Marketing-trac: #126: Create a wiki page for magazine covermount information
by Marketing Team
#126: Create a wiki page for magazine covermount information
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Reporter: pfrields | Owner:
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: F14a: Pre-alpha
Component: other | Severity: urgent
Keywords: |
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We often get inquiries from magazines asking for permission to bundle one
or more Fedora discs with a future issue. This is a fairly routine
process as long as the disc is an unmodified copy of Fedora media (i.e. an
official release). Some interaction with Red Hat Legal is required to
send out an agreement to the magazine.
We can speed up that interaction and the overall process if we have a page
that tells magazines what they need to provide, and to whom, for a
covermount agreement. Generally we need the following information, sent
to the ''press(a)fp.o'' address:
* The name (d/b/a) and address of the company producing the magazine
* The exact disc(s) that are to be bundled
* Contact information for the person making the request
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10 years
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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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
Keywords: |
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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:
...
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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Upcoming Fedora 14 Schedule Tasks
by John Poelstra
Start End Name
Tue 10-Aug Tue 02-Nov Creative team videos
Tue 10-Aug Wed 03-Nov Public Relations
Tue 17-Aug Tue 14-Sep Feature Profiles
Tue 24-Aug Tue 31-Aug Review Firefox Bookmarks For Update
Tue 31-Aug Tue 14-Sep Start drafting Beta blog
Tue 31-Aug Tue 28-Sep Beta press blog entry
Tue 31-Aug Thu 02-Sep Update and Package Firefox Bookmarks
Thu 02-Sep Thu 02-Sep Tag Updated Bookmarks Package for Fedora 14
Tue 14-Sep Tue 21-Sep Red Hat PR send Beta blog to Legal
Tue 14-Sep Tue 14-Sep Features 100% Complete Deadline
Tue 14-Sep Tue 14-Sep Beta Change Deadline
Have you found something that is working really well in your schedule?
Or maybe you've found something you believe would work better in the
future?
Update the schedule retrospective page now to capture all of the
important details as they happen:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_Schedule_Retrospective
13 years
FUDPub @ Sparky's Den (Part two)
by Robyn Bergeron
Okay. Here's an update on Sparky's Den after I did some phone calling today.
* We can rent Sparky's Den on Saturday or Sunday night; both are
currently available. Cost would be $155/hr.
* Sparky's Den, as previously mentioned, has 8 lanes of bowling, 14
billiards tables, 2 table tennis tables, foosball, 4 tvs, and an
arcade. The cost for all of these activities, including bowling shoe
rental, is included in the $155/hr cost. Sparky's is open until 11pm.
* We would need to utilize University catering or other approved
catering places for food.
* We can have alcohol. We would need to work with a bartending
service, specifically Pourmasters (the only one asu catering usually
works with). We are able to provide our own alcohol, but per
university rules, we cannot have a cash bar. It must be an open bar.
* There is some sort of rule about no under-21's in the serving area.
I'm not sure exactly what that means, but obviously that is something
we need to figure out. If that means we can't have people under 21
near the alcohol, or we all need to be cordoned off, that's not going
to work so well. I have (yet another) call put in to figure this out.
We would also need to get a liquor permit from the University, which
from what I understand is a very easy process.
* Checking into the Pourmasters website, we can hire a bartender for
$25/hr (5 hour minimum), and we would have to rent at least one bar
($75). Alternately, there is a package for $3.25/person (for 100
people, probably drops slightly with another 50 people) that includes:
Bartender, Bar, bottled water, Sodas, mixers (juice / tonic /
margarita / etc), Ice, Cups, napkins, etc. From what I can see the
latter option is a reasonable deal, otherwise we have to figure out
all of those items on our own and provide them anyhow. The whole
service would run ~$630, for 150 people (including overestimated sales
tax and what I assume will be a 20% gratuity added on). (I have a call
into Pourmasters to verify this stuff.)
Assuming that the "no under 21's" means that we just need to keep our
underage pals within some distance from the bar (ie: this is a viable
plan), we have a few options. Let's assume fixed cost of $630 for
bartending, and $620 for 4 hours in Sparky's Den (6-10, or 7-11), for
a total of $1250. With the current budget of $4k, that would leave us
with $2750, or $18/person. 18 bucks a person would buy a reasonable
buffet dinner, including rolls, tea, and something including
vegetarian options; $10/person would buy a plentiful variety of
appetizers.
#1) Head over fairly early in the evening, have a catered buffet-style
dinner while we play and whatnot. Let those who want to drink alcohol
throw in $10 and we (I + a helper or two) can do a beer run at some
point on Saturday.
#2) Head over after dinnertime-ish, let people fend for themselves for
dinner, and provide appetizers and stay from maybe 7 or 8 - 11pm.
Provide drinks and alcohol for everyone.
Or some combination of the above. We could go early, eat, skip the
alcohol and stay till 9pm - and adjourn and let the drinkers move onto
bar-land on Mill Avenue, etc.
For the record, I've looked into "how much alcohol do we need" and
came up with the following for 100 drinkers (I know we'll have some
underagers from ASU, plus our own underagers, plus kids.) Recommended
was - 16 bottles of spirits, 240 beers (40 6-packs), and 24 bottles of
wine, assuming we are 20% wine drinkers, 40% liquor drinkers, and 40%
beer drinkers. If we buy 16 bottles of liquor at ~$25/apiece, 40
6-packs at $8 = $360, and 24 bottles of wine at ~$10 (yes, I realize
this is not a lot for a bottle of wine, but I think we could do well
sale-hunting) - that total would clock in around $760. If we had 80
people chip in $10, that would get us all of the above, and they'd
likely get a lot more bang for the buck than they would at a regular
bar. Also, if we overshoot, we can take leftovers back for a refund,
or send them home with someone who is of drinking age and lives in
Arizona (ha ha ha). :) We'd have to provide a list of what quantities
of alcohol we were using beforehand, and count on the goodness of
people's hearts to pony up once they're in town.
I think this seems like a reasonable option, provided we can
accommodate underage attendees. Also, we know people will show up on
time to go to FUDPub, and they'll then know the way to Memorial Union
on Monday morning. :)
It would be good to see what something would run at Dave and Buster's
or Gameworks. I suspect the cost to (a) rent buses to go to Dave and
Busters / Gameworks or (b) rent out sparky's den will be very similar,
and we'll have all "fun" taken care of at Sparky's for that price.
However, I think the food at ASU might be slightly more pricey, but
I'm not entirely sure.
Will update with more tl;dr once I hear back on the underage
situation, and the bartender can provide a more solid quote for what
150 people would run us.
-Robyn
13 years
Re: release slogan, round 2.
by Jan Wildeboer
Soar sounds too much like stock price stuff IMHO, why not "The F in Freedom"
or "rising by design" "powered by freedom" "Crossing the tipping point"
"More Freedom"
Ah, #needbeer ;-)
Jan
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Sent: Mon Aug 23 12:39:46 2010
Subject: Re: release slogan, round 2.
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Robyn Bergeron
<robyn.bergeron(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> In an effort to come up with something that ties into our theme, I've
> done a little bit of thinking about some of our theme descriptions
> (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_release_slogan#Themes).
>
> I started off with some words, and flipped (err, hit spacebar a lot)
> through the thesaurus online to see what other words came up.
>
> I started off with - emerge/emergence - started working with the words
> lead, rise, direction, advance... still didn't get a lot of things.
> But what I have so far is:
>
> Rise Up.
> Be everywhere.
> Soar.
>
> Annnnnnd... that's it.
>
> I'm not sure if we should kick off a second wiki table on the same
> page, or just bring suggestions to the marketing meeting on tuesday.
> If anyone would like to throw in a suggestion either way, I'm happy to
> follow.
>
"Rise Up" is at the wiki and I like it. Not sure if we are going to
get problems with riseup.net or riseuplabs.org
"Soar" can be conflicted with http://sourceforge.net/projects/soar/
For me this a minor conflict.
What about "freedom ascension" ? I am a bit shy to propose as English
is not my first language. Sometimes I feel that I don't fully grasp
the meaning. But again I hate to have matches on google ...
http://www.ascensionsoftware.com
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Your help wanted! And... MMM. Marketing Meeting Minutes. 2010/08/24
by Robyn Bergeron
Minutes from today's meeting follow below.
Feature Profiles are next on the Marketing team's deliverables for
Fedora 14. We selected a few during today's meeting, including
profiles on EC2, systemd, Mini-SIGs, and Debugging tools.
If you are interested in doing a feature profile on debugging tools,
let us know! We also need some help in doing the Mini-SIG Feature
profile. Information on how to do a Feature profile can be seen at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Feature_profiles_SOP, and if you want to
see examples of Feature Profiles done for F13, they can be found here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_feature_profiles
Just drop the email list a note, or ping me on IRC (rbergeron) if you
are interested in helping out.
Thanks!
-Robyn
Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-08-24/marketing_me...
Full Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-08-24/marketing_me...
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#fedora-meeting-1: Fedora Marketing
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Meeting started by rbergeron at 20:00:16 UTC. The full logs are
available at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-08-24/marketing_me...
.
Meeting summary
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* Roll Call (rbergeron, 20:00:32)
* Agenda (rbergeron, 20:01:39)
* Had some conflicts about the name chosen last week; need to make
some decisions. (rbergeron, 20:02:24)
* Release Slogan: what to do? (rbergeron, 20:02:59)
* AGREED: Skipping slogan for F14; may revisit in the future, or focus
on selecting a long-term slogan. (rbergeron, 20:26:22)
* ACTION: stickster to talk to mizmo about lack of slogan on website,
or thinking about long-term slogans. (rbergeron, 20:26:47)
* Feature Profiles (rbergeron, 20:28:17)
* LINK:
http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-14/f-14-marketing-tasks.html
(rbergeron, 20:28:22)
* LINK:
http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-14/f-14-marketing-tasks.html
(stickster, 20:30:02)
* LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Feature_profiles_SOP
(rbergeron, 20:30:11)
* LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FeatureList (rbergeron,
20:31:08)
* LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_talking_points
(rbergeron, 20:31:24)
* Feature Profiles are typically interviews conducted and stories
written on specific features off of feature list and/or Talking
Points. (rbergeron, 20:32:00)
* The marketing team typically writes 3 - 5 feature profiles for each
release. (rbergeron, 20:32:18)
* Right now the Creative team video lineup includes systemd and EC2
(stickster, 20:33:34)
* Creative team will probably be in Westford shooting in < 2 weeks
(stickster, 20:41:19)
* LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_feature_profiles
(rbergeron, 20:50:56)
* LINK:
http://press.redhat.com/2010/04/27/fedora-13-spotlight-feature-exploring-...
<-- Red Hat press blog entry, with interview page linked in
paragraph 5 (stickster, 20:51:30)
* LINK:
http://press.redhat.com/2010/05/10/making-3d-free-for-innovation-fedora-1...
(rbergeron, 20:51:45)
* AGREED: EC2, systemd, debugging tools, and mini-sig for Feature
Profiles. (rbergeron, 20:54:10)
* ACTION: stickster to do FP on systemd (rbergeron, 20:54:29)
* ACTION: jsmith to do FP on mini-sig. (rbergeron, 20:54:41)
* ACTION: rbergeron to do EC2 (rbergeron, 20:54:48)
* ACTION: rbergeron to advertise in blog / mailing list for volunteers
for debugging tools FP. (rbergeron, 20:55:29)
* ACTION: rbergeron stickster to collectively look for mini-sig FP
additional volunteers (rbergeron, 20:56:15)
* There is a chance that systemd may get yanked from F14 depending on
passing criteria for acceptance; FESCo working on this now
(stickster, 20:58:13)
* ACTION: stickster will take mini SIG FP if systemd gets yanked from
F14 (stickster, 20:58:36)
Meeting ended at 21:00:25 UTC.
Action Items
------------
* stickster to talk to mizmo about lack of slogan on website, or
thinking about long-term slogans.
* stickster to do FP on systemd
* jsmith to do FP on mini-sig.
* rbergeron to do EC2
* rbergeron to advertise in blog / mailing list for volunteers for
debugging tools FP.
* rbergeron stickster to collectively look for mini-sig FP additional
volunteers
* stickster will take mini SIG FP if systemd gets yanked from F14
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* jsmith
* jsmith to do FP on mini-sig.
* rbergeron
* rbergeron to do EC2
* rbergeron to advertise in blog / mailing list for volunteers for
debugging tools FP.
* rbergeron stickster to collectively look for mini-sig FP additional
volunteers
* stickster
* stickster to talk to mizmo about lack of slogan on website, or
thinking about long-term slogans.
* stickster to do FP on systemd
* rbergeron stickster to collectively look for mini-sig FP additional
volunteers
* stickster will take mini SIG FP if systemd gets yanked from F14
* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)
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* stickster (90)
* jsmith (36)
* leoboulton (9)
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