[Badges] Magazine badges for cprofitt
by Justin W. Flory
Hello all,
I recently noted that Charles (cprofitt) needs a few new badges added to
his Fedora badges account. As of now, he needs the following three
badges as he has met all of the following requirements:
1) Extra! Extra!
2) Clickbait I
3) Clickbait II
His most recent "How do you Fedora?" with Sylvia Sanchez just went above
5k views today - I'm pretty sure he met the requirement even before this
article however. :)
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Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
8 years, 3 months
Getting in gear for 2016
by Justin W. Flory
Hey all,
It was discussed in channel that it might be a good idea to reboot
regular Marketing meetings in 2016 to help get on track and ready for
2016. Gabri is helping bring back the retrospective to let us reflect
back on what we've done and where we can improve - this might make a
good discussion topic for jumping back in with a meeting.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/2015_marketing_retrospective
It was also mentioned that it might be good to include CommOps on the
discussion to help connect Marketing to the other parts of the Project.
What are all of your timetables looking like for the New Year and do we
want to look at putting meetings back on the map? I've only been here
for a few months and I've mostly been in the Magazine, so I know there
are others who have been around for many more cycles than me that might
have some experienced thoughts to offer.
Thanks all!
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Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
8 years, 3 months
End of Year Marketing Retrospective
by Remy DeCausemaker
mktgs,
Across the Project, one of the tools we use to get better at what wedo
is a Retrospective. This is a report compiled by contributors that
more or less lists the things that went well/not-so-well, and ideas
for improvement. You can find examples on the wiki (QA has some recent
pages like https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_QA_Retrospective
and https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_Retrospective)
Marketing Retrospectives were once based upon SOPs (Standard Operating
Procedures) for doing marketing tasks like creating the alpha/beta/final
announcements, briefing ambassadors, and other interesting and crucial
work. Some are a bit dated, but you can find them here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Marketing_SOPs
Since we didn't totally stick to an SOP for releases this year, we're
just going to gather extra 'after the fact' feedback and data to make
improvements to our process, going back to Fedora 22 when possible.
Here are a few questions we'd like to take a stab at answering on our wiki page:
- What did we do right?
- What can we do better?
- Where did we have gaps?
- How did we bridge them?
After we've gotten this retrospective fleshed out, we'd like to
reinstate regular mktg meetings on IRC in early 2016. Keep an eye on
the lists for updates.
If folks have any questions about this email, or additional questions
they think would provide value to the retrospective, please update the
wiki before Friday 12/18 (or even just respond here, and commops will
update the wiki from this thread.)
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/2015_marketing_retrospective
Looking Forward,
--RemyD.
P.S. --
Too often FOSS Communities must take care not to settle into negative
feedback loops. Below is an excellent quote from some further reading
on the subject of pointing fingers and blamery, recommended to me by
mattdm:
"...it's like peeing in your pants. You feel relieved and perhaps even
nice and warm for a little while, but then it gets cold and
uncomfortable..."
~Sydney Decker, "A Look at Looking in the Mirror" by J. Paul Reed.''
http://www.slideshare.net/jhand2/its-not-your-fault-blameless-post-mortems
https://codeascraft.com/2012/05/22/blameless-postmortems/
Retrospectives are all about identifying direction and moving forward
in a positive manner :)
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Remy DeCausemaker
Fedora Community Lead & Council
<decause(a)redhat.com>
https://whatcanidoforfedora.org
8 years, 3 months
Social Media Strategy
by Beau Mathieson
Hi all,
I have noticed that our primary Facebook and Twitter accounts are
gearing their content more toward a user who has technical knowledge or
is already a user of Fedora. Content about systemd, python, elections,
etc aren't going to draw in potential users of a non technical
background or one who has never used any Linux operating system before.
I believe it's best to keep that content to the magazine and use social
media to draw potential users in. Maybe we should use social media to
target the everyday user. By doing that we could gain a lot more users
and potential contributors and maybe we could even gain more of a stake
in the market. We have a chance to do something amazing!
Kind regards,
Beau Mathieson
8 years, 3 months
[Magazine] Editorial board meeting recap 2015-Jan-07
by Paul W. Frields
Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-01-07/magazine.2016-...
Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-01-07/magazine.2016-...
Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-01-07/magazine.2016-...
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#fedora-meeting: Magazine editorial board
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Meeting started by stickster at 22:00:00 UTC. The full logs are
available at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-01-07/magazine.2016-...
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Meeting summary
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* Roll call (stickster, 22:00:10)
* Review (stickster, 22:06:20)
* BIG thanks to jflory7 for watching over all things Magazine during
the holiday (stickster, 22:06:55)
* and BIG thanks to contributors for providing content for then, like
cproffitt (stickster, 22:07:11)
* Plan for added material (stickster, 22:09:27)
* Kohane will be creating a series on design/illustration/artistic
tools (stickster, 22:18:09)
* Kohane will put together an banner sample for the design tools
series, and float it on the list (stickster, 22:29:22)
* Once we have a banner decided, we can publish the first (intro)
article (stickster, 22:29:51)
* We may have a F24 wallpaper article ready to go -- need to check
on-list with Ryan + Sirko if it's ready, and then schedule it
(stickster, 22:30:41)
* stickster still working on making systemd remote logging work, which
will provide another article (stickster, 22:34:26)
* So tentatively we will hope to have Design Tools series part 1 on
Monday or Tuesday, F24 wallpaper on Wednesday, possibly systemd
remote logging for Thursday (stickster, 22:35:41)
* ACTION: Kohane work on first design tool article (#2 in series) now
so it's ready for following week (stickster, 22:41:16)
* ACTION: stickster write email to marketing list on where to get and
how to use fedoramagazine-images repo (stickster, 22:42:48)
* hopefully we will also have Jiří's article soon on email clients,
hopefully to publish the week of Jan 18 (stickster, 22:43:42)
* Kohane has articles coming on different desktops -- would love to
get jflory7 or ryanlerch to edit these (stickster, 22:47:46)
* All Other Business (AOB) (stickster, 22:48:22)
* LINK:
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/share-your-year-in-review-with-fe...
(decause, 22:50:02)
* IDEA: Once the Year in Review article is ready through commblog,
F-Mag can publish a wrapper/clickbait to push some additional cross
traffic there (stickster, 22:51:59)
* LINK: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/ (stickster,
22:52:54)
Meeting ended at 22:57:34 UTC.
Action Items
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* Kohane work on first design tool article (#2 in series) now so it's
ready for following week
* stickster write email to marketing list on where to get and how to use
fedoramagazine-images repo
Action Items, by person
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* Kohane
* Kohane work on first design tool article (#2 in series) now so it's
ready for following week
* stickster
* stickster write email to marketing list on where to get and how to
use fedoramagazine-images repo
* **UNASSIGNED**
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* stickster (93)
* Kohane (65)
* decause (28)
* zodbot (11)
* puiterwijk (7)
* cydrobolt (4)
* seseri (1)
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8 years, 3 months
Using the fedoramagazine-images repo
by Paul W. Frields
If you want to try your hand at making a banner image for the
Magazine, start by using the templates that Ryan has helpfully
provided. You'll need the Inkscape app installed.
1. Open a terminal.
2. (optional) Change directory to the folder where you like to store
your project work.
$ cd projects # or some other folder
3. Clone the repository
$ git clone https://pagure.io/fedoramagazine-images.git
4. Open Inkscape, and choose File > Open... (or Ctrl+O). Navigate to
the project folder, then into "fedoramagazine-images", then into
"images." Choose the "template.svg" file.
5. Save this as a *new* file with a different name.
You can use the assets inside this file to start with the right sized
document, with some pre-configured backgrounds. Feel free to look at
other SVGs for guidance. Try to stick with fonts and motifs that you
see in recent banners. But also feel free to experiment. For
instance, use photographs (freely licensed, such as CC-BY or CC-BY-SA)
with a text overlay for a nice look.
If you'd like to post your work somewhere, it's helpful to convert it
to a JPG first. Save your SVG in the "fedoramagazine-images/images/"
folder as above. Let's say it's called "mybanner.svg". Open a
terminal, go to that directory, and type "make mybanner.jpg" and that
will create the correct sized JPG for you. You can post that online,
and post the URL of the JPG to this list.
* Don't attach files to email to this list -- URLs are preferred.
Enjoy!
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http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/
The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com
8 years, 3 months
Self-Introduction: Beau Mathieson
by Beau Mathieson
Hi, my name is Beau Mathieson and I live in Australia. My Fedora
Account System (FAS) username is bmathieson, and my IRC handle is
bmathieson
I learned about the Fedora Marketing team through Online research and
my deep interest in Red Hat, and am interested in joining because I
intend on assisting the Fedora Project by creating awareness of the
operating system to the public.
This is the first FOSS project I have worked on and I'm excited that
its with Fedora
This is the first Marketing project I have worked on!
My skills, which I hope to utilize in Fedora Marketing, include:
(Marketing Skills) - Online Marketing, Advertising
(Other Skills) - Junior Leadership, Team Work, Journalism
I'd also like to learn Publishing, Community Driven Projects,
Networking, Business Management.
When I'm not working on Fedora, I am studying my Preliminary HSC (High
School Certificate) in Australia.
A couple of goals I have for the Fedora Project are spread Fedora and
empower current and future generations. I would also like to see many
educational and public sector facilities switching to open source
operating systems like Fedora and RHEL as opposed to proprietary
systems.
I am wondering about long term marketing projects.
In terms of marketing skills, I am being mentored by a teacher of mine
who has a background in marketing.
Please help me get started!
Thank you,
Beau Mathieson
8 years, 3 months
