marketing February 2011

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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 05 Feb '11

05 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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