application for fedora marketing team --reg
by praveen raj
Hi, my name is Praveen raj and I live in India. My Fedora Account System
(FAS) username is pravenraj, and my IRC nick is praven__ .
I learned about the Fedora Marketing team through my friends, and am
interested in joining because I’m a FOSS Enthusiastic. I’m president for an
FOSS community called freecodeclub and given many talks on Open Source and
especially fedora. I’m a REDHAT
Certified engineer.
For past three to four years i have been marketing open source software to
many schools and colleges. I like to utilize my skills in fedora because one
of my favorite Linux operating system is fedora. I like to see each and
every desktops and servers running fedora and other open source software.
Please help me get started!
with regards
praveenraj
prasident,freecodeclub.
www.freecodeclub.
13 years, 2 months
[In the news] Beyond FUDCON: Meet Fedora Ambassador Larry Cafiero
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/News/Beyond-FUDCON-Meet-Fedora-Amb...
"Who governs the Fedora Community?
LC: I do. So do all the members of the community. There is a governance
structure, of course, with a Fedora Project Leader -- Jared Smith -- and
a Board, FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee) which oversees
development, and FAmSCO (mentioned earlier), all of which keeps Fedora
pretty much moving in the same direction. One of the things that makes
the Fedora Project stand out is its transparency in processes, and it’s
a strength when people can openly disagree on issues to resolve them
quickly"
Rahul
13 years, 2 months
[In the news] Fedora rides again on System z: Hope for PowerPC as well
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/71391
"At Red Hat, it is clearly important from a future perspective as Fedora
is our development platform for our next Red Hat Enterprise Linux
releases, so we have a strong interest in having a working System z
release on Fedora. Doing this in house would mean the same effort but
without community feedback and involvement, and we've seen for many
other architectures how important community feedback is."
"Also, although System z is often seen as existing only for
mission-critical deployments and production environments, there are
cases where even on those big mainframes, companies want to evaluate
something on Linux or do a pilot for a Linux environment. For these
deployments, we've seen occasional requests for Fedora on System z."
Rahul
13 years, 2 months
Self-Introduction: Danny Stieben
by Danny Stieben
Hi everyone!
My name is Danny Stieben and I live near Dallas, Texas, USA. I am almost
17 years old and a junior in high school. For reference, my FAS name and
IRC nick is dmaxel. I first heard about Marketing from the Ambassadors
group and want to join because it ties in closely with what the
Ambassadors are doing. I want to be involved in a larger part of the
process. :)
The Fedora Project is the first FOSS project I've worked on, though I've
been in the Ambassadors group for almost a year now. This is definitely
the first Marketing project I've worked on, so some of this will be
learn-as-I-go. :)
I don't believe I have any Marketing skills for as mentioned I am a
junior in high school, but those skills are exactly what I would like to
learn. I'm also a critical thinker (honors courses in school test that
daily) and am fluent in German, English, and (almost) Spanish. I always
like to look for improvements in anything I do or any processes that I
come across.
When I'm not working on Fedora, I am at school, spending time with
friends, looking up anything open-source, or flying with my virtual
(Flight Sim) airline. A couple of goals I have for the Fedora project
are wider adoption and appreciation for the work the Fedora project is
trying to do. The work to lead the movement to open-source is beyond any
other. I would like to continue to see impacting changes being made with
Fedora that will create the path for open-source to follow.
I am wondering how I could get started?? :)
Thank you, and I am glad to be working with you guys!
--
Danny Stieben
Fedora Ambassador
http://www.fedoraproject.org
dmaxel(a)fedoraproject.org
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:dmaxel
13 years, 2 months
[in the news] Empfehlenswerte Linux-Distributionen für Server
by Vinzenz Vietzke
Hi,
German tecchannel.de gives an overview of server distributions and
mentions Fedora and CentOS as alternative to RHEL including 5 screenshots.
"Das Fedora-Projekt und CentOS als Alternative zu Red Hat
[...]
Mit der grafischen Installationsroutine ist es nicht besonders schwer,
Fedora zu installieren. Es ist übersichtlich und bringt den Anwender
gezielt zum Ergebnis. Die derzeit aktuelle Version Fedora 14 "Laughlin"
enthält ein umfangreiches Softwarelager, das kaum Wünsche offenlässt.
Sie finden alle bekannten Open-Source-Programme und entsprechende
Serverdienste. [...]"
(http://ur1.ca/36usu)
Regards,
--
Vinzenz Vietzke
Fedora Ambassador
m: vinz(a)fedoraproject.org
wk: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Vinz
mb: https://identi.ca/vinzv | https://twitter.com/vinzv
13 years, 2 months
MMM. Marketing Meeting Minutes. 2011/02/08. DELICIOUS! Yummy!
by Robyn Bergeron
Greetings Marketing Friends,
Just a heads up that we are prepping to enter the "get stuff portion"
of the cycle - kicking things off with Talking Points. Talking points
don't actually appear on the schedule until next week, but we only
have one week to get them done, and there's no reason we can't start
early! Feel free to contribute as you see fit:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_talking_points
-Robyn
Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2011-02-08/fedora_marke...
Full logs here:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2011-02-08/fedora_marke...
===========================================
#fedora-meeting-1: Fedora Marketing Meeting
===========================================
Meeting started by jsmith at 21:01:17 UTC. The full logs are available
at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2011-02-08/fedora_marke...
.
Meeting summary
---------------
* F15 Marketing Schedule (jsmith, 21:03:00)
* LINK:
http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-15/f-15-marketing-tasks.html
(rbergeron, 21:03:36)
* next week is when things start to pick up a bit - we'll be moving
into the task of creating talking points. (rbergeron, 21:03:56)
* LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_talking_points
(rbergeron, 21:04:28)
* Talking Points are already framed for contribution - please feel
free to drop in additional information, or add more talking points
as you see fit. (rbergeron, 21:06:23)
* ACTION: jsmith to build concrete timeline for Feature Profiles
(jsmith, 21:07:26)
* Talking Points items come out of things on the Feature List.
(rbergeron, 21:08:04)
* LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FeatureList (rbergeron,
21:08:08)
* ACTION: rbergeron to add in holding spots for ocaml, rails, python
as "language updates" in devel section; tryton and power mgmt in
end-users; systemd in sysadmin (rbergeron, 21:18:27)
* ACTION: rbergeron add consistent network device naming to sysadmin
section (rbergeron, 21:23:28)
* Open Floor (rbergeron, 21:35:04)
* Red Hat Summit is coming up - keep it on your radar for upcoming
marketing to-dos! (rbergeron, 22:09:00)
Meeting ended at 22:15:37 UTC.
Action Items
------------
* jsmith to build concrete timeline for Feature Profiles
* rbergeron to add in holding spots for ocaml, rails, python as
"language updates" in devel section; tryton and power mgmt in
end-users; systemd in sysadmin
* rbergeron add consistent network device naming to sysadmin section
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* jsmith
* jsmith to build concrete timeline for Feature Profiles
* rbergeron
* rbergeron to add in holding spots for ocaml, rails, python as
"language updates" in devel section; tryton and power mgmt in
end-users; systemd in sysadmin
* rbergeron add consistent network device naming to sysadmin section
* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)
People Present (lines said)
---------------------------
* rbergeron (87)
* wonderer (38)
* jsmith (33)
* zodbot (4)
13 years, 2 months
Marketing-trac: #124: FUDCon EMEA Announcement needed
by Marketing Team
#124: FUDCon EMEA Announcement needed
----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------
Reporter: mmoeller | Owner:
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: Future releases
Component: other | Severity: urgent
Keywords: |
----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------
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.
--
Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/124>
marketing-team <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing>
Marketing team for the Fedora project.
13 years, 2 months
Re: random idea: QA group identi.ca account
by Gerard Braad
Hi,
On 2/5/11, Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 18:25 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> You should redirect to marketing list. Nobody here has access to it
> I did post to marketing ML on Tue/Wed (I forget which, the last week has
> been kind of a blur) asking people to promote the Test Day.
I had seen the message, but also do not have access to this account.
IMO people were pre-occupied with FUDCon or FOSDEM. Let's hope the
situation can improve.
Gerard
--
Gerard Braad — 吉拉德
Project-lead Fedora-MIPS
Regional Mentor APAC/China, Member of FAmSCo
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:gbraad
13 years, 2 months
[in the news] Beyond FUDCon: Faces, Features and Future of Fedora
by Kara Schiltz
Linux Pro Magazine
2.4.11
Beyond FUDCon: Faces, Features and Future of Fedora
By Amber Graner
The North American Fedora <https://fedoraproject.org/> User and
Developer Conference (FUDCon) was held on Arizona State University
campus in Tempe Arizona from January 29 -31, 2011 and proved to be the
largest FUDCon to date with over 200 people pre-registered
<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Tempe_2011#Pre-registration> to
attend and final attendance numbers estimated around 175 people.
[clip]
One interesting moment occurred while speaking to attendee, Randall
Hinkley. Hinkley said he had only been using Fedora for about four
months. He was from an area near Tempe and while researching setting up
his own Fedora sever found the information about FUDCon on the internet
and then decided to register and see what it was all about. When I
attend events such as FUDCon, it is always encouraging and exciting to
see those faces who are new to open source, new to a project, and or new
to contribution when they finally meet the people with whom they
interact with in an IRC channel or mailing list. While there are some
exceptions for the most part these attendees already have a spark in the
eye and a hunger for more knowledge about the project, but upon
attending events and conferences like a FUDCon find themselves thirsting
for ways to contribute as well and Hinkley was no different. He was
excited to be there and his personal participation and contribution
began to open as he spoke to the various Fedora leaders and community
members throughout the event. He wasn’t the only one attending FUDCon
for the first time; however, he was the only one I spoke to who was 1)
New to the project, 2) Stumbled upon the FUDCon information
“accidentally” and 3) Was not already contributing but decided to attend
to see what it was all about.
Full article:
http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/News/Beyond-FUDCon-Faces-Features-...
13 years, 2 months
