F26 Talking Points
by Eduard Lucena
Hi team,
I'm Eduard Lucena, and I'm here in the behalf of the Marketing team. As you
should know, we prepare a lists of highlights about each release, called
Talking Points:
Talking points are key highlights of the new release. There are different
> types of talking points for different types of people: general desktop
> users/everyone, developers, and sysadmins. They are meant to provide a
> short, effective answer to the question "What cool stuff is in the latest
> release of Fedora?" They are compelling, not necessarily comprehensive
>
This points help us, as Marketing team, as well to Ambassadors, to
publicize each release with the news and cool stuff.
For this matter and this release, we have this wiki page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_26_talking_points and we will be
happy to include the new things in the KDE Spin.
You can help us in both ways:
1. Editing the wiki directly with the points.
2. Throwing us the list, and we will put them in the wiki.
Thanks in advance for your help and for your efforts.
Br,
--
Eduard Lucena
Móvil: +56962318010
GNU/Linux User #589060
Ubuntu User #8749
Fedora Ambassador Latam
6 years, 4 months
[fedora-marketing] Issue #250 `Fedora User Handbook`
by Eduard Lucena
x3mboy reported a new issue against the project: `fedora-marketing` that you are following:
``
== Case
There is a new project from Ambassadors called ["Fedora User Handbook"](https://pagure.io/ambassadors/fedora-handbook). The idea is to have a generic book for beginners that can be used among releases. Even when the original book is in Czech, the project is to make the english translation the main one and from the english version start to create translations in other languages.
== Proposal
The proposal is to start to read the handbook, provide feedback (or even translations when possible) and try to have the book finished to F26 Release and start to publicize it.
== Actions made
Right now I'm working in the spanish translation, hoping to finish soon.
== Expectations
There are a lot of "Beginners books" that gain attraction but can be outdated or giving wrong information about both the distro and the community. Having one born from the community, and when all of us can be involved, updating the info and putting the right info about everything could be a great place to start and to drive new user into Fedora.
``
To reply, visit the link below or just reply to this email
https://pagure.io/fedora-marketing/issue/250
6 years, 5 months
F26 Talking Points
by Eduard Lucena
Hi team,
I'm Eduard Lucena, and I'm here in the behalf of the Marketing team. In the
Marketing Team, we prepare a lists of highlights about each release, called
Talking Points:
Talking points are key highlights of the new release. There are different
> types of talking points for different types of people: general desktop
> users/everyone, developers, and sysadmins. They are meant to provide a
> short, effective answer to the question "What cool stuff is in the latest
> release of Fedora?" They are compelling, not necessarily comprehensive
>
This points help us, as Marketing team, as well to Ambassadors, to
publicize each release with the news and cool stuff.
For this matter and this release, we have this wiki page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_26_talking_points and we will be
happy to include the new things about LXQt Spin.
You can help us in both ways:
1. Editing the wiki directly with the points.
2. Throwing us the list, and we will put them in the wiki.
Thanks in advance for your help and for your efforts.
Br,
--
Eduard Lucena
Móvil: +56962318010
GNU/Linux User #589060
Ubuntu User #8749
Fedora Ambassador Latam
6 years, 6 months
LinuxFest NorthWest and Security Lab spin
by Jeff Sandys
This is edited from the note I sent to the booth team for LinuxFest
NorthWest.
https://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/2017/sponsors/choose-freedom-choose-fe...
I would like Marketing and Ambassadors to see what we are doing to make the
interaction with guests a memorable experience. By focusing on a spin, a
subject, we can engage at a deeper level, and using an activity we give the
guest an experience. I wonder what a fest visitor on Monday tells a
friend. Their memorable experience was probably an excellent talk or the
salmon lunch or rolling dice to make a passphrase.
The theme is ‘The Mechanics of Freedom’ so we will feature the Fedora
Security Lab spin (FSL). One thing I have learned about the spins is
someone has a passionate reason for them. These three videos tell the
story of FSL and Hacker Highschool with Joerg’s what it is, Pete’s why, and
then how it was used to protect people in Tibet.
Joerg Simon presents the Security Lab spin, shows a few examples and talks
about OSSTMM, the Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual.
https://youtu.be/c-tk7EE_C3w
The slides for his talk are here if you want to follow along.
http://jsimon.fedorapeople.org/fedora_osstmm_secspinv5.pdf
Jeorg Simon is a Fedora contributor and works at ISECOM the sponsor of
OSSTMM.
http://www.isecom.org/research/osstmm.html
They also developed a 3 volume Security Essentials Study Guide and Workbook
used by ‘Hacker Highschool’. I will have copies of these books on the
table, the labs are based on the OSSTMM and can run on the Security Lab
spin. Let me know if you want to borrow one of the books to check out some
of the labs.
http://www.hackerhighschool.org/books.html
The author of the books and the head of ISECOM is Pete Herzog who gives a
great talk about security. His concepts are clear and compelling and easy
to communicate to the public.
https://youtu.be/rcILY0mLEUo
ISECOM also publishes The Open Source Cybersecurity Playbook that covers
threats and protection for every computer user. You should read the 25
pages to discuss security with guests.
http://www.isecom.org/research/playbook.html
This FudCon talk about Fedora in Tibet was recommended by Joerg. Fedora is
used because of the localization capabilities, the reduced attack surface
and the open-source relationship to Buddhism. At 22:00 to 33:30 he talks
about Hacker Highschool used to protect them from Chinese hackers. The
remainder of the talk is about other interesting Tibetan projects.
https://youtu.be/0m78m_tw8jI?list=PL279M8GbNsevHJcQSsNoR3jIGXQebEa3-&t=315
I cued this up because the beginning is a discussion about Tibet while
waiting to start.
I hope you can spend some time watching the videos.
For an activity guests will create a pass phrase with dice. We are getting
custom engraved dice to give to guests who sign in at the kiosk, make a
pass phrase, engage us in Fedora or ask (limit one). We should have 300 to
give away. This is a test sample:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:Fedoradie.jpg
Could you look through the proposed sessions and identify Fedora related
speakers and talks so we can promote them?
https://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/2017/sessions/proposed
Please register even if you might not go and let me know your ID so I can
get you the vendors badge.
https://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/user/register
See you all May 6-7:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxFest_Northwest_(LFNW)_2017
Thanks,
Jeff Sandys
6 years, 6 months
Wiki page containing all the marketing collateral designs and SWAG designs
by Chino Soliard
Hi there,
In LATAM, we are near an event (http://flisol.info), and I'm trying
to produce some stickers to distribute between the assistants.
I haven't found actual (better say, newer) stickers on the wiki, but
I've seen a lot of really cool stickers in some events, and pictures of
folks in social networks.
I only find this two links:
·
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_collateral?rd=Artwork/MarketingC...
· https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Stickers
So, to make short this email, here's the point:
- Is there a place (in the wiki, or anywhere) where all marketing
collateral designs and SWAG designs are together so I can choose what I
want to produce?
If something important I've learned contributing to Fedora is to take
initiative, so, if you think this that this is necessary, I can work on
that, but it will take a time, because I have to assist events in April,
May and June.
- Should we create a Wiki page containing that?
by the way, I've presented myself in oct/2012
https://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/marketing@lists.fedoraprojec...
I cc design-team and ambassadors, because, maybe, they know where I can
find what I'm looking for.
Regards!
--
Adrian "Chino" Soliard
Fedora Project Contributor
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Asoliard
6 years, 6 months
Fedora User Handbook Project
by Jiri Eischmann
Hi,
I've finally found time to push forward the "Getting Started with
Fedora" handbook.
Just an introduction for those who don't know what it is:
Almost two years ago, we created a Czech handbook for beginners to
start with Fedora. It has ~30 pages and we give it away at conferences,
presentations etc. It's been pretty successful and we decided to
translate it to English, but the project stalled because it didn't have
anyone who'd push it forward.
The handbook was rewritten to Asciidoc and moved to Pagure:
https://pagure.io/ambassadors/fedora-handbook
The current status: it's fully translated to English and the content is
synced (we originally started translating the first version and the
Czech origin got updated meanwhile, now the content is the same again)
and the English version should be the origin from now on. Translations
of the chapters 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 have been proofread and should be fine
language-wise (kudos to Brian Excelbierd?).
What needs to be done:
1. The chapter 4 still needs proofreading by a native speaker.
2. English screenshots need to be taken and added.
3. We should go through the content and see if there is anything
missing within the intended scope*. I hope it's where marketing people
can help. You can read the source files, but if you'd like to read the
handbook in a formatted form, you can download:
https://pagure.io/ambassadors/fedora-handbook/blob/master/f/en-US/handb
ook.html
4. We need to refresh the cover and make it easily translatable. I've
already filed a ticket about it in the design team track:
https://pagure.io/design/issue/508
5. Generate a final print PDF. There is no direct converter from
asciidoc to LaTex we've used for typesetting, but you can convert it to
Docbook and Docbook to LaTex. The same guy who prepared the print PDF
for the first Czech release is willing to prepare the English version
as well.
6. Printing - I can handle this for EMEA. The printing-works gave us a
really good price for good quality - ~$.50 for one print.
I'd like to get the English version out before Flock. Once it's ready,
we'll make a release branch. Another release will be worked on in
master and the release branch will accept fixes and translations.
I hope to see translations to other languages, especially the widely
used ones - Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Hindi,...
Translations will simply get another subdirectories and translators
will translate whole files. We decided not go with gettext and
translations systems such as Zanata because first we have no experience
with them and second translating whole documents per strings or
paragraphs produces suboptimal results. Moreover the content of the
handbook should not change so much.
Every translation will have to find someone who will prepare the final
print PDF because that's something you can't really automate and the
volunteer we have now is willing to do only the Czech and English
versions because he doesn't know typesetting rules for other languages.
The handbook doesn't require frequent updates because the content is
pretty general and doesn't refer to particular releases. The first
version was released two years ago and the content is still pretty much
OK. We'd like to make one release a year, but if some translations are
a bit behind or decide to skip one year it should not be a major
problem.
Anyone willing to help with any of the todos? ;)
Jiri
*I'd like to keep the scope the same: the handbook should get the user
from visiting our booth or presentation at an event through downloading
Fedora, installing it to getting familiar with the system. It should
explain them what makes Fedora interesting and why it's worth a try. It
should not be a comprehensive guide to Fedora, it should rather link to
other sources in the end.
6 years, 6 months
#help: Sorting through Fedora 26 talking points
by Justin W. Flory
Hey all,
Eduardo and I are in the Marketing meeting this morning and we're trying
to get an idea about what needs to happen in order to get a first
deliverable in time for the Fedora 26 Alpha. We decided to separate the
long-term vision of audience-based talking points to Fedora 27 and
beyond, as we're not confident we will be able to do that and still have
a deliverable product this release.
The task we needed help with was to go through the existing Fedora 26
Talking Points wiki page we have now to trim down some of the massive
content we have there now.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_26_talking_points
Ideally, it would help to narrow it down to some of the most
"interesting" or "valuable" points that have a general interest to a
broad audience of users. As an example, you can see our talking points
for Fedora 25:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_25_talking_points
Neither Eduardo or myself are going to have time to get this done in the
next week, but this will help move us forward to begin reaching out to
WGs and SIGs to collect info and bullets specific to the editions. Would
anyone be able to help out with this?
Thanks! If you have any questions, please feel free to ask here. :)
--
Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
6 years, 6 months
Unable to run meeting today
by Justin W. Flory
Hello all,
I am dealing with an Internet outage in my apartment today and will be
unable to chair today's meeting (can't keep a connection for longer than
1-2 minutes). :( I didn't have time to prepare an agenda for today's
meeting, but I was hoping to cover the presentation to the Council
(originally planned for tomorrow, but might need to see if we can push
to next week). I also wanted to try to get a grip on talking points, but
since the Alpha slipped, we do have some flexibility on that.
I'll try to get some thoughts together this week to send out so we can
stay on top of things. I'll also check in with Matt on the slots for the
subproject presentation.
Sorry for the sudden notice!
--
Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
6 years, 6 months
