Re: Minority: helping upstream to market their product
by Francesco Ugolini
I agree completely with your ideas, those ones will give more value to open source. I think, moreover, we have to improve our knowledge base, people don't need to know how much free is fedora (they know it) but what fedora can offer, the pros of this one and, generally, of open source applications.
Personally i think that what are you doing is what open source has to do. Each open source project has its value: to show this we have to pay attention on the other projects, promoting those ones.
This will give us more value.
Regards
Francesco
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From: Chitlesh GOORAH <chitlesh(a)fedoraproject.org>
To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base <fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 6, 2007 11:09:54 PM
Subject: Re: Minority: helping upstream to market their product
On 9/6/07, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
> As for the open source projects for electronic simulations, their
> developers are neither geeks nor full time software developers but
> electronic engineers and university lecturers. There are very few
> developers. These days, projects such as gEDA and gnucap are active
> and paving their way to attract professional designers/engineers.
>
> If one will follow gEDA user mailing list, he/she will notice most of
> them are fedora users. As for their developers are some individuals
> scattered around the world. They can't not afford to prepare a booth
> for an event and talk about their product.
There is an ongoing discussion on the geda-mailing list:
"Marketing gEDA - was - Re: Professional PCB help using geda?"
http://archives.seul.org/geda/user/Sep-2007/msg00103.html
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AMD to open up graphics specs
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
Free software is winning. With the existing excellent support from Intel
and the upcoming AMD support, Nvidia will be left as the odd ball.
http://lwn.net/Articles/248227/
"A quick report from the kernel summit: AMD's representative at the
summit has announced that the company has made a decision to enable the
development of open source drivers for all of its (ATI) graphics
processors from the R500 going forward. There will be specifications
available and a skeleton driver as well; a free 2D driver is anticipated
by the end of the year. The rest will have to be written; freeing of the
existing binary-only driver is not in the cards, and "that is better for
everybody." Things are looking good on this front. More in the kernel
summit report to come."
Rahul
16 years, 6 months
Others slogan ideas.
by Giacomo Succi
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Few other ideas:
- - Fedora. Your Freedom.
- - Fedora. Your Choice Of Freedom.
- - Fedora. Increase Your Freedom.
They will express the freedom of the OSS.
Well. I hope you like them^^.
Happy Fedoring!
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16 years, 6 months
Fedora Includes Sun OpenJDK/GNU Classpath Fusion IcedTea
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
http://osnews.com/story.php/18558/Fedora-Includes-Sun-OpenJDKGNU-Classpat...
"Just in time for Fedora 8 test 2 IcedTea has landed in Fedora RawHide.
The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from the
Sun OpenJDK project using Free Software build tools (gcj) and provides
replacements for the non-free binary plugs with code from the GNU
Classpath project. Installing this experimental GPL Java platfom is now
as easy as yum install java-1.7.0-icedtea. In addition, Sun has promised
to provide a Test Compatibility Kit soon so people can see how
'officially Java' this package really is."
Rahul
16 years, 7 months
Possible marketing idea.
by Giacomo Succi
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Hi everyone.
Everyone, unfortunatly, have clear in their mind the M$ stickers like
"Designed for XP" and things like that.
Anyone plan to create something like that for Fedora?
I don't say to produce that stickers in plastic material or things
like that (is too expensive I guess) but to produce the idea so, in
example during a Fedora advocacy session, we can print this stickers
(on a adhesive paper in example) to give is as a gift to the people.
Or, in other hand, give them the option to print them by them self.
The design will be done by the art team.
That is only an idea.
I'm waiting for your opinions/critics :).
Happy Fedoring :).
[The term "Fedoring" is lossy based upon the term "Netbeaning" coined
(as far as I know) by a Netbeans (OSS IDE for Java development)
Podcast :)]
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16 years, 7 months
Linux "Infoday" on Sa, 27.Okt.07 in Hessen (Germany)
by Jovan Spasojevic
Hi,
i want to put following email here in the list. I cannot find any
related Site in English because it's in German only so it is a "Infoday"
locally in Hessen (Germany) i am living here. So the Event is on Sa,
27.Okt.07 it is a Place where we can represent fedora in Hessen Germany
but only locally and for this place in germany.
I don't know if are any other German Ambassadors interesting in it or
the Community or whatever.
"Dear Mr. Spasojevic,
Let me introduce myself. I am Dean Murphy, an active member of the
Linux
Users Group Giessen (LUGG) and an organizational member of this years
Practical Linux (PL) being held at the FH in Giessen.
http://www.practical-linux.de/statisch/index.html
As an Ambassador for the Hessen Fedora community, the PL would be
honored if
the Fedora Community would represent itself at our Linux "Infotag".
Naturally, as a community project, the Fedora project is exempt from any
stand fees.
Please email me if you need further information or wish to express the
Fedora
community's interest in attending our Infotag as a Exhibitor.
Sincerely,
Dean"
Regards,
Jovan S.
http://www.fedoraprojrct.org/wiki/JovanSpasojevic
16 years, 7 months