Fedora 9 Alpha Release Marketing Plan WAS Re: Fedora 9 Marketing plan?

[Colby Hoke]

Mike McGrath wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Kerrin Catallozzi wrote:
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> Minor things, one of which is we might want to mention "sulphur", our
> codename:
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>> Help Shape Fedora 9: Alpha Release Now Available
>> by Fedora Team
>>
>> As Fedora (http://www.fedoraproject.org) contributors, one of the most
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> 	just http://fedoraproject.org/
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>> exciting parts of the development process of new Fedora distributions is
>> determining which cool, new features will be included in the next release.
>> Fedora 9 is due out at the end of April 2008, and we started making plans for
>> it as soon as we released Fedora 8 back in November. We've already begun to
>> implement the changes and features we want included in this release, and with
>> the Fedora 9 Alpha release today, it's time for the whole community's input.
>>
>> During each Fedora cycle, there is an Alpha release, a Beta release and a
>> series of weekly snapshot releases.
>> (http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-9/f-9-releng-tasks.html)  The
>> Alpha release gives everyone the opportunity to provide feedback on the work
>> that has been done so far as the first step in the testing cycle. It's the
>> first time that the larger Fedora community can get really involved in testing
>> out the new features and is encouraged to provide input on what's working, and
>> what's not. It's easy to gain access to the Alpha release because you don't
>> have to install any software -- everything you need is provided through live
>> CDs. Then, to give us feedback, you can file bug reports and enhancement
>> requests and make other recommendations.
>>
>> If you want to help us test and shape the next release of Fedora, you can find
>> details about the new features we're exploring, about how to get involved in
>> the Alpha release and about how to provide feedback and get involved in the
>> process by visiting our Fedora 9 Alpha release notes.
>> (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/Alpha/ReleaseNotes)
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> We might also want to tell people how to get it at
> http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease (not up yet but will be shortly).
>
> 	-Mike
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I'd invite anyone to check out what we've started with Marketing. I know 
we have a lot of people on the team (here at Red Hat) gearing up for 
JBoss World, but we will be having another meeting ASAP. I'm just trying 
to hammer out a few things on my end right now, but that's on top of my 
normal job...

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Tasks

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