FUDCon survey draft - last call for feedback
by Mel Chua
Robyn put in the survey questions last night (THANK YOU ROBYN!) and I
made a couple edits just now and attached the printable version so you
can see the questions we're asking so far (the same file is also
temporarily up at http://mchua.fedorapeople.org/fudcon-survey-draft.html).
Thoughts? Here's what I did just now...
* Added a "have you been to a FUDCon before?" question
* Added Tuesday/after-Tuesday as leave-date options since most people
left on Tuesday morning.
* Added "Other suggestions?" option for FUDCon Live
Other things I can think of...
* do we want to add a text box so people can post the URLs of any blog
posts/etc they may have written about FUDCon?
* should we plug the Events FAD
(https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events_FAD_2010) and/or the
fudcon-planning list
(https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fudcon-planning) at
the end?
* I'd like to put some sort of link to the Marketing Research page so
folks can see how we put this survey together and that they can help us
with it (can haz limesurvey library packagers plz), but that page needs
a *lot* of cleanup first.
Robyn's on the road right now but we'll be in #fedora-mktg finishing
this up and launching it out, probably in something like 1.5 hours (1900
UTC, which is ~2pm EST for me).
--Mel
13 years, 11 months
Zikula Weekly Meeting
by Eric Christensen
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We used to have a weekly Zikula meeting before the licensing issues
brought us to a screeching halt. We are mostly beyond that, now. To
meet the Insight time-line Zikula needs to be up and running in 2.5
months (at Alpha). That would also work for Docs as well.
The following people need to be at the meeting:
David (ke4qqq)
Eric (Sparks)
Mel (mchua)
Simon (itbegins)
Anyone else?
If those NEED people could send me their available times I'll put
together a time to meet.
Also, we could use some additional packagers. If you would like to help
us out, please let me know that as well and I'll include your schedule
in my consideration.
Thanks,
Eric
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13 years, 11 months
FUDCon Toronto: please take the 5-minute feedback survey
by Mel Chua
FUDCon Toronto (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009) is
over - our largest FUDCon yet! We'd love to get your thoughts on how it
went, so:
* If you attended FUDCon Toronto, either in-person or remotely via
Fedora Live, please take this survey and tell us what you thought.
* If you didn't attend FUDCon Toronto but wanted to, please take this
survey and tell us how we can help you get to the next one.
* If you didn't want to go to FUDCon Toronto, please take this survey
and tell us why - it's anonymous. ;-)
The survey is available at
http://fedoraproject.limequery.org/index.php?sid=34266&lang=en
There are 29 questions, most of the yes/no variety; the survey takes
less than 5 minutes to complete (I just timed myself). A special thanks
to Robyn Bergeron, Yaakov Nemoy, and the rest of the Fedora Marketing
team for designing the survey so it *can* be completed in less than 5
minutes!
Questions are previewable at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_survey. The survey will be active
from 12/16/2009 through 1/8/2010, and we'll be analyzing and announcing
the results shortly after it closes. If you're curious about the
process, interested in helping us analyze the results, or have any
questions in general, join the conversation on the Fedora Marketing
mailing list
(https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list).
--Mel
13 years, 12 months
[in the news] Review: 3 top Linux distros go for different users
by Kara Schiltz
Computerworld
12.16.09
Review: 3 top Linux distros go for different users
By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
[clip]
Paul Frields, Red Hat's Fedora Project Leader, described Fedora to me as
being "first and foremost for users interested in and capable of
contributing to open source." So if you're a Linux power user, you're
going to love Fedora. If you're not, this probably isn't the distro for
you.
It's not that Fedora is hard to use. While it's not as beginner-friendly
as Ubuntu, most Linux users shouldn't have any trouble working with
Fedora even if they're not developers.
[clip]
For all of its many excellent features, Fedora isn't the best
distribution for new or business users. But if you're a user like me who
already lives his computing life on Linux, it's a great choice.
Full post:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9142148/Review_3_top_Linux_distros...
13 years, 12 months
Meeting minutes 2009-12-15
by Mel Chua
Oh! I totally forgot to send these out earlier this afternoon. Added to
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings#2009.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-12-15/fedora-meeting...
Action-packed meeting, notes well worth reading - our velocity this week
is VERY HIGH (as you may have seen from list traffic today. ;)
Meeting summary
---------------
* agenda (mchua, 20:05:08)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings#Agenda
(mchua, 20:05:08)
* wiki cleanup (mchua, 20:06:07)
* LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing (rbergeron,
20:06:47)
* trac! (rbergeron, 20:10:37)
* ACTION: triage party post marketing-meeting to clean up old trac
stuff / roll over what is continuing (rbergeron, 20:15:27)
* status check - marketing projects infrastructure (rbergeron,
20:16:26)
* ACTION: mchua convene Unblock The Zikula Packages meeting (mchua,
20:17:57)
* ACTION: mchua start the "let's queue up FI material" party across
the various teams involved (mchua, 20:19:19)
* status - fedora-tour / infrastructure stuff (rbergeron, 20:20:45)
* status limesurvey / infrastructure status (rbergeron, 20:22:29)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508817 (mchua,
20:22:42)
* ACTION: mchua to announce to marketing-list when limesurvey is up on
pt6 (mchua, 20:24:07)
* AGREED: limesurvey hosting for $10 for 250 responses for the FUDCon
survey while we get our own infra up (mchua, 20:29:23)
* ACTION: mchua get limesurvey fedora domain stuff up with extra 250
responses paid for (mchua, 20:30:49)
* ACTION: mchua ask stickster what channels to publicize FUDCon survey
on (mchua, 20:31:39)
* ACTION: rbergero to get survey questions out this afternoon for
quick review (rbergeron, 20:37:30)
* ACTION: mchua to figure out how to hook rbergero up with access to
fedora.limesurvey.net or whatever the subdomain is so that rbergero
can post questions (rbergeron, 20:38:05)
* ACTION: survey to go live / info out on mailing lists (rbergeron,
20:38:33)
* ACTION: ^^^ 12/16/09 noonish! (rbergeron, 20:38:52)
* ACTION: survey out dec. 16; reminder mail jan. 4; close jan. 8
(rbergeron, 20:46:40)
* open floor (rbergeron, 20:47:59)
* LINK: http://twitter.com/quaid/status/6457010955 (quaid, 20:55:45)
* SOPs (mchua, 20:56:11)
* #open floor (mchua, 20:56:37)
* SOPs (mchua, 20:58:05)
* our SOPs are now easy to make! (mchua, 20:58:05)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Marketing_SOPs has a
list of current SOPs as well as a SOP on how to make SOPs. (mchua,
20:58:05)
* LINK: http://blog.melchua.com/2009/12/15/please-steal-this-sop/ has
the longer narrative (mchua, 20:58:08)
* logo! (mchua, 20:58:14)
* we have shiny flair, thanks to tatica for making us a logo! Check it
out on our wiki page... (mchua, 20:58:14)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing (mchua, 20:58:17)
* the svg source is available, it's linked to from the image directly
(mchua, 20:58:20)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:FedoraMarketing.png
(mchua, 20:58:23)
* open floor (mchua, 20:58:27)
* LINK:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/policycoreutils-2.0.78-3.fc12
(wwoods, 20:59:56)
* LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/F13_Brainstorm items
next week, which sounds like a good plan; between now and then, we
have a FUDCon survey to get out, and more infrastructure to put up
(mchua, 21:00:56)
* LINK: http://wwoods.fedorapeople.org/screenshots/s-c-selinux.png
(wwoods, 21:01:09)
* LINK: http://fpaste.org/6ZUe/ (hiemanshu, 21:01:40)
* ACTION: next week: go through brainstorm items, try to get some
estimates on time / resources needed / etc. (rbergeron, 21:01:52)
* ACTION: chew on this: quaid> I can see two things - i) many features
and sub-projects could use a (rbergeron, 21:02:46)
* ACTION: I can see two things - i) many features and sub-projects
could use a "from research to PR" for their work, and ii) we can
start doing this with Desktop right away to define something
repeatable (hiemanshu, 21:03:08)
* ACTION: mchua publish meeting-with-Desktop notes (mchua, 21:03:16)
* infrastructure update - fedora-tour (rbergeron, 21:07:26)
Meeting ended at 21:15:52 UTC.
Action Items
------------
* triage party post marketing-meeting to clean up old trac stuff / roll
over what is continuing
* mchua convene Unblock The Zikula Packages meeting
* mchua start the "let's queue up FI material" party across the various
teams involved
* mchua to announce to marketing-list when limesurvey is up on pt6
* mchua get limesurvey fedora domain stuff up with extra 250 responses
paid for
* mchua ask stickster what channels to publicize FUDCon survey on
* rbergero to get survey questions out this afternoon for quick review
* mchua to figure out how to hook rbergero up with access to
fedora.limesurvey.net or whatever the subdomain is so that rbergero
can post questions
* survey to go live / info out on mailing lists
* ^^^ 12/16/09 noonish!
* survey out dec. 16; reminder mail jan. 4; close jan. 8
* next week: go through brainstorm items, try to get some estimates on
time / resources needed / etc.
* chew on this: quaid> I can see two things - i) many features and
sub-projects could use a
* I can see two things - i) many features and sub-projects could use a
"from research to PR" for their work, and ii) we can start doing this
with Desktop right away to define something repeatable
* mchua publish meeting-with-Desktop notes
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* mchua
* mchua convene Unblock The Zikula Packages meeting
* mchua start the "let's queue up FI material" party across the
various teams involved
* mchua to announce to marketing-list when limesurvey is up on pt6
* mchua get limesurvey fedora domain stuff up with extra 250 responses
paid for
* mchua ask stickster what channels to publicize FUDCon survey on
* mchua to figure out how to hook rbergero up with access to
fedora.limesurvey.net or whatever the subdomain is so that rbergero
can post questions
* mchua publish meeting-with-Desktop notes
* quaid
* chew on this: quaid> I can see two things - i) many features and
sub-projects could use a
* **UNASSIGNED**
* triage party post marketing-meeting to clean up old trac stuff /
roll over what is continuing
* rbergero to get survey questions out this afternoon for quick review
* survey to go live / info out on mailing lists
* ^^^ 12/16/09 noonish!
* survey out dec. 16; reminder mail jan. 4; close jan. 8
* next week: go through brainstorm items, try to get some estimates on
time / resources needed / etc.
* I can see two things - i) many features and sub-projects could use a
"from research to PR" for their work, and ii) we can start doing
this with Desktop right away to define something repeatable
13 years, 12 months
FUDCon Survey Update
by Robyn Bergeron
I will be sprinting on getting this out in the next day. A rundown,
from the marketing meeting:
1) Robyn to get final question list out this afternoon.
2) Robyn to sync up with Mel on login / password information - we will
be doing a one-time hosted survey on limesurvey's website (cost $10)
3) Robyn to get questions posted to survey this evening
4) Robyn / Mel to do quick eyeball of survey in the morning to make
sure it is kosher
5) Robyn or Mel to do email blast announcing survey tomorrow. Per
stickster: ideal mailing lists are <stickster> mchua: rbergeron:
FUDCon survey publicity -- I would hit up: fedora-devel-announce,
fedora-announce-list, fedora-advisory-board, fudcon-planning
6) Survey to run 12/16/09 - 1/8/10 - with an email reminder on 1/4/10.
-Robyn
13 years, 12 months
Marketing Infrastructure projects, update 2009-12-15
by Mel Chua
Since a substantial portion of what Marketing is working on between now
and Alpha (March 2) is getting infrastructure/tools up so we can do our
work efficiently for the rest of the cycle, here's a quick update on our
two big marketing-related infrastructure projects, also sent to
Logistics for cross-team goodness (and mayyybe packaging help? maybe?).
Project 1: Zikula
This is for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight (which
includes FWN, and will be largely reusable for Docs), and progress is
being tracked on the logistics list,
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/logistics.
We are currently (still) on publictest6. We want to have soft-launched
on production by Alpha (March 3).
Simon has an overview of the remaining work that needs to be done before
we can be puppetized
(http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/logistics/2009-December/000303.html).
He's also updated the "how to set up a zikula sandbox" instructions,
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_set_up_a_Zikula_sandbox.
We are blocked by final fixes to the theme (design/CSS help needed!)
which will then need to be packaged, as well as licensing issues with
Scribite
(http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/logistics/2009-December/000301.html)
but it looks like the interaction between Fedora and Zikula folks is
beginning to snowball
(http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/logistics/2009-December/000302.h....
I'd like to see if we can get packagers + upstream on IRC at the same
time to just Work Out these licensing issues at one go, because asynch
communication is Very Slow.
After those blockers are out, I *think* we'll be go for puppetizing.
Project 2: Limesurvey
This is for
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_research#Infrastructure, and
seems like it should be relatively straightforward (but then again,
that's what I thought for zikula...) Robyn Bergeron and Ryan Rix are
driving this from the Marketing side of things, but I'm temporarily
stepping in for Ryan since he's afk for exams this week.
As far as I know, there's only one package involved in this (limesurvey)
which is still under review
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508817). It *sounds* from
the comments like it should be done and ready for approval, but a
reviewer (*coughIancough* is needed).
In the meantime, I tried installing the latest SRPM from Eric (Sparks)
on pt6, and failboated, details here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_set_up_a_limesurvey_sandbox#Install....
Once the package is approved and installed on pt6, I *think* that's all
we'll need (we might want to change the logo, but that's trivial and I
really can't think of anything else atm).
In the meantime-meantime, because we need to get the FUDCon survey up
yesterday, we're giving limeservice $10 to host a 250-response survey
for us so we can start administering that survey tomorrow. That means
we'll have a db ready to migrate whenever our limesurvey instance goes
up, plus people with familiarity administering limesurvey software via
the web interface (some of us, myself included, have used it before and
know the rudiments).
Questions? Comments? Am I missing something? (Is this helpful?)
--Mel
13 years, 12 months
