marketing July 2009

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Is Fedora for me?
by Rahul Sundaram 13 Jul '09

13 Jul '09

Hi, I have expanded on this section to emphasis better who Fedora is for, relationship to EL, info on EPEL and other little tidbits. Take a look and feel free to add your comments https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview#Is_Fedora_for_me.3F Rahul

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Distro Review: Fedora 11
by Rahul Sundaram 11 Jul '09

11 Jul '09

Hi http://danlynch.org/blog/2009/07/fedora11/ "I think things are really looking up in the Fedora world. They have lots of innovative features and things that will no doubt end up in future releases of other distros. This is where they see themselves, the ground breakers or pioneers who explore new things on behalf of the rest of us. The developers have done a great job on Fedora 11 and I encourage you to take a look at it and let me know how it works for you." Rahul

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FooBar page: now with more background/notes/mockups
by Mel Chua 10 Jul '09

10 Jul '09

I merged some old notes on FooBar into the current project page - see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FooBar (there's a lot more stuff there now, including a gorgeous and hilarious mockup by Mo). Go check it out - and as per Ian's earlier request, please add your ideas to the brainstorm list on... https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FooBar#Platform_selection_criteria https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FooBar#Platform_specs.2Frequirements https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FooBar#Name_brainstorming ...we'll be taking a few minutes to throw out ideas on each of those categories at the start of the next meeting, but anything we can do before the meeting helps to shorten it. ;) --Mel

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FooBar: The wiki page and update
by Mel Chua 08 Jul '09

08 Jul '09

Rather than fill your inboxes with another long email, this page reflects everything I could find and everything I know about FooBar (which needs a new name). You'll notice that "everything Mel knows" == "not all that much," so please take 5 minutes to add your own braindumps here! https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FooBar JonRob and Ian are attacking the page as we speak, and Ian will be calling for participation on certain spots on this page in just a moment. ;) --Mel

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Marketing Meeting 2009-07-07 IRC Log
by Steven Moix 08 Jul '09

08 Jul '09

Hello all, Here is the log for today's marketing meeting: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Marketing_meeting_2009-07-07 Have a nice day Steven

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$foobar update
by Jonathan Roberts 08 Jul '09

08 Jul '09

Damn, I thought I'd sent this earlier but it didn't make it to list 'cos I used the wrong email address!! After seeing the meeting logs, it seems like a) it's rubbish that I couldn't be there, and that b) ianweller has picked up some jobs Jack asked me to do while he was away Re: foobar. If he's happy, that's fine by me, but just to say that I'm certainly going to be in attendance at the Zikula meetings etc so can help out as needed, Jon ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jonathan Roberts <jonrob.one(a)googlemail.com> Date: 2009/7/7 Subject: $foobar update To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base <fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com> I can't make the meeting tonight, so I thought I better throw this out there now so that if the topic is reached, I won't be holding back progress! I've e-mailed the news list, and Pascal replied so positively that I've copied his reply in below: -------------- Hi Jon and all -- Its good to see that there is some traction with getting wordpress-mu going again for FWN and other content. I just read the Fedora Marketing meeting log, and count me in to help with work on this. The most obvious benefit we'll get is a graphical branded presence, and then syndication as well. I am not sure in this new format the extent to which the name Fedora Weekly News needs to be retained. In a sense the entire effort is going to be news on the project, right? OTOH, FWN does have name recognition, and it might help to identify sections of the site, since there are going to be content from all across the project. Most of the current sections of FWN will find sections of their own in the new format, I'd think. Certainly Ambassadors, Planet, Art/Design, Translation, Development. Dale's virtualization beat is a creation unto itself, covering several different areas. We'll hopefully be able to get content from other areas that aren't even represented. I think we should use this opportunity to fully commit FWN to this larger effort. News will gain a lot from a branded presence and we can all contribute to a larger goal. Perhaps the place to start is simply going through and determining what sections make sense in the new site, and where FWN could contribute content to these areas? ------------------------- My suggestion was that we should move forward by trying to arrange a joint meeting between all effected and involved... so I'm thinking news, marketing, infrastructure and docs.... anybody I've missed? Ian, have you had a reply from the infra people yet about their side of things? Tomorrow evening there's a Zikula meeting that I'll be attending, and so we can consider that as a possibility on the infra side as well. I think it might be best to move these discussions out of the marketing list and onto the new logistics list at some point in the near future... at least partially. Hope this is helpful, and bon chance with this evenings meeting, Jon

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[Fwd: Marketing Meeting Agendas for Next Two weeks]
by Mel Chua 07 Jul '09

07 Jul '09

Hey, folks - for context in the meeting on what we're talking about, here's an email I probably should have forwarded out earlier. But this is where I'm getting the "it looks like we have $action_item..." stuff from that recently appeared on the F12 schedule page. --Mel -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Marketing Meeting Agendas for Next Two weeks Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:37:21 -0400 From: Jack Aboutboul <jaa(a)redhat.com> To: Mel Chua <mel(a)redhat.com>, ianweller(a)fedoraproject.org, Jonathan Roberts <jonrob.one(a)googlemail.com> Okay so I'm gonna be out for the next couple of weeks and Mel is going to taking over the marketing meetings for me. I wanted to leave a brief agenda behind so that the meetings have some sort of focus and to let you know what I would have had the meetings about. 7/7 Agenda: Jon Rob is the lead on all the FooBar related stuff and I will have briefed him on everything and where things should proceed in two weeks. For this meeting, follow up from last week. We had 3 actions items and we should be reporting on each of those, which where to talk to various different teams about FooBar related stuff. I am supposed to be working with docs on a publication list, which Sparks might get out to everyone next week, this isnt blocking anything so worst case it can wait. Second, Ian is supposed to be coordinating with Infrastructure to see what platform is best to use, we should have an update on this as this is the biggest item probably. Jon Rob was talking to news to see what their thoughts are and so that we can start syncing up with them and there should be a report on that. After that assuming we have some thoughts from the News team and we have an idea of what platform we want to use, we should assign tasks to start getting to work on putting the platform beta up and then coordinating with Mo for styling. Also, we need to take stuff from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_schedule_template and added into a schedule for f12 similar to what we did for f11: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Schedule. I'm sure this will all change at some point but for right now we are using this so lets stick to it, it worked well last time. 7/14 Agenda: This is going to be more follow up and I can't really speak too much about the agenda directly because it will be based on whether a platform choice was made and whether we have a beta of that choice up. If so, we should aim to help mo get styling done, and everyone else test other pieces out, someone should created the standardized feed etc. I guess I will read the 7/7 log and then post more comments on this after that. Jack

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Re: Self-Introduction
by Salvadesswaran P.S. 07 Jul '09

07 Jul '09

Hi Rob, It is great to have you on board, welcome to the world of Fedora! And I agree with you, patents need to be kept out of not only EU but the whole world. Salva -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Please take some time to read my message. My name is Robert strickland. I come from Boston, England and I am an open source fanatic. I started using Linux around 4 years ago and I have never lost my enthusiasm for this great operating system. Although I drive a truck for a living i have just finished a web development/marketing (CIW )course that i have been studying in my spare time. I hope to bring everything I have learned to the marketing team. I will be attending lug radio live later on this year and I would like to know if any other members of the marketing team are attending, Maby we could do some promotional stuff for the fedora project. I am also against software patents as I feel they stifle competition. I will be attending my euro mp's surgery to make my views known. Lets keep software patents out of the EU. Thankyou for taking the time to read my first post. Regards Rob. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Fedora Marketing meeting Tuesday July 7
by Max Spevack 07 Jul '09

07 Jul '09

Hi all, There is a Fedora Marketing meeting on Tuesday July 7th at the usual time (1900 UTC). Mel Chua will be leading the meeting. I would like to propose the following as the primary agenda topic: Update https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_F12_schedule I created this page today to get us ready for the F12 cycle -- our schedule starts 6 weeks before Alpha, which is today! I'd like to see all of the items in the first section of the page have an owner, and an initial check-in date, at the end of tonight's meeting. Thanks, and good luck on a new Fedora Marketing release cycle. --Max

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Robert Strickland
by Robert Strickland 07 Jul '09

07 Jul '09

Hi Please take some time to read my message. My name is Robert strickland. I come from Boston, England and I am an open source fanatic. I started using Linux around 4 years ago and I have never lost my enthusiasm for this great operating system. Although I drive a truck for a living i have just finished a web development/marketing (CIW )course that i have been studying in my spare time. I hope to bring everything I have learned to the marketing team. I will be attending lug radio live later on this year and I would like to know if any other members of the marketing team are attending, Maby we could do some promotional stuff for the fedora project. I am also against software patents as I feel they stifle competition. I will be attending my euro mp's surgery to make my views known. Lets keep software patents out of the EU. Thankyou for taking the time to read my first post. Regards Rob.

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