marketing November 2009

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Screenshots for one-page release notes
by Paul W. Frields 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

One of the main things we need help with in the one-page release notes are screenshots. The wiki text is here, and includes placeholders for screenshots: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_one_page_release_notes Anyone can do screenshots, but you *must* create an updated Rawhide (or F12 Beta + updates) box to do it. You can use a virtual guest machine or a "real" machine for most screenshots. This is something *ANYONE* can help with! Just for reference, here's how I usually do them: 1. Set up a brand-new account on an up-to-date Rawhide box. Doesn't matter what the account name is, but I set the "real name" to "Fedora User" to be sex-nonspecific. 2. Log in as that user, and set the display resolution to something fairly low, like 800x600 or 1024x768 using System > Preferences > Display. All the other settings will be system defaults at that point, which is exactly what you want for accurate screenshots. Unless you're demonstrating how to change a default, you should *use* a default, so that the resulting shot looks virtually identical to what the reader sees. There's a reference for formal docs here: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/documentation-guide/en_US/sn-screenshots.html ...but that's really for formal docs in DocBook XML and not wiki-based stuff. I don't know if there's a recommended maximum size for shots in the wiki, but my guess is that sticking to a 500px maximum width on the wiki page should be best. You don't have to resize the image yourself, I believe you can use the wiki to do it automatically like this: [[Image:my_new_picture.png | 500px]] The picture should automatically link to the image page with the full size picture available if needed by the reader. If you need help with anything, please feel free to ask on the list or come by IRC Freenode at #fedora-mktg. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug

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Meeting minutes, 2009-11-03 (daylight savings meeting #1)
by Mel Chua 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

Since we have multiple meetings and sprints going on today, links to these specific logs are below, along with abbreviated meeting minutes. The second meeting is going be starting in #fedora-meeting shortly for those folks who couldn't make the first one due to Daylight Savings Time. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-11-03/fedora-meeting.2… 20:37:21 < zodbot> Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-11-03/fedora-meeting.2… 20:37:22 < zodbot> Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-11-03/fedora-meeting.2… ------- # roll call (mchua, 20:03:04) # F12 deliverables status (mchua, 20:10:11) 1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing#Fedora_12_release_deliverables (mchua, 20:10:20) 2. Talking points DONE (mchua, 20:11:51) 3. Release slogan DONE (mchua, 20:11:56) 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/One_page_release_notes (mchua, 20:12:10) 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_HOWTO_make_one_page_release_notes (mchua, 20:13:00) 6. ACTION: finish one-page release notes, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_HOWTO_make_one_page_release_notes (mchua, 20:13:21) 7. one page release notes IN PROGRESS (sprint today) (mchua, 20:14:21) 8. ACTION: Screenshots: create a list of needed screenshots from the rest of the deliverables (mchua, 20:15:37) 9. ACTION: Screenshots: take screenshots, insert into requested places in deliverables, notify other deliverable owners (mchua, 20:15:52) 10. Screenshots IN PROGRESS (sprint today) (mchua, 20:16:09) 11. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:F12_in-depth_features (mchua, 20:17:08) 12. ACTION: Feature profiles: rbergeron to finish desktop interview with screenshots (mchua, 20:18:34) 13. ACTION: Feature profiles: mchua to edit virt interviews (mchua, 20:18:45) 14. Feature profiles IN PROGRESS (sprint today) (mchua, 20:18:55) 15. Briefing ambassadors IN PROGRESS (sprint today) (mchua, 20:22:33) 16. ACTION: Briefing Ambassadors: nb to make a game plan and execute (mchua, 20:22:44) 17. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Classroom (stickster, 20:23:42) 18. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_press_publications (mchua, 20:29:02) 19. monitoring PR/news from the release NOT TAKEN (mchua, 20:31:44) 20. Tour page NOT TAKEN (mchua, 20:31:48) 21. ACTION: stickster check with herlo about taking on the Tour Page for f12 (mchua, 20:38:32) 22. ACTION: mchua check with moixs about doing NDN for F12 again (mchua, 20:38:44)

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Robyn's interview
by Paul W. Frields 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

Noting something from the Fedora Marketing meeting on IRC. This profile is looking quite good: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Desktop_Enhancements_in_Fedora_12 Kara is working on a press blog entry to go with this. We'll make sure that the screenshots are up before we publish anything officially. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug

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This week's meeting: come to either Daylight Savings Time or not (2 meeting slots)
by Mel Chua 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

Short version: this week's meeting will be a "Daylight Savings Time Is Weird" meeting; you can either come at 20:00 UTC or 21:00 UTC (for me, that's 3pm EST and 4pm EST) and there will be a Marketing meeting at the start of both hours and a worksprint on release deliverables for the remainder of that hour. Going forward, we'll stick with 20:00 UTC regardless of daylight savings time, so US folks such as myself who are affected by DST, that's 3pm now. Holler with any time conflicts - when we sit down to plan for F13, we'll also do a quick check to see if we need to recalibrate our meeting time. --Mel --- 19:07:41 * mchua looks to see if the meeting announcement actually went out 19:08:38 < mchua> ...oh gah! My script timed out because I stopped it right before daylight savings! 19:10:34 < mchua> ...wait, zodbot and daylight savings... 19:10:54 < mchua> ...don't match. 19:11:09 * mchua checks to see what I said last night on the mailing list 19:12:20 < mchua> Apparently I sent conflicting time info on the mailing list. 19:12:33 < mchua> Lovely. 19:13:48 < mchua> Ok. What I'm going to do is since we've already got a late meeting time for Europe, and zodbot isn't affected by DST, I'm going to make our meeting time unaffected by DST. 19:14:00 < mchua> I'm going to resign myself to doing two 1-hour meetings today (mostly worksprints) to catch everyone. 19:14:18 < mchua> And I'm going to update the meetings page and the mailing list with that right now.

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Hello
by Athanasios E. Samaras 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

Hi all, My name is Athanasios (Sakis for short) Samaras and I have some experience in the field of sales and marketing. Actually for a long time I was either employed as a Sales or a Marketing person. My communication carrier starts back in 1990 and up to about 2 years ago - since then I am fully employed as the Supporter/Developer/Technical support/Technical writer and any other IT related occupation you can imagine by a small company - depending on the company size, my duties include anything from writing code and technical documentation to final presentations to potential customers in various countries. At some point that I was employed by a US company I was sent to Jakarda in order to "perform" a presentation - I actually live in Greece most of the time - to both Management and -at second stage - technical staff. A brief CV of my involvement with marketing contains a few years working in Marketing Group of Thermi project (smart homes and remote monitoring - internal project of Greek telecom) where I was involved in all marketing aspects from Business Plan to presentation and leaflets, working as a "Project Engineer" on behalf of Open Connection for a large Document Management Project in UK (again the end client was a Telecom) where I was responsible for coordination and documentation of the project as well as the development of a methodology for similar projects, some other smaller scale activities such as Business Plans for small and very small companies, or local sales to Greece. Last 2 projects involved the design, implementation and productization of an e-service delivery platform and a PDA based e-service platform both targeted to Tourism industry where as soon as I got some one to take over the development from my hands, I was re-assigned to marketing (again from BP to pricing to packaging to leaflets and communication plans). Finally my weaknesses: well, I tend to write and talk, but you can see that for yourself. Well if I can be of any use, please let me know. Sakis Samaras PS I also participate in the Doc translation team for Greek language and occasionally write at wikipedia.

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Extending membership map for other groups.
by susmit shannigrahi 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Hi, The membership map, so far which was only for ambassadors group, can now easily be extended to any FAS group. Have a look here: https://fedoraproject.org/membership-map/index.html If you want map of a particular group, please let me know. Thanks. -- Regards, Susmit. ============================================= http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:susmit ============================================= Sent from Calcutta, WB, India

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Now follow twitter feed for Planet Fedora.
by susmit shannigrahi 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Hi, The feeds from planet fedora is now available at http://twitter.com/planetfedora. You can now follow it to get the planet updates. Thanks. -- Regards, Susmit. ============================================= http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:susmit ============================================= Sent from Calcutta, WB, India

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Fedora Insight sprint-time: in IRC now
by Mel Chua 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

I'm in #fedora-mktg and #fedora-admin (mostly logging in the former, working on deployment in the latter) from now 'till about 4 hours from now (or so) trying to clean up the remaining FI work we've got. At that point, I'm going to need to put down FI work for a while, since I'm going to be out in Singapore for http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_APAC for most of the rest of the release cycle. I'm hoping to leave tonight with a clear log of what's been done and what is left to do. In general, most of this week will be me trying to loudly and clearly articulate what's left to be done as far as F12 deliverables go - what's going to happen, what still needs to be picked up, and who we should be profusely thanking. For instance, Robyn and Paul have both finished their F12 Feature Profiles (yay!), leaving the third (mine) to be edited - but we have no screenshots, so if someone could step up and organize a sprint, that would be great). This will be the overriding theme of the week, particularly tomorrow's meeting. :) But right now, I'm working on FI. --Mel

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Interviews and podcasts, update
by Paul W. Frields 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

We have several features slated for interview/podcast treatments: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:F12_in-depth_features I finished the editing of my podcast this past weekend. We are now at 4 weeks to release, so it would be good to see progress on the other ones as well. Can I help by getting a developer in touch with one or both of our other assignees? Paul

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Re: GA Announcement Work
by Paul W. Frields 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On 10/22/2009 05:42 AM, Eric Christensen wrote: >> Can I get some volunteers to work on the GA Announcement? This needs >> to be complete by November 10. > > Go from here > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Announcement Thanks Rahul. I'll make sure a link to this announcement appears in Red Hat's official press release as well. Paul

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