September 2014 - [MOVED TO DISCOURSE] Fedora Marketing - https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/tag/marketing

Marketing-trac: #164: add message right above comment form
by Marketing Team 30 Mar '16

30 Mar '16

#164: add message right above comment form -----------------------------+------------------------------ Reporter: mattdm | Owner: chrisroberts Type: task | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: Future releases Component: Fedora Magazine | Severity: not-urgent Keywords: | Blocked By: Blocking: | -----------------------------+------------------------------ something like: All comments are moderated. It may take some time for your first post to get through the queue. If your posts seem to never show up, please [http://fedoramagazine.org/contact-us/ contact us directly]. Please follow the [https://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Fedora Code of Conduct ] -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/164> marketing-team <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing> Marketing team for the Fedora project.

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Marketing-trac: #145: Fedora 20 "in the news" articles
by Marketing Team 03 Mar '16

03 Mar '16

#145: Fedora 20 "in the news" articles ------------------------+--------------------- Reporter: ankursinha | Owner: Type: task | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: Open Component: other | Severity: urgent Keywords: | Blocked By: Blocking: | ------------------------+--------------------- Fedora 20 was released. We need to go through what the universe has been saying about it and check up the info. The wiki page is already up: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_20_press_archive If you read anything at all about the Fedora 20 release, please add it to the wiki page. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/145> marketing-team <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing> Marketing team for the Fedora project.

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Marketing-trac: #160: Fedora magazine "head" for planet
by Marketing Team 03 Mar '16

03 Mar '16

#160: Fedora magazine "head" for planet -----------------------------+------------------------------ Reporter: mattdm | Owner: chrisroberts Type: task | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: Future releases Component: Fedora Magazine | Severity: not-urgent Keywords: | Blocked By: Blocking: | -----------------------------+------------------------------ I don't know if the planet has a way to handle multi-author blogs better -- everything on the magazine gets posted as "Fedora Magazine (admin)". If it does, that would be most ideal. Failing that, let's at least change it so the graphic isn't the generic http://planet.fedoraproject.org/images/heads/default.png -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/160> marketing-team <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing> Marketing team for the Fedora project.

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Marketing-trac: #149: get proper https certificate for flocktofedora.org
by Marketing Team 02 Mar '16

02 Mar '16

#149: get proper https certificate for flocktofedora.org --------------------+--------------------- Reporter: mattdm | Owner: Type: task | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Open Component: other | Severity: urgent Keywords: | Blocked By: Blocking: | --------------------+--------------------- https://flocktofedora.org/ gives an error because it is using the rhcloud wildcard cert, not our own. We should be able to get a proper certificate for this -- it seems important enough. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/149> marketing-team <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing> Marketing team for the Fedora project.

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Marketing-trac: #165: Magazine posts on FUDCon Beijing
by Marketing Team 02 Mar '16

02 Mar '16

#165: Magazine posts on FUDCon Beijing ------------------------+--------------------- Reporter: ankursinha | Owner: Type: task | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Open Component: FUDCon | Severity: urgent Keywords: | Blocked By: Blocking: | ------------------------+--------------------- I'm slightly late on this. I intend to write 3 posts about the FUDCon: 1. A general post on the event that covers: a. Introduction to a FUDCon b. Past FUDCons in APAC, and around c. General structure: workshops, lightening talks d. Sessions that will be held, if available, include a schedule (need to ask the organizers for information on this part) 2. Interview the event owners, primary organizers 3. Interview some Fedora community folks that are attending the FUDCon -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/165> marketing-team <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing> Marketing team for the Fedora project.

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Marketing-trac: #144: Proposal to have a complete Fedora show in Linux Action Show
by Marketing Team 02 Mar '16

02 Mar '16

#144: Proposal to have a complete Fedora show in Linux Action Show ------------------------+------------------------- Reporter: zoltanh721 | Owner: Type: task | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Open Component: other | Severity: not-urgent Keywords: LAS, Show | Blocked By: Blocking: | ------------------------+------------------------- We have a plenty of new upcoming or already running awesome service, but most of them are unknown to the public. It would be a great marketing bomb to create mail, or a page where we gather and keep alive in front of the public most of them, and strengthen the image little bit that we are the developers and engineers distro. I think here the introduction of developer assistant, tito, copr, pulp, katello, and more. Have a page with out project, and project logos, and include this within the Fedora.NEXT changes. I propose also to contact with Chris Fisher (ChrisLAS jupiterbroadcasting.com) Matt or with Matt Hartley (Datamotion writer, and co-host of the LAS), and ask an full show that makes it able for us to cooperate together, and gain more contributors. As Linux Action Show is one of the most popular video podcasts, we can gain a lot of people, and high interest. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/144> marketing-team <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing> Marketing team for the Fedora project.

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Marketing-trac: #137: Fedora Flyer for Server Topics
by Marketing Team 13 Nov '15

13 Nov '15

#137: Fedora Flyer for Server Topics --------------------------------+------------------------------ Reporter: jzb | Owner: Type: task | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Future releases Component: other | Severity: urgent Keywords: Server, Enterprise | Blocked By: Blocking: | --------------------------------+------------------------------ Fedora flyer for LinuxCon EU (also reusable) for server topics. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/137> marketing-team <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing> Marketing team for the Fedora project.

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Marketing-trac: #136: Fedora Flyer for Virtualization and Cloud
by Marketing Team 13 Nov '15

13 Nov '15

#136: Fedora Flyer for Virtualization and Cloud ---------------------------------------------+--------------------- Reporter: jzb | Owner: Type: task | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Component: Press Kit | Severity: urgent Keywords: Virtualization, Cloud, KVM, LXC | Blocked By: Blocking: | ---------------------------------------------+--------------------- Develop a flyer before LinuxCon about Fedora's virtualization and cloud features. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/136> marketing-team <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing> Marketing team for the Fedora project.

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Marketing-trac: #157: https doesn't work correctly on fedoramagazine.org
by Marketing Team 13 Nov '15

13 Nov '15

#157: https doesn't work correctly on fedoramagazine.org -----------------------------+------------------------------ Reporter: sparks | Owner: chrisroberts Type: task | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Future releases Component: Fedora Magazine | Severity: urgent Keywords: | Blocked By: Blocking: | -----------------------------+------------------------------ When forcing https on fedoramagazine.org it appears to break CSS. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/157> marketing-team <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing> Marketing team for the Fedora project.

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Marketing-trac: #153: image links fail to load
by Marketing Team 15 Oct '15

15 Oct '15

#153: image links fail to load -----------------------------+------------------------------ Reporter: mattdm | Owner: chrisroberts Type: task | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Future releases Component: Fedora Magazine | Severity: urgent Keywords: | Blocked By: Blocking: | -----------------------------+------------------------------ Take a look at http://fedoramagazine.org/?p=1236 and click on one of the slides. Each of these is supposed to be an external link, but instead, some sort of javascript photo viewer popup happens, with "This content failed to load." If you right click and say "open in new window", that works just fine. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/153> marketing-team <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing> Marketing team for the Fedora project.

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Marketing-trac: #171: fix https
by Marketing Team 01 Jun '15

01 Jun '15

#171: fix https -------------------------+------------------------------ Reporter: mattdm | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: Future releases Component: other | Severity: not-urgent Keywords: | Blocked By: Blocking: | -------------------------+------------------------------ See http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.cz/2014/08/https-as-ranking- signal_6.html We should use https for the magazine (and only https). Right now, it does not work, because some images are http only. In addition to being good for our users and an improvement in security, this will increase our google search ranking. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/171> marketing-team <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing> Marketing team for the Fedora project.

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Marketing-trac: #177: Trifold layout for mktg team - Fedora.next presentation
by Marketing Team 01 Jun '15

01 Jun '15

#177: Trifold layout for mktg team - Fedora.next presentation -----------------------+------------------------------ Reporter: mailga | Owner: Type: task | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Future releases Component: Press Kit | Severity: urgent Keywords: | Blocked By: Blocking: | -----------------------+------------------------------ In order to satisfy Zoltan's request for producing an introduction to Fedora.Next (see [https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2014-July/016168.html here]), I've opened a ticket in the Design trac ([https://fedorahosted.org /design-team/ticket/333 here]) requesting a background. Text to fill in is in [https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2014-August/016180.html this post]. Maybe is it the case to include in a larger work of press realizations, to handle with the "Press Contacts and Materials" sub-project. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/177> marketing-team <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing> Marketing team for the Fedora project.

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Marketing-trac: #167: support infinite scroll in fedora magazine theme
by Marketing Team 16 Apr '15

16 Apr '15

#167: support infinite scroll in fedora magazine theme -----------------------------+------------------------------ Reporter: mattdm | Owner: chrisroberts Type: task | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: Future releases Component: Fedora Magazine | Severity: not-urgent Keywords: | Blocked By: Blocking: | -----------------------------+------------------------------ http://jetpack.me/support/infinite-scroll/ -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/167> marketing-team <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing> Marketing team for the Fedora project.

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Marketing-trac: #141: Update generic Fedora flyer
by Marketing Team 12 Mar '15

12 Mar '15

#141: Update generic Fedora flyer ----------------------------------+------------------------- Reporter: ankursinha | Owner: Type: task | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Fedora 20 Component: Release deliverables | Severity: not-urgent Keywords: | Blocked By: Blocking: | ----------------------------------+------------------------- Update the Fedora generic flyer: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_Fedora_flyer Was last updated in 2010-06. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/141> marketing-team <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing> Marketing team for the Fedora project.

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Marketing-trac: #179: Fedora.next Flyer for Workstation product
by Marketing Team 12 Mar '15

12 Mar '15

#179: Fedora.next Flyer for Workstation product ----------------------------------+------------------------ Reporter: ankursinha | Owner: Type: task | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Fedora 21 Component: Release deliverables | Severity: urgent Keywords: | Blocked By: Blocking: | ----------------------------------+------------------------ We need a new flyer for the workstation product. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/179> marketing-team <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing> Marketing team for the Fedora project.

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Marketing-trac: #175: Update and Package Firefox Bookmarks
by Marketing Team 12 Mar '15

12 Mar '15

#175: Update and Package Firefox Bookmarks ----------------------------------+------------------------- Reporter: chrisroberts | Owner: Type: task | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Fedora 21 Component: Release deliverables | Severity: not-urgent Keywords: Easyfix | Blocked By: Blocking: | ----------------------------------+------------------------- -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/175> marketing-team <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing> Marketing team for the Fedora project.

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Marketing-trac: #176: Create Talking Points
by Marketing Team 12 Mar '15

12 Mar '15

#176: Create Talking Points --------------------+------------------------- Reporter: mitzie | Owner: Type: task | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: Fedora 21 Component: other | Severity: not-urgent Keywords: | Blocked By: Blocking: | --------------------+------------------------- Create talking points for F21. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_talking_points -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/176> marketing-team <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing> Marketing team for the Fedora project.

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Marketing-trac: #181: Please add me as a Fedora Magazine contributor
by Marketing Team 23 Feb '15

23 Feb '15

#181: Please add me as a Fedora Magazine contributor -----------------------------+------------------------------ Reporter: slaanesh | Owner: chrisroberts Type: task | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: Future releases Component: Fedora Magazine | Severity: not-urgent Keywords: | Blocked By: Blocking: | -----------------------------+------------------------------ Planning to do some update information and also provide some general CentOS/RHEL/Fedora articles if there's the option. Example articles on my blog. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Slaanesh http://negativo17.org -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/181> marketing-team <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing> Marketing team for the Fedora project.

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Translating Fedora Magazine
by Ryan Lerch 23 Jan '15

23 Jan '15

Just wondering if anyone has any experience with Localization plugins for wordpress. It would be awesome to be able to allow translators to localise content (even if we just get coverage for the longer form posts) Thoughts? --ryanlerch

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Marketing-trac: #174: Review Firefox Bookmarks For Update
by Marketing Team 17 Jan '15

17 Jan '15

#174: Review Firefox Bookmarks For Update --------------------------+------------------------------ Reporter: chrisroberts | Owner: Type: task | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: Future releases Component: other | Severity: not-urgent Keywords: Easyfix | Blocked By: Blocking: | --------------------------+------------------------------ -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/174> marketing-team <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing> Marketing team for the Fedora project.

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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 01 Oct '14

01 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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F21 Alpha release announcement
by Jaroslav Reznik 23 Sep '14

23 Sep '14

Hey marketing! As Fedora 21 is coming, the readiness meeting is this week, I'd like to have release announcement draft written by the meeting, sooner than later (even there's still some possibility of Alpha delays). Fedora 21 as it's next, is going to be a bit different to previous releases, especially with products introduction. We should make sure release announcement reflects it but on the other hand, I really like the target audience structure we have now (and it still somehow fits products). As always, place to coordinate/write announcement is at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F21_Alpha_release_announcement (Not yet created but I can again help with features etc.). Thanks Jaroslav

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Re: Some suggestions for Marketing notes for FW 21
by Paul W. Frields 22 Sep '14

22 Sep '14

On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 09:46:07AM -0400, Christian Schaller wrote: > Hi everyone, > Here are some draft notes I prepared to try to help our marketing team > build up some release notes and press material on the Fedora Workstation release. > Already sent it to the Working Group members, but I thought I send it out to these two > lists for further review and suggestions. I took a shot at revising Christian's notes, using the feedback from the thread thus far. With this revision I tried to reduce the level of formality, the amount of technical terminology, and overall sentence length and complexity. I also introduced some bullet points where I felt it made the text more readable. I also renamed the Software tool here to "App Catalog" because the ease of the tool does remind me of e.g. a retail store catalog. Presented here for your (most welcome!) slings and arrows: * * * The Fedora Workstation is a new take on desktop development from the Fedora Community. Our goal is to pick the best components, and integrate and polish them. This work results in a more polished and targeted product than you've previously seen from the Fedora desktop. We want our desktop operating system to solve your problems, not be your problem. Easy access to all your software The cornerstone of the Fedora Workstation is the App Catalog, which lets you find all kinds of applications quickly and easily. The improvements to the App Catalog in Fedora 21 provide a responsive and fast user experience. In addition, Fedora packagers have worked with developers around the world to greatly improve the number of featured applications. Improvements to the Terminal application We want developers to have a great experience, so a strong Terminal application is absolutely important. We've integrated a set of additional features in the Terminal, such as: * Support for transparent backgrounds * Automatic title updates to help you identify different terminals * A simple toggle for system keybindings in both the Terminal and GNOME desktop overview to help you search for Terminals by name Experimental Wayland Support Wayland is a new and exciting technology that will power Linux desktops of the future. With Fedora Workstation 21 you can visit the future now, and see how well your applications work with Wayland. You can also experiment with making your applications take advantage of Wayland's new capabilities. Much of the core Wayland development comes from Fedora Workstation contributors, so this is your chance to try out Wayland straight from the source. Developer Assistant We recognize developers need an easy and straightforward way to set up many different programming environments. In Fedora Workstation, we offer the Developer Assistant, which takes care of this setup for a large number of language runtimes and IDEs. And now, thanks to its integration with new Fedora Software Collections, multiple versions of different languages are available to suit your needs. Ease of installation We want the installation of the Fedora Workstation to be as straightforward and simple as possible. In Fedora Workstation we've distilled this process down to selecting the layout of your physical media, and then pressing "Install." (In fact, you can even let the installer choose the disk layout for you.) And because the future of installations is not optical disks, we ship with an easy to use tool to help you create bootable USB sticks. Toolkit integration We recognize you have a job to do, and you want to use the tools that let you get it done. That's why we've been working hard to make all your applications in Fedora Workstation look and feel the same. From the new theming for Qt to the ability to run HTML5 web services in a chromeless window, we want all your apps to feel like a natural extension to your desktop. Support for extremely high resolution displays (HiDPI) Technology never stands still, and as a software developer you're used to using the best technology available. So we've spent a lot of time and effort on supporting the new generation of HiDPI displays. That's probably why Fedora has been called "the best of HiDPI." Exciting roadmap This Fedora Workstation release is not the end. It's the beginning of a new era for Fedora on the desktop. We have a roadmap lined up to bring a range of exciting new technologies to the Linux desktop: * Containers * Smarter virtual machines * Better development tools * More web integration * ...and much more So if you want to be part of the future of the Linux desktop be sure to get on board now! * * * -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com

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distributing Fedora-sponsored magazines - what's the plan?
by Rikki Endsley 22 Sep '14

22 Sep '14

Greetings, Do we have a plan in place to make sure the 2k Fedora-sponsored print magazines (w/Fedora 20 DVD) in the Raleigh office are distributed to Fedora booths? If not...what's the plan to make the plan? Rikki Endsley | Community Evangelist Open Source and Standards (OSAS), Red Hat http://community.redhat.com/ Twitter: @redhatopen | @rikkiends

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Duplicate posts on G+
by Ryan Lerch 18 Sep '14

18 Sep '14

HI all, I have been trying to keep updating the Fedora Google+ site with fresh content, but i have noticed recently that there have been a few posts to the google+ that provide the same info as stuff i posted a few days earlier (paul's awesome screencast, and a link to the flock surveys are two examples here)-- just trying to figure out what is going on so we aren't seen to be spamming people with the same content over and over again. cheers, ryanlerch

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Re: Proposal -- fortnightly magazine meeting
by Chris Roberts 17 Sep '14

17 Sep '14

What days were we thinking about doing this? I want to get this started, I think this will be a win for everyone? Chris <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Rikki Endsley <rendsley(a)redhat.com> </div><div>Date:09/13/2014 10:34 AM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: jzb(a)redhat.com,Fedora Marketing team <marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: Proposal -- fortnightly magazine meeting </div><div> </div>I don't have a strong personal preference, but I agree with Joe's points about IRC. +1 for IRC meetings. (And don't believe what you read on twitter - Betty White and IRC are both still alive and kicking.) Rikki Endsley | Community Evangelist Open Source and Standards (OSAS), Red Hat http://community.redhat.com/ Twitter: @redhatopen | @rikkiends ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joe Brockmeier" <jzb(a)redhat.com> > To: marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2014 8:52:30 AM > Subject: Re: Proposal -- fortnightly magazine meeting > > On 09/13/2014 07:23 AM, Timothy Butterworth wrote: > > Is it possible to switch meetings to Google Hangouts? IRC is > > essentially dead technology. > > "Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." ~ IRC > > IRC is a good "low barrier to entry" technology: It operates reasonably > well over slow connections, you can easily get into IRC with any number > of clients across all OSes, and doesn't require any proprietary > software. Some or all of those criteria may not be important to you > personally, but they are important to others. > > Also, we use meeting logging software that helps keep track of > minutes/action items, etc. That doesn't work with Google Hangouts. > Skimming the log of an IRC meeting is much easier than trying to skim > through a recording of a hangout (assuming you're talking about using > the audio/video and not just a group chatroom - but meetbot still > doesn't work with Hangouts AFAIK). > > Other folks may feel differently, but -1 here. > > Best, > > jzb > -- > Joe Brockmeier | Principal Cloud & Storage Analyst > jzb(a)redhat.com | http://community.redhat.com/ > Twitter: @jzb | http://dissociatedpress.net/ > > > -- > marketing mailing list > marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing -- marketing mailing list marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing

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Re: marketing Digest, Vol 123, Issue 13
by Jeremiah Ross 16 Sep '14

16 Sep '14

I would love to be on board; which platform would we use for the meeting.... Google Hangouts? On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 4:35 PM, <marketing-request(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > Send marketing mailing list submissions to > marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > marketing-request(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > marketing-owner(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of marketing digest..." > > > NOTE: When replying to digest messages, please set the subject to match > the original message. > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Proposal -- fortnightly magazine meeting (Chris Roberts) > 2. Re: Proposal -- fortnightly magazine meeting (Ryan Lerch) > 3. Re: Proposal -- fortnightly magazine meeting (Ryan Lerch) > 4. Re: Some suggestions for Marketing notes for FW 21 > (Jaroslav Reznik) > 5. Re: Some suggestions for Marketing notes for FW 21 > (Jiri Eischmann) > 6. Re: Proposal -- fortnightly magazine meeting (Joe Brockmeier) > 7. Re: Proposal -- fortnightly magazine meeting (Ryan Lerch) > 8. Re: Some suggestions for Marketing notes for FW 21 > (Jared K. Smith) > 9. Re: Some suggestions for Marketing notes for FW 21 > (Jiri Eischmann) > 10. Re: Some suggestions for Marketing notes for FW 21 (Josh Boyer) > 11. Magazine down? (Matthew Miller) > 12. Re: Magazine down? (Matthew Miller) > 13. Re: Magazine down? (Ryan Lerch) > 14. Re: Some suggestions for Marketing notes for FW 21 > (Paul W. Frields) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 09:05:48 -0400 (EDT) > From: Chris Roberts <chris.roberts(a)croberts.org> > To: Fedora Marketing team <marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> > Subject: Re: Proposal -- fortnightly magazine meeting > Message-ID: > <1276971668.8286389.1410440748890.JavaMail.zimbra(a)croberts.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > I would totally be up for this. I really think we can get some good ideas > going and make for better consistent content pushes. > > - Chris > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Lamourine" <markllama(a)gmail.com> > To: "Fedora Marketing team" <marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> > Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2014 7:50:38 AM > Subject: Re: Proposal -- fortnightly magazine meeting > > I'm in as Sysadmin..... > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:07 AM, Amita Sharma < amsharma(a)redhat.com > > wrote: > > > Great Idea, I will love to join :) > > Thanks, > Amita > On 09/11/2014 03:53 AM, Zacharias Mitzelos wrote: > > > Count me in as well Ryan ;) > > Zacharias > On 11/09/2014 01:01 πμ, Rikki Endsley wrote: > > > Sounds great, count me in. > > I'm switching from CentOS to Fedora on my work laptop this week (have > Fedora on a home laptop currently), which should make coming up with ideas > and writing articles easier. > > > Rikki Endsley | Community Evangelist > Open Source and Standards (OSAS), Red Hat > > http://community.redhat.com/ > Twitter: @redhatopen | @rikkiends > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Paul W. Frields" < stickster(a)gmail.com > > To: marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject. org > Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 4:34:49 PM > Subject: Re: Proposal -- fortnightly magazine meeting > > On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 03:58:19PM -0400, Ryan Lerch wrote: > > > 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) > I would love to participate in this meeting, since I'd like to broaden > my Magazine participation as well. > > -- > Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ > gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 > http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople. org/ > The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com > -- > marketing mailing list > marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject. org > https://admin.fedoraproject. org/mailman/listinfo/marketing > > > -- > marketing mailing list > marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject. org > https://admin.fedoraproject. org/mailman/listinfo/marketing > > > > -- > ---- > Mark Lamourine < markllama(a)gmail.com > > Dad, Hubbie, Software Developer, System Administrator, Road Cyclist > > -- > marketing mailing list > marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 10:15:06 -0400 > From: Ryan Lerch <rlerch(a)redhat.com> > To: Fedora Marketing team <marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> > Subject: Re: Proposal -- fortnightly magazine meeting > Message-ID: <5411AE6A.5010500(a)redhat.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > On Thu 11 Sep 2014 09:05:48 AM EDT, Chris Roberts wrote: > > I would totally be up for this. I really think we can get some good > ideas going and make for better consistent content pushes. > > > > - Chris > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Mark Lamourine" <markllama(a)gmail.com> > > To: "Fedora Marketing team" <marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> > > Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2014 7:50:38 AM > > Subject: Re: Proposal -- fortnightly magazine meeting > > > > I'm in as Sysadmin..... > > > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:07 AM, Amita Sharma < amsharma(a)redhat.com > > wrote: > > > > > > Great Idea, I will love to join :) > > > > Thanks, > > Amita > > On 09/11/2014 03:53 AM, Zacharias Mitzelos wrote: > > > > > > Count me in as well Ryan ;) > > > > Zacharias > > On 11/09/2014 01:01 πμ, Rikki Endsley wrote: > > > > > > Sounds great, count me in. > > > > I'm switching from CentOS to Fedora on my work laptop this week (have > Fedora on a home laptop currently), which should make coming up with ideas > and writing articles easier. > > > > > > Rikki Endsley | Community Evangelist > > Open Source and Standards (OSAS), Red Hat > > > > http://community.redhat.com/ > > Twitter: @redhatopen | @rikkiends > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > > > From: "Paul W. Frields" < stickster(a)gmail.com > > > To: marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject. org > > Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 4:34:49 PM > > Subject: Re: Proposal -- fortnightly magazine meeting > > > > On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 03:58:19PM -0400, Ryan Lerch wrote: > > > > > > 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) > > I would love to participate in this meeting, since I'd like to broaden > > my Magazine participation as well. > > > > Just going to throw a time out here -- what do people think of UTC 1400 > - UTC1500 as a time of day for a meeting? > We can pick any day really. > > cheers, > ryanlerch > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 10:16:48 -0400 > From: Ryan Lerch <rlerch(a)redhat.com> > To: ankursinha(a)fedoraproject.org, Fedora Marketing team > <marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> > Subject: Re: Proposal -- fortnightly magazine meeting > Message-ID: <5411AED0.7050001(a)redhat.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" > > On 09/11/2014 12:41 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote: > > On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 09:37 +0530, Amita Sharma wrote: > >> Great Idea, I will love to join :) > > I'll turn up when I can too - probably not while I'm still down under, > > but as soon as I move some place with a more convenient time difference. > > > > > I know that feeling well! -- there are not many good times in the AU > timezone that mesh with the US workday :) > > That said, the easiest way to participate might be to write up a brief > pitch, and then one of us can pitch the idea in the meeting! > > cheers, > ryanlerch > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/attachments/20140911/ea5… > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 10:45:37 -0400 (EDT) > From: Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik(a)redhat.com> > To: Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop > <desktop(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> > Cc: marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > Subject: Re: Some suggestions for Marketing notes for FW 21 > Message-ID: > <68170701.21462279.1410446737123.JavaMail.zimbra(a)redhat.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > ----- Original Message ----- > > Hi everyone, > > Here are some draft notes I prepared to try to help our marketing team > > build up some release notes and press material on the Fedora Workstation > > release. > > Already sent it to the Working Group members, but I thought I send it > out to > > these two > > lists for further review and suggestions. > > Christian, > thanks for help - for release announcement, once the WG is ok with this > draft, > feel free to edit > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F21_Alpha_release_announcement > > I'm really happy to see this activity happening in working groups, really > working towards the best product marketing materials! Thank you very much! > > Jaroslav > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 17:40:29 +0200 > From: Jiri Eischmann <eischmann(a)redhat.com> > To: marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > Cc: desktop(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > Subject: Re: Some suggestions for Marketing notes for FW 21 > Message-ID: <1410450029.2847.5.camel(a)dhcp-28-125.brq.redhat.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Jared K. Smith píše v St 10. 09. 2014 v 14:09 -0400: > > > > On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient(a)gmail.com> > > wrote: > > Eeek. Don't call it an "appstore" else the lawyers get all > > jumpy. I've > > been referring to it all the time as an "application > > installer" as I > > don't fancy fighting that fight. > > > > > > > > I have to agree here -- not so much because I don't want any sort of a > > legal trouble, but because there's no "store" to speak of. (Unless, > > of course, you use "store" to mean "storage", and not "a place to buy > > things".) Since we don't charge money for any of the applications, I > > have a hard time calling it a store. Let's call it an "application > > installer" or a "software installer", but not an application store, > > please. > > What about calling it an "app catalog"? It doesn't imply we sell apps > and the name is not currently used or claimed by anyone AFAIK (HP used > to have App Catalog for their webOS, but that's dead now). > Frankly, I don't like calling it an installer because there is a > qualitative difference between an installer and the kind of application > GNOME Software is trying to be. > What comes to my mind when I hear the word "installer" is a program that > installs whatever you ask it to install, but I think GNOME Software is > more than that. It shows in a fashionable way what the platform offers > app-wise. And it also takes care of updates btw. > > Jiri > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 11:26:53 -0500 > From: Joe Brockmeier <jzb(a)redhat.com> > To: marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > Subject: Re: Proposal -- fortnightly magazine meeting > Message-ID: <5411CD4D.6030305(a)redhat.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > On 09/11/2014 09:15 AM, Ryan Lerch wrote: > > Just going to throw a time out here -- what do people think of UTC 1400 > > - UTC1500 as a time of day for a meeting? > > We can pick any day really. > > That's 9 a.m. my time, so - kinda works. I have a lot of meetings from 8 > a.m. to 11 a.m. depending on the day of week, but I can usually keep an > eyeball on IRC if I'm at the desk. > > I'm fine with the idea of a meeting, but I'd also note - there's nothing > to stop people from pitching ideas on the mailing list 24/7. So - I > would hope that the meeting would be more brainstorming and generating > new ideas, and make sure if someone has a good idea they can run with - > they can do that without waiting for the meeting. > > Silly question - any reason not to fold this in with the other marketing > meeting? > > Best, > > jzb > > -- > Joe Brockmeier | Principal Cloud & Storage Analyst > jzb(a)redhat.com | http://community.redhat.com/ > Twitter: @jzb | http://dissociatedpress.net/ > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: signature.asc > Type: application/pgp-signature > Size: 473 bytes > Desc: OpenPGP digital signature > URL: < > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/attachments/20140911/ead… > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 13:04:00 -0400 > From: Ryan Lerch <rlerch(a)redhat.com> > To: jzb(a)redhat.com, Fedora Marketing team > <marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> > Subject: Re: Proposal -- fortnightly magazine meeting > Message-ID: <5411D600.4040605(a)redhat.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" > > On 09/11/2014 12:26 PM, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > > On 09/11/2014 09:15 AM, Ryan Lerch wrote: > >> Just going to throw a time out here -- what do people think of UTC 1400 > >> - UTC1500 as a time of day for a meeting? > >> We can pick any day really. > > That's 9 a.m. my time, so - kinda works. I have a lot of meetings from 8 > > a.m. to 11 a.m. depending on the day of week, but I can usually keep an > > eyeball on IRC if I'm at the desk. > > > > I'm fine with the idea of a meeting, but I'd also note - there's nothing > > to stop people from pitching ideas on the mailing list 24/7. > No nothing at all, except we rarely get pitches on the list even though > it is known that it happens this way. The idea of a standalone meeting > is to hopefully get people to collate a few thoughts, then get them to > pitch them as ideas in the brainstorm session. Maybe not the way a > "traditional" pitch works. > > regards, > ryanlerch > > > So - I > > would hope that the meeting would be more brainstorming and generating > > new ideas, and make sure if someone has a good idea they can run with - > > they can do that without waiting for the meeting. > > > > Silly question - any reason not to fold this in with the other marketing > > meeting? > > > > Best, > > > > jzb > > > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/attachments/20140911/80e… > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 13:39:56 -0400 > From: "Jared K. Smith" <jsmith(a)fedoraproject.org> > To: Fedora Marketing team <marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> > Cc: fedora-desktop <desktop(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> > Subject: Re: Some suggestions for Marketing notes for FW 21 > Message-ID: > < > CA+0bQbHYFqJNwTmotzGE2KwLFE17pxEr6NZpYVYSPZ1wfLoo0Q(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Jiri Eischmann <eischmann(a)redhat.com> > wrote: > > > What about calling it an "app catalog"? > > > > I'm fine with calling it an "App Catalog" or "Application Catalog" or > "Software Center". I'm just not comfortable with "store" or "market" or > "marketplace" since we're not selling anything. > > -- > Jared Smith. > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/attachments/20140911/f46… > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 9 > Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 19:50:55 +0200 > From: Jiri Eischmann <eischmann(a)redhat.com> > To: desktop(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > Cc: marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > Subject: Re: Some suggestions for Marketing notes for FW 21 > Message-ID: <1410457855.2847.7.camel(a)dhcp-28-125.brq.redhat.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Michael Catanzaro píše v Čt 11. 09. 2014 v 11:27 -0500: > > On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 17:40 +0200, Jiri Eischmann wrote: > > > What about calling it an "app catalog"? > > > > How about "software center?" > > That's also a good option. A little downside could be that it's used by > Ubuntu already (Ubuntu Software Center). > > Jiri > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 10 > Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 14:31:23 -0400 > From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer(a)fedoraproject.org> > To: Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop > <desktop(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> > Cc: marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > Subject: Re: Some suggestions for Marketing notes for FW 21 > Message-ID: > <CA+5PVA5W6vQYZ5= > FEsMKFOuoNNopdeWRzK3MErho3tJ92gqGgA(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Jiri Eischmann <eischmann(a)redhat.com> > wrote: > > Michael Catanzaro píše v Čt 11. 09. 2014 v 11:27 -0500: > >> On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 17:40 +0200, Jiri Eischmann wrote: > >> > What about calling it an "app catalog"? > >> > >> How about "software center?" > > > > That's also a good option. A little downside could be that it's used by > > Ubuntu already (Ubuntu Software Center). > > There are only so many names you can call a thing that actually > describe that thing. We shouldn't be afraid to use a generic term > just because Ubuntu uses it. > > josh > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 11 > Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 15:02:27 -0400 > From: Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> > To: Fedora Marketing team <marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> > Subject: Magazine down? > Message-ID: <20140911190227.GA16482(a)mattdm.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > The fedora magazine front page is blank -- literally 0 bytes. If I go to > the admin URL, I get a plain old-school HTML page telling me that the > database doesn't need to be upgraded and a link to continue, which takes me > to that blank front page.... > > -- > Matthew Miller > <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> > Fedora Project Leader > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 12 > Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 15:09:23 -0400 > From: Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> > To: Fedora Marketing team <marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> > Subject: Re: Magazine down? > Message-ID: <20140911190923.GA17122(a)mattdm.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 03:02:27PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > The fedora magazine front page is blank -- literally 0 bytes. If I go to > > the admin URL, I get a plain old-school HTML page telling me that the > > database doesn't need to be upgraded and a link to continue, which takes > me > > to that blank front page.... > > Huh. Now it's fine. > > -- > Matthew Miller > <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> > Fedora Project Leader > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 13 > Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 16:05:56 -0400 > From: Ryan Lerch <rlerch(a)redhat.com> > To: Fedora Marketing team <marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> > Cc: Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> > Subject: Re: Magazine down? > Message-ID: <541200A4.3040306(a)redhat.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > On Thu 11 Sep 2014 03:09:23 PM EDT, Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 03:02:27PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > >> The fedora magazine front page is blank -- literally 0 bytes. If I go > to > >> the admin URL, I get a plain old-school HTML page telling me that the > >> database doesn't need to be upgraded and a link to continue, which > takes me > >> to that blank front page.... > > > > Huh. Now it's fine. > > > > It seems it was updated (not sure if by someone, or automatically) -- > the wp-admin page is giving me the update database thingo > > cheers, > ryanlerch > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 14 > Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 17:35:29 -0400 > From: "Paul W. Frields" <stickster(a)gmail.com> > To: desktop(a)lists.fedoraproject.org, marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > Subject: Re: Some suggestions for Marketing notes for FW 21 > Message-ID: <20140911213529.GK29141(a)jayne-eth.internal.frields.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 09:46:07AM -0400, Christian Schaller wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Here are some draft notes I prepared to try to help our marketing team > > build up some release notes and press material on the Fedora Workstation > release. > > Already sent it to the Working Group members, but I thought I send it > out to these two > > lists for further review and suggestions. > > I took a shot at revising Christian's notes, using the feedback from > the thread thus far. With this revision I tried to reduce the level > of formality, the amount of technical terminology, and overall > sentence length and complexity. I also introduced some bullet points > where I felt it made the text more readable. I also renamed the > Software tool here to "App Catalog" because the ease of the tool does > remind me of e.g. a retail store catalog. > > Presented here for your (most welcome!) slings and arrows: > > * * * > > The Fedora Workstation is a new take on desktop development from the > Fedora Community. Our goal is to pick the best components, and > integrate and polish them. This work results in a more polished and > targeted product than you've previously seen from the Fedora > desktop. We want our desktop operating system to solve your problems, > not be your problem. > > Easy access to all your software > > The cornerstone of the Fedora Workstation is the App Catalog, which > lets you find all kinds of applications quickly and easily. The > improvements to the App Catalog in Fedora 21 provide a responsive and > fast user experience. In addition, Fedora packagers have worked with > developers around the world to greatly improve the number of featured > applications. > > Improvements to the Terminal application > > We want developers to have a great experience, so a strong Terminal > application is absolutely important. We've integrated a set of > additional features in the Terminal, such as: > > * Support for transparent backgrounds > * Automatic title updates to help you identify different terminals > * A simple toggle for system keybindings in both the Terminal and > GNOME desktop overview to help you search for Terminals by name > > Experimental Wayland Support > > Wayland is a new and exciting technology that will power Linux > desktops of the future. With Fedora Workstation 21 you can visit the > future now, and see how well your applications work with Wayland. You > can also experiment with making your applications take advantage of > Wayland's new capabilities. Much of the core Wayland development comes > from Fedora Workstation contributors, so this is your chance to try > out Wayland straight from the source. > > Developer Assistant > > We recognize developers need an easy and straightforward way to set up > many different programming environments. In Fedora Workstation, we > offer the Developer Assistant, which takes care of this setup for a > large number of language runtimes and IDEs. And now, thanks to its > integration with new Fedora Software Collections, multiple versions of > different languages are available to suit your needs. > > Ease of installation > > We want the installation of the Fedora Workstation to be as > straightforward and simple as possible. In Fedora Workstation we've > distilled this process down to selecting the layout of your physical > media, and then pressing "Install." (In fact, you can even let the > installer choose the disk layout for you.) And because the future of > installations is not optical disks, we ship with an easy to use tool > to help you create bootable USB sticks. > > Toolkit integration > > We recognize you have a job to do, and you want to use the tools that > let you get it done. That's why we've been working hard to make all > your applications in Fedora Workstation look and feel the same. From > the new theming for Qt to the ability to run HTML5 web services in a > chromeless window, we want all your apps to feel like a natural > extension to your desktop. > > Support for extremely high resolution displays (HiDPI) > > Technology never stands still, and as a software developer you're used > to using the best technology available. So we've spent a lot of time > and effort on supporting the new generation of HiDPI displays. That's > probably why Fedora has been called "the best of HiDPI." > > Exciting roadmap > > This Fedora Workstation release is not the end. It's the beginning of > a new era for Fedora on the desktop. We have a roadmap lined up to > bring a range of exciting new technologies to the Linux desktop: > > * Containers > * Smarter virtual machines > * Better development tools > * More web integration > * ...and much more > > So if you want to be part of the future of the Linux desktop be sure > to get on board now! > > * * * > > -- > Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ > gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 > http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ > The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com > > > ------------------------------ > > -- > marketing mailing list > marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing > > End of marketing Digest, Vol 123, Issue 13 > ****************************************** > -- Jeremiah Ross | email: mrjeremiahross(a)gmail.com | Voice: 1 510 333 7767 |

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Magazine down?
by Matthew Miller 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

The fedora magazine front page is blank -- literally 0 bytes. If I go to the admin URL, I get a plain old-school HTML page telling me that the database doesn't need to be upgraded and a link to continue, which takes me to that blank front page.... -- Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader

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Re: Some suggestions for Marketing notes for FW 21
by Jiri Eischmann 11 Sep '14

11 Sep '14

Michael Catanzaro píše v Čt 11. 09. 2014 v 11:27 -0500: > On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 17:40 +0200, Jiri Eischmann wrote: > > What about calling it an "app catalog"? > > How about "software center?" That's also a good option. A little downside could be that it's used by Ubuntu already (Ubuntu Software Center). Jiri

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Re: Some suggestions for Marketing notes for FW 21
by Jared K. Smith 11 Sep '14

11 Sep '14

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Eeek. Don't call it an "appstore" else the lawyers get all jumpy. I've > been referring to it all the time as an "application installer" as I > don't fancy fighting that fight. > I have to agree here -- not so much because I don't want any sort of a legal trouble, but because there's no "store" to speak of. (Unless, of course, you use "store" to mean "storage", and not "a place to buy things".) Since we don't charge money for any of the applications, I have a hard time calling it a store. Let's call it an "application installer" or a "software installer", but not an application store, please. -- Jared Smith

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Re: Some suggestions for Marketing notes for FW 21
by Jaroslav Reznik 11 Sep '14

11 Sep '14

----- Original Message ----- > Hi everyone, > Here are some draft notes I prepared to try to help our marketing team > build up some release notes and press material on the Fedora Workstation > release. > Already sent it to the Working Group members, but I thought I send it out to > these two > lists for further review and suggestions. Christian, thanks for help - for release announcement, once the WG is ok with this draft, feel free to edit https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F21_Alpha_release_announcement I'm really happy to see this activity happening in working groups, really working towards the best product marketing materials! Thank you very much! Jaroslav

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Re: Some suggestions for Marketing notes for FW 21
by Elad Alfassa 09 Sep '14

09 Sep '14

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro(a)gnome.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2014-09-09 at 16:05 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: >> I'm not sure that's fair, comparing the feature list from F20 >> gnome-software to F21 is huge. People using the COPR have got a sneak >> peak of some of the juicy stuff, but in f20 software was kinda dull. > > Well, with respect to gnome-software, yes, that is much improved. Let me > try to rephrase my point. > > F21 has mostly the same applications as F20 did. We're not "picking the > best components out there" any more than we were before, and we're not > "doing a lot of work to integrate and polish them" any more than we were > before. It is not a "much more polished and targeted product than what > you seen before from the Fedora community." Fedora already had a good > set of default applications, the new set is pretty much the same as it > used to be (exception: devassistant), and improvements in applications > since F20 are all upstream improvements, not Fedora-specific integration > (exception: the PackageKit backend). I completely disagree with that. We do a lot of integration work, and the default set did change a lot, for example the firewall allowing incoming connections to high ports out of the box and there's much less useless stuff installed by default. We also install git by default, for example, which we didn't do before. Overall Fedora 21 comes almost ready for developers to use out of the box. What you're saying effectively tries to diminish all the hard work we've done this cycle, and I don't like this at all. > > Fedora Workstation is pretty much the same as Fedora Desktop was. It's > not some dramatic new product. Christian's intro sounds like a good > marketing pitch, so maybe we want to use it anyway, but it's not very > realistic. It reminds me of the Dominos commercials that made fun of how > much bad their old pizza recipe was to sell their new pizza, but their > new pizza really was different from their old pizza. Our pizza is surely > a bit nicer than it was before, but it's the same incremental > improvement you would expect after one year, not anything radically new. > It's 2 cycles worth of improvements compared to F20 due to the long cycle we've had, plus a lot of integration work and polish both upstream and downstream. You can't just ignore this. > -- > desktop mailing list > desktop(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop -- -Elad Alfassa.

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Re: Some suggestions for Marketing notes for FW 21
by Elad Alfassa 09 Sep '14

09 Sep '14

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 5:35 PM, drago01 <drago01(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Christian Schaller <cschalle(a)redhat.com> wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> Here are some draft notes I prepared to try to help our marketing team >> build up some release notes and press material on the Fedora Workstation release. >> Already sent it to the Working Group members, but I thought I send it out to these two >> lists for further review and suggestions. >> >> Christian >> -------------------- >> >> Fedora Workstation Marketing >> >> The Fedora Workstation is a new take on desktop development from the Fedora >> Community. Instead of seeing ourselves primarily as passive packagers of any >> software we manage to find we are now instead picking the best components out >> there and doing a lot of of work to integrate and polish them, presenting you >> with something you will feel is a much more polished and targeted product >> than what you seen before from the Fedora community. We want our desktop operating >> system to solve your problems, not be your problem. >> >> Easy access to all your Software >> The cornerstone of the Fedora Workstation is our Software installer application, or >> our appstore if you like.. It provides a modern and fast interface for finding all >> any kind of desktop software for your Fedora Workstation. In Fedora 21 we are using >> the new hawkeye backend [...] > > That will trigger a "wtf is a hawkeye backend" to pretty much anyone > that does not know the history here and/or about yum/dnf/PackageKit > internals. So I'd rephrase it to say that its faster etc. without > going into details like the name of the PK backend. > -- > desktop mailing list > desktop(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop Yep, I agree, leave implementation details out of this. Also, I'm pretty sure the library is called hawkey and not hawkeye -- -Elad Alfassa.

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Agenda for tomorrow's meeting?
by Joe Brockmeier 09 Sep '14

09 Sep '14

Hi all, Appears we have a meeting tomorrow at 20:00 UTC. Do we have an agenda for this? It'd be great to have a list of topics ahead of time. 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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Marketing-trac: #178: Fossetcon bag insert
by Marketing Team 08 Sep '14

08 Sep '14

#178: Fossetcon bag insert --------------------+------------------------------ Reporter: mailga | Owner: Type: task | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Future releases Component: other | Severity: urgent Keywords: | Blocked By: Blocking: | --------------------+------------------------------ Ruth asked for a bag insert for Fossetcon. [https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2014-August/016326.html here] is the post. I totally agree with gnokii reply, and we should open a ticket in Design for the stickers mockup. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/178> marketing-team <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing> Marketing team for the Fedora project.

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Marketing-trac: #180: Deleting fedocal meeting reminders
by Marketing Team 08 Sep '14

08 Sep '14

#180: Deleting fedocal meeting reminders --------------------+------------------------------ Reporter: mailga | Owner: Type: task | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: Future releases Component: other | Severity: not-urgent Keywords: | Blocked By: Blocking: | --------------------+------------------------------ Since we have not planned any meeting schedule so far, it's the case to delete the recurring meeting reminder for being restored when the new schedule is done. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/180> marketing-team <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing> Marketing team for the Fedora project.

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[Fedocal] Reminder meeting : Marketing Meeting
by Nobody 08 Sep '14

08 Sep '14

Dear all, You are kindly invited to the meeting: Marketing Meeting on 2014-09-08 from 20:00:00 to 21:00:00 America/New_York At fedora-meeting(a)irc.freenode.net The meeting will be about: Source: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar//meeting/275/

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A very rough F21 alpha release announcement draft
by Joe Brockmeier 05 Sep '14

05 Sep '14

Current draft here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F21_Alpha_release_announcement A couple things that need to be filled out: - More detail on each of the products. - Anything we're missing that needs to be emphasized *during the alpha release*? - We don't currently have a F21 common bugs page. I plan to give this one or more passes before I'd consider it final, but I'd also like extra eyes, suggestions, etc. 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 Magazine Maintenance
by Chris Roberts 04 Sep '14

04 Sep '14

Hey Everyone, Saturday night around 1AM-2AM I will be doing some maintenance to the Fedora Magazine, I will make all the changes I need to make and then restart the instance. I expect the downtime to only be around 15 minutes, although while I am doing things the site may appear slow. When: 9-6-14 1AM-2AM Who: All users Why: To clean up the database some more, update some things with the way backups are handled and investigate why Askimet is starting to not catch alot of the comments. Also do a full sync of the site to the staging instance since this has not been done in a while. If anyone has any questions, reach out to me. I was going to do this after Flock but being sick has pushed it back as I catch up on things. - Chris Roberts

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Fedora 21 Alpha Release Readiness Meeting :: Thursday, Sep. 04, 19:00 UTC
by Jaroslav Reznik 04 Sep '14

04 Sep '14

Fedora 21 Alpha Release Readiness Meeting. date: 2014-09-04 place: irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting-2 time: 19:00 UTC (3 PM EDT, 12 PM PDT, 21:00 CEST) This Thursday, September 04, we will meet to make sure we are coordinated and ready for the Alpha release of Fedora 21 on Tuesday, September 09, 2014. Please note that this meeting will occur on September 04 even if the release is delayed at the Go/No-Go meeting on the same day two hours earlier. You may received this message several times, but I was asked to open this meeting to the teams and I'll also hope this will raise awareness and more team representatives will come to this meeting. This meeting works best when we have representatives from all of the teams. Jaroslav

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Regarding awareness about linux
by Sachin Vardhan 04 Sep '14

04 Sep '14

We, GLUG-NITH (http://glug.nith.ac.in) are planning to celebrate Software Freedom Day (http://softwarefreedomday.org/) on 20th September in our college. We were thinking if it would be possible any of you provide us with Fedora CD/DVDs, stickers, tees so that we can distribute them to students and spread awareness about linux. Thank you. -- Regards, Sachin Vardhan Department of Computer Science National Institute of Technology Hamirpur

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