Pitch: FUDCon APAC 2015 Invitation article.

[Ryan Lerch]

On 06/12/2015 02:25 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> Looks pretty good to me.
>
> Thanks,
> Siddhesh
>
> On 12 June 2015 at 09:33, Ryan Lerch <rlerch at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 06/10/2015 03:10 PM, pravin.d.s at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10 June 2015 at 07:31, Ryan Lerch <rlerch at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> On 06/09/2015 06:00 PM, Ryan Lerch wrote:
>>>
>>> On 06/09/2015 05:11 PM, Swapnil Kulkarni wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Kushal Das <kushaldas at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 09/06/15, pravin.d.s at gmail.com wrote:
>>>>> On 9 June 2015 at 11:59, Kushal Das <kushaldas at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 06/06/15, pravin.d.s at gmail.com wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>      Done with most of the things including posters, invitations
>>>>>>> emails,
>>>>>>> schedule, website, speakers tickets etc.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     We started invitation this week. Good to have dedicated post in
>>>>>>> Fedora
>>>>>>> Magazine for invitation FUDCon APAC 2015.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> We don't think it is a good idea to put the invitation on the Fedora
>>>>>> Magazine. If you want, you can blog about it in your personal blog,
>>>>>> but
>>>>>> the fudcon invitation on magazone will not go to the right target
>>>>>> audience, and not of the quality for Fedora magazine.
>>>>>>
>>>>> I think rather than blog it make sense on Fedora Magazine.
>>>>> 1. FUDCon is one of the premier event of Fedora.
>>>>> 2. Its good if Magazine readers get information about Fedora event
>>>>> happening in APAC.
>>>> The event is in less than 3 weeks. It was nice to have the CFP call on
>>>> magazine, but just putting an invitation for the event on the magazine
>>>> does
>>>> not look good. The schedule and other vital information will come on the
>>>> 5tftw.
>>>>
>>> A post containing  event summary would make more sense.
>>>
>>>>> 3. We should think this as an opportunity to increase audience of
>>>>> Fedora
>>>>> Magazine as well. Since this post will get shared with lots of APAC
>>>>> readers
>>>>> and also may be new users not aware regarding Magazine.
>>>>> 4. Rather than publicizing personnel blog, i would like to publicize
>>>>> and
>>>>> increase Magazine readers :)
>>>> I would rather like to keep the quality of the posts for Fedora magazine
>>>> than trying to increase it in this way.
>>>>
>>>> Kushal
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>>>
>>>
>>> I think a good, user-focused article about FUDCon and highlighting some of
>>> the talks targeted at users might fit into the magazine.
>>>
>>> It would also have to explain a bit about what a FUDCon is too.
>>>
>>> I have started a post here (you'll need to login to the magazine to see
>>> it)
>>>
>>>
>>> http://fedoramagazine.org/?p=9139&preview_id=9139&preview=true&preview_nonce=a6c92822a2&post_format=standard
>>>
>>> Feel free to jump in and edit it if you want -- i am planning on adding
>>> some more content to it tonight / tomorrow (Australia time :) )
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> ryanlerch
>>>
>>>
>>> Here is what i have in the article. I have tried to keep it brief, and
>>> trying to target Fedora Users a little more than contributors. I also added
>>> a bit about videos being available online and livestreamed. (not sure if we
>>> plan to do this at FUDCon, so we can remove that bit if not)
>>
>> I was able to publish articles before new workflow. Still do i have same
>> rights?  I am also not able to view above article.
>>
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> ryanlerch
>>>
>>> """
>>> # Fedora users in APAC are heading to Pune, India #
>>>
>>> Every year, Fedora users and developers in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region
>>> meet up at the annual FUDCon (Fedora Users & Developers Conference) to learn
>>> how to do get more out of Fedora, and plan the future of our OS. This year,
>>> the APAC FUDCon is being held in the city of Pune, India from June 26 to
>>> June 28 2015, and everyone is invited to attend this free event.
>>>
>>> FUDCon Pune 2015 is being held at the Maharashtra Institute of Technology
>>> Engineering Department of Computer Engineering in Pune, India. The
>>> conference schedule features 13 hands-on workshops, 36 technology deep
>>> dives, and 3 specialized tracks and allows Fedora users and contributors to
>>> connect with fellow open source enthusiasts and learn about the latest
>>> technologies and projects available from The Fedora Project.
>>>
>>> ## Talks at FUDCon Pune 2015 ##
>>>
>>> The schedule at FUDCon Pune this year features a wide range of topics from
>>> many different speakers, including talks and workshops on: the new package
>>> manager in Fedora 22 (DNF),  Android development on Fedora, using Vagrant
>>> for DevOps, a workshop on Inkscape -- the open source vector graphics
>>> editor, multiple OpenStack talks, and many more talks covering even more
>>> Open Source projects and technologies.
>>
>> Internationalization and Localization topics are very important domain in
>> APAC. We do have couple of topics and one workshop for same. Good to mention
>> Internationalization and Localization or may be simply Globalization will
>> work :)
>>
>> else looks nice. Thanks for writing this.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Pravin Satpute
>>
>>
>> okies, have udated the post with the suggested changes (text pasted below)
>>
>> am i good to publish this one?
>>
>> cheers,
>> ryanlerch
>>
>> Fedora users in APAC are heading to Pune, India
>>
>> Every year, Fedora users and developers in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region
>> meet up at the annual FUDCon (Fedora Users & Developers Conference) to learn
>> how to do get more out of Fedora, and plan the future of our OS. This year,
>> the APAC FUDCon is being held in the city of Pune, India from June 26 to
>> June 28 2015, and everyone is invited to attend this free event.
>>
>> FUDCon Pune 2015 is being held at the Maharashtra Institute of Technology,
>> College of Engineering in Pune, India. The conference schedule features 13
>> hands-on workshops, 36 technology deep dives, and 3 specialized tracks and
>> allows Fedora users and contributors to connect with fellow open source
>> enthusiasts and learn about the latest technologies and projects available
>> from The Fedora Project.
>>
>>   Talks at FUDCon Pune 2015
>>
>> The schedule at FUDCon Pune this year features a wide range of topics from
>> many different speakers, including talks and workshops on: the new package
>> manager in Fedora 22 (DNF),  Android development on Fedora, using Vagrant
>> for DevOps, a workshop on Inkscape — the open source vector graphics editor,
>> multiple OpenStack talks, a talk on Internationalisation, and many more
>> talks covering even more Open Source projects and technologies.
>>
>> Can’t make it to Pune?
>>
>> Even though you might not be able to make it to FUDCon in person, you can
>> always follow along virtually with many of the talks at this FUDCon being
>> recorded and published on the FUDCon website.
>>
>>
>>
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>
Fantastic!

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--ryanlerch