marketing July 2009

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foobar name
by Jonathan Roberts 20 Jul '09

20 Jul '09

My decision on the name, barring objections from News team, for the name would be Fedora Insight, based on the feedback on the wiki page -- I particularly like Ian's suggestion of a fi ligature of some kind as the logo... I've still to get any solid feedback from the news team, but Pascal has said he will attend tomorrow evening's meeting to discuss News' requirements. Perhaps even if we use the Fedora Insight name, it might be good to keep Weekly News' model and name as a title for a weekly feature - I guess that's all for discussion tomorrow evening. Cheers, Jon

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New member to the group
by Andrew Cuga 17 Jul '09

17 Jul '09

Hey, All! I'm a big fan of FOSS and have been looking for some communities to get involved in. Since the past few months I've been becoming enraptured with Fedora and wanted to become a contributing member. I'm a Java engineer, having specialized in web application development for the past few years. I currently work for Booz Allen Hamilton in the Washington DC metro area. I've started my Wiki profile ( https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Theandruu) but there's not much other than the basics at the moment. As I said, I'm looking for ways to become more active, so I heartily welcome suggestions. Some of the things I hope to get out of this is to meet other people in the community, to learn more skills / become expert in them, to help expand the project's client base, and maybe even contribute some code. Best wishes, Andrew Cuga

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Re: foobar platform pre-decision
by Máirín Duffy 15 Jul '09

15 Jul '09

-------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Máirín Duffy <mairin(a)linuxgrrl.com> > To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base > <fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com> > Subject: Re: foobar platform pre-decision > Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:16:03 -0400 > > On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 09:28 -0400, Mel Chua wrote: > > Jonathan Roberts wrote: > > > 2009/7/15 Ian Weller <ian(a)ianweller.org>: > > >> At the meeting today there was general consensus to use Zikula for the > > >> Foobar project > > > > > HUGE +1 on this from me... > > > > And me - it sounds like this isn't just killing N birds with one stone - > > it sounds like the Zikula effort already *has* huge, rapidly-moving, > > heat-tracking, dead-accurate stones with frickin' laser beams strapped > > to 'em, and is motioning at the flock of birds above and saying "...just > > point to the birds you want. Yes. Any bird..." as the stones slice > > through the flock as upstream whistles directions, dropping quails into > > the open bags of the other Fedora teams... > > One question, does Zikula have podcasting plugins? > > ~m

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FUDCon Berlin blog
by Kara Schiltz 15 Jul '09

15 Jul '09

Hello all, A blog recapping FUDCon Berlin posted this morning on Red Hat's news blog: http://press.redhat.com/2009/07/15/fudcon-berlin-provides-venue-for-securit… Thanks, Kara

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foobar platform pre-decision
by Ian Weller 15 Jul '09

15 Jul '09

At the meeting today there was general consensus to use Zikula for the Foobar project, mostly under the reasoning of "kill two birds with one stone" (Docs Project is also using Zikula) and "upstream is awesome" (Zikula devs are very responsive to the needs of Docs, and will be responsive to the needs of Marketing) We're leaving the subject open until next meeting unless there is a major blocker that isn't solved by that time. Flame away! -- Ian Weller <ian(a)ianweller.org> GnuPG fingerprint: E51E 0517 7A92 70A2 4226 B050 87ED 7C97 EFA8 4A36

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Wiki cleanup
by Steven Moix 15 Jul '09

15 Jul '09

Hello all, As for every Fedora cycle, I am cleaning up our marketing wiki and cycling pages to Fedora 12. I'd like to discuss some pages: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_tasks: I'd like to archive this page, in the new cycle we have simply added a "current tasks" table to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_F12_schedule which serves the same purpose. I have transferred all the tasks which are still alive from the old page to the new one, but please have a look and tweak it as you like. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/UserTestimonials : updating this page was a task for the F11 cycle, but with project FooBar I propose that we archive it and integrate user testimonials directly in a section of the new CMS? We could have an article every month or so about a specific Fedora usage in a company or by someone as an article. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxUserGroups : does this page still make sense? Archive? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_surveys : does this page still make sense? Archive? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Books : this clearly needs love, I added it to the current tasks list. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_brain_dump : does this page still make sense? It looks like we are using the mailinglist for that... Any comments? I won't touch the pages until the next meeting. Have a nice day Steven

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Self-Introduction: Martin Duffy
by Martin Duffy 15 Jul '09

15 Jul '09

Hi everyone! My name is Martin, I'm from upstate New York, and my sister Mairin works for Red Hat and has gotten me into Fedora and open source software in general over the past few years. I finished grad school about a year ago studying English/writing, and currently I'm volunteering in an Americorps program with the Red Cross as my day job. I'm hoping to contribute to Fedora marketing by writing copy, blogs, any kind of media content (podcasts, video, etc.), or whatever else I can (or can learn) to do! My first job out of college was with the State University of NY research foundation writing web content, spotlight features, news, interviews with people, and that sort of thing for one of their Albany-area high tech career exploration sites, and my second job also involved writing (mostly legal writing though) with the NYS Attorney General's office. Anywho, hope I can be useful in marketing Fedora, and I'm usually always on google talk (same ID as my email addy) or on AIM where my sn is justshovejayohbe, so feel free to say hi if you see me! - Martin

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Red Hat Developer Conference
by John Babich 15 Jul '09

15 Jul '09

To the Marketing Team: I posted an event entry in LinkedIn for the Red Hat Developer Conference, being held 10-11 September in Brno CZ. Someone who is directly involved in the event may want to go and claim it. The link is http://events.linkedin.com/Red-Hat-Developer-Conference-2009/pub/96208 As LinkedIn continues to grow in popularity, we may want to post more events there for free publicity. Best Regards, John Babich Volunteer, Fedora Project

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Re: $foobar update
by Máirín Duffy 14 Jul '09

14 Jul '09

Ironically enough my first attempt to send this never went through either. No notification it was put under moderation either. ~m -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Máirín Duffy <duffy(a)redhat.com> > To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base > <fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com> > Subject: Re: $foobar update > Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:28:44 -0400 > > On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 23:42 +0100, Jonathan Roberts wrote: > > Damn, I thought I'd sent this earlier but it didn't make it to list > > 'cos I used the wrong email address!! > > I've noticed the same problem. I've written many messages to the > marketing list that never made it, and I never got any kind of > moderation pending bounceback or anything. > > Seems like the settings on the list should at least be tweaked so you'll > know right away you got moderated because you used the wrong email > address. > > ~m

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Re: Fedora Classroom
by Mel Chua 14 Jul '09

14 Jul '09

Thanks, Kevin! I'll start by forwarding this to the marketing list (cc'd), then start doing more specific pings/ideas when I'm going through those meeting notes tonight. Marketing folks, *awesome* opportunity to teach people about your projects and get them involved, and to learn exciting new things. Go go go! --Mel Kevin Fenzi wrote: > Greetings. > > We could use some marketing mojo with the Fedora Classroom project: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Classroom > > We are always looking for people to teach classes, but also we are > looking at ways to get more students to attend classes. > > We have a help wanted page: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Classroom_Help_Wanted > > and a mailing list: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/classroom > > Basically we would love to get some folks involved from marketing that > could blog post about upcoming classes, post on the fedoraforum, or > other ways of increasing attendance. ;) > > Let me know if you would like to help, or introduce yourself on the > mailing list. > > Thanks, > > kevin

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