Call for help/ideas: Beta announcement, briefing Ambassadors

[Mel Chua]

From the meeting today:

We need someone to work with Docs (likely tomorrow night?) to write the 
Beta announcement - any volunteers? Support and a howto can be 
provided[0]. ;)

We also need to figure out what we would like to do to brief Ambassadors 
this round. An incredibly stubby stub page for this is up at 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_Ambassadors_briefing - if you have 
any thoughts, please add them here. I'll be taking a second pass 
tomorrow, but right now I'm drawing an utter blank.

Any takers? These are both great things for new folks to get started 
with (the second one is particularly good for people who are experienced 
Ambassadors, but new to Marketing).

--Mel

[0] by which I mean "I'm sure we can improvise a set of directions to 
follow here, based on prior beta release announcement emails."

[Ryan Rix]

On Tue 30 March 2010 9:13:00 pm Mel Chua wrote:
> We need someone to work with Docs (likely tomorrow night?) to write the 
> Beta announcement - any volunteers? Support and a howto can be 
> provided[0]. ;)

I've got this; tomorrow though. :)

[Ryan Rix]

On Wed 31 March 2010 12:33:17 am Ryan Rix wrote:
> On Tue 30 March 2010 9:13:00 pm Mel Chua wrote:
> > We need someone to work with Docs (likely tomorrow night?) to write the 
> > Beta announcement - any volunteers? Support and a howto can be 
> > provided[0]. ;)
>
> I've got this; tomorrow though.

Thanks to awesomepaul's reminder, here's text for the Beta release 
announcement, cues taken from F12's Beta announcement and F13's Alpha 
announcement; feel free to tear it/me apart :)

......................

== Fedora 13 Beta Release Announcement ==
The Fedora 13 "Goddard" Beta release is available! What's next for the free 
operating system that shows off the best new technology of tomorrow? You can 
see the future now at:

[http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease]

== What is the Beta Release? ==
The beta release is the last important milestone of Fedora 13. Only critical 
bug fixes will be pushed as updates leading up to the general release of 
Fedora 13, scheduled to be released in the middle of May. We invite you to 
join us and participate in making Fedora 13 a solid release by downloading, 
testing, and providing your valuable feedback.

Of course, this is a beta release, some problems may still be lurking. Should 
you trip across one of them, be sure it gets fixed before release by reporting 
your discovery at: 
[https://bugzilla.redhat.com/]
Thank you!

== Features ==
(features section from F13 alpha release announcement)

== Contributing ==

For more information including common and known bugs, tips on how to report 
bugs, and the official release schedule, please refer to the release notes:

[http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Beta_release_notes?wkanF13a 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Beta_release_notes]

Thank you, and we hope to see you in the Fedora project!

[[Category:F13]]

..................

Will that beta release notes page exist?

Best,
Ryan

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 06:50:14PM -0700, Ryan Rix wrote:
> On Wed 31 March 2010 12:33:17 am Ryan Rix wrote:
> > On Tue 30 March 2010 9:13:00 pm Mel Chua wrote:
> > > We need someone to work with Docs (likely tomorrow night?) to write the�
> > > Beta announcement - any volunteers? Support and a howto can be�
> > > provided[0]. ;)
> >
> > I've got this; tomorrow though.
>
> Thanks to awesomepaul's reminder, here's text for the Beta release
>    announcement, cues taken from F12's Beta announcement and F13's Alpha
>    announcement; feel free to tear it/me apart :)

I pasted this to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_Beta_announcement
where the teams can collaborate on this.  It's a good start -- needs
to have the features from the Alpha notes pasted in though, and
probably beefed up with other things that appear in the forthcoming
"real" release notes:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Alpha_release_notes

http://fedorapeople.org/groups/docs/release-notes/en-US/
  (This is a site where we're posting regular refreshes of content so
  it should be pretty much up to date.)

[Ryan Rix]

On Tue 6 April 2010 5:49:44 am Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 06:50:14PM -0700, Ryan Rix wrote:
> > On Wed 31 March 2010 12:33:17 am Ryan Rix wrote:
> > > On Tue 30 March 2010 9:13:00 pm Mel Chua wrote:
> > > > We need someone to work with Docs (likely tomorrow night?) to
> > > > write the� Beta announcement - any volunteers? Support and a
> > > > howto can be� provided[0]. ;)
> > >
> > > I've got this; tomorrow though.
> >
> > Thanks to awesomepaul's reminder, here's text for the Beta release
> >    announcement, cues taken from F12's Beta announcement and F13's Alpha
> >    announcement; feel free to tear it/me apart :)
>
> I pasted this to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_Beta_announcement
> where the teams can collaborate on this.  It's a good start -- needs
> to have the features from the Alpha notes pasted in though, and
> probably beefed up with other things that appear in the forthcoming
> "real" release notes:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Alpha_release_notes
>
> http://fedorapeople.org/groups/docs/release-notes/en-US/
>   (This is a site where we're posting regular refreshes of content so
>   it should be pretty much up to date.)

Sounds great, Paul, I'll hack on it a bit more this afternoon.