marketing July 2009

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Fedora on Netbooks (Was: Re: Reminder: Meeting in 24 hours, #fedora-meeting)
by Mathieu Bridon 14 Jul '09

14 Jul '09

> The last event that I attended, I got a bunch of questions regarding Fedora > usage on various "netbooks". > > I believe that this is a marketing problem more than it is an engineering > problem, because we have a variety of Fedora spins (including the default > one) that would work fine on Netbooks. > > I think we need a simple page -- /wiki/Netbooks -- that offers some best > practices/tips/troubleshooting/etc. for people who are using Fedora on > different Netbooks. I also had a lot of these questions at LSM. It turned out people were more looking for a spin dedicated to netbooks (see UNR), they didn't really want to know that Gnome runs perfectly fine with a small display. Last time I checked, we didn't have such a dedicated desktop environment in our repositories, did I miss something ? ---------- Mathieu Bridon (bochecha)

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testing moderation
by Paul Frields 14 Jul '09

14 Jul '09

test -- 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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foobar rawhide weather report
by Máirín Duffy 14 Jul '09

14 Jul '09

Hey, I was going over the requirements for $foobar and I was thinking about the Rawhide weather report idea we had (check the upper right corner of the mockup https://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/c/ce/FooBar.png ) The idea was basically we'd keep track of how broken rawhide was on a given day and report that as a parody of a weather report. I don't know if something like that would be useful, but if so, I think it should factor into the requirements. Similarly, there's an idea in the mockup to show live dents (please let's not use twitter). That might also need to factor in the requirements if we decide this design idea is worth pursuing. ~m

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Reminder: Meeting in 24 hours, #fedora-meeting
by Mel Chua 14 Jul '09

14 Jul '09

Join us in #fedora-meetings for another action-packed Fedora Marketing Meeting! Information at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Meetings. As usual, we will be going through https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_F12_schedule. * Will "fruitbar" reign? * Will users testify to the awesomeness of Fedora? * Will our wiki pages TOTALLY KICK ASS for F12? * Will creme brulee forever be without proper accents, or will Mel learns to use alt-gr properly? * What does the FooBar platform need to do? (This is important for selecting our platform, which is the big blocker we need to clear before anything else on FooBar can move forward, so please chime in on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FooBar#Platform_specs.2Frequirements if you can, with *any* thoughts that you might have.) * <suspenseful music!> I think I've followed up with everyone who's working on something for the meeting by now - if I've missed you, or if you need anything, please ping! (I'm on IRC as mchua most of the time, and email also works). See you tomorrow! --Mel

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Meeting logs July 14 2009
by Mel Chua 14 Jul '09

14 Jul '09

Meeting bots make my life so much easier. Here's today's meeting log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-07-14/fedora-meeting.2… Also listed at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings#2009 I'm going to eat lunch, then do follow-ups. Lots of things hitting the list this week, including an action-oriented summary of this week's somewhat longish log - prepare your inboxes. ;) --Mel

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The "One" Page Release Notes
by Eric Christensen 14 Jul '09

14 Jul '09

The Docs Team, at the FAD @ SELF, had an idea to create a one-page Release Notes for users that aren't as technical as some of our other users. This Release Notes would be something pretty, graphical, and would only contain high-level changes. I guess what we are looking for is something that is a "composite of the tour and release overview" to quote Paul (stickster). It might be an even better idea to have a team comprised of some Marketing members and some Docs members to form a Release Notes Team to create both the larger Release Notes as well as the one-page version. More people means less work for a few but also means continuity through various releases. Thoughts? -- Thanks, Eric Christensen Fedora Docs Project Lead Fedora Talk: 5102043 Phone: 919-424-0063 x 5102043 E-Mail: sparks(a)fedoraproject.org SIP: sparks(a)talk.fedoraproject.org IRC: Sparks on freenode.net GPG Fingerprint: CA02 4ACA EB6C 1A76 F0D6 1127 7D04 D240 BD0C 14C1

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Is Fedora for you?
by Rahul Sundaram 14 Jul '09

14 Jul '09

Hi Expanded the section to include more information on Fedora audience, EL, EPEL and other smaller tidbits. Please review and add your comments https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview#Is_Fedora_for_me.3F Rahul

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Fedora Event at Sastra [was:Re: Is Fedora for you?]
by sankarshan 14 Jul '09

14 Jul '09

Apologies about the thread fork. On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Sreeram Vasudevan<sreeram.vasudevan(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I am student from SASTRA Tamil Nadu, India and I found that Fedora 11 is > really cool and ideal for educational and research oriented purposes. Many > of my friends want to do their academic mini project in open source platform > for which I feel fedora 11 shall be ideal. I want to spread the popularity > of Fedora 11 here.Could you please help me go about it? I m really zealous > and willing to promote fedora.I also want to contribute towards it. Please take a look at <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/fedora_in_SASTRA> I guess a few of the Fedora folks are in touch about an event etc. -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work

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Fedora 9 is dead. Long Live Fedora 10 and 11?
by Rahul Sundaram 13 Jul '09

13 Jul '09

Hi http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/07/fedora-9-is-dead-long-live-fed… "From its initial creation out of what was once the Red Hat Linux distribution, Fedora has always been a fast moving distribution. As part of that fast moving approach, older releases don't live all that long. The current policy is that releases will live only until one month after the N-2 (next two) release is out. Fedora 11 came out one month ago and now its time for Fedora 9 to go away." Rahul

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Re: $foobar update
by Mel Chua 13 Jul '09

13 Jul '09

>> I also see that tchung, nman64, and stickster are admins on the list >> as well, so maybe one of them can take a peek and fix this if they >> have a sec before then. *pokepoke* > Hm. Well, somehow I've managed to *not* have that admin password on my > list, but I didn't recall I was an owner, so maybe it's not such a big > surprise. I know that tchung is usually not around these days, as he's > on hiatus from Fedora for personal reasons, and nman64 is sometimes > scarce too. We should probably get some of the primary folks around > these parts added. > Paul Btw, I've marked this (making sure the mailing list mods list holds the right people) as something to do in the f12 cycle before beta starts, and given it to themayor (with Jack's permission, when he gets back) since this is something that seems prudent to do every release cycle anyway. --Mel

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