foobar name
by Jonathan Roberts
My decision on the name, barring objections from News team, for the
name would be Fedora Insight, based on the feedback on the wiki page
-- I particularly like Ian's suggestion of a fi ligature of some kind
as the logo...
I've still to get any solid feedback from the news team, but Pascal
has said he will attend tomorrow evening's meeting to discuss News'
requirements. Perhaps even if we use the Fedora Insight name, it might
be good to keep Weekly News' model and name as a title for a weekly
feature - I guess that's all for discussion tomorrow evening.
Cheers,
Jon
14 years, 9 months
New member to the group
by Andrew Cuga
Hey, All!
I'm a big fan of FOSS and have been looking for some communities to get
involved in. Since the past few months I've been becoming enraptured with
Fedora and wanted to become a contributing member.
I'm a Java engineer, having specialized in web application development for
the past few years. I currently work for Booz Allen Hamilton in the
Washington DC metro area. I've started my Wiki profile (
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Theandruu) but there's not much other
than the basics at the moment.
As I said, I'm looking for ways to become more active, so I heartily welcome
suggestions. Some of the things I hope to get out of this is to meet other
people in the community, to learn more skills / become expert in them, to
help expand the project's client base, and maybe even contribute some code.
Best wishes,
Andrew Cuga
14 years, 9 months
Re: foobar platform pre-decision
by Máirín Duffy
-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Máirín Duffy <mairin(a)linuxgrrl.com>
> To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base
> <fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: foobar platform pre-decision
> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:16:03 -0400
>
> On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 09:28 -0400, Mel Chua wrote:
> > Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> > > 2009/7/15 Ian Weller <ian(a)ianweller.org>:
> > >> At the meeting today there was general consensus to use Zikula for the
> > >> Foobar project
> >
> > > HUGE +1 on this from me...
> >
> > And me - it sounds like this isn't just killing N birds with one stone -
> > it sounds like the Zikula effort already *has* huge, rapidly-moving,
> > heat-tracking, dead-accurate stones with frickin' laser beams strapped
> > to 'em, and is motioning at the flock of birds above and saying "...just
> > point to the birds you want. Yes. Any bird..." as the stones slice
> > through the flock as upstream whistles directions, dropping quails into
> > the open bags of the other Fedora teams...
>
> One question, does Zikula have podcasting plugins?
>
> ~m
14 years, 9 months
foobar platform pre-decision
by Ian Weller
At the meeting today there was general consensus to use Zikula for the
Foobar project, mostly under the reasoning of "kill two birds with one
stone" (Docs Project is also using Zikula) and "upstream is awesome"
(Zikula devs are very responsive to the needs of Docs, and will be
responsive to the needs of Marketing)
We're leaving the subject open until next meeting unless there is a
major blocker that isn't solved by that time. Flame away!
--
Ian Weller <ian(a)ianweller.org>
GnuPG fingerprint: E51E 0517 7A92 70A2 4226 B050 87ED 7C97 EFA8 4A36
14 years, 9 months
Self-Introduction: Martin Duffy
by Martin Duffy
Hi everyone!
My name is Martin, I'm from upstate New York, and my sister Mairin
works for Red Hat and has gotten me into Fedora and open source
software in general over the past few years. I finished grad school
about a year ago studying English/writing, and currently I'm
volunteering in an Americorps program with the Red Cross as my day
job. I'm hoping to contribute to Fedora marketing by writing copy,
blogs, any kind of media content (podcasts, video, etc.), or whatever
else I can (or can learn) to do! My first job out of college was with
the State University of NY research foundation writing web content,
spotlight features, news, interviews with people, and that sort of
thing for one of their Albany-area high tech career exploration sites,
and my second job also involved writing (mostly legal writing though)
with the NYS Attorney General's office.
Anywho, hope I can be useful in marketing Fedora, and I'm usually
always on google talk (same ID as my email addy) or on AIM where my sn
is justshovejayohbe, so feel free to say hi if you see me!
- Martin
14 years, 9 months
Red Hat Developer Conference
by John Babich
To the Marketing Team:
I posted an event entry in LinkedIn for the Red Hat Developer Conference,
being held 10-11 September in Brno CZ. Someone who is directly involved in
the event may want to go and claim it.
The link is
http://events.linkedin.com/Red-Hat-Developer-Conference-2009/pub/96208
As LinkedIn continues to grow in popularity, we may want to post more events
there for free publicity.
Best Regards,
John Babich
Volunteer, Fedora Project
14 years, 9 months
Re: $foobar update
by Máirín Duffy
Ironically enough my first attempt to send this never went through
either.
No notification it was put under moderation either.
~m
-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Máirín Duffy <duffy(a)redhat.com>
> To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base
> <fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: $foobar update
> Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:28:44 -0400
>
> On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 23:42 +0100, Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> > Damn, I thought I'd sent this earlier but it didn't make it to list
> > 'cos I used the wrong email address!!
>
> I've noticed the same problem. I've written many messages to the
> marketing list that never made it, and I never got any kind of
> moderation pending bounceback or anything.
>
> Seems like the settings on the list should at least be tweaked so you'll
> know right away you got moderated because you used the wrong email
> address.
>
> ~m
14 years, 9 months
Re: Fedora Classroom
by Mel Chua
Thanks, Kevin! I'll start by forwarding this to the marketing list
(cc'd), then start doing more specific pings/ideas when I'm going
through those meeting notes tonight.
Marketing folks, *awesome* opportunity to teach people about your
projects and get them involved, and to learn exciting new things. Go go go!
--Mel
Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> We could use some marketing mojo with the Fedora Classroom project:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Classroom
>
> We are always looking for people to teach classes, but also we are
> looking at ways to get more students to attend classes.
>
> We have a help wanted page:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Classroom_Help_Wanted
>
> and a mailing list:
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/classroom
>
> Basically we would love to get some folks involved from marketing that
> could blog post about upcoming classes, post on the fedoraforum, or
> other ways of increasing attendance. ;)
>
> Let me know if you would like to help, or introduce yourself on the
> mailing list.
>
> Thanks,
>
> kevin
14 years, 9 months
