October 2007 - [MOVED TO DISCOURSE] Fedora Marketing - https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/tag/marketing

by Jonathan Roberts

Hey, A week or so ago we talked on IRC about creating an "overview" document of all the new features in Fedora...kind of like a leaflet sort of thing? Has there been any progress on this? If not, I might try and do a bit this afternoon on it... Best wishes, Jon

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Fedora Banner for TuxMachines.org

by Karlie Robinson

Hi everyone. I usually buy the top banner at tuxmachines.org and I was wondering if we could come up with something to put up there when Fedora 8 releases? (TuxMachines has been very good to the developers who list at On-Disk - see http://digg.com/linux_unix/Linux_Projects_Best_Kept_Secret) Now the banner can be linked to the project home page, or someplace else if you like. I'd also go out on a limb to say that I would really like a banner to support the Free Media project in some way, but I'm not sure the best way to go about it. The problem I'm having is that we should try to increase Free Media discs sent, rather than requests. So should we come up something about sponsorships and then link back to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/SponsoredMedia Or what other ideas do you have? We have a little while before the banner at TuxMachines will run so lets do some thinking ~Karlie

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Res: Res: Fedora Life Cycle

by Henrique de Castro

Yes, yes, I'm sorry. I was a little busy when I wrote my message. I mean a life cycle of 13 months; =) Excuse me. Henrique "LonelySpooky" Junior "The best diplomat that I know is a fully-loaded phaser bank." Lt. Cdr. Montgomery Scott ("A Taste of Armageddon") ----- Mensagem original ---- De: Jim Nanney <jnanney(a)mscoast.com> Para: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base <fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com> Enviadas: Quarta-feira, 24 de Outubro de 2007 2:25:11 Assunto: Re: Res: Fedora Life Cycle -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I think the point of life cycle vs release cycle is getting confused here. Fedora has a release cycle of 6 months. That means a new version is released every 6 months. Support for the previous version (along with updates) are not stopped at 6 months, but rather at 13 months. While this certainly can be daunting, I regularly update my OS every other release (on my server at least). This allows my server to maintain a single distribution for 1 year and gives me one month to test the new release and apply it. Mapping a OS upgrade path prior to rollout should be part of that process. If the upgrade path cannot sustain a 13 month lifecycle (not 6 month as per releases, but 13 month as per updates maintained), then yes, CentOS or RHEL may be the correct path to take. The big confusion here seems to be release cycle vs life cycle. Life cycle is how long the distribution is supported with updates. Release cycle is how long before the next version is released. - --Jim Henrique de Castro wrote: > > > The fundamental point about the discussion which says on fedora´s life > cycle isn´t just the fact that Fedora has a short 6 month cycle and it´s > just like that as some of the present colleagues have clearly pointed. > A lot of people love Fedora and dedicate much of their time to make it > better and to spread it to increase its instalation basis (even here, in > Brazil´s remote caverns). To me and to much more people, Fedora is not > just a Linux distribution with which we work, it is a personal thing and > to be part of it´s expansion is a reason for pride. > > Obviously a Fedora´s fan wish to use it for any day-to-day tasks: it is > powerfull, stable, reliable and solid, but when the subject is critic > mission servers, the short cycle ends on a harmfull point. On such > cases, any upgrade is considered high risk and I´m sure that you all > agree with that. To use CentOS or Red Hat is a good choice, but that´s > not the point; It isn´t the case to search alternatives, but to have for > work one of the best distributions on the world and have to, > unfortunately, give it up for great risk tasks where long cycles are > better fit. > > Do not forget that the people who make the Fedora team immense, frenetic > and incomparably competent also has people around the world, including > Brazil´s cavern men, who abdicate days off, nights and even college > class time for love (as well as everyone here) to Fedora. > > > Regards > > > Henrique "LonelySpooky" Junior -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHHskn3GRPSy3vDJMRAmqwAJ9OOTkX8TvYAv+eTbyF/h74YdCFBACgyG1y jyrK1/wWHLhPkCPv8rVJH8c= =FRQ2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list Abra sua conta no Yahoo! Mail, o único sem limite de espaço para armazenamento! http://br.mail.yahoo.com/

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Re: Fedora Life Cycle

by Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all!!! The Brazilian Translation Project has -1 translator. What's the reason ? He say that: "Now i'm working and using CENTOS and Red hat" Why ??? THE FEDORA LIFE CYCLE!!! Why he is going ?? "I contribute with the project that i use!" So, if the users are using CENTOS, they will not contribute with the fedora project and it's a BIG sh...... Eu sou um Fedora Usuário / Contribuinte e vou continua a ser! But it has no meaning, thinking with yours arguments! My goal is to make the Fedora BEST TO USE and not the CENTOS/Red Hat. My goal is spread FEDORA and not CENTOS/Red Hat. My goal is see Fedora in Servers, Desktops and not CENTOS/Red Hat. For the red hat engeneers it's make sense, for me not! I don't receive money to do my job and to spread Fedora around all Brazilian states! I only receive support from Max and Thomas to viability that and i do this in te best way possible! Only in 2007 I do 14 presentations of fedora and fedora project in events with 150/200 persons in each presentation. With my arguments the Brazilian Project had created local users groups in many states and recruit many collaborators to translation, documentation, packing and marketing project. In Brazil we have a fedora web community with more than 8.000 persons using and testing fedora and I do this because I believe! I am here with my very bad English to defend it! Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira www.projetofedora.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHHeSyPg3HAC1vlg4RAk4RAKDHXfyDoQWspd55343yQGgMVupw4ACeNZJ2 hyobMuTm/yPuWJQpUdNdk98= =XDzR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Red Hat Magazine | GIMP 2.4 preview

by Nicu Buculei

This is a preview of the new GIMP 2.4 which will come with Fedora 8 and is (IMO) important for the general desktop user: http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/10/23/gimp-24-preview/ Even if it is not a major release feature, I tried to make a tie and talk a bit about F8 too. -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com Cool Fedora wallpapers: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/wallpapers/ Open Clip Art Library: http://www.openclipart.org my Fedora stuff: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro

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Fedora Weekly News 106

by Marc Wiriadisastra

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue106 http://digg.com/linux_unix/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_106 A bit of news about what is coming up. Most people would have read it but in the lead up to F8 we should be starting to push the benefits of what is there in F8. Cheers, Marc

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Re: Fedora Feature Overview

by Michael Beckwith

Linked is a pdf file of an 8 page layout from the "Trojan Times". Layout done by myself with tweaks and occasional fixes by newspaper advisor before sending off to be printed. http://tw2113.fedorapeople.org/fed_overview/2-9-2007.pdf Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Michael Beckwith wrote: >> Is this the page that we want the scribus/whatever.layout.editor/etc >> pdf to feature? I'm still waiting on a few more details about the >> desired pdf before I start doing anything with it. Page sizes would >> be nice too. > > Yes this is the page but wait for it while we gather more content. > Then we can put in a note here that it is ready to be converted to PDF > and you can work your magic. > > If you have any sample layouts or anything, let us know. > > Rahul > -- ~Michael http://ridleytx.structed.net (for now) http://www.michaelbox.net (eventually)

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PDF, Page Layout, and FUDcon Inquiries

by Markus McLaughlin

OpenOffice Writer, Scribus, what else does PDF? I need to know so when I find other Writers to work with for the LinuxGlobe Print/PDF Magazine, any Page Layout Software under GPL or LGPL that uses PDF is welcomed! Is FUDcon in Boston and will there be a Virtual "Extension" of it so you can "be there" too? Mark McLaughlin linuxglobe.wordpress.com Hudson, MA

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Fedora Life Cycle

by Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi All!! I'm thinking about the Fedora Life Cycle and i have some conclusions: - - 13 months is a very short life cycle time and it's a bad thing thinking in the Fedora Marketing (I am constantly asked about it in my lectures). - - with this short time we cannot use Fedora in production servers. In Brazil we have BIG FEDORA CASES and it's a major concern of Brazilian TI Managers. - - many of linux distributions has more than 13 months of life cycle So,how can we extend that life cycle to increase for at least 2 years by release? IMHO, we should do this!! Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira http://www.projetofedora.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHHRFdPg3HAC1vlg4RAkwEAJ9yCrxDLPzwgAaoyMjMSqMJpHPEVQCgn6U3 84Tlew5BXAEyNvGZWVa7o7w= =T5JA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Fedora Project Leader Takes Dig at Shuttleworth, Questions Ubuntu Numbers

by Rahul Sundaram

Hi, http://www.crn.com/software/202404605 "Spevack then points to this statistics page and says the Fedora community "makes a good-faith attempt at statistical transparency." The numbers seem to indicate that anywhere from 65,000 to 177,000 unique visitors a week download Fedora." Rahul

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[MOVED TO DISCOURSE] Fedora Marketing - https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/tag/marketing October 2007