Test Day promotion help

[Adam Williamson]

Hi, marketing folks!

We (QA) have the final two Fedora 13 cycle Test Days coming up at the
end of this week, and we've been struggling for attendance for all but
the X test days lately, so we'd appreciate any muscle / bright ideas
Marketing has to broaden the reach and get more people out testing :)

The events are:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-04-29_Preupgrade
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:XFCE_F13_20100430

that's the Preupgrade Test Day on Thursday, and an Xfce Test Day on
Friday. Preupgrade is the recommended method for upgrading between
Fedora releases, so there should be lots of people interested in that,
and Xfce is a popular alternative desktop.

Anything you can do to help promote these events would be hugely
appreciated!

I've written a blog post about these events:

http://www.happyassassin.net/2010/04/27/incoming-test-days-preupgrade-and...

please feel free to take information or wording from the post if you
find it useful, or ignore it completely and write your own stuff -
whatever you like! And if you have an idea to promote the event but
can't do it yourself please pass the idea on. Thanks everyone!
-- 
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
http://www.happyassassin.net

[Nelson Marques]

On such a short notice? 8)
This with some time could be fun with a well placed campaign that with
Ambassadorial support could be a win.

What do you require?

nelson

On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 01:47 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote:
>  Hi, marketing folks!
>  
>  We (QA) have the final two Fedora 13 cycle Test Days coming up at the
>  end of this week, and we've been struggling for attendance for all but
>  the X test days lately, so we'd appreciate any muscle / bright ideas
>  Marketing has to broaden the reach and get more people out testing :)
>  
>  The events are:
>  
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-04-29_Preupgrade
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:XFCE_F13_20100430
>  
>  that's the Preupgrade Test Day on Thursday, and an Xfce Test Day on
>  Friday. Preupgrade is the recommended method for upgrading between
>  Fedora releases, so there should be lots of people interested in that,
>  and Xfce is a popular alternative desktop.
>  
>  Anything you can do to help promote these events would be hugely
>  appreciated!
>  
>  I've written a blog post about these events:
>  
>  http://www.happyassassin.net/2010/04/27/incoming-test-days-preupgrade-and...
>  
>  please feel free to take information or wording from the post if you
>  find it useful, or ignore it completely and write your own stuff -
>  whatever you like! And if you have an idea to promote the event but
>  can't do it yourself please pass the idea on. Thanks everyone!
>  -- 
>  Adam Williamson
>  Fedora QA Community Monkey
>  IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
>  http://www.happyassassin.net
>   
-- 
Nelson Marques
Evil Clown (http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/evilclown.htm)

[Neville A. Cross]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Nelson Marques <07721(a)ipam.pt&gt; wrote:
>  On such a short notice? 8)
>  This with some time could be fun with a well placed campaign that with
>  Ambassadorial support could be a win.
>
>  What do you require?
>
>  nelson
>  
I also think it is to short notice to ask for help. What I would
suggest is to blog about what cool things happened last test day and
invite to share this adventure for the upcoming test day. Make sure
the blog is linked to fedora planet.

Best regards

-- 
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[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 22:40 -0600, Neville A. Cross wrote:

>  I also think it is to short notice to ask for help. What I would
>  suggest is to blog about what cool things happened last test day and
>  invite to share this adventure for the upcoming test day. Make sure
>  the blog is linked to fedora planet. 
Thanks for the suggestion! We already have that one covered, though (we
have at least one FP blog cover each Test Day).
-- 
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
http://www.happyassassin.net

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 02:07 +0100, Nelson Marques wrote:
>  On such a short notice? 8)
>  This with some time could be fun with a well placed campaign that with
>  Ambassadorial support could be a win.
>  
>  What do you require? 
Yep, I know it was short notice. There's at least one Test Day per week
(sometimes two) so there is little time to build up a sophisticated
campaign around any one, that wasn't my thinking; I just hoped you could
help by posting blogs about the events, or by contacting groups you know
who may be interested, or sending the news to relevant sites, simple
things like that.

There's certainly the possibility to do something more sophisticated and
longer-term about the Test Day process in general, if you are interested
in that - we look at the Test Days as running in groups associated with
a particular release, so these are the last two Test Days of the Fedora
13 cycle, then there'll be a break for some weeks for the final Fedora
13 sprint, then we'll start up again with Fedora 14 Test Days. So
there's certainly time to do some more general marketing for F14 Test
Days.
-- 
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
http://www.happyassassin.net

[Nelson Marques]

I'll be attending the XFCE testing day, maybe not in full, but a part of
it :)

Then I'll get the feeling on how it works and can for sure work in
something that in the future QA can take advantage from it.

As for spreading the word, that seems Ambassadorial work, they have more
knowledge on communities than I do.

Anyway I've pulled a small brochure, nothing fancy... Though it seems
useless...

If you have time we can speak a bit on the irc one of this days so I can
get the feeling on how we can help better QA (after release).

nelson


On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 13:08 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote:
>  On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 02:07 +0100, Nelson Marques wrote:
>  > On such a short notice? 8)
>  > This with some time could be fun with a well placed campaign that with
>  > Ambassadorial support could be a win.
>  > 
>  > What do you require?
>  
>  Yep, I know it was short notice. There's at least one Test Day per week
>  (sometimes two) so there is little time to build up a sophisticated
>  campaign around any one, that wasn't my thinking; I just hoped you could
>  help by posting blogs about the events, or by contacting groups you know
>  who may be interested, or sending the news to relevant sites, simple
>  things like that.
>  
>  There's certainly the possibility to do something more sophisticated and
>  longer-term about the Test Day process in general, if you are interested
>  in that - we look at the Test Days as running in groups associated with
>  a particular release, so these are the last two Test Days of the Fedora
>  13 cycle, then there'll be a break for some weeks for the final Fedora
>  13 sprint, then we'll start up again with Fedora 14 Test Days. So
>  there's certainly time to do some more general marketing for F14 Test
>  Days.
>  -- 
>  Adam Williamson
>  Fedora QA Community Monkey
>  IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
>  http://www.happyassassin.net
>   
-- 
Nelson Marques
Evil Clown (http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/evilclown.htm)

[Nelson Marques]

Adam,

 I will make a small brochure thinking on upcoming events, something
that can be re-usable, mostly to support ambassadorial work on this.

 In addition I'll make a small text like a call-to-arms (not using
military speech, taking a more community centered approach) and spread
the word around.

 I'll try to get it through some sites with good communities to prospect
for enthusiasts.

 Within 24 hours I should have accomplished both tasks, a small
mobilization text and a brochure. I'll submit it here on the list,
commit any changes that you find relevant and the final word for "GO" is
yours.

 nelson

 


On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 01:47 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote:
>  Hi, marketing folks!
>  
>  We (QA) have the final two Fedora 13 cycle Test Days coming up at the
>  end of this week, and we've been struggling for attendance for all but
>  the X test days lately, so we'd appreciate any muscle / bright ideas
>  Marketing has to broaden the reach and get more people out testing :)
>  
>  The events are:
>  
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-04-29_Preupgrade
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:XFCE_F13_20100430
>  
>  that's the Preupgrade Test Day on Thursday, and an Xfce Test Day on
>  Friday. Preupgrade is the recommended method for upgrading between
>  Fedora releases, so there should be lots of people interested in that,
>  and Xfce is a popular alternative desktop.
>  
>  Anything you can do to help promote these events would be hugely
>  appreciated!
>  
>  I've written a blog post about these events:
>  
>  http://www.happyassassin.net/2010/04/27/incoming-test-days-preupgrade-and...
>  
>  please feel free to take information or wording from the post if you
>  find it useful, or ignore it completely and write your own stuff -
>  whatever you like! And if you have an idea to promote the event but
>  can't do it yourself please pass the idea on. Thanks everyone!
>  -- 
>  Adam Williamson
>  Fedora QA Community Monkey
>  IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
>  http://www.happyassassin.net
>   
-- 
Nelson Marques
Evil Clown (http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/evilclown.htm)

[Nelson Marques]

Adam,

Don't really know if this suits your needs, but feel free to check this
out (re-made from a previous document from John Spevack):

http://nmarques.fedorapeople.org/fedora/QA/fedora-qa.odt
http://nmarques.fedorapeople.org/fedora/QA/fedora-qa.pdf

The ODT is editable so any changes can be done. Please inform me if
that's what you had in mind or of any eventual changes you want made. I
can make those available in Portuguese as well, but it seems redundant
to me. I believe they can also be used for later events with minor
edits.

Anything related to that, feel free to ring my bell.


Nelson



On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 01:47 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote:
> http://www.happyassassin.net/2010/04/27/incoming-test-days-preupgrade-and...
>  
>  please feel free to take information or wording from the post if you
>  find it useful, or ignore it completely and write your own stuff -
>  whatever you like! And if you have an idea to promote the event but
>  can't do it yourself please pass the idea on. Thanks everyone!  
-- 
Nelson Marques
Evil Clown (http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/evilclown.htm)

[Mel Chua]

On 04/28/2010 04:17 AM, Nelson Marques wrote:
>  Adam,
>
>  Don't really know if this suits your needs, but feel free to check this
>  out (re-made from a previous document from John Spevack):
>
>  http://nmarques.fedorapeople.org/fedora/QA/fedora-qa.odt
>  http://nmarques.fedorapeople.org/fedora/QA/fedora-qa.pdf
>
>  The ODT is editable so any changes can be done. Please inform me if
>  that's what you had in mind or of any eventual changes you want made. I
>  can make those available in Portuguese as well, but it seems redundant
>  to me. I believe they can also be used for later events with minor
>  edits. 
These are great! I'm not sure how much immediate interest we'll be able 
to drum up for the rest of F13's test days, but this might make a good 
handout for, say, F13 release parties to call attention to test days and 
ways new users can provide feedback and bug reports.

So of course I made a wiki page. :) It's linked to from 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing#Projects, and the stub is here:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Team_event_brochures

(It could also be generalized to other team sprints - upcoming Fedora 
sprints and FADs that new community members can look forward to 
participating in.)

--Mel

[wonderer]

Am 29.04.2010 04:54, schrieb Mel Chua:
>  On 04/28/2010 04:17 AM, Nelson Marques wrote:
>    
> > Adam,
> >
> > Don't really know if this suits your needs, but feel free to check this
> > out (re-made from a previous document from John Spevack):
> >
> > http://nmarques.fedorapeople.org/fedora/QA/fedora-qa.odt
> > http://nmarques.fedorapeople.org/fedora/QA/fedora-qa.pdf
> >      
Looks good so far. But maybe you want to look over the colors they seem
to be not accurate.
>  These are great! I'm not sure how much immediate interest
> we'll be able 
>  to drum up for the rest of F13's test days, but this might make a good 
>  handout for, say, F13 release parties to call attention to test days and 
>  ways new users can provide feedback and bug reports.
>     
Indeed. Therefore the Timeline for the whole Testdays could be pasted
in. That would maybe look great and gives a good overview.



mit freundlichen Grüßen / best regards
Henrik Heigl - wonderer(a)fedoraproject.org

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