marketing June 2006

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fedora-ve logo?
by "Guillermo Gómez S." 13 Nov '06

13 Nov '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, we have a contributor who posted a modified logo with fedora-ve text in it. Is it valid to do such modifications? I dont want to punish him but certainly he has a point on localizing the logo somehow. What's the policy in this case? To encourgae him to make it "the right" or not to modify it at all ? Guillermo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEeDjP0XfK1zIFpGQRAn9AAJsE/k+T4JWnkTckptKETbvUpaZ6XwCgl6Af xYfj047S60uuVk0jynS4UQk= =JU+T -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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MLUG Event
by Chitlesh GOORAH 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Hello there, Since Frederik posts, before, Ill take this example. First I congratulate Thomas Chung, he deserved to be vice president. At the same time, I would like to cancel my 80 DVDs for MLUG which I ordered , since I already have some left. The Event is a mere simple LUG meeting in Mauritius, but It will be my first meeting as a Fedora Ambassador. So both my girlfriend and I seized the opportunity to talk about the OpenSource projects: she: Kubuntu since she is in the German Kubuntu team and I about the Fedora Project. However, Ill be flying to Mauritius with the DVDs. I dont want to get into problems with the customs, is there something similar to this http://www.ubuntu.com/include/docs/ShipItGenericCustomsLetter.pdf ? If I can have a Fedora sample of it before 9 of July it will be cool :) Concerning my presentation, Ill rather stress on * How and why people contribute to Fedora Project * Fedora Projects * Kadischi Sorry for not being able to report this before during ambassadors meetings. Reason: Exams. Yet I think Its time to strike Kadischi off from the Ambassador/Schedule. Its not part of marketing :) About Kadischi, things start to shake up in its Mailing List :) Cheers, Chitlesh Goorah -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

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[Fedora-marketing-list] Fedora T-shirts
by Pawel Sadowski 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

Hi, I have some "strange" question to you. I am planning to book a large amount of Fedora T-shirts for future events at a local vendor but I am not sure in what way is the design on made on it. If anybody has the T- shirt, could you please tell me whether the Fedora logo is embedded or just printed? I would like it to be as beautiful as in Red Hat store, bud I have to know the design making technology ;) Regards, Pawel Sadowski

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[Fedora-marketing-list] first fc6-test1 article
by Max Spevack 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

Wanted to point you folks at this: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=499 I've already added it to our Marketing/PressArchive page. --Max -- Max Spevack + http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MaxSpevack + gpg key -- http://spevack.org/max.asc + fingerprint -- CD52 5E72 369B B00D 9E9A 773E 2FDB CB46 5A17 CF21

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Open Video Contest: please distribute!
by Alex 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Folks, This just went on the wire. Please distribute as you see fit. A PDF version attached. Cheers, a CREATIVE COMMONS ANNOUNCES OPEN VIDEO CONTEST WITH THE FEDORA PROJECT San Francisco, USA - June 20, 2006 Creative Commons and the Fedora Project are pleased to announce the Open Video Contest taking place now. The contest promotes flexible copyright, open media formats and the Fedora Project. Entries must be 30 seconds or less, in OGG Theora format, promote freedom and openness, and be released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license. Visit http://creativecommons.org/video/openvideocontest/ before July 20, 2006 to enter. The contest will be judged by representatives of the Fedora Project and Red Hat, Creative Commons jurisdiction leads from Brazil, Nigeria, and Poland, and a representative of the Wikimedia Foundation Special Projects Committee. "This contest spreads the message that a combination of open licensing, open formats and open source software gives creators, consumers, and developers infinite freedom" says Alex Maier, Chair of Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee. About OGG Theora Theora is an open, royalty-free video codec developed by the Xiph.org Foundation as part of the Ogg multimedia framework. Theora is released to the public under a BSD-style open source software license, completely free for commercial or noncommercial use. For more information about Theora visit http://theora.org. About the Fedora Project The Fedora Project is a Red Hat-sponsored and community-supported open source project. The goal? Work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from free software. Public forum. Rapid progress. Open process. A proving ground for new technology that may eventually make its way into Red Hat products. Fedora Core is an operating system and platform, based on Linux, that is always free for anyone to use, modify and distribute, now and forever. It is developed by a large community of people who strive to provide and maintain the very best in free, open source software and standards. About Creative Commons Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that promotes the creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works – whether owned or in the public domain. Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms that build upon the "all rights reserved" concept of traditional copyright to offer a voluntary "some rights reserved" approach. Creative Commons is sustained by the generous support of various foundations including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Omidyar Network Fund, the Hewlett Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation, as well as members of the public. For more information about Creative Commons, visit the organization's Web site (http://creativecommons.org/). Contact Eric Steuer Creative Director, Creative Commons eric(a)creativecommons.org Press Kit http://creativecommons.org/presskit -- Check out the new content on Fedora Project page! http://fedoraproject.org

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pictures of folks using fedora, gnome
by Max Spevack 17 Jun '06

17 Jun '06

So jdub on #fedora-extras pointed me to his blog, where he's looking to collect pictures of people using Gnome. Seeing as gnome is the default in Fedora, it's likely that there's a bunch of people out there who have some nice photos. If you have any that you can link to, surf on over to his blog and help him out. http://perkypants.org/blog/2006/06/16/gnome-lovers-loving-gnome/ --Max -- Max Spevack + http://people.redhat.com/mspevack/ + gpg key -- http://people.redhat.com/mspevack/mspevack.asc + fingerprint -- CD52 5E72 369B B00D 9E9A 773E 2FDB CB46 5A17 CF21

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Providing patched DVDs to potential users
by Rob Garth 10 Jun '06

10 Jun '06

A generic install of FC5 requires hundreds of megs of patches once installed, a particular frustration of mine, and I am sure it doesn't leave a good taste in the mouth of people trying out Fedora for the first time. Whenever I give out Fedora DVD images now, I make sure they are built form an updated install tree and that the will require no - or minimal - patching after install. Why isn't there updated monthly releases of the FC iso images? I think there should be, and I think whenever a DVD is handed out to the general public it should be up to date. Any thoughts? (and apalogies if this is the wrong group to post to). Rob Garth.

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Fedora web site. The "I'm feeling lucky" test.
by Naoki 10 Jun '06

10 Jun '06

Don't flame me, just making an observation and voicing an opinion ( and we all know about those ). I typed the following terms into google and hit "I'm feeling Lucky" and this is what I felt about the results.. "mandriva" - Looks clean, but driven by a marketing team. "centos" - Perfectly functional to me. "ubuntu" - Neat, clean, works. "suse" - Pretty good, typical corporate site. "xandros" - Much the same comment I have for Suse. "yellow dog" - And again, but more slick. "knoppix" - Lots of penguins, not pretty, but info and download links are easy to find. "slackware" - Very basic, which suits what slackware is actually. "turbolinux" - Easy enough to find what I need, not the nicest looking by far though. "red flag linux" - Works for me. "redhat" - Nice, good layout of information, get quickly into the area I want. "debian" - Not pretty at all, but works. "fedora" - Without doubt the most disappointing, and least exciting result of the bunch. Of the fedora sites I tend to lean towards fedoraproject.org being the nicest, fedora.info coming in second, while fedora.us is down for me so I can't tell. I tend to think the same as Bill Hicks when it comes to marketing but it would be nice if Fedora was better represented. Is anybody working on perhaps improving the situation or would this be deemed low priority / unimportant ? Cheers.

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FudCon SF and code sprints?
by Toshio Kuratomi 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

Hi guys, Just read Max's blog post saying code sprints might be in the future for FUDCon. I haven't seen any discussion about FUDCon here even though marketing-list is the contact listed on the wiki page[1]_ so just wanted to checkin. Is FUDCon SF on the roadmap? Will we be trying to hold sprints there? Is finding a venue holding up the whole process? I've blocked out August 18th on my calendar already. I don't have anything interesting to talk about but I would definitely participate in sprints, help out with "Packaging and Reviewing for the New Extras Developer Workshop", or anything similar. -Toshio _[1]: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConSanFrancsico2006

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fedora mentioned in Information Week
by Max Spevack 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=1872… or http://tinyurl.com/zdlrf Rex Dieter and I both have a one sentence quote. I love the fact that an hour long interview yielded one sentence. :-P -- Max Spevack + http://people.redhat.com/mspevack/ + gpg key -- http://people.redhat.com/mspevack/mspevack.asc + fingerprint -- CD52 5E72 369B B00D 9E9A 773E 2FDB CB46 5A17 CF21

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