Fun feature: etherpad playback
by Mel Chua
Mostly for the amusement of folks who haven't seen this before -
etherpad (the collaborative text editor we used for sprinting on
marketing deliverables with groups of Allegheny students today[0]) has a
playback feature.
For instance, frantic video from the one-page release notes sprint today
can be seen at
http://typewith.me/ep/pad/view/one-page-release-notes/latest. Shiny!
--Mel
[0] I would love to see a Fedora instance of this service up, actually.
I know it doesn't scale as well as Gobby, but the barrier-to-entry for
usage is significantly lower. I'm also pretty sure the packaging would
be... entertaining.
13 years, 11 months
Sprint Tonight
by Tyler Torbet
We will be changing the room to #fedora-mktg. The sprint will still be at
6:00pm.
Tyler
13 years, 11 months
Video release schedule
by Paul W. Frields
Hi guys,
I've got word back from the folks working on a couple feature videos
about their target dates for release. The schedule looks like this:
27 April -- Python
4 May -- Desktop HW enablements
Kara Schiltz and I are going to try to build a Red Hat press blog
entry around each of these, which builds some additional context
around the video from the Red Hat side.
This is where the feature profiles come in. If your content is ready
by that date, we can point to your feature profile on the wiki[1] from
the press blog article as well, enhancing the value of the content.
Both the press blog and the wiki page can point to the video, and
voila, the circle is complete. (Cue Darth Vader breathing.) ;-)
Are these dates achievable for the folks working on those feature
profiles?
* * *
[1] Yes, I want to use Insight for this material soon. Because these
dates are so very close to our production launch, and because we
are still working on closing two risks (skin and docs) I would
rather not tie these together right now. Don't worry, there will
be *plenty* of time to get more content onto FI provided we make
our FI deadlines.
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13 years, 11 months
Re: Advertising "open core" software
by Jan Wildeboer
IMHO only solutions that can be completely implemented by all Fedora users
without restrictions are worth mentioning in our promo.
So you can guess my answer ;-)
Jan
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Subject: Re: Advertising "open core" software
On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 18:26 -0400, Jan Wildeboer wrote:
> This discussion gets out of hand and doesn't belong here. The original
> question was if fedora marketing material should promote open core
> software
> or not.
Jan,
I shouldn't even be posting on this thread, but do we take any benefits
by doing such? And how would we cross those beneficts vs our current
work load? Should we drop FOSS assignments for it?
That's pretty much the only thing I could say. Not turning up or down,
neither want to crash no one's parade.
nelson
>
> We are not discussing feature wars of whatever project/product.
>
> Jan
>
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> To: Robert Scheck <robert(a)fedoraproject.org>
> Cc: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base
> <marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Wed Apr 14 18:08:58 2010
> Subject: Re: Advertising "open core" software
>
> On 04/15/2010 03:23 AM, Robert Scheck wrote
> > Having this said, I'm pretty sure, that only less Fedora users care
> > about
> > whether Zarafa in Fedora has support for Outlook or not, because most of
> > our Fedora users don't use Windows as their main operating system.
>
> We really don't know much about our users. They might be using Windows
> or they might be working on a environment where a number of *other
> users* are using Windows.
>
> > Maybe
> > you should see the benefit of what Zarafa open sourced so far: There is
> > a
> > full-featured Open Source MAPI implementation and library by Zarafa,
> > while
> > OpenChange provides in comparision only a few less percent of the
> > overall
> > functionalities and features - they're providing basics, but did you
> > ever
> > try something more extended? It doesn't work or it crashes. OpenChange
> > is
> > not usable in Enterprise so far, while Zarafa (even without the
> > proprietary
> > features) is.
> >
>
> The whole point of MAPI is to talk to folks using Windows. So you can't
> really argue that Windows is irrelevant to our discussions. Even in a
> groupware deployment within Red Hat, blackberry integration was
> considered a blocker for example. No doubt that open source features
> are useful by itself but it should be taken into consideration that a
> large scale deployment very likely would have to be buying the
> proprietary version and IMO that should factor into our considerations
> of what we promote within Fedora regardless of whether you consider
> your work in Fedora as a "test bed". I understand you are associated
> with Zarafa and worked on integrating it into Fedora but my position on
> this concern around the model we are implicitly promoting rather than
> anything against the software itself. The question boils down to one
> simple thing: Should we promote "open core" software prominently within
> Fedora? You can take Zarafa completely out of the equation and still
> answer that meaningfully.
>
> > By the way, wasn't it you some time ago promoting the Omega Fedora Remix
> > containing closed source software via the Fedora mailing lists?
> >
>
> Common confusion. There is no "closed source" software in Omega.
> What I include by default is the some software from the RPM Fusion -
> free repo which are entirely free and open source software. Being
> patent encumbered in some regions doesn't make it non-free. Anyway
> this is off-topic to the current discussion. If you have questions on
> Omega, feel free to mail me offlist about it and I can discuss any
> concerns in length.
>
> Rahul
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13 years, 11 months
FYI - Fedora Insight Freeze dates
by Robyn Bergeron
Caught this in IRC a bit ago -
17:23 < mmcgrath> mchua_afk: any timeline on insight? We unfroze
today and will
freeze again on the 4th. If it's going to go live
it should do
so well in advance of that. I'd say April 26th at the latest.
13 years, 11 months
One Page Release Notes Sprint
by Tyler Torbet
My name is Tyler Torbet. I am a student at Allegheny College and our group
is working with the Fedora Project. We are working on One Page Release
Notes and would like to have a sprint tonight at 6:00pm in order to get some
more ideas. The chat room will be: #OPRN-sprint. Some of our group members
will be there about 5:45-5:50pm. Anyone is welcome!
Tyler
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