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F21 media
by Jiri Eischmann 20 Oct '14

20 Oct '14

Hi, yesterday in FAmSCo, we started a discussion what media we should produce for F21. We have been producing Multidesktop Live DVD for many releases, but with the Fedora.Next changes we need to revisit it. In FAmSCo, we've pretty much agreed that Multidesktop Live DVD is not very aligned with the Fedora.Next initiative where we want to emphasize the official products and those products should be delivered as clear offerings all the way to the users. Merging them with other spins means that the clear product offering is lost before it reaches the users. Although Multidesktop Live DVD is economically the best solution, it is not from the marketing perspective and doesn't deliver the message of Fedora.Next products. Suggestions that have come up at the meeting: * the Cloud product doesn't really need a DVD media, * having one DVD with Workstation and Server Products, * having separate DVDs with Workstation and Server, * creating additional DVD with other flavors of Fedora (other desktops, many other specialized spins?) if there is enough interest and demand. Christoph Wickert is going to bring it up on the workstation and server group mailing lists and I'd like to start the discussion here because this is very related to marketing. Opinions? :) Jiri P.S. we also discussed replacing DVDs with usb flash drives. As much as we'd love to offer flash drives instead of DVDs it's still not a viable option because flash drives are still 10x more expensive than DVDs. Not much has changed there in the last two years :/

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Fedora Magazine is now updated to Wordpress 4.0
by Zacharias Mitzelos 02 Oct '14

02 Oct '14

Hello everyone, We have been running Wordpress 4.0 in the Fedora Magazine staging instance for some time now, and checking that our plugins don't cause any problems and run smoothly, I'm updating the current instance of the Magazine with the new Wordpress 4.0 version. The new update has many new features, including better editing of posts, easier video embeds and more. Take a look at the new features here: fedoramagazine.org/wp-admin/about.php Happy writing!! Zacharias

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Amazing numbers on Fedora Magazine!
by Joe Brockmeier 01 Oct '14

01 Oct '14

Hey all, Just peeked at the stats for Fedora Magazine today, and wanted to give a big shout out to everybody for kicking it extra-hard this week. The magazine has been doing pretty well lately in general, with ~2K to ~3K page views on average. Today and yesterday, though, things have been blown out of the water. Yesterday we were >just< shy of 10K page views. Today, we're closing in on 19K and may very well hit 20K. Big, big thanks to Ryan and Matthew for their work on the Shellshock posts. Note that a lot of the traffic is coming from Google/search and much of it seems to be people pulling up the site directly (vs. social media or links from Reddit, etc.). Also, though - big thanks to everybody who's been posting regularly. The regular content is making a big difference. I'm sure this will die down a bit after Shellshock does, but we've got some great momentum. Let's keep it up! Have a great weekend all! jzb -- Joe Brockmeier | Principal Cloud & Storage Analyst jzb(a)redhat.com | http://community.redhat.com/ Twitter: @jzb | http://dissociatedpress.net/

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slashdot effect
by Matthew Miller 30 Sep '14

30 Sep '14

So, Slashdot ain't what it used to be*, but one link to my shellshock article at the bottom of a slashdot post covering multiple shellshock things (that is, not even featuring mine) and slashdot is now the top referrer of the last 30 days by a comfortable margin, and that puts it 5 for non-Fedora sources for all time. Conclusion: we should really try to get on slashdot more. * the joke is, of course, that it never was. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader

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Re: slashdot effect
by Ryan Lerch 29 Sep '14

29 Sep '14

On Sep 29, 2014 12:02 PM, Joe Brockmeier <jzb(a)redhat.com> wrote: > > On 09/29/2014 07:41 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: > > So, Slashdot ain't what it used to be*, but one link to my shellshock > > article at the bottom of a slashdot post covering multiple shellshock things > > (that is, not even featuring mine) and slashdot is now the top referrer of > > the last 30 days by a comfortable margin, and that puts it 5 for non-Fedora > > sources for all time. > > Yeah, it's weird, but there's still an audience there. (I say "weird" > because these days Slashdot tends to be much slower than other tech news > sources. By the time something winds up on /. I've usually seen it > already via Twitter, Reddit, LWN, etc.) > > > Conclusion: we should really try to get on slashdot more. > > Might be good for a few people to take point on that. I've been trying > to make sure posts get to Twitter, and I think Ryan has been doing > Google+. (Probably too soon to worry about Ello...) > > Reddit and Hacker News are also very good sources of traffic, if you can > get on the front page*. I have been posting on /r/Linux a bit lately too which has been yielding some good response > > * Reddit "front page" varies by subscriber/subreddit, of course. A > high-ranked post on /r/fedora won't drive as many folks as a post on > /r/linux, and that won't land as many readers as /r/technology. > > Speaking of Reddit... we should have the FPL do an AMA soon, or around > one of the releases. > > > * the joke is, of course, that it never was. > > Kinda disagree here. In its heyday, Slashdot could send a pretty hefty > firehose of traffic if you made the front page. This was ~8+ years ago, > though, then Digg started to supplant Slashdot [1], and then Reddit and > other sites crushed Digg, etc. > > [1] http://kottke.org/06/01/digg-vs-slashdot > > Best, > > jzb > -- > Joe Brockmeier | Principal Cloud & Storage Analyst > jzb(a)redhat.com | http://community.redhat.com/ > Twitter: @jzb | http://dissociatedpress.net/ >

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Fedora 21 'feature list'
by Adam Williamson 29 Sep '14

29 Sep '14

Hey folks! So, while doing my wiki attack lately, one thing I haven't been able to resolve is the question of a Fedora 'feature list' since the Changes process appeared. Various places seem to treat different pages as a 'feature list', but none of them seems to be clearly a canonical reference consumable for outsiders. The most obvious page is: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/21/ChangeSet which various other pages link to. However, it has an admon header which reads: "The Change Set is a project's internal planning and tracking tool and the final release may not reflect all information provided there!" which obviously isn't appropriate for something we direct 'general readers' to, whether it's correct or not (if not, it could just be removed and then we could use that page, I guess). A few pages also link to: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FeatureList particularly the https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Project_Wiki page (which is kind of lightly maintained, I think). Up until today, that page was a redirect or include of Releases/21/FeatureList , which doesn't exist. Today, someone with the user name Belcocco has written a rather good summary of Fedora 21 features into it, but I don't know if that's part of any kind of co-ordinated effort or just a guerilla move. So...I guess I'm saying there seems to be a need for a canonical, externally-consumable, and accurate 'feature list' for Branched releases before the release notes are available, and we don't seem to have one. It'd be good if the relevant folks (docs, marketing, fesco...?) could come up with a plan and line everything up. Thanks! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net

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Marketing-trac: #182: Update to WordPress 4.0
by Marketing Team 28 Sep '14

28 Sep '14

#182: Update to WordPress 4.0 -------------------+------------------------------ Reporter: jzb | Owner: Type: task | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: Future releases Component: other | Severity: not-urgent Keywords: | Blocked By: Blocking: | -------------------+------------------------------ The WordPress instance is out of date - can we move to 4.0? -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/182> marketing-team <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing> Marketing team for the Fedora project.

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Proposal -- fortnightly magazine meeting
by Ryan Lerch 26 Sep '14

26 Sep '14

Hi all, Just wondering what people think about a fortnightly meeting specially dedicatied to the magazine, where we can pitch and discuss ideas for posts on the magazine. Obviously not all articles on the mag would come from such a meeting (ie the ones that are more "newsy" and are written when something is announced) cheers, ryanlerch

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possible magazine idea: interview new DNF developer?
by Matthew Miller 26 Sep '14

26 Sep '14

This bit from the planet gave me the idea that maybe an interview of Jan would be nice, at least once the F21 launch period is done -- DNF is planned to be the default for F22, so it'll be a big user-facing change and it'd be great to hear about the project's direction. > [DNF: New DNF Project Leader][] > =============================== > > ![][] > > As I will be moving on to work on other things beyond Linux software > management soon, I decided to step down as a leader of the project. > > The new leader of the project is [Jan Šilhan][], the change is effective > as of today. Jan is a talented, result-oriented software developer and I > am convinced he is just the right type for the job. > > It has been exciting and fun three years and a big thanks to all of you > who contributed, consulted, supported or generally shared the ride. > > Ales > > URL: [http://dnf.baseurl.org/2014/09/18/new-dnf-project-leader/][DNF: > New DNF Project Leader] > > [DNF: New DNF Project Leader]: http://dnf.baseurl.org/2014/09/18/new-dnf-project-leader/ > []: https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7cdc2b2a9a0b1342a4225cd57cfb9b70?s=128&d=id… > [Jan Šilhan]: https://github.com/jsilhan/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader

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Fedora 21 Alpha Coverage
by Joe Brockmeier 26 Sep '14

26 Sep '14

Hey all, Some of the coverage so far on Fedora 21 Alpha, feel free to send other links as they crop up... Red Hat's Fedora project releases Fedora 21 Alpha: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2372040/red-hats-fedora-project-re… Fedora 21 Alpha is finally here -- Linux fans, download it now! http://betanews.com/2014/09/23/fedora-21-alpha-is-finally-here-linux-fans-d… XWayland Linux Gaming Performance With GNOME Wayland On Fedora 21 http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=fedora_21_xwayland&num=1 Fedora 21 Alpha First Impressions: It's Great http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=fedora_21_alpha&num=1 Fedora 21 Alpha Is Out – Screenshot Tour: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Fedora-21-Alpha-Is-Out-Screenshot-Tour-45972… Fedora 21 Alpha Releases Today, 23 September http://www.efytimes.com/e1/fullnews.asp?edid=149000 Fedora 21 Alpha ist erschienen http://www.golem.de/news/linux-distribution-fedora-21-alpha-ist-erschienen-… Erste Alpha von Fedora 21: Base, Cloud, Workstation und Server http://www.linux-magazin.de/NEWS/Erste-Alpha-von-Fedora-21-Base-Cloud-Works… Fedora hat die Alphaversion von Fedora 21 veröffentlicht. http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/21546/fedora-21-alpha-erschienen.html # # # Best, jzb -- Joe Brockmeier | Principal Cloud & Storage Analyst jzb(a)redhat.com | http://community.redhat.com/ Twitter: @jzb | http://dissociatedpress.net/

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