[In the news] Setting up a network printer in Fedora 13
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
http://www.ghacks.net/2010/06/20/setting-up-a-network-printer-in-fedora-13/
"I have been bragging to everyone how user-friendly Fedora has become
with it’s most recent release for a while now. Some people are prone to
believe me and some are not. No matter where you stand, if you have any
experience with Linux, you know there are certain aspects that can be a
bit of a challenge. Printing has been one of those issues for many
people for a while now. That has all changed with recent releases.
Fedora 13 is no exception. The installation and configuration of
printers has become a no-brainer for both local and networked printers"
Rahul
13 years, 10 months
swot update
by Nelson Marques
Dear all,
I've spent 2 hours yesterday fixing and redoing the SWOT. I've decided to
commit the following changes:
1. Remove methodology from the document in order to allow a more user
friendly document. (this methodology will be included in another document
which will only contemplate methodology).
2. Internal Analysis: I've finished adding topics to Strengths, and will
deploy 2 or 3 more topics into Weaknesses.
3. External Analysis: This is actually the easiest part of a SWOT, though
in this case it can be tricky. I'm going to add 2 or 3 topics which are
likely to be considered as classic approaches to virtually any SWOT. If
Fedora would like to commit this in a more accurate view, I believe this can
be done with the help of several people on this list, specially with legal
support due to import/export laws from which we are obliged to comply.
Now approaching a more sensitive area; Critical Factors for Success
(strategical, utopic in some cases), in which I propose to develop the
following and aditional ones that the community decides:
#1 - User Base > This to be faced as target audience. This is a good point
to evaluate the efforts in future documents. I understand that it has been
properly defined previously. So we should contemplate the stuff defined by
the project. I believe everyone understands why this topic is here.
#2 - Users Perception: Fedora Linux > Yet another strategical approach. This
will serve the purpose of allowing the project to compare the message we
difuse against the perception of our 'targeted' audience. Positive or
Negative? Workaround? self-assessment?
#3 - Users Perception: Fedora Project > The same as in #2, but now regarding
the Fedora Project.
#4 - Brand Notoriety: Special approach to target audiences.
#5 - Cultural Emphasis > which can be renamed into something else, This is
not related to people's cultures, instead to Fedora culture.
Special hot topic > Analysis and Proposals for Action > I'm not doing much
here. My head is formated in a marketing way outside the scope of FOSS,
several topics have confirmed this in the past. I will not risk to deploy
wording that can be confusing to some people or misleading. I will leave
this topic blank until all the rest is done and will provide help if
requested in order to arrange this section, but I would consider that this
could be a very good topic for a gobby section or maybe to let the board
decide about this.
The Marketing Mix > I've decided to introduce this on this document, though
it's not required. I have done this considering that Fedora Linux is a
product and will be evaluated according to Product P's and not including
typical services P's. I believe that keeping this simple on a first stage
will allow people to realize the importance of the Mix's in Marketing. I'm
going to propose and fill some text here that can be improved and extended
to other P's in future releases. For now, it's more benefic to keep it
simple so that everyone understands it.
The main reason why I introduced this, is because we can actually cross it
with other topics from the SWOT itself and use it to keep a minimum
denominator commum to our analysis. The information here has to be validated
by the community, so that it translated a community wide vision of Fedora
Linux.
As many will realize its a more clean document now, far more accurate and
hopefully pleasant to read.
Robyn and all:
I would propose that we can check the availability of this list to get
schedule so we can gather on a meeting in IRC or any other means and work
some of this concepts together in order to make them more accurate and in a
language that is easilly understood by the community.
I would like that some of the topics, specially regarding SPINS and Fedora
Teams would be looked by those teams and SPIN project leaders so that they
translate the reality of those involved on those topics.
This will be a weird week for me as I have something I can't ignore in hands
and will take most of my free time, but I hope to finish at least internal
analysis before the weekend. If we have some possibility of rallying people
interested on helping filling up the SWOT with things I forgot or haven't
contemplated, I would go for a big +1 on it.
While until now I believed that it would be better to work out the structure
alone, now I believe that the structure is somehow set on stone, we can work
together to provide the most accurate contents possible, so that whoever
decides to use this document can find on it the true self-assessment of the
community.
nelson.
--
nelson marques
nmo.marques(a)gmail.com
13 years, 10 months
MMM. Marketing Meeting Minutes - 2010/06/22
by Robyn Bergeron
Thanks to all for coming. Lots of good ideas today on ongoing content
and feature profiles - if you have more thoughts on things we can
write about, or ideas about where we could have our content land
(magazines, Fedora Insight, LWN, etc.) - Let us know!
Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-06-22/fedora_marke...
Full Logs here:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-06-22/fedora_marke...
Cheers,
Robyn
===========================================
#fedora-meeting-1: Fedora Marketing Meeting
===========================================
Meeting started by rbergeron at 20:00:08 UTC. The full logs are
available at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-06-22/fedora_marke...
.
Meeting summary
---------------
* Roll Call! (rbergeron, 20:00:38)
* Agenda (rbergeron, 20:02:30)
* Trac Tickets -
https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/query?status=new&status=assigned&...
(rbergeron, 20:02:43)
* eed ideas for ongoing content / Feature Stories - know of a cool
project or group to be interviewed? (rbergeron, 20:02:58)
* Marketing TOSW - http://bit.ly/MktgTOSW (rbergeron, 20:03:07)
* ACTION: rrix to help rbergero do actions and infos (rbergeron,
20:04:43)
* ACTION: reality to drive the bus (NourishedCloud, 20:05:00)
* https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/35 - F13 release events
marketing (rbergeron, 20:05:52)
* Mail has gone out to ambassadors - some ambassadors have added
themselves to tickets, discussion of past generic posters for
release events is going on. (rbergeron, 20:06:56)
* https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/107 - Brand Book
(rbergeron, 20:08:45)
* ianweller will get to writing down possible FAD requirements when
he's not running around like crazy :) (rbergeron, 20:09:12)
* Need ideas for ongoing content / Feature Stories - know of a cool
project or group to be interviewed? (rbergeron, 20:10:27)
* we've talked in the past about the need for more ongoing marketing
content. Now we just need -ideas-. (rbergeron, 20:10:49)
* We may have student minions in the fall - journalism / writing /
publishing students. Would be great to have ideas for interviews /
content / feature stories ready to go for them. (rbergeron,
20:12:51)
* Ideas - Python, GNOME, KDE (rbergeron, 20:16:14)
* Ideas - HW enablements, kernel, etc. (rbergeron, 20:16:28)
* other things? legal, licensing, maybe? why $foobar is so difficult
to get into Fedora - not tech, but licensing? (rbergeron,
20:17:28)
* FUDCon latam, EU (rbergeron, 20:17:40)
* Saga of FI and what have we learned (rbergeron, 20:17:47)
* Cloud SIG, Spins SIG, other SIGs - Spins (rbergeron, 20:19:33)
* ACTION: rbergeron ticket mchua on Spins article (rbergeron,
20:19:45)
* ACTION: rbergero to write up giant list of all these ideas and start
scheduling and looking for bushuggers / volunteers (rbergeron,
20:20:09)
* Regional interviews - UK, LATAM, etc. (rbergeron, 20:23:29)
* ACTION: ke4qqq to look into magazine editorial calendars / schedules
(rbergeron, 20:29:23)
* ACTION: rbergeron to send out wiki page link for interview content /
subjects after meeting (rbergeron, 20:31:04)
* Open Marketing / TOSW Book stuff (rbergeron, 20:31:20)
* LINK: http://bit.ly/MktgTOSW (rbergeron, 20:31:28)
* IDEA: cross-FOSS-project marketing team conversations + meetups +
best-practice sharing (mchua, 20:34:45)
* LINK:
https://www.theopensourceway.org/wiki/Marketing_the_open_source_way
(mchua, 20:34:49)
* IDEA: OSCON FOSS Marketing BoF - rbergeron is looking into this,
iirc (mchua, 20:35:21)
* ACTION: rbergeron and mchua to sync up at some point and submit BoF
proposal (rbergeron, 20:37:02)
* AGREED: hold off on broader cross-project FOSS marketing
collaboration discussion until we're actually talking with those
folks from other projects about it :) (mchua, 20:41:16)
* Press kits and press releaes (mchua, 20:41:54)
* Press kits and press releases (mchua, 20:42:02)
* Kara will talk with us about a press release workflow once the RH
Summit craziness is over (this week), so likely sometime in July we
should be nailing that down for the F14 cycle. (mchua, 20:42:23)
* Press kits - we have gorgeous PDF designs, but I am not sure if they
were/can-be printed in time for the Summit... I'll try, though.
(mchua, 20:42:44)
* ACTION: mchua to see if we can rush-print press kits for the Summit
right now to test them out (mchua, 20:43:02)
* Future agenda item: web referral optimization. 10 min, every other
week, starting in F14. (rbergeron, 20:45:06)
* Garland has been pinging the list on SEO / optimization stuff - if
you have any thoughts or want to contribute, please pipe up!
(rbergeron, 20:45:38)
* will be adding this permanently to meeting schedule now that we're
getting well into F14. (rbergeron, 20:45:52)
* F14 Schedule Update (rbergeron, 20:46:43)
* LINK:
http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-14/f-14-marketing-tasks.html
(rbergeron, 20:46:55)
* Schedule Items start up next week - starting with wiki cleanup /
recycling. (rbergeron, 20:47:32)
* Open Floor (rbergeron, 20:48:29)
* LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/33
(rbergeron, 20:59:01)
* re: https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/33 (rbergeron,
21:03:31)
* ACTION: yn1v to update some of the information - susmit on donation
link, do some general refreshing. (rbergeron, 21:04:03)
Meeting ended at 21:07:10 UTC.
Action Items
------------
* rrix to help rbergero do actions and infos
* reality to drive the bus
* rbergeron ticket mchua on Spins article
* rbergero to write up giant list of all these ideas and start
scheduling and looking for bushuggers / volunteers
* ke4qqq to look into magazine editorial calendars / schedules
* rbergeron to send out wiki page link for interview content / subjects
after meeting
* rbergeron and mchua to sync up at some point and submit BoF proposal
* mchua to see if we can rush-print press kits for the Summit right now
to test them out
* yn1v to update some of the information - susmit on donation link, do
some general refreshing.
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* ke4qqq
* ke4qqq to look into magazine editorial calendars / schedules
* mchua
* rbergeron ticket mchua on Spins article
* rbergeron and mchua to sync up at some point and submit BoF proposal
* mchua to see if we can rush-print press kits for the Summit right
now to test them out
* rbergeron
* rbergeron ticket mchua on Spins article
* rbergeron to send out wiki page link for interview content /
subjects after meeting
* rbergeron and mchua to sync up at some point and submit BoF proposal
* rrix
* rrix to help rbergero do actions and infos
* yn1v
* yn1v to update some of the information - susmit on donation link, do
some general refreshing.
* **UNASSIGNED**
* reality to drive the bus
* rbergero to write up giant list of all these ideas and start
scheduling and looking for bushuggers / volunteers
People Present (lines said)
---------------------------
* rbergeron (203)
* mchua (67)
* NourishedCloud (31)
* yn1v (24)
* rrix (17)
* ke4qqq (15)
* zodbot (8)
* quaid (5)
* wonderer (3)
* ianweller (2)
13 years, 10 months
Open Marketing - openSUSE Conf 2010
by Nelson Marques
Dear All,
I'm planning on submiting a paper for openSUSE Conf 2010[1] with the aim to
unravel the 'concept of marketing' and it's usage by FOSS Communities. There
are a couple of things that actually worry me regarding this paper[2] and
specially it's name due to the resemblance of the concept 'open market'.
Statements like:
"the art of convincing others they have a need for something... for which
they have no need." (without source, I really would love to see who wrote it
and reply on such statement)
are faced by me, as written by someone with absolutely no idea on what
Marketing is. This is actually a bad thing to think on Marketing (a science,
not empirical knowledge) as a part of something which promotes sales. In
other words: sales != trade. Those are very different concepts. And the
concept of Marketing as actually evolved through times and from a
perspective of a product (tangible) is now actually taking a new mutation
into a service (intangible). One example of this is the Marketing Mix for
Products (4/7 Ps) and for Services which extend up to 15Ps.
I would like to develop a work about Marketing in OpenSource, but not
supported on idealisms or philosophy, instead on scientific production work
aiming to kill the gap that exists between some rather naive or obscure
approach to certain therms.
In another way, I want to collect information (scientific) that can
reinforce this terminology (open marketing) and provide it with some
scientific information aiming to give FOSS contributors a understandable
relation between the traditional approaches to the concept of marketing
(scientific) and the one provided on link [2], hoping to kill the gap that
exists in misinformation regarding to this topics.
All the information regarding open marketing will be very welcome. I'm
asking this here, because I'm a Fedora contributor and at the same time a
SuSE Linux legacy user, so there is a connection.
Please deploy information. I will submit also the work submitted to
openSUSE Program Committee[3] in my fedorapeople workspace and this list.
I'm basing this paper on concepts collected here that I will take to two of
my teachers for help in developing and providing sustainable scientific
knowledge to back up this concept.
Thanks in advance,
nelson
[1] - http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Conf_2010
[2] -
http://opensource.com/business/10/5/open-marketing-what-does-it-really-mean
[3] - http://en.opensuse.org/Conference_2010/Program_Committee
--
nelson marques
nmo.marques(a)gmail.com
13 years, 10 months
