Marketing-trac: #126: Create a wiki page for magazine covermount information
by Marketing Team
#126: Create a wiki page for magazine covermount information
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Reporter: pfrields | Owner:
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: F14a: Pre-alpha
Component: other | Severity: urgent
Keywords: |
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We often get inquiries from magazines asking for permission to bundle one
or more Fedora discs with a future issue. This is a fairly routine
process as long as the disc is an unmodified copy of Fedora media (i.e. an
official release). Some interaction with Red Hat Legal is required to
send out an agreement to the magazine.
We can speed up that interaction and the overall process if we have a page
that tells magazines what they need to provide, and to whom, for a
covermount agreement. Generally we need the following information, sent
to the ''press(a)fp.o'' address:
* The name (d/b/a) and address of the company producing the magazine
* The exact disc(s) that are to be bundled
* Contact information for the person making the request
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10 years, 6 months
Marketing-trac: #125: SSSD F13 feature -- press blog entry
by Marketing Team
#125: SSSD F13 feature -- press blog entry
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Reporter: pfrields | Owner: pfrields
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: F14a: Pre-alpha
Component: Feature Stories | Severity: urgent
Keywords: meeting |
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I had suggested this earlier to Robyn -- a press blog entry for Red Hat's
PR channel (http://press.redhat.com) that would synopsize and point to our
interview on the wiki. However, Robyn's pretty busy right now. Kara
Schiltz from Red Hat's PR department is willing to publish something next
week.
I'm going to pick this up and drive it forward, my way of helping this
week on something Marketing related!
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10 years, 6 months
Marketing-trac: #124: FUDCon EMEA Announcement needed
by Marketing Team
#124: FUDCon EMEA Announcement needed
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Reporter: mmoeller | Owner:
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: Future releases
Component: other | Severity: urgent
Keywords: |
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Hi all. We need a press release/announce for FUDCon EMEA.
Here is some general information which could be taken as 'source'. I would
work out the German translation on my own, afterwards:
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It’s time to announce two events that will take place in September in
downtown Zurich, Switzerland that among more share the head organizers
(Marcus and me).
FrOSCamp 2010 Zurich
FrOSCamp is an annual multilingual two-day event that will take place on
2010-09-17/18 and evolves around an exhibition, talks, workshops and
hackfests in the world of free and open source as well as creative
contents, also including open standards/systems and digital
sustainability.
Currently planning is in its early stages but the most important points
have been or are close to be cleared. Various calls are open: volunteers,
projects, talks, workshops, sponsors and more are coming up soon, like the
call for hackfests. We’re in negotiations with LPI Central Europe to offer
cheap exams and we’re preparing a key-signing party. More is to come –
stay tuned by subscribing to the various mailing lists and/or joining
#FrOSCamp on Freenode.
Note that the event takes place in the German-speaking part of Switzerland
but aims at an international audience. Therefore you’ll see different
languages on the lists and in the channel.
FUDCon Zurich 2010
FUDCon EMEA is the annual Fedora Users & Developers Conference for Europe,
the Middle East and Africa and will take place on 2010-09-17/19 and
features talks, hacking and barcamp sessions related to anything in the
Fedora ecosystem of end users, contributors, upstream, downstream, etc.
Planning started some months ago but we did not get the official “go”
until earlier this week. We therefore have conference and hotel rooms
ready but were not yet able to plan what the agenda will look like and
stuff like that. Nevertheless pre-registration is open and more details
are added to the wiki on a daily basis. We’ll try to get the agenda
outline, the call for talks, the call for sponsors and FUDPub information
online ASAP. Soon bi-weekly IRC planning meetings will be announced but
discussion is already possible on the FUDCon planning list.
Shared Spirit
Both events heavily focus on free and open source software and related
topics. We therefore encourage the participants of FrOSCamp and FUDCon to
mix up, work together, discuss, exchange and whatever else might help to
have a productive time together. Fedora is a major Linux distribution and
FrOSCamp will feature many of their upstream projects and also some
“competitors”, other Linux distributions and UNIX derivatives – it’s
always good to sit together and speak about issues or chances!
Shared Location
Both events take place in the same building on the premises of the ETH
Zurich on their Zentrum Campus in downtown Zurich. Zurich can be very well
accessed by airplane and train from all over the world. The international
airport is approached by most major international airlines and just about
11 minutes away from Zurich main station by train. The main station is a
destination of direct trains from many major cities of Europe including
Berlin, Paris, Milan and Vienna and it only takes about 14 minutes by tram
from the main station to the CHN building, the primary event location.
The shared event location makes it even easier to work together and will
allow a single agenda featuring the talks of both events so the audience
of both events can fully profit. Of course there’ll be Fedora-dedicated
rooms and rooms for all the projects participating at FrOSCamp but
there’ll only be one shared keynote room.
Shared Party
On Friday, 2010-09-17 there will be a party after the first event day just
next to the primary event location featuring free (as in creative commons)
music by live bands and delicious FreeBeer (again as in creative commons).
Need to chill a bit after a long event day? Get a beer or two at the
party! Need to get lose of some energy because you only sat around all day
listening to all those interesting talks? Move to the party’s dancefloor!
FUDPub
On Saturday, 2010-09-18 there will be a party in the evening in the midst
of downtown Zurich and everyone participating in FUDCon is very welcome to
join us. There’ll be beer and some snacks and a great possibility to just
have some fun together before the last day of FUDCon begins. More details
are TBA.
We look forward to seeing you in September 2010 in Zurich for our events.
Everyone is welcome and both events are free of charge.
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13 years, 1 month
Self-Introduction: Viji Nair
by Viji V Nair
Hi, my name is Viji Nair and I live in Mumbai, India. (I travel a lot
in India to promote FOSS). My Fedora Account System (FAS) username is
viji, and my IRC nick is also viji.
I learned about the Fedora Marketing team through the
fedoraproject.org, and am interested in joining because I am working
as an Open source evangelist for the last 10 years and a long term
contributor to multiple Linux projects. I could see fedora as a
bleeding edge platform to test and deploy most of the cutting edge
technology in distributed computing and cloud today. I am working with
many government and private sectors on
migration/development/deployment of their infrastructure to FOSS, so,
I believe fedora will be a very good choice as a platform.
I've worked in open source and/or Free Software in the past. Some of
the projects I've worked on, or communities I've been involved with,
include: reiser4 filesystem where I am doing QA, support, and
community-organizing work, and FreeIPA where I do more of the same.
You can find more details about my work on -
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Viji_V_Nair
This is the first Marketing project I have worked on!
My skills, which I hope to utilize in Fedora Marketing, include:
Marketing Skills:
My background is engineering, I have to learn a lot. I have a
reasonable understanding about the features of Fedora when compared to
other distribution, I am already promoting the same in different
colleges
Other Skills:
* I am into core technology, so, I can provision fedora very well into
a any technical requirement.
* Documentation and wiki
* Conferences and workshops
I'd also like to learn: The different ways we can promote Fedora in
Academic institutions like engineering and MCA colleges.
When I'm not working on Fedora, I am working with Reliance BIG Entertainment.
A couple of goals I have for the Fedora Project are conducting more
marketing campaigns in Mumbai region. I would also like to see more
technical events on different new technology happening in India
promoted by Fedora
I am wondering about what has been done in Marketing in the past,
specifically in Mumbai region.
Please help me get started!
Thanks & Regards
Viji Nair
13 years, 4 months
Re: Self-Introduction: Viji Nair
by Robyn Bergeron
Hi Viji,
There is no process, other than doing the self-introduction, applying, and
me seeing the mail (I saw the intro, but not the application to the FAS
group). Sorry about that - have been packing and moving during the past week
:)
Thanks,
Robyn
On Oct 29, 2010 4:34 AM, "Viji V Nair" <viji(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
13 years, 4 months
Hallo, my name is Alexjan Carraturo and I would like to join
by Alexjan Carraturo
Hi, my name is Alexjan Carraturo and I live in Italy (location or
timezone). My Fedora Account System (FAS) username is axjslack, and my
IRC nick is axjslack.
I learned about the Fedora Marketing team through website, and am
interested in joining because I think I could really help this group
and the Fedora project.
:
I've worked in open source and/or Free Software in the past. Some of
the projects I've worked on, or communities I've been involved with,
include:
Fedoraproject; Ambassador
OpenSUSE; Ambassador
Software Freedom International: Board Member
Free Software User Group Italia: President
Free Software Foundation Europe: Fellow
For this project I usually work on marketing or similar.
My skills, which I hope to utilize in Fedora Marketing, include:
* (Marketing Skills) - I have a lot of experience in talking and
publish about FOSS.
* I'd also like to learn everything can be useful to be better in marketing.
When I'm not working on Fedora, I am a student at Univeristy of Milan
Please help me get started!
Thank you.
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Alexjan Carraturo
admin of
Free Software Users Group Italia
http://www.fsugitalia.org
Fedora Ambassador: Axjslack
openSUSE Ambassador: Axjslack
Free Software Foundation Europe Fellow 1623
Software Freedom International board member
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13 years, 4 months
One-two punch
by Paul W. Frields
Hi Marketeers,
FYI, we'll be having a one-two punch on the Red Hat press blog today.
There will be a story coming out this afternoon, that Robyn put
together to talk about Cloud SIG work.
We realized that pushing this off to Friday might make it less
prominent. At the same time we didn't want to crowd the Tuesday
launch of F14 with a Monday story. Leaving Monday empty is kind of
like taking a deep breath before the big shout for Fedora 14 GA. :-)
So stay tuned to see the next story later today!
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13 years, 4 months