Fedora Insight schedule slip: new launch date 10/14

[Mel Chua]

We originally planned to launch Fedora Insight on September 29 (right 
before infrastructure freeze), but I think we'll be in a much better 
position to get a stable platform up and tested, with a contribution 
workflow we're all happy with, if we push the launch date out until 
right after the freeze instead.

Therefore, our new launch target is Oct 14 (when the freeze lifts), and 
our revised schedule is on 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight#Schedule.

I'd like everyone to be happy with what we're putting out there, instead 
of feeling panicked and scrambling to rush things in before the freeze 
hits - sanity is good. You'll see me chugging away on FI stuff over the 
weekend and as next week gets underway - please join the fun if you can. ;)

Cheers*,

--Mel

*...and concerns, questions, comments, etc totally welcome, as always.

[Max Spevack]

On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, Mel Chua wrote:

>  *...and concerns, questions, comments, etc totally welcome, as
> always. 
Is there special content planned for launch day/launch week, so that we 
get off to an exciting start?  Or are we just going to launch with a 
post that says "hello, world"?

I feel like the former -- having some stuff in the pipeline locked and 
loaded -- will allow Insight to make a big spalsh, and be off to a good 
start, but still be somewhat viral in the way it rolls out.

Also, what sort of monitoring will be in place to track activity, which 
items of content are most read, etc.?  We should be tracking that stuff 
from day 1 also, because it will be incredibly useful to have, and to 
compare to things like Red Hat magazine.

--Max

[Mel Chua]

Thanks for the nudging-forward questions, Max. :)

>  Is there special content planned for launch day/launch week, so that
> we
>  get off to an exciting start? Or are we just going to launch with a post
>  that says "hello, world"? 
Yep, that's the general idea, though we could be doing much better at 
nailing this down and stacking the queue ready to go.

As a start, Jon started marking Planet posts that could be repurposed 
into great FI content 
(https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-September/msg0...) 
and Martin has been working on materials for the "fun projects" rotation 
(https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/11). We could use more.

Anyone keen on being the temporary FI editor (obtain material and 
publish it at what you reckon is a good pace - the workflow Robyn came 
up with is wonderfully simple) until, say, FUDCon when we can figure out 
a more stable scheduling/distribution of responsibilities? (News team: 
is this something you'd like to do, since you're already doing it every 
weekend for FWN?)

>  I feel like the former -- having some stuff in the pipeline locked
> and
>  loaded -- will allow Insight to make a big spalsh, and be off to a good
>  start, but still be somewhat viral in the way it rolls out. 
+1

>  Also, what sort of monitoring will be in place to track activity,
> which
>  items of content are most read, etc.? We should be tracking that stuff
>  from day 1 also, because it will be incredibly useful to have, and to
>  compare to things like Red Hat magazine. 
Good point - this is something that hasn't been addressed yet, afaik. No 
special work being planned at the moment aside from maybe looking after 
the fact at whatever tracking capabilities Zikula already has built 
in... Ian, is this something that would fold into your Stats project, 
and if so, would you be interested in taking this part on?

--Mel

PS: I'm baaaack! Catching up gradually over the weekend.

[Paul F. Johnson]

Hi,

>  Anyone keen on being the temporary FI editor (obtain material and 
>  publish it at what you reckon is a good pace - the workflow Robyn came 
>  up with is wonderfully simple) until, say, FUDCon when we can figure out 
>  a more stable scheduling/distribution of responsibilities? (News team: 
>  is this something you'd like to do, since you're already doing it every 
>  weekend for FWN?) 
I'll do that :-) Let me know what has to be done and done it shall be!

TTFN

Paul

-- 
Sie können mich aufreizen und wirklich heiß machen!

FI editor resources [Was: Re: Fedora Insight schedule slip: new launch date 10/14]

[Mel Chua]

On 09/29/2009 02:43 PM, Paul wrote:
>  Hi,
>
> > Anyone keen on being the temporary FI editor (obtain material and
> > publish it at what you reckon is a good pace - the workflow Robyn came
> > up with is wonderfully simple) until, say, FUDCon when we can figure out
> > a more stable scheduling/distribution of responsibilities?
>
>  I'll do that :-) Let me know what has to be done and done it shall be! 
Paul, you *rock.* Thanks for taking this on - it's great to have someone 
with editorial-fu kicking off FI content.

Things I can think of...

1. Make an account on the publictest system so you can play with zikula 
a bit, if you haven't done so already. 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight#Check_it_out.21 (Probably 
a 15-20 min thing at most - just sort of getting a general feel for what 
zikula does.)

2. Start looking at the material coming down the pipeline and carry the 
big stick of deadline-ness when you think it's appropriate. ;) I think 
you know better than I about what to do here...

Sources I know about so far:

* FWN, of course; that's taken care of by the News folks, so no worries 
here.
* JonRob's thread about Planet content - 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-September/msg0... 
- generally, watching for and repurposing good Planet posts is probably 
the easiest way of getting good material to start with. This idea goes 
way back to the first bunch of notes about FI 
(https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight#Content).
* https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/11 is being done by 
Martin, but I'm not sure what he's writing exactly or when things will 
be done by
* https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/12 is an idea that 
nobody picked up on yet
* any F12 deliverables we've done / will do, like talking points and 
feature profiles
* the folks at 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_print_magazine#Volunteer might be 
interested in doing the same thing for FI (like this Paul F. Johnson 
fellow who was kind enough to offer to edit...)
* ...and then whatever else you can think of and drum up that would 
balance things out more - comics, pictures, interviews, designs, 
screencasts? I defer to your editorial mojo.

3. We need content running for 8 weeks - from October 14 (FI launch day) 
through December 8 (end of FUDCon, after which we should have a 
longer-term notion of how this will work out). So however you want to 
set up the editing/approval/publish/etc workflow is cool, just document 
it somewhere and shout to the list when it's up. As to where to keep 
stuff before the production instance of FI goes live... anywhere you 
want, although I believe if you put things into a zikula instance (like 
the one on publictest) we can just import the database once the 
production instance is up, so you can hop to the new site and keep on 
working with nary a hiccup.

That's all I can think of... I think you have everything now. Is there 
anything else you need?

I'm probably missing some bits here (folks, chime in if you can think of 
anything), so if you want to hang out on IRC while you start working 
through this, or toss questions back and forth either on this list or in 
#fedora-mktg, just holler.

Thanks again!

--Mel