Linuxcon, Linux Symposium CFP
by Robyn Bergeron
I have no idea if we publish this information elsewhere, but I figured
i would start here:
Linuxcon, which is in Boston in August, sponsored by the Linux
Foundation, has a CFP out which ENDS on the 31st - Wednesday. It
would be great to have some Fedora people here.
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon/cfp
Also - for those interested in attending Linux Symposium in Ottawa in
July - there are still has spots open for Lightning talks (10-minute
presentations) and BOFs. http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2010/
That is all :)
-Robyn
14 years
Self-introduction: Pascal Calarco
by Pascal Calarco
Hi marketing folk --
My name is Pascal Calarco (FAS:pcalarco)[1]. I am interested in
participating with the Marketing team in Fedora, because the good folk
here are a dynamic and enthusiastic bunch and we have been collaborating
over the past few months on getting Fedora Insight[2] configured,
developed and moving forward for an expected F13 launch. I think by
being an explicit member of the Marketing team, this will help this
collaboration further.
I have been a member of the Fedora Ambassadors team for a couple years
and also have been a editorial team member of the Fedora Weekly News
since issue 133 (July 5, 2008) and as a writer since before that. I
have been a daily user of Fedora as my primary personal & work computing
environment since Fedora Core 2, and since then have thought that Fedora
is absolutely the best Linux distro for me as a technical manager and
power user. I have used Red Hat Linux, Mandrake/Mandriva, Ubuntu and
OpenSUSE at various points in the past and keep coming back to Fedora.
Fedora to me is a great blend of cutting edge desktop experience, a
vibrant community that I can contribute to and collaborate with others
very meaningfully, and an excellent way for me to keep up my technical
skills cred with my career. Fedora's professed values of "Features,
Freedom, Friends, First" really resonates with me as I am also a
librarian by profession, as we value open access to information,
intellectual freedom, collaborative empowerment, service and lifelong
learning, so the Fedora Project is a natural professional "second home"
for me in a very real sense. When I am not working at Fedora, I am
working as department head for our Library Information Systems group of
10 in the Hesburgh Libraries at the University of Notre Dame[3]. I am a
genealogy nut, an avid reader, a radio DJ for a weekly jazz program on
campus, a cyclist commuter, and father and husband.
I see the Fedora Weekly News[4] as a very natural extension of the
Marketing Team. Everything we do with FWN is to inform, influence and
enthuse those who use, develop, enhance and manage Fedora Linux and
demonstrate why we are a great technology community that deserves our
daily use, participation, and support. With Fedora Insight, I think we
can strengthen this relationship between the Weekly News and Marketing
teams, making our combined efforts even more obvious and impactful.
What I can bring to the Fedora Marketing team is the perspective of a
Fedora power user, a faculty member on a college campus, light project
management skills and dedication to the Fedora Project.
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:pcalarco
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight
[3] http://www.library.nd.edu/
[4] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN
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Pascal Calarco
Editor, Fedora Weekly News
Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA
14 years
Need some time in a future Marketing Meeting.
by Nelson Marques
If possible I would like to get some space in one of our Marketing Team
meeting to introduce and discuss some topics:
* Cultural aspects in Communication - it's importance, as Fedora aims
to an International Community.
* Consider what we shouldn't associate with Fedora.
* Symbology and Brand Association
* Restriction policy towards potential "harmful" symbology
We should focus on this for future releases as I've runned across some
other topics and despite being loaded of work, I'll drop a bit on
everything so we can push this forward as fast as we can. I don't
believe we can accomplish such before F13 Release, but at least we can
start thinking on providing such grounds for F14 release.
All this freedom thing is nice, but some people really don't get the
picture that using some symbology (despite of their personal opinion)
that has strong negative connotations is harmful.
Give me 2 weeks to get prepared, set a document and gather some
scientific marketing production to backup this subject and present it.
If possible I would like to go remote on voice aswell for this.
nelson
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Nelson Marques <07721(a)ipam.pt>
14 years
Upcoming Fedora 13 Tasks
by John Poelstra
Start End Name
Tue 02-Mar Tue 30-Mar Feature Profiles
Tue 30-Mar Tue 06-Apr Marketing: Beta One Page Release Notes
Tue 30-Mar Tue 06-Apr Brief Ambassadors on upcoming release
Thu 01-Apr Thu 01-Apr Beta Project Wide Release Readiness Meeting
Thu 01-Apr Mon 05-Apr Create Beta Announcement (Docs & Marketing)
Tue 06-Apr Tue 06-Apr Beta Release Public Availability
Tue 13-Apr Tue 20-Apr Update and freeze the screenshots page
14 years
Fedora and Video
by threethirty
Ahoy hoy Marketeers!
Some of us were in IRC [1][2][3]discussing how Fedora, Video, and
(Software) Freedom can all co-exsit peacefully.
I think that we have come up with a really good Stage One solution (I
have some other ideas but lets get this one off the ground first). This
stage is creating an account with the Internet Archive
(http://archive.org). The Internet Archive allows people to upload
media as long as it is under a shareable license, and since we all love
CC so much our love of CC-BY and CC-BY-SA are a perfect fit. We also
have this Foundation of Freedom which I personally read as Software
Freedom. The Internet Archive is a good fit here because they allow
users to upload in the OGG Theora format and will embed said OGG files
using the nifty new HTML5 video tags.
So here are the problems. How do we create an account on a service and
allow Fedorians around the world to upload there without giving everyone
in the world the password (can this somehow be tied into FAS?)? How can
we make sure that all of the content is always CC-BY or BY-SA and in the
Freedom loving OGG format? How can we make this uniquly Fedora? (this
isn't totally nessisary but would be really nice to be able to pull off)
So this is currently where we stand. thoughts?
[1] Minutes:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-mktg/2010-03-27/fedora-mktg.2010-...
[2] Minutes (text):
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-mktg/2010-03-27/fedora-mktg.2010-...
[3] Log:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-mktg/2010-03-27/fedora-mktg.2010-...
--
Justin "threethirty" O'Brien
Fedora Ambassador & Marketing Team Member
threethirty(a)fedoraproject.org
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Threethirty
threethirty on freenode.net
@threethirty - twitter/identi.ca/jaiku
Phone: (765) 688-0723
14 years
interesting post
by Nelson Marques
Though many people will cross against it in *planet* I would still like
to point this as a source of very nice information and a great work
accomplished: http://lewk.org/blog/fedoracommunity-statistics.html
Strangely I'm one of the most active users on the wiki :( And Marketing
Group comes represented with SWOT ;)
Anyway, that post is a nice source of information. Good job for the
people involved in that work.
nm
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Nelson Marques <07721(a)ipam.pt>
14 years
Self Diagnose - Communication & Personality
by Nelson Marques
Hi,
Though this is not of *major* relevance to this list, I've scrybed some
stuff here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/SELF_DIAGNOSE
That's a set of 60 affirmations. This affirmations are constructed in
way that the user can assign 1 or 0 to every single of them.
In the end, they will provide the positioning of one's personality and
communication skill's accordingly to the following:
* Passive escape attitude.
* Aggressive Attack attitude.
* Manipulation attitude.
* Assertive or Self-Affirmation attitude.
-- Request - Can someone edit and review English on those sentences?
Feel free to commit changes as long as they don't change the meaning of
the sentence.
There is also
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/SELF_DIAGNOSE_KEY
In which I'm scrybing now that provides an interpretation of the
results from the previous page.
The goal is to establish a simple Personality Test for everyone who
wants to do it. I'll provide enough information there for one to
accomplish this without any involvements of third parties, see it as if
you are curious about yourself and your personality, you can dig up a
"psychological" explanation for the results. I'm doing in a way that
there are no public results ;) So it's really from a personal point of
interest.
Yet another *worthless* (or maybe not) contribution.
Nelson
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Nelson Marques <07721(a)ipam.pt>
14 years
