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, 3 months
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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Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/125>
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Marketing team for the Fedora project.
10 years, 3 months
Old HootSuite account
by Paul W. Frields
For a while, we were using a HootSuite free account to manage
multi-party access to the Twitter @fedora account. (By rigging up a
ping.fm feed in HS, we had the ability to post to Udenti.ca and thus
echo through Twitter as well.) Using HS allowed us to spread access to
multiple team members without having to insecurely spread the password
around.
Due to HS changing their free/paid structure, though, we've no longer
had the ability to do this for some time. Instead, we have shared
password access to the Identi.ca and Twitter accounts. HS is getting
ready to deactivate access for extra people to our free account there,
making that account virtually useless. The alternatives AFAICT are:
* Switch to a paid account, where we also pay for each additional team
member. A total team size of 4 would run a little over $600 a year.
* Continue to share the password for Identi.ca/Twitter. To augment our
tracking capability I can set up some mail forwarding rules to notify
team members of conversations.
When we originally started HS we did so with some trepidation given it
was a non-FOSS service. I'm not really shot in the arm by paying for
the service, unless we have a clear idea of what that gains us. I
briefly surveyed free tools again and have found nothing that offers
the "many people share a social presence" features of HS. But do we
need their console, analytics, etc. to fulfill some goals? To what
extent are we comfortable or willing to pay for a non-FOSS service for
marketing purposes?
Paul
12 years, 5 months
LinuxCon NA 2011
by John Babich
My son Mike and I are attending LinuxCon NA 2011 August 17-19 in
Vancouver BC Canada.
As a Fedora Ambassador, I would like to meet up with fellow Fedorans.
Even better, I would like to see us set up an event booth. I
understand that there was a booth in 2009.
Let me know if you're interested. See the Fedora events page for
further info and links.
Best Regards,
John "jmbuser" Babich
12 years, 5 months
[in the news]: Fedora 15 offers a lot to tempt enterprises away from Windows
by Jonathan Nalley
computing.co.uk
"Although there is a town in Nevada called Lovelock, I’m assuming the
Fedora Project named the latest version after James Lovelock, inventor
of the microwave and originator of the Gaia Theory of how planet earth
is a self-regulating organism able to adjust various parameters to
maintain some sort of biological and geological balance....Once I had
Fedora installed and running, it became clear that the earlier rumours
of something afoot in Fedora 15 were true. Fedora has a new look and
feel, courtesy of the Gnome 3 interface. Fedora 15 was easy to use,
and apps such as the office productivity easy to install; in fact, I
wrote this column using LibreOffice’s Writer package.
http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/opinion/2080392/fedora-offers-lot-tempt-en...
12 years, 5 months
Re: [Design-team] What to do with start.fp.o?
by Misha Shnurapet
18.06.2011, 05:24, "Sijis Aviles" <sijis(a)fedoraproject.org>:
> I wanted to start a discussion on what is the goal/purpose for start.fedoraproject.org. There has been some push on redesigning and freshening up its 'look and feel' which some of that work has been completed. However, the problem is we need to answer what is the purpose of start.fp.o?. Without answering this question, we can't redesign it without having a target audience in mind.
Hi.
Some ideas:
* what is exciting about Fedora for non-geek users
* a list of apps (useful or to have fun with)
* libre multimedia content (like Miro Guide or VODO), cool stuff like Big Buck Bunny and Sintel
* Fedora Planet feed
* A web-based community chat / support channel
* call for participation (something like "What would you like to improve: etc."), list of burning community tasks
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Best regards,
Misha Shnurapet, Fedora Project Contributor
Email: shnurapet AT fedoraproject.org, IRC: misha on freenode
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/shnurapet, GPG: 00217306
12 years, 5 months
[In the news] Linux kernel to fully support Xen: Too little too late?
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
For what it is worth, Fedora 16 will enable this functionality again, a
long gap after Fedora 8.
http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/news/2240036580/Linux-ke...
"Core to KVM’s rapid success is the fact that it’s included in the
kernel. In contrast, Xen has always worked well on Linux platforms, but
since 2007 users have needed to apply a significant kernel patch and do
some configuration not included in the core Linux distributions to make
it work. That’s a headache and a support issue for OSS vendors and IT
staff. By contrast, since KVM’s inclusion in the kernel and declared
support from the major distributions such as Red Hat and Ubuntu, getting
a KVM environment going is easier and also encouraged by the distributors."
"The Xen community has been trying to get Xen introduced into the Linux
kernel for years, but the need for multiple kernel binaries was always a
sticking point with Linux kernel maintainers. In 2009, Linux creator
Linus Torvalds wrote that "Xen really is horribly badly separated out.
It gets way more incestuous with other systems than it should. It's
entirely possible that this is very fundamental to both
paravirtualization and to hypervisor behavior, but it doesn't matter --
it just means that I can well see that Xen is a f---ing pain to merge."
Rahul
12 years, 5 months
Re: What to do with start.fp.o?
by Ryan Rix
Some ideas:
* Integrate bits of Insight in to it (iframes, or something more elegant?)
* Create onramps for people to get involved in Fedora
On Fri 17 June 2011 15:24:48 Sijis Aviles wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I wanted to start a discussion on what is the goal/purpose for
> start.fedoraproject.org. There has been some push on redesigning and
> freshening up its 'look and feel' which some of that work has been
> completed. However, the problem is we need to answer what is the purpose of
> start.fp.o?. Without answering this question, we can't redesign it without
> having a target audience in mind.
>
> I think that this site can be a very visible, since that's one of the two
> sites that load upon launching FF for the first time. Currently I feel that
> it lacks a purpose and its sorta out there with no target in mind. My
> current view is to do something like a '1 page release notes' or 'New things
> in Fedora X' type thing, something very simple and only 1 page. The other
> idea is to just drop the site completely and/or use fp.o.
>
> Here is a link to a few unorganized ideas about the redesign [1]. Any
> ideas/suggestion/thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sijis
>
> [1] - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Start.fpo_redesign
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12 years, 5 months
Re: What to do with start.fp.o?
by Stephen John Smoogen
2011/6/17 Sijis Aviles <sijis(a)fedoraproject.org>:
> Hi all,
>
> I wanted to start a discussion on what is the goal/purpose for
> start.fedoraproject.org. There has been some push on redesigning and
> freshening up its 'look and feel' which some of that work has been
> completed. However, the problem is we need to answer what is the purpose of
> start.fp.o?. Without answering this question, we can't redesign it without
> having a target audience in mind.
>
> I think that this site can be a very visible, since that's one of the two
> sites that load upon launching FF for the first time. Currently I feel that
> it lacks a purpose and its sorta out there with no target in mind. My
> current view is to do something like a '1 page release notes' or 'New things
> in Fedora X' type thing, something very simple and only 1 page. The other
> idea is to just drop the site completely and/or use fp.o.
Personally I think a page of tutorials like "HOW TO USE THE FEDORA
DESKTOP" would be a good thing. Heck make it part of the release
process. If you want something to be included as a feature for release
N+1 it needs to have material to be added to start.
Even if the content is linking to tutorials and such on KDE, GNOME,
systemd etc sites.
Or to make a tl;dr
I think start should be for making it easier for users to "start" using the OS.
--
Stephen J Smoogen.
"The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance."
Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University.
"Let us be kind, one to another, for most of us are fighting a hard
battle." -- Ian MacLaren
12 years, 5 months
