marketing July 2005

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mentors
by Marc Wiriadisastra 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

I don't know if this should be in this mailing list but if not please point me to where it should be. Now everyone knows that the more people help out whether thats packaging or coding or even in the marketing section the better Fedora will be. I just was browsing around thinking about this and I came across a debian How you can help page. Reading through it to see how the other camp deal with growing the contributors to the overall OS I noticed they have several mailing lists. Now I know I know we have mailing lists as well. However they have a mailing list called debian-mentors now for me I was surprised. I personally have spent numerous days learning how to build rpm's as well as trying to follow the fedora package naming and layout conventions and I thought wouldn't that be a great idea. If someone is interested in learning provided they don't waste peoples time by actually WANTING to contribute maybe a mentors list go get them from a newbie/basic contributor to an active member of the support/devel crew. If and I specify if people are willing to mentor couldn't we grow the contributors in that way. I say marketing because in the process of growing the contributors we could grow the marketing by saying we need you to help make this OS better and here's how you can learn to help. I saw it happen with the bugs people (bad way to describe it) in Fedora marketing that they need bugs people, wouldn't it be more logical in promoting a common location and advertising the fact of who's helping out. It might be a great way of getting more people involved. I don't know if its feasible I'm just throwing ideas out there. -- Regards Marc Wiriadisastra

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Worth noting the words we use...
by Colin Charles 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

We casually use terms like schwag[1]. Maybe we need to stop. We need to make sure our marketing materials and people doing the marketing, use words, oh so properly. Can't expect the rest of the world to think we're pot heads now, can we? [1] - http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=schwag&r=d -- Colin Charles, http://www.bytebot.net/ FUDCon II @ LinuxTag June 24-25, 2005 in Karlsruhe, Germany http://fedoraproject.com/fudcon/

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Logo idea....
by Bob Hillegas 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

I read that one of the proposed logos was a puppy in a gift box wearing a fedora. My suggestion: Turn the Red Fedora upside down (from orientation of RedHat's Logo) and place the puppy (sans hat) inside. Sorry I'm not an artist. Thanks, BobH ================================================= Bob Hillegas cell: 281.546.9311 bobhillegas(a)houston.rr.com eFax: 419.828.2726

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Fedora Vendor/Distribution Information (Wiki/Project idea)
by Patrick W. Barnes 31 Jul '05

31 Jul '05

I wanted to throw out the idea of setting up a spot on the wiki to provide information about distribution of Fedora, particularly expanding upon information for distributors. At current, there are no readily-available guidelines for OEM companies who are interested in distributing Fedora Core. There also isn't much information for companies interested in preparing and selling Fedora in packaged forms. Working for an OEM vendor, I know this kind of thing is sought after. I would like to change things. I propose http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution be used to provide information about obtaining and distributing Fedora Core. I would like it to be a resource for both companies and end users. For companies, it can provide guides and guidelines for the legal distribution of Fedora Core in assorted media formats, including pre-installed systems. For the end user, it can provide information on how to properly obtain, install, or upgrade Fedora Core, including how to find vendors locally or online. It would be nice to provide a page to list local vendors. Currently, the vendor list at f.r.c is limited to online vendors. At least for now, this section would largely be linking to the disparate resources on f.r.c and in the wiki. This section could be linked with the Fedora Marketing Project, and with smaller projects like the LiveCD effort. It could provide a central point to tie these various aspects of Fedora distribution together. It might be nice to back this effort up with a mailing list et al. Providing a framework for vendors to introduce themselves and request listings would be a must. I'd love any feedback on this idea. If there are no real objections, I'd love to get this started. I've sent this message to both fedora-devel-list and fedora-marketing-list to field the opinions of all who this most immediately concerns. For those of you who subscribe to both, I apologize for the duplication. Further discussion should probably be directed at fedora-marketing-list. -- Patrick "The N-Man" Barnes nman64(a)n-man.com www.n-man.com --

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fedora logo idea
by Inka 30 Jul '05

30 Jul '05

Hi, my idea for the logo is a blue dolphin with a red hat. Blue, because it's the colour of fedora. Say my if you like it. Inka

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CSS for HTML output
by Paul W. Frields 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

Pursuant to the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=159147 ...I made some changes to the CSS in the Docs Project CVS. Rahul was looking (correctly, Karsten and I think) for a look that would differentiate our docs from Red Hat's. Most of our style sheet comes from the one that Red Hat uses, in particular the coloration of headings and admonitions. I moved the headings to a blue color taken directly from the Fedora web site CSS (the sidebar, to be more specific), and for the admonition boxes, I came up with a yellow that is hopefully attention-getting without being garish. I left the coloration of screen sections alone since there wasn't a clear reason to change it. Refer to a mock-up here to avoid having to build anything yourself: http://docs.frields.org/mirror-tutorial-en/sn-planning-and-setup.html If I can speak for Karsten, pursuant to a conversation we had today, we would like to know what people think about adopting this CSS for DocBook generated pages on the fedora.redhat.com web site. -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Documentation Project: http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/docs/

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Fedora Rewards
by Matt Frye 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

Fedora Rewards is the name that I've given to the developing program whereby contributors can receive Fedora Gear, e.g. hats, t-shirts, etc. We have setup the address FedoraRewards(a)fedoraproject.org to which requests can be sent, and this will operate on a nomination system and I will review the facts in each case, but self-nominations are unlikely to result in stuff being sent out. All of this will be placed in the wiki in the next day or so. Matt Frye The Fedora Schwag Guy

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planet floating heads
by Colin Charles 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

Whom wants to volunteer? Got graphics (i.e. photos), just need floating heads This being for: http://planet.fedoraproject.org/ Oh, btw, do you know of any fedora contributor/hacker that needs to get listed? Point us (seth&me) to an rss feed, thanks -- Colin Charles, http://www.bytebot.net/

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Fedora review
by Marc Wiriadisastra 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Hi All, I don't know if this has been posted on the list or not but situations like this need to be looked at because it can only hinder the progress of Fedora over time unfortunately. http://distrocenter.linux.com/distrocenter/05/07/11/2327245.shtml?tid=107&t… -- Regards Marc Wiriadisastra

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the gray line
by Karsten Wade 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

Please allow me to pull this discussion into a separate thread, as I'm losing the details in the "Fedora Guide" thread. Trying to understand what the current position is on linking to third- party sites that -may- link to other sites that may have infringing content. In other words, fedorafaq.org, fedoraforum.org, etc. My current understanding is: * We -can- send people to those sites, as general answer sites * We -cannot- send people to those sites to "get your MP3s" * This is because we are not able to control the content of any website, from google.com to fedorafaq.org. This is different from knowing that the target URL has specific packages that circumvent stuff. Is that clear as mud? thx - Karsten -- Karsten Wade, RHCE * Sr. Tech Writer * http://people.redhat.com/kwade/ gpg fingerprint: 2680 DBFD D968 3141 0115 5F1B D992 0E06 AD0E 0C41 Red Hat SELinux Guide http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/selinux-guide/

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