be conflicting with class times of certain contributors, now that US universities are back in session. The meetings are vital for us as a forum to get together and discuss what we are working on and to gauge progress and exchange ideas. I would like everyone to take about 10 minutes out of their day and please let me know: 1. Is there any specific reason due to which you do not or have not recently participated in meetings? 2. When do you think is the best day and time for a meeting? 3. Is there anything else we can be doing inside the meetings that might make the meetings more valuable to you? 4. Is there anything else that we can do in marketing, in general, that you think would make the project more valuable and beneficial to Fedora as a whole? I'm just trying to get some open exchange of feedback so that we can figure out what our areas for improvement are and what goals we should be striving for and how we can start working together again so that we can build sustainable momentum. Prior to the holiday break we were full steam ahead and things sort of died down. So I'll throw this one to you guys... Thanks, Jack

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Fedora Zero Carbon - Updated
by Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira 23 Jan '09

23 Jan '09

Hello Guys. Wiki updated with some informations and pictures. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Zero_Carbon "Fedora!! Ecological conscience!" -- Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira M.Sc. Student - COPPE/UFRJ Fedora Community Manager - Latin America http://www.proyectofedora.org

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