What would a Fedora Store sell?
by Máirín Duffy
Some ideas, let's brainstorm like mad and see what we come up with, no
idea is too crazy:
- professionally-printed blank DVDs/CDs you can use to burn Fedora to.
Comes with a nice blank space for you to write in the version number /
arch /etc.
- professionally-printed DVD/CD labels again with the blank write-in space.
- women's-sized and styled tshirts :)
- at least 5 or 6 different tshirts that are stylish, not just a logo
and a slogan but something your non-geek friends would actually think
looked cool even if they didn't understand what Fedora was. They would
pave the way for folks to ask what it is and for you to spread the good
word :)
- case stickers
- sticker sized for laptop
- laptop skins
- posters... stylish cool designs... stuff that folks can hang up in
their cubes or at their school
- this one's a bit out there and would take some work but - what if as a
Fedora 10 '10 version anniversary' thing we put together a nice book
that ran through each release of Fedora with some information about the
major features and nice screenshots and artwork for each? E.g. if you
bought the special edition of the Final Fantasy 12 game :) It comes with
a retrospective of all the games before 12 with a little summary of the
plot and screenshots... I'm thinking something like that but in book form.
- along similar lines, maybe a DVD of the videos that have been recorded
of talks at various FUDcons
- tie clasp, cufflinks, pin - something that can be worn more formally
- tie!!
- winter scarf and matching hat with a bright blue pompom!!
~m
16 years, 5 months
Intro & observations
by Alejo Cerrat0
Hi, my name is Alejo Cerrato, and I'm Marketing Director of a medium
size company in SoFla.
I'm very interested in improve my skills on Linux and colaborate with
the Fedora Project.
So far I've found that if you are not very skilled in Linux it is hard
to follow all the steps as they are indicated to succesfully become a
contributor. And I guess that there may be people willing to
colaborate, but without the minimum Linux skills to do so.
For some reason (and I'm not trying to get any help here in this list)
I can't validate my CLA. I wonder how many people got discouraged in
becoming a contributor because of the complexity of the process, and
the intrinsec bureaucracy.
I understand at the same time that it has to be done in a secure environment.
I'm going to keep on trying and get my CLA validated asap.
But at the same time I'll like to help make this process easier for
the contributors-to-be, people that may lack Linux knowledge but have
other skills that could help.
AlejoCerrato.//
16 years, 5 months
Fedora Unity releases Fedora 8 Everything Spin
by Jeroen van Meeuwen
The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the release of new spin,
the Everything Spin. Included in this spin are all the packages
available at the time Fedora 8 was released.
The Everything spin has been long anticipated[1] and is now available
for download.
The ISO images are available for i386 and x86_64 architectures starting
Thursday, November 15th, 2007. This release, unlike the Everything Spin
for Fedora 7[2], is made available via Jigdo[3].
We have included CD ISO image sets for those in the Fedora community
that do not have DVD drives or burners available, and just because it's
fun using them[4].
This spin also includes 3 DVD images for each architecture, as well as 2
DVD Dual Layer images for those who are able to use them. Please mind
that the second DVD Dual Layer ISO images is actually small enough to be
burned onto a normal DVD.
If you are interested in helping with the testing or mirroring efforts,
please contact the Fedora Unity team.
Contact information is available at http://fedoraunity.org/ or the
#fedora-unity channel on the Freenode IRC Network (irc.freenode.net).
Go to http://spins.fedoraunity.org/ to get the bits!
To report bugs in the Re-Spins please use http://bugs.fedoraunity.org/
Kind regards,
Jeroen van Meeuwen
Fedora Unity Founder
kanarip(a)fedoraunity.org
Fedora is a trademark of Red Hat, Inc.
[1] "Everything Spin?" -thread on fedora-advisory-board m-l.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2007-May/msg00028.html
[2] Fedora 7 Everything Spin Torrents
http://fedora.kanarip.com/torrents/
[3a] Releasing Fedora via Jigdo
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/JigdoRelease
[3b] Using Jigdo
http://fedorasolved.org/post-install-solutions/jigdo/
[4] Screenshot of Everything (*) Installation using CD images
http://kanarip.fedorapeople.org/Fedora-8-Everything%20CD%20Installation%2...
16 years, 5 months
Text to Speech Reader Idea for Fedora 9 and beyond
by Markus McLaughlin
Text to Speech Integration Idea for Fedora 9 and beyond
An idea occurred to me when I was walking my Dog last night, there is NO
text to speech RSS reader available in Linux! What I mean by that is I am a
NEWS Junkie, it would be so SO cool if there was an Open Source Text to
Speech RSS Reader which converts a News RSS feed to speech which is then
processed into an OGG, AAC, or MP3 file that can be put on any mp3 player!
So for instance Late Breaking News is available from the BBC News RSS
feeds, a text to speech reader would translate the
feed to a male or female British accented voice, which is then recorded
instantly to mp3, aac, or ogg!
Then the reader moves the file to an Ipod or any other mp3 player out there
via built-in Ipod compatible plug-in. It would also be able to do the same
with CNN with American accented female or male voices. I hope this idea
doesn't fall on "deaf" ears, I think it would be a great free or low cost
tool to have on Fedora!
Mark McLaughlin
linuxglobe.wordpress.com
Hudson, MA, USA
16 years, 5 months
Re: Fedora 8 sees strong adoption in first week
by Ama M
Hi Mauricio
What do you mean by "Going to Nigeria!!!"
-------------------------------------
Ama Mgbeoji
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AmaMgbeoji
-------------------------------------
----- Original Message ----
From: Mauricio Pretto <mauricio(a)projetofedora.org>
To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base <fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 1:11:50 AM
Subject: Re: Fedora 8 sees strong adoption in first week
http://www.drm.info/
Pretto
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MauricioPretto
Davidson Rodrigues Paulo wrote:
> 2007/11/13, H. Guémar <karlthered2(a)gmail.com>:
>> There are a lot of reason that people don't send their profiles.
>
> Why not automatically send profiles (if network is up and internet is
> reachable) after installation? Privacy issues?
>
--
Fedora-marketing-list mailing list
Fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
____________________________________________________________________________________
Get easy, one-click access to your favorites.
Make Yahoo! your homepage.
http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
16 years, 5 months
Store SIG meeting reminder
by Max Spevack
The Store SIG will have its first meeting on Wednesday at 18:00 GMT in
#fedora-marketing. We are going to try to set some goals, and at the
end of the meeting I want us to have a target in mind of "what we want
to achieve by December 4th, which is 3 weeks away.
Here's a few things to get us thinking -- we can talk about them on the
list here, or in the meeting tomorrow.
(1) I'm glad that people took the contents of the What Should the Store
Sell thread and transferred it to the wiki. I would really like it if
one or two people could volunteer to be the maintainer of the Store
SIG's wiki space, and keep making sure that important things that are
discussed over email can get back on the wiki for everyone to see, like,
for example, getting tomorrow's IRC log up on the wiki, etc.
(2) Ambassador/Event kits. There are two parts to these -- one part is
having a way for actual hardware (computers, OLPCs, video cameras) to be
sent from event to event. That is a little bit outside the scope of
this this SIG right now, because it requires money UP FRONT. But from a
swag perspective, what we want is a way for an event organizer to see a
list of swag that is available, and buy a whole bunch of it in bulk
(therefore getting a cheaper price) and have it shipped to some
location.
(3) Quality. Lots of complaints about CafePress sucking. That's
fine... we don't have to use them. It was just an initial idea. But we
need to figure out a way that we can get the AUTOMATION that CafePress
offers some other way -- and in a way that can be global.
Here is the important thing to remember, as it is the underlying
question that we must ask at every step of this process:
IS WHAT WE ARE PROPOSING AUTOMATED? If the *entire* process cannot be
achieved via the internet, then we are DOING IT WRONG. All previous
attempts at swag distribution have failed because they required people
to go around mailing shirts and CDs all over the place. No one wants to
do that, and it doesn't scale.
The first thing that we have to identify is a vendor that can take our
designs and handle the actual physical production and shipment of the
goods, giving the profits to us and taking a cut for their trouble. We
need it to be automated, and high quality.
Maybe there are multiple vendors, and the "Fedora Store" just serves as
a clearing house that points people in the right direction.
spreadshirt.net to me looks like it's exactly the same stuff that
cafepress offers. Red Hat uses Brand Fuel, but my main complaint with
them is that there are too many middle-men between the designer and an
actual product being sold. It's not agile enough to serve the needs of
our community.
The second thing we have to ask ourselves is "what should the process
for creating a new product look like, from the designer's perspective?"
I want to make a product-creation process that is as easy as possible
for someone like Nicu or Mairin.
16 years, 5 months
