Joining Marketting team
by Rangeen Basu
Hi
This is Rangeen Basu Roy Chowdhury. I am a Fedora user for a long time
and a contributor for some time now. I am a member of the Ambassadors
team and also Package Maintainer team. I am glad to join the marketing
team and work towards spreading Fedora more and more.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Sherry151
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Regards
Rangeen Basu Roy Chowdhury
Fedora Ambassador
sherry151(a)gmail.com
Sent from Calcutta, WB, India
14 years, 1 month
Welcome, fellow new people!
by Mel Chua
(wherein Mel reveals a soft spot for new contributors, having been
through the "whoa! everything is new and confusing!" stuff not all that
long ago - almost exactly two months, actually.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-May/msg00236.html.)
We've got a lot of new people this month. Welcome to...
* Ely
(https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-July/msg00006....)
* Rob
(https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-July/msg00027....)
* Martin
(https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-July/msg00079....)
* Andrew
(https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-July/msg00096....)
* Rangeen
(https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-July/msg00126....)
New folks: can you make it to our next marketing meeting (on IRC)?
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Meetings - if you can show up
15 minutes early, or stay 15 minutes afterwards, I'm sure folks would be
glad to talk with you about how you might be best able to jump in. (I'll
be there, anyway. I want some help with all the stuff I'm working on ;)
Honestly, it's all about doing what *you* want to do - but sometimes
figuring out what you want to do is hard when you're new to a project.
And it's sometimes nice to be able to pick up on something small and
specific while you're learning what is out there or could be out there.
So we should try to find nice on-ramp projects.
For instance:
* Rangeen, I saw you work on FEL - does FEL need marketing?
* Martin, you're volunteering for the Red Cross, which is *ridiculously*
good at marketing and also managing volunteers - what practices have you
seen there that we should do in here?
* Rob, you're going to LUGradio: what can we do with radio? I know there
have been podcast interviews for Fedora in the past, is that something
you'd be interested in helping with?
* Ely, you're studying in Brazil, which I hear has some *AWESOME*
Ambassadors stuff going on that... for instance, since I only read
English fluently right now, I have no idea what is going on there, and I
think a lot of others here may be in the same situation. Can you think
of some way the English speaking community and the Latin American
community can stay in touch better?
* Andrew, you wanted to help with Fedora Insight, so we should... talk.
Are you on IRC? I am mchua in #fedora-marketing.
In other news, people working on stuff who can throw concrete "please
help!" statements out there, the list of names above are the people you
should be talking with.
--Mel
14 years, 1 month
Generic Marketing release cycle schedule (draft)
by Mel Chua
Attached.
This is a draft of a skeleton schedule with all the milestones we'll
have to hit every release, to be customized at the start of each cycle
to create that cycle's particular schedule. (Because stuff like "alpha
readiness meeting" will be repeated every cycle, stuff like "get Fedora
Insight up and running" won't.)
Emphasis on the word *draft.* Are there any other tasks that *must* be
completed every cycle? Tasks listed here that don't need to be done
every cycle?
John, the formatting is pretty awful here - it might be easier to go
through and change the dates from things like "beta readiness mtg+1wk"
to things like "week 1 - week 3"... we can do that on gobby if you'd like.
F12 schedule coming on Monday.
--Mel
14 years, 1 month
Almost-finalized: Marketing F12 schedule
by Mel Chua
I've updated the F12 schedule according to the meeting
(https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-July/msg00140....)
that Paul, John, and myself had today.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_F12_schedule
We've got some dates and such to coordinate with various teams (cc'd
here) before Monday in order to make sure our calendars sync up. One of
the things we'll be talking about at the Marketing meeting tomorrow
(https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings) is how to make sure
that each Marketing + OtherTeam coordination happens this week - some of
these connections already have delegates, others have people who
probably should be, others are wide open.
The notes below are very, *very* much drafts, and only starting points!
It's also entirely possible that I've put *too* much in the notes below
(that figuring out something shouldn't be Marketing's job, or its
focus). Patches welcome.
--Mel
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Design: We should make sure we get you a release slogan in time, and
give fast enough feedback/final-slogan turnaround based on your designs
that you can make release buttons/banners with time to spare. Also need
to see what sort of work we need to coordinate in order to make spiffy
Ambassadors kits.
Docs: We should commit to those 1-page shiny release notes you wanted,
and find other good points during the cycle to check in with each other.
We also need to talk (possibly with News) on who'd like to do what
portions of talking points and in-depth feature profiles. (How can we
market our documentation as awesome, too?)
Ambassadors: We need to schedule a briefing for you folks to happen once
the talking points are ready - but most importantly, we need to learn
how we can listen to you better so that we can make the things you
actually want and *need* to spread the word on the ground. What can we do?
Websites: We should talk - potentially with Design - about how we're
going to coordinate various webpage redesigns and revisions, and how our
respective roles complement each other.
News: We also need to talk (possibly with Docs) on who'd like to do what
portions of talking points and in-depth feature profiles. We should also
figure out what's going on with News and Marketing and Fedora Insight,
so we can schedule in coordination times with other teams if needed.
14 years, 1 month
Jack is Going, Going, Going...Gone!
by Jack Aboutboul
Hey Everyone,
I think I told most people that I wanted to tell privately so it's time
to tell the list and out myself to the public. August 14th will be my
last day at Red Hat and of temporary daily direct involvement in the
Fedora project.
In 1997 I got my first taste of Linux, Red Hat Linux 4.2, to be exact.
It was in the basement lab of the university that I was doing research
at during the second half of my freshman year in high school. It was at
that point the most fun and challenging thing I had ever done,
struggling to get the kernel to work with the crappy Matrox (I think)
video card that was the only spare piece of anything in that lab. I
aimlessly wandered down that path I had no idea that jumping down the
rabbit hole would lead to the 12 most pleasantly wondrous and amazing
years of my life.
Over the last 12 years this love affair has grown stronger and I have
had the unbelievable good fortune to travel the world, see amazing
places, explore amazing ideas, meet and work with some of the planet's
greatest, smartest and most passionate people and play my part to help
turn Linux, Open Source, Red Hat, Fedora and the concepts of free open
and democratic commons of content and technology from relatively
unknowns into the great revolution of our age. I have spent the better
part of the last 6 years working for Red Hat on Fedora and
Fedora-related projects in directed efforts to improve both the state
and awareness of those things I mentioned. Red Hat has been a warm home
and family to me and I am as much glad as I am in awe of how ferociously
dedicated we have been to our noble principles of freedom and truth,
while having accomplished, ascertained and executed and what I have been
able to imbibe, about so many diverse concepts, over these last few
years. What niche and facet have we not touched? What direction or
device have we not influenced? What proclivity have we not affected?
For this, I am proud.
Fedora has been my brother since the day it was conceived. The more
energy and time I invested into Fedora, to help it grow and mature, the
more it paid me back by proving to be the best platform for innovation,
and letting me be involved in that cause. Starting a community is no
small order and keeping it going all these years take passion on the
part of those willing to undertake the task. We have learned what it
means to be a community, to live, breathe, eat and be true to
community. To provide, so that others can have, to build so that others
can build upon and to be selfless so that we can embrace others and more
importantly so that others can embrace us, virtual strangers, and feel
welcome. It has been my distinct pleasure to work with every single
precious member of the Fedora community, from all over the world to help
build a very deep and intimate relationship with the concept of
community. We have accomplished such great feats, arising from a
turbulent and tumultuous genesis and virtually transformed and flipped
the world and the hearts and minds of people in a few short years. We
have become the paramount archetype of community. How many have
communities emulated and continue to emulate our success? How many have
our ideas spawned? How many have been lucky to be as true and real as
we have? For this, I am grateful.
The best part has been the people. I can't count on 100 sets of hands
the number and names of all the wonderful people that have affected me.
When I was on the Fedora University Tour, my speech was called "Crash:
How a Billion Little Collisions Defines Everything," and it was about
how working in a community and in real life, we are the sum total of the
people we interact with. I don't think one can find a better metaphor
and if I stick to my axiom then I can truly consider myself rich. Every
person I met and spent time with in the office, at a meeting, show,
conference or elsewhere, and online has helped shape my character, both
personal and professional, for the better. As a lover of people I am
both thankful for the interactions we have had and excited for what the
future holds. I owe thanks to many, like I said, even 100 hands can't
count, but I will try and pay homage to some of my closest, dearest and
most influential friends over the last few years.
First and foremost, Tom "Spot" Callaway, for urging me to get involved
way back when things started and helping me score a gig at Red Hat.
Greg DeKoenigsberg, for being a friend, a mentor and a visionary; if I
can say one thing about Greg it's that he "gets it" when no one else
does, he can put it in words, and above all else, he's real.
Max Spevack, because I can write a whole book of reasons to thank Max,
who has been a dear friend, a true buddy, a team player and a team leader.
Karsten Wade, for being the most chillin guy you will ever find, and for
being my west coast trade show and conference booth buddy.
Jim Gleason, for being first a friend for 9+ years of NYLUG and then a
mentor and being someone who cares.
Michael Tiemann, for being a genius, for always giving me something to
think about and someone to look up to.
John Flanagan, for being my first manager at Red Hat and being an all
around great guy and Jeff Needle, for being the guy who would let me
wander into his cubicle and talk about nothing for hours on end.
Mo Duffy, for being the best artist and designer in the world!
The original Red Hat QA team, Ed Rousseau, Bill Peck, Marty, John, John
and Zack for letting me encroach on their cube area and steal one when I
was an intern.
Jesse Keating, for being awesome, for being the workhorse upon much of
which the foundations of Fedora are built, and for being a cool guy who
I spoke to for almost 2 years online and helped me with everything
before I ever got a chance to meet him and buy him a drink.
Luke Macken, for all those games of Star Wars pinball on the 3rd floor
and for being the most uber hacker the world has ever seen.
Arlinton Bourne, for being a true friend and following my advice to join
Red Hat, where the hood at?
Paul Frields, for being a great leader and a real sweetheart while still
secretly being 007.
Yaakov Nemoy, for being my intern and not complaining and for being a
friend who will always listen to my crazy ideas.
Arjun Roy and Mohammed Morsi, for being great interns as well and for
accepting offers to come to Red Hat as well. Mo, real Red Hatters wear
Orange.
Bill Nottingham, because I like him.
Moshe Bar, for being my international hangout buddy and being an all
around great human being.
The Red Hat Anaconda team, the Desktop team, Fedora kernel team (a.k.a.
Dave Jones), the Fedora Ambassadors, the Fedora Infrastructure team
including Mike, Dennis and Toshio, anyone who was ever been on the
Fedora board including Rex Dieter, anyone who ever volunteered to help
at an event or show, everyone in the Westford office, everyone in the
NYC office.
The Fedora Marketing team including Steven Moix, David Nalley, Bob
Jensen, Jon Stanley, Rahul Sundaram, John Rose and anyone else I'm
forgetting...we done good, real good.
To the next generation of leaders in Fedora, Mel Chua, Ricky Zhou, Ian
Weller and crew.
Last and certainly not least, to Matthew Szulik who believed in us and
led us finely as a teacher and friend and Jim Whitehurst, who keeps the
flame alive, the train running and still makes time to be a true leader.
Thanks everyone for an amazing time and ride. As I move on to other
ventures, I wish everyone blessing and success and hope to keep in
touch. I can be reached via email jack(a)jackfoundation.com, Freenode IRC
as themayor, and various and sundry social networks.
14 years, 1 month
Design + Marketing schedules: Synced!
by Mel Chua
Design and Marketing folks: just a heads-up so you know the stuff that
the two groups will be working on together for this release cycle - Mo
and I just froze the milestone dates for things the two teams will be
collaborating on (our version is at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_F12_schedule). Here are the
relevant parts for y'all on what Marketing is going to deliver for Design...
Select a release slogan 2009-09-17 Make sure Design has the release
slogan so they can start designing.
Final release slogan is ready for websites/design 2009-09-17 Marketing
creates this, influenced by the Design themes/wallpaper/etc. for the
release. The slogan then (circularly?) affects the Design team's release
button/banner for the website. Need to make sure this lines up with
Design and Website's dates. This date is a start date; the end date
needs to be set in conjunction with Design.
(For Marketing's reference...)
Groups we (Marketing) have synced with: Websites, Design
Groups left to sync with: Docs, Ambassadors, News
...that is all. Thanks for your time!
--Mel
14 years, 1 month
Websites + Marketing schedules: synced!
by Mel Chua
Websites and Marketing folks: just a heads-up so you know the stuff that
the two groups will be working on together for this release cycle -
Ricky and I just froze the milestone dates for things the two teams will
be collaborating on (our version is at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_F12_schedule). Here are the
relevant parts for y'all on what Marketing is going to deliver for
Websites...
Final release slogan is ready for websites/design 2009-09-17 Marketing
creates this, influenced by the Design themes/wallpaper/etc. for the
release. The slogan then (circularly?) affects the Design team's release
button/banner for the website. Need to make sure this lines up with
Design and Website's dates. This date is a start date; the end date
needs to be set in conjunction with Design.
All desired website changes taken to websites team 2009-09-15 The
Websites team has a 09/29 feature freeze, so we need to make sure any
features/changes we want (text, images, page restructuring, etc...) have
been approved by them by that date. This means that two weeks prior,
Marketing should know exactly what changes we'd like to see on the
websites, that all those changes should be tickets filed in the Website
team's Trac, and that each change should have a Marketing delegate
working on it from within the Websites team.
(For Marketing's reference...)
Groups we (Marketing) have synced with: Websites, Design
Groups left to sync with: Docs, Ambassadors, News
...that is all. Thanks for your time!
--Mel
14 years, 1 month
Re: Almost-finalized: Marketing F12 schedule
by Mel Chua
(Marketing folks - this was asked on the Docs list in response to this
email, so I thought it might be good to give a fuller explanation.)
> Hello,
> It might be stupid question, sorry, what is this for?
> Where is 'Localization'?
> noriko
Thanks for the call-out - I should have been more clear when I sent out
that email.
This email was basically announcing the almost-final (it will be frozen
on Monday) Marketing schedule of what we'll be working on for the F12
release. It's here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_F12_schedule
I sent it to several other lists (including Docs) because one of the
things we want to make sure is that our schedule is OK for all the other
teams we'll have to work with on a deliverable, or send a deliverable
to. For instance, if Marketing is supposed to make 1-page release notes
for Docs, a milestone for that should be on the Marketing F12 schedule,
and Docs has to be happy with the date of that Marketing milestone, so
we can get stuff to you on time.
Not all the other teams were listed (for instance, as you pointed out,
Localization wasn't mentioned) because we only have "deliverable due
dates" for a few teams. We'll still be working with, listening to, and
making stuff for all the other teams (and really, anyone working on
Fedora who'd like Marketing help) - this list was just to make sure big
schedule milestones all matched up. If you think we *should* have
specific milestones for a team that isn't listed, please let us know!
Hope that explains a bit - and please, let me know if I should be going
about this differently, or explaining things better... I'm trying to go
around to coordinate individually with the owners of the various team
schedules, so things should be taken care of, but I also wanted to let
others on the teams that we'll be working with know why they might at
some point get stuff from Marketing, or see Marketing people show up at
particular meetings, and that kind of thing. ;)
--Mel
14 years, 1 month
News distribution network 2.0
by Steven Moix
Hi all,
With the past experience from the Fedora 11 cycle and the rise of Fedora
Insight, it was time to change the way our news distribution network
works, the main difference between both of them is that:
"The Fedora Insight initiative is a "passive" way of delivering a steady
flow of news, while the News Distribution Network is an "active" tool to
push the most important news all around the world. "
The new page can be found on
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_news_distribution_network_%28NDN%29
What has changed?
* During the F11 cycle, we were supposed to write news to this
mailinglist, and decide which ones we wanted to send to the NDN.
Obviously, this was an epic fail as we never did it this way.
* With Fedora Insight, our work will be more focused and streamlined.
Our job is tu put content on the Fedora Insight website, along with the
News group and other people; we will do this regardless of the NDN. Now
we simply have to select the important news stories from FI and send
them to NDN, so they can be published internationally.
I don't know the English expression for that, but...on fait d'une pierre
deux coups. ;)
Any comments on the new way I'm planning to use the NDN? Its goal is now
really to push the most important FI news worldwide, it's a tool deigned
just for that.
Thanks
Steven
14 years, 1 month
