F12 talking points are out!
by Mel Chua
The F12 talking points have been released, and are ready for use (and
improvement!) Many thanks to Steven Moix, Paul Frields, and Jon Roberts
for their hard work.
Talking points (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talking_points) are key
features of the new release that we want to point out. There are
different types of talking points for different types of people: users,
developers, sysadmins, and more. They are meant to answer the question
"so what cool stuff is in the latest release of Fedora?"
Reading the talking points should get someone who's *not* necessarily
already a member of the Fedora community excited. (This is something
that I think the talking points could still use some help with; which
ones are unclear? Which ones don't get you as excited yet?) Please take
a look at the talking points and think about how you'd like to use them
for F12 outreach - and if you can think of a better way of phrasing
something, or think something should be improved, please let us know (or
use the wiki and just make the change yourself).
Ambassadors in particular: how can we turn these talking points into
marketing materials that will help you spread the word?
--Mel
14 years, 7 months
Upcoming Marketing Schedule
by John Poelstra
Upcoming Fedora 12 Tasks
Full schedule available at:
http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-12/f-12-key-tasks.html
Name Start End
In-depth feature profiles: 0% to 75% complete Tue 2009-08-04 Tue
2009-09-29
Complete drafts of Talking Points Tue 2009-09-15 Tue
2009-09-22
Brief FAMSCo and Ambassaors on Talking Points Tue 2009-09-15 Tue
2009-09-22
Coordinate with news beats authors about feature coverage Tue 2009-09-22
Tue 2009-09-29
Finish in-depth feature profiles Tue 2009-09-22 Tue
2009-10-06
Final (Beta) Freeze: Development Code Complete Tue 2009-09-29 Tue
2009-09-29
Update press kits Tue 2009-09-29 Tue
2009-10-06
14 years, 7 months
Marketing beat in
by chaitanya mehandru
Hi,
I am back and done with the defense of my masters project. I gave a 45min
presentation on "Power and performance characterization of Videoconferencing
and Video Playback on Mobile Internet Devices" and lots of questions came up
showing the interest of the panel. I received a score of 9 out of 10!!!
The marketing beat is in for this week:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Beats/Marketing.
Please let me know mistakes,if any.
Thanks,
Chaitanya Mehandru
14 years, 7 months
List of Planet content for FI
by Jonathan Roberts
Hey,
So, reviewing Planet for the last few days has revealed to me just how
much valuable content people are posting there, and the potentially
huge amount of material that could be appropriate for FI in one form
or another.
Has much thought been given to the kind of content that should be
posted to FI? If not, it might be time to do so :) Some of the posts
below, for instance, are full blown how tos, or could easily be
developed into instructions on how to use Fedora to achieve something,
while others are short advisories that are almost certainly useful for
the whole of the Fedora community, incl. those who don't read Planet.
Others still are mentions of events or activities that deserve write
ups to reveal the vivacity of the community... the final category of
posts, at least as I'm describing it, are more commentary on wider
issues not directly related to Fedora but linked closely to the spirit
of the project and have an indirect impact. Maybe a number of topic
feeds, or a highlights feed, might be needed at some point?
Many may be considered not appropriate, but I thought as a starting
point for discussion, the posts below all represent potential for one
kind of post or another.
I'll continue monitoring, but noticed my list had grown rather long so
thought I'd pass it along now for refinement, discussion and direction
for further curation.
Cheers,
Jon
p.s. sorry for the lack of links... got a little lazy.
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Ding Yi-Chen makes further comments on i18n and package management -
feel these would be suitable for a post once the work is complete.
Michael DeHaan writes to inform that Cobbler 2.0 has just been
released, as well as a set of instructions to describe how to set up a
computer lab in a particular set of restricted conditions.
David Lutterkort writes about new technology to facilitate network
management in VMs, as well as mentioning the Virtualisation test day.
Til Maas wrote a short but informative piece about the `Not ready' tag
for packagers.
John Poelstra wrote a good piece about mind mapping with Freemind on Fedora.
Ria Das wrote an introduction to IRC, including how to install and use
XChat on various platforms.
Fabian Affolter wrote about the up coming OpenExpo conference in
Switzerland, 24th to 25th September. Would be good to get a write up.
Ding Yi-Chen writes about upcoming work to develop i18n package management.
Scot Williams writes about a presentation he gave at the LiLAX LUG.
Maria Leandro has posted a series of photos edited in GIMP, along with
details of the edits she made. Possibility to have a piece about GIMP
and photo editing on Fedora.
Nicu Buculei writes about Google's Data Liberation Front. Not
necessarily a piece in itself, but it might make for an interesting
op-ed piece, about freedom, cloud computing and data security (perhaps
focussed around trust)
Luya Tshimbalanga writes the new libxml2 in test and Rawhide breaks Inkscape.
Adam Williamson writes to announce the PulseAudio Test day on
Wednesday 16th. Would be good to get a write up.
Kulbir Saini writes about how to setup a dual display with ATI Radeon (fglrx).
Dan Walsh writes about the four key error messages given from SELinux.
14 years, 7 months
Volunteer needed to run next week's Marketing meeting
by Mel Chua
I just realized that I'll be in a class (RHCE training) next week that
conflicts with our normal Marketing meeting time. Would anyone be able
to step up and chair next week's meeting at 20:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting?
I'll help make the agenda and the weekly update, and will be online
later that evening to catch up on notes and logs and put stuff into
tickets and all, but need someone to run the actual meeting and moderate
the discussion and make sure we get through all the topics we need to cover.
Any volunteers? If you've never run a Fedora meeting before, this is a
great way to start. :) I'd be happy to sit down with you on IRC for half
an hour anytime between now and Sunday night to make sure you've got
everything you need.
Thanks!
--Mel
14 years, 7 months
"I Use Fedora" stories for Fedora Insight
by Mel Chua
After being at both the F12 release events meeting and the Marketing
meeting today, I thought this might be a good opportunity for
Ambassadors to help create Marketing collateral that would be useful for
other Ambassadors: Prepare short stories for "I use Fedora" rotations on
the webpage and Fedora Insight.
https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/12
It's something that would be great for Ambassadors to do before the F12
launch (before the Beta launch, if possible) - write up *your* story
about using Fedora, the stories of your friends and the people you've
introduced Fedora to - and also potentially something fun to do *at* an
F12 launch event; interview new users, make a podcast with them, film
them describing something cool they've just discovered about their new
operating system, help them write an article for FI.
If you write 'em, we can help you edit and publish 'em. Just link to
your work in a comment on that ticket (you'll have to log in with your
FAS credentials first) and we'll take it from there.
Questions? Comments? Feedback? ("I Use Fedora" stories?)
Go!
--Mel
PS: Fedora Insight is https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight.
PPS: Got something you'd like the Marketing team to make for you? Need
Marketing consultation for an event? Send us a ticket at
https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/newticket!
14 years, 7 months
zikula fwn experimentation
by Dale Bewley
I've been experimenting with Zikula as it would/could/will relate to
FWN.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight
Things seem labor intensive so far. Some frustration may be my ignorance
or just incomplete configuration/customization of the application.
It would be pretty inconvenient to lose the mediawiki templates such as
{{bz}}, {{package}}, {{filename}}, etc. I would really hope for some
sort of similar macro system in the CMS. It also would be unfortunate to
lose the ability to quickly and intuitively link to things like
[[Releases/12]] or [[User:Dale]] or etc.
= Beats -> Categories ? =
The Beats concept could possibly be mapped to the Category concept.
To create a category, you must non-intuitively click:
Administration -> System -> Modules -> News -> Create Article -> "the
little pen next to category drop down".
Don't use:
Administration -> Content -> Categories
as those don't appear in the list when you create a news item.
When creating a news item you can only select one category. I could
imagine a scenerio where you might want to pick 'Virtualization' and
'FWN'...
Do tags make more sense? But who wants to manually type error prone
tags?
= FWN Issue =
I played around and made a little mini FWN 101 just to ponder how it
could be done. Pretty klunky so far...
http://publictest6.fedoraproject.org/zikula/index.php/News/2009/9/17/Fedo...
I'm not sure what should go into it exactly. It would be nice if it
could transclude other posts. Maybe even based of a tag/category set by
beat writers on their weekly summaries.
Would a top level category like Beats make it easier to create a FWN?
14 years, 7 months
Fedora weekly news 193 podcast
by wonderer
hello there,
I'm doing the fedora weekly news in german for quite a while, so I
thought it would be a good time to make a little "special" for all those
who better can follow such podcast in english.
It can be found at
http://blog.radiotux.de/2009/09/16/fedora-weekly-news-fwn-193/ and also
the RSS feed of radiotux itself.
What do you think about it so far? Are there interrests to have it in
german AND english (maybe we could think then about putting it into
zikula, iTunes, etc. - just some thought crawling around my brain)
Hopefully you enjoy this little "experiment" and maybe somebody else
have some fun making such podcasts and step in.
Also I'm searching for Interview partners (Developers, Contributors,
etc.) who want to say something and have to tell the world outside
fedora whats on the minds of the Fedora people around the world.
mit freundlichen Grüßen / best regards
Henrik Heigl - wonderer(a)fedoraproject.org
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