Partnership opportunity with freenode!

[Justin W. Flory]

Hey everyone,

A few weeks back, you may have received an IRC notice from the freenode 
staff about their community team and a blog post they had authored on 
their website.

     https://freenode.net/news/community

In short, the freenode community team is looking for more ways to engage 
with the open source communities throughout freenode and to showcase the 
awesome work happening throughout freenode. I reached out via email to 
their community team to see if Fedora could try to help pilot something 
with regards to these new outreach efforts. Fortunately, the freenode 
folks have been more than kind to help provide us with some awesome 
opportunities! This is exciting because I think we will be helping drive 
this effort throughout the entire freenode community as positive role 
models.

There's two things they were hoping to work with us on:

1) Articles about the Fedora Project, the Fedora community, or other 
exciting news about Fedora for the freenode blog and other platforms
2) Hosting an AMA on IRC to accompany a blog post for community members 
across freenode to ask questions about Fedora and engage with the project

They were also interested in having general articles about open source, 
IRC tips, etc. that could be a good opportunity to showcase technical 
expertise from Fedora community members for sharing across freenode.

One of the first things I would like to help put together for this is a 
general, introductory article about Fedora for a broad open source 
audience. It seems like an obvious thing to do, but I was having 
troubles locating any kind of "usual spiel" on this. Since it's 
something fundamental to identifying Fedora in the open source 
community, I wasn't sure if there was any kind of content like this 
available already we could pull from? If not, I would be happy to try 
writing something up and getting feedback from the rest of the team, but 
I figured I would ask first before accidentally duplicating work.

Thanks everyone! If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Also, feel 
free to idle in their channel as well (#freenode-community).

-- 
Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com

[Alex Eng]

I would like to approach them if they interested in using Zanata for i18n.
Who is the best person to contact?

Alex Eng

On 2 Nov 2016 15:18, "Justin W. Flory" <jflory7(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  Hey everyone,
>
>  A few weeks back, you may have received an IRC notice from the freenode
>  staff about their community team and a blog post they had authored on their
>  website.
>
>      https://freenode.net/news/community
>
>  In short, the freenode community team is looking for more ways to engage
>  with the open source communities throughout freenode and to showcase the
>  awesome work happening throughout freenode. I reached out via email to
>  their community team to see if Fedora could try to help pilot something
>  with regards to these new outreach efforts. Fortunately, the freenode folks
>  have been more than kind to help provide us with some awesome
>  opportunities! This is exciting because I think we will be helping drive
>  this effort throughout the entire freenode community as positive role
>  models.
>
>  There's two things they were hoping to work with us on:
>
>  1) Articles about the Fedora Project, the Fedora community, or other
>  exciting news about Fedora for the freenode blog and other platforms
>  2) Hosting an AMA on IRC to accompany a blog post for community members
>  across freenode to ask questions about Fedora and engage with the project
>
>  They were also interested in having general articles about open source,
>  IRC tips, etc. that could be a good opportunity to showcase technical
>  expertise from Fedora community members for sharing across freenode.
>
>  One of the first things I would like to help put together for this is a
>  general, introductory article about Fedora for a broad open source
>  audience. It seems like an obvious thing to do, but I was having troubles
>  locating any kind of "usual spiel" on this. Since it's something
>  fundamental to identifying Fedora in the open source community, I wasn't
>  sure if there was any kind of content like this available already we could
>  pull from? If not, I would be happy to try writing something up and getting
>  feedback from the rest of the team, but I figured I would ask first before
>  accidentally duplicating work.
>
>  Thanks everyone! If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Also, feel
>  free to idle in their channel as well (#freenode-community).
>
>  --
>  Cheers,
>  Justin W. Flory
>  jflory7(a)gmail.com
>
>
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>
>

[Justin W. Flory]

On 11/02/2016 06:10 PM, Alex Eng wrote:
>  I would like to approach them if they interested in using Zanata for
>  i18n. Who is the best person to contact?
>
>  Alex Eng
>  
Hi Alex! Sorry for the slow response. The person I contacted was Svante 
Bengtson <swant(a)freenode.net&gt;. However, their community team email is 
community(a)freenode.net, so I might try reaching out there first.

>  On 2 Nov 2016 15:18, "Justin W. Flory" <jflory7(a)gmail.com
>  <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>
>      Hey everyone,
>
>      A few weeks back, you may have received an IRC notice from the
>      freenode staff about their community team and a blog post they had
>      authored on their website.
>
>          https://freenode.net/news/community
>      <https://freenode.net/news/community>
>
>      In short, the freenode community team is looking for more ways to
>      engage with the open source communities throughout freenode and to
>      showcase the awesome work happening throughout freenode. I reached
>      out via email to their community team to see if Fedora could try to
>      help pilot something with regards to these new outreach efforts.
>      Fortunately, the freenode folks have been more than kind to help
>      provide us with some awesome opportunities! This is exciting because
>      I think we will be helping drive this effort throughout the entire
>      freenode community as positive role models.
>
>      There's two things they were hoping to work with us on:
>
>      1) Articles about the Fedora Project, the Fedora community, or other
>      exciting news about Fedora for the freenode blog and other platforms
>      2) Hosting an AMA on IRC to accompany a blog post for community
>      members across freenode to ask questions about Fedora and engage
>      with the project
>
>      They were also interested in having general articles about open
>      source, IRC tips, etc. that could be a good opportunity to showcase
>      technical expertise from Fedora community members for sharing across
>      freenode.
>
>      One of the first things I would like to help put together for this
>      is a general, introductory article about Fedora for a broad open
>      source audience. It seems like an obvious thing to do, but I was
>      having troubles locating any kind of "usual spiel" on this. Since
>      it's something fundamental to identifying Fedora in the open source
>      community, I wasn't sure if there was any kind of content like this
>      available already we could pull from? If not, I would be happy to
>      try writing something up and getting feedback from the rest of the
>      team, but I figured I would ask first before accidentally
>      duplicating work.
>
>      Thanks everyone! If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Also,
>      feel free to idle in their channel as well (#freenode-community).
>
>      --
>      Cheers,
>      Justin W. Flory
>      jflory7(a)gmail.com <mailto:[e-mail]>
>
>
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>
>
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Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 01:17:53AM -0400, Justin W. Flory wrote:
>  showcase the awesome work happening throughout freenode. I reached
>  out via email to their community team to see if Fedora could try to
>  help pilot something with regards to these new outreach efforts. 
Awesome -- thanks for doing this, Justin!

>  1) Articles about the Fedora Project, the Fedora community, or other
>  exciting news about Fedora for the freenode blog and other platforms 
I can see an article with some statistics for how much we use and
depend on Freenode every day.



-- 
Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
Fedora Project Leader

[Justin W. Flory]

On 11/02/2016 08:40 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
>  On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 01:17:53AM -0400, Justin W. Flory wrote:
> > showcase the awesome work happening throughout freenode. I reached
> > out via email to their community team to see if Fedora could try to
> > help pilot something with regards to these new outreach efforts.
>
>  Awesome -- thanks for doing this, Justin!
>
> > 1) Articles about the Fedora Project, the Fedora community, or other
> > exciting news about Fedora for the freenode blog and other platforms
>
>  I can see an article with some statistics for how much we use and
>  depend on Freenode every day.
>  
It took me a little longer than I wanted to circle back around to this, 
but I have a first draft of something we could share with the freenode 
team to publish on their community blog. Since this would likely be 
shared across a wide audience, I wanted to make sure that we get our 
messaging right in this article (CCing Magazine and CommOps mailing 
lists too). It might also be because I'm tired, but I was trying to 
brainstorm ideas for how to use IRC effectively a la Fedora's 
recommendations, but was coming up short. Any additions or ideas would 
be appreciated!

You can find a public preview of the article here:

 
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/?p=3065&preview=1&_ppp=ed...

And it can be edited here:

 
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=3065&a...

Feel free to critique any other parts of the article as well – I am very 
open to feedback! Thanks everyone.

-- 
Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com

[Justin W. Flory]

On 11/02/2016 08:40 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
>  On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 01:17:53AM -0400, Justin W. Flory wrote:
> > showcase the awesome work happening throughout freenode. I reached
> > out via email to their community team to see if Fedora could try to
> > help pilot something with regards to these new outreach efforts.
>
>  Awesome -- thanks for doing this, Justin!
>
> > 1) Articles about the Fedora Project, the Fedora community, or other
> > exciting news about Fedora for the freenode blog and other platforms
>
>  I can see an article with some statistics for how much we use and
>  depend on Freenode every day.
>  
Following up on this now! Now that my exams are finished, I've had more 
time to swing around and finish up on things. I submitted a PR to the 
freenode website with a blog post titled, "Celebrating Fedora 25 with 
freenode". I would appreciate any feedback on the post (preferably in 
the GitHub issue, but the Marketing mailing list works fine as well).

     https://github.com/freenode/web-7.0/pull/276

Let me know if anyone has any thoughts on this! Hopefully we can get 
this added to the front page of https://freenode.net soon. :)

-- 
Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com