Feature Profiles for F18 - looking for folks wanting to take a feature and do interviews (email is kosher!)

[Robyn Bergeron]

On 12/17/2012 10:14 AM, Robyn Bergeron wrote:
> Howdy everyone,
>
> We're getting close to F18 (*knocks on wood*) release and in the past 
> we've done feature profiles to cover some of the main highlighted 
> features from each release.
>
> This usually is a two-part (at least) process, when doing one:
>
> 1: Do an interview with someone on a feature / someone(s) on a group 
> of related features. Interview can be by email, podcast, IRC chat, 
> anything that can basically be captured for anyone to read/hear/watch 
> back.
>
> 2: Taking some content from that interview, cobbling it into more of a 
> "story"/article format, which we can then publish to either/both of 
> Fedora Magazine / Red Hat press blog / your blog / etc.
>
> A few examples interviews from the past:
> BoxGrinder: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BoxGrinder_in_F15
> Fedora on EC2: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_on_EC2
> Desktop Enhancements in Fedora 12: 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Desktop_Enhancements_in_Fedora_12
>
> I put together a suggested list of potential interviews/features on 
> the wiki - we can always combine some, think about adding other 
> features / other types of stories (ex: "How our QA team is totally 
> awesome and you should hug them for F18"), etc.
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F18_feature_profiles
>
> SOP and current FeatureList are here:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Feature_profiles_SOP
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/18/FeatureList
>
> Also: Having screenshots attached to an interview - and the final 
> story - is always awesome. Heck, having a repository of screenshots, 
> period, is really helpful just from a "help out the press" type of 
> way. Have we started working that for F18? (Or has anyone?)
>
> Anyway..... ON TO THE SUGGESTIONS! Feedback welcome. Claim your fun 
> interview on this list. And add your name on the wiki. And ask 
> questions! I've done many of these, but realize most others haven't. 
> :) I've attached names for a few people who would be good interview 
> subjects - you should be able to find most of them in FAS in terms of 
> email address.
>
> Virt Live Snapshots, Virt Guest Suspend/Hibernate
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Virt_Guest_Suspend_Hibernate
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Virt_Live_Snapshots
> Cole Robinson, Amit Shah, Jeff Cody
>
> GNOME 3.6
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Gnome3.6
> Mathias Clasen
>
> KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.9
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KDE49
> Rex Dieter, Jaroslav Reznik
>
> New Installer UI
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NewInstallerUI
> Chris Lumens, Mo Duffy
>
> OpenStack Folsom
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OpenStack_Folsom
> Padraig Brady, Mark McLoughlin, Russell Bryant
>
> oVirt Engine 3.1
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/oVirtEngine_3.1
> Juan Hernandez, Mike Burns, Dave Neary
>
> Riak
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Riak
> Peter Lemenkov
>
> Samba 4
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Samba4
> Andreas Schneider
>
> Storage Management
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/StorageManagement
> Tony Asleson, Andy Grover
>
> System Storage Manager
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SystemStorageManager
> Lukas Czerner
>
> FedFS
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedFS
> Ian Kent
>
> Eucalyptus
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Eucalyptus
> Andy Grimm, Garrett Holmstrom, Greg DeKoenigsberg
Also: I CLAIM EUCALPYTUS, mostly because I've been hoping for this one 
for, oh, like, 3 releases now. :)
>
> Sugar 0.98
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Sugar_0.98
> Peter Robinson
>
> -Robyn
>