Ok, following on from Leigh's advice, shall we try and flesh out what
would go under some of these points?
We need a few things:
o Fedora Fast Facts: data that would be interesting to someone writing
an article:
o History
* Fedora project founded in 2003 when Red Hat merged their open
development process with the pre-existing Fedora Linux project. Official
announcement here:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-September/msg00064.html
* First general release of Fedora Core 5th November 2003.
* Merger of Core and Extras in 2008.
*...urm any more history than this seems difficult to come by!? When did
the Board come along?
o Differentiating points
* Focus on upstream
* Focus on free software
* Hosted
* People
* Open build systems + spins
** Another section should really spell out what Fedora's goals are I
think. Target audience perhaps (Controversial subject I know) and our
primary goals and values as they provide a lot of insight into why
certain decisions are made.
o Features/Functions
o Instructions for 'laypress' to download with most ease
o Reviewers' Guide. This tells the press what exactly to look for,
what we want to emphasize most (esp. what's differentiating from other
distros, etc).
o Screenshots.
These last four are covered by the release summary are they not!?
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/8/ReleaseSummary
Obviously this all changes from release to release. Only thing I'm not
sure about in the current release summary is the long list of links at
the beginning - makes it look uglier and harder to access the main
content - in my opinion. Maybe if we include this info in a press kit it
could either a) be tidied up or b) only the essential information about
features etc.
Also, in this section I don't think it would hurt to emphasise where
Fedora is the first distribution to do something - I think we did this
with Pulse Audio in the last release quite well :)
Thoughts and ideas!?
Jon