Hi, you all probably noticed the recent Fedora hardware sweeptakes. I spoke with Spot and he said in the future, he could get some hardware for ambassadors to show Fedora running on it at various events. We discussed this a bit in FAmSCo and we agreed that such hardware could go to regional event boxes, or perhaps to ambassadors who represent Fedora at events the most.
If there was something like this in the future what (probably ARM) hardware would you appreciate the most?
Jiri
hello,
I would recommend boards that have working graphics.
* Pandaboard ES is probably the best all-round ARMv7 board supported by Fedora. * Raspberry-pi has working graphics, but kinda limited hardware. Make sure to use the latest Seneca ARMv6 spin, or the Fedora ARMv5 image. * XO laptop.org
Regards, -Jon Disnard
irc:masta fas:parasense On Aug 24, 2012 6:21 AM, "Jiri Eischmann" eischmann@redhat.com wrote:
Hi, you all probably noticed the recent Fedora hardware sweeptakes. I spoke with Spot and he said in the future, he could get some hardware for ambassadors to show Fedora running on it at various events. We discussed this a bit in FAmSCo and we agreed that such hardware could go to regional event boxes, or perhaps to ambassadors who represent Fedora at events the most.
If there was something like this in the future what (probably ARM) hardware would you appreciate the most?
Jiri
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All the hardware you got.
Dan
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Jon jdisnard@gmail.com wrote:
hello,
I would recommend boards that have working graphics.
- Pandaboard ES is probably the best all-round ARMv7 board supported by
Fedora.
- Raspberry-pi has working graphics, but kinda limited hardware. Make sure
to use the latest Seneca ARMv6 spin, or the Fedora ARMv5 image.
- XO laptop.org
Regards, -Jon Disnard
irc:masta fas:parasense On Aug 24, 2012 6:21 AM, "Jiri Eischmann" eischmann@redhat.com wrote:
Hi, you all probably noticed the recent Fedora hardware sweeptakes. I spoke with Spot and he said in the future, he could get some hardware for ambassadors to show Fedora running on it at various events. We discussed this a bit in FAmSCo and we agreed that such hardware could go to regional event boxes, or perhaps to ambassadors who represent Fedora at events the most.
If there was something like this in the future what (probably ARM) hardware would you appreciate the most?
Jiri
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In planning for F18, the marketing team would like to know what you, as ambassadors, would find most useful for release collateral. Not general Fedora collateral, but things specific to each release. What information and types of collateral do you need about each release? In what contexts are they most useful?
And as an aside, if you're not on the marketing list, it's fairly low traffic, and we'd love to have more ambassadors there for input like this on a more regular basis. Come on over and join us! http://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
Thanks! Ruth
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Ruth Suehle rsuehle@redhat.com wrote:
In planning for F18, the marketing team would like to know what you, as ambassadors, would find most useful for release collateral. Not general Fedora collateral, but things specific to each release. What information and types of collateral do you need about each release? In what contexts are they most useful?
I'm partial to a trifold (takes up little booth countertop space) with a small bit about the new features in the release and some general information about where to find us on the web and where to go to join. In the past we have tried much bigger single sheets per big feature but those are clumsy at a booth to deal with. Sometimes less is more, and less about the features encourages more people to ask about ones that might interest them from a list.
John
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:58 PM, inode0 inode0@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Ruth Suehle rsuehle@redhat.com wrote:
In planning for F18, the marketing team would like to know what you, as ambassadors, would find most useful for release collateral. Not general Fedora collateral, but things specific to each release. What information and types of collateral do you need about each release? In what contexts are they most useful?
I'm partial to a trifold (takes up little booth countertop space) with a small bit about the new features in the release and some general information about where to find us on the web and where to go to join. In the past we have tried much bigger single sheets per big feature but those are clumsy at a booth to deal with. Sometimes less is more, and less about the features encourages more people to ask about ones that might interest them from a list.
John
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Speaking of which, a while back we had a FAD at Iowa State. In which we created something similar to what John is describing. I've still got that collateral (from Fedora 13) and I think it might be useful to envision. I thought it was valuable at the time and agree it would be very helpful now.
http://herlo.fedorapeople.org/art/fad/Fedora-13-kde-live-bifold-inside.pdf http://herlo.fedorapeople.org/art/fad/Fedora-13-kde-live-booklet-inside.pdf http://herlo.fedorapeople.org/art/fad/Fedora-13-kde-live-booklet-outside.pdf http://herlo.fedorapeople.org/art/fad/Fedora-13-kde-live-media-bifold.pdf
Cheers,
Clint
In this part I would like to mention the benefit of having these goodies in your both.
Three years ago, Dimitris Glezos gave in the Greek Fedora Community a XO laptop for presenting it in events. Every time we had the XO in our booth the majority of the attendances was asking what's that and what operating system runs.
Even if we ware in a non FOSS event, the XO was attracting a lot of people in our booth, especially kids! In additional Greek Fedora community has and will continue to run sessions based on XO, Sugar and Fedora.
We must have fancy and meaningful goodies in our booths such as XO, big cheatcubes, stickers, buttons and CANDIES! Yes, candies ;)
https://picasaweb.google.com/105770476640273513358/AthensDigitalWeekVol1#539...
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Jon jdisnard@gmail.com wrote:
hello,
I would recommend boards that have working graphics.
- Pandaboard ES is probably the best all-round ARMv7 board supported by
Fedora.
- Raspberry-pi has working graphics, but kinda limited hardware. Make sure
to use the latest Seneca ARMv6 spin, or the Fedora ARMv5 image.
- XO laptop.org
Regards, -Jon Disnard
irc:masta fas:parasense
On Aug 24, 2012 6:21 AM, "Jiri Eischmann" eischmann@redhat.com wrote:
Hi, you all probably noticed the recent Fedora hardware sweeptakes. I spoke with Spot and he said in the future, he could get some hardware for ambassadors to show Fedora running on it at various events. We discussed this a bit in FAmSCo and we agreed that such hardware could go to regional event boxes, or perhaps to ambassadors who represent Fedora at events the most.
If there was something like this in the future what (probably ARM) hardware would you appreciate the most?
Jiri
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On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 6:21 AM, Jiri Eischmann eischmann@redhat.com wrote:
Hi, you all probably noticed the recent Fedora hardware sweeptakes. I spoke with Spot and he said in the future, he could get some hardware for ambassadors to show Fedora running on it at various events. We discussed this a bit in FAmSCo and we agreed that such hardware could go to regional event boxes, or perhaps to ambassadors who represent Fedora at events the most.
This is a case where long term (and I really mean short term) ambassadors should get more involved in the budget process. We should probably just have a capital budget so that more expensive systems used at booths can be purchased on a regular cycle (laptops for event boxes, multi-touch or larger displays, etc.). We can lean on spot for another 10 years or we can try to grow up and be more self-sufficient.
For items of a smaller nature I don't think anyone in Red Hat should need to be bothered about it. Ambassadors can regionally approved spending $200 on Raspberry Pis and just go buy them if they want them for use at events now.
Of course, if spot has extras that need homes I would welcome any open hardware on which we can show off Fedora.
John
I agree with John on this. It's a good idea to get us Ambassadors more involved in the budgeting process. Being able to fully represent Fedora with nice and fully stocked booths at conventions is very important.
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 10:55 AM, inode0 inode0@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 6:21 AM, Jiri Eischmann eischmann@redhat.com wrote:
Hi, you all probably noticed the recent Fedora hardware sweeptakes. I spoke with Spot and he said in the future, he could get some hardware for ambassadors to show Fedora running on it at various events. We discussed this a bit in FAmSCo and we agreed that such hardware could go to regional event boxes, or perhaps to ambassadors who represent Fedora at events the most.
This is a case where long term (and I really mean short term) ambassadors should get more involved in the budget process. We should probably just have a capital budget so that more expensive systems used at booths can be purchased on a regular cycle (laptops for event boxes, multi-touch or larger displays, etc.). We can lean on spot for another 10 years or we can try to grow up and be more self-sufficient.
For items of a smaller nature I don't think anyone in Red Hat should need to be bothered about it. Ambassadors can regionally approved spending $200 on Raspberry Pis and just go buy them if they want them for use at events now.
Of course, if spot has extras that need homes I would welcome any open hardware on which we can show off Fedora.
John
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Just want to point out that starting with F18, fedora-arm will support only three ARM kernels as we push to achieve Primary Arch (PA) status:
* OMAP (panda board, beagle board, etc) * VExpress (Qemu) * Highbank (Cannot think of any publicly available hardware, also in QEMU)
So that really means Beagle Boards [1], and/or Panda Board [2]. Of these choices the Panda is (IMHO) the best supported ARM systems for ambassadors (because it has graphics).
Raspberry Pi's are great because they are so cheap, and they have graphics. They are well supported by an affiliated group (Seneca Collage [3]) , and provide all the missing bits the official Fedora-arm does not.
The point I'm trying to make is that perhaps Ambassadors should demonstrate hardware that is officially supported.
I will be using a pandaboard to demo Fedora at an upcoming event, combined with a Motorola lapdock similar to this [5]. This will be using the official Fedora-xfce image [4].
I think it would be great to have these as part of the regional event kit. ARM boards are inexpensive enough that there should be flexibility the purchase process. These computers are comparable to the cost of event swag.
[1] http://beagleboard.org/ [2] http://pandaboard.org/ [3] http://cdot.senecac.on.ca/ [4] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Pandaboard [5] http://liliputing.com/2012/06/turn-a-raspberry-pi-into-laptop-with-a-70-moto...
Have a great Day! -Jon
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 9:55 AM, inode0 inode0@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 6:21 AM, Jiri Eischmann eischmann@redhat.com wrote:
Hi, you all probably noticed the recent Fedora hardware sweeptakes. I spoke with Spot and he said in the future, he could get some hardware for ambassadors to show Fedora running on it at various events. We discussed this a bit in FAmSCo and we agreed that such hardware could go to regional event boxes, or perhaps to ambassadors who represent Fedora at events the most.
This is a case where long term (and I really mean short term) ambassadors should get more involved in the budget process. We should probably just have a capital budget so that more expensive systems used at booths can be purchased on a regular cycle (laptops for event boxes, multi-touch or larger displays, etc.). We can lean on spot for another 10 years or we can try to grow up and be more self-sufficient.
For items of a smaller nature I don't think anyone in Red Hat should need to be bothered about it. Ambassadors can regionally approved spending $200 on Raspberry Pis and just go buy them if they want them for use at events now.
Of course, if spot has extras that need homes I would welcome any open hardware on which we can show off Fedora.
John
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On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Christopher Meng cickumqt@gmail.com wrote:
Is it mentioned in wiki?
Maybe this: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Fedora_18_Alpha_Release_Crit...
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