November's Red Hat Magazine: All About Fedora

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

Talking with Tammy Fox, the editor of Red Hat Magazine, and she's going to 
be focusing entirely on Fedora for the November issue.

Consider this a call-to-arms.  :)  Let's brainstorm some stories.  A few 
ideas to start:

* FUDCon London 2005 overview
* Fedora CMCs (assuming we've got the program in place)
* HOWTO build your own Fedora Live CD

I'm sure there's plenty more ideas out there.  Let's hear 'em.

--g

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[Elliot Lee]

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:

>  * HOWTO build your own Fedora Live CD 
My vague impression of the whole Fedora Live CD thing was that we were
aiming to distribute a single Fedora-provided LiveCD .iso that would work
for a vast majority of people, making the process of building a livecd
uninteresting for the Red Hat Magazine audience... Have I assumed 
differently from others?

Best,
-- Elliot
Pioneers get the Arrows. Settlers get the Land.

[Rahul Sundaram]

Elliot Lee wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
>
>   
>
> >* HOWTO build your own Fedora Live CD
> >    
> >
>
> My vague impression of the whole Fedora Live CD thing was that we were
> aiming to distribute a single Fedora-provided LiveCD .iso that would work
> for a vast majority of people, making the process of building a livecd
> uninteresting for the Redhat Hat Magazine audience... Have I assumed 
> differently from others?
>  
The tools allows users to mix and match packages and create their own 
CD's. While we can create a official CD, we should be encouraging others 
to experiement and create their own live CD that explore alternative 
GUI's and other niche targets

regards
Rahul

[Jef Spaleta]

On 9/12/05, Greg DeKoenigsberg <gdk(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  
>  Talking with Tammy Fox, the editor of Red Hat Magazine, and she's going to
>  be focusing entirely on Fedora for the November issue.
>  
>  Consider this a call-to-arms.  :)  Let's brainstorm some stories.  A few
>  ideas to start:
>  
>  * FUDCon London 2005 overview
>  * Fedora CMCs (assuming we've got the program in place)
>  * HOWTO build your own Fedora Live CD
>  
>  I'm sure there's plenty more ideas out there.  Let's hear 'em. 
you need a graph...something versus time...hmm 
Extras packages versus time?
Extras contributors versus time?
d(package(r)s)/dt versus time

-jef"I wonder what a contour map of contributor pressure over the
surface of the planet would look like.. where contributor pressure is
defined as the surface density of contributors weighted by rate of
contributor activity"spaleta

[Karsten Wade]

On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 14:06 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
>  Talking with Tammy Fox, the editor of Red Hat Magazine, and she's
> going to 
>  be focusing entirely on Fedora for the November issue.
>  
>  Consider this a call-to-arms.  :)  Let's brainstorm some stories.  A few 
>  ideas to start:
>  
>  * FUDCon London 2005 overview
>  * Fedora CMCs (assuming we've got the program in place)
>  * HOWTO build your own Fedora Live CD
>  
>  I'm sure there's plenty more ideas out there.  Let's hear 'em. 
Any interest in an article about how we've modularized release notes
writing?

"Release Notes Beats:  Old Journalism for the New World"

Something like that ...

Also, a "book review" of the Fedora Installation Guide might nice.

How about,

"Contributing to Fedora, It's More Than Coding"

that highlights bug triage, documentation, packaging, Legacy support,
etc.

- Karsten
-- 
Karsten Wade, RHCE * Sr. Tech Writer * http://people.redhat.com/kwade/
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http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/selinux-guide/

[David Barzilay]

Hi All,

I still insist on a more professional approach, which means I suggest
for us to come up with a Communication Plan for Fedora, that could be
divided in a few sub-projects:

. Surveys (or blogs thorough analysis, distrowatch comparisons, etc) on
Fedora usage to find out what are the features perceived as benefits by
users (not by developers) - the reasons why they opt for Fedora, instead
of another free OS distro - and also the ones perceived as issues
. Next, focus on communicating these benefits consistently across all
available media (including RHMag, fedoraproject.org, localised websites,
blogs, etc) on a timely manner
	e.g.: RHMag can cover two or three benefits of Fedora each month. Then,
other media can approach the same benefits to enforce and support the
message...

BTW, I believe such a process should be an ongoing activity to make sure
we walk along with the users community needs.

But, if we insist working on an ad-hoc basis, here are a few suggestions
for this issue:
	. Promote 32-bit applications support
	. Communicate FF news
	. Communicate Fedora Chinese Mirror (maybe call for other mirrors where
we lack'em worlwide?)
	. Bring users testimonials on Fedora (it usually works very well for
new users adoption)
	. Promote Fedora's worldwide reach, and languages localization
	. Include Fedora trustworthy URLs

Thanks for listening!

Best,
--
David Barzilay

On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 14:06 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
>  Talking with Tammy Fox, the editor of Red Hat Magazine, and she's
> going to 
>  be focusing entirely on Fedora for the November issue.
>  
>  Consider this a call-to-arms.  :)  Let's brainstorm some stories.  A few 
>  ideas to start:
>  
>  * FUDCon London 2005 overview
>  * Fedora CMCs (assuming we've got the program in place)
>  * HOWTO build your own Fedora Live CD
>  
>  I'm sure there's plenty more ideas out there.  Let's hear 'em.
>  
>  --g
>  
>  _____________________  ____________________________________________
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>                       ] [ dumb.  --mcluhan
>  
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[Jeremy Hogan]

On 9/12/05, Greg DeKoenigsberg <gdk(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

>  I'm sure there's plenty more ideas out there. Let's hear
> 'em. 

* use it to launch new logo/rebranding
* use it to position fedora (with or without matrix of similar/popular 
distros
* launch the LiveCD with it, and make the how-to about how that was done v. 
doing your own
* spotlight on future RHEL features to watch/hack on now
* Fedora on the XBox (or insert hot gadget hack here)
* profile company commercializing fedora in some way
* profile organization(s) and use(s) of fedora
* show the community and site org (map or flow chart style design)
* how/where to contribute (packages into extras, patches/bug fixes, etc)
* hit list of things/people fedora needs
* spotlight on a couple of key developers/contributions
* recruit
* recruit
* recruit

--jeremy