Introducing myself
by John C G
Hello Friends,
I have been using fedora since version 1 more than 10 years ago.
Recently I have installed fedora 20 on my phone-tablet-wallet. I am typing
on the phone-tablet-wallet device as I speak. I would like to spread the
word about using fedora as daily phone-tablet-wallet-PC. My blog post about
the device is at
http://nocomputerbutphone.blogspot.com/2014/10/running-home-pc-on-large-s...
.
I would like to join the marketing team.
Thanks for your attention.
John C Gibson
9 years, 4 months
Marketing-trac: #183: Screenshots for Fedora 21
by Marketing Team
#183: Screenshots for Fedora 21
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Reporter: chrisroberts | Owner:
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone: Fedora 21
Component: Release deliverables | Severity: urgent
Keywords: | Blocked By:
Blocking: |
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Lets get the screenshots together for the different spins We need
screenshots of Fedora 21 Workstation as well as each spin (KDE, Xfce,
LXDE, etc.).
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Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/183>
marketing-team <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing>
Marketing team for the Fedora project.
9 years, 4 months
Self-Introduction: (keglo stephane)
by keglo stephane
Hi, my name is keglo stephane and I live in abidjan. My Fedora Account
System (FAS) <https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts> username is
kstephane. I am new to IRC and would like help getting started!
I learned about the Fedora Marketing team through the Fedora project
wiki, and am interested in joining because i want to promote open source
and free software locally through Fedora .for doing this , we want to
create a local fedora community.
This is the first FOSS project I have worked on!.
This is the first Marketing project I have worked on!.
My skills, which I hope to utilize in Fedora Marketing, include:
* (Marketing Skills) : i have no particular skill in marketing.on the
other side , i love talking about Fedora around me.
* (Other Skills) : i studied computer science and have some knowledge
on hardware , programming and network.
* I'd also like to learn to promote a project and spread ideas of
innovation through open source and free software communities
When I'm not working on Fedora, I am working on personal projects.
A couple of goals I have for the Fedora Project are to increase
educational software packages and made available in several language its
promotional resources and websites. I would also like to see a Fedora
channel happens in Fedora.
I am wondering about how team marketing interacts with ambassadors and
other teams.
Please help me get started!
9 years, 5 months
Council candidates interviews for Fedora Magazine
by Jaroslav Reznik
Hi,
as you probably saw, Matt already announced Council elections starting this
week. We talked about having real campaign with candidates interviews with in
Fedora Magazine.
Once we have final list of candidates - on November 11th, there's not much
time in the schedule to collect interviews as the date is currently set to
November 17th (to collect answers, prepare nice article etc.). So it would
be nice to have it prepared in advance, especially questions.
Let's use https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections/Questionnaire as for old
elections to get it ready.
We should have a list of generic interview style questions but I'd like to
let it open for community questions too but with the right to moderate
questions to fit Fedora Magazine interview format. It would be nice to be
ready before campaign starts (11th).
Thanks
Jaroslav
9 years, 5 months
fedora cloud/server/workstation terminology request
by Matthew Miller
Hi everyone. I have a terminology request.
Red Hat often has to field questions from customers, partners,
analysts, and the public at large about whether Red Hat offers support
for community projects they underwrite, such as Fedora. We in Fedora do
our best to make our community supported model clear to all. [1]
An important part of Red Hat's way of explaining this is to make a
distinction between "products" — sold and supported — and upstream
*projects*. When we in Fedora talk about "products" for the new,
separate Cloud, Server, and Workstation builds, we're not referring to
something sold and supported. Instead, we mean something focused and
more intentionally planned and targeted than before. We obviously have
no designs on the commercial marketplace. But while *we* know that, Red
Hat's product management (see, there's that word) folks are telling me
that casual use of the word "product" by the Fedora team is really
making their job harder and, more importantly, is confusing the
marketplace. We recognize that a great deal of energy over many years
has gone into distinguishing RH's products from community (including
Fedora) projects. It's not our intention, of course, to undermine that
distinction. As a result, I'd like to ask us all to avoid using the
word "product" in Fedora marketing and communications, such as in the
upcoming F21 GA announcement.
We're not, by the way, being asked to expunge the word "product" from
our vocabulary in an Orwellian kind of way — it's okay if it comes up
naturally in internal discussion. But it would be helpful if we stay
mindful of the possible confusion such a word creates in communications
outside the project.
So what should we use instead? I suggest we use the word "flavor" for
our separate builds. This fits nicely in Fedora's (English)
alliterative lexicon. We might also use "variant" or "target" or
"development platform" or whatever where appropriate.
Translators might (rightly) ask how "flavor" would be translated. The
"flavor" idiom may not make sense in every language in the sense of
food. I suggest in case of difficulties, this be translated in the same
way as the term "flavor" is translated when used in particle physics to
describe categories of the subatomic particles called quarks. This is
the same sense we're using, and these categories also have nothing to
do with flavor as it describes food, so the translation should work
fine.
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicating_and_getting_help
--
Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader
9 years, 5 months
Election tweets
by Joe Brockmeier
Hey all,
So - just FYI, I put in 2 tweets each for all five of the interviews
that are up on Fedora Magazine. One to pop about 10 minutes apart
tonight/today (depending on your time zone) and one to pop tomorrow
morning EU time.
So each candidate should get two tweets for their interview on Fedora
Magazine. Might plug one more in (each) later this week for the ICYMI folks.
Best,
jzb
--
Joe Brockmeier | Principal Cloud & Storage Analyst
jzb(a)redhat.com | http://community.redhat.com/
Twitter: @jzb | http://dissociatedpress.net/
9 years, 5 months
Recurring post idea: Ask a Fedora Dev
by Pete Travis
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I've been mulling over a theme for a series of articles. The
inspiration came easily; I was thinking I'd *like* to write something
for Fedora Magazine, but wasn't coming up with great ideas for it. I
mused ironically that it would be a lot easier to come up with topics if
people would just feed me project-related questions I could answer or
find answers to. Then hey, why not?
When users have "how" or "what" questions, Ask Fedora is a good place to
get answers. Sometimes they have "why" or "who" questions, and they
don't fit well into a support-style conversation. At least, those are
the kind of questions I envision people would ask, given the opportunity
- but who knows what interesting things they'd come up with!
So the idea is to set up a bucket for of questions that people want to
ask Fedora developers, we pick questions out of the bucket, build posts
in draft, and publish them on a schedule. A couple things would have to
be in place first:
- The bucket. Another feedback form, maybe? Where does that stuff go?
- Question guidelines. Some questions don't lend themselves to this
format.
- Writers. It would be nice to have some help :) Ideally, I think
it would be best to get the answers from subject matter experts,
maintainers of the relevant package, etc. Folks that know who to ask
reach out to the devs, and draft the article copy.
- Questions. We could seed this fairly easily, but I would wager
that if we put the form on the site with a "coming soon" intro the
bucket won't stay empty long.
Your thoughts?
- --
- -- Pete Travis
- Fedora Docs Project Leader
- 'randomuser' on freenode
- immanetize(a)fedoraproject.org
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9 years, 5 months
Call for videos
by nitesh narayan lal
Here is an opportunity to showcase your video related to Fedora to the
world. All you have to do is open up a ticket in Videos Trac
<https://fedorahosted.org/videos/newticket> and point it to the location
where we can find it.
Once that's done we will review it and give the finishing touch by adding
intro and outro. In the end we will upload it to Fedora's videos channel.
Here is an example for you, Paul had a great video which we had recently
added to Fedora's viemo's channel. All he had to do is to open a ticket for
it, here is the link https://fedorahosted.org/videos/ticket/4.
Regards
Nitesh Narayan Lal
9 years, 5 months
Content for getfedora.org, meeting recap
by Paul W. Frields
Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-mktg/2014-11-10/website-content.2...
Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-mktg/2014-11-10/website-content.2...
Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-mktg/2014-11-10/website-content.2...
Notable -- Once a draft of strings are finished for the getfedora.org
site, we'll pass to Working Groups through their liaisons for
feedback. We're aiming to have those in the next 24 hours or so.
* * *
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#fedora-mktg: website-content
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Meeting started by stickster at 19:03:39 UTC. The full logs are
available at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-mktg/2014-11-10/website-content.2...
.
Meeting summary
---------------
* Status/plan ahead (stickster, 19:05:44)
* Assembling content today -- where? (stickster, 19:18:23)
* AGREED: we will use gobby (starting doc is getfedora.org) to
continue after this meeting for collaborating on the new websites
content, install it! (stickster, 19:23:38)
* Working on text -- keep conversation here (stickster, 19:24:10)
* LINK:
https://jreznik.fedorapeople.org/websites.next/download-page-sample.png
(jreznik_, 19:25:47)
* LINK: https://jreznik.fedorapeople.org/websites.next/main.png
(jreznik_, 19:25:55)
* LINK: https://jreznik.fedorapeople.org/websites.next/workstation.png
(jreznik_, 19:26:04)
* stickster will do stuff for Server today, so we have something to
present (stickster, 19:43:40)
* ACTION: jzb Finish strings for getfedora.org (cloud related) &
gf.o/cloud (stickster, 20:35:27)
* ACTION: stickster Finish strings for getfedora.org (workstation,
server related), gf.o/workstation, gf.o/server (stickster,
20:35:44)
* ACTION: ryanlerch Work with robyduck, relrod and mizmo on additional
site implementation bits (stickster, 20:36:18)
* ACTION: relrod to finish keys page, but mostly just needs "Obsolete
keys" added at this point, I think (relrod, 20:36:57)
* For more information, and to help -- visit #fedora-websites and say
hello! (stickster, 20:47:20)
Meeting ended at 20:47:25 UTC.
Action Items
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* jzb Finish strings for getfedora.org (cloud related) & gf.o/cloud
* stickster Finish strings for getfedora.org (workstation, server
related), gf.o/workstation, gf.o/server
* ryanlerch Work with robyduck, relrod and mizmo on additional site
implementation bits
* relrod to finish keys page, but mostly just needs "Obsolete keys"
added at this point, I think
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* jzb
* jzb Finish strings for getfedora.org (cloud related) & gf.o/cloud
* relrod
* ryanlerch Work with robyduck, relrod and mizmo on additional site
implementation bits
* relrod to finish keys page, but mostly just needs "Obsolete keys"
added at this point, I think
* robyduck
* ryanlerch Work with robyduck, relrod and mizmo on additional site
implementation bits
* ryanlerch
* ryanlerch Work with robyduck, relrod and mizmo on additional site
implementation bits
* stickster
* stickster Finish strings for getfedora.org (workstation, server
related), gf.o/workstation, gf.o/server
* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)
People Present (lines said)
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* robyduck (125)
* jzb (30)
* jreznik_ (20)
* ryanlerch (15)
* zodbot (7)
* mattnix (6)
* mattdm (5)
* relrod (5)
* jreznik (5)
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