Self-Introduction: Jeffery Abbott
by Jeff Abbott
Saludos de New Mexico!
My name is Jeffery Abbott (Jeff for short) and I live in the state of New
Mexico in the United States of America. My FAS username is jdabbott5100 and
my IRC alias will be #jdabbott5100 (although I have yet to sign on yet).
I learned about the Fedora Marketing team by reading the *How do you *
*Fedora?* feature on the Fedora website, in which one of contributors
proclaimed
to love the Fedora community. Moved by my own appreciation of Fedora, I too
have decided to join and contribute in any way I can. This will be the
first Open Source project of which I've officially sought to be a part of.
My Skills, which I hope to utilize in Fedora Marketing, include:
- Promotions – I was the assistant director of Circulation and Audience
Development for the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper for several years in
which I oversaw several promotions to help expand readership.
- Writing – I have a bachelors of arts in Literature, with a concentration
in Spanish and Latin American literature. I've had several columns in
English and articles translated to/from Spanish published in the Santa Fe
New Mexican Newspaper. My first writing project out of college was with a
small newspaper in Quito, Ecuador where I worked as an intern for several
months.
- Graphic Design – My three go-to programs are GIMP, Inkscape and Scribus
(a great program I don't think is ever mentioned enough). I've created
advertisements and promotional materials for both print and web.
- Web Design – I am proficient in HTML/CSS. I've also been an avid user
of the Drupal Content Management System since 2011.
Currently I work for the Special Education Department for Santa Fe Public
Schools as a Coordinator for Parent and Educator Resources. I am incredibly
fortunate to be put in a position to support students, teachers and
families of students who have special needs. Personally, I have a son who
was born with Special Needs, something which has opened my eyes, I feel, to
the incredible wonder that it
is to be a sentient human being. In using Fedora and the vast array of Open
Source offerings, at work I'm known as the guy capable of doing a lot with
little. My heart often breaks when I see such institutions like public
schools pay so much money for the licensing of software of which I know
there is a perfectly good open source alternative. My chief interest in
joining the Fedora Marketing Team is to promote Fedora as a viable
alternative for nonprofits and public institutions. I currently use Fedora
on an eight year old laptop that was discarded and reported to be “old and
broken” but that worked superbly once I put a Fedora Spin of LXDE on it.
I've also spent time with my son navigating the joys of *Sugar on a Stick*.
Being a father of a child with special needs, a husband to my beautiful
wife Katia, and a coordinator in the public schools often means I can be a
bit busy. I may not be the first to respond to collaboration initiatives
but that doesn't mean I won't be paying attention. I'll gladly chime in and
contribute whenever possible! :)
Thanks so much for the opportunity and please consider including me on your
marketing team!
Kindest regards,
--
Jeffery Abbott
7 years, 9 months
Self-Introduction: Michael Downey
by Michael Downey
Hi, my name is Michael Downey and I live in the USA (soon moving to Portland, Oregon, UTC-8). My Fedora Account System (FAS) username is downey, and my IRC nick is also downey.
I've worked in free & open source software in the past. Most recently, I was the director of community for OpenMRS, an open source electronic medical record system. I'm currently serving on the steering committee for LibreHealth, a new umbrella organization just getting started for open source Health IT projects.
Recently I've had some extra time on my hands and have been working to get up to speed to contribute to a few FOSS projects that I really care about. I learned about the Fedora Marketing team through the wiki, and thought I might be able to help out. I've done quite a bit of marketing work for OpenMRS in the past, and hope that I can add some experience to help Fedora, since I've been a user for many years now. Some of my experience includes blogging & content strategy, social media strategy, advertising, graphic design for online & print media, web design, community leadership/management, etc. I've already done one blog post for Magazine which is up at https://fedoramagazine.org/the-ultimate-fedora-t-shirt/.
As a long-time Fedora user, I hope to do what I can to help spread the word about one of my favorite FOSS projects. People have done a great job so far, but there are still millions of people to get involved, and lots of the planet still un-informed! :-)
One thing that crossed my mind today was getting the @Fedora account on Twitter to have verified status. I got this for the @OpenMRS account and Twitter just announced a streamlined process yesterday at https://blog.twitter.com/2016/announcing-an-application-process-for-verif.... What do others think?
Looking forward to learning more and helping more!
Michael
** Adapted from the template at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Introduce_yourself_to_the_marketing_group :-)
7 years, 9 months
Social media for Flock
by Paul W. Frields
A couple people noted in the Magazine meeting that last year's Flock
was a little spammy in use of Twitter/social media. Would it make
sense to use a different account for "this talk is now on" type
things, and just have the @fedora account stay clear other than to
point people to that account if interested?
Other thoughts welcome.
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7 years, 9 months
Marketing-trac: #229: Shared, secure password distribution
by Marketing Team
#229: Shared, secure password distribution
---------------------------------+-------------------------
Reporter: jflory7 | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Fedora 24
Component: Internal operations | Severity: not urgent
Keywords: meeting | Blocked By:
Blocking: |
---------------------------------+-------------------------
= Problem =
In
[https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/marketing@lists.fedoraproje...
previous discussions], we had talked about secure password management and
distribution to safely and securely distribute confidential information
such as passwords for social media accounts or other Fedora-related,
shared accounts.
We need a system that can handle having multiple "caretakers" that manage
all the passwords, user accounts that can individually access certain
accounts / passwords, have some kind of convenient way to regenerate
passwords if a user is removed or has their privileges changed.
= Analysis =
When we discussed this originally, we decided to approach the
Infrastructure team to get their feedback / ideas on such an idea about
how to manage this. We also wanted to answer questions such as…
* How many people will need access to the passwords?
* How much data would be stored (e.g. how many passwords, for what
services, is it small-scale or large-scale, etc.)?
* How often will access to a password be granted?
* How often will access to a password be revoked?
= Enhancement Recommendation =
=== pass ===
The Infrastructure team originally proposed for us to consider using
[https://www.passwordstore.org/ pass], a Unix command line password
management utility. Pass uses GPG keys to encrypt passwords and can
synchronize them via git.
'''Advantages'''
* Lightweight, easy to maintain (theoretically)
* Uses tried and trusted tech to secure passwords (GPG)
* Little overhead to maintain a secure repository within Fedora's
Infrastructure
'''Disadvantages'''
* No per-user customization (anyone whose GPG key id is added to the
repository has access to all passwords)
* Requires anyone with access to have understanding and reliability to use
GPG as expected
* A compromised key could cause issues if someone who needs access is not
extremely familiar with using GPG.
* Changing passwords in the event of a dropped GPG key means changing ALL
passwords in the entire repository for everyone (no modularity in terms of
a user who should have access to a subset / specific password)
=== Rattic ===
I've never used Rattic or do I know much about it, but it seems like a
more complete solution than pass. I'm going to CC Brian Proffitt to this
ticket in case he can add more context to this discussion.
Eventually, after discussing in a meeting, we'd like to take a vote on
this and bring a formal proposal to the Infrastructure team.
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7 years, 9 months
[Magazine] Editorial board meeting recap 2016-Jul-21
by Paul W. Frields
Minutes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-07-21/magazine.2016...
Minutes (text): https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-07-21/magazine.2016...
Log: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-07-21/magazine.2016...
* * *
=========================================
#fedora-meeting: Magazine editorial board
=========================================
Meeting started by stickster at 21:00:10 UTC. The full logs are
available at
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-07-21/magazine.2016...
.
Meeting summary
---------------
* Roll call (stickster, 21:00:16)
* Last week's stats (stickster, 21:06:08)
* 11-15 July was substantially down from previous week, 48342 -> 37429
views (stickster, 21:06:57)
* Pending review (stickster, 21:08:18)
* None in pending review currently (stickster, 21:08:41)
* Draft (stickster, 21:08:51)
* LINK: https://fedoramagazine.org/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft
(stickster, 21:08:58)
* IDEA: Seafile article: contact author and ask to cover a new
assigned topic from our keyword hit list (stickster, 21:19:08)
* AGREED: Seafile article: contact author and ask to cover a new
assigned topic from our keyword hit list (stickster, 21:20:20)
* ACTION: stickster contact author of Seafile to explain status & give
a few topic choices (stickster, 21:20:23)
* IDEA: LXC article -- place in Holding Pen for now, OK per JohnMH
(stickster, 21:20:48)
* AGREED: LXC article -- place in Holding Pen for now, OK per JohnMH
(stickster, 21:21:05)
* ACTION: jflory7_ move LXC to holding pen (stickster, 21:21:12)
* IDEA: Alien article -- same as Seafile? (stickster, 21:21:37)
* AGREED: Alien article -- same as Seafile? (stickster, 21:23:11)
* ACTION: stickster contact alien article author and treat same as
Seafile above (stickster, 21:23:23)
* --- LUKS/LVM boot article --- (stickster, 21:24:29)
* LINK: https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=13584&preview=1&_ppp=c07a7bb64b
(stickster, 21:24:41)
* ACTION: stickster finish editing SSH/LUKS/LVM boot article and
schedule for Monday 2016-Jul-25 (stickster, 21:27:45)
* Pending Review part 2 (stickster, 21:29:03)
* --- HDYF --- (stickster, 21:29:06)
* LINK: https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=13544&preview=1&_ppp=a454890279
(stickster, 21:29:22)
* ACTION: cprofitt try to get a new cover image for HDYF with Mr.
Raby, then we'll publish quickly (stickster, 21:40:07)
* Pitches (stickster, 21:40:12)
* LINK:
https://fedoramagazine.org/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=pitch&post_type=...
(stickster, 21:40:28)
* --- LVM snapshots, systemd, and upgrades --- (stickster, 21:41:01)
* LINK: https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=13738&preview=1&_ppp=8520b572c8
(stickster, 21:41:02)
* ACTION: ryanlerch email LVM snapshots/systemd/upgrades author to let
him know his article is approved, ask for draft in ~2 weeks (by
2016-Aug-03) (stickster, 21:49:13)
* All other business (open floor) (stickster, 21:50:09)
* ACTION: ryanlerch stickster talk to jzb and bkp about approach for
Flock (stickster, 21:55:38)
Meeting ended at 22:02:04 UTC.
Action Items
------------
* stickster contact author of Seafile to explain status & give a few
topic choices
* jflory7_ move LXC to holding pen
* stickster contact alien article author and treat same as Seafile above
* stickster finish editing SSH/LUKS/LVM boot article and schedule for
Monday 2016-Jul-25
* cprofitt try to get a new cover image for HDYF with Mr. Raby, then
we'll publish quickly
* ryanlerch email LVM snapshots/systemd/upgrades author to let him know
his article is approved, ask for draft in ~2 weeks (by 2016-Aug-03)
* ryanlerch stickster talk to jzb and bkp about approach for Flock
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* cprofitt
* cprofitt try to get a new cover image for HDYF with Mr. Raby, then
we'll publish quickly
* jflory7_
* jflory7_ move LXC to holding pen
* ryanlerch
* ryanlerch email LVM snapshots/systemd/upgrades author to let him
know his article is approved, ask for draft in ~2 weeks (by
2016-Aug-03)
* ryanlerch stickster talk to jzb and bkp about approach for Flock
* stickster
* stickster contact author of Seafile to explain status & give a few
topic choices
* stickster contact alien article author and treat same as Seafile
above
* stickster finish editing SSH/LUKS/LVM boot article and schedule for
Monday 2016-Jul-25
* ryanlerch stickster talk to jzb and bkp about approach for Flock
* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)
People Present (lines said)
---------------------------
* stickster (121)
* jflory7_ (69)
* ryanlerch (38)
* zodbot (15)
* JohnMH (3)
* lmacken (1)
* cprofitt (0)
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7 years, 9 months
Re: [commops] Re: Fwd: Introducing The Ultimate Fedora T-Shirt!
by Justin W. Flory
On 07/19/2016 11:02 AM, Michael Downey wrote:
> Hi everyone. I had some free time this morning so took a shot at a draft
> blog post. The draft should probably be viewable (if logged in) here:
> https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/?p=1866&preview_id=1866&preview=true
>
> What I didn't know is if someone has already created a Fedora-specific
> referral link for Unixstickers? (Not sure how that would work
> logistically.) If so, it could be an extra 15% donation from peoples'
> first orders, and gives them a USD $5 incentive. If you all want to use
> the blog post, I am happy to edit the post accordingly based on the status.
>
> Michael
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 8:53 AM Remy DeCausemaker <decause(a)gmail.com
> <mailto:decause@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Potential CommBlog post? Talk to magazine too.
>
> <3
> --RemyD.
>
Hey all, special big shout-out to downey for writing this all up and
putting it together! We discussed in the CommOps channel earlier, and
ryanlerch ended up also wanting to do a post for the Magazine, so we
sent this post out on the Magazine.
Find it here!
https://fedoramagazine.org/the-ultimate-fedora-t-shirt/
downey++
--
Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
7 years, 9 months
[Minutes] [2016-07-20] Talking points @ Flock, password policy, easyfix tasks, "Let's talk about Flatpak"
by Justin W. Flory
Hello all!
Today's Marketing meeting just came to a close. In our meeting, we
discussed:
* Upcoming deadline for talking points and taking advantage of people
power at Flock to get ideas for them
* Moving forward on drafting a policy on managing passwords as per
previous discussions
* Creating new easyfix / low-hanging fruit tasks for new contributors
* Some discussion about Flatpak and Snap and improving messaging on what
Fedora is working on with regards to Flatpak
= = = = =
Meeting ended Wed Jul 20 22:04:03 2016 UTC.
Minutes:
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2016-07-20/marketing.2...
Minutes (text):
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2016-07-20/marketing.2...
Log:
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2016-07-20/marketing.2...
* * * * *
========================================================
#fedora-meeting-1: Fedora Marketing meeting (2016-07-20)
========================================================
Meeting started by jflory7 at 20:59:00 UTC. The full logs are available
at
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2016-07-20/marketing.2...
.
Meeting summary
---------------
* Agenda (jflory7, 20:59:07)
* LINK:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Marketing_meeting_2016-07-20
(jflory7, 20:59:09)
* Roll Call (jflory7, 20:59:14)
* Name; Timezone; Other sub-projects / interest areas (jflory7,
20:59:20)
* Justin W. Flory; UTC-4; Marketing / Magazine, CommOps, Ambassadors,
Diversity, Join, etc. (jflory7, 20:59:44)
* Ryan Lerch; UTC+10; Magazine, Design, Fedora Apps (ryanlerch,
21:00:01)
* Announcements (jflory7, 21:04:22)
* === Fedora July 2016 Elections now open === (jflory7, 21:04:28)
* LINK: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/ (jflory7, 21:04:32)
* LINK:
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/2016-july-elections-interviews/
(jflory7, 21:04:37)
* The July 2016 Elections for the Fedora Council (1) and Fedora
Engineering Steering Committee (4) are now open. Anyone with
cla_done can vote for the Council, anyone with CLA+1 can vote for
FESCo. Voting closes at 23:59:00 UTC on July 25th. Interviews with
most candidates are published on the Community Blog. Get your votes
in soon! (jflory7, 21:04:43)
* === "New guidelines for Fedora Ambassadors and Design" ===
(jflory7, 21:04:50)
* LINK:
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/new-guidelines-fedora-ambassadors...
(jflory7, 21:04:57)
* The updated guidelines for communication between Ambassadors and
Design team members were updated last week. This article details
some of the changes and provides information on where to learn more
about the updated guidelines. (jflory7, 21:05:11)
* === You get a Fedora shirt! And you get a Fedora shirt! And you! ===
(jflory7, 21:05:26)
* LINK:
http://www.unixstickers.com/tshirts-and-hoodies/t-shirts/the-ultimate-fed...
(jflory7, 21:05:32)
* UnixStickers recently announced the sale of Fedora t-shirts in black
or white varieties. If you want a Fedora shirt of your very own or
for a friend, visit the page and grab one of your very own!
(jflory7, 21:05:37)
* === Fedora Women Day events come to a close === (jflory7, 21:05:42)
* Fedora Women Day is an annual event starting this year, organized by
the Diversity team and the Diversity Adviser, tatica. Events were
held across the globe to help celebrate the contributions that
Fedora women are making every day in the project. Special thanks to
Amita, trishnag, jonatoni, giannisk, tatica, and the many others
involved in helping organize these events! (jflory7, 21:05:48)
* === Choosing a new meeting time === (jflory7, 21:06:22)
* LINK: http://whenisgood.net/fedora/marketing/2016/fallmeeting
(jflory7, 21:06:26)
* Please choose the times that work best for you in the above poll for
a new meeting time. (jflory7, 21:07:00)
* Action items from last meetings (jflory7, 21:11:39)
* LINK:
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2016-07-13/marketing.2...
(jflory7, 21:11:41)
* How This Works: We look at past #action items from the last meeting
for quick follow-up. If a task is completed, we move on to the next
one. If it isn't, we get an update and re-action it if needed. If no
status, we'll try to get a quick update and move forward. (jflory7,
21:11:47)
* === jflory7 Work on creating an initial "template" draft for Friends
of Fedora websites example === (jflory7, 21:12:15)
* jflory7 will leave this action item open for the future - not able
to be done by me right now (jflory7, 21:12:20)
* LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/222 (jflory7,
21:12:37)
* Upcoming Tasks (jflory7, 21:13:13)
* LINK:
https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-25/f-25-marketing-tasks.html
(jflory7, 21:13:18)
* (1) Cleanup Marketing wiki from previous releases (due: 2016-07-18)
(jflory7, 21:13:26)
* (2) Cycle Marketing wiki pages for current release (due: 2016-07-18)
(jflory7, 21:13:32)
* (3) Create Talking Points (due: Tue 2016-08-09) (jflory7, 21:13:38)
* IDEA: Using Flock as a place to gather info from different talks /
WGs about what's new in F25 (jflory7, 21:17:52)
* Probably want to "push" deadline for Talking Points a little past
Flock to give those traveling a chance to recover... :) (jflory7,
21:18:13)
* ACTION: jflory7 Create a new ticket for F25 Talking Points, make
mention of pushing deadline, using Flock as place to gather info /
ideas (jflory7, 21:20:41)
* Tickets (jflory7, 21:22:26)
* LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/report/12 (jflory7,
21:22:34)
* === Ticket #229 === (jflory7, 21:22:39)
* LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/229 (jflory7,
21:22:44)
* "Shared, secure password distribution" (jflory7, 21:22:50)
* ACTION: bkp Do some research into pass and help put together a draft
for managing the passwords, share in ticket (jflory7, 21:28:02)
* Open Floor (jflory7, 21:28:37)
* ACTION: x3mboy File a ticket in the Marketing Trac to keep on top of
ideas for a PDF / downloadable version of Magazine articles
(jflory7, 21:39:25)
* IDEA: Come up with some "low-hanging fruit" tickets / tasks and
break them down into tickets for new contributors to help get them
involved with Marketing tasks (jflory7, 21:44:09)
* ACTION: jflory7 File a ticket for creating more low-hanging fruit
tasks and start a list of some tasks that could be good for this
(jflory7, 21:44:34)
* LINK:
https://www.happyassassin.net/2016/06/16/on-snappy-and-flatpak-business-a...
(jflory7, 21:48:23)
* LINK: http://www.hadess.net/2016/07/guadec-flatpak-contest.html
(bkp, 21:58:07)
Meeting ended at 22:04:03 UTC.
Action Items
------------
* jflory7 Create a new ticket for F25 Talking Points, make mention of
pushing deadline, using Flock as place to gather info / ideas
* bkp Do some research into pass and help put together a draft for
managing the passwords, share in ticket
* x3mboy File a ticket in the Marketing Trac to keep on top of ideas for
a PDF / downloadable version of Magazine articles
* jflory7 File a ticket for creating more low-hanging fruit tasks and
start a list of some tasks that could be good for this
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* bkp
* bkp Do some research into pass and help put together a draft for
managing the passwords, share in ticket
* jflory7
* jflory7 Create a new ticket for F25 Talking Points, make mention of
pushing deadline, using Flock as place to gather info / ideas
* jflory7 File a ticket for creating more low-hanging fruit tasks and
start a list of some tasks that could be good for this
* x3mboy
* x3mboy File a ticket in the Marketing Trac to keep on top of ideas
for a PDF / downloadable version of Magazine articles
* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)
People Present (lines said)
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* jflory7 (157)
* x3mboy (32)
* bkp (20)
* ryanlerch (17)
* number80 (14)
* zodbot (12)
* downey (5)
* jonatoni (2)
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7 years, 9 months
Marketing-trac: #230: Moving to Pagure
by Marketing Team
#230: Moving to Pagure
---------------------------------+-------------------------
Reporter: jflory7 | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: Fedora 24
Component: Internal operations | Severity: not urgent
Keywords: meeting | Blocked By:
Blocking: |
---------------------------------+-------------------------
= Problem =
The Fedora Infrastructure team is planning on sunsetting Fedora Hosted
repositories in the coming future (tried finding where this announcement
or discussion originally happened, but had a hard time finding it).
Eventually, the idea is for all projects using Fedora Hosted to migrate to
Pagure. We will be expected / planned to be migrated in the foreseeable
future.
= Analysis =
There are some tools available to assist in migrating Trac to Pagure,
although it is under testing and not yet fully tested. We would need to
check with the Infrastructure team about the status of this tool.
= Enhancement Recommendation =
We have one of two options.
=== Start fresh ===
We could move to Pagure and begin using it today, at the expense of losing
past history / discussions on old tickets.
=== Try the migration tool ===
We could try using the migration tool being developed to move our project
over (since we are only tickets and not a git repository, I imagine this
will be easier to do?).
To be discussed at the next meeting.
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