April 2010 - [MOVED TO DISCOURSE] Fedora Marketing - https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/tag/marketing

Feature profiles and press blogs
by Paul W. Frields 27 Apr '10

27 Apr '10

I wanted to say a quick thank you to the people who have been preparing feature profiles for pre-Fedora 13 release. Red Hat also commits some resources to your feature profiles as well. Kara Schiltz, our Fedora PR person, puts together a press blog entry for the Red Hat site at www.press.redhat.com, to help drive interest in these stories. We use those entries, which are seen by many tech journalists and reporters, to drive attention to the feature profiles you've created through links and background information. I also work with Red Hat's Creative team to create a couple of feature-specific videos each release. The videos cover those features as well, helping to achieve our goal of "simplify and amplify" (to quote Greg DeKoenigsberg). We do several of these per cycle -- we've completed one (NetworkManager, thanks Nelson!) already. A Python feature is set to premiere tomorrow (thanks Mel and Allegheny students!), along with a video in the press blog entry, and it will be followed next week by one on Desktop hardware enablements (thanks Robyn!). This reinforcement strategy has been fairly successful based on the information Red Hat generates internally about web traffic. In the future we could use a platform like Insight to create additional media, even when we can't lean on Red Hat resources as heavily as we can around release time, and the Marketing team could then use the web traffic information to inform strategy. -- 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/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com

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Re: Keyword Optimization on FP / Self-Introduction: Garland Binns
by Garland Binns 27 Apr '10

27 Apr '10

Hey All, I just finished preparing the Wiki page that Robyn setup for the Keyword Optimization project: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Keyword_optimization <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Keyword_optimization>Please let me know your thoughts. I hope you all are having great weekends! Sincerely, Garland -- Garland Binns: Media Rake, Inc. - Digital Landscape Architects Phone: (646) 867-2335 | Fax: (877) 329-3410 | Web: www.mediarake.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/garlandbinns Twitter: www.twitter.com/garlandbinns DISCLAIMER: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual(s) named. If you are not the named addressee(s), you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this email. Please notify the sender immediately if you have received this email by mistake and delete this email from your system(s). 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On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 7:00 AM, <marketing-request(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>wrote: > Send marketing mailing list submissions to > marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > marketing-request(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > marketing-owner(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of marketing digest..." > > NOTE: When replying to digest messages, please set the subject to match the > original message. > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: In the news: Zarafa (Rahul Sundaram) > 2. Re: Keyword Optimization on FP / Self-Introduction: Garland > Binns (Robyn Bergeron) > 3. Re: [in the news] Fedora taps Zarafa open source groupware > for 13 (Rahul Sundaram) > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Rahul Sundaram <metherid(a)gmail.com> > To: marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:49:46 +0530 > Subject: Re: In the news: Zarafa > On 04/21/2010 01:11 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > > > As some others noted, I think pulling the feature is unwarranted. At > > least part of the compelling story around Zarafa is that it's included > > because a volunteer took advantage of our open, community process to > > get a cool piece of software into the distribution. This happens > > quite a lot, and deja-dup is another good example. > > > > FYI, I bought deja-dup into the distribution and asked the Fedora > Desktop team to include it. The primary (and really the only) upstream > developer, Michael Terry works for Canonical. Duplicity has supported > Amazon S3 as a backup option forever and the developer was merely > exposing that in the GUI. There is no commercial agreement anywhere in > this equation. We simply filled in a gap in our desktop solution. > > Rahul > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Robyn Bergeron <robyn.bergeron(a)gmail.com> > To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base < > marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> > Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:54:45 -0700 > Subject: Re: Keyword Optimization on FP / Self-Introduction: Garland Binns > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Garland Binns <gbinns(a)mediarake.com> > wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > My name is Garland. I've been looking through fedoraproject.org and I > > noticed that there isn't a ton of keyword optimization. There definitely > > appears to be a lot of potential for increasing our rank and penetration > > within the search engines, hence, bringing us more relevant traffic and > > potential users/contributors. For example, the core pages that appear in > the > > top left of the home page (Home, Get Fedora, Join Fedora, Help) all have > the > > same title tag and no meta description - they also don't appear to be > > well-optimized for any keywords other than the phrase Fedora Project. By > > changing this not only could we increase exposure by inserting additional > > highly sought after keywords, this would also give us the opportunity for > > these main pages to appear independently on the same page of search > results, > > giving us more page share leaving less room for other results that could > be > > siphoning potential visitors. > > Just the word "linux" alone, has many variants that are currently > generating > > hundreds of thousands of searches each month. With a little work we could > > start taking advantage of this: > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1673758/linux_keyword_ideas_20100420_1535408.csv > > Here is another spreadsheet which also has many variants: > > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1673758/linux_distro_keyword_ideas_20100420_1739862… > > Just the term "linux iso" is used approximately 200,000 times in searches > > worldwide each month. These are people that already know how to create > discs > > to distribute. We are nowhere to be found on any of the search engines > > because none of our pages are optimized for this term. > > Wouldn't it be a good thing if people were able to see a link to Get > Fedora > > when they were searching for a linux iso? > > I would love to collaborate and join the Marketing Team to come up with a > > plan for taking advantage of these opportunities. > > Garland, > > I created a quick wiki page at > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Keyword_optimization -- > > Feel free to fill it in with some of your ideas. I'd love to hear > about any ideas you have as far as how can we measure success in this > area as well - or different ways we can focus our efforts over time. > > It's just a basic framework to help you get started - it would be > great to see a plan of what you'd like to do starting in F14 (or > sooner!) - and what you think you would need as far as tools (aka > information / access / whatever), so we can get you on that path. I > see you're already in sync with the Websites team - and they may be > able to help you out quite a bit. > > We (Marketing) have weekly meetings on irc (read about it here: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meeting) - but as you already > have figured out, some of us are on IRC quite a bit. If you have any > questions - feel free to ping people on #fedora-mktg, or on the > mailing list, of course. > > It will be great to have someone who is experienced in this type of > thing on our team - I'm really looking forward to seeing what ideas > and plans for going forward you have. > > Thanks for joining!! :) > > -Robyn > > > > With that said, here's my Mad Lib: > > Hi, my name is Garland Binns and I live in Chicago, IL. My Fedora Account > > System (FAS) username is gbinns, and my IRC nick is gbinns. > > I learned about the Fedora Marketing team through the Websites Team, and > am > > interested in joining because I'm a full time Internet marketing > > professional, web developer, and project manager. > > This is the first FOSS project I have worked on, however, I've > administered > > and implemented many different marketing projects and programs in the > past > > in other arenas, specifically related to email, SEO, SEM, SMM. and the > > Internet. > > My skills, which I hope to utilize in Fedora Marketing, include: > > (Marketing Skills) - Email/SEO/SEM/SMM > > (Other Skills) - Project Management/Web Design/Web Development > > I'd also like to learn more about Linux-based programming languages. > > When I'm not working on Fedora, I am working full-time at Media Rake, > Inc., > > which is a company that helps businesses grow online. > > A couple of goals I have for the Fedora Project are expanding its reach > to > > convert people to Fedora like myself, who have frequently relied on > Windows > > and OSX in the past when it comes to computing, and seeing Fedora become > the > > number one distro on the Internet. > > I am wondering if I can join the Marketing Team. > > Please help me get started! > > Sincerely, > > Garland > > -- > > Garland Binns: Media Rake, Inc. - Digital Landscape Architects > > Phone: (646) 867-2335 | Fax: (877) 329-3410 | Web: www.mediarake.com > > LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/garlandbinns > > Twitter: www.twitter.com/garlandbinns > > > > DISCLAIMER: This message contains confidential information and is > intended > > only for the individual(s) named. If you are not the named addressee(s), > you > > should not disseminate, distribute or copy this email. Please notify the > > sender immediately if you have received this email by mistake and delete > > this email from your system(s). Email transmission cannot be guaranteed > to > > be secure or error-free, as information could be intercepted, corrupted, > > lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. Media > Rake, > > Inc. and the sender do not accept liability for any errors and/or > omissions > > in the contents of this message which arise as a result of email > > transmission. If verification is required, please request a hard-copy > > version. All physical correspondence should be written with attention to > the > > sender and addressed to Media Rake, Inc., 2019 N. Whipple St., Chicago, > IL > > 60647, United States of America. > > > > -- > > marketing mailing list > > marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Rahul Sundaram <metherid(a)gmail.com> > To: marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:50:20 +0530 > Subject: Re: [in the news] Fedora taps Zarafa open source groupware for 13 > ?On 04/20/2010 07:52 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > > > Looks like the journalist kindly made some edits to the story headline > > and content, based on the correction I sent in. Thanks to the > > Marketing team members who gave the heads-up about this yesterday, so > > we could get a change in quickly! > > > > I send in a note to the author in private earlier. The more > interesting question would be, how do we make the general press aware > of the Fedora process so that they don't equate everything that happens > in the Fedora world as a Red Hat initiative? How do we explain the > story behind the features instead of just the technical details as > covered in the feature list? > > Rahul > > > > -- > marketing mailing list > marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing >

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Upcoming Classroom session: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier on "How to make life awesome for journalists," next Tuesday
by Mel Chua 27 Apr '10

27 Apr '10

Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier will be teaching a Marketing-related Classroom session on "How to make life awesome for journalists" on next Tuesday, 27 April, 2010, at 19:00 UTC in #fedora-classroom. Thank you, Zonker! Marketing folks, that's one hour before our weekly meeting in #fedora-meeting-1. See you there, and bring your questions! --Mel PS: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Classroom#Upcoming_Classes

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Upcoming Fedora 13 Schedule Tasks
by John Poelstra 26 Apr '10

26 Apr '10

Start End Name Tue 20-Apr Tue 27-Apr Update and freeze the screens hots page Tue 27-Apr Tue 04-May Marketing: Final Screen Shots Tue 27-Apr Tue 04-May Marketing: Final One Page Release Notes Tue 27-Apr Tue 04-May Brief news distribution network Tue 27-Apr Mon 07-Jun Monitor news sites to provide corrections & info Mon 03-May Tue 11-May Create GA Announcement (Docs & Marketing) Wed 12-May Wed 12-May Fedora 13 Final Release Readiness Meeting

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Python in Fedora 13 feature profile
by Paul W. Frields 26 Apr '10

26 Apr '10

Mel et al., I took a look at the "Python in Fedora 13" page and the interview looks to be fairly complete. However, the information dump at the top of the wiki page is confusing because I can't tell if the feature profile is done or not. Is there still some material intended to land on this page before Tuesday morning? Paul

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Chinese marketing
by Gerard Braad 26 Apr '10

26 Apr '10

Hello, soon I will go to Beijing, China (for family and work); I will be busy with the promotion of FLOSS. One of those efforts deal with assisting the Chinese Fedora Community. We have already done a lot, but I was wondering if any efforts were taken to have marketing in the Chinese language; if not... I can assist with the marketing which is tailored towards the culture and audience and have people involved who can assist in the longterm. kind regards, Gerard - 吉拉德 Fedora Ambassador Project-lead Fedora-MIPS Member of Fedora 中文用户组

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SoaS spin page content: can haz halp?
by Mel Chua 26 Apr '10

26 Apr '10

I'm struggling with the content for the SoaS page (spin webpage). Here's what we've got so far. I think it's better than what it was before, but it still feels... not quite there. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Sugar_on_a_Stick#Spins_Page Goals for the page - as a result of seeing this webpage, viewers should: * Know what SoaS is * Know our target audience (so they'll either go "yay, that's me!" and try it out / join the community, or go "oh, I know someone like that" and tell their friends). * Want to try SoaS (high viewer --> user conversion rate) * Know how to become contributors to SoaS (high user --> contributor conversion rate) Halp? Allegheny SoaS team, I know you've had some good thoughts (and have a nice interview with a teacher somewhere), but I haven't seen nor heard any of them... where should I be looking? We are following the instructions at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Spin_webpage_creation_SOP, and ultimately want to end up with a page on http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ similar to http://spins.fedoraproject.org/kde (but for SoaS). --Mel

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Fedora Marketing weekly meeting, Tuesday 20:00UTC #fedora-meeting-1
by Mel Chua 26 Apr '10

26 Apr '10

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

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Design Suite spin page: current progress (HTML template applied)
by Mel Chua 26 Apr '10

26 Apr '10

I took the content from https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design_Suite#Spins_Page and put it into the HTML template to see what it would look like: http://mchua.fedorapeople.org/spins/designsuite_spinpage.html We're lacking images/screenshots and an About section, as described in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Spin_webpage_creation_SOP. I seem to recall some students from Allegheny posting notes/application reviews that could be turned into an "About" section similar to http://spins.fedoraproject.org/kde/#about - anyone know where those are? A look through the (design-team) list archives doesn't turn up anything for me, but I may have overlooked it. --Mel

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Early Stab at a Moblin Spin Page
by Sebastian Dziallas 25 Apr '10

25 Apr '10

Resulting from a quick sprint tonight, here's a draft for the Moblin Spin's page: http://sdz.fedorapeople.org/moblin/index.html Screenshots and banners are still needed so that we can actually build it, but this is a start. I hear there's more going to hit the lists on this kind of stuff soon. --Sebastian

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Spin webpage creation SOP (work in progress)
by Mel Chua 25 Apr '10

25 Apr '10

Sprinting on spins websites today, documenting the process: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Spin_webpage_creation_SOP Warning: rough! work in progress! will substantially change over the next 12 hours! The Allegheny teams working on spin webpages might find this particularly helpful (er, as it becomes more and more complete). It's largely based on (1) the questions you've asked, and (2) the answers other people (thank you, Sijis and Paul in particular!) have already given. ;) --Mel PS: This is a redirect (and preserves the old content) from https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=How_to_create_a_new_official_Sp…, which is what Paul started in response to Sijis's answer to Genevieve's questions, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/websites/2010-April/007777.html

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Proposal
by Nelson Marques 25 Apr '10

25 Apr '10

Hi all, I thought over in many things and I do recognize some problems that might be related to people not enrolling with communities like our. I would like to propose the following (though I could prepare a decent document, I'd rather take this approach first). Fedora 13 is going live soon, and honestly everyone should be committed to it, but once F13 is live, it is expected that maybe in the upcoming months after the release there's too much to do still. So maybe the best time is to trigger this around July. At that time people should be preparing for vacations and so on (at least the youth, which is probably the main audience for this). I am not sure when the theme is going to be decided and specially by whom for Fedora 14, but this makes sense to be done right after such is accomplished. What I would like to do: Launch a challenge in existing artist communities through a cooperation protocol between Fedora and those communities, for some quick examples: * opendesktop.org (gnome-look.org, kde-look.org, etc); * deviantart.com * gnome.org and kde.org (?? this people are most likely buried with work already) * suggestions from current artists This challenge should be a "call to arms" oriented campaign in which artists are invited to produce artwork for Fedora Project. As things are not going to be much random, this is what I though that is going to be needed: #1 - Fedora 14 Theme > this has to be decided prior. #2 - A document that provides guidelines for participants to comply (this should be accomplished by the Fedora Design Team, as it's their field of action/expertise). #3 - A place where artists can submit their work. (this shouldnt be too complicated and I would suggest to use a wiki page for this). #4 - Licensing for submitted artwork (this is for sure something I have no knowledge, I believe that eventually there are people here who have done similiar things in the past, so selecting and highlighting such would be great). #5 - A committee to analyze the submitted artwork. We can run this as Fedora or eventually also invite people from other communities, such as GNOME, KDE, etc. If this artwork is going to be enabled by Fedora and distributed for KDE/GNOME, makes sense to me to have someone from their project on this also. See such option as strengthening bonds between us and them. #6 - A proper Marketing/Communication campaign for this. We should be able to reach everyone. #7 - Decide what kind of artwork we want (ex: GNOME Meta Themes, KDE themes, Icon Themes, wallpapers, videos ?). #8 - Some Ambassadorial support work. I would recon that _current_ artists who are ambassadors should have a key role here. As artists they might be enrolled on other existing communities, they for sure talk the same language as other artists and know how to attract people in a more effective way than we can at Marketing. As for standard non-artist Ambassadors, I believe they can help a lot also, as running such project is mainly Public Relations work (something I suck at). Some doubts: - If we run such campaign, who decides if we can include or not community based artwork? Can we freely include on F14 some extra stuff that we get from such a campaign ? - The tools... we are promoting open source, but if we scroll through Deviant Art for instance, there is work which is distributed with a friendly license, but is generated in maybe non-friendly software, such as OS X platforms and eventually not GIMP/Inkscape stuff. Should we apply restrictions and check for headers and traces of non-oss in the submitted artwork? - I would like submitters to place their artwork in place where FAS registration is demanded. In the rush of submitting their work, they will go through that step with some "pleasure". If such is done, with a single group apply (ex: design-team) and joining a mailling list, their approach as a potential Fedora contributor is basically done. This could be explored. - Ice breaking... People who might want to submit artwork will be for sure in contact with some of our people. For example we can probably forward them for a "help list" for this event or existing list such as design-team to clear some doubts. Doing such will place them directly in contact with Fedora Teams and will work as a Ice Breaker. This should probably make their possible integration in the future much easier, as they will start having friendly voices around. - Motivation - Fedora is supposed to be installed in 24 million computers worldwide (or so some say). This is a kick-ass distribution channel for artists. It should provide enough motivation for them to participate (if we are friendly with rules). - Marketing Involvement > I'm not sure how many people face this, but this is a typical marketing promotion campaign. It does require some work and free time. I'm making myself available for this and I can nag my employer to give me 5 hours weekly to work on this, plus my free time. - Ambassadorial Work > I'm not sure on how this can be done, so some feedback from Ambassadors is welcome, and eventually we can see how we can help each other. Even between the involved departments/teams of Fedora in such, their work as moderators and promoters should be a must. - Cost/Benefits Relation > This should be positive for everyone involved. I'm not sure how design team faces such initiative... Fedora Design is very important, and this should be an accessory for their work, and of course a way to reinforce their ranks in number and gather more contributors/artists for Fedora Artwork/Design Teams. That should be our greatest benefict, plus providing a wider set or artwork on the release. Get more people signed on FAS in a friendly way. Break the Ice between Fedora and possible contributors. On the costs side... This is will require time and effort from at least: Ambassadors, Marketing, Design/Artwork and other teams of Fedora such as QA, packaging, etc. I would say that 20 submissions for Meta-Themes would be already a great win and would reward us all. For the rest, this is a very superficial approach, but if there is interest from Fedora on this, I will turn this into a more in-depth document and more objective. I believe we can try to do something different here and try to enlarge our community a bit, plus providing a bit more of community contributions. All the problems have solutions, we just need to identify them and work them out. I believe we have enough time between now and Fedora 14 theme selection to work out this in a way that we can kick in fast and aggressive soon after the main art theme is selected. I really would love to ear everyone's view about this, their own ideas on how to make better, their concerns, their critics... everything... only in possession of such information we can have a strong basis to work out soemthing like this. From my personal point, I'm willing to place 10 hours/week for such project and report to Marketing every single week about what has been achieved. Nelson. -- Nelson Marques Evil Clown (http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/evilclown.htm)

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In the news: Zarafa
by Adam Williamson 23 Apr '10

23 Apr '10

So, Zarafa is getting a lot of press attention: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=6298 some of it is fairly unflattering: http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3877446/Fedora-13-Beta-Th… I'm a bit uncomfortable with this myself; the availability of Zarafa in Fedora seems to be being read in ways in which we certainly didn't intend it (as an aspect of commercialization, as some kind of Red Hat-parachuted feature and hence an indication of RH's future directions, etc). I'm wondering if perhaps we should pull Zarafa's mention as a 'feature' of Fedora 13, or if not that, then certainly develop a more coherent story about its inclusion, what it's for, why it's in Fedora, and the whole 'open core' angle on it... What do people think? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net

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[In the news] A Music Lover's Fedora Linux Workstation
by Rahul Sundaram 23 Apr '10

23 Apr '10

Hi http://www.junauza.com/2010/04/music-lovers-fedora-linux-workstation.html "We've got here our very first entry for "The $100.00 (USD) Coolest Linux Workspace Contest". It's from Mauricio, a Music Theory student. If he wins the contest, he says that he will be using the money to buy a USB mic for some serious music recording. Check out Mauricio's Fedora Linux workstation:" Rahul

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BTRFS feature profile
by Hannah Kowen 23 Apr '10

23 Apr '10

Sorry for not including this before. Here's the link to the BTRFS feature profile: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Btrfs_in_Fedora_13 -Hannah Kowen

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Screen Shots of Installment
by Sahar Arbab 22 Apr '10

22 Apr '10

Hello Here is a link to the shots taken of the installment process. - Matt and Sahar

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BTRFS feature profile
by Hannah Kowen 22 Apr '10

22 Apr '10

Hello everyone, An edited version of the interview with Josef Bacik is now on the feature profile page. I'm open for any suggestions you have (or you can add to it as much as you want.) Thanks, Hannah Kowen

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[in the news] "Fedora 13 Beta: The Seen and (Troubling) Unseen"
by Jonathan Nalley 22 Apr '10

22 Apr '10

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3877446/ Also partially seen and re-titled here: http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/7046/1/

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One Page Release Notes - Continued Progress
by Tyler Torbet 22 Apr '10

22 Apr '10

During our sprint today Dan, Ashley, Mel, Adrienne, and I continued to edit our draft of the One Page Release Notes. It can be viewed on the One Page Release Notes wiki page (sorry, I can't remember the link) . As always, any comments or edits are welcome. Tyler, Dan, Ashley, & Adrienne

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One Page Release Notes Sprint Today
by Tyler Torbet 22 Apr '10

22 Apr '10

Sorry for the late notice. We will be having a sprint today on: http://piratepad.net/one-page-release-notes to work on our one page release notes starting right now until 12:15pm EST. Tyler & Dan

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One Page Release Notes - Draft in Progress
by Tyler Torbet 22 Apr '10

22 Apr '10

Tonight, Dan, Ashley, Sarah, Mel and I worked with our first draft of the release notes. We reworded many of the sections and added several new points. As you can tell, this is still a work in progress so any comments or edits are welcome! Here is the wiki page after working on it tonight: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_one_page_release_notes#Draft_starts_here Tyler

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Re: Press Kit-Allegheny College
by Mel Chua 22 Apr '10

22 Apr '10

On 04/20/2010 06:31 PM, Sahar Arbab wrote: > Hello Mel, > I'm working on the press kit and I have a few questions. > We were told one of the things we could do to help would be taking > screen shots.So, we have been taking scrren shots of the instalment > process. Where should we put these pictures once we are done. Also, what > kind of text/description should we give with these images. Furthermore, > we are at aa little bit of a loss at to what else we should do. Do you > have any suggestions or other people we could contact? > Thanks, > Sahar Find me on IRC tomorrow during class and we'll talk. Henrik (cc'd) is 'wonderer' on IRC and has been doing a lot of press kit stuff recently - he'd be another good person to talk with. Finally, I'm forwarding your question to the mailing list - always feel free to ask questions on-list, because there are a larger number of people who may be able to help. In answer to your questions, hosting the images on the wiki would be a good place to start. Here's how. 1. If you don't already have a FAS account, create one - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts. 2. The username/password you just made will allow you to edit pages on the wiki; you can log in at https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin (or the "log in" tab at the top right of any wiki page on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki) If you're new to wikis, read https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Wiki. Matt and Darren or one of your classmates can also help you get familiar with wiki editing; in-person help is probably the fastest/easiest way. 3. The left sidebar of the wiki has a menu item called "Upload File." It is at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Special:Upload and I think the file upload dialog there is pretty self-explanatory. If it isn't, holler. :) 4. Poof! Your files are uploaded. Hope this helps - I'll see you on IRC tomorrow. I don't know your IRC nick, so you'll have to give me a ping - I'm mchua. There will also be others around who may be able to help out. --Mel

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Linux foundation "We're Linux" video winners
by Mel Chua 22 Apr '10

22 Apr '10

In case some folks haven't seen it yet - what can we learn from this? http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/amanda/2010/04/19/announcing-the-20… "I am pleased to announce the winners of the 2010 We’re Linux Video Contest. We had quite a few amazing videos to choose from, many of which captured the spirit of Linux. Winners First place: Go Linux http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1696 Second place: Create Something Unique http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1683 Third place: Linux: Free Your Computer http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1687 I really enjoy the winning video because it does something important in the world of marketing: frame the capabilities of your product within a broader movement. In technology, features are not enough. People want a cause."

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Something interesting...
by Nelson Marques 21 Apr '10

21 Apr '10

http://www.daniweb.com/news/story277583.html# This sounds interesting and something to keep an eye on for several factors. I really want to see how this goes if such thing happens. nelson. PS: no free ammunition for this thread.

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Re: Why Linux isn't attracting young developers
by Jan Wildeboer 21 Apr '10

21 Apr '10

The *real* problem however is that young people hardly see any benefit in becoming a develoiper. With universities that effectively are microsoft gold resellers, with twitter, Facebook, Apple telling them that it still all is AOL' 95, why should they care? ;-) Jan ----- Original Message ----- From: marketing-bounces(a)lists.fedoraproject.org <marketing-bounces(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base <marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> Sent: Wed Apr 21 12:07:17 2010 Subject: Why Linux isn't attracting young developers Though this seems to be a very specific article, it is still valid, and the most interesting is actually the replies its having. http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/04/18/1557220/Why-Linux-Is-Not-Attractin… In case someone wants to check it out, I recommend it. And yes, this is deeply related and a good source for Marketing people 8) -- marketing mailing list marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing

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