February 2011 - [MOVED TO DISCOURSE] Fedora Marketing - https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/tag/marketing

Marketing-trac: #126: Create a wiki page for magazine covermount information
by Marketing Team 27 Aug '13

27 Aug '13

#126: Create a wiki page for magazine covermount information ----------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Reporter: pfrields | Owner: Type: task | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: F14a: Pre-alpha Component: other | Severity: urgent Keywords: | ----------------------+----------------------------------------------------- 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 -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/126> marketing-team <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing> Marketing team for the Fedora project.

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Marketing-trac: #125: SSSD F13 feature -- press blog entry
by Marketing Team 27 Aug '13

27 Aug '13

#125: SSSD F13 feature -- press blog entry -----------------------------+---------------------------------------------- Reporter: pfrields | Owner: pfrields Type: task | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: F14a: Pre-alpha Component: Feature Stories | Severity: urgent Keywords: meeting | -----------------------------+---------------------------------------------- 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! -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/125> marketing-team <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing> Marketing team for the Fedora project.

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Spread Fedora
by Beth Lynn Eicher 27 Feb '11

27 Feb '11

I attended the marketing talk at the Southern California Linux Expo... http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale9x/presentations/two-girls-one-talk-thel… The following question came to my mind 2 days after seeing that talk. The spreadubuntu.org website was mentioned but spreadfedora.org was not mentioned. While the spreadfedora.org site seems to be on message, the content looks stale. A 'whois' reveals that domain name is not registered to Red Hat Inc. Nonetheless, the site appears to be owned by a fan of Fedora. Is this a good opportunity for cooperation with the marketing team so that spreadfedora.org can spread? Does anybody know what happened to spreadfedora.org ? Thanks, Beth Lynn Eicher

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[In the news] Beyond FUDCon with Robyn Bergeron, Fedora Program Manager
by Rahul Sundaram 25 Feb '11

25 Feb '11

Hi http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Beyond-FUDCon-with-Robyn-Bergeron… ""I personally would love to see more folks getting involved in areas that don't necessarily require coding skills. I think that there is enormous room for growth and contribution in these areas, and there are plenty of Linux enthusiasts out there who have the skills and imagination to make great contributions in these places." ~ Robyn Bergeron " Rahul

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[In the news] Fedora 15 alpha delayed - Btrfs may be default in 16
by Rahul Sundaram 25 Feb '11

25 Feb '11

Hi http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Fedora-15-alpha-delayed-Btrfs-may-be… "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

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[in the news] Fedora discussing btrfs for Fedora 16
by Vinzenz Vietzke 25 Feb '11

25 Feb '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, the discussion about changing to btrfs with Fedora 16 has been in the German news: "Für Josef Bacik von Fedora ist das im Herbst kommende Fedora 16 eine mögliche Gelegenheit, auf Btrfs als Standard-Dateisystem umzustellen. Da Btrfs über ein eingebautes Volume Management verfügt, sollte die Unterstützung für LVM aufgegeben werden. Schon seit Fedora 11 ist Btrfs verfügbar, in der kommenden Version Fedora 15 wird es auch ohne besondere Boot-Optionen zur Nutzung bereitstehen." Pro-Linux.de: http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/16746/fedora-diskutiert-ueber-btrfs-als-stan… Fedora-Blog: http://www.fedora-blog.de/2011/02/btrfs-wird-standard-in-fedora-16/ Regards, - -- Vinzenz Vietzke Fedora Ambassador m: vinz(a)fedoraproject.org wk: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Vinz mb: https://identi.ca/vinzv | https://twitter.com/vinzv -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNZ5YOAAoJEGlfvjH68y2dlwwIAKoFVaUiwjdle6bulcYexRFV +gtn+FpnlnhsAt63xxRlckiXwQeNNBd3MyW9Hlpop4xJhS87uUJMRC3WiNIcOkZb B0SmrgPT0jEKrcfkYWCkpuk8fp0iRO4zWfUD/9KGYpZtRRwGEnaoVM0liZHC0Cmo XBRhqRv5xvHjlypTPw3zCvbI7hsWGXTt1UDakQfjp7hTK/rzdoSZOn5MO64XWYmL RAQyMg8OrPCNh0i805dFB6zXl0Wnv6Yby3JiZDxCkEKlrhgUxY5aCvJ5a2ufYvh/ lWzx/TKqr504agHAboxguCHj2FSuiKBBWfopa4hspoRktmK7STea39qelGdhbC0= =bI4n -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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New Year, New advertising campaign?
by María Leandro 24 Feb '11

24 Feb '11

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 -- tatica Maria Gracia Leandro http://www.tatica.org http://www.fedora-ve.org http://proyectofedora.org http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MariaLeandro LinuxUser= 440285 GPG Public Key: E1CDCC56 "Be yourself... Don't be anyone else"

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Sprinting Tomorrow, 11:00AM - 2:00pm EST: F15 Talking Points
by Robyn Bergeron 22 Feb '11

22 Feb '11

Hey Folks, We'll be having a fun sprint-fest on the Fedora 15 talking points TOMORROW, February 23rd, from 11am - 2pm EST (that's starting at 1600 UTC, for our international folks wanting to help out). Please join us! They're basically unwritten at this point, and need to get done this week. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_talking_points See you tomorrow! -Robyn

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[In the news] Fedora to include hacking tool Sqlninja after all
by Rahul Sundaram 22 Feb '11

22 Feb '11

Hi http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Fedora-to-include-hacking-tool-S… "As recorded in the minutes of the most recent meeting of the Fedora board, the Fedora Project is to integrate hacking tool sqlninja into its Linux distribution. The minutes record that Tom 'spot' Callaway, member of the Fedora board and Fedora Engineering Manager, met with Red Hat's legal team who said they considered there was no risk involved in including sqlninja. The Fedora board voted unanimously to lift the block on the application" Rahul

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marketing
by Harpreet Singh 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

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! -- Harpreet Singh 9803528766

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application for fedora marketing team --reg
by praveen raj 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

Hi, my name is Praveen raj and I live in India. My Fedora Account System (FAS) username is pravenraj, and my IRC nick is praven__ . I learned about the Fedora Marketing team through my friends, and am interested in joining because I’m a FOSS Enthusiastic. I’m president for an FOSS community called freecodeclub and given many talks on Open Source and especially fedora. I’m a REDHAT Certified engineer. For past three to four years i have been marketing open source software to many schools and colleges. I like to utilize my skills in fedora because one of my favorite Linux operating system is fedora. I like to see each and every desktops and servers running fedora and other open source software. Please help me get started! with regards praveenraj prasident,freecodeclub. www.freecodeclub.

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[In the news] Beyond FUDCON: Meet Fedora Ambassador Larry Cafiero
by Rahul Sundaram 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

Hi http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/News/Beyond-FUDCON-Meet-Fedora-Ambas… "Who governs the Fedora Community? LC: I do. So do all the members of the community. There is a governance structure, of course, with a Fedora Project Leader -- Jared Smith -- and a Board, FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee) which oversees development, and FAmSCO (mentioned earlier), all of which keeps Fedora pretty much moving in the same direction. One of the things that makes the Fedora Project stand out is its transparency in processes, and it’s a strength when people can openly disagree on issues to resolve them quickly" Rahul

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[In the news] Fedora rides again on System z: Hope for PowerPC as well
by Rahul Sundaram 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

Hi http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/71391 "At Red Hat, it is clearly important from a future perspective as Fedora is our development platform for our next Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases, so we have a strong interest in having a working System z release on Fedora. Doing this in house would mean the same effort but without community feedback and involvement, and we've seen for many other architectures how important community feedback is." "Also, although System z is often seen as existing only for mission-critical deployments and production environments, there are cases where even on those big mainframes, companies want to evaluate something on Linux or do a pilot for a Linux environment. For these deployments, we've seen occasional requests for Fedora on System z." Rahul

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Self-Introduction: Danny Stieben
by Danny Stieben 13 Feb '11

13 Feb '11

Hi everyone! My name is Danny Stieben and I live near Dallas, Texas, USA. I am almost 17 years old and a junior in high school. For reference, my FAS name and IRC nick is dmaxel. I first heard about Marketing from the Ambassadors group and want to join because it ties in closely with what the Ambassadors are doing. I want to be involved in a larger part of the process. :) The Fedora Project is the first FOSS project I've worked on, though I've been in the Ambassadors group for almost a year now. This is definitely the first Marketing project I've worked on, so some of this will be learn-as-I-go. :) I don't believe I have any Marketing skills for as mentioned I am a junior in high school, but those skills are exactly what I would like to learn. I'm also a critical thinker (honors courses in school test that daily) and am fluent in German, English, and (almost) Spanish. I always like to look for improvements in anything I do or any processes that I come across. When I'm not working on Fedora, I am at school, spending time with friends, looking up anything open-source, or flying with my virtual (Flight Sim) airline. A couple of goals I have for the Fedora project are wider adoption and appreciation for the work the Fedora project is trying to do. The work to lead the movement to open-source is beyond any other. I would like to continue to see impacting changes being made with Fedora that will create the path for open-source to follow. I am wondering how I could get started?? :) Thank you, and I am glad to be working with you guys! -- Danny Stieben Fedora Ambassador http://www.fedoraproject.org dmaxel(a)fedoraproject.org http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:dmaxel

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[in the news] Empfehlenswerte Linux-Distributionen für Server
by Vinzenz Vietzke 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

Hi, German tecchannel.de gives an overview of server distributions and mentions Fedora and CentOS as alternative to RHEL including 5 screenshots. "Das Fedora-Projekt und CentOS als Alternative zu Red Hat [...] Mit der grafischen Installationsroutine ist es nicht besonders schwer, Fedora zu installieren. Es ist übersichtlich und bringt den Anwender gezielt zum Ergebnis. Die derzeit aktuelle Version Fedora 14 "Laughlin" enthält ein umfangreiches Softwarelager, das kaum Wünsche offenlässt. Sie finden alle bekannten Open-Source-Programme und entsprechende Serverdienste. [...]" (http://ur1.ca/36usu) Regards, -- Vinzenz Vietzke Fedora Ambassador m: vinz(a)fedoraproject.org wk: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Vinz mb: https://identi.ca/vinzv | https://twitter.com/vinzv

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MMM. Marketing Meeting Minutes. 2011/02/08. DELICIOUS! Yummy!
by Robyn Bergeron 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

Greetings Marketing Friends, Just a heads up that we are prepping to enter the "get stuff portion" of the cycle - kicking things off with Talking Points. Talking points don't actually appear on the schedule until next week, but we only have one week to get them done, and there's no reason we can't start early! Feel free to contribute as you see fit: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_talking_points -Robyn Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2011-02-08/fedora_marketi… Full logs here: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2011-02-08/fedora_marketi… =========================================== #fedora-meeting-1: Fedora Marketing Meeting =========================================== Meeting started by jsmith at 21:01:17 UTC. The full logs are available at http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2011-02-08/fedora_marketi… . Meeting summary --------------- * F15 Marketing Schedule (jsmith, 21:03:00) * LINK: http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-15/f-15-marketing-tasks.html (rbergeron, 21:03:36) * next week is when things start to pick up a bit - we'll be moving into the task of creating talking points. (rbergeron, 21:03:56) * LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_talking_points (rbergeron, 21:04:28) * Talking Points are already framed for contribution - please feel free to drop in additional information, or add more talking points as you see fit. (rbergeron, 21:06:23) * ACTION: jsmith to build concrete timeline for Feature Profiles (jsmith, 21:07:26) * Talking Points items come out of things on the Feature List. (rbergeron, 21:08:04) * LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FeatureList (rbergeron, 21:08:08) * ACTION: rbergeron to add in holding spots for ocaml, rails, python as "language updates" in devel section; tryton and power mgmt in end-users; systemd in sysadmin (rbergeron, 21:18:27) * ACTION: rbergeron add consistent network device naming to sysadmin section (rbergeron, 21:23:28) * Open Floor (rbergeron, 21:35:04) * Red Hat Summit is coming up - keep it on your radar for upcoming marketing to-dos! (rbergeron, 22:09:00) Meeting ended at 22:15:37 UTC. Action Items ------------ * jsmith to build concrete timeline for Feature Profiles * rbergeron to add in holding spots for ocaml, rails, python as "language updates" in devel section; tryton and power mgmt in end-users; systemd in sysadmin * rbergeron add consistent network device naming to sysadmin section Action Items, by person ----------------------- * jsmith * jsmith to build concrete timeline for Feature Profiles * rbergeron * rbergeron to add in holding spots for ocaml, rails, python as "language updates" in devel section; tryton and power mgmt in end-users; systemd in sysadmin * rbergeron add consistent network device naming to sysadmin section * **UNASSIGNED** * (none) People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * rbergeron (87) * wonderer (38) * jsmith (33) * zodbot (4)

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Marketing-trac: #124: FUDCon EMEA Announcement needed
by Marketing Team 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

#124: FUDCon EMEA Announcement needed ----------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Reporter: mmoeller | Owner: Type: task | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Future releases Component: other | Severity: urgent Keywords: | ----------------------+----------------------------------------------------- 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. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/124> marketing-team <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing> Marketing team for the Fedora project.

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Re: random idea: QA group identi.ca account
by Gerard Braad 04 Feb '11

04 Feb '11

Hi, On 2/5/11, Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 18:25 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> You should redirect to marketing list. Nobody here has access to it > I did post to marketing ML on Tue/Wed (I forget which, the last week has > been kind of a blur) asking people to promote the Test Day. I had seen the message, but also do not have access to this account. IMO people were pre-occupied with FUDCon or FOSDEM. Let's hope the situation can improve. Gerard -- Gerard Braad — 吉拉德 Project-lead Fedora-MIPS Regional Mentor APAC/China, Member of FAmSCo http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:gbraad

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[in the news] Beyond FUDCon: Faces, Features and Future of Fedora
by Kara Schiltz 04 Feb '11

04 Feb '11

Linux Pro Magazine 2.4.11 Beyond FUDCon: Faces, Features and Future of Fedora By Amber Graner The North American Fedora <https://fedoraproject.org/> User and Developer Conference (FUDCon) was held on Arizona State University campus in Tempe Arizona from January 29 -31, 2011 and proved to be the largest FUDCon to date with over 200 people pre-registered <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Tempe_2011#Pre-registration> to attend and final attendance numbers estimated around 175 people. [clip] One interesting moment occurred while speaking to attendee, Randall Hinkley. Hinkley said he had only been using Fedora for about four months. He was from an area near Tempe and while researching setting up his own Fedora sever found the information about FUDCon on the internet and then decided to register and see what it was all about. When I attend events such as FUDCon, it is always encouraging and exciting to see those faces who are new to open source, new to a project, and or new to contribution when they finally meet the people with whom they interact with in an IRC channel or mailing list. While there are some exceptions for the most part these attendees already have a spark in the eye and a hunger for more knowledge about the project, but upon attending events and conferences like a FUDCon find themselves thirsting for ways to contribute as well and Hinkley was no different. He was excited to be there and his personal participation and contribution began to open as he spoke to the various Fedora leaders and community members throughout the event. He wasn’t the only one attending FUDCon for the first time; however, he was the only one I spoke to who was 1) New to the project, 2) Stumbled upon the FUDCon information “accidentally” and 3) Was not already contributing but decided to attend to see what it was all about. Full article: http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/News/Beyond-FUDCon-Faces-Features-an…

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[in the news]: Sys-Con Media: Cloud.com Exec Mark Hinkle on Community, Infrastructure, and T-Shirts
by Jonathan Nalley 03 Feb '11

03 Feb '11

"Mark: Yes, and so I've come to understand that communities thrive when they interact with and learn from other communities. I have tremendous respect for the Red Hat-sponsored Fedora project, for example, which published a book on open source community development and methodologies called "The Open Source Way." It's an excellent blueprint for developing open source communities. I hope that we can leverage their experience to build our own cloud computing community." http://www.sys-con.com/node/1699580/print

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GNOME 3 Test Day #1 on Thursday - marketing help appreciated!
by Adam Williamson 03 Feb '11

03 Feb '11

Hi everyone. The first Test Day for GNOME 3 is on Thursday, and it'd be great if you all could help spread the word about that on whatever news sites, blogs, microblogs etc you can. I've sent the word to quite a few sites but there's always more, right? Especially non-English sites, which I don't cover. I wrote this text for submission: Fedora GNOME 3 Test Day #1 coming tomorrow <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-03_GNOME3_Alpha">The first of three Fedora project GNOME 3 Test Days</a> is taking place tomorrow (Thursday 2011-02-03) in <a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/fedora-test-day">#fedora-test-day</a> on Freenode IRC. Join others and the GNOME development team to test out <a href="http://www.gnome3.org">GNOME 3</a> and help make sure it's stable and polished! The testing is easy, can be done from a live image so there's no need to have Fedora installed or to be a Fedora user, and you can help out with just ten minutes of your time. <a href="http://www.happyassassin.net/2011/01/31/gnome-3-test-day-1-come-try-the-new…">This blog post</a> has more details on the event and how you can get involved. You can also refer to my blog post, http://www.happyassassin.net/2011/01/31/gnome-3-test-day-1-come-try-the-new… . Let me know if you have any questions. thanks everyone! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net

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We can still house someone for FOSDEM
by didi 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

Hey We booked a four bed room for Fosdem but unfortunately we are now only three people. If someone wants a cheep room in the centre of town. Just drop me a mail. Cheers Didi --------- Hoffmann Geerd-Dietger http://contact.ribalba.de

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Fedora on ARM
by Misha Shnurapet 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

Hello. To those who follows the developments (and, in particular, the recent CES 2011), the trend towards personal MIDs and tablet PCs is not just promising but logical. Quite a few major vendors, such as Dell (with Streak and so-called 'M02M'), RIM, Samsung, Motorola and Sharp (with Galapagos) revealed their plans to deliver ARM-based touch screen computing devices to consumers worldwide. Along with ready-to-use solution providers, Qualcomm showed-off its dual-core Snapdragon CPU, there has been news on Tegra of NVIDIA. According to analytics, the year of 2011 is to be the rise of MIDs and that of biting a nice piece of desktop and laptop niche. I have a question. What does it mean for Fedora? -- Best regards, Misha Shnurapet, Fedora Project Contributor https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Shnurapet shnurapet AT fedoraproject.org, GPG: 00217306

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[In the News] Linus Torvalds: Viel Lob für Ubuntu, Kritik an Debian
by wonderer 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

Hy, here an article about Linus Torvalds and using Fedora: http://derstandard.at/1295571295804/Linus-Torvalds-Viel-Lob-fuer-Ubuntu-Kri… "Trotz alle der positiven Worte für Ubuntu - für Torvalds selbst ist Ubuntu keine Alternative. Als Kernel-Entwickler habe man recht spezifische Anforderungen, die Ubuntu nicht erfüllen kann, aber das ist auch ok, er sei eben nicht die Zielgruppe. Bereits in der Vergangenheit hatte Torvalds immer wieder betont, dass er selbst Fedora <http://fedoraproject.org> zum Einsatz bringt." mit freundlichen grüßen / best regards H. Heigl - wonderer(a)fedoraproject.org

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