Simple Questions(REF: October 2009 Archives )
by bhutto aamir
1. What is Fedora?
i am just writing it as a simple user!
(am not giving any technical or any organizational behavior, term/policy comments)
I don't disagree with any other previous statements which users made on the above mentioned topic but to me fedora or fedora project is something where a user and a developer can communicate (about things products packages releases) a place where people can invoke idea's. There are so many Win* programs which i love but i never took an initiative to know the people behind that project, or to complement them,perhaps because they are doing what they are getting paid to do. Thus i find fedora project as an emotional bound between user and developer. * There are many other aspects too but most of them have been *figured-out* in previous discussions.
2. Target Audience:
The Fedora Project always strives to lead, not follow.Then our target audience should be Pre-existing *nix user's, not everyone because there are so many hurdles in "FOSS" way,(beside a pre-existing user is an easy target as he/she do knows everything about the O/s and distro's so he should get the picture quick)
It's very hard to target everyone as our audience because a normal user is quite comfortable with his/her current/present O/S, this is all because of strategic alliance marketing efforts. Commercial O/s vendor's have already made alliances with parallel computer manufactures, And if i am new to computers and i have just bought a Dell/Sony/Hp/etc* notebook which comes with pre-installed windows xp or vista with all the latest software's and gadgets with date back-up/recovery support then what will be the ultimate reason to encourage me to migrate to fedora ? Adding more to this i got an excellent career too with MS like by doing some certifications / courses to enhance not only my computer skills but also get a chance to groom my career for better opportunities :-)))
What i think is that fedora should start its certifications/courses to get people more involved with it, it will serve as a test ground or more like a medium to prove your skills level, having skill full people around the globe can easily helps us in migrating organizations from *** to fedora with an ease and comfort. They should be more confident in taking these steps if only they would have a hand full of fedora certified developer's administrators. Many IT institutes running their private projects educating people and helping them in their preparation for *IT CERTIFICATIONS* thus if fedora starts its own certification programs then i guess there would be a huge demand of this, and it will also act as helping ground for fedora.
Anyways these are just my comments/suggestions.
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We should use Codenames - "Constantine" whats next ?? "Rock" ??
14 years, 3 months
Marketing FAD budget update
by Mel Chua
Robyn, Ryan, and Neville all had their travel funding approved - see
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_FAD_2010#Flights for details.
Right now, everyone's who submitted a budget request has been funded (we
had good applications ;). We've got about enough funding for one more
hotel room, in case two more people want to drive in (or otherwise get
themselves to Raleigh) from out of town.
This is awesome - we've got NA, EMEA, and LATAM represented both
in-person and remotely (let's see if we can get APAC in remotely).
--Mel
14 years, 3 months
Marketing meeting minutes 2010-01-12
by Mel Chua
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-01-12/fedora-meeting...
- and on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings#2010
Meeting summary
---------------
* roll call (mchua, 20:05:25)
* Infrastructure projects update (mchua, 20:08:38)
* Insight sandbox testing in a few hours, we *might* go to staging
tonight. (mchua, 20:08:50)
* Limesurvey seems to not have moved forward since last week, need to
nudge. (mchua, 20:09:30)
* Marketing research (mchua, 20:09:56)
* next time, advertise fudcon survey at fudcon (have it up before
fudcon) (mchua, 20:15:46)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events_FAD_2010 - will tackle
feedback from FUDCon survey (mchua, 20:17:43)
* ACTION: rbergeron to document "what could we do better on the next
survey" (rbergeron, 20:19:21)
* fedora-tour (mchua, 20:23:59)
* LINK: http://tinyurl.com/ycver7a <-- UML (Subfusc, 20:26:22)
* LINK: http://tinyurl.com/ycver7a (PhrkOnLsh, 20:26:30)
* ACTION: Subfusc PhrkOnLsh send update to list/planet on fedora-tour
(PhrkOnLsh, 20:28:38)
* FAD (mchua, 20:29:22)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_FAD_2010 (mchua,
20:29:34)
* travel is rapidly getting booked, another week or two and we should
have everyone. (mchua, 20:29:34)
* RH Marketing/Brand/PR folks have been invited and at least a couple
are coming - they're generally excited and impressed (and intrigued)
by what we're doing; we've managed to gear up a *lot* of momentum in
a very short amount of time. (mchua, 20:29:37)
* current to-do is setting up the agenda and gearing up for it (using
the FAD as a turbo-acceleration patch, for those of you who play
video games), so that will be happening on-list. (mchua, 20:29:41)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_stories (mchua,
20:32:07)
* LINK:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Things_to_do_to_finish_Limesurvey
(mchua, 20:33:49)
* ACTION: mchua look at Limesurvey-finishin' link and try to nudge
help (mchua, 20:34:13)
* ACTION: asamaras and mchua schedule sprint session for user stories
(mchua, 20:35:15)
Meeting ended at 20:37:21 UTC.
Action Items
------------
* rbergeron to document "what could we do better on the next survey"
* Subfusc PhrkOnLsh send update to list/planet on fedora-tour
* mchua look at Limesurvey-finishin' link and try to nudge help
* asamaras and mchua schedule sprint session for user stories
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* asamaras
* asamaras and mchua schedule sprint session for user stories
* mchua
* mchua look at Limesurvey-finishin' link and try to nudge help
* asamaras and mchua schedule sprint session for user stories
* PhrkOnLsh
* Subfusc PhrkOnLsh send update to list/planet on fedora-tour
* rbergeron
* rbergeron to document "what could we do better on the next survey"
* Subfusc
* Subfusc PhrkOnLsh send update to list/planet on fedora-tour
* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)
14 years, 3 months
Fedora Project Facebook page?
by Ryan Rix
Hey all,
Do we know who owns http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fedora-Project/7670534782 ?
I can't figure out how to tell as a member who owns any given page.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/SocialNetworks doesn't have the
maintainer listed.
I was thinking that when Fedora Insight goes golden, it would be the -perfect-
oppurtunity to expand our social networking presence on Facebook, twitter,
identi.ca and other networks, because, at least Facebook, allows you to post
via rss, and then push to twitter (don't think it'll push to identi.ca,
though...) Of course, to do that, we need to own that page :-)
--
Ryan Rix
Fedora KDE SIG Member, Phoenix AZ Ambassador, News KDE Beat writer
New Mail address: phrkonaleash(a)gmail.com -> ry(a)n.rix.si !!
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IRC: PhrkOnLsh(a)irc.freenode.net/#srcedit,#plugaz,#fedora-kde and
countless other FOSS channels.
14 years, 3 months
Marketing FAD update
by Mel Chua
Preparations for this are moving right along - everything in this email
is also on the wiki page, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_FAD_2010.
If you're interested in participating, there's still time - add yourself
to the list at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_FAD_2010#Attendees; if you need
travel funding, put your proposal in at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_FAD_2010#Budget.
== Budget ==
We approved Henrik's travel budget (plane), along with Paul's and Ben's
(gas money). IRC logs with rationale and discussion are linked to from
the "status" columns in
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_FAD_2010#Budget.
== Activities ==
Right now, I'm trying to get each day of the FAD an owner working on
some sort of concrete next-step. You've seen some emails to the list
(most recently from Henrik) beginning discussion on this front - see
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_FAD_2010#Agenda for more info.
All the days have owners except for Sunday, for which we will be working
on the Brand Book - Rahul will be starting discussion on a vision for
that shortly, but the day itself does not yet have a leader. Anyone
interested in stepping up? (This /can/ be done remotely.)
== Current days, topics, owners, and next steps ==
Saturday: Strategy and Research, Robyn Bergeron. Watching the "target
audience" discussion that John Poelstra has started on f-a-b,
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2010-January/msg000....
Sunday: Brand Book, No owner yet - please help! Rahul sending a first
draft of a vision document to the list.
Monday-or-Tuesday: Interviews and filming, Max Spevack. No next step
defined yet.
The-other-day: PR, Henrik Heigl, with Sakis Samaras helping plan remotely.
--Mel
14 years, 3 months
marketing plan
by wonderer
hy,
for the MKTG FAD 2010 we have yet a WIP / Daft version of a overall
marketing plan at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_FAD_2010/MarketingPlan so
everybody can think about it and we could talk about that at the FAD.
Some will recognize that many of the "goals" we allready work on at
other areas or there is allready work going on. So, lets work on that at
the FAD so we have a template on how we structurize our work and help us
make things easier to work on, get new people more easy and faster to
work on tastsk, etc.
mit freundlichen Grüßen / best regards
Henrik Heigl - wonderer(a)fedoraproject.org
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14 years, 3 months
