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, 7 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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Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/125>
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Marketing team for the Fedora project.
10 years, 7 months
Marketing-trac: #128: Press Release for FUDCon KL 2012
by Marketing Team
#128: Press Release for FUDCon KL 2012
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Reporter: izhar | Owner:
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: Future releases
Component: FUDCon | Severity: urgent
Keywords: | Blocked By:
Blocking: |
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Hi,
Could we have a press-release for FUDCon KL 2012 which is happening this
May?. We are planning to distribute it to local newspapers and news sites.
We are originally planning to produce our own but FPL said that marketing
might want to do and approve it.
In term of dateline, .. erm .. is 27th March too short?, or more than
enough?. The earlier the better of course
Thanks.
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Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/128>
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Marketing team for the Fedora project.
10 years, 7 months
release announcements, talking points, release notes, and how we group features into audiences or stories
by Robyn Bergeron
Hi,
(Sorry for evil double-posting :D)
I was taking a look at the oft-neglected Talking Points, which were
originally designed as a handy list of "new shiny" for each release
that could be handed off to Ambassadors as a quick reference list of
features to talk about, and have also at times served as a starting
point for choosing features to be highlighted in release videos,
interview stories / articles, blog posts, etc. It's entirely possible
that they have also been a reference point for writing release
announcements as well. Talking points tend to be very focused on
*totally new* things, and not generally on incremental improvements.
And so I figured I'd take a crack at it again - see
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_talking_points - though the
mail to mktg list is still yet-to-be-written (the content of this mail
sort of got in the way, ha). (For those unfamiliar, it's sort of an
iterative process, wherein a number of features are proposed, and
marketing whittles them down into a list, which is likely shorter than
perhaps the feature-related content in a release announcement might
be.)
A few things stood out as I was going through the list:
1: We have bucketized items into a handful of groups over time, in the
talking points as well as release announcements, as well as for docs
beats and eventually, release notes - User, Developer, Sysadmin (and
Cloud/Virt have popped up here and there in more recent releases for
announcements). Those lines seem to be increasingly blurry - there are
tools/apps that cross the dev and sysadmin roles, user and sysadmin
roles, etc. - and while these groups are probably good for
beats/release notes, esp. since content can just be duplicated /
retailored if absolutely necessary, I'm wondering the following:
Is bucketizing a bunch of stuff into "User, Sysadmin, Developer" the
best answer for marketing highlights of the release? It seems like...
well, a listing of car parts, but not really telling a story about the
car, for lack of a better metaphor. And it seems a lot like "we made
a bunch of improvements here and there" isn't as compelling as "we
have improved overall state of ($experience, $usecase, etc) and here's
how."
Looking at the list of features it seems like there are a few main
themes, for which I've suggested some marketing-i-fied
names/groupings, though (as you can see in the Talking Points link)
it's certainly open to other suggestions (or the option of leaving
as-is):
Develop and Distribute: Languages, compilers, and tools for developing
software, and tools for packaging software. (Could also be: Create,
develop, and distribute?)
Start and Recover: Enabling a variety of options for improving boot
times, as well as quicker recovery from system or software failure.
(Boot and Recover? Launch and Recover?)
Monitor and Manage: Systems and resource management, and tools for
diagnosis, monitoring, and logging.
2. Note that I'm not advocating for the "user, sysadmin, dev"
categories to change in docs-land; I think that these stories/themes
are likely to change with each release. But, given the intertwinement
of docs and marketing when it comes to the release announcement, it
seems like (if docs is crafting the tech-bits of the release
announcement) if we were to bucketize by stories, that we'd need to
get marketing to figure out what those stories are. And I don't just
mean the overarching stories, but also the individual feature stories,
in some cases; I can't tell you how many times I look at a feature and
say, wow, I wish I spoke that language, I wonder what the bigger
picture is, what this effectively enables? Maybe the talking points is
a launch point for that as well, in additoin to being the list that
gets handed off to ambassadors, and then can drive the story
collections in a release announcement, or in one-page release notes;
I'm not sure. Thoughts? The workflow, as often seems to be the case
between docs & mktg, is key.
Basically: Seeking feedback? Thoughts, anyone? :D
-Robyn
10 years, 12 months
alpha announcement - eyeballs?
by Robyn Bergeron
Hi folks,
So there have been a few eyeballs on this thus far - but as always would love more:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F19_Alpha_release_announcement
We talked about this a bit in the release readiness meeting 1.5ish weeks ago - IIRC the docs folks were going to borrow liberally from this, and the talking points, to copy over into the release notes.
In any case: At some point today tonight releng (specifically dgilmore) needs to get a "mail-friendly" copy of this to send out for the alpha announcement, so ... if you have feedback, now's the time :D
-r
10 years, 12 months
Re: alpha announcement - eyeballs?
by Robyn Bergeron
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno(a)wolff.to> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 12:36:12 -0400,
> Robyn Bergeron <rbergero(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> So there have been a few eyeballs on this thus far - but as always would
>> love more:
>>
>> https://fedoraproject.org/**wiki/F19_Alpha_release_**announcement<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F19_Alpha_release_announcement>
>>
>> We talked about this a bit in the release readiness meeting 1.5ish weeks
>> ago - IIRC the docs folks were going to borrow liberally from this, and the
>> talking points, to copy over into the release notes.
>>
>> In any case: At some point today tonight releng (specifically dgilmore)
>> needs to get a "mail-friendly" copy of this to send out for the alpha
>> announcement, so ... if you have feedback, now's the time :D
>>
>
>
> The only thing I noticed is that some of the mentioned spins don't get
> ISOs built for alpha (or beta). So the get pre-release link isn't going to
> work for them. People wanting to try those would need to use something like
> the nightly composes page. There will be ISOs for the four main desktop
> spins.
Thanks for noting this - I added a line about getting them via nightly
compose to that section, similar to the blurb we've had in the past. We
haven't really gone into deep explanation on Spins before in the Alpha/Beta
release announcements - while I'm not going to change it at this point, I
wonder if it's really something we want to make noise about before we get
to final release announcement territory, beyond "alternate spins are
available via nightly" (see older announcements such as
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F16_Alpha_release_announcement) ... thoughts?
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10 years, 12 months
fedoramagazine.com Domain
by Bryan Sutherland
Hi All,
Has anyone approached the owner of fedoramagazine.com about selling (or
optimally donating) the domain to the Fedora project? I can't count how
many times I have automatically either ctrl + enter'd or automatically
added the .com while trying to hit the .org site.
I worry that the empty wordpress shell installed on the .com will confuse
some of our users.
Bryan
11 years
fedoramagazine.org Theming
by Bryan Sutherland
Hi List,
Sorry I missed the meeting today, as I wanted to talk about the site.
Where do we stand with regards to the theme. Last thing that I saw was a
mockup that had been drawn up.
I am willing to try and assist as I have some experience with CSS and a
fair bit of WP experience. I am pretty sure that I am not alone in hoping
to get a big push to have this ready for the launch of F19 (and by beta
preferably).
Thoughts on this?
Bryan
11 years
New marketing team meeting time
by Ruth Suehle
The winner (that didn't also overlap every other meeting ever) was Mondays at 19:00 UTC, which for the time zones who replied is the equivalent of:
US/Eastern 3 PM
Canada/Mountain 1 PM
US/Arizona 12 PM
Europe/Athens 10 PM
Europe/Paris, Prague 9 PM
See you there!
11 years
