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, 1 month
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
The Inquirer on Tim Burke's Keynote at LinuxCon Europe
by Karin Bakis
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2120975/red-hat-promotes-communi...
The Inquirer
Oct. 28
Red Hat promotes the community at Linuxcon
LINUX DISTRIBUTOR Red Hat gave a behind the scenes look its role in the community and a look forward into the future at Linuxcon Europe.
Tim Burke, VP of Linux technology development at Red Hat, gave a keynote speech at Linuxcon in Prague this week. Overall he expressed that the Linux community is essential to the open source operating system's progress.
Burke drew a parallel with the phrase 'it takes a village to raise a child' when talking about the Linux community and the distribution. He said, "Linux is a crusade, it's not just what you're doing to get a pay cheque, or something like that, it's 'we're changing the world together'."
For example, Red Hat works with its partners and customers that include banks and military institutions to push the limits of what can be achieved. This includes scalability in file systems and wireless technologies, according to Burke. The company distributes both its free Fedora community distribution and its Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system.
Keen to promote Red Hat as a contributor, Burke showed us that the firm is the one of the top contributors in terms of adding lines of code to the Linux kernel and the Gnome project.
Importantly, Burke expressed how Red Hat doesn't see other distributions, such as Suse and Ubuntu as competition, recognising that each of them "add value to the ecosystem" and are collectively collaborators. He said that companies like Microsoft and VMware are the competition.
Looking forward, Burke set out the challenge of taking on Microsoft and VMware. Burke said, "It used to be, 'can we beat Solaris?' We don't ask those questions anymore. Now it's, 'we got that', so it's, 'can we continue to evolve into other market places, can we broadly take on Microsoft, VMware and others?' That's our real challenge."
We caught up with Tim Burke prior to his keynote so take a look at our video interview with him from Linuxcon.
Karin Bakis
Public Relations
Corporate Marketing
Red Hat, Inc.
Email: kbakis(a)redhat.com
Office: 978-392-1096
Mobile: 978-758-3546
11 years, 11 months
MMM. Marketing Meeting Minutes :: 2011-10-25
by Robyn Bergeron
Minutes:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2011-10-25/fedora_marke...
Full log:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2011-10-25/fedora_marke...
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#fedora-meeting-1: Fedora Marketing
===================================
Meeting started by rbergeron at 20:00:56 UTC. The full logs are
available at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2011-10-25/fedora_marke...
.
Meeting summary
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* Who's here? (rbergeron, 20:01:01)
* Release Stuff (rbergeron, 20:03:15)
* Ideas. (rbergeron, 20:09:55)
* Dear Beefy (rbergeron, 20:10:34)
* LINK:
http://www.redhat.com/magazine/006apr05/departments/ask_shadowman/
(rbergeron, 20:11:03)
* IDEA: Dear Beefy / Ask Beefy. (rbergeron, 20:19:39)
* IDEA: Where's the Miracle? (showcase Fedora in various spots around
the globe.) (rbergeron, 20:19:53)
* Improving/Changing up Collateral-type stuff. (rbergeron, 20:27:32)
* LINK:
http://mairin.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/flyers-about-free-open-source-soft...
<-- mo made these last year for sxsw. (rbergeron, 20:28:03)
* IDEA: New pamphlets for Diffrerent audiences. (rbergeron, 20:32:47)
* IDEA: Flyer for software developers (showcasing IDEs and languages)
(jsmith, 20:32:52)
* IDEA: Flyer for people writing documentation (jsmith, 20:33:04)
* IDEA: Flyer for software packagers (jsmith, 20:33:09)
* IDEA: Flyer for people who are interested in those White FLuffy
Cloudy Things (rbergeron, 20:34:07)
* IDEA: Flyer for academics (suehle, 20:34:39)
* IDEA: maybe not a tri-fold, but a "The Relationship between Fedora
and RHEL" ..... suitable for giving out at multiple kinds of
booths... ? (rbergeron, 20:38:25)
* IDEA: Trifold about open licensing rather than the 8.5x11 (suehle,
20:38:44)
* IDEA: Flyer for kids (mizmo, 20:39:23)
* IDEA: Flyer for games (mizmo, 20:39:26)
* IDEA: Flyer for teachers (mizmo, 20:39:32)
* IDEA: Flyer for cooks (mizmo, 20:39:35)
* IDEA: Flyer for finance (mizmo, 20:39:41)
* IDEA: flyer for gamers (suehle, 20:41:14)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design/SXSW_Materials#Brochures
(mizmo, 20:42:56)
* ACTION: rbergeron to do wiki "make a list, hope for some basic
content", blog (rbergeron, 20:53:34)
Meeting ended at 20:56:25 UTC.
Action Items
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* rbergeron to do wiki "make a list, hope for some basic content", blog
Action Items, by person
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* rbergeron
* rbergeron to do wiki "make a list, hope for some basic content",
blog
* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)
People Present (lines said)
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* rbergeron (124)
* suehle (32)
* mizmo (31)
* jsmith (12)
* bckurera (9)
* azneita (8)
* zodbot (4)
* rharrison (0)
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11 years, 11 months
Re: Fedora Weekly News: needing invigoration
by Richard Vijay
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Beats/Ambassadors Ambassadors Beat is
Published and Edited to include messages till 24th October 2011.
Thanks for Reminder Pascal.
Good Work *Buddhike *
Thanks and regards
Richard Vijay
Ambassador & Beats Editor
IRC: fedora_richie
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On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Pascal Calarco <pvcalarco(a)uwaterloo.ca>wrote:
> Hi folks -
>
> We are more than a month since we have had enough content for another issue
> of FWN, and so I thought I would post openly to the News, Ambassadors, and
> Marketing lists, asking for some dialogue around this, and seeking some new
> contributors, perhaps.
>
> Fedora Weekly News is a very important vehicle for letting both the Fedora
> community and the external Linux community, know what the happenings are
> with the Fedora Project. FWN has been around for many years and is a
> trusted brand that the community looks forward to each week.
>
> Writing for FWN is definitely a time commitment, on a weekly basis, and so
> its understandable that FWN's volunteer beat writers sometimes have a hard
> time contributing on that regular a basis.
>
> But, if we don't have writers for FWN, we don't have content to produce an
> issue, and the community loses the vibrant voice that they have relied on in
> the past.
>
> Do you have suggestions for making FWN an easier time commitment? Should
> we consider moving FWN to a biweekly frequency for some beats that don't
> have enough content for a weekly beat?
>
> So, I would like to hear from both current beat writers to FWN, and
> community members that perhaps would like to get involved as a writer for
> FWN. The bar is not high for participation. You basically need to have:
>
> 1) Continuing interest and passion in the Fedora Project, perhaps on some
> particular aspect or subproject that you'd like to write on
> 2) A bit of familiarity with Mediawiki tagging and conventions, and the
> Fedora Project wiki Style Guide
> 3) A Commitment to produce a beat on more or less weekly basis
>
> Thanks for your time and consideration! I look forward to hearing from some
> of you and your ideas to make FWN a viable and vibrant media vehicle for the
> Fedora Project again.
>
> - Pascal
>
> ------
> Pascal Calarco
> Co-Editor, Fedora Weekly News
> Fedora Ambassador, Ontario, Canada
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>
11 years, 11 months
MMM. Marketing Meeting Minutes, 2011-10-18 - DELICIOUS AND BEEFY
by Robyn Bergeron
Minutes:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2011-10-18/fedora_marke...
Logs:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2011-10-18/fedora_marke...
Thanks to everyone for coming out for our New And Improved Marketing
meeting today. Lots of ideas, and please be on the lookout on the
mailing list for mails from people who have volunteered to help get some
of our high-priority tasks done - and by all means, pitch in if you can! :)
Thanks,
-Robyn
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#fedora-meeting-1: Fedora Marketing Meeting
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Meeting started by rbergeron at 19:59:46 UTC. The full logs are
available at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2011-10-18/fedora_marke...
.
Meeting summary
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* Who's here, yo? (rbergeron, 20:00:04)
* Welcome back (rbergeron, 20:02:53)
* I'm hoping we can all get back in the swing of things by getting
back to having regular marketing meetings. (rbergeron, 20:03:33)
* What the heck does marketing do? (rbergeron, 20:05:54)
* LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing (rbergeron,
20:06:21)
* The wiki page contains links to the things we work on, which I'll
discuss shortly. (rbergeron, 20:07:19)
* LINK:
http://rbergero.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-16/f-16-marketing-tasks.html
(rbergeron, 20:09:50)
* Beyond schedule-related stuff like release announcements & etc., we
also do other things. (rbergeron, 20:10:43)
* We also deal with Fedora's social media "stuff." (rbergeron,
20:10:55)
* We also do our best to track news items. (rbergeron, 20:11:50)
* We also work closely with other teams in Fedora. (rbergeron,
20:14:11)
* Other teams we work closely with. (rbergeron, 20:14:22)
* Design team. (rbergeron, 20:14:39)
* LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design (rbergeron, 20:14:43)
* Ambassadors team. (rbergeron, 20:15:35)
* LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors (rbergeron,
20:15:41)
* Websites team. (rbergeron, 20:16:33)
* LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Websites (rbergeron, 20:16:37)
* How are we doing RIGHT NOW? (rbergeron, 20:19:19)
* We have the release announcement coming up soon. (rbergeron,
20:19:52)
* LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_announcement
(rbergeron, 20:20:39)
* IDEA: have a marketing intro page with info, graphics, linking to
the marketing wiki page. (rbergeron, 20:21:15)
* One Page Release Notes haven't been started. (rbergeron, 20:21:43)
* LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F15_one_page_release_notes
(rbergeron, 20:21:47)
* LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_one_page_release_notes
(rbergeron, 20:22:12)
* One Page Release Notes are usually formatted for printing / possibly
handing out at booths, etc. (rbergeron, 20:22:56)
* LINK: http://jsmith.fedorapeople.org/Drafts/ (jsmith, 20:23:45)
* We also have a one-page press kit, that is given out to media folks
at release time with a USB key. (rbergeron, 20:24:01)
* We haven't done any of the talking points for this release.
(rbergeron, 20:24:53)
* LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_16_talking_points
(rbergeron, 20:24:56)
* LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_talking_points
(rbergeron, 20:25:01)
* Anything sound interesting to anyone? (rbergeron, 20:27:24)
* LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FeatureList (rbergeron,
20:33:11)
* LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Foundations (rbergeron,
20:39:55)
* LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F16_one_page_release_notes
depends on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_16_talking_points
(bckurera, 20:41:51)
* ACTION: bckurera to take the lead on the Talking Points (rbergeron,
20:44:31)
* ACTION: johnmark to pitch in with the Cloud bits on the talking
points (rbergeron, 20:46:01)
* AGREED: Something like "We are please to announce the release of ...
dedicated to the memory of Dennis Ritchie. <one more sentence>
(rbergeron, 20:51:53)
* IDEA: "While few of us knew him personally, he had a tremendous
impact on the work we do in Fedora." (rbergeron, 20:52:13)
* ACTION: rbergeron send out a mail to the mailing list about release
announcement needs, as well as to the board saying "we acknowledge
your request" (rbergeron, 20:53:35)
* NEW IDEAS (rbergeron, 20:54:01)
* IDEA: Slide presentation covering F16 that is useful for
ambassadors, people giving presentations. (rbergeron, 20:59:54)
* IDEA: Inspiring meetups to happen (rbergeron, 21:01:07)
* IDEA: Let's make sure we get feedback on whether or not slides were
even used, if they were useful, etc. (rbergeron, 21:04:47)
* IDEA: We need more internal marketing in general - getting more
participation in elections, getting more participation in projects
in general. (rbergeron, 21:08:33)
Meeting ended at 21:13:13 UTC.
Action Items
------------
* bckurera to take the lead on the Talking Points
* johnmark to pitch in with the Cloud bits on the talking points
* rbergeron send out a mail to the mailing list about release
announcement needs, as well as to the board saying "we acknowledge
your request"
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* bckurera
* bckurera to take the lead on the Talking Points
* johnmark
* johnmark to pitch in with the Cloud bits on the talking points
* rbergeron
* rbergeron send out a mail to the mailing list about release
announcement needs, as well as to the board saying "we acknowledge
your request"
* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)
People Present (lines said)
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* rbergeron (232)
* johnmark (50)
* bckurera (39)
* inode0 (23)
* threethirty (23)
* jsmith (17)
* Sparks (10)
* suehle (7)
* zodbot (5)
* ke4zvu3 (4)
* rrix (3)
* nirik (3)
* vouzico (3)
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Marketing meeting: Tomorrow! 2011-10-18
by Robyn Bergeron
I know it's a long time in coming, folks. I'm delighted to announce the
return of ... weekly Fedora Marketing Meetings!
Where: irc.freenode.net, in #fedora-meeting-1
When: Tuesday, Oct. 18, at 20:00 UTC (4pm US Eastern, 1pm US Pacific)
Who: You! Anyone can come - just be prepared to want to Get Things Done! :)
Agenda for tomorrow:
* A quick refresher course on what the Fedora Marketing Team does over the
course of a release
* Schedule check-in: We're approaching GA, which means we have
announcements, feature profile opportunities, and much more!
* Brainstorming: What can we do to get this group going again? Are there new
projects people are interested in?
* Your agenda item here: Feel free to pitch an agenda item!
See you tomorrow! And welcome back! :) Questions welcomed beforehand or
in-meeting, as always.
Stay beefy,
-Robyn
11 years, 11 months
Love and feeding of marketing team.
by Robyn Bergeron
Helloooooooooo Marketing Fans,
So...... I will be the first to admit that I've been a little lax (okay,
actually, super-lax) in the Marketing area lately. Some of this has
just been my time, or lack thereof, especially when it comes to meetings
and having them, and some of it is simply that nobody else is really
insisting on meeting and getting things done and kicking me in the pants
about it, either. :)
In the spirit of Getting Things Done, and more generally, having a bit
more excitement around this joint, I'd like to get an idea for who's
interested in getting the Marketing Train back on the tracks and up to
speed. This means: meetings, being a bit more active in IRC, knocking
out some of the release-time items, and most importantly, thinking about
NEW THINGS we can do either around raising awareness, new things that
new contributors can do, or just generally doing new things because
doing the same stuff over and over and over is, let's face it, super boring.
In short, just two questions:
1: Who's interested in coming to marketing meetings again, and working
on release-related activities?
2: Does anyone have any new and cool ideas in the marketing area that we
can pick up and work on?
I'm here with my marketing defibrillators! Let's get it back together,
folks. I'd like to just pick up with getting back at least on the
meeting train next Tuesday, and we can adjust the time and whatnot if
necessary as we go forward.
Other thoughts or comments are welcomed. Flames too. I'm expecting those. :)
-Robyn
11 years, 11 months
