Joe Falconite
by Joe Falconite
Joseph (Joe) Falconite
London, KY, USA
Computer Repair
Falconite Tech, Owner
Goals in the Fedora project:
I would like to help in any way I can to spread the word about Fedora as
a great desktop OS. I would also like to help make a push for showing Fedora
as a great distro for beginners to learn. In my business I try to teach
people about the benefits of Open Source and I think I am in a great
position to bring many "new" Linux users to the Fedora Project. I see Fedora
as a alternative to Ubuntu for a first distro. Nothing against Ubuntu, but I
feel like new users should know that there are other choices out there.
Qulifications:
Well I successfully market my company on a day to day basis, so I intend
to apply those same skills towards marketing the Fedora Project. I am a very
detail oriented person and not afraid to speak my mind, so if critiques and
opinions are needed I'm your man. As I stated before I deal with clients on
a day to day basis that are frustrated with that other OS and have no clue
that there is an alternative. This puts me in a great position to spread the
word.
I look forward to getting involved and getting to know each of you. If
there is something else you would like to know about me, please do not
hesitate to ask.
Joe Falconite
Falconite Tech
http://www.falconitetech.com
joefalconite(a)gmail.com
IRC: jfalco
14 years, 2 months
Wanted: Marketing beat writer for FWN
by Pascal Calarco
Are you jazzed about Fedora Marketing such that you'd love to write a
weekly beat report on the Marketing Team's activities to share with the
wide world every week? Do you have perhaps an hour or two per week and
can have a beat ready for noon on Mondays? If so, we'd love to have you
join us!
Fedora Weekly News is looking for a beat writer to cover the weekly
happenings of all things related to Marketing. If you are interested,
join news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org, introduce yourself and make the
pitch, and we'll get you started!
- pascal
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Pascal Calarco
Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA
Editor, Fedora Weekly News
14 years, 2 months
[in the news] Fedora vs. Ubuntu: Is Either Better?
by Kara Schiltz
ITManagement
2.2.10
Fedora vs. Ubuntu: Is Either Better?
By Bruce Byfield
Fedora or Ubuntu? That is a question that Linux users are asking with
increasing frequency.
The question is not random -- the two distributions have consistently
topped the downloads on Distrowatch
<http://distrowatch.com/index.php?dataspan=26> for the last two years.
Read Fedora and Ubuntu mail forums, and users who despair of one are
constantly announcing their intention to try the other. Although other
distributions, including Linux Mint, openSUSE, and Mandriva, offer
comparable features, for better or worse Fedora and Ubuntu are widely
viewed as the desktop distributions of choice.
Unsurprisingly, you can find dozens of comparisons of the two on the
Internet. However, except for one posted on PolishLinux.org
<http://polishlinux.org/choose/comparison/?distro1=Ubuntu&distro2=Fedora>,
few answers are detailed enough to be of much use. And since the one on
PolishLinux.org was made in 2006, it’s at least six versions behind the
current releases (Fedora 12 and Ubuntu 9.10). So a new extended answer
seems overdue.
Full article:
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/print.php/3862556/Fedora-vs-Ubuntu-...
14 years, 2 months
Meeting minutes 2010-02-02
by Mel Chua
That was a nice solid meeting. :) I'm happy with the way we've gotten
our momentum and our rhythm up this cycle - just in time to do
deliverables - I think we'll have a lot easier of a time getting our
deliverables out this cycle.
Logs available at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings#2010, or directly at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-mktg/2010-02-02/fedora-mktg.2010-....
Meeting summary
---------------
* roll call (mchua, 20:03:50)
* we're meeting in here for the indefinite future, since fesco has
taken #fedora-meeting at this time (mchua, 20:04:06)
* ACTION: rrix to get our meeting to migrate to #fedora-meeting-1 for
next week, and make sure zodbot is there (mchua, 20:05:01)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings#Agenda
(mchua, 20:05:05)
* zodbot's in #fedora-meeting-1 (rrix, 20:05:42)
* ACTION: mchua get us to complete all SOPs by next week's meeting for
review (mchua, 20:06:37)
* LINK:
http://blog.melchua.com/2009/12/24/whats-marketing-doing-for-f13-anyway-a...
(mchua, 20:06:45)
* agenda (mchua, 20:07:18)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing#Release_deliverables
(mchua, 20:07:38)
* we have 5 deliverables - talking points, slogan, feature profiles,
screenshots library, and one-page release notes (aka tour). (mchua,
20:08:04)
* Open items for Marketing FAD? (mchua, 20:08:51)
* ACTION: mchua keep poking locals to intro to list for FAD (mchua,
20:09:34)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_FAD_2010 (mchua,
20:09:38)
* we'll be testing the remote participation infrastructure from the
Events FAD at the Marketing FAD (mchua, 20:10:04)
* # (mchua, 20:12:36)
* Discussion: phpESP - does it meet our needs (mchua, 20:12:55)
* LINK: http://www.butterfat.net/wiki/Projects/phpESP/ (rbergeron,
20:15:53)
* LINK: http://publictest16.fedoraproject.org/phpESP/admin/manage.php
(mchua, 20:18:02)
* phpESP has been deployed on publictest16 for playing-around-with
(mchua, 20:18:13)
* phpESP test user: root, test pass: esp (rrix, 20:19:14)
* ACTION: rbergeron survey status update by Friday with call-to-action
stuff (mchua, 20:36:42)
* ACTION: yn1v to coordinate with rbergeron on testing the survey
software (mchua, 20:38:13)
* Fedora Insight (mchua, 20:39:52)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight (mchua,
20:39:58)
* LINK: https://stg.fedoraproject.org/insight/ (mchua, 20:40:09)
* ACTION: mchua to follow up with pcalarco about getting FWN on FI
(mchua, 20:40:23)
* Our next FI milestone is to migrate the Fedora Weekly News workflow
and publication to Fedora Insight before Alpha Public Availability
(March 2, 2010). (mchua, 20:40:25)
* The milestone after that is to get all pre-beta F13 Marketing
deliverables published on Fedora Insight before Beta Release Public
Availability (April 6, 2010). (mchua, 20:40:28)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight#How_to_help
(mchua, 20:40:32)
* From the Marketing side, we have two big things to do for FI: the
first is to be ready to go with content (i.e. release deliverables)
so that we don't need to worry about scrambling to make those, and
can concentrate on the "what does it mean for this to get published
on FI?" question (mchua, 20:40:46)
* The second thing is to figure out how to implement our content
workflow - similar to how FWN has an editorial workflow with beat
writers posting things by a certain time each week, and an editor
(pcalarco) pulling it together and publishing it each week, etc. we
need to figure out who's filling what roles in the below diagram.
(mchua, 20:40:54)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight#Content_workflow
(mchua, 20:40:59)
* ACTION: mchua blog FI update (mchua, 20:41:16)
* fedora-tour (mchua, 20:43:45)
* LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-tour/wiki/meeting-logs
(rrix, 20:44:57)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora-tour (mchua, 20:45:06)
* ACTION: meeting logs to list (rrix, 20:46:13)
* fedora-tour meetings in #fedora-meeting weekly at 9:30am MST (11:30
AM EST, 16:30 UTC) (mchua, 20:46:22)
* if you'd like to help with fedora-tour, show up at the next meeting
(mchua, 20:49:18)
* distro blogs (mchua, 20:51:25)
* LINK: http://www.linux.com/distrocentral/distroblogs (mchua,
20:52:53)
* ACTION: stickster set up the "how we're going to use the linux
distro blogs" convo on-list (mchua, 21:01:39)
* next week we'll start by reviewing the SOPs to gear up for our
deliverable sprint (mchua, 21:02:53)
Meeting ended at 21:03:20 UTC.
Action Items
------------
* rrix to get our meeting to migrate to #fedora-meeting-1 for next week,
and make sure zodbot is there
* mchua get us to complete all SOPs by next week's meeting for review
* mchua keep poking locals to intro to list for FAD
* rbergeron survey status update by Friday with call-to-action stuff
* yn1v to coordinate with rbergeron on testing the survey software
* mchua to follow up with pcalarco about getting FWN on FI
* mchua blog FI update
* meeting logs to list
* stickster set up the "how we're going to use the linux distro blogs"
convo on-list
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* mchua
* mchua get us to complete all SOPs by next week's meeting for review
* mchua keep poking locals to intro to list for FAD
* mchua to follow up with pcalarco about getting FWN on FI
* mchua blog FI update
* rbergeron
* rbergeron survey status update by Friday with call-to-action stuff
* yn1v to coordinate with rbergeron on testing the survey software
* rrix
* rrix to get our meeting to migrate to #fedora-meeting-1 for next
week, and make sure zodbot is there
* stickster
* stickster set up the "how we're going to use the linux distro blogs"
convo on-list
* yn1v
* yn1v to coordinate with rbergeron on testing the survey software
14 years, 2 months
