Hello,
soon I will go to Beijing, China (for family and work); I will be busy with the promotion of FLOSS. One of those efforts deal with assisting the Chinese Fedora Community. We have already done a lot, but I was wondering if any efforts were taken to have marketing in the Chinese language; if not... I can assist with the marketing which is tailored towards the culture and audience and have people involved who can assist in the longterm.
kind regards,
Gerard - 吉拉德
Fedora Ambassador Project-lead Fedora-MIPS Member of Fedora 中文用户组
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Gerard Braad gbraad@fedoraproject.org wrote:
Hello,
soon I will go to Beijing, China (for family and work); I will be busy with the promotion of FLOSS. One of those efforts deal with assisting the Chinese Fedora Community. We have already done a lot, but I was wondering if any efforts were taken to have marketing in the Chinese language; if not... I can assist with the marketing which is tailored towards the culture and audience and have people involved who can assist in the longterm.
Gerard,
We would be *very* interested. We have a few Ambassadors in China, as I'm sure you're aware. We have a fairly strong translation community in China, but we should strive to do more than just provide translations of existing content. It would be very helpful to have someone who can bridge the considerable language gap.
For a start, Gerard, maybe you can identify some of the primary gaps we have. What questions to Chinese Fedora users and potential contributors have? In what areas can we improve information we offer to Chinese speaking people?
Another question in which I'm keenly interested is, where do Chinese users get Fedora? If they're using mirrors in China, are there enough of them? Can we find more administrators willing to distribute Fedora on mirrors?
Paul
For a start, Gerard, maybe you can identify some of the primary gaps we have. What questions to Chinese Fedora users and potential contributors have? In what areas can we improve information we offer to Chinese speaking people?
Another question in which I'm keenly interested is, where do Chinese users get Fedora? If they're using mirrors in China, are there enough of them? Can we find more administrators willing to distribute Fedora on mirrors?
Congratulations on the move, Gerard! I'd add to Paul's list of questions above with "how can we make it easier for members of the Chinese Fedora community to participate in the Marketing (and Ambassadors) teams, and how can we better keep up with what they're doing?
I know we now have a mailing list (thanks to you and Kaio and everyone else who made this happen!) https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chinese and that there's been a Planet for a while (http://planet.fedora-zh.org/), but I'm not sure if there's anywhere else that would be good to watch - or actually, if we want to specifically start discussing global/regional marketing and PR strategies here, perhaps for the F14 release. So far we've just been making deliverables in English and considering any translation we get to be a very happy bonus. :)
--Mel
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Mel Chua mel@redhat.com wrote:
For a start, Gerard, maybe you can identify some of the primary gaps we have. What questions to Chinese Fedora users and potential contributors have? In what areas can we improve information we offer to Chinese speaking people?
Another question in which I'm keenly interested is, where do Chinese users get Fedora? If they're using mirrors in China, are there enough of them? Can we find more administrators willing to distribute Fedora on mirrors?
Congratulations on the move, Gerard! I'd add to Paul's list of questions above with "how can we make it easier for members of the Chinese Fedora community to participate in the Marketing (and Ambassadors) teams, and how can we better keep up with what they're doing?
I know we now have a mailing list (thanks to you and Kaio and everyone else who made this happen!) https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chinese and that there's been a Planet for a while (http://planet.fedora-zh.org/), but I'm not sure if there's anywhere else that would be good to watch - or actually, if we want to specifically start discussing global/regional marketing and PR strategies here, perhaps for the F14 release. So far we've just been making deliverables in English and considering any translation we get to be a very happy bonus. :)
I just saw the planet feed Mel pointed out above. Gerard, I could use some help here relaying to the Chinese community our trademark concerns. Generally, communities are definitely allowed to use our CSS for their sites, but they can't mix that with the use of the Fedora trademarks. When I visit that site, it looks exactly like a Fedora Project official site, when in fact we have no control over it. We need the site maintainers to do a couple things:
* Remove the Fedora logo from the top left. * Make sure the copyright notice at the bottom does not indicate that the site is owned or sponsored by Red Hat or the Fedora Project.
Our trademark guidelines are located here, in case they're useful: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Trademark_guidelines
Gerard, you might want to point out to these folks that we can provide a planet.fp.o/zh "official" feed for them to use if they're interested, which would then be allowed to carry the trademarks since it's run by Fedora itself. But they'd still need to make the changes shown above. These requirements are the same for all Fedora comunity members that set up non-commercial Fedora-related sites. Let me know if I can provide some more help or explanation if needed.
Paul
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