marketing April 2009

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User Testimonials
by Max Spevack 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

Going over the marketing schedule, and I see that "own, clean, revitalize" the User Testimonials page had a target date of March 31. What's the status of that page? Do we have a plan for the page, are are we simply going to archive it? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/UserTestimonials The idea is a good one -- we're going to do a "what do you love about Fedora" project at LinuxTag & FUDCon Berlin. I just don't know what our goals for that particular page are. --Max

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Fedora Classroom - May 3 - With Noticable changes
by Clint Savage 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

Hi all, Paul just posted a blog about Fedora Classroom[1], and I wanted to get this out long ago, but I've been really slow. I wanted to get the The Fedora Classroom activities have changed a bit this time around and we wanted to use some of the Fedora Marketing mojo to get the word out. So let's start with the changes: * Fedora Classroom now runs one full date from 12:00 am to 11:59 pm (all in UTC time). ** This means that any class can be scheduled at any time, thus accommodating more schedules * We recommend sessions be approximately 1 to 1.5 hours. (this is a change from scheduled 1 hour sessions) ** This also implies a short break between classroom sessions, but is no longer required. Fedora Classroom is always looking for more presenters. The topic doesn't have to be difficult. You don't even have to be an expert, just have something fedora-related to share. If you are interested in giving a class in your time zone, please sign up on the wiki. Fedora Classroom is always looking for feedback and suggested topics. If you are interested in hearing a particular topic, please add it to the 'Suggest a Class' section, just below the schedule. Fedora Classroom also has an archive of previous classes. This archive is available on the Classroom wiki page as well, under the 'Classroom Archive' section. ---------------------- I'm hoping for some feedback here to improve this message. I'm also looking to put this out on a few of the news distribution lists (we should be adding this to FWN the week before it happens). Any other suggestions, thoughts, improvements are welcomed. Cheers, Clint

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Digg This: Fedora 11 preview
by Rahul Sundaram 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

Hi http://digg.com/linux_unix/Fedora_11_Preview Rahul

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History (and Releases) Are Cyclical: This is Fedora 11!
by Rahul Sundaram 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

Hi http://ostatic.com/blog/history-and-releases-are-cyclical-this-is-fedora-11 "The Fedora Project is rolling out some impressive new features and functions with Leonidas. One of the most notable is the use of ext4 as the default file system (while many distributions are planning on making ext4 the default in the near future, some recent releases have chosen to keep it optional this time around). The Fedora team says that aside from ext4 performance enhancements, Leonidas users will be treated to faster boot and shutdown procedures, an automatic font, codec and clipart installer, and the DeviceKit device management tool designed to work with (and sometimes stand in for) hal. Fedora 11 users can also look forward to updated versions of the KDE, GNOME, and Xfce desktop environments, improvements in direct rendering, and better volume control and power management tools." Rahul

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Fedora 11 Preview Release Announced
by Rahul Sundaram 28 Apr '09

28 Apr '09

Hi Fedora 11 Preview Release has been announced with a large number of new features, even more so than previous general releases. This includes * Presto (delta RPM updates reducing bandwidth usage over 80% typically). Yum install yum-presto to enable it. * Automatic font and mime installer via PackageKit * Nouveau as the default driver for Nvidia cards (3D support is not mature and disabled however), * Simplified Anaconda text mode installation and minimal installation support, * Automatic Bug Reporting tool, * Native access to Microsoft Exchange using OpenChange, * Firefox 3.1 and ThunderBird 3.0 * Openoffice.org 3.1 * Windows Cross Compiler (MinGW and a comprehensive set of cross compiled libraries) * Ext4 as the default filesystem * Experimental support for the next generation Btrfs filesystem, * Improved I18N with the switch to IBus input system by default, * Much improved Kernel Mode Support with flicker free and fast bootup * Many virtualization and security improvements, * RPM 4.7, GNOME 2.26, KDE 4.2, Xfce 4.6, Linux Kernel 2.6.29, Python 2.6. GCC 4.4 and several other changes. Announcement: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-April/msg00011.ht… Major Features list: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/FeatureList Rahul

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Preview today?
by Mike McGrath 28 Apr '09

28 Apr '09

What's the plan for the preview release today? The servers aren't even sweating yet send me some hits! :) -Mike

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NLUUG Filesystems & Storage (May 7th)
by Jeroen van Meeuwen 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

Hello, I'm sending you this announcement because it's a very interesting event organized by the Dutch UUG, on the subject of Filesystems & Storage, with key people giving keynotes and sessions amongst which is the core developer of ext4. Kind regards, Jeroen van Meeuwen -kanarip == Every bit counts. From a single byte to billions of images, from one line of text to a gigantic tangled semantic web of documents, from clay tablets to 3D holographic memory, storage and the means to organize storage have always been important to humanity. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes, it was said; a sailboat crossing the Atlantic still manages rates of a little over 1GB/s end-to-end. A petabyte of storage weighs about as much as a small car, but a large physics experiment can fill that up in less than a week. The modern rate of data production and amount of data storage --and crucially also data search and retrieval-- have pushed the limits of computer storage and the traditional file system further and further back. The NLUUG Spring Conference 2009 focuses on storage and the means to organise it: file systems, physical storage, connections and search. The keynote speaker at the conference will be Ted Ts'o, author of the ext4 file system in Linux and CTO of the Linux Foundation. Other subjects at the conference are DRBD, desktop search and ZFS. The conference is in conference center 'De Reehorst' in Ede, The Netherlands. Information about the full programme and registration can be found at the conference website: http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj09/index.html As always members of NLUUG and sister organisations as well as students get a hefty discount.

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Marketing Meeting 2009-04-21 IRC Log
by Steven Moix 23 Apr '09

23 Apr '09

Here is the log for this week's meeting, not many people present so it's rather short: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Marketing_meeting_2009-04-21 Have a nice day Steven

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Interview with Ricky Zhou
by Rahul Sundaram 22 Apr '09

22 Apr '09

Hi http://howsoftwareisbuilt.com/2009/04/15/interview-with-ricky-zhou-fedora-p… "I think that Fedora definitely gets credit for that. If you look on a lot of news sites, you’ll see that a lot of people are fairly aware of how and where things have come from. Of course, there are plenty of places where people are off the mark, but that’s to be expected, too. Overall, Fedora does have a good reputation for being an early adopter of many useful features. I’ve seen people mention in a few places that a lot of software has improved and stabilized a lot after being included in Fedora." Rahul

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Meeting TODAY 2009.04.21 @ 20.00 UTC
by Jack Aboutboul 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

Hello All, We will be having our regularly scheduled Fedora Marketing meeting today at 20.00UTC. Thats 4 Eastern, 1 Pacific and 22.00 CET, please set you clocks accordingly. The meeting will take place in #fedora-meeting. If you have anything which needs to be done or have any ideas for actionable items for the time of release, please bring them. Jack

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