marketing September 2009

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This week's task status
by Mel Chua 15 Sep '09

15 Sep '09

Please pick up on something if you can! NEED STATUS ------------ get zikula-module-filterutil packaged and reviewed - https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/25 Solicit LUG proposals on FUDCon events - https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/18 NEED HELP ------------ Zikula help needed: Fedora Insight skin development https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/27 Package review needed: Package zikula-module-EZComments https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/36 Need to plan and execute a writing sprint: In-depth feature profiles: 0% to 75% complete - https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/20 FUDPub attendance logistics: https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/34 OPEN TICKETS -------------- Ambassadors, write your stories: Prepare short stories for "I use Fedora" rotations on fp.o/FI https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/12

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First Marketing HOWTO (write a press release)
by Mel Chua 14 Sep '09

14 Sep '09

While writing this week's FWN beat, I threw stuff from the recent CC press release discussion on a wikipage. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_HOWTO_write_a_press_release I figured this would be a good section to start as we accumulate more collective Knowledge of Marketing: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing#Marketing_HOWTOs. (For an idea of what I'm hoping we'll end up with, see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Infrastructure_SOPs.) --Mel

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Re: Marketing research drafts (thanks, Robyn!)
by Tareq Al Jurf 14 Sep '09

14 Sep '09

The amazing Robyn Bergeron strikes again - we have the beginnings of a Real Market Research Strategy. Woo! See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_research for the good stuff, and help fill in the stubs if you can. In particular, we're looking for answers to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_research#Questions_to_Answer. Thanks, Robyn! So where will we post survey results,statistics, discussions...?And is the a way to contact Robyn, he has no profile page. We should move with this people it's a very important strategy to spread fedora -- Tareq Al Jurf Fedora Ambassador Riyadh, Saudi Arabia taljurf(a)fedoraproject.org

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Re: Fwd: Re: Zikula theme status
by Mel Chua 14 Sep '09

14 Sep '09

Update: Mo and Simon are working on the first two >> • Author names - I can't figure out how to get real human names :( not >> sure how. Also my method of linking to the author's profile is rather >> hacky. Done, yay for Mo and Simon! >> • Feature story - I'd like to have one story displayed in full >> blinginess on the front page, it seems the news module has a way to do >> this but I can't figure out how to make it work (how do you assign >> 'today's feature' to an article?) ...and now they're working on this. >> • EZComments packaging - we need someone to package this ASAP. Any >> takers? I'm working on this now. We're in #fedora-website if anyone would like to to join the fun. --Mel

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Fedora Marketing weekly meeting, 20:00UTC #fedora-meeting
by Mel Chua 14 Sep '09

14 Sep '09

Details and agenda at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings. See you folks there! --Mel

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Fedora 12 Marketing Schedule Reminder
by John Poelstra 14 Sep '09

14 Sep '09

Name Start End In-depth feature profiles: 0% to 75% complete Tue 2009-08-04 Tue 2009-09-29 Release slogan selection Thu 2009-09-10 Thu 2009-09-17 Brief FAMSCo and Ambassaors on Talking Points Tue 2009-09-15 Tue 2009-09-22 Complete drafts of Talking Points Tue 2009-09-15 Tue 2009-09-22 Announce final release slogan Thu 2009-09-17 Thu 2009-09-17 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

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Unavailable for the week
by chaitanya mehandru 13 Sep '09

13 Sep '09

Hi, I will not be able to write this week's beat as I will be travelling and without internet access. I have to defend my master's project and receive master's degree this week. But I will be writing the next week's beat. Mel, Can you please write this week's beat for me? Thanks, Chaitanya

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Center for Student Innovation at RIT » Blog Archive » Classroom Spotlight: One Laptop per Child
by Karlie Robinson 13 Sep '09

13 Sep '09

http://www.rit.edu/academicaffairs/centerforstudentinnovation/?p=526 A strong community of people with the passion to improve the hardware, software, and content of the devices has grown through the OLPC Wiki <http://wiki.laptop.org/> right here in Rochester. The Rochester connection to the class is the OLPC Users Group <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Rochester%2C_NY>, led by Frederick Grose and Karlie Robinson, both of whom have been instrumental in the development and delivery of the course and the coops. It was the ties Robinson had to the Open Source community as owner of On-Disk.com <http://on-disk.com/> that initiated the program's connections to Red Hat, Fedora <http://fedoraproject.org/> (who donated 25 OLPC's to Jacob's lab for Technological Literacy) and Sugar Labs (the OLPC spin-off responsible for the growth and development of the Sugar operating system). Grose and Jacobs began working on OLPC related efforts two years ago and it was Grose who supervised the Co-Ops and was the primary organizer of a week --long trip to Boston to meet others in the OLPC, Sugar and Open Source communities.

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A group/workflow for regularly poking the magazine contacts and writers.
by susmit shannigrahi 11 Sep '09

11 Sep '09

Hi, This came out accidentally during this FAmSCo meet. We have a lot of contacts in different linux mags https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_press_publications Can we act as a liaison between the mags and interested in-house writers so that we can promote fedora better? For example, we have a list of topics here http://www.linuxjournal.com/xstatic/author/topicsdue So if we publish one or two articles on each relevant topic (relating fedora with it) and if we repeat it for most of the mags, we will have a lot of articles in no time. The basic idea is to poke the contacts about what they need and poke the writers to write on it keeping a focus on promoting fedora. What's say? Thanks. -- Regards, Susmit. ============================================= ssh 0x86DD170A http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:susmit ============================================= Sent from Calcutta, WB, India

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FUDCon Toronto 2009 update!
by Paul W. Frields 11 Sep '09

11 Sep '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Howdy Fedora friends and neighbors, Here's an update on the upcoming FUDCon in Toronto, being held December 5-7. Before the details, I want to give some special thanks and recognition to Chris Tyler of Seneca College in Toronto for his continued, invaluable assistance in setting up FUDCon. His help made it possible to establish a lot of these logistics while we were also preparing for Fedora presence at the Red Hat Summit last week. Thanks Chris! You'll find a lot of the details up at the FUDCon wiki page here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009 FUDCon is free and open to *everyone* to attend. The wiki page is chock full of details, but if you'd rather see the highlights now, just read on... * * * HELP US PLAN! - ------------- In the spirit of transparency and openness, we're trying to make the planning process of FUDCon as easy to participate in as possible. Edit the wiki pages and let us know what you would like to see, join the discussion list at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fudcon-planning, and join us every Thursday at 2000 UTC (4:00pm US Eastern) in IRC Freenode at #fudcon-planning for FUDCon planning meetings. GENERAL SCHEDULE - ---------------- We are holding FUDCon from Saturday through Monday, December 5-7. The first day, Saturday, will be the day of technical sessions. The second and third days will be hackfest days where people can gather to work on some of the projects they've seen on Saturday, or anything near and dear to their heart. We'll maintain a wiki listing of everything going on, updated throughout the event to provide timely information on what's happening where, when, and with whom. At any time you'll be able to visit the page at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009 to see all the details. PRE-REGISTRATION - ---------------- Pre-registration is now open on the main FUDCon wiki page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009#Pre-registration Remember that although you're not required to pre-register, when you do pre-register for the event you're eligible to receive a special gift at the sign-in desk at FUDCon. There will probably be a limit to the number of people we can pre-register, so sign up today! But don't worry -- if you miss pre-registration, remember that FUDCon as always is *free and open* for anyone to attend. We are happy to have anyone attend, learn, participate, and contribute. LODGING - ------- We've secured rooms at the very comfortable Hilton Garden Inn Toronto/Vaughan, with a single/double occupancy rate of CDN $105/night (currently about USD $98). We've also secured discount vouchers for the daily breakfast buffet to further help contain attendees' costs. Visit this pre-set URL to register at the hotel: http://bit.ly/fudcon-hgi-toronto-2009 ** NOTE: Our name is misspelled as "FEDCon" at the registration page, a simple snafu with the hotel. We're working on getting it fixed ASAP! You don't have to wait for FUDCon pre-registration to register at the hotel. If you are looking to room-share and don't have a roommate, you'll be able to mark that on the pre-registration and we'll do an assignment for you. TECHNICAL SESSIONS - ------------------ Not all of the technical sessions will be in the BarCamp format at FUDCon this year. That's a change from previous formats. Some will be pre-selected so that we can make sure to cover a wide variety of audience interests, since we frequently have more talks proposed than available space. *NOW* is the time to start adding content! Go to this URL and add your talk now: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009#Technical_sessions FUDPUB - ------ Ah, the world-(in)famous FUDPub! We are reserving a large party space at Dave & Busters (http://daveandbusters.com) which happens to be walking distance from the hotel. Yes, even in December in Toronto! We'll gather there for billiards, snooker, general merriment, and of course access to their midway full of entertainment. We'll provide dinner and non-alcoholic beverages for pre-registrants. The venue also has a wide variety of additional libations available for those so inclined. Ah, but don't party *too* hard, because starting the next day we'll have... HACKFESTS - --------- As always, we will feature plenty of hacking -- design work, coding, documentation, general brainstorming, planning -- going on throughout the hackfest days Sunday and Monday. If you hear about something you like on the technical session day, chances are you'll be able to sit down with people on Sunday and Monday, learn more, and hack on it! If you're presenting a technical session, give some serious consideration to how you can make your subject matter hackable. Then invite people to get together with you the next day to work on it! You can start by adding information about your hackfest in advance. Visit this URL and add what you'll be working on: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009#Hackfests More information will be forthcoming as it develops! - -- 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFKqpnlrNvJN70RNxcRApVuAKDWq7S4kFEcUagLywpnexpUJG8zlACgg6Kl TulrYZytVEODthDvKelaSuk= =w/XB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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