marketing August 2010

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Marketing Team Welcome Mail Template
by wonderer 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

Hy, as always there are new contributors and as an Ambassador you get after Signing the FAS a Mail where some additional infos are in to help start contributing. So I thought it might be a good idea to have such Mail send out for our new Marketing guys and girls, too. Here is my Mail Template: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/MKTG_Welcome_Mail I hope you like it, feel free to add stuff. mit freundlichen Grüßen / best regards Henrik Heigl - wonderer(a)fedoraproject.org PGP/GnuPG: 8237 D432 0616 D567 DBC6 3FE3 0D52 B374 F468 A5F0

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F14 Release Slogan Update!
by Robyn Bergeron 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Howdy Folks, Just an update from our meeting yesterday. (Minutes can be seen here: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-08-17/fedora_marketi… ) RH Legal has approved our first choice slogan of "Be More." Is anyone interested in following up by doing the next steps in the Release Slogan SOP - specifically, announcing the release slogan to the various lists and filing a ticket with the websites team? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_slogan_SOP#Announce_the_release_slogan I would suggest following a similar message to what was sent in the previous cycle, seen here: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-March/011940.html If you'd like to take this task on - please let the list know, or ping the marketing team on IRC in #fedora-mktg. If I don't hear anything from anyone by the end of the day (8 hours from now), I'll send it out. Thanks! -Robyn

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Legal review of slogans
by Paul W. Frields 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Just a reminder to the list of something we covered in yesterday's Marketing meeting. Our IP counsel in Red Hat Legal needs to review the slogan suggestions to make sure we're not, for example, walking on someone else's trademarks. This yet another service they provide to us gratis. John Poelstra has updated the Marketing team schedule[1] to reflect a legal review item. Jared has sent (or will send shortly) the slogans that people agreed on yesterday to Legal for review, and let us know here about the response. I'm adding this to the slogan SOP[2]. * * * [1] http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-14/f-14-marketing-tasks.html [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_slogan_SOP -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com

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Reminder: Fedora marketing weekly meeting 08/17/2010, 20:00UTC, in #fedora-meeting-1
by Robyn Bergeron 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Details and agenda at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings#Agenda. Today is Release Slogan selection day (YAY!) - looking forward to having a great turnout to pick an awesome release slogan for F14. See you there! -Robyn

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Upcoming Fedora 14 Tasks
by John Poelstra 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

Start End Name Tue 10-Aug Tue 17-Aug Meet w/Creative to schedule videos Tue 10-Aug Tue 02-Nov Creative team videos Tue 10-Aug Wed 03-Nov Public Relations Tue 10-Aug Tue 17-Aug Create Release Slogan Thu 12-Aug Mon 16-Aug Create Alpha Announcement (Marketing & Docs) Tue 17-Aug Tue 14-Sep Feature Profiles Tue 24-Aug Tue 24-Aug Alpha Public Availability 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 This schedule reflects the delay of the Fedora 14 Alpha Release by one week and extension of the remaining dates on the schedule. Please let me know if any of the dates look wrong or do not reflect the wishes of your team.

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[In the news] Project Harmony Takes Aim at Open Source Contribution Agreements
by Rahul Sundaram 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

Hi http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3898411/Project-Harmony-T… "In a separate session about contributor license agreements, Red Hat attorney Richard Fontana argued that formal contribution agreements are usually bad, suggested that the legal benefits for the project are dubious. "It also signals a lack of confidence in free software licenses that regular open source licenses aren't good enough," he said. Fontana added that he is participating in Project Harmony, though he has mixed feeling about the effort." Rahul

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Marketing-trac: #127: FAD at OLF?!?
by Marketing Team 13 Aug '10

13 Aug '10

#127: FAD at OLF?!? -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- Reporter: bethlynn | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Future releases Component: other | Severity: urgent Keywords: | -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- Dear Fedora Community, The bad news is that I am taking a 6 week break from this Project. I am still interested SELinux marketing, free software marketing in general, and the Docs project as the GNOME beat writer. For now I need to focus on the Ohio LinuxFest - ohiolinux.org - OLF. and now for the good news The Fedora Community is welcome to hold a FAD at OLF on Friday September 10. If this is going to happen, someone needs step forward and own the coordination of said FAD. I know that the marketing project wanted to do something FAD-ish at OLF. This is your chance to stand up and make this reality! Please get back to me by Monday August 9 at noon Eastern with this info: 1. the name of the person who will own the FAD with contact info 2. and the url of a Fedora wiki page where you will organize what sort of "activity" are doing and when If you get this info to me, you will be assigned a room. Thanks, Beth Lynn Eicher -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/127> marketing-team <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing> Marketing team for the Fedora project.

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Microblog feed
by Paul W. Frields 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

We have a team of people who have access to the HootSuite account, and can send stuff to Identi.ca @fedora via the Ping.fm link. Does any of those people aside from me want to send out a status regarding the slip of F14 Alpha and the resulting schedule change? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Schedule -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com

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[in the news]: LinuxCon: What Is the Future of Linux Development?
by Jonathan Nalley 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

"When we ship Fedora updates the story is more of the same, more drivers and fixes to existing drivers," said Dave Jones, Red Hat's Fedora kernel maintainer. "There are some great features in every release, but it's mostly more of the same from our perspective." http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/7151/1/

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Re: Talking points/spotlight features
by Ryan Rix 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

On Fri 30 July 2010 10:20:15 Nicu Buculei wrote: > On 07/29/2010 06:58 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FeatureList > > > > Off the top of my head, I see some very compelling stuff to which we > > might call people's attention: > > > > * systemd > > * EC2 > > * MeeGo > > * Roll-up of programming tools (D, Eclipse Helios, GNUstep, debugging > > tools) > > Can we have at least 1-2 talking points "end-users" (i.e. not developers > and sysadmins) would actually care? You know, *desktop features*. Hi Nicu, The current feature list is indeed a little bit .. ahem... lacking on the end- user front, you're right, honestly. The creation of Fedora's marketing talking points is mostly an ad-hoc process done by, well, anyone who is interested at all, marketing, or ambassadors, or infra, or design or... :) So, I guess the question then, what do *you* want to see that attracts "end- users"? :) Granted, Fedora 14 won't ship Firefox 4 (your biggest disappointment I'd guess, based on your blog post[1]), but there has to be *something* that users will care about? Anything new in microblogging on the GNOME end? What about in evolution or gnome-games or ...? (I'm just listing off random ideas... I'm not a GNOME Desktop Edition user, and probably dont have much to give to the "end-user" experience discussion outside of the KDE Plasma Desktop Edition release.) > Also, since it was delayed, should not we take GNOME 3 out of the > features list? I think that's more of a FESCo decision, correct? I'd assume that it'd be taken out, and the fallback provisions (shipping GNOME 2, basically, with GNOME 3 still labelled as "experimental") would be followed... All the best, Ryan [1]: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2010/07/no-video-for-you.html -- Ryan Rix == http://hackersramblings.wordpress.com | http://rix.si/ == == http://rix.si/page/contact/ if you need a word ==

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