Blog Posts for Magazine

[Mike Ruckman]

Hey Marketing team,

Sorry this is being sent so late. Here is a list of posts I thought could be
good for the magazine. I've kept the list completely Fedora
related, though there were a couple topics I wondered about including,
like OpenStack - but didn't know if that was relevant to the community
or just me :) 

http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2013/10/30/fedora-server-working-group-initial-...

http://leamasblog.wordpress.com/2013/10/30/getting-spotify-and-skype-into...

http://threebean.org/blog/new-badges-release-oct-25

http://affix.me/index.php/2013/10/25/fedora-at-linuxcon-europe-2013/

The second link had information I thought would be useful for a general
user (especially spotify), but I wasn't sure about the principle of
promoting packages and tutorials for things Fedora won't package
itself. I thought the other three were solid candidates as well.

Any thoughts?

// Roshi

[Zacharias Mitzelos]

+1 on your links roshi!

But I would suggest posting on the magazine only posts with fedora related content...

Zacharias

Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 16:43:38 -0600
From: roshi(a)fedoraproject.org
To: marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: Blog Posts for Magazine

Hey Marketing team,
 
Sorry this is being sent so late. Here is a list of posts I thought could be
good for the magazine. I've kept the list completely Fedora
related, though there were a couple topics I wondered about including,
like OpenStack - but didn't know if that was relevant to the community
or just me :) 
 
http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2013/10/30/fedora-server-working-group-initial-...
 
http://leamasblog.wordpress.com/2013/10/30/getting-spotify-and-skype-into...
 
http://threebean.org/blog/new-badges-release-oct-25
 
http://affix.me/index.php/2013/10/25/fedora-at-linuxcon-europe-2013/
 
The second link had information I thought would be useful for a general
user (especially spotify), but I wasn't sure about the principle of
promoting packages and tutorials for things Fedora won't package
itself. I thought the other three were solid candidates as well.
 
Any thoughts?
 
// Roshi

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[A. Mani]

On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 4:13 AM, Mike Ruckman <roshi(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
> http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2013/10/30/fedora-server-working-group-initial-...
>
>  http://leamasblog.wordpress.com/2013/10/30/getting-spotify-and-skype-into...
>
>  http://threebean.org/blog/new-badges-release-oct-25
>
>  http://affix.me/index.php/2013/10/25/fedora-at-linuxcon-europe-2013/
>
>  The second link had information I thought would be useful for a general
>  user (especially spotify), but I wasn't sure about the principle of
>  promoting packages and tutorials for things Fedora won't package
>  itself. I thought the other three were solid candidates as well. 

No point in promoting proprietary s/w.
If any newbie is that desperate about such s/w  then they would be
able to find those links themselves.

Compiling s/w from source should be considered given that Fedora does
not package enough s/w.

Consider adding something attractive like "latest Mplayer from source"
and something for the n number of missing free s/w packages.



Best

A. Mani



A. Mani
CU, ASL, AMS, CLC, CMS
http://www.logicamani.in

[Joe Brockmeier]

On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 04:43:38PM -0600, Mike Ruckman wrote:
>  Sorry this is being sent so late. Here is a list of posts I thought
> could be
>  good for the magazine. I've kept the list completely Fedora
>  related, though there were a couple topics I wondered about including,
>  like OpenStack - but didn't know if that was relevant to the community
>  or just me :)  
I think it depends a lot on how much cross-over there is for the topic.
If it's something that touches on OpenStack and Fedora, definitely. If
you know a lot of Fedora users are using OpenStack on top of Fedora, or
running instances of Fedora in OpenStack, etc. - then it might also be a
good topic. 

Generally, though, if it's just about OpenStack with no Fedora
connection at all, I'd probably leave it. 

>  The second link had information I thought would be useful for a
> general
>  user (especially spotify), but I wasn't sure about the principle of
>  promoting packages and tutorials for things Fedora won't package
>  itself. I thought the other three were solid candidates as well. 
> From an 'official' source, promoting non-free services
> probably wouldn't 
be well-received. 

Best, 

jzb
-- 
Joe Brockmeier | Principal Cloud & Storage Analyst
jzb(a)redhat.com | http://community.redhat.com/
Twitter: @jzb  | http://dissociatedpress.net/

[Marcel Ribeiro Dantas]

2013/11/4 Joe Brockmeier <jzb(a)redhat.com&gt;

>  From an 'official' source, promoting non-free services
> probably wouldn't
>  be well-received.
>  
+1

-- 
Marcel Ribeiro Dantas,
Biomedical Engineering Researcher at LAIS
Laboratory for Technological Innovation in Healthcare (LAIS-HUOL)

http://mribeirodantas.fedorapeople.org
mribeirodantas at fedoraproject.org
mribeirodantas at lais.huol.ufrn.br

GNU/Linux User nro. #440985

[Mike Ruckman]

On Mon, 4 Nov 2013 09:13:26 -0500
Joe Brockmeier <jzb(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

>  On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 04:43:38PM -0600, Mike Ruckman wrote:
>  > Sorry this is being sent so late. Here is a list of posts I thought
>  > could be good for the magazine. I've kept the list completely Fedora
>  > related, though there were a couple topics I wondered about
>  > including, like OpenStack - but didn't know if that was relevant to
>  > the community or just me :) 
>  
>  I think it depends a lot on how much cross-over there is for the
>  topic. If it's something that touches on OpenStack and Fedora,
>  definitely. If you know a lot of Fedora users are using OpenStack on
>  top of Fedora, or running instances of Fedora in OpenStack, etc. -
>  then it might also be a good topic. 
>  
>  Generally, though, if it's just about OpenStack with no Fedora
>  connection at all, I'd probably leave it. 
>  
>  > The second link had information I thought would be useful for a
>  > general user (especially spotify), but I wasn't sure about the
>  > principle of promoting packages and tutorials for things Fedora
>  > won't package itself. I thought the other three were solid
>  > candidates as well.
>  
>  From an 'official' source, promoting non-free services probably
>  wouldn't be well-received. 
>  
>  Best, 
>  
>  jzb 
I thought as much - but wasn't sure so I thought I would ask.

// Mike

[Mike Ruckman]

On Sat, 2 Nov 2013 16:43:38 -0600
Mike Ruckman <roshi(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:

>  Hey Marketing team,
>  
>  Sorry this is being sent so late. Here is a list of posts I thought
>  could be good for the magazine. I've kept the list completely Fedora
>  related, though there were a couple topics I wondered about including,
>  like OpenStack - but didn't know if that was relevant to the community
>  or just me :) 
>  
>
> http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2013/10/30/fedora-server-working-group-initial-...
>  
>  http://leamasblog.wordpress.com/2013/10/30/getting-spotify-and-skype-into...
>  
>  http://threebean.org/blog/new-badges-release-oct-25
>  
>  http://affix.me/index.php/2013/10/25/fedora-at-linuxcon-europe-2013/
>  
>  The second link had information I thought would be useful for a
>  general user (especially spotify), but I wasn't sure about the
>  principle of promoting packages and tutorials for things Fedora won't
>  package itself. I thought the other three were solid candidates as
>  well.
>  
>  Any thoughts?
>  
>  // Roshi 
So, judging from the response - trying to get permission to run all of
those posts (except the skype/spotify post) is the next step? If
there's no reservations I'll shoot off some emails to the respective
authors.

// Mike

PS - I'll also write up something for the wiki about this 'process'
that we can all edit and work with from here on out regarding pulling
posts.

[Pete Travis]

On Nov 4, 2013 10:34 AM, "Mike Ruckman" <roshi(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>  On Sat, 2 Nov 2013 16:43:38 -0600
>  Mike Ruckman <roshi(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>
>  > Hey Marketing team,
>  >
>  > Sorry this is being sent so late. Here is a list of posts I thought
>  > could be good for the magazine. I've kept the list completely Fedora
>  > related, though there were a couple topics I wondered about including,
>  > like OpenStack - but didn't know if that was relevant to the community
>  > or just me :)
>  >
>  >
http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2013/10/30/fedora-server-working-group-initial-...
>  >
>  >
http://leamasblog.wordpress.com/2013/10/30/getting-spotify-and-skype-into...
>  >
>  > http://threebean.org/blog/new-badges-release-oct-25
>  >
>  > http://affix.me/index.php/2013/10/25/fedora-at-linuxcon-europe-2013/
>  >
>  > The second link had information I thought would be useful for a
>  > general user (especially spotify), but I wasn't sure about the
>  > principle of promoting packages and tutorials for things Fedora won't
>  > package itself. I thought the other three were solid candidates as
>  > well.
>  >
>  > Any thoughts?
>  >
>  > // Roshi
>
>  So, judging from the response - trying to get permission to run all of
>  those posts (except the skype/spotify post) is the next step? If
>  there's no reservations I'll shoot off some emails to the respective
>  authors.
>
>  // Mike
>
>  PS - I'll also write up something for the wiki about this 'process'
>  that we can all edit and work with from here on out regarding pulling
>  posts.
>
>  --
>  
Could this request to the blogger also ask them to log in using their FAS
ID and at least begin the posting? I think it would be best to have the
attribution block at the bottom of the post cite the actual author instead
of citing the one who cooked up the copypasta. Or, could this be achieved
in some other way?

--Pete

[Chris A. Roberts]

Pete, 


I believe there is a plugin that can accomplish this. I will look into this for the group,
because if we do link articles it would be nice to be able to cite the original author and
have it format correctly within the blog post. 



- Chris Roberts 




> Could this request to the blogger also ask them to log in using their
> FAS ID and at least begin the posting? I think it would be best to have >the
> attribution block at the bottom of the post cite the actual author instead of citing the
> one who cooked up the copypasta. Or, could this e >achieved in some other way?

[Joe Brockmeier]

On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 10:34:22AM -0700, Mike Ruckman wrote:
>  So, judging from the response - trying to get permission to run all
> of
>  those posts (except the skype/spotify post) is the next step? If
>  there's no reservations I'll shoot off some emails to the respective
>  authors. 
Yes, or we could excerpt them and point to the original posts,
BoingBoing style. 

>  // Mike
>  
>  PS - I'll also write up something for the wiki about this 'process'
>  that we can all edit and work with from here on out regarding pulling
>  posts. 


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Best, 

jzb
-- 
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jzb(a)redhat.com | http://community.redhat.com/
Twitter: @jzb  | http://dissociatedpress.net/

[Mike Ruckman]

On Mon, 4 Nov 2013 10:34:22 -0700
Mike Ruckman <roshi(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:

>  On Sat, 2 Nov 2013 16:43:38 -0600
>  Mike Ruckman <roshi(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>  
>  > Hey Marketing team,
>  > 
>  > Sorry this is being sent so late. Here is a list of posts I thought
>  > could be good for the magazine. I've kept the list completely Fedora
>  > related, though there were a couple topics I wondered about
>  > including, like OpenStack - but didn't know if that was relevant to
>  > the community or just me :) 
>  > 
>  >
> http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2013/10/30/fedora-server-working-group-initial-...
>  > 
>  > http://leamasblog.wordpress.com/2013/10/30/getting-spotify-and-skype-into...
>  > 
>  > http://threebean.org/blog/new-badges-release-oct-25
>  > 
>  > http://affix.me/index.php/2013/10/25/fedora-at-linuxcon-europe-2013/
>  > 
>  > The second link had information I thought would be useful for a
>  > general user (especially spotify), but I wasn't sure about the
>  > principle of promoting packages and tutorials for things Fedora
>  > won't package itself. I thought the other three were solid
>  > candidates as well.
>  > 
>  > Any thoughts?
>  > 
>  > // Roshi
>  
>  So, judging from the response - trying to get permission to run all of
>  those posts (except the skype/spotify post) is the next step? If
>  there's no reservations I'll shoot off some emails to the respective
>  authors.
>  
>  // Mike
>  
>  PS - I'll also write up something for the wiki about this 'process'
>  that we can all edit and work with from here on out regarding pulling
>  posts. 
I was hoping to get the author access to post it themselves, or to
excerpt them like Joe mentioned and then have a forward link. But even
if we just linked to their content, we should create a 'syndication'
user on wp for these posts.

// Mike