Fedora on the Final Frontier

[Karsten 'quaid' Wade]

On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 08:26 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote:

> But how do we get people who are making use of Fedora...even for
> unexpectedly mundane things like Gas pumps.. to start talking about it
> in a way that is constructive and helps generate new contributions to
> open source.  

tellyourfedorastory at fedoraproject.org?

yourstory.fedoraproject.org => forum server just for telling cool
stories about Fedora usage? (open for all, uses only a captcha to filter
accounts)

stories.of.fedoralinux.org => nice site that does nothing but tell
stories -- written, audio, video -- about Fedora

Hmmm ... at least these two ideas need humans to parse them, for various
spammish and nicety reasons.  We need a team!  I volunteer.  Anyone
else?

Include the link in every story publicized, so they help provide more
fodder.

Aside from Digg, get a blast into press.redhat.com.

Run stories in the installer?

Get Red Hat Magazine to pick up one occasionally for wider viewing. (+1)

Ensure all stories are under a Fedora-approved CC license so people
can ... use them in presentations!  Reprint them in their dead tree
Linux magazines! Etc.

Since Fedora is such a cool server distro, I bet we can get some really
great stories this way that rival just about anyone else's potential.
We may not have the best "I gave my Granny Fedora 8 and that werewolf
ate her lunch" stories, but sysadmins who like Fedora have cooler toys
anyway.

- Karsten
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Karsten Wade, Developer Community Mgr.
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