"Thankful" Hashtag Campaign: #FOSSgiving
by Remy DeCausemaker
bkp,
We're overdue for a catchup on a variety of things, but I have a
specific request from Fedora magazine.
Today, in our Editorial meeting we discussed how with next week being
the Holiday, we wanted to do something special, but we also wouldn't
have as much time/people/resources to publish major articles.
So what we came up with was a social media campaign to encourage
people to be "Thankful" during Thanksgiving, and tag/shout-out/thank
any Free/Open Source Software people/projects in a tweet.
We would then cherry pick some of the best ones, to be embedded in a
Fedora Magazine Post and published on Thanksgiving.
I got no matches on #FOSSgiving, so that one is my vote, but some
other hashtags we were throwing around were:
#FedoraFriends (some noise)
#Friendora (some noise)
#ThankYouFOSS
#FOSSTgiving
#TYFOSS
#FOSSTY
#ThanksFromFedora
#FedoraThanksyou
#thnxfrmfedora
#FedoraLove (noisy)
Some Possible Tweets Introducing the Hashtag:
Have a favorite Free Software or Open Source Project, Community, or
Contributor? Take a moment to say Thank You this year with #FOSSgiving
Have a favorite #FreeSoftware or #OpenSource Project, Community, or
Contributor? Take a moment to say #ThankYou this year with #FOSSgiving
Have a favorite Free Software or Open Source Project, Community, or
Contributor? Take a moment to be #Thankful this year with #FOSSgiving
Have a favorite #FreeSoftware or #OpenSource Project, Community, or
Contributor? Take a moment to say Thank You this year with #FOSSgiving
Some example tweets could be like:
This #FOSSgiving I'm thankful for @tpope and his #vim plugins that
help me every day to write every line of text in a fraction of the
time
This #FOSSGiving I'm thankful for @inkscape which I use to design and
create at home and at work (and for saving me thousands of dollars!)
I'm cc'ing the mktg, commops, and design list on this thread, so that
we can all work together to help promote this and make it happen.
Thoughts?
--RemyD.
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Remy DeCausemaker
Fedora Community Lead & Council
<decause(a)redhat.com>
https://whatcanidoforfedora.org
8 years, 5 months
Magazine editorial board recap 2015-Nov-19
by Paul W. Frields
Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2015-11-19/magazine.2015-...
Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2015-11-19/magazine.2015-...
Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2015-11-19/magazine.2015-...
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#fedora-meeting: Magazine editorial board
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Meeting started by stickster at 22:00:16 UTC. The full logs are
available at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2015-11-19/magazine.2015-...
.
Meeting summary
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* Roll call (stickster, 22:00:21)
* Last week review (stickster, 22:03:44)
* We broke the monthly record for views this month, with ~10 days left
to go in the month still (stickster, 22:05:41)
* Schedule for next week (stickster, 22:07:30)
* Tuesday: Wayland testing (stickster, 22:07:40)
* Wednesday: systemd next-part (stickster, 22:08:31)
* ACTION: stickster draft systemd unit deps/ordering article for next
Mon review/Wed publishing (stickster, 22:10:18)
* Thursday (or TBD): Cinnamon (stickster, 22:11:07)
* Pitch votes (stickster, 22:13:43)
* LINK:
http://fedoramagazine.org/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=pitch&orderby=dat...
(stickster, 22:13:46)
* Varnish -- https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=10743&preview=true
(stickster, 22:14:46)
* KDE Connect -- https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=10850&preview=true
(stickster, 22:16:53)
* ACTION: jflory7 follow up with Sudhir about the KDE Connect article
and try to commit to a due date (jflory7, 22:19:20)
* cgroups -- https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=10865&preview=true
(stickster, 22:20:23)
* AGREED: cgroups should go forth (stickster, 22:24:38)
* ACTION: stickster contact jds2001 about writing the article
(stickster, 22:24:48)
* Cockpit overview -- https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=10867&preview=true
(stickster, 22:25:46)
* AGREED: cockpit ftw (stickster, 22:30:14)
* ACTION: linuxmodder Pull together highlights on Cockpit from
sgallagh &co, and draft the Cockpit article (stickster, 22:30:35)
* nuntius -- https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=10869&preview=true
(stickster, 22:31:11)
* AGREED: nuntius is nummy (stickster, 22:34:02)
* ACTION: ryanlerch draft the nuntius article (stickster, 22:34:18)
* Picard -- https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=10885&preview=true
(stickster, 22:35:52)
* AGREED: Picard says make it so (stickster, 22:40:25)
* ACTION: jflory7 draft Picard article for intended publication date
of November 30 (jflory7, 22:40:28)
* Drafts (stickster, 22:42:34)
* ACTION: decause reach out to bkp about "thankful" series during
t-giving week (decause, 22:49:41)
* ACTION: decause to talk to bkp about a "thankful" tweet based post
for next week (stickster, 22:53:05)
* ACTION: decause start the article now, draft 2-3 sentence intro into
which he can insert tweets from bkp and set to schedule/auto-publish
(stickster, 22:54:37)
* ACTION: decause ping stickster tomorrow morning to tidy up any
further details (stickster, 22:54:49)
* Open floor (stickster, 22:55:05)
* ACTION: jflory help keep this on the decause/commops radar
(decause, 22:55:17)
* ACTION: jflory7 start thread on marketing@ to talk about adjusting
meeting time (stickster, 22:59:10)
Meeting ended at 22:59:45 UTC.
Action Items
------------
* stickster draft systemd unit deps/ordering article for next Mon
review/Wed publishing
* jflory7 follow up with Sudhir about the KDE Connect article and try to
commit to a due date
* stickster contact jds2001 about writing the article
* linuxmodder Pull together highlights on Cockpit from sgallagh &co, and
draft the Cockpit article
* ryanlerch draft the nuntius article
* jflory7 draft Picard article for intended publication date of November
30
* decause reach out to bkp about "thankful" series during t-giving week
* decause to talk to bkp about a "thankful" tweet based post for next
week
* decause start the article now, draft 2-3 sentence intro into which he
can insert tweets from bkp and set to schedule/auto-publish
* decause ping stickster tomorrow morning to tidy up any further details
* jflory help keep this on the decause/commops radar
* jflory7 start thread on marketing@ to talk about adjusting meeting
time
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* decause
* decause reach out to bkp about "thankful" series during t-giving
week
* decause to talk to bkp about a "thankful" tweet based post for next
week
* decause start the article now, draft 2-3 sentence intro into which
he can insert tweets from bkp and set to schedule/auto-publish
* decause ping stickster tomorrow morning to tidy up any further
details
* jflory help keep this on the decause/commops radar
* jflory7
* jflory7 follow up with Sudhir about the KDE Connect article and try
to commit to a due date
* jflory7 draft Picard article for intended publication date of
November 30
* jflory7 start thread on marketing@ to talk about adjusting meeting
time
* linuxmodder
* linuxmodder Pull together highlights on Cockpit from sgallagh &co,
and draft the Cockpit article
* stickster
* stickster draft systemd unit deps/ordering article for next Mon
review/Wed publishing
* stickster contact jds2001 about writing the article
* decause ping stickster tomorrow morning to tidy up any further
details
* **UNASSIGNED**
* ryanlerch draft the nuntius article
People Present (lines said)
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* stickster (128)
* jflory7 (70)
* decause (42)
* linuxmodder (24)
* zodbot (14)
* cydrobolt (2)
* puiterwijk (2)
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.. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot
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The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com
8 years, 5 months
'Let's test Wayland' article
by Jiri Eischmann
Hi,
we in the desktop team would like to make the final push towards
Wayland in F24 and for that we need as much test coverage and user
feedback in F23 as possible.
We're planning to backport the latest Wayland support to F23 so that
users don't have to run Rawhide and we cooperate with the Fedora QA
team to provide users with tutorials how to debug Wayland issues and
write useful reports.
I'd like to write an article about it for Fedora Magazine to reach as
many users as possible. Do you think it'd be a good fit for the
Magazine?
Jiri
8 years, 5 months
Spam Queue on Fedora Magazine
by Ryan Lerch
Hi all,
just a heads up that we frequently have legitimate comments in the Spam
queue on the Magazine. So if you have the ability to moderate this
queue, please never click the "Empty Spam" button.
I have noticed that legitimate comments that appear in the Spam folder
seem to always be marked in the spam folder as "Cleared by Akismet" --
not sure why, if they are cleared by akismet, they are still in the spam
folder. But all i have been doing to clear the queue, is:
1. Open the spam folder, and search for "Cleared" on the page with the
find in page function of my web browser.
2. Review the comments, and mark any legitimate comments as not spam.
3. select all the remaining comments in the page, and delete them
4. repeat for all the other pages of spam comments
Note too that marking a comment as not spam only puts it back in the
normal comments pending queue, so you will need to go there to finally
approve the comment to get it viewable on the site.
cheers,
ryanlerch
8 years, 5 months
[Magazine] Reminder about post status
by Paul W. Frields
I wanted to remind people how to use status settings for posts on the
Fedora Magazine:
1. Pitch -- this is for an idea where no draft has been done yet. If
you take a pitch and start working on it, set yourself as the author,
and move to Draft status.
2. Draft -- this is for drafts in progress. When the author is
finished with the draft and thinks it's ready for review, move to
Pending Review status.
3. Pending Review -- this is for an article that needs to have
editorial & featured image completed. (It might be better to call
this "Pending," but meh.)
We also have "Holding Pen," which is for pitches that we don't want to
publish, but which might be adapted somehow later. That way we don't
keep looking at the same moldy, unapproved pitches repeatedly.
When an article is finished, it can be scheduled based on our meeting
notes. Just set a date/time, remembering that early morning UTC time
(around 0300-0400) is optimal. This means we get maximum number of
people around the world awake when we publish.
--
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
8 years, 5 months
Use of Link shorteners on Twitter
by Ryan Lerch
Hi all,
Just wondering what people think about not using any link shorteners on
the official Fedora twitter feed. Twitter actually passes all links in
tweets through their own t.co/ link shortener, so using another one is
just (IMHO) unnecessarily obfuscating the link from our followers on
twitter. (twitter presents all t.co links as the full text, but the link
itself is t.co)
Looking back through the feed, the main link shortener being used is
ow.ly, which i assume is being done by whoever is using Hootsuite.
cheers,
ryanlerch
8 years, 5 months
"Bump" an older Magazine article?
by Justin W. Flory
Hi all,
One last thing I noticed before I headed off the bed - seems like one of
ryanlerch's articles from mid-2014 about copying over the Fedora ISOs to
a USB drive for install has had a surge in popularity today. Might it be
a good idea to do a touchup and bump it back to the top of the Magazine
for this week? Seems like it's a valuable article that could help bring
in some more attention.
http://fedoramagazine.org/how-to-copy-the-fedora-install-dvd-to-a-usb-drive/
Thanks again.
--
Cheers,
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Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
8 years, 5 months
