[FW: Some questions for an editorial piece on Neowin.net]
by Paul W. Frields
Hello Marketing team,
We received the following inquiry, and I thought this was a good
opportunity to practice some of the "open marketing" concepts. Are
there any folks on the list who would like to formulate answers to the
questions here?
To frame the answers I would suggest some of the following key points:
* We don't "compete" with other Linux distributions; we advance free
software in cooperation with upstream in a way that benefits
everyone
* Windows 7 is (presumably) aimed at an extremely large audience, much
of which falls outside our target audience of free software
enthusiasts, developers, and remixers. Nevertheless, the stability
and features in Fedora are loved by millions.
* Features are found on the wiki Feature List.
* We have lots of desktop features for ease of use that do not get in
users' way and help people get things done quickly, securely, and
with respect for users' freedom.
OK, with that I open the floor! :-)
Paul
----- Forwarded message from Matthew Hopson <redacted> -----
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:49:39 +0000
From: Matthew Hopson <redacted>
To: press(a)fedoraproject.org
Subject: Some questions for an editorial piece on Neowin.net
Hi,
I am on the news staff at Neowin.net, a technology site with a large
community of over 800,000 members as well as our own Linux distro (Shift
Linux).
I am going to be writing a comparison editorial piece about Ubuntu 8.10 and
the upcoming Fedora 10 and openSuse 11.1, to appear on the front page of
Neowin.net. Basically I will be installing each of the distros, doing a
quick review with things I like and dislike, and also a section on how each
aims to compete with Windows 7. I was wondering if a member of the
development team would be able to answer the following questions as I know
our members would be extremely interested to hear of anything new about your
Linux distro.
Can you tell me what new features users could see in the next release,
Fedora 11?
Microsoft is currently aiming for a 2009 Holiday release for Windows 7 and
it has been said their main rival now is Linux. Are there any concerns about
how Fedora can compete with Windows 7 in the future and can you give any
hints as to what features you hope to include to rival Windows?
One of the reasons behind the popularity of Ubuntu, Fedora and openSuse is
their improved ease-of-use, howeverLinux as a whole is still criticized for
being too "techie/geeky". What else is being done to further improve the
usability and ease-of-use of Fedora in the future?
I look forward to hearing from you and thank-you, in advance, for taking the
time.
--
Matthew Hopson
News Staff
Neowin.net
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15 years, 5 months
Cody Cooper
by Cody C
a.. Cody Cooper
b.. Feilding, New Zealand
c.. Currently at school
d.. Feilding Intermediate School
e.. To promote Fedora
f.. What do you want to talk about? Promoting Fedora
g.. What would you like to see in Fedora? Faster load times
h.. What other skills do you have that might be applicable?
i.. Good Knowledge of Linux and Fedora, good at websites in general.
15 years, 5 months
Amazon.com needs some Fedora Love
by Karlie Robinson
http://www.amazon.com/Fedora-Card-OLPC-XO-Laptop/dp/B001L7EGA6/ is the
new home of Fedora 10 on SD card for the OLPC Laptop.
The product won't show as available until Monday, so we still have a
little time to spiff it up if needed (have an opinion to share? I'd love
to hear it).
We also have the opportunity to show some love by adding user created
content to the listing. Specifically; Customer Images, Tags, Ratings,
Reviews, Customer discussions and Amapedia (?) articles.
So if you have an Amazon.com account and have something you want to add,
it would help the listing look less like a ghost town.
Thanks,
Karlie
15 years, 5 months
talking points for F10
by Karsten Wade
Having a common set of discussion topics (talking points) helps
Ambassadors and others to remember key message points. It also gives us
several key paragraphs we can request be included in any locale-specific
release announcements.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Announcements/TalkingPoints
Rather than have one, dry release announcement, or trying to figure out
how to translate our whimsical announcement and still have it be
relevant, the talking points let an Ambassador or L10n team write a
native language announcement from scratch in a locally acceptable style.
What should we have in that talking point list, with what language
around it?
Remember, the talking points aren't for using verbatim (although you
can), they are for creating a common set of discussion topics when
interacting about the release.
- Karsten
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15 years, 5 months
Fedora 10 Tagline
by Ricky Zhou
Hey, does anybody know if we have a tagline for Fedora 10? For example,
with Fedora 9, we had "Fedora 9. Make waves." This is for the front
page of the website (so that we can get all strings ready to be
translated).
Thanks,
Ricky
15 years, 5 months
Release Planning Meeting
by Jonathan Roberts
While I'm not sure there's anything we need to discuss, I'll be unable
to attend the next release planning meeting and would like to see if
anyone thinks a) it's necessary for someone from marketing to be there
b) if so, would someone go in my place?
The meeting is on Weds 19th Nov at 1800 UTC.
If you're interested in going in my place, we'll have to arrange for
you to be added to the list of attendees as it's a voip meeting.
Cheers,
Jon
15 years, 5 months
No Meeting Today 11/13?
by Jack Aboutboul
Hey All,
I will not be around this afternoon due to a meeting of some open source
groups taking place this afternoon from 1-4pm EST. Therefore, unless
anyone objects, I would like to postpone this weeks meeting to next
week. If anyone does object you can still run a meeting, I guess just
agree upon a time and maybe mail the irc log to the list afterwards.
Jack
15 years, 5 months
Deploying FEL for Centos/RHEL 5 users on EPEL
by Chitlesh GOORAH
Hello there,
This email is cross-posted on:
- fedora electronic lab mailing list
- fedora epel mailing list
- centos devel mailing list
- fedora marketing mailing list
It describes briefly what FEL and EPEL (if case you don't know) are
and my intentions for this deployment.
FEL stands for Fedora Electronic Laboratory. The later is about
packaging, maintaining and shipping electronic simulation packages for
real hardware development. It was initially started with my passion
for ASIC design, but now covers various design tools for:
* Digital Simulation
* VLSI Layout and Verification
* RTL and logic synthesis design flows
* Circuit Simulation
* PCB Layout and Circuit Design
* Micro Controller (µC) Programming and Embedded Systems Development
http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/
Now we are about roughly 8 contributors.
It is already more than 2 years since the early bits of FEL were
introduced to Fedora repositories. Many other Fedora packagers and
Fedora-Arm SIG have contributed a lot this success as well.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM
Packaging is good, but is not enough. One of the main goals is to act
as CAD/EDA engineers and bring open source hardware design tools to a
meaningful usage and ensure interoperability within the design flows.
We are thriving for interoperability, because without this, design
tools are useless and even if its open source. Most of these packages
have not yet been packaged for any other distributions.
More specific details on the blog posts. http://clunixchit.blogspot.com/
Building a community and do marketing around FEL is also another of
our priorities and a _hard_ task. Knowledge in electronics is advised
and recommended :)
I have received a lot of suggestions to deploy FEL on EPEL
repositories so that Centos and RHEL users can use them on a longer
basis. As many universities around the world have deployed
enterprise-class Linux distributions such as Centos and RHEL, I
believe users, lecturers and designers can largely benefit from the
EPEL repositories.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
http://www.centos.org/
I have no idea whether Scientific Linux can take advantage of these
intentions or not. If you do, let me know.
In the past and even till now, I had very good experiences with Centos
contributors. With some of the Centos contributors, we (fedora) even
shared booths and devrooms in Belgium and Germany. If ever a Centos
packager is already packaging any electronic simulation packages,
please send us a mail in our brand new mailing list. We looking
forward to hear from you. We'll be glad if we can work together. I'm
focussing on EPEL 5.
As I'm writing, only %1 of the work for building FEL packages for EPEL
repositories has been done. Thus during the Fedora 11 development
cycle, most of the work will be carried out and dependencies solve, at
least mine.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/chitlesh
Nevertheless, some new tools will find their way to FEL very soon,
e.g: verilator. The packages that I or any FEL contributor will push
to EPEL repositories will not be as cutting-edge as they will on
supported Fedora repositories.
In the upcoming months, which I'm waiting for which desperately, we
will see more mixed-level simulation support on the FEL platform.
Now, FEL 10 will be out soon at the end of this month as a LiveDVD and
packages are yum-able from fedora's repositories.
Your suggestions and critics are welcome.
We are only a small group of contributors who are working on a very
specific application, "hardware design tools" and making their
upstream benefit from the open source eco system. FEL has a lot of
success since its official F8 release, and we are keen to keep that
going and extend our umbrella.
thanks and kind regards,
Chitlesh GOORAH
15 years, 5 months
