Marketing-trac: #126: Create a wiki page for magazine covermount information
by Marketing Team
#126: Create a wiki page for magazine covermount information
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Reporter: pfrields | Owner:
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: F14a: Pre-alpha
Component: other | Severity: urgent
Keywords: |
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We often get inquiries from magazines asking for permission to bundle one
or more Fedora discs with a future issue. This is a fairly routine
process as long as the disc is an unmodified copy of Fedora media (i.e. an
official release). Some interaction with Red Hat Legal is required to
send out an agreement to the magazine.
We can speed up that interaction and the overall process if we have a page
that tells magazines what they need to provide, and to whom, for a
covermount agreement. Generally we need the following information, sent
to the ''press(a)fp.o'' address:
* The name (d/b/a) and address of the company producing the magazine
* The exact disc(s) that are to be bundled
* Contact information for the person making the request
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10 years, 8 months
Marketing-trac: #125: SSSD F13 feature -- press blog entry
by Marketing Team
#125: SSSD F13 feature -- press blog entry
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Reporter: pfrields | Owner: pfrields
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: F14a: Pre-alpha
Component: Feature Stories | Severity: urgent
Keywords: meeting |
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I had suggested this earlier to Robyn -- a press blog entry for Red Hat's
PR channel (http://press.redhat.com) that would synopsize and point to our
interview on the wiki. However, Robyn's pretty busy right now. Kara
Schiltz from Red Hat's PR department is willing to publish something next
week.
I'm going to pick this up and drive it forward, my way of helping this
week on something Marketing related!
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10 years, 8 months
Marketing-trac: #124: FUDCon EMEA Announcement needed
by Marketing Team
#124: FUDCon EMEA Announcement needed
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Reporter: mmoeller | Owner:
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: Future releases
Component: other | Severity: urgent
Keywords: |
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Hi all. We need a press release/announce for FUDCon EMEA.
Here is some general information which could be taken as 'source'. I would
work out the German translation on my own, afterwards:
...
It’s time to announce two events that will take place in September in
downtown Zurich, Switzerland that among more share the head organizers
(Marcus and me).
FrOSCamp 2010 Zurich
FrOSCamp is an annual multilingual two-day event that will take place on
2010-09-17/18 and evolves around an exhibition, talks, workshops and
hackfests in the world of free and open source as well as creative
contents, also including open standards/systems and digital
sustainability.
Currently planning is in its early stages but the most important points
have been or are close to be cleared. Various calls are open: volunteers,
projects, talks, workshops, sponsors and more are coming up soon, like the
call for hackfests. We’re in negotiations with LPI Central Europe to offer
cheap exams and we’re preparing a key-signing party. More is to come –
stay tuned by subscribing to the various mailing lists and/or joining
#FrOSCamp on Freenode.
Note that the event takes place in the German-speaking part of Switzerland
but aims at an international audience. Therefore you’ll see different
languages on the lists and in the channel.
FUDCon Zurich 2010
FUDCon EMEA is the annual Fedora Users & Developers Conference for Europe,
the Middle East and Africa and will take place on 2010-09-17/19 and
features talks, hacking and barcamp sessions related to anything in the
Fedora ecosystem of end users, contributors, upstream, downstream, etc.
Planning started some months ago but we did not get the official “go”
until earlier this week. We therefore have conference and hotel rooms
ready but were not yet able to plan what the agenda will look like and
stuff like that. Nevertheless pre-registration is open and more details
are added to the wiki on a daily basis. We’ll try to get the agenda
outline, the call for talks, the call for sponsors and FUDPub information
online ASAP. Soon bi-weekly IRC planning meetings will be announced but
discussion is already possible on the FUDCon planning list.
Shared Spirit
Both events heavily focus on free and open source software and related
topics. We therefore encourage the participants of FrOSCamp and FUDCon to
mix up, work together, discuss, exchange and whatever else might help to
have a productive time together. Fedora is a major Linux distribution and
FrOSCamp will feature many of their upstream projects and also some
“competitors”, other Linux distributions and UNIX derivatives – it’s
always good to sit together and speak about issues or chances!
Shared Location
Both events take place in the same building on the premises of the ETH
Zurich on their Zentrum Campus in downtown Zurich. Zurich can be very well
accessed by airplane and train from all over the world. The international
airport is approached by most major international airlines and just about
11 minutes away from Zurich main station by train. The main station is a
destination of direct trains from many major cities of Europe including
Berlin, Paris, Milan and Vienna and it only takes about 14 minutes by tram
from the main station to the CHN building, the primary event location.
The shared event location makes it even easier to work together and will
allow a single agenda featuring the talks of both events so the audience
of both events can fully profit. Of course there’ll be Fedora-dedicated
rooms and rooms for all the projects participating at FrOSCamp but
there’ll only be one shared keynote room.
Shared Party
On Friday, 2010-09-17 there will be a party after the first event day just
next to the primary event location featuring free (as in creative commons)
music by live bands and delicious FreeBeer (again as in creative commons).
Need to chill a bit after a long event day? Get a beer or two at the
party! Need to get lose of some energy because you only sat around all day
listening to all those interesting talks? Move to the party’s dancefloor!
FUDPub
On Saturday, 2010-09-18 there will be a party in the evening in the midst
of downtown Zurich and everyone participating in FUDCon is very welcome to
join us. There’ll be beer and some snacks and a great possibility to just
have some fun together before the last day of FUDCon begins. More details
are TBA.
We look forward to seeing you in September 2010 in Zurich for our events.
Everyone is welcome and both events are free of charge.
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13 years, 2 months
Re: Talking points/spotlight features
by Ryan Rix
On Fri 30 July 2010 10:20:15 Nicu Buculei wrote:
> On 07/29/2010 06:58 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FeatureList
> >
> > Off the top of my head, I see some very compelling stuff to which we
> > might call people's attention:
> >
> > * systemd
> > * EC2
> > * MeeGo
> > * Roll-up of programming tools (D, Eclipse Helios, GNUstep, debugging
> > tools)
>
> Can we have at least 1-2 talking points "end-users" (i.e. not developers
> and sysadmins) would actually care? You know, *desktop features*.
Hi Nicu,
The current feature list is indeed a little bit .. ahem... lacking on the end-
user front, you're right, honestly.
The creation of Fedora's marketing talking points is mostly an ad-hoc process
done by, well, anyone who is interested at all, marketing, or ambassadors, or
infra, or design or... :)
So, I guess the question then, what do *you* want to see that attracts "end-
users"? :) Granted, Fedora 14 won't ship Firefox 4 (your biggest
disappointment I'd guess, based on your blog post[1]), but there has to be
*something* that users will care about? Anything new in microblogging on the
GNOME end? What about in evolution or gnome-games or ...? (I'm just listing
off random ideas... I'm not a GNOME Desktop Edition user, and probably dont
have much to give to the "end-user" experience discussion outside of the KDE
Plasma Desktop Edition release.)
> Also, since it was delayed, should not we take GNOME 3 out of the
> features list?
I think that's more of a FESCo decision, correct? I'd assume that it'd be
taken out, and the fallback provisions (shipping GNOME 2, basically, with
GNOME 3 still labelled as "experimental") would be followed...
All the best,
Ryan
[1]: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2010/07/no-video-for-you.html
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13 years, 8 months
Talking points/spotlight features
by Paul W. Frields
It's that time again -- time for us to figure out the features that
we want to spend a little extra effort calling out in the next Fedora
release because they're particularly innovative or interesting. The
full explanation of talking points is found here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talking_points_SOP
Note that talking points are *not* a comprehensive list. The list is
meant to be short and effective at sparking the interest of many
different groups. This helps show that there is something for lots of
people in Fedora. The main source for the talking points is in the
feature list:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FeatureList
Off the top of my head, I see some very compelling stuff to which we
might call people's attention:
* systemd
* EC2
* MeeGo
* Roll-up of programming tools (D, Eclipse Helios, GNUstep, debugging tools)
Things not on that list which might merit inclusion include the new
website design, underway and hopefully rolling out for F14.
I've been working on a PR schedule to assist Jared in his FPL duties,
and next week he is supposed to meet with Red Hat's Creative team.
In the near future, the team will shoot videos to help show off
spotlight features in Fedora 14. So the sooner we have talking points
included, the easier we will make their job too.
Can we start this process slightly early?
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13 years, 8 months
Goodbye
by Francesco Ugolini
In our life, sometime, it comes the time where the things you want to
do become far and, even you can try to keep up with it, all the
efforts result in a failure.
I think this is just the case. You don't know how disappointed I can
be writing these lines, but I can't fool myself and you with future
plans: i can't keep up with the project.
First of all I want to make clear one thing: I'm using Fedora Linux
and will continue to use it.
What is changed since I have joined the project?
I started contributing without any ambition and I received things that
I didn't expect to receive: experience, leadership and new friends.
These are the rewards for all the time I spent in the project, trying
to improve and make it bigger. I don't know if I have succeeded but,
sure, I've done all my best.
My student's duties took me away for a while, like it happened in the
previous years, but, when I went back, it wasn't the same. Thing were
changed and, damn, they had changed in better. Ambassadors project had
become well organized, with a great FAmSCo, great Ambassadors and
great mentors, but I wasn't able to work like I did. My fault. Soon I
have become an inactive Ambassador, like the many I've tried to
convince to come back.
I get more that I expected and now it's time to have new experiences
and find something that could boost my knowledge and energy. Sure, my
experience here will help wherever I'll go!
Now, here I'm. Writing this goodbye email with a sad heart, but a
conscious brain.
Many people didn't trust me at the beginning, then they changed mind.
These are the first ones I want to thank. If I've tried to improve
myself, it's because of you. I commend you to continue to do the same
with the men and women that empower this amazing community.
A big thank to all the people who helped me being what I become,
especially who I met during the events I attended around Europe and
the FAmSCo members I worked with.
Many of you have become part of my soul. Max, Joerg, Francesco, Luca,
Gerold and more and more (sorry if I can't name all of you). I'll
never forget you and I hope to stay in touch with you, even if not
directly for this special project.
Saying goodbye is not simple. You think at what you want to underline
and what to not forget but, at the end, you know you have missed
something, forget to thank someone and, maybe, think that you are
doing the wrong thing. But time is passing, things are changing and
looking back doesn't help taking the right decision.
So, here I am. Thank you my friends for everything. I wish you all my best.
Long life to Fedora Project, one of the marvelous experience I've ever had.
Francesco
13 years, 9 months
Combined FAD
by wonderer
hello there,
I am thinking for quite some time about a "combined" Design-Team and
Marketing-Team FAD of some kind.
If I look around on the ML and also on IRC there are much overlapping
ideas, Talking points, goals, etc. so I think it would be a good time
after we grow good Teams to meet all together to discuss some main
points which concerns both Teams.
* Main Points (so far I can think of)
-- Design Templates: Design Presentation and other Templates to have
some base also for Marketing (e.g. Design Template for the Talking
Points, Press Kit, Presentation Template, poster, etc. -> same Theme)
-- User Research: how do the users "feel" with the Presentations, CD/DVD
Covers, posters, Banners, Marketing Material, etc. and also how good can
Ambassadors and others work with those materials? Do we need more / others?
-- Other Design Base Templates which should be adapted (e.g. a new event
or spin leads to a new bannerdesign leads to a new posterdesign leads to
changes if the Release is changing ...)
-- What does Marketing and PR need from Design - what does Design need
from Marketing
-- didn't we have the idea of a photobook some time ago...
* other thoughts
-- produce some base Templates and maybe workflow (e.g. if $event is
happening then $trigger > do Texta, Textb, Bannera, poster > timeline >
workflow > end) in ageneric way to addapt on a wide range of new
projects that can came up (new release, new spin, new SIG, new event,
etc.) ... because the work that have to be done is almost the same...
-- maybe work on longtime or pending tasks (e.g. Design Guide, etc.)
That also leads maybe to other Combined FADS .... but maybe more later
or not :-)
mit freundlichen grüßen / best regards
H. Heigl - wonderer(a)fedoraproject.org
13 years, 9 months
bettercodes
by nihed mbarek
Hi,
"
I saw a new social network regrouping opensource contributors.
http://bettercodes.org/
I think that a fedora project presence will be a good point.
Regards
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M'BAREK Med Nihed,
Revenue Assurance Engineer Tunisie Telecom
http://www.nihed.com
Fedora Ambassador, TUNISIA, Northern Africa
PUB 1024D/9E2FFB76 Date 2009/02/14
13 years, 9 months
