Fedora does FIPS
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi,
http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/47649-1.html
"Version 10 of Fedora, codenamed Cambridge, might be of interest to
federal agencies. It includes Python bindings for Federal Information
Processing Standard 140, developed by the Mozilla Foundation. Developers
could use those bindings to rapidly build encryption-based applications. "
Rahul
15 years, 4 months
Digg, /., etc. for F10
by Paul W. Frields
Is there anyone out there ready/willing to help with digg, /.,
etc. for the Fedora 10 release?
To some extent we expect these stories will simply make it out there.
But we *really* need some people to step up, watch responses to the
bigger sites, and help correct misconceptions and outright errors as
they come up in discussions about the release. That won't happen by
itself; we need *your* help.
I'll be camped on #fedora-mktg all day if anyone has questions or
wants to pitch in.
--
Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/
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15 years, 4 months
Re: News article links?
by Paul W. Frields
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 05:21:32PM +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote:
> Paul W. Frields wrote:
>> Is there interest in having the next FWN round up general press
>> articles on F10 release?
>
> I am not the writer for the marketing beat nor an editor, so this is a
> grunt level opinion: usually those articles are reported and sometime
> talked about on the marketing list, I can see an item on the marketing
> beat covering it.
Yes, that makes sense -- I'm cc'ing the fedora-marketing-list as well
for follow-up.
--
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15 years, 4 months
Kickoff meeting: Sugar Labs Marketing Team (fwd)
by Greg DeKoenigsberg
Cross-posting this to folks in the Fedora world who might be interested in
becoming part of the Sugar world.
I think that we've done an excellent job of defining the Fedora message
over the past year, thanks in large part to all of your hard work. Since
you all have experience, maybe you'd be interested in using that
experience to help another important project that I personally care a
great deal about. :)
To join the Sugar marketing list:
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing
Pardon the blatant cross-post. :)
--g
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:56:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Greg Dekoenigsberg <gdk(a)redhat.com>
To: Marketing(a)lists.sugarlabs.org, iaep <iaep(a)lists.sugarlabs.org>
Subject: Kickoff meeting: Sugar Labs Marketing Team
Hello all. Reposting my blog entry from the other day. If you care about
marketing, please read it, and then respond to my Request For Meeting,
below. :)
===
In their excellent book The Starfish and the Spider, Ori Brafman and Rod
Beckstrom make the compelling case that, in large decentralized
organizations, the values *are* the organization. Which means that, if you
are looking to build a large decentralized organization, you must take
great care to articulate these values clearly. You must know what you're
about, and know it so well that you can communicate it with utter clarity
to anyone you ever meet.
This elevator pitch is therefore the first, and most important, task of
the Sugar Labs Marketing Team. We've got a lot of ideas for this message.
We had a design thinking session Friday morning, in which it became clear
that two messages resonate most strongly about Sugar: the Collaboration
message (which I interpret to mean "having kids use computers to
collaborate easily by default is a great thing"), and the Community
message (which I interpret to mean "anyone can help make Sugar happen,
which is a great thing").
I know that the work of "figuring out messaging" may seem dull. But it's
important work, because it is the basis of all other work: positioning to
partners, teachers, developers, volunteers of all kinds. For instance:
there are now laws in the EU that mandate students to prevent portfolios
to demonstrate progress. Not test scores -- portfolios. Similar
legislation will soon be proposed to the US Congress. As it happens,
Sugar's Journal functionality would be an ideal base for building digital
portfolios -- better than any other base, anywhere, ever. We may have one
chance to talk to a congressman in order to get Sugar funded... and it
could be anybody in the Sugar community making that pitch. We need to make
sure that pitch is right.
If you want to help us, you can start by joining the conversation. We can
certainly use the help, especially if you are a teacher or a school
administrator. In an effort like this, every person counts.
===
So now it's time to figure out when the Marketing Team meets.
Who's on the marketing team? Absolutely anybody who cares about the Sugar
story and how best to tell it.
When shall we meet? I would like to propose:
EVERY TUESDAY ON IRC AT 1600 UTC.
For your local time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=11&day=25&year...
Since most of our contributors are in North America, South America and
Europe, I'm shooting for meeting times that will mostly work for those
folks. It is perilously difficult to find a time that works for
everybody. That's the nature of global meetings.
If I get enough +1s, I will select this meeting time as a weekly meeting
time, and we will hold our first meeting on Tuesday, December 2nd. Feel
free to submit alternate proposals for times.
--g
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15 years, 4 months
Self-Introduction: Guido Sanchidrian
by Guido Sanchidrian
Hello,
my name is Guido Sanchidrian, I am originally German, but currently I
live in Madrid, Spain.
I am working at Symantec in my current role as Principal Product
Marketing Manager for the EMEA region. In my role, I am responsible for
“Go-To-Market” activities and planning for Symantec's enterprise
security, IT risk management, IT policy compliance and security
management product line in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
Since my early days working in the IT industry - I started 23 years ago
- my major interest was and is around IT Security issues, threat
landscape evolutions and appropriate countermeasures, strategies,
standards and best practices.
I started from a technical background, worked in Technical Presales
positions and Product Management and since a couple of years in Product
Marketing. So to speak, I have always my sales-head, technical-head and
marketing-head on to balance and judge the next steps and ideas.
Due to my current role in IT Compliance and Security Management (I am
also Lead Auditor for ISO/IEC 27001:2005 Information Security Management
Systems), I strongly believe that Open Source can contribute a huge
value to meet standards and frameworks such as ISO 27001, COBIT, PCI or
ITIL. I see RedHat Enterprise and Fedora in particular as an accurate
platforms to align the business to IT, host appropriate IT control
assessments and workflow.
I think that Fedora has strong potential to contribute security on
intellectual property, personal identity and data protection for
individuals as well as for enterprises, public / education sector and
non-profit organisations.
I think, that Fedora (and all other free Linux distributions) is
currently not perceived as a strong contributor to these kinds of
security matters. In times of unsure economic climate and many reports
about data loss issues, some very well targeted marketing mix activities
could surely raise the perception of Fedora as a solid, professional and
trusted platform for security management and IT compliance issues.
Therefore I would like to start a discussion about these topics in
particular, and I would be very glad to contribute my product marketing
experiences for a "go-to-market" strategy and activity planning to
position Fedora as a strong solution platform for IT Governance, Risk
and Compliance Management.
Saludos,
-Guido
15 years, 5 months
