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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[In the news] Fedora 15 alpha delayed - Btrfs may be default in 16
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Fedora-15-alpha-delayed-Btrfs-may-...
"The Fedora project has postponed the release of the first and only
alpha version of Fedora 15, originally scheduled for 1 March, by a week.
This was due, at least in part, to a bug in X Server that occurred in
connection with keyboard layouts for such languages as German or French
and prevented users from successfully logging into GDM. Subsequent
milestones in the release schedule for Fedora 15 remain unaffected at
present, and the final release is still scheduled for 10 May. "
"The fifteenth Fedora release is currently planned to be the first
version that won't require a special boot parameter to be submitted to
the installer in order to format a storage device with the experimental
Btrfs file system. Red Hat employee Josef Bacik, who is heavily involved
in the development of Btrfs, has now proposed on the project's most
important developer mailing list that Btrfs should be made the default
file system in Fedora 16, which is expected in late October or early
November"
Rahul
12 years, 7 months
New Year, New advertising campaign?
by María Leandro
Hola people!
As several of you may know, today I made a couple of posters to fill a
ticket asking for 4 foundations artwork. After receive some complains
(really few, but we as Fedora listen to everyone) about the message that we
are sending I think that is a good idea to have a small (but intense) thread
about "what" we can do to have a more powerful and -clear- message that we
can use this new year.
Mo and Fab where chatting about how impressive are marketing ads from
companies like Apple and others, and they also talk about what they show as
product.
I think that is a good idea to try to come up with a solid marketing
strategy this year, not only to increase our consolidation as
artwork/Marketing team; but also to help us recruit not only more users, but
also more contributors. We want users to choose fedora because "what we are
and what we do", not because we are winning money. Even so, we want more
people to know about foss benefits.
Reading just a little, there are several list with the best campaigns [1],
but the ones I found interesting were:
* McDonald's, "You deserve a break today", Needham, Harper & Steers, 1971
* U.S. Army, "Be all that you can be", N.W. Ayer & Son, 1981
* Saturn, "A different kind of company, A different kind of car.", Hal Riney
& Partners, 1989
* Polaroid, "It's so simple", Doyle Dane Bernbach, 1977
Now, What made me focus on this ones? They are worldwide known. Being a
non_en speaker (you can know by my terrible english) We should be thinking
in an _easy, short and consistent between languages_ slogan that defines
Fedora.
Also, as artwork team i think is not a bad idea to use some ideas to take
advantage and to try out a strong campaign this year (probably will take us
a couple of months to develop it and put it in production a couple more of
months) to recruit those "already new users" and turn them into real
contributors. One of the problems I see (don't know if is only LATAM or if
this is happening in other regions) is that people come to events to know
about $distro , install their pc's, and become users; considering them as a
100% of new candidates, only a 20-30% become contributors, and another 5-10%
quit after their 1st year.
So.. the real question after this huge and with bad grammatical mail is:
Do we, as design-marketing team can do an advertising campaign to get more
help and spread even more Fedora?
If anyone has ads campaigns that can be examples (of good and bad stuff) or
ideas, pls let me (us) know about them :)
See ya!
[1] http://adage.com/century/campaigns.html
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12 years, 7 months
marketing
by Harpreet Singh
Hi, my name is *Harpreet Singh* and I live in Punjab, india. My Fedora
Account System (FAS) username is Moujia, and I am new to IRC and would like
help getting started.
I learned about the Fedora Marketing team through Fedora project, and am
interested in joining because Linux user and lover.
This is the first FOSS project I have worked on!
My skills, which I hope to utilize in Fedora Marketing, include:
(Marketing Skills) -yes
(Other Skills) - Leadership, Organizer
I'd also like to learn _________________.
When I'm not working on Fedora, I am Student at Punjabi University
Please help me get started!
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12 years, 7 months