marketing February 2009

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Fedora 10 regains Linux fans
by Rahul Sundaram 26 Feb '09

26 Feb '09

Hi http://blogs.computerworld.com/fedora_10_regains_linux_fans?page=1 "Two years later though, Paul Frields, Fedora project leader, declared that there has been "a major up-tick in Fedora involvement over the last 6 months. Since the release of Fedora 10, we've seen about 1 million new installations and approximately 2 million unique visitors to fedoraproject.org each month" Rahul

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Red Hat Fedora Linux 10 nears 1 million user mark
by Rahul Sundaram 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

Hi, Two things: 1) Should we get reporters to stop calling it "Red Hat Fedora"? 2) The article claims Fedora 8 has more users than Fedora 9 and Fedora 10. Should we look into this? http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/02/red-hat-fedora-linux-10-nears.… "Red Hat's Fedora Linux 10 has been out since the end of November 2008, and is now hovering around the 1 million installations mark. Fedora uses a system to measure active installations that check the update repositories in order to determine how many installations are in use." Rahul

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Nouveau Becomes Default Driver in Fedora 11
by Rahul Sundaram 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

Hi Submitted this story http://osnews.com/story/21033/Nouveau_Becomes_Default_Driver_in_Fedora_11 "Among the many new features for Fedora 11, a newly added one is Nouveau becoming the default driver for Nvidia cards in Rawhide. Nouveau is an effort to create a completely free and open source 3D driver for Nvidia cards. Fedora 7 originally included this driver installed but not enabled by default. Red Hat recently hired Ben Skeggs, one of the primary Nouveau developers and Nouveau driver has been accepted by the Fedora Engineering team to be the default driver for Nvidia cards with the legacy nv driver as a fallback option. Nouvaeu already supports more chipsets, RANR 1.1 support, Accelerated XRENDER, Textured Video support for many cards that are not covered by the nv driver which has been hampered by a lot of obfuscated code as well. Phoronix has other details." Rahul

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Fosdem Max's video
by Pierre-Yves Chibon 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

Dear all, I just wanted to point you out that Max's talk at the FOSDEM have been recorded ans is available here: http://fosdem.unixheads.org/2009/maintracks/ The only problem is that the file is around 1.7Go so maybe it could be compressed a bit more so that Totem could read it a bit more easily :) Have a nice day/afternoon/evening/night, Regards, Pierre

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New Meeting Time
by Jack Aboutboul 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

Let the discussion commence... It's really important for us to be organized now with this new setup and to rally around the meetings. If a different time is better and will enable more people to not miss out, then let's figure out when that is so that we can have the meeting at that time next week... Jack

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Wiki schedule and task list
by Steven Moix 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

Hello all, I branched off the marketing schedule template [1] for the current F11 release [2]. Owners and dates were added, we'll fill it during the next meeting i think. You may notice that I also linked the general task list from there [3], this is intended for tasks that are not release-dependent. It looks a bit outdated to me at the moment. One thing keeps me from finishing the wiki cleanup now: how do we want to distribute our news? If we look at Jonrob's notes [4], there is a task for lay press contacts. This is clearly conflicting with the news distribution network proposition. My proposition is the following: * We set the marketing group as responsible people for the English contacts. This way we can "control" primary websites and coordinate our efforts with Red Hat for the big announcements. What do you think about this? I'd like to have it fixed before tomorrow's meeting so we can really go on with the important work. Thanks Steven 1: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_schedule_template 2: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_schedule_and_task_list 3: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_tasks 4: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jonrob/Marketing_schedule_notes 5: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_news_distribution_network

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Wiki pages renaming
by Steven Moix 23 Feb '09

23 Feb '09

Hello, I started cleaning up and renaming the wiki pages in the Marketing section, but I have some questions... 1) Is someone responsible for updating https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_contributors ? Couldn't we pull this list automatically from FAS somehow? 2) Do we still need this page or can it be archived? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_rewards In a more general sense, how do we manage old pages? I flagged a duplicate page for deletion, but for other pages, do we create an "Archive" section and rename the pages to "Marketing archive pagename"? Thanks Steven

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Re: fedora 8 & 9
by Keiran Smith 23 Feb '09

23 Feb '09

Hello, I will ship out the Instalation media Would you prefer i686 or x86_64. DVD or CD. Once you give me the information I require I shal ship out some CDs/DVDs to you. 2009/2/22 Nikhil Gupta <nikhilgupta_it(a)live.com> > Respected Sir/Madam, > > I am Nikhil Gupta. I require the Fedora 8 & Fedora 9 for my project . > Can you please send me the copy of the two cd's > My address is > > Nikhil Gupta > 68/3 13 Hardyal Road > Jalandhar Cantt , Punjab > India > > > -- > Fedora-websites-list mailing list > Fedora-websites-list(a)redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-websites-list > > -- Keiran Smith - Fedora Ambassador / BugZapper - <affix(a)fedoraproject.org> - Free Software Foundation Associate - <keiran.smith(a)member.fsf.org>

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This Weekend?
by Jack Aboutboul 21 Feb '09

21 Feb '09

Hey Guys, Yesterdays meeting was great. Alot of positive energy and we have been accomplishing a lot lately. Here are a list of things that we can try to tackle over the weekend, for those of us who find some time: * Add your name to the meeting matrix so we can establish a new time for the meetings: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jack/Meeting_matrix * Continue to add things to the release calendar: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_schedule * It might be good for us to have this new schedule look like what poelstra has, with an added column for owner: http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-11/ * Take what JonRob has on his page and start to fold that, using the new template into the schedule for f11: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jonrob/MarketingSchedule * Continue to discuss things on the list and brainstorm great ideas. Great, great work the last couple of weeks, lets keep it going. We have a lot of great energy, you guys make me proud to be involved in this! Jack

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Proposal announce
by Francesco Ugolini 21 Feb '09

21 Feb '09

Hi, if you agree I've prepared a official answer for the Inactive Ambassadors discussion. Before sending this one, I want to know if I could send it, because you had the lead on this one. I don't want to take your task, but I had time and I was thinking to not overtask you. Regards Francesco Ugolini

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