marketing January 2010

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Re: GNOME 3?
by Jason Fenner 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

I think its a pretty good idea. It also could point out how Fedora is state of the art and features Gnome Shell ready for you to try out. On Jan 18, 2010 5:09 PM, "Mel Chua" <mel(a)redhat.com> wrote: Some interesting stuff from the GNOME marketing team re: GNOME 3. http://live.gnome.org/GnomeThreeBrainstorming http://live.gnome.org/MarketingBrief2009 Do we want to do anything with this (might make a good Fedora Insight article or articles)? Possibly sync publicity efforts with the GNOME folks if they're planning things? Imo, this may be a good opportunity to showcase how the upstream/downstream ecosystem works in open source. Some notes from Paul: "The most visible part is the GNOME Shell, the preview of which works in Fedora 12, to varying degrees based on whether you have a 3D capable video card. On most ATI Radeon cards it's working well, on Nouveau not at all (using NVidia proprietary drivers, however, works). Someone with an Intel card that's 3D capable in F12 would need to check it. Just 'yum install gnome-shell' and then use the Desktop Effects preferences tool to try it out." I've just done this (took me about 2 minutes) and it's pretty spiffy so far. --Mel -- marketing mailing list marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing

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GNOME 3?
by Mel Chua 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

Some interesting stuff from the GNOME marketing team re: GNOME 3. http://live.gnome.org/GnomeThreeBrainstorming http://live.gnome.org/MarketingBrief2009 Do we want to do anything with this (might make a good Fedora Insight article or articles)? Possibly sync publicity efforts with the GNOME folks if they're planning things? Imo, this may be a good opportunity to showcase how the upstream/downstream ecosystem works in open source. Some notes from Paul: "The most visible part is the GNOME Shell, the preview of which works in Fedora 12, to varying degrees based on whether you have a 3D capable video card. On most ATI Radeon cards it's working well, on Nouveau not at all (using NVidia proprietary drivers, however, works). Someone with an Intel card that's 3D capable in F12 would need to check it. Just 'yum install gnome-shell' and then use the Desktop Effects preferences tool to try it out." I've just done this (took me about 2 minutes) and it's pretty spiffy so far. --Mel

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Fedora Marketing weekly meeting, 20:00UTC #fedora-meeting
by Mel Chua 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

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

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Fwd: [Ambassadors] Red Hat Summit 2010
by Mel Chua 16 Jan '10

16 Jan '10

Since there's been discussion about doing Cool Fedora PR Stuff at the Summit - see wikipages below. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Ambassadors] Red Hat Summit 2010 Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:04:48 -0500 From: Paul W. Frields <stickster(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: ambassadors(a)lists.fedoraproject.org To: fedora-ambassadors-list(a)redhat.com Hi all, I've drafted my initial thoughts for how Fedora's presence will work at the Red Hat Summit 2010, on the wiki here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Summit_2010 I've also added the event to the North American events calendar for FY11Q2: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#NA-FY11Q2 The main website for the Summit itself is here: http://redhat.com/promo/summit/2010/ If you're planning to attend the Red Hat Summit, please feel free to add yourself to the attendee list. If you can *volunteer* to work at the Fedora booth and/or a dedicated Fedora room, please note that in the comments: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Summit_2010#Attendee_List -- 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 -- ambassadors mailing list ambassadors(a)lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ambassadors

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Self-Introduction: Justin "threethirty" O'Brien
by threethirty 16 Jan '10

16 Jan '10

* Full legal name: Justin Richard Timothy O'Brien * Location: Richmond, IN, USA * Student status: CIS Major, focus in programming * School: IvyTech Region 9 * Goal: To spread Free Software * What would you like to see in Fedora? I'd like to see a less structured "street team" something like Ambassadors but for people that are excited but don't want to get involved in an official capacity. * Anything else you'd like to do? Make Fedora more awesome! * Historical qualifications: none to speak of but I am a walking billboard for Free Software * What other projects or marketing efforts have you worked on in the past? (List what you think is relevant) none really * What level and type of marketing skills do you have? I have been selling the idea of GNU+Linux and Free Software for 5 or so years now * What other skills do you have that might be applicable? I have been a radio DJ. Volunteered at a Public TV station, engineered some live broadcasts, I'm a blogger, podcaster social media addict, I don't know if this is at all useful but hey there it is -- Justin "threethirty" O'Brien Fedora Ambassador threethirty(a)fedoraproject.org http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Threethirty threethirty on freenode.net @threethirty - twitter/identi.ca/jaiku Phone: (765) 688-0723

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Self-introduction: Aamir Aijaz Bhutto
by bhutto aamir 15 Jan '10

15 Jan '10

Aamir Aijaz Bhutto Karachi Pakistan Marketing Director / Planing & Development Friends Associates My goal is to Spread this wonder full operating system around as much as i can and let people know about this beautiful thing(Open-Source) I want to know about fedora project as much as i can and to help around in making this project from better to best. Well i see fedora as a complete O/s. But still sometimes i use to boot my machine and load some other O/S to play my favorite game :P I think we need to do a bit of work on Games. I like to surf around, chatting (mostly on irc) participating in sci-tech exhibitions. I have done Bechlor's of Commerce and Currently enrolled for Master's. Attended several Sales/Marketing Confernces, Multi-Level-Makerting Training programs.(When i was working for SCB Marketing Dept) I dont know about my marketing level or type. But i do know enough about marketing, like how to present or represent packages, how to attract people towards your product or how find comstumers need. Well i guess its just an intro so i should keep it short and to the point :)

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Re: FUDCon schedule for FY 2011
by Robyn Bergeron 15 Jan '10

15 Jan '10

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Paul W. Frields <stickster(a)gmail.com> wrote: > The schedule for FY2011 FUDCons will certainly be on our radar at the > Events FAD in a few weeks. But in advance of that I wanted to confirm > a couple things: > > * There are plans for only one FUDCon in the North America (NA) > region, as with all other regions. Although there will be a Fedora > presence at the Red Hat Summit 2010[1] in Boston in June, this > presence will not be a FUDCon event. I've finished a draft of > the vision for that event: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Summit_2010 > > Now that I've finished a bit of prep work internally with the Red > Hat organizers, I'll share it with the Fedora Marketing and > Ambassador teams. I've mentioned this before on the mktg-list - is there any possible way that we could take advantage of press presence at the event and do a mini-interview session or panel or presentation of some sort (with shiny press kits, of course!)? F13 will have been out for about a month prior to RH Summit; it would be a great time to reinvigorate press / analysts and keep the train of coverage flowing. It would also be a great time to work on trying to educate press on some of the "oopsies" that have been made (on their part). -robyn > > * Currently, the FUDCon in NA is scheduled for some time in FY 2011 Q4 > (December 2010 - February 2011). However, the possibility of a FY > 2011 Q4 event in Australia has come up. It's not clear yet whether > that would require altering the NA schedule, but I'm currently > working on determining those details. If the budget and logistics > for that event are handled mostly outside the Community Architecture > budget for Fedora events, then it may not be a concern at all. > > -- > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > fudcon-planning mailing list > fudcon-planning(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fudcon-planning >

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Marketing FAD
by David Nalley 15 Jan '10

15 Jan '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mel says there isn't nearly enough email from me on this list. I'll be attending the Marketing FAD - travel is negligible for me as I am within driving distance. A room would be cool though if budget remains. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Use GnuPG with Firefox : http://getfiregpg.org (Version: 0.7.10) iEYEARECAAYFAktQdcIACgkQkZOYj+cNI1drQACfQ6TTGMRms4cwD1pAUKu6INA1 hk8Ani3pcJPqalFSBn5t8z1aaM9iCPsE =jtT9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Marketing FAD budget update - we've allocated everything.
by Mel Chua 14 Jan '10

14 Jan '10

I believe we've just about taken care of our FAD budget, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_FAD_2010#Budget. * All plane tickets have been booked: $1622.54 * Hotel rooms have been room-mated and budgeted-for: $1200 (this is an overestimate - we'll find the final number when I grab us a block of rooms, hopefully tomorrow.) * And the other travel expenses that are non-plane are scoped out as well: $118.00 In total, we're up to $2940.54 out of $3k. Not bad! I'll adjust this number when I book hotel rooms for us, we might have a bit more buffer than indicated. But basically, we've allocated our budget, and we're nicely set. w00t. --Mel

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FUDCon 2009 Survey Results - Draft, requesting feedback
by Robyn Bergeron 14 Jan '10

14 Jan '10

Hello Marketing Crew :) I have dumped the results from the FUDCon survey into an .odp file. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:FUDCon-2009-survey-draft.odp If anyone would like to take a peek at it before it is finalized (I always love a fresh pair of eyeballs), please do so - if you have any commentary / editorial / otherwise feedback, please send it to the list. Thanks! -Robyn

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