Spreading the word about FUDCon Berlin
by Max Spevack
Hi everyone,
I'd like to take a moment to talk a little bit about our Marketing and
Press plans for FUDCon Berlin and LinuxTag, which is taking place in
June.
Last week, Red Hat issued a press release about the event, but that is
just the first in what is going to be a larger marketing campaign.
Because we are partnering with LinuxTag this year for FUDCon, they have
agreed to allow us to use their press contacts in Germany and other
parts of Europe to help spread the word about the event.
Henrik Heigl has agreed to take responsibility for helping to craft our
plan for bringing as much exposure as we can to FUDCon Berlin and
LinuxTag this year, and I will be working with him to roll out further
announcements about the daily schedules, speakers, and other highlights
of FUDCon Berlin.
Because a task like this requires lots of teamwork and collaboration
(both on this mailing list and also with other parts of Red Hat, with my
serving as a go-between) to be done correctly, I wanted to take a moment
to "officially" introduce him to the list, though many of you already
know him, and to thank him for taking this important leadership role.
Our goal is to have the most agressive pre-FUDCon marketing strategy
ever seen, that can set the template for how we advertise all future
FUDCons.
--Max
15 years, 1 month
Re: Picture Book Mockup
by Colby Hoke
This is awesome Máirín! Love the concept of splitting into the four Fs and getting some personality of the individual in there. Very cool stuff...
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Subject: Picture Book Mockup
http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/collateral/picturebook/mocks/friendsmockup.png
(SVG in same directory)
Let the games begin! :) My concept for the theme of the book here is a guide on how to be Fedora. There would be 4 chapters, freedom, friends, features, first. The photos for each chapter will have the model's perspective on the chapter's four f, talking about how that f affects their life and affects their role in Fedora. Then below that, per picture, we could suggest to the readers how they can bring that into their own life with a suggestion. Kind of a call to action.
What do you think?
~m
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15 years, 1 month
REMINDER: MEETING TOMORROW 2009.03.03 @ 21.00UTC
by Jack Aboutboul
Hello All,
This is to remind everyone that we will be having our first meeting at
the newly decided meeting time of Tuesday at 21.00UTC. The meeting will
be in #fedora-mktg for now until we can secure a slot in #meeting
(request was already put in).
There is a great amount of stuff to discuss and work on, so let's all
look forward to a great meeting!
If possible, can people just respond to this and let us know who plans
on attending?
Thanks,
Jack
15 years, 1 month
More on Fedora
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
The article goes on to point out two software projects which aren't in
Fedora and the respective upstream websites do not provide the latest
packages. We probably just need to step in here and fill the gaps but
there are probably some licensing issues to resolve.
http://www.gadgetwisdom.com/2009/03/02/more-on-fedora/
---
After our post yesterday on Fedora, we received a comment from Paul W.
Frields, who is the Fedora Project Leader and chairman of the Fedora
Project Board. He wrote:
I think the idea that we’re “regaining” users implies that we lost them
somewhere along the way, which isn’t what our statistics show. Rather,
as the total size of the Linux-user pie has become larger, we’ve
continued to grow consistently. There will always be distro-hoppers
looking for that elusive perfect Linux distribution — and more often
than not, failing in that quest — but in general the strength of our
development model, rapid release cycle, and putting the freshest
software in front of users in a stable, easy to manage platform have
retained users’ hearts for a long time. It’s true that we may not have
the marketing push of Ubuntu; it’s a fine distribution and community,
but given the choice between marketing features and creating them, we
definitely choose the latter. We’re very happy that many of the features
we create are adopted by other distributions, because that shows, first,
the strength of the free software development model; and second, that
our policy of working directly with the upstream, as opposed to creating
a crazy quilt of technically questionable patches in our own
distribution alone, is the winning strategy for long-term sustainability.
And he is right, we were inaccurate with the title. Fedora is improving
its share of the overall Linux market, which continues to grow
---
Rahul
15 years, 1 month
Thunderbird 3 Coming To Fedora 11
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzEwNQ
"Fedora 11 is reaching an impressive number of accepted features. Beyond
introducing Intel and NVIDIA kernel mode-setting, Nouveau becoming the
default NVIDIA driver, and a new volume control interface, there will be
a plethora of package updates. Fedora 11 will have available Xfce 4.6,
GNOME 2.26, and KDE 4.2 for the desktops.
Underneath these updated desktops will be X Server 1.6, EXT4 file-system
(or optionally Btrfs), the Linux 2.6.29 kernel, and GCC 4.4.
An updated package that will also make its way into Fedora 11 is
Thunderbird 3. This updated Mozilla mail client brings a revised
user-interface, easier configuration of mail options, a new add-on
manager, faster content searching, G-Mail IMAP support, better
extensibility, and architectural cleanups. The latest version of
Thunderbird 3.0 is Beta 2, but the targeted release date for a stable
version is unknown at this time. "
Rahul
15 years, 1 month
Re: Fedora-marketing-list Digest, Vol 57, Issue 2
by Shambo Bose
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:30 PM,
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> 3. REMINDER: MEETING TOMORROW 2009.03.03 @ 21.00UTC (Jack Aboutboul)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:15:14 +0530
> From: Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org>
> Subject: Intel, Nvidia Kernel Mode-Setting In Fedora 11
> To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base
> <fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com>
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
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> Hi,
>
> Essentially this means you will see Plymouth graphical bootup look
> better in a lot more systems and easily enabled in Nvidia systems as
> well. KMS brings in a number of other benefits as well.
>
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzEwMA
>
> "Just three days ago we shared that Nouveau will become the default
> NVIDIA driver in Fedora 11 to replace the obfuscated xf86-video-nv mess.
> Now proposed for Fedora 11 is to also integrate the Nouveau kernel
> mode-setting driver."
>
> "Enabled by default on Fedora 11 will be Intel kernel mode-setting
> (along with the ATI kernel mode-setting that can already be found in
> Fedora 10). More on this is also available from the Fedora Wiki. ATI
> kernel mode-setting has been enabled since Fedora 10, but in Leonidas
> the support will be extended to support KMS on ATI R100/200 hardware. "
>
> Rahul
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:22:09 +0530
> From: Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org>
> Subject: Video: Ted Ts'o on Ext4, BtrFS, First Steps with Linux
> To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base
> <fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <49ABD679.7040302(a)fedoraproject.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> Hi
>
> Note that Fedora 11 Alpha uses ext4 as the default filesystem and has
> experimental support for btrfs as well.
>
>
> http://www.osnews.com/story/21057/Video_Ted_Ts_o_on_Ext4_BtrFS_First_Step...
>
> "Linux Magazine has put up a video of Ted Tso, one of the primary
> developers of Ext4 and current CTO of Linux Foundation, on the current
> state of Ext4, the current plan of Fedora to have it as the default
> filesystem for Fedora 11, how it compares to Btrfs, and other insights.
> Ted says that Ext4 is close to production-ready being built on the
> mature and stable Ext3 codebase and being an evolutionary step that
> brings in additional performance and scalability. Btrfs is a completely
> new filesytem developed from scratch with a number of new features like
> filesystem level snapshots that Ext4 could not accommodate. Ext4 is well
> on its way to becoming the next standard filesystem for Linux while
> allowing Btrfs to innovate more and mature over time."
>
> Rahul
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:24:03 -0500
> From: Jack Aboutboul <jaa(a)redhat.com>
> Subject: REMINDER: MEETING TOMORROW 2009.03.03 @ 21.00UTC
> To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base
> <fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com>
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> Hello All,
>
> This is to remind everyone that we will be having our first meeting at
> the newly decided meeting time of Tuesday at 21.00UTC. The meeting will
> be in #fedora-mktg for now until we can secure a slot in #meeting
> (request was already put in).
>
> There is a great amount of stuff to discuss and work on, so let's all
> look forward to a great meeting!
>
> If possible, can people just respond to this and let us know who plans
> on attending?
>
> Thanks,
> Jack
>
>
>
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I would have loved to attend it but its 02:30 am in India so will not be
able to attend this meeting.
Thanks,
Shambo Bose
15 years, 1 month
