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, 1 month
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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Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/125>
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Marketing team for the Fedora project.
10 years, 1 month
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:
...
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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12 years, 7 months
Reporting bugs in Fedora 14
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
http://www.ghacks.net/2010/11/21/reporting-bugs-in-fedora-14/
"Included with recent Fedora operating system releases is a bug
reporting tool like no other. The tool is called ABRT (Automatic Bug
Reporting Tool) and it is one of the easiest tools you will ever
experience for bug reporting. ABRT is a daemon that resides in the
background waiting for something to crash. When something does crash
ABRT automatically collects the necessary data for the bug reporting
tool and then pops up a notice in your notification area. All the user
then has to do is click on the notice, select a bug, and click Report.
It really is that easy."
Rahul
12 years, 10 months
MMM. Marketing Meeting Minutes. 2010/11/30
by Robyn Bergeron
Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-11-30/fedora_marketi...
Full Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-11-30/fedora_marketi...
Full minutes follow below.
Thanks to all for coming!
-Robyn
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#fedora-meeting: Fedora marketing
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Meeting started by rbergeron at 21:00:29 UTC. The full logs are
available at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-11-30/fedora_marketi...
.
Meeting summary
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* Roll Call! (rbergeron, 21:00:43)
* ACTION: rbergeron to craft some thoughts on "how to gather
information from event attendees through ambassadors" relating to
discussions we had at Marketing fad last march (rbergeron,
21:11:25)
* ACTION: rbergeron to pass along to FAmSCo when she figures it out
(rbergeron, 21:11:37)
* F15 Marketing Schedule (rbergeron, 21:14:29)
* LINK:
http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-15/f-15-marketing-tasks.html
(rbergeron, 21:15:17)
* ACTION: rbergeron to send a mail to the mailing list regarding
schedule and if it looks kosher for marketing. (rbergeron,
21:16:43)
* ACTION: stickster Kick off discussion on how to break up Line 13 on
marketing schedule into definitive tasks (stickster, 21:18:40)
* need more clarification around items 24 and 25 on schedule
(rbergeron, 21:21:40)
* ACTION: rbergeron to seek out volunteer on list to work out the
screenshots process, ownership, etc. (rbergeron, 21:21:59)
* ACTION: mether to write to list about "brief news distribution
network" item on marketing schedule, ideas for app, possible student
contribution. (rbergeron, 21:27:46)
* Need to cycle Marketing wiki for F15. (rbergeron, 21:29:32)
* LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing (rbergeron,
21:30:23)
* Thoughts on refreshing a wiki page: (rbergeron, 21:34:21)
* (1) Go to the wiki page linked in F15 deliverables, and click to
"create this page" when you go to it. (rbergeron, 21:34:46)
* (2) Look at one of the early revisions of the F14 version of that
deliverable and see how it was set up for a template. (rbergeron,
21:35:09)
* (3) Copy that over to a yet-to-be-determined-or-named SOP page.
(rbergeron, 21:35:29)
* ACTION: rbergeron to set up a fillable SOP page for cycling
marketing wiki. (rbergeron, 21:36:46)
* ACTION: rbergeron to lay out some steps so that poeple can grab wiki
pages as they see fit to help update them for f15 and SOP them at
the same time. (rbergeron, 21:37:04)
* Any other business? (rbergeron, 21:38:43)
Meeting ended at 21:47:18 UTC.
Action Items
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* rbergeron to craft some thoughts on "how to gather information from
event attendees through ambassadors" relating to discussions we had at
Marketing fad last march
* rbergeron to pass along to FAmSCo when she figures it out
* rbergeron to send a mail to the mailing list regarding schedule and if
it looks kosher for marketing.
* stickster Kick off discussion on how to break up Line 13 on marketing
schedule into definitive tasks
* rbergeron to seek out volunteer on list to work out the screenshots
process, ownership, etc.
* mether to write to list about "brief news distribution network" item
on marketing schedule, ideas for app, possible student contribution.
* rbergeron to set up a fillable SOP page for cycling marketing wiki.
* rbergeron to lay out some steps so that poeple can grab wiki pages as
they see fit to help update them for f15 and SOP them at the same
time.
Action Items, by person
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* mether
* mether to write to list about "brief news distribution network" item
on marketing schedule, ideas for app, possible student contribution.
* rbergeron
* rbergeron to craft some thoughts on "how to gather information from
event attendees through ambassadors" relating to discussions we had
at Marketing fad last march
* rbergeron to pass along to FAmSCo when she figures it out
* rbergeron to send a mail to the mailing list regarding schedule and
if it looks kosher for marketing.
* rbergeron to seek out volunteer on list to work out the screenshots
process, ownership, etc.
* rbergeron to set up a fillable SOP page for cycling marketing wiki.
* rbergeron to lay out some steps so that poeple can grab wiki pages
as they see fit to help update them for f15 and SOP them at the same
time.
* stickster
* stickster Kick off discussion on how to break up Line 13 on
marketing schedule into definitive tasks
* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)
People Present (lines said)
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* rbergeron (94)
* Southern_Gentlem (16)
* jsmith (16)
* stickster (12)
* mether (7)
* pingou (5)
* zodbot (3)
12 years, 10 months
Breaking up schedule items: Feature Profiles
by Paul W. Frields
The Marketing team schedule is part of the overall Fedora Project
schedule. Line 13 on the Marketing schedule, "Feature profiles,"
could probably stand to be broken up. Typically schedule items work
best when they are actionable items -- people know what they mean in
terms of activity, and just as importantly when they are finished.
Jared suggested in the meeting breaking up the line like this:
* Decide on number and topics of feature profiles
* Set feature profile schedule
* plan feature profile format (blogs / videos)
* Feature Profile 1 due
* Feature Profile 2 due
* Feature Profile 3 due
The only minor adjustment I'd make to this is bullet 2. We actually
want to set a preliminary feature profile schedule now, and only
adjust later if necessary. That way the schedule is as complete as we
can make it, as early as possible. I'd simply call this "confirm"
instead of "set."
Feature profiles are probably most useful if the topics are set up in
coordination with Red Hat PR, so we can get extra boost from releasing
the news in a variety of venues including the Red Hat press blog.
Jared, can you compare the time available for Feature profiles (March
1st-29th) to any PR schedule that you're working out with Kara
Schiltz, and figure out how the tasks above would best mesh with that
PR schedule?
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12 years, 10 months
[In the news] Fedora 12 approaches end of life
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Fedora-12-approaches-end-of-life-1...
"Fedora Project developer Kevin Fenzi has issued a reminder that Fedora
12, code named "Constantine", will reach its end of life (EOL) on
Thursday, the 2nd of December, 2010. Originally released in mid-November
of last year, Fedora 11 featured the 2.6.31 Linux kernel, version 2.28
of the GNOME desktop environment, KDE 4.3 and a number of software
updates. As of the 2nd of December, no new updates, including security
updates and critical fixes, will be available. The developers strongly
advise all Fedora 12 users to upgrade to Fedora 13 or 14 to continue
receiving updates."
Rahul
12 years, 10 months
