[Picture book] Where we stand right now
by Ian Weller
== Photos ==
Mo is amazing and got really creative photos for the book at FUDConF11.
They're currently on her Flickr page[1] and we'll be eventually moving
them into our wiki-based system of checking what photos we actually
can/want to use (more on that later).
[1]: http://flickr.com/photos/mairin/sets/72157612400838690/
== Getting the photos on the wiki ==
I'm working on this process. I'll propose a spec, and comments can be
traded around.
== Paperback/hardcover/color/black and white/blah ==
It would be awesome if someone could call LSI and ask if it's possible
to get hardcover books with color pages. The PDFs I have say that it's
not.
== Change of plans ==
Instead of doing 4 books to start with, we can plan for 4 books, but
produce one at a time. Attempting to get all four books done at the same
time is... probably very complicated.
== Release forms ==
Spot got me temporary release forms to use for this weekend, but for any
other photos we will need a more generic release form that I'm being
told RH Legal is working on. In the meantime, come up with great ideas
^_^
We will need hard copies of release forms so more than likely people
will need to mail forms to a localish Red Hat office so that can go to
whoever we appoint. More information on that when we get the release
forms done.
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15 years, 3 months
[slasherzee@yahoo.com: [Ambassadors] About Picture Book.....]
by Ian Weller
Once again posted to the wrong list, forwarding for clarity.
----- Forwarded message from Doug Berry <slasherzee(a)yahoo.com> -----
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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:21:18 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug Berry <slasherzee(a)yahoo.com>
To: Fedora Ambassadors <fedora-ambassadors-list(a)redhat.com>
Subject: [Ambassadors] About Picture Book.....
Precedence: junk
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I contacted a friend at LSI about making
full-color interior hard-cover books. As
soon as I hear something I will post it
here.
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15 years, 3 months
Fedora Zero Carbon Project
by Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira
Hello Guys!
I'm creating the Fedora Zero Carbon Project.
I will neutralize the carbon emissions of our server (LATAM).
COMPUTER WORLD RESEARCH:
1 Dedicated Web Server = 1.200 KWh/year = 632 Kg CO2 / year
So, to neutralize one server we need 3 Trees.
Now, i need informations about all servers that we have in Fedora
Project to neutralize.
I Will plant 4 trees by server!
Some ideas from Jayme to represent this project:
http://www.jaymeayres.com/arquivos/carbon.png
--
Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira
M.Sc. Student - COPPE/UFRJ
Fedora Community Manager - Latin America
http://www.proyectofedora.org
15 years, 3 months
Fedora Carbon Zero Project
by Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira
Hello Guys!
I'm creating the Fedora Zero Carbon Project.
I will neutralize the carbon emissions of our server (LATAM).
COMPUTER WORLD RESEARCH:
1 Dedicated Web Server = 1.200 KWh/year = 632 Kg CO2 / year
So, to neutralize one server we need 3 Trees.
Now, i need informations about all servers that we have in Fedora
Project to neutralize.
I Will plant 4 trees by server!
Some ideas from Jayme to represent this project:
http://www.jaymeayres.com/arquivos/carbon.png
--
Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira
M.Sc. Student - COPPE/UFRJ
Fedora Community Manager - Latin America
http://www.proyectofedora.org
15 years, 3 months
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15 years, 3 months
Meeting Today @ 19.00 UTC
by Jack Aboutboul
My time zones are messed up so I do believe this is at 2PM Eastern, 11
Pacific.
Where: #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net
What: The current agenda +
See you all there!
Jack
15 years, 3 months
Re: [Ambassadors] Re: Picture Book....
by Doug Berry
--- On Sat, 1/3/09, Ian Weller <ianweller(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Do we want to set up a website somewhere and point shoppers
> to
> Amazon.com or whatnot? (Gah, I'm thinking way too far
> ahead again)
When I mentioned using Wal-mart or Amazon as vendors, that
is of course one way we could go. We will have that
automatically when we register with LSI. But the most profitable
way to go would be to sell any books ourselves. If a vendor
sells the book, they are going to add 15%, that is deducted
out of our profit, not from LSI.
Setting up a web page and taking orders ourselves would mean
we would make the most profit from our book.
...............
> > Lightning Source would then send us a royalty check, I
> > think it's every three months. We can just have
> them send
> > it to Max and he can disburse any funds.
> >
> You OK with this, Max? We could just plan for this, and it
> would make me
> feel a lot better if we got this problem out of the way
> first ^_^
I agree. If Max could handle the money, we would just be
free to create books and not have to worry about money
responsibilities. I think any monies should go to Red Hat
anyway, even if we have to sneak it in a back door.
...............
> Questions I have for you guys:
> 1. Does this sound reasonable? Does it seem viable that we
> can sell 105
> copies in a year? For those who will be in the book, or
> other Fedora
> contributors, or other Fedora fans, the $60 for the
> first set of four
> price seems a bit large. I'm not really sure.
I am not sure what you mean with the four different books.
Is that four books at once, or one at a time? Book sales
are almost impossible to predict. But I think that the first
book will sell. It may well pay for the other four.
One way to gage this: at this upcoming FUDCON, if we are going
to be passing out release forms, maybe we could take a legal
pad or pledge cards and ask people "would you like to pre-order
the book your picture will be in?" If the people whose pictures
and names are going to be in the book, won't commit to buying
it, we might as well quit right now.
Then again, we are not even bound, no pun intended, to producing
a bound book. We could go magazine style: folded pages, stapled
in the middle, the cheapest type of book. We could do any amount
of pages, 20, 40, 80, 160.
I wonder myself, and I think that after the first couple of books,
which we could do bound, sales might drop off even from the
most committed Fedoreans. So maybe anticipating that and going
to a zine would be better in the long run.
..............
> (However I'm not sure who needs to register on
> LSI's website if Max is
> the one getting all the moneys.)
I definitely think it should be Max, or someone Red Hat.
LSI is going to like much better dealing with an established
corporation. All Max or whoever would have to do is go to
the Lightning Source web site, click on the "New Accounts"
button and fill out the form. Once we are registered, they
will assign us a "Guide" who will explain their system.
I think I understand the point that Paul Fields was trying
to make the other day: we are a FREE Software foundation
and we don't want to appear to be morphing into a commercial
book publish phenomenom. But if it seems to be a Red Hat
venture and are just a Beta version of it, well....
-- Douglas Berry --
slasherzee(a)fedoraproject.com
15 years, 3 months
Welcome to 2009
by Jack Aboutboul
Hey Guys,
I've been back in action since Monday, sorry I didn't post anything else
to the list sooner, I was regrouping with all my stuff from the last 2
weeks and taking care of all the email and misc foo stuff that piled up.
I would like to thank Doug, Ian, Nicu and everyone else who has been
putting alot of effort into the Picture Book. Awesome work, lets keep
at it, FUDCon this weekend will sure make for some good material I hope.
Otherwise, we will also be filming for the Face of Fedora video project
this weekend and we still have lots to talk about regarding a Fedora
Magazine.
We are also scheduled to have a meeting tomorrow and I wanted to know if
the regular scheduled time still works for everyone?
Thanks and keep up all the awesome work,
Jack
15 years, 3 months
Fedora Project Marketing Team
by Clint Zeimet
To whom it may concern,
My name is Clinton Zeimet, and I am from Mason City, Iowa, in the United
States of America. I work for Target Corporation in Guest Services, and
also work as part time staff at The Music Man Square (a local tourist
attraction). I also serve as a volunteer coordinator for the Iowa
Independent Film Festival.
My goal in the Fedora Project is to participate on a more active level in
the marketing of this wonderful operating system and its vibrant community.
I would like to engage in formal public discourse as an official ambassador
to deliver an enthusiastic and project-aligned messaging to the public. I
believe that as general computer users experience the marvelous advantages
of the Fedora Operating system and its accompanying community, they will
likely become as joyful as I to experience an alternative to the status quo
disappointments of its closed source relatives. I would like to see usage
of the Fedora OS and participation in the Fedora Project to extend further
into the greater public consciousness of my locale region, and also
internationally. I would also like to see Fedora and the Fedora Project
become ever more attuned to the practicable needs and wants of the general
computer user like me.
As a former children's camp counselor and current guest services specialist
and event coordinator, I believe I have the proven ability to deliver the
Fedora marketing package in an effective manner. In addition, my experience
as a local contributor to the U.S. presidential campaign of Howard Dean in
2004 acclimated me to the practical organizational challenges of marketing
and its accompanying intangible rewards. I also have experience in team
sports, theatrical productions, speech contests, writers workshops, and
student government and peer counseling positions that have prepared to be an
effective group participant and team player. Other than these skills, it
should be known that I have no formal marketing education at the college
level.
I also have the native attributes of intellectual curiosity and above
average ability in verbal and quantitative performance, which I would like
to employ to learn more technical Linux skills as time goes on.
Thank you for considering me to join the Fedora Project in a more active
manner that will match my enthusiasm and abilities.
Sincerely,
Clinton Zeimet
15 years, 3 months
Feedback on "The ups and downs of Fedora 10"
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi Northbear,
I came across your short review of Fedora 10 at
http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=498
Thank for your review. I would like to add some comments to provide more
information and correct a few inaccuracies in your article.
You claim that the installation is almost exactly same as Fedora 8.
Apart from resizing support you have noted, it seems that you have
missed out a number of other changes. These are covered in
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/en_US/sn-Installer.html#sn...
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f10/en_US/What_is_New_for_Ins...
"Well, Fedora/RedHat has always been very picky about letting in
software that might be "tainted", so there's no way that the resize code
will work on NTFS filesystems."
This is incorrect. As noted, in your review, your are commenting about
something without even trying it. Fedora has included comprehensive NTFS
support for quite a few releases now and has also supported resizing
Windows partitions from Fedora 9 onwards.
"Whoa! The new "Plymouth" loader is fast! You won't get much in the way
of fancy graphics during bootup unless you have a video chipset that is
supported with "kernel mode" (currently only some Intel chipsets)."
This is only partially correct. Plymouth relies on kernel mode setting
support but that is available only for ATI cards and not for Intel ones.
Intel was supported in between but there is a rewrite going on in
upstream and is still disabled in the general release. You can however
get fancy graphics by using vga=0x318 or vga=ask and choosing a
appropriate mode which would make Plymouth use framebuffer instead of
KMS to display a very cool bootup screen.
There is a rewrite of GDM and currently.
http://live.gnome.org/GDM/NewDesign
it just inherits the system settings and does not have separate theming
support. The roadmap for changes is at
http://live.gnome.org/GDM/
For the Xorg autoconfiguration, we don't need to fallback into manual
settings again but instead add the specific hardware information to a
database and use that for automatically doing the right thing even if
the hardware is old or using analog connections as yours does. Please
file a bug report in http://bugzilla.redhat.com with the output of
/var/log/Xorg.log. We can fix this and send the fix upstream for the
benefit for all distributions as well.
KDE 4: Again, would be quite useful to get bug report to keep track of
the issues and address them
PackageKit: The PackageKit daemon is not a regular service and hence it
is not managed by the service administration gui. It is a system
activated daemon and automatically starts on demand and stops as soon as
the task is done.
It would be great if you could update your review to include all these
information and provide us with some bug reports on the warts you have
noted. Once again, thank you for your review. We appreciate your input.
Rahul
15 years, 3 months
