Hi
http://ask.fedoraproject.org has been launched quietly a while back and I am using it to get some feedback on the site and seed in some questions and answers by selectively announcing in some places.
I would like to advertise this more widely in sync with Fedora 16 release. What is the best strategy for this? I can do a announcement to the Fedora announce list. Would a press release be feasible?
Rahul
On 03/10/11 15:40, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Hi
http://ask.fedoraproject.org has been launched quietly a while back and I am using it to get some feedback on the site and seed in some questions and answers by selectively announcing in some places.
Nice app! It feels like it could be a very friendly forum for many users and contributors.
I would like to advertise this more widely in sync with Fedora 16 release. What is the best strategy for this? I can do a announcement to the Fedora announce list. Would a press release be feasible?
Rahul
IMHO, it should be a fine way to give users a friendly way to ask for guidance without the burden of subscribing to a whole mailing list/searching forever in infinite forum topics or plenty of wiki pages.
This said, i'd like a lot to read/write in a Spanish biased deployment. Do you think is better taking it outside *.fedoraproject.org domain, to regional project, i.e. proyectofedora.org (Latam)?
Best regards,
On 10/04/2011 12:29 PM, Jesús Franco wrote:
This said, i'd like a lot to read/write in a Spanish biased deployment. Do you think is better taking it outside *.fedoraproject.org domain, to regional project, i.e. proyectofedora.org (Latam)?
Askbot, the software behind Ask Fedora does support I18N directly so we can handle it all in a single instance in ask.fp.o. I have also confirmed with Red Hat legal that any kind of question and answer is ok and since it is user generated content, can be treated like users mailing list. So that isn't a problem either. Askbot itself is fully localized in many languages and they even switched over to using Transifex recently based on my recommendation.
The reason why I haven't enabled it is because currently all languages have a single view (ie) if I ask a question in English and ask another in Spanish, it will be in a single page. That is messy and confusing. What we need is support for subforums or split views and perhaps per language administrators etc. I have requested this upstream and they have committed to working on it but I have other higher priority bug fixes and feature requests (ie) things that would affect everyone regardless of the language.
If you have a compelling reason to run your own instance, Askbot and dependencies are available in Fedora 15+ and EPEL 6 and I have documentation on setting it up as a README within the package and at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ask_Fedora_SOP
We have done the packaging carefully with input from upstream and Fedora infrastructure team members so that it is easy to get started and run multiple instances from a single package. My recommendation however is to wait it out a bit and I will look into getting different language communities within the single forum instance. That would reduce the administrative burden and has the value of not splintering the community of people who are interested in troubleshooting issues, sharing knowledge and helping users. Hope that answers you.
Rahul
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Rahul Sundaram metherid@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
http://ask.fedoraproject.org has been launched quietly a while back and I am using it to get some feedback on the site and seed in some questions and answers by selectively announcing in some places.
I'd like to blog about it in Italian, is this a good timing or do you want to wait a bit?
Additionally, are there plans about localized instances?
Thank you very much for working on that
G.
On 10/04/2011 01:06 PM, Gianluca Sforna wrote:
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Rahul Sundaram metherid@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
http://ask.fedoraproject.org has been launched quietly a while back and I am using it to get some feedback on the site and seed in some questions and answers by selectively announcing in some places.
I'd like to blog about it in Italian, is this a good timing or do you want to wait a bit?
It depends on how much traffic we will get because of it. I have tested in for months via devel and staging instances but the production instance is only a few days old and we are running without issue. We should be able to handle several hundred users just fine. Beyond that, I haven't tested and noone has a bigger deployment of this software. I think it is ok to blog but the goal for now is get some input on what works or doesn't. So encourage people to provide feedback, good or otherwise.
Additionally, are there plans about localized instances?
Yes For details, refer to my reply to Jesús Franco
Thank you very much for working on that
You are welcome.
Rahul
Am 03.10.2011 22:40, schrieb Rahul Sundaram:
I would like to advertise this more widely in sync with Fedora 16 release. What is the best strategy for this? I can do a announcement to the Fedora announce list. Would a press release be feasible?
The idea and making of Ask Fedora is great. Very good job!
I think a crucial point is the look of it's web interface. The colours used are already fitting Fedora's identity but how about adapting things like a logo, rounded corners and other things from fedoraproject.org?
In this way ask.fedoraproject.org would become more recognizable as a "official" Fedora-related website.
Regards, vinz.
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On 10/04/2011 07:59 PM, Vinzenz Vietzke wrote:
Am 03.10.2011 22:40, schrieb Rahul Sundaram:
I would like to advertise this more widely in sync with Fedora 16 release. What is the best strategy for this? I can do a announcement to the Fedora announce list. Would a press release be feasible?
The idea and making of Ask Fedora is great. Very good job!
I think a crucial point is the look of it's web interface. The colours used are already fitting Fedora's identity but how about adapting things like a logo, rounded corners and other things from fedoraproject.org?
In this way ask.fedoraproject.org would become more recognizable as a "official" Fedora-related website.
Logo - we are looking into a different logo -> https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/199
There is a new theme being designed. Should be up within a few weeks.
Rahul
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From: "Rahul Sundaram" metherid@gmail.com To: "For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base" marketing@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Tuesday, October 4, 2011 3:40:03 AM Subject: Ask Fedora : Marketing strategy
Hi Rahul,
http://ask.fedoraproject.org has been launched quietly a while back and I am using it to get some feedback on the site and seed in some questions and answers by selectively announcing in some places.
Nice.
However, I think, it would be nicer if it also supports people login with Fedora account, beside other ways. I took a look around the login page [1] but I could not see that. Your ideas?
[1] http://ask.fedoraproject.org/account/signin/
Kind regards, Tuan
Am 05.10.2011 16:33, schrieb Truong Anh. Tuan:
However, I think, it would be nicer if it also supports people login with Fedora account, beside other ways.
That's possible - thanks to OpenID. Simply use <fas-username>.id.fedoraproject.org and you're done.
I took a look around the login page [1] but I could not see that. Your ideas?
You're right. The login page is quite good but FAS-OpenId-login isn't mentioned anywhere.
Regards,
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From: "Vinzenz Vietzke" vietzke@b1-systems.de To: "Fedora Marketing team" marketing@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Thursday, October 6, 2011 4:05:00 AM Subject: Re: Ask Fedora : Marketing strategy
Am 05.10.2011 16:33, schrieb Truong Anh. Tuan:
However, I think, it would be nicer if it also supports people login with Fedora account, beside other ways.
That's possible - thanks to OpenID. Simply use <fas-username>.id.fedoraproject.org and you're done.
Cool. Thanks!
I took a look around the login page [1] but I could not see that. Your ideas?
You're right. The login page is quite good but FAS-OpenId-login isn't mentioned anywhere.
It should be mentioned somewhere :)
Kind regards, Tuan
On 10/06/2011 07:18 AM, Truong Anh. Tuan wrote:
It should be mentioned somewhere :)
It is. As a question and answer at
http://ask.fedoraproject.org/question/22/how-do-i-use-my-fas-id-to-log-in-to...
Could add it to the FAQ as well but the most obvious way is to patch the sign up to make it more obvious. Will look into this later.
Rahul
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