for Fedora ambassador
by Harish Kumar Gupta
Name :- Harish Kumar Gupta
User name -harishpgc
Email-harishpgc10(a)gmail.com
City- Jaipur (India)
Association - Technox
About Me:-
My name is Harish Kumar Gupta and I live in Jaipur (India)
I am Project Manager in* Appin Technology Lab ,USA at jaipur Center*
I am studing at* Poornima College of Engineering (PGC)* pursuing B.Tech
I like open source technology . I am osum club leader and campus
representative of Mozilla Firefox.
*Skills* - I am good leader and more experience to organize events.
(Marketing Skills) - I can promote fedora properly by seminars and install
fests
Other Skills) - Good community leader, Large experience to organize events,
good experience to promote different projects
--
Harish Kumar Gupta
(OSUM Club Leader)
Poornima College of Engineering,
Jaipur, India
+91-9461592427
13 years, 10 months
look at videocasts
by wonderer
hy there,
I just have a look at
http://www.archive.org/details/LinuxActionShowEP111 and think maybe we
can work over of some of these issues as from our Marketing eyes...
Have anybody seen the video and (the Fedora13 review came around 0:55 to
1:14) have maybe some ideas how improve our words we can spread out
about this points?
They tested the beta version, so I hope in the final release some of the
mentioned issues would be fixed. Other things we can maybe try to handle
for F14.
* Flash vs. gnash not installed / not easy installable
* old Borders, new Folder Icons
* SELinux not easy to use
* less applications in menus vs
* shotwell (not ready) vs. f-spot
* F12 -> F13: can do less then with fewer programms
* Tomboy replaced with GNote (a Tomboy Clone) seem to be not so
understandable
* it feels like its not finished
* "old" OpenOffice vs. Online Tools
Maybe some of these points we can put into some kind of "thats has
changed in the new version for this reasons" Talking Points page.
Much of the wikipages say what IS and WHAT but not WHY...
mit freundlichen Grüßen / best regards
Henrik Heigl - wonderer(a)fedoraproject.org
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13 years, 10 months
The Archive
by wonderer
Hy there,
for some time we all working on tasks where we reuse templates,
pictures, Textual templates, etc. for all kind of work. But there is no
place where we keep that collected work, that snippets of small peaces
that could be reused in other ways.
So, I had a small IRC talk with rbergeron and that gave a kick-off for
"the archive" page [1]. It can/should be a kind of overlapping Startpage
for Art/Design/photo/Textual/Marketing thingy.
The idea is to collect these pieces out there in one place to reuse them
for other work and not to invent the wheel new every time ;-)
One of the first big issues / goals / whatever could be to have some
kind of program-package installed on fedorahosted with maybe a small
local part to manage some kind of photobucket (e.g. like digikam).
Maybe you guys have some ideas or use already some kind of multiuser
Photo-managing tool with tools like we all know from flickr & Co. that
we could use for our own.
Maybe it is a stupid idea, but I would like to have some kind of event
photos from events Fedora people are on in a good quality (technical as
well as compositional) to put those on e.g. flyers, presentations,
Marketing Material, etc.
In this gallery there also can be screenshots from different Releases
also as from some general Programms we have in the distro over the years.
Also e.g. some Backgrounds for presentation-templates, etc.
I already posted a small Blogpost on how to make better event photos and
the resonance was pretty good on that [2] so my impression is that there
are more photographers are out that we can think of...
Yes, I also know of that pain-in-the-ass discussion about
model-contract, but hopefully that will come to an end soon. All I can
offer at that moment is a common TfP [3] contract I translated into
english and which is used in europe as far as I know and which I linked
on the archive page so far.
So, what you all think about that? Ideas? Also take a look at
#fedora-photo if you want.
mit freundlichen Grüßen / best regards
Henrik Heigl - wonderer(a)fedoraproject.org
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[1] = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Archive
[2] = http://www.braincache.de/wp/2010/04/08/better-event-photos/
[3] = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_for_print
13 years, 10 months
Self Introduction: Luke Slater
by Luke Slater
Hi, my name is Luke Slater and I live in Cambridge, England. My FAS
username is Reality and my IRC nick is NourishedCloud.
I learned about the Fedora Marketing team through conversations on
#fedora-admins on how I could help get involved with the Fedora
project and it was suggested that my writing could come in useful to
the project!
I'm relatively new to getting directly involved with FOSS projects but
I am a volunteer webmaster for the FSF and I am working on some
smaller projects by myself or with another person such as Tunnel
(which aims to provide Steam-like functionality to FOSS gaming).
However, this is the first Marketing project I have worked on. I am
able to write both technically and not (I study English Language at
college) for a number of different purposes.
When I'm not working on Fedora, I am studying at college and will be
attending university starting this September. I also have a part-time
job administering CentOS servers.
I would like Fedora to be widely recognised as the amazing project
that it is and the chance to bring more people to Fedora as well as
Linux and FOSS is an opportunity that I can't pass up.
I've read the material on the Fedora wiki about the marketing project
and while I am wondering how exactly to get started, I imagine that I
will get more information when joining the Marketing group properly
(which I will do after sending this email) and through the meetings
held on IRC.
I wasn't really sure how rigid this email structure was supposed to be
but I've tried to keep to it vaguely...
Thanks a lot for your time and I look forward to working with you,
--
Luke Slater
:O)
13 years, 10 months
[in the news]: Clearing the Air About MeeGo
by Jonathan Nalley
http://www.itworld.com/open-source/107799/clearing-air-about-meego
"And there's more evidence that the situation is not as dire as I
painted earlier this week. Fedora Community Manager Paul Frields got
back to me this morning with a very detailed status update on how
MeeGo fits within the Fedora Project. I'll just get out of the way and
let you read the bulk of his reply:
The Fedora Project, and particularly our special interest group for
small devices, the Fedora Mini SIG, has substantial interest in MeeGo
as a next-generation platform. The Mini SIG is following the MeeGo
work to see how we can integrate its revolutionary interface and other
development to provide an enhanced user experience for small devices
in Fedora. This is made easier by the high degree of remixability and
upstream compatibility that Fedora maintains..."
13 years, 10 months
Twitter account
by Paul W. Frields
Hi folks,
Jonathan talked to me about getting in touch with Twitter about the
@fedora account, which has lain dormant since it was opened by someone
who's not us. I noticed that of the few followers it has, there are a
number of people whose profiles indicate they did so thinking that
feed was from our project. That indicates to me that the account is
creating some confusion about where our official feed is.
I talked to Jonathan on Tuesday night about touching base with Red Hat
Legal for some advice. Our counsel told me that because Red Hat owns
the Fedora trademark, correspondence directly from our Legal
department will carry a great deal more weight. They can probably get
this job done with a minimum of fuss, but it helps when you have Real
Live Attorneys, just in case there's any pushback.
I confirmed with counsel that the goal is for the Fedora community to
hold and manage the keys to the account, and they are in complete
agreement. The access group may include some Red Hat people who are
involved in the Marketing team, as the community decides is
appropriate.
My hope is that it won't take more than a few days, but with the
release close upon us, it's too easy to lose track in the mad shuffle.
Can someone please file a ticket so we can track progress on this
weekly until it's accomplished?
--
Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/
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13 years, 10 months
F13 Press archives - now shiny and up to date
by Robyn Bergeron
All -
I just sorted through email and added many / most of / hopefully all
of the articles that people have been posting to the marketing list
with the tag [in the news].
Feel free to check it out - or add to it! - here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_press_archive
And thanks to everyone for continuing to add the [in the news] tag to
the articles you post to the list - it makes it a LOT easier to sort
through and find what needs to go on the wiki. (I'd like to point out
that if you sent in an article and didn't use that format, we still
appreciate it - but you may want to double check if I actually caught
it and put it on the press archive wiki page. :D)
Rock on,
Robyn
13 years, 10 months
[in the news] Fedora 13 Release Slips By a Week
by Kara Schiltz
InternetNews.com
5.12.10
Fedora 13 Linux Release Slips By a Week
By Sean Michael Kerner
[clip]
I spoke with Fedora Project Leader Paul Frields the other week and he
mentioned to me that Fedora 13's release date would slip if the blocker
bugs had not been fixed in time. For Fedora releasing on time is less
important than releasing a Linux distribution that works.
[clip]
The transparency in Fedora release process is one that I personally
admire a great deal. It provides insight into how the distribution
release process is determined, not by arbitrary decisions but rather by
adherence to pre-determined criteria.
Full post:
http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2010/05/fedora-13-linux-release-slip...
13 years, 10 months