Proposal to collect data from our end-users
by Carl Gaudreault
Dear Fedora marketing team,
One of our primary goals as a development community is to enhance and
streamline the end-user experience of Fedora. Right now, the Fedora Buzz
initiative aims to so this by monitoring various social networks and the
"blogosphere". While this may provide some valuable data, such collection
obviously could be made more focused; Buzz, by itself, only provides broad
opinions that might be difficult to translate into concrete development goals.
Systematic collection of voluntary usage data would enhance the ambassador and
marketing team pool of reference for making important decisions. It would
allow for us to discover areas of Fedora which users believe may warrant
improvement. By defining and understanding our market/base, we could target
those users with more ease. We would also know why they like Fedora, making it
easier to make marketing decisions. Currently, we are collecting hardware
information via Smolt, so this seems like the next logical step.
As this topic has been discussed before about data gathering/collection with
Smolt, we should consider about the user's privacy. We should not give him a
feeling of being invaded on his own system. This could be an issue if we want
to have data being collected from the system itself. The alternative would be
to have the user select and/or fill the information on a website. This would
provide the user with generally a better feeling of his privacy, but can cause
information to slip as the user couldn't not recollect he installed a certain
piece software. However, it does give a better overview if the user actually
uses a tool as he recollects having installed it and therefore having used it,
besides it just showing up in the installed packages list.
Examples of data we could collect:
-Statistics on software packages installed (which are not part of the default
installation), so as to streamline the inclusion of default apps to reflect
what users actually use.
-A user’s country of residence
-A user’s age
-Why a user has chosen Fedora over another operating system.
-...
I would like to keep this conversation focused on the type of information we
would like to request from our users. Afterwards, we could then bring the
conversation to the devel mailing list to receive their input and move forward
with this task.
Ultimately, we must remember and strive towards our goal of offering a better
user experience by understanding our target audience, as well as our existing
user base.
I look forward to your feedback,
Carl G.
13 years, 9 months
Re: Fedora Buzz needs a new name
by Robert 'Bob' Jensen
----- "Luke Slater" <tinmachin3(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've been developing Fedora Buzz but before I go much further we
> really need
> to come up with a new name for it because of Google having a service
> of the
> same name; several people have mentioned it recently.
>
> I can't think of anything so if we could get some sort of
> brainstorming thread
> going here?
>
> If you can't remember or don't know about the project, you can read
> the wiki
> page here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Buzz
>
OK OK OK, enough with the nagging, and attacks in direct emails.
We can't talk about the Buzz Fedora is creating in the industry. How about Fedora being on people's Radar? Fedora Radar. There are softwares out there with the word radar in the name but in my flameworthy posts I think I have proved that there are no "safe" words.
-- Bob
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| http://bjensen.fedorapeople.org/ |
| http://blogs.fedoraunity.org/bobjensen |
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13 years, 9 months
Re: Fedora Buzz needs a new name
by Robert 'Bob' Jensen
----- "Stephen John Smoogen" <smooge(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Robert 'Bob' Jensen
> <bob(a)fedoraunity.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > OMG! Google owns "buzz" now? Good thing we did not know that in the
> 80's when we got "buzz"ed, what about the bees? are they going to have
> to bazz around now... Good thing we don't live on planets, would hate
> to infringe on any ones use of that word like "fedora planet."
> </sarcasm>
>
> That wasn't really helpful was it?
>
It is helpful IMO, it points out the total stupidity of the whole issue.
> > Someone needs to stop this insanity. Buzz is just a word, planet is
> just a word, Fedora is just a word.
>
> They are also Brands. When a brand gets established and you go into
> something that sounds like that Brand.. you expect it to look like
> Brand even if it isn't. If I go get a distribution with Fedora on
> it..
> I expect it to be an RPM based Linux distribution... not a Solaris or
> Windows disk. If I go to a 'planet' I expect it to be a gathering of
> various RSS feeds.
>
> Now take that back 8 years ago.. I would probably expect very very
> different things. Or if I am not into Linux or RSS have any idea why
> people are all upset when they come to my Fedora Planet and get
> articles on planets being made into hats. However in those fields,
> the
> brand names set certain expectations.
>
> The issue here is.. has Google made their Buzz 'brand' or mental
> image
> synonymous with a facebook lite experience OR is it still in the air?
> Personally I think it is still in the air, and we could use Buzz to
> mean something completely different and make a strong story for it.
>
I never heard about google buzz before this, buzz or creating buzz about a subject has been used for decades, google is not doing anything new or exclusive there. I still say this fear is insanity.
--Bob
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| bob(a)fedoraunity.org || http://fedoraunity.org/ |
| http://bjensen.fedorapeople.org/ |
| http://blogs.fedoraunity.org/bobjensen |
| http://www.facebook.com/rpjensen |
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13 years, 9 months
interview with frostbite media
by Neville A. Cross
Hello,
Last meeting we were discusing about ways to promote what we have been
doing in our side of the world. I did mention that I got scheduled for
an interview, which just happened. The talk centered of what is going
on with Fedora on this side of the world... nice match isn't it?
Anyway, my interview has just finished, and will no be available right
now, but it will be soon at where there is already two more
interviews.
http://www.frostbitemedia.org/node/8
Look on the left for "This Week In Fedora" -> OGG Feed
I passed some emails of other fedora contributors, maybe we can get
more people around the globe.
Finally, I think those interview should be mentioned on the News
stream as other blog post that fedora got.
Best regard, and have nice weekend.
--
Neville
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Yn1v
Linux User # 473217
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13 years, 9 months
MMM. Marketing Meeting Minutes - Delicious! 2010/07/06
by Robyn Bergeron
Thanks for coming, everyone :) (Yes, I completely forgot to send
these out. Better late than never!)
-Robyn
Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-07-06/fedora_marke...
Full log here: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-07-06/fedora_marke...
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#fedora-meeting-1 Meeting
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Meeting started by rbergeron at 20:00:15 UTC. The full logs are
available at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-07-06/fedora_marke...
Meeting summary
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* Agenda (rbergeron, 20:01:00)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings#Agenda
(rbergeron, 20:01:01)
* ticket 33: free media distribution (rbergeron, 20:01:50)
* LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/33
(rbergeron, 20:01:57)
* yn1v sent mail on this a bit ago - he is continuing to work forward
on it. (rbergeron, 20:02:10)
* Ticket 107 - Brand / Story Book (rbergeron, 20:03:08)
* LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/107
(rbergeron, 20:03:13)
* LINK:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ianweller/Brand_guidelines_%28draft%29
(stickster, 20:04:01)
* ticket 123 - ublog account changes (rbergeron, 20:05:48)
* LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/123
(rbergeron, 20:05:53)
* SSSD Feature Profile - ticket 125 (rbergeron, 20:07:19)
* LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/125
(rbergeron, 20:07:22)
* Step 1: Ask Kara about space in the schedule and agree on subject
matter; Step 2: write draft article and volley back/forth; Step 3:
Kara posts (rbergeron, 20:11:25)
* ACTION: mchua to follow up with rbergeron in a few days to see if
rbergeron has heard back from kara. if not, then poke. (rbergeron,
20:15:52)
* Fedora Insight (rbergeron, 20:16:12)
* LINK:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/logistics/2010-June/000665.html
(rbergeron, 20:17:07)
* we've temporarily halted zikula stuff. (rbergeron, 20:17:28)
* F14 Marketing schedule / tasks (rbergeron, 20:19:37)
* LINK:
http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-14/f-14-marketing-tasks.html
(rbergeron, 20:19:51)
* Design team interviews (rbergeron, 20:22:19)
* ACTION: stickster fix [[Marketing]] page to point to F14
deliverables (stickster, 20:23:06)
* LINK:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-June/002694.html
(rbergeron, 20:24:17)
* ACTION: rbergeron to ping marketing list to recruit interviewers.
(rbergeron, 20:25:57)
* is this a bad meeting time???? (rbergeron, 20:26:21)
* ACTION: mchua to investigate the possibility of a better time slot
for marketing meetings. (rbergeron, 20:30:14)
* FUDCon EMEA Announcement (rbergeron, 20:30:50)
* LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/124
(rbergeron, 20:30:56)
* open floor (rbergeron, 20:31:42)
* recruitment! (rbergeron, 20:32:51)
* ACTION: sparks to dive into Docs / FP / CC marketing interaction /
story (rbergeron, 20:43:44)
Meeting ended at 20:59:30 UTC.
Action Items
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* mchua to follow up with rbergeron in a few days to see if rbergeron
has heard back from kara. if not, then poke.
* stickster fix [[Marketing]] page to point to F14 deliverables
* rbergeron to ping marketing list to recruit interviewers.
* mchua to investigate the possibility of a better time slot for
marketing meetings.
* sparks to dive into Docs / FP / CC marketing interaction / story
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* mchua
* mchua to follow up with rbergeron in a few days to see if rbergeron
has heard back from kara. if not, then poke.
* mchua to investigate the possibility of a better time slot for
marketing meetings.
* rbergeron
* mchua to follow up with rbergeron in a few days to see if rbergeron
has heard back from kara. if not, then poke.
* rbergeron to ping marketing list to recruit interviewers.
* stickster
* stickster fix [[Marketing]] page to point to F14 deliverables
* **UNASSIGNED**
* sparks to dive into Docs / FP / CC marketing interaction / story
People Present (lines said)
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* rbergeron (141)
* mchua (69)
* stickster (36)
* Sparks (17)
* ke4qqq (16)
* zodbot (4)
* ianweller (2)
13 years, 9 months
10 things that will make you want to use Fedora again
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=1659
"I will confess that I jumped off the Fedora Linux boat somewhere around
Fedora 9. It just seemed the distribution that served as a testing
ground for Red Hat Enterprise Linux was too much work to get stable and
too prone to falling to pieces. That was then; this is now. Fedora 13
was just released, and I am here to tell you it’s a completely different
ball game. Fedora 13 is solid… rock solid. So much so, it has made me a
believer in the Hat once again. Here are some of the reasons I think you
too will find Fedora 13 ready for your service now."
Rahul
13 years, 9 months
