Re: Help Wanted?

[Jack Aboutboul]

Jonathan Roberts wrote:
>  Hey Jack,
>
>  After a quick bit of mailing list searching, found record of the
>  news.fp.o going back to at least march 2008
>  (https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-March/msg00207...).
>  It goes back before that, but I've not kept looking.
>
>  Me and Rahul both worked quite hard at sorting it out, along with
>  Frank Chiulli and Bret M, but it never managed to quite make it. The
>  goals, at least for what I was working towards, were very similar to
>  what you're trying to do with foobar...
>     
A couple of quick thoughts.  Rahul, I looked at the links which you have 
me for news.opensuse and ubuntu fridge.  I don't think that our goals 
deviate too much as part of the purpose of foobar is to build a better 
fedora weekly news, both in content and distribution, but also to 
augment it with additional content.

That being said, Jon mentioned that the goals were very similar and as 
per the thread you linked me to they seem to be.  Given that the 
activity on that has waned over the last year, all things considered, 
can we discuss maybe merging these two vision under the foobar banner?  
I'm just curious if you guys think it will work.

The time is ripe, we have many good ideas, we have vision, many of our 
guys are back on the radar, and enough so that I think we can honestly 
pull something like this off with a little bit of work in a fairly 
decent (3-4 month) time span and have it be very visually pleasing to 
boot.  From there we can go in any number of different directions 
regarding who makes what types of content and how often.

Thoughts?

Jack

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[Rahul Sundaram]

On 06/26/2009 04:47 AM, Jack Aboutboul wrote:

>  The time is ripe, we have many good ideas, we have vision, many of
> our
>  guys are back on the radar, and enough so that I think we can honestly
>  pull something like this off with a little bit of work in a fairly
>  decent (3-4 month) time span and have it be very visually pleasing to
>  boot.  From there we can go in any number of different directions
>  regarding who makes what types of content and how often.
>  
>  Thoughts? 
I don't mind. If it is a magazine, news etc combo, what would you call it?

Rahul

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[Jack Aboutboul]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  On 06/26/2009 04:47 AM, Jack Aboutboul wrote:
>
>    
> > The time is ripe, we have many good ideas, we have vision, many of our
> > guys are back on the radar, and enough so that I think we can honestly
> > pull something like this off with a little bit of work in a fairly
> > decent (3-4 month) time span and have it be very visually pleasing to
> > boot.  From there we can go in any number of different directions
> > regarding who makes what types of content and how often.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >     
>
>  I don't mind. If it is a magazine, news etc combo, what would you call it?
>
>  Rahul
>     
We are working on trying to figure out a name.  Mo has suggested "Fedora 
First" what do you think about that?

Jack

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[Pascal Calarco]

Hi Jack and Rahul --

I'm the current primary editor of FWN, and we have had some discussions 
in the past year within the team of developing a magazine style 
publication with JonRob, and even an irregular glossy print publication 
was proposed by Max and David Nalley.  This is honestly the first I've 
heard of Project FooBar (as currently codenamed), so I am glad this 
discussion has come up!

So it seems the driver of the effort is the marketing team, and that is 
appropriate; we're happy to plug content into a larger infrastructure 
that meets the needs of the Fedora project as a whole.  Please count me 
in as a potential team member to help work on this.  I'll be going on 
vacation July 2-26 but am happy to see some development in this area and 
work toward this common goal.

  - pascal

Jack Aboutboul wrote:
>  Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>    
> > On 06/26/2009 04:47 AM, Jack Aboutboul wrote:
> >
> >   
> >     
> >> The time is ripe, we have many good ideas, we have vision, many of our
> >> guys are back on the radar, and enough so that I think we can honestly
> >> pull something like this off with a little bit of work in a fairly
> >> decent (3-4 month) time span and have it be very visually pleasing to
> >> boot.  From there we can go in any number of different directions
> >> regarding who makes what types of content and how often.
> >>
> >> Thoughts?
> >>     
> >>       
> > I don't mind. If it is a magazine, news etc combo, what would you call it?
> >
> > Rahul
> >   
> >     
>  We are working on trying to figure out a name.  Mo has suggested "Fedora 
>  First" what do you think about that?
>
>  Jack
>
>

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[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 08:27:49PM -0400, Jack Aboutboul wrote:
>  Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > On 06/26/2009 04:47 AM, Jack Aboutboul wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> The time is ripe, we have many good ideas, we have vision, many of our
> >> guys are back on the radar, and enough so that I think we can honestly
> >> pull something like this off with a little bit of work in a fairly
> >> decent (3-4 month) time span and have it be very visually pleasing to
> >> boot.  From there we can go in any number of different directions
> >> regarding who makes what types of content and how often.
> >>
> >> Thoughts?
> >>     
> >
> > I don't mind. If it is a magazine, news etc combo, what would you call it?
> >
> > Rahul
> >   
>  We are working on trying to figure out a name.  Mo has suggested "Fedora  
>  First" what do you think about that? 
"Fedora Free Press"
"Fedora Gazette"
"Fedora Dispatch"

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[Ian Weller]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 03:28:28PM +0200, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>  "Fedora Free Press"
>  "Fedora Gazette"
>  "Fedora Dispatch"
>   
"Fedora World News"
"The Fedora"
"The Fedora Chronicle"
"Fedora Newsroom"
"The Daily Fedora with Paul Frields" :)

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[Max Spevack]

On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Pascal Calarco wrote:

>  I'm the current primary editor of FWN, and we have had some 
>  discussions in the past year within the team of developing a magazine 
>  style publication with JonRob, and even an irregular glossy print 
>  publication was proposed by Max and David Nalley.  This is honestly 
>  the first I've heard of Project FooBar (as currently codenamed), so I 
>  am glad this discussion has come up!
>
>  So it seems the driver of the effort is the marketing team, and that 
>  is appropriate; we're happy to plug content into a larger 
>  infrastructure that meets the needs of the Fedora project as a whole. 
>  Please count me in as a potential team member to help work on this. 
>  I'll be going on vacation July 2-26 but am happy to see some 
>  development in this area and work toward this common goal. 
IMHO:

Fedora News team continues to provide tons of content.

Fedora Marketing & Websites & Design figures out delivery mechanism.

Others are encouraged to create content and help out as well.

It's a meta-project which has value to multiple Fedora sub-teams

--Max

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[Jack Aboutboul]

Max Spevack wrote:
>  IMHO:
>
>  Fedora News team continues to provide tons of content.
>
>  Fedora Marketing & Websites & Design figures out delivery mechanism.
>
>  Others are encouraged to create content and help out as well.
>
>  It's a meta-project which has value to multiple Fedora sub-teams 
Yes very true,
except that we also have the marketing team putting 
together content, because its not going to be strictly a news style 
setup, we want other engaging content.

Okay going to sleep now!

Jack