Re: Fedora News on Zikula
by Mel Chua
Thanks for asking, Dale.
On 09/10/2009 06:19 PM, Dale Bewley wrote:
> After reading https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight
> I wanted to login and see what Zikula looks like and how it would
> actually be used.
The Fedora Insight (FI) workflow is being hacked on in Marketing, so
I've copied the Marketing list - actually, you have impeccable timing.
Robyn Bergeron has gone through and made a basic workflow (and her work
was the initial driver that made sure a lot of basic functionality in
Zikula was put in), but it's time to figure out the actual workflow for
News, so I was literally *just* about to ask the News list about this.
> I created an account and logged in, but do I need to have my account
> authorized by someone? I don't see how to create a test post.
It looks like all new accounts are being made administrators by default
on the test instance, so you can go to
https://publictest6.fedoraproject.org/zikula/index.php?module=News&type=a...
to create new articles. This obviously needs to not be the case for the
live instance. ;) So we need someone from News to figure out the
workflow you would like.
> I realize it's early, but it seems like a pretty flat hierarchy. I'm
> having trouble picturing how "FWN" would be carved out.
The answer is "we don't know, and we were actually just about to ask you."
Dale, would you or anyone from News be willing to tackle
https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/32? It shouldn't be that
hard, and the best way to carve out FWN so that the News team likes it
is to have the News team carve it out. ;)
--Mel
14 years, 7 months
Re: Zikula theme status
by Mel Chua
> Here's the stuff still needing to be resolved:
I put this on https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/66 so people
can comment on the ticket and such when they're done, too.
> • Author names - I can't figure out how to get real human names :( not
> sure how. Also my method of linking to the author's profile is rather
> hacky.
>
> • Feature story - I'd like to have one story displayed in full
> blinginess on the front page, it seems the news module has a way to do
> this but I can't figure out how to make it work (how do you assign
> 'today's feature' to an article?)
>
> • EZComments packaging - we need someone to package this ASAP. Any takers?
14 years, 7 months
Fwd: Re: Zikula theme status
by Máirín Duffy
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Zikula theme status
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:14:38 -0400
From: Máirín Duffy <mairin(a)linuxgrrl.com>
To: fedora-websites-list(a)redhat.com <fedora-websites-list(a)redhat.com>,
For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user
base <fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com>
Here's an update on where we're at now. Thanks to itbegins and affix for
helping me out today!
Here's the stuff still needing to be resolved:
• Author names - I can't figure out how to get real human names :( not
sure how. Also my method of linking to the author's profile is rather
hacky.
• Feature story - I'd like to have one story displayed in full
blinginess on the front page, it seems the news module has a way to do
this but I can't figure out how to make it work (how do you assign
'today's feature' to an article?)
• EZComments packaging - we need someone to package this ASAP. Any takers?
Here's the stuff that was resolved:
On 09/10/2009 09:42 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> • Images - This is my biggest concern right now. If you want to post an
> image in an article, you can't. It won't let you. It just spits out the
> img tag in plain text. :(
Simon fixed this :) It had been disabled because of security reasons but
since only admins can edit articles it's probably okay.
>
> • Comments - I don't know how to get comments forms to appear beneath
> articles. From searching the Zikula forums, I found out thatEZcomments
> is a plugin that does it, but we don't seem to have it installed and I'm
> not sure if it's okay to install.
We need to have EZComments packaged - it not being installed is the
reason the comments tags aren't working for me.
> • RSS - I don't know how to do this. We need one feed for all articles
> and ideally at some point in the future a podcast and vodcast feed.
affix wrote a custom RSS feed but Simon pointed out Zikula has this
pre-built in, it was just broken (bc of a config setting I tweaked,
sorrys :( ) and it works now.
> • Links for sidebar articles - can't get them, variable is a mystery.
> When I use the usual variables all the sidebar article links (e.g.,
> individual event details links) come up blank or point to the main
> article being displayed.
Simon figured this one out. :)
~m
14 years, 7 months
Call for release slogan suggestions
by Mel Chua
(Marketing folks - please take this out to other lists and teams you
think would be interested! I'd like to have a Marketing liason driving
this discussion in every other list.)
We need a slogan for the F12 release. It will be chosen one week from
now on 9/17. A release slogan is a short call-to-action that fits the
artwork theme from Design,
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F12_release_slogan#Themes. (F11's slogan
was "Reign," F10's was "Fire it up!")
Please put your slogan ideas here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F12_release_slogan#New_slogan_ideas. Feel
free to discuss slogan ideas on this and other mailing lists - but also
make sure to put your ideas in that table on that wiki page so they'll
be counted.
The deadline for submissions is Tuesday 9/15 at 20:00 UTC, which is our
next Marketing meeting
(https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings). We'll be discussing
submissions there, and then Mo Duffy will take that input and select the
final slogan on behalf of the Design team on Thursday 9/17. Let me know
if you have any questions/comments/concerns - and let the wiki table
know if you have any ideas!
Go!
--Mel
14 years, 7 months
Fwd: Zikula theme status
by Máirín Duffy
Sorry, I mussed up the address for this list. :( ~m
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Zikula theme status
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:42:30 -0400
From: Máirín Duffy <duffy(a)redhat.com>
To: fedora-websites-list(a)redhat.com <fedora-websites-list(a)redhat.com>,
fedora-marketing-list(a)fedoraproject.org
Hi,
I've spent the past couple of days poking at the Zikula theme, and I'm
at the point now that I don't think I can progress much further without
some assistance. I have a bunch of other stuff on my plate too (more
importantly, the www.fpo redesign work) so I need to move on for now,
but I hope to get back to Zikula this weekend or sometime next week if I
could get some help moving forward.
First of all, here's what we have so far:
http://publictest6.fedoraproject.org/zikula/
Here's some of the issues I've been wrestling with:
• Images - This is my biggest concern right now. If you want to post an
image in an article, you can't. It won't let you. It just spits out the
img tag in plain text. :(
• Comments - I don't know how to get comments forms to appear beneath
articles. From searching the Zikula forums, I found out thatEZcomments
is a plugin that does it, but we don't seem to have it installed and I'm
not sure if it's okay to install.
• RSS - I don't know how to do this. We need one feed for all articles
and ideally at some point in the future a podcast and vodcast feed.
• Author names - I can't figure out how to get real human names :( not
sure how. Also my method of linking to the author's profile is rather hacky.
• Links for sidebar articles - can't get them, variable is a mystery.
When I use the usual variables all the sidebar article links (e.g.,
individual event details links) come up blank or point to the main
article being displayed.
* Feature story - I'd like to have one story displayed in full
blinginess on the front page, it seems the news module has a way to do
this but I can't figure out how to make it work (how do you assign
'today's feature' to an article?)
Any help is greatly appreciated! I hope you like the progress so far.
Thanks,
~m
14 years, 7 months
Red Hat Delivers Grant To Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science
by Ricky Zhou
Red Hat Summit – Chicago – Sept. 1, 2009 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT),
the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced
that it has gifted a grant to Carnegie Mellon University’s School of
Computer Science (SCS) to create a state-of-the-art, open source
computer laboratory. The laboratory, which will be officially dedicated
later this year, will be available to all students, faculty and staff to
promote the development and use of free and open source software.
http://news.cs.cmu.edu/article.php?a=1029
As a CMU student, this (and what the plans are for this lab) are all of
great interest to me, so if anybody knows who's driving this, I'd really
love to hear more information about this!
Thanks,
Ricky
14 years, 7 months
Re: Fedoracommunity.org index page
by Mel Chua
I'm going to try to chime in from a Marketing standpoint as best I can,
and am Ccing the Marketing list in the hopes that Those Who Know More
Than I can speak about branding here.
To summarize the conversation to date, both to catch up newcomers tothe
conversation and to try and form a better understanding of this for
myself: we have a naming collision problem. (The thread is at
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-websites-list/2009-September/msg00...,
please correct me if I've missed/mis-stated anything.)
The term "Fedora Community" currently refers to three things.
1. The community of contributors working on the Fedora Project (in other
words, "us").
2. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/, a site that helps keep
track of who is packaging what, and what state those packages are in.
3. http://fedoracommunity.org, the top-level domain for a few (only 2 so
far, it sounds like) local group homepages (such as
http://ph.fedoracommunity.org/ for the Philippines).
http://fedoracommunity.org itself is not up and running, but was
supposed to be a directory for all such homepages.
Needless, to say, this is confusing, particularly in the case of the two
websites. What should we do? Should one or both of the websites be
renamed/rebranded? If so, which one(s), and what to? How can we adjust?
Some solutions proposed on the list so far:
>>> One way we could solve this would be to simply include the page
>>> listing at the Fedora Community portal site somewhere, as static
>>> content. Ugh.
>>> Renaming fedoracommunity.org is very ugly because people have been
>>> accumulating subdomains there for months. Plus, the domain name was
>>> blessed by Legal last year (when we were still talking about
>>> "MyFedora") because the domain name helps make it clear that we don't
>>> own the site, and aren't responsible for content.
>> So it seems the only choice is to rename Fedora Community. I have no idea
>> what it could be renamed to. Right now it's focused on package maintainers
>> but we're hoping to expand it out more...
> developers.fedoracommunity.org ?
> makeit.fedoracommunity.org?
> I think it would be a branch from the overall fedora community.
My thoughts at this point are mainly questions - some of which have
partially been answered in the discussion above.
0. What is the purpose of each website being discussed? (#2,
admin.fedoraproject.org/community and #3, fedoracommunity.org)
1. For each of the websites being discussed, what were the historical
reasons for choosing that name? (Pointers to wiki pages, list archives,
or IRC logs would be great.)
2. For each of the websites being discussed , what would the cost of
renaming it be? (What effort would we have to go through, and how many
people would be affected, in what way?)
--Mel
14 years, 7 months
Re: CC BY-SA announcement drafts (also: holy crap ian did something!)
by Mel Chua
On 09/04/2009 07:57 PM, Karsten Wade wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 04:34:39PM -0500, Ian Weller wrote:
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ianweller/Creative_Commons_press_release
> Marketing might want to add some fluff, which is OK, too.
Marketing fluff added. ;)
How is this press release getting released, when, and where-to? Sorry I
haven't been able to keep up with this discussion previously.
Specifically, I added:
* The standard "this is a press release!" headers ("FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE", location/date before the body text)
* A headline (Fedora Project relicenses content to CC-BY-SA)
* A boilerplate snip of org info at the bottom, yanked from
http://fedoraproject.org/ (do we have a more official one to use for
press releases? I couldn't find one.)
* A shiny quote from Ian (this just in from IRC)
* A contact info section
* ### at the bottom, which is PRspeak for "end of press release"
(For an example of what a professional press release looks like, see
http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2009/fedora11.html - you'll
see all these elements in there.)
It still needs:
* filling in of contact information at the bottom - Marketing folks, how
we want to handle press releases is probably something we want to figure
out in general at some point.
* copyediting (I suck at making sure spelling/grammar/etc is 100%
correct; my quick pass usually gets things to 90-95%)
* more nice quotes, perhaps from Sparks or quaid or stickster -
something like... "This relicensing effort will enable us to
$list_of_awesomeness, we'd like to thank $these_people," said $name,
$impressive-sounding-title. "$shiny_media_soundbite!"
Docs folks, if you want more help with this, can you shoot us a ticket
(https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/newticket) and summarize this
email thread in the comments so that we have a bit of context?
--Mel
14 years, 7 months
Congratulations
by Paul W. Frields
Red Hat has announced its 2009 RHCE of the Year winners, and if you
look here, you'll see a very recognizable name:
http://bit.ly/g6Zto
Congratulations to all the winners, including our very own John Rose,
whose participation in Fedora is highlightedin the announcement.
John, thanks to all you continue to do for Fedora, and it's wonderful
to see your many achievements recognized with this award. I look
forward to seeing you in Chicago in a few weeks!
--
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