Fedora Project Brazil releases online magazine
by Davidson Paulo
Hi,
We are proud to announce the release of the first issue of Revista
Fedora Brasil (Fedora Brazil Magazine), an online magazine about
Fedora made by Brazilian Ambassadors and Linux community members for
those who speak Portuguese.
Starting our release cicle, we've choosen "Fedora 8" as the cover
story and central theme of the magazine, including articles about
system-config-firewall and IcedTea. We also included an interview with
FAmSCo member Rodrigo Padula, a column by Igor Soares and some Fedora
news selected by Rodrigo Menezes and his team.
Official release announce:
* http://projetofedora.org/node/424
Download it now (PDF, 5.1 MB):
* http://www.projetofedora.org/revista/arquivos/RevistaFedoraBrasil001.pdf
We hope we have been done a good job, but we know we can do even
better. To make this possible, we are working to turn easy for our
readers to send comments, sugestions and, of course, content to be
published.
Any feedback will be very welcome.
Thanks,
--
Davidson Paulo
Fedora Brazil Magazine, Editor-In-Chief
Linux System Administrator
LPI Certified Level 1: LPI000132770
Brazilian Fedora Ambassador
http://daveandnaty.blogspot.com/
http://davidsonenatalia.blogspot.com/
16 years, 1 month
Informal/Irregular Fedora Podcasting
by inode0
I've seen from time to time requests for Fedora related podcasts. As a
regular listener of various tech related podcasts I'd love to
subscribe to a podcast on Fedora too. We all understand the various
difficulties in managing and delivering a regularly scheduled podcast.
For those interested in promoting Fedora through podcasts I'd like to
make sure people are aware of a podcast that began maybe a couple of
months ago, Hacker Public Radio (http://hackerpublicradio.org/).
Episodes are generally daily however contributions can and are made by
a lot of people. So there aren't fixed hosts and such. One nice idea
is to thread the podcasts on HPR so if there were a Fedora thread
(In-Depth Series) a listener can pinpoint the Fedora related episodes.
So if any capable Fedora supporter would like to interview someone
about new features coming in Sulfur and release an episode that would
be possible. If the SA or EMEA groups would like to do a podcast on
some Fedora issue of particular interest to them they could and all
the contributed Fedora content could be tied together. There is a lot
of flexibility offered by HPR.
Might be something to consider for folks who could contribute a
podcast on an irregular basis to help promote Fedora.
John
16 years, 1 month
Need to do something about Freemedia India.
by susmit shannigrahi
Hi all,
This is about current condition of Freemedia _India_.
Saying in a line... It is badly messed up.
Counting from Dec 2007 to March 2008 we have *17* fulfilled request
and ~380 pending requests.
That indicates only one thing, its going to shut down in near future.
So lets do something about it.
My suggestions are
1. Let's gather from contributors how many DVDs are available for the
month and accept that many requests only.
For that we can give contributors a week's time to declare and then
open the request form.
For a month if there is no contributor, there will be no requests.
However, thats not going to increase the quantity of media.
But this will ensure all requests are fulfilled.
2. Lets make posting of Blank Media compulsory for requesting Freemedia.
Thats going to cost INR 20-25 at max.
Well, that will create a negative impression no doubt, but the current
situation is not bright either.
For those who genuinely want to use Fedora but don't have that much
bandwidth, it may be helpful.
Any other suggestions?
--
Regards,
Susmit.
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16 years, 1 month
New product utilising Fedora
by Stewart Campbell
To whom it may concern,
Firstly, please accept my congratulations and thanks to the Fedora team
and the Fedora community. My name is Stewart Campbell and I am the
director of Nebtrex Distribution (a Brisbane based firm in Australia).
My company switched to Fedora several years ago for our internal systems
and servers, and it has provided us with an excellent platform.
The purpose of this email is to inform the Fedora community (especially
the marketing sectors) that we have just launched a new product in
Australia running Fedora 8. This new desktop product comes
pre-installed with Fedora 8 (also supplied on DVD). We have made many
modifications to the image to provide, what we believe, is a easy to use
platform for both business and home markets.
I hope this information will be of some use to the Fedora marketing and
also act as another example of what can be achieved with Fedora. If you
would like more information regarding this product release, please do
not hesitate to contact me directly.
In addition, I would like to suggest the introduction of a Fedora site
devoted to products utilising the OS. This would encourage promotion to
new and existing Fedora users. As Fedora is used internationally,
appropriate filtering would be useful.
We look forward to the promising future Fedora is sure to embrace.
Regards
Stewart Campbell - stewart.campbell(a)nebtrex.com
Nebtrex - www.nebtrex.com
16 years, 1 month
Store SIG Update - 2008-03-19
by Jeffrey Tadlock
The Fedora Store SIG [1] meeting was canceled today due to lack of
attendance. As I mentioned on IRC though for anyone that came by
later, I was going to post a brief summary of where we are at now.
I ordered a sample shirt from spreadshirt.com earlier this week. I
ordered it in similar style to the one I ordered from cafepress.com a
few weeks ago and can compare it to some Fedora shirts I have that
were made by a genuine screen printer. I am hoping it arrives by the
end of this week, early next week.
If the quality of that shirt is good I am inclined to recommend that
we go with spreadshirt.com for the 3rd party vendor that we use for
the user store front. Our fellow Ambassadors in France use them for
their store and have been satisfied with the results. Once the vendor
decision has been made I anticipate the Store moving forward at a more
rapid place as nearly all of the pieces will have fallen into place.
We do have one other major open action item open at this point and
that is a mockup of what store.fedoraproject.org might look like. We
still need someone to help us out with a mockup of this page. We have
listed some general requirements [2] of the page in the wiki and I am
happy to answer any questions regarding that page. I see we have a
few art team members on the participants list for the Store SIG - any
volunteers?
I updated the meeting page [3] for next week. Some people have
mentioned that the time is not good for them. I am open to moving the
time of the meeting if a few people want to throw out a few alternate
times. Otherwise, we will meet again next week in the #fedora-mktg
channel on Wednesday at 18:00 UTC.
Thanks!
Jeffrey
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Store
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Store/GeneralRequirements
[3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Store/Meetings
16 years, 1 month
REMINDER: Fedora mktg meeting happening NOW
by Greg DeKoenigsberg
...on freenode, #fedora-mktg. Come on down.
--g
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Greg DeKoenigsberg
Community Development Manager
Red Hat, Inc. :: 1-919-754-4255
"To whomsoever much hath been given...
...from him much shall be asked"
16 years, 1 month
