Pitch: FUDCon APAC 2015 Invitation article.

Fri Jun 12 04:29:33 UTC 2015

On 06/12/2015 02:27 PM, Ryan Lerch wrote:
> 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
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> Fedora Cloud Engineer
>>>>> CPython Core Developer
>>>>> CentOS Cloud SIG lead
>>>>> http://kushaldas.in
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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!
>
> publishing live now!
>
> --ryanlerch
Was a hashtag decided on for FudCOn this year?

it would be nice to use it when i cross post on the fedora social networks.

--ryanlerch