Re: Choosing slide contents for F16's release - in this mailing list thread

[Sijis Aviles]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Sijis Aviles <sijis(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;wrote:

>  On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 4:53 AM, Kévin Raymond <shaiton(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;wrote:
>
> > Le lundi 10 oct. 2011 à 10:58:28 (+0200), Elad a écrit :
> > > On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Elad <el.il(a)doom.co.il&gt; wrote:
> > >
> > > > We decided not to have a meeting.
> > > > Instead, we are going to have this discussion here.
> > > >
> > > > So, we now have 4 slides,
> > > > 1. Main (download) slide (the design team should supply a new
> > background
> > > > for it)
> >
>
>  Previously, the design of the first slide has matched with the theme of
>  the release. Keeping it this way would be good.
>
>
> > > > 2. Feature slide. Right now it's about gnome 3. before that it was
> > about
> > > > auto-installing printer drivers. Which f16 feature we should use for
> > this
> > > > slide?
> >
>
>  One of the previous replies the suggestion was Grub2, GPT disk label, etc.
>  Those are all good ones but aren't 'exciting', especially for non-techies.
>  However, what is to say that we can't highlight a couple of special things?
>  In looking at the Features list [1], i see a theme of 'cloud' and 'cloud
>  services/integration'. What if we group those features together into 1
>  slide?
>
>
> > > > 3. A spin slide, where we feature one of our spins. Which spin we
> > should
> > > > show for F16?
> >
>
>  This is the list of Spins [2] for this release.I'm indifferent on which
>  one is chosen. My only contention is choosing a spin that hasn't been
>  highlighted before. Again, we could highlight the two newest one in a
>  single slide (eg Scientific and Robotics).
>
>
> > > > 4. A community slide, with a group photo. I suggest using a photo from
> > > > FUDCon Milan.
> >
>
>  The links with group pictures were excellent. I don't have the link in
>  front of me but the one i liked was the group pic in which the group look
>  like a triangle. I think it was the second link from the list.
>
> > > >
> > > > What do you think?
> > > > --
> > > > -Elad Alfassa.
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
>  Elad - I'm glad you put this together and started this discussion. Thank
>  you!
>
>
> > > Please note, the title of this thread is wrong, this is for F16, not for
> > > F17.
> > >
> > > --
> > > -Elad Alfassa
> >
> >
> > Therefor just update it :).
> >
> > Mizmo, how much time should we give to the design team?
> > We should define a deadline in order to choose the slideshow content.
> >
> >
>
>  [1] - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/16/FeatureList
>  [2] - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/16/Spins
>  

All,

Was it ever decided what we are going to do for the slides? I apologize if
i missed it but I couldn't find anything about it.

Sijis