marketing July 2009

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I won't be around Wednesday during the day
by Jack Aboutboul 29 Jul '09

29 Jul '09

Hey Guys, I'm gonna take most of Wednesday off to take care of some personal stuff, so I won't be near a PC. I will be back sometime later in the day. Mel has the keys to the car if anyone needs them. Jack

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Self-Introduction: Chaitanya Mehandru
by chaitanya mehandru 29 Jul '09

29 Jul '09

HI, I recently joined the fedora marketing group and it was interesting to chat with a couple of folks. Below is a small intro of mine. - Full legal name : Chaitanya Mehandru - Location: Bangalore, India (GMT + 5:30) - Company: Graduate Intern Technical at INTEL Corporation - School: Will be completing Masters of Science in Embedded Systems from Manipal University,India in August. - Goals in the Fedora Project: Actively work for marketing of Fedora as well with the technical team. I have worked on Intel's Atom based platforms running moblin2. - What I want to talk about: I wish to discuss and share ideas for improving fedora from a performance perspective. - What else I'd like to do: Work with the Fedora technical team - Recent projects or marketing effors in the past): Worked on Software power and performance analysis of multimedia and videoconferencing applications on MObile Internet Devices. I have worked extensivley on ekiga videoconferencing on arom based platforms and wrote a paper on the power/performance characterization of videoconferencing on MIDs. - Marketing skills: Willing to learn more from the folks here.I would say my marketing skills are at beginner's level. I am a quick learner Please let me know if anyone wants to know something specific or talk about. Thanks, Chaitanya

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Meeting minutes 2009-07-28
by Mel Chua 28 Jul '09

28 Jul '09

Logs are posted at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings#2009. And the notes (http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-07-28/fedora-meeting.2…) say that I've got a lot of emailin' to do tonight. ;)

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FooBar --> Fedora Insight
by Mel Chua 28 Jul '09

28 Jul '09

FooBar pages and categories have been moved to Fedora Insight. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight However, the content still refers to FooBar. If someone has a minute to fix this, that's awesome - if not, I'll do it when I'm back in Boston. --Mel

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Reviewed: Fedora 11
by Rahul Sundaram 28 Jul '09

28 Jul '09

Hi http://www.tuxradar.com/content/reviewed-fedora-11 "Leonidas is a competent and comprehensive release. Some may balk at some of the beta software included (Firefox 3.5 most notably, but this has been patched after release), but the balancing act between cutting-edginess and stability has been well maintained. This isn't a must-have release in the same way that Fedora 8 or Fedora 10 were, but sometimes little skips are better than great leaps. *Our verdict:* Other distros are in danger of being outbuntu'd by this freedom loving, Gnome-centric star performer.*9/10*." Rahul

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Reminder: #fedora-meeting, 20:00 UTC
by Mel Chua 28 Jul '09

28 Jul '09

A lot of things are happening - Jack's transition, the F12 schedule beginning to settle in, impending Alpha date - so let's get together and find out where we are. The usual: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings Last week: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-07-21/fedora-meeting.2… Our schedule/agenda: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_F12_schedule --Mel

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KDE 4.3 Shaping Up Nicely, KWin Needs Work
by Rahul Sundaram 28 Jul '09

28 Jul '09

Hi, http://www.osnews.com/story/21899/KDE_4_3_Shaping_Up_Nicely_KWin_Needs_Work "For a very long time now, I've been on the hunt for a distribution that really put a lot of effort into their KDE4 implementation. This has been a frustrating search, full of broken installations, incredibly slow performance, and so many visual artifacts they made my eyes explode. Since KDE 4.3 is nearing release, I had to pick up this quest in order to take a look at where 4.3 stands - and I found a home in the KDE version of Fedora 11. Read on for a look as to where KDE 4.3 currently stands." Rahul

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Talking Points
by Paul W. Frields 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F12_talking_points This page is going to be the landing place for our talking points, which Max summarized so well in today's Marketing meeting. They're also somewhat explained on this page. I would suggest we start by looking at the current feature list, and finding changes that are going to be of interest to consumers of the Fedora distribution: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/12/FeatureList Things that jump out at me at a first cut as features around which we can build compelling stories. This is just my list -- so please look at the full feature list and ask yourself if there's something further that has widespread appeal, preferably involving Fedora community members' upstream contributions, that are immensely cool. For Joe User: * ABRT - easy bug filing for n00bs * Better Webcam support - SSIA * Mobile broadband enhancements to NetworkManager - SSIA * PackageKit command-not-found plugin - will install packages based on a terminal command if it's missing For Joe Admin: * libguestfs - allows direct tinkering with guest disk image files * LOTS of other KVM improvements - NIC hotplug, virtual disk image performance, etc. -- see individual pages -- 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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Fedora Twibbon Campaign
by Ayrton Araújo 26 Jul '09

26 Jul '09

In FISL 10 at Brazil, some friends been created a slogan “We are Fedora!” and did one fool video and I decided make a twibbon with the Fedora Logo [1] with the slogan. [1]http://twibbon.com/join/We-are-Fedora For those who do not know, twibbon is a service that use’s twitter api for plus to your twitter avatar some image for the purpose of disseminate a campaing as end of ie6 or end of microsoft. So, see with own eyes, support “We are Fedora!” and make, if you want, their own campaigns. Have fun

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old, old, old Fedora Insight notes.
by Mel Chua 25 Jul '09

25 Jul '09

Well, "old" = "about a month, back when it was still called FooBar." I found the notes from the first conversation I heard about FI at (a meeting with Jack, Mo, and Smooge in Westford). Sorry about the belatedness; should have posted them publicly right when I took 'em. If you're curious what we talked about, I did a line-by-line paraphrase in realtime, now posted here (with awful, awful formatting): https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FooBar#Background Here's the initial list of content categories we came up with (JonRob, maybe this is useful as a starting point to talk with News? I think they should ultimately decide the final category list, but that's your call.) https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FooBar#Content_categories And likely to be the most useful part for most people asking "what is FI?" we spent some time going through Planet that morning and triaged blog posts there into "this would go in FooBar" and "this wouldn't go in FooBar". Comments and debate extremely welcome. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FooBar#Content_examples One thing I plan on doing before the next meeting: wiki cleanup to recategorize, rename, move, redirect, etc. all references to "FooBar" --> "Fedora Insight." (Ian, holler if there's anything else to be done for wiki goodness on this front.) --Mel PS: does anyone else feel the urge to yell "FI!" once in a while? (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semper_fi.) Maybe I'm just weird.

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