Fwd: Re: Fedora 14 AMIs

[Karsten Wade]

On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 06:48:10PM -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 18:39 -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 11:48 -0700, John Poelstra wrote:
> 
> > 1). Giant image at the top of the page saying "The perfect 10 is here!"
> > 2). Single simple paragraph explaining what it is, and why you want it.
> > 3). Very prominent link at the *top of the page* to the download.
> 
> To say nothing of the "Why settle for Cloud 9 when you can have Cloud
> 10", giving people a free hour of EC2 and making it really easy. Why,
> exactly, are we not doing exactly all of these things and more?

One answer is simple -- because you and other people who care didn't
do it.

We[1] clearly need to do some work to get the Red Hat teams working on
cloud initatives interacting with the Fedora Cloud SIG.  Via the SIG,
they connect to Marketing and Websites to get campaigns such as that
set up.

For any equivalent campaign around a feature of Fedora, we'll need
someone who has budget to contribute to it.  There isn't a large slush
fund that a Fedora brain trust pulls from for Great Ideas.  Fedora
Marketing, Design, and Websites aren't directly run by Red Hat.  That
means there isn't any automatic, behind-the-scenes, secret-hallway
work to make sure that Cool Things being done by Red Hat & Fedora are
highlighted.  For example, F14 AMIs are a feature and need to include
in the feature plan, "Get a splashy link on the front page," if that's
part of the development team's needs for this feature.

Personally, I know our team at Red Hat is very interested in building
interfaces between the Cloud/RHEV teams and the Fedora Cloud SIG.  I
know the Engineering teams want to do this.  Sorry for the missed
opportunity, what can we do from _here_ to make things better, and it
definitely is a "we".

- Karsten

[1] Jon, I don't know if you are on any of the teams, but the "We" has
to include initiative from the working parts of Engineering to engage
100% with the Fedora release marketing machine.  If you are passionate
about this but not on those teams, please help encourage those folks
to be more active in the community processes.  Any questions on how to
conduct, we have a handbook:  http://theopensourceway.org/wiki

-- 
name:  Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener
team:                Red Hat Community Architecture 
uri:               http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki
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