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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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
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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:
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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
interview with frostbite media
by Neville A. Cross
Hello,
Last meeting we were discusing about ways to promote what we have been
doing in our side of the world. I did mention that I got scheduled for
an interview, which just happened. The talk centered of what is going
on with Fedora on this side of the world... nice match isn't it?
Anyway, my interview has just finished, and will no be available right
now, but it will be soon at where there is already two more
interviews.
http://www.frostbitemedia.org/node/8
Look on the left for "This Week In Fedora" -> OGG Feed
I passed some emails of other fedora contributors, maybe we can get
more people around the globe.
Finally, I think those interview should be mentioned on the News
stream as other blog post that fedora got.
Best regard, and have nice weekend.
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Neville
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13 years, 2 months
linux.pt and Fedora
by Nelson Marques
Hi,
I've finally got hold of the person which is still working on linux.pt
and had a small chat with him.
Currently Linux.PT provides some minimalist information which isn't
actually accurate. I don't believe we should offer another site, instead
we could use a host like fedoraproject.linux.pt pointing to the /pt of
our wiki.
This would most likely be nicer to get people enrolled directly with
Fedora, and eventually like Paul said in the past, let the community
grow inside the international Fedora Community.
Anyway, please feel free to make suggestions on how the best way to
accomplish this according to Fedora guidelines.
nelson.
13 years, 3 months
document template
by Nelson Marques
Dear all,
In the nearby future I will need to use some documents to pass on
information in alternative formats, namely PDF to support some contents
I will share on the wiki.
This came up as I was organizing my notes from the last 4 years of
school and eventually found many contents I would like to share with
Fedora and in general with the free software community.
Since my main goal is to make them available for Fedora, I've created a
small OpenOffice.org Write Template (which does require
mgopen-modata-fonts).
I haven't placed it online, so if anyone around wants to share some
opinions in order to improve it and make it more consistent with Fedora
branding, please feel free to do such.
Nelson
13 years, 3 months
Moving notice #1
by Paul W. Frields
This morning I posted moving notice #1 to our Twitter feed via
HootSuite:
http://twitter.com/fedora_linux/status/17418599783
So far I think I've invited everyone to the management of Twitter
@fedora on HootSuite who was managing @fedora_linux before. If I
somehow missed you. The only person I didn't add back in was Ashwin
Date because I can't find any Fedora Account System entry for him.
I was hoping to hear back specifically from Matias Kreder, just to
triple-check that he's on board with our plan. We've had several
email discussions over the past few months in addition to our meeting
notes, but I always like to have some confirmation that everyone's in
sync.
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Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com
13 years, 3 months
[in the news] New project leader wears the Fedora
by Kara Schiltz
The Register
6.29.10
New project leader wears the Fedora
Taking over for 'Laughlin' 14 release
By Timothy Prickett Morgan
Paul Frields, who has been getting his paycheck from Red Hat to run the
Fedora development Linux variant since 2008, is moving back inside the
company to work on Enterprise Linux, and an outsider named Jared Smith
is being brought in as the new Fedora Project Leader.
Frields joined Red Hat in February 2008, replacing Max Spevack, another
Red Hat employee who ran the open source Linux development product from
February 2006 until Frields took over. Smith will take over the FPL
position (which is a full-time job with a Red Hat paycheck) to steer the
development of Fedora 14, something that Frields already got the ball
rolling on.
Full post:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/29/new_fedora_project_leader/
13 years, 3 months
SWOT - Comparative Analysis
by Nelson Marques
Hi,
For SWOT (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/SWOT) and specially to
comparative Analysis (
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/SWOT#Comparative_Analysis) I need a
couple of guidelines, for which I will not decide upon, since I'm not the
most qualified person to engage or set on stone those.
I've proposed on the layout the following comparative analysis:
- Fedora and Ubuntu
- Fedora and openSuSE
- Fedora and Debian
- Fedora and Slackware
- Fedora and Arch Linux
To perform this, I'm going to cover 2 things from the marketing
perspective:
1. Marketing Mix
2. Communication Mix
This 2 points I can manage well and there won't be much trouble, but I
would like to place also some more information on this, something we can
translate into charts or graphs and that on the end we can actually combine
them all.
I was thinking on the following:
> Ease of Installation (rated in scale, 1-10);
> Out of the Box install success in common hardware (mainstream hardware)
> Out of the Box security;
> Average Time of Installation;
> Boot time (power on to GDM login);
Now, what more should we use to complete it? Factors we can measure in a
scale from 1-10 and that are relevant in therms of comparison to another
distros, any more suggestions?
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nelson marques
nmo.marques(a)gmail.com
13 years, 3 months
