Misconceptions?
by Paul W. Frields
Hi fellow Fedora Marketeers,
As we move forward in marketing Fedora, I wanted to say a few words
about statistical presentation. There may be a tendency among people
not familiar with the Fedora Project and its objectives to confuse
some of our statistics. People often like to position Linux
distributions as being in competition, which I believe somewhat
obscures the commonalities of free software communities and especially
Fedora's goal of advancing free software. We in the Fedora Project
have a very comfortable position as a leader in technical innovation
and community contribution to free and open source software.
Unfortunately, I frequently encounter misconceptions about our
statistics, and the amount of value we place on numbers of users or
machines running our software.
We continue to be completely open and transparent about the ways we
gather statistics and the ways we present them. We don't document
these statistics for purposes of competition, but because we believe
our community and our sponsors are invested and interested in knowing
some of the end results of the work they do in Fedora. We also use
these statistics to help us construct and refine additional
community-building strategies and initatives.
In particular, there are statistics available which show the number of
unique IP addresses that have checked in for updates for each of our
distributions from Fedora Core 6 up through Fedora 9 and current
Rawhide (and soon, Fedora 10). Although totalling those numbers is
interesting, it is not meant to indicate a measure of users, only a
total number of connections to repositories. We know that each of our
releases tends to be installed on machines located at 3 to 4 million
unique IP addresses. Some of those connections may represent a
duplicated IP address from one release to the next. However, that IP
address could mean:
* one machine that has been upgraded to a newer release
* two or more machines owned by the same person behind a NAT/router/firewall
* two or more machines owned by different people behind a NAT/router/firewall
* two or more completely separate sites where the IP address has been
re-used (cable/DSL pool)
Obviously this makes determining the total install base of Fedora
across all releases somewhat difficult. We understand completely that
IP address counting is not a scientifically valid way of determining a
total number of users. That's why we don't claim a number of users
from these counts; we only present them as what they are, sums of
unique IP addresses.
Anyone who's ever heard me speak to this issue knows it's never been
my intention, nor interesting at all to me, to debate over user
statistics. I am extremely satisfied that we have a geometrically (in
some cases exponentially) growing number of account holders,
contributors, and Ambasssadors involved in Fedora, all of which
numbers we can openly and transparently document. This is far more
compelling for the community, I think, than simply throwing large
round numbers about, especially when those numbers aren't supported by
completely open, transparent, and documented recording and reporting
methods.
Please keep this in mind as you provide feedback and information to
people about Fedora. Our leadership position, I believe, is based on
the total contributions our community makes to the entire free and
open source software ecosystem, through our continuing, unwavering
policy of upstream collaboration, and our continual efforts to lower
barriers to contribution across the entire project.
Thanks to all of you for being part of Fedora, and I hope all of you
are looking forward, as I am, to the release of Fedora 10 on Tuesday!
Paul
15 years, 5 months
ZOMG STICKERS!!11 Proof
by Máirín Duffy
Hi folks,
So I promised I'd send you a photo of the physical proof I received from
the printing company (MaverickLabel.com) for the stickers. There were
actually some issues with it (and the proof wasn't actually sample
stickers, just the stickers printed out on-size on some nice paper for
color comparison so the photo wouldn't have been super awesome anyway.)
I've been through a few rounds with the printing company to correct
various issues and I just received a digital proof from them that I'm
pretty happy with. I've attached it for you to see.
The colors are PMS-2935 and PMS-541. The pink lines show where the die
cuts will be made and thus how the stickers can be peeled off the sheet.
The proof is scaled pretty small: the sheet is actually going to be
roughly 8'x 10' so there's plenty of space to write in the 'write your
own' sticker bubbles.
If we approve it by COB 11/24 I'll receive them by 12/02 which is in
plenty of time for FUDcon Boston in January.
Does this look good? If you see any errors or issues let me know and
I'll have them fixed, otherwise I'd like to send to send them my
approval ASAP.
Thanks :)
~m
15 years, 5 months
Write your own local release announcement
by Karsten Wade
Instead of writing a dry, boring English release announcement for
translation ...
You are encouraged to write your own announcement, in your native
language, for your region of the world.
Please collaborate with other members of your localization/Ambassador
community for your 'formal' announcement.
Ambassadors -- please lead this effort within your language/locale.
Here are the points to discuss:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talking_points_for_F10
You do not need to cover most or all of those; pick what you think
your audience wants to hear about the most.
This page explains the process in more detail, with links to previous
announcements:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_announcements
Still fixing a few things on that page, but it's usable right now. :)
- Karsten
ps - pardon the cross post, mea culpa
--
Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener
http://quaid.fedorapeople.org
AD0E0C41
15 years, 5 months
Event Planning Brazil-TO
by Luiz Augusto Machado
People,
I work as an instructor in SENAC Network Linux, and I am working with the
implementation of some solutions for free here.
* National System of Learning Program (SENAC) has committed to the
development of individuals and organizations to the world of work, promoting
educational activities and dissemination of knowledge.
Every year is an event held between May / March called "Week of Work", this
event is a series of workshops in the areas concerned by SENAC and if it
includes the IT.
The idea that I suggested, very well accepted, was to create spins (nothing
official) for several specific areas, for example, for an office, one for
home users, to support, for the development, for those working with
infrastructure and so on. And using these spins hold such workshops, one for
each spin, and all this with Fedora.
I am here looking for suggestions and even help finding a material needed to
mount such workshops, and in addition will also set a theme for conducting a
lecture, and would be great if it was something related to Fedora.
I count on the help of you to concentrate a bank of ideas to achieve that
with this event and increase the number of users of Fedora.
--
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Regards
Luiz Augusto Machado
15 years, 5 months
the 4f
by wonderer
hy there,
I was was asking myself why there are no Logo and Banner changes made
with the new 4 Foundations? Are these planned for launching with F10?
mit freundlichen Grüßen / best regards
Henrik Heigl - wonderer(a)fedoraproject.org
15 years, 5 months
