marketing March 2007

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Fedora News Project is Looking for Writers
by Thomas Chung 28 Mar '07

28 Mar '07

Currently Fedora News Project[1] is looking for two or more writers for up-coming-issue of Fedora Weekly News. Selected writers are expected to pick out the several major topics discussed in that week from following mailing lists and summarized them in a few paragraph.: * Development Section: fedora-devel-list, fedora-extras-list and fedora-maintainers-list * Documentation Section: fedora-docs-list * Events and Meetings: fedora-ambassadors-list and fedora-marketing-list These paragraphs will be edited by our editors and eventually published in our next issue of Fedora Weekly News. If you're interested in this project, please contact me as soon as possible. Regards, [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject -- Thomas Chung http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung

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FEDORA MASCOT
by Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Guys!! The Fedora Project need a mascot. What do you think about this ? ASS: Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira www.projetofedora.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF/LWGPg3HAC1vlg4RAqX1AJ0dIppsxDDxAUGLABZay6XYmc8ERACffMKF pK08clMXPa98tVBRGFJ3OjI= =2FFq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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The Fedora Desktop User Guide needs some editing (Linux.com)
by Rahul Sundaram 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Hi http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/13/1919208 Ongoing discussions in fedora-docs list to do "some editing" Rahul

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FEDORA MASCOT
by rerushg＠homexpressway.net 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Quick opinion from a newbie (3 months) here. Maybe compromise is to add a picture to the site home page to warm to it up a bit. Would need to be "OK'd" but maybe not formally "approved" as anything more than just art. Change it every week or so. Maybe one will become popular. Also: Did someone say; "No hats!"? There is a blue hat in the header of the forum page.

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Re: Fedora-marketing-list Digest, Vol 33, Issue 22
by Ryan Coleman 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Ok Rahul i would be interested. At the least i will do this manually but i will have a look at these sites and think about some way i could automate this. Thanks for the idea. Ryan On 21/03/07, fedora-marketing-list-request(a)redhat.com < fedora-marketing-list-request(a)redhat.com> wrote: > > Send Fedora-marketing-list mailing list submissions to > fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > fedora-marketing-list-request(a)redhat.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > fedora-marketing-list-owner(a)redhat.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Fedora-marketing-list digest..." > > > NOTE: When replying to digest messages, please set the subject to match > the original message. > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Projects Wanted (Ryan Coleman) > 2. Re: Projects Wanted (Rahul Sundaram) > 3. Re: Projects Wanted (Francesco Ugolini) > 4. Re: Projects Wanted (Rahul Sundaram) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:23:35 +0000 > From: "Ryan Coleman" <ryanc75(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Projects Wanted > To: fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com > Message-ID: > <136c5afe0703201323u3901e816nfd2c8fb3ec130f81(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hello All, > > I have just joined the Fedora Wiki and wanted to know if there are any > projects which i can help out on. I have a good linux experience and have > been using fedora for about 2 years also i have been working on linux > (RedHat) servers for about 3 years. > > If anyone has any ideas on anything i can help out on please email me at > ryanc75 AT gmail.com and if i can i will help. > > Thanks > Ryan > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/attachments/20070320/… > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 02:14:55 +0530 > From: Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org> > Subject: Re: Projects Wanted > To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base > <fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com> > Message-ID: <460047C7.2070000(a)fedoraproject.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Ryan Coleman wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > I have just joined the Fedora Wiki and wanted to know if there are any > > projects which i can help out on. I have a good linux experience and > > have been using fedora for about 2 years also i have been working on > > linux (RedHat) servers for about 3 years > > If anyone has any ideas on anything i can help out on please email me at > > ryanc75 AT gmail.com <http://gmail.com> and if i can i will help. > > Since you wanted to be involved in coordinating news to the press as you > indicated earlier on the offlist mail I would describe what I had in mind. > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/SpreadingNews > > If you look at the above page there is a list of press outlets that we > would like to reach to when we have events of interest within Fedora > which might as big as a new release or a major milestone. Currently we > would have to send it manually. What would be useful is to have a single > place where we can feed in this information and get a automated way to > send it out to every relevant website via different mechanisms like a > submit API, form fill or even a email address. > > Would you be interested in creating a infrastructure for that or > alternatively acting as a gateway and sending the info manually? > > Rahul > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:44:06 +0100 > From: Francesco Ugolini <francesco.ugolini(a)fedoraproject.org> > Subject: Re: Projects Wanted > To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base > <fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com> > Message-ID: <46004796.6060204(a)fedoraproject.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Ambassadors Project is wanting you ! > > If you want to give an help promoting Fedora around the world (and yes > in your city), you are welcomed, just ask to join the Ambassadors group > in account system. > > Best regards > > Francesco Ugolini > > Ryan Coleman ha scritto: > > Hello All, > > > > I have just joined the Fedora Wiki and wanted to know if there are any > > projects which i can help out on. I have a good linux experience and > > have been using fedora for about 2 years also i have been working on > > linux (RedHat) servers for about 3 years. > > > > If anyone has any ideas on anything i can help out on please email me at > > ryanc75 AT gmail.com <http://gmail.com> and if i can i will help. > > > > Thanks > > Ryan > > > > -- > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FrancescoUgolini > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 02:17:06 +0530 > From: Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org> > Subject: Re: Projects Wanted > To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base > <fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com> > Message-ID: <4600484A.5070902(a)fedoraproject.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Francesco Ugolini wrote: > > Ambassadors Project is wanting you ! > > > > If you want to give an help promoting Fedora around the world (and yes > > in your city), you are welcomed, just ask to join the Ambassadors group > > in account system. > > > > Best regards > > > > Francesco Ugolini > > > > He is already one. > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RyanColeman > > Rahul > > > > ------------------------------ > > -- > Fedora-marketing-list mailing list > Fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list > > End of Fedora-marketing-list Digest, Vol 33, Issue 22 > ***************************************************** >

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Projects Wanted
by Ryan Coleman 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

Hello All, I have just joined the Fedora Wiki and wanted to know if there are any projects which i can help out on. I have a good linux experience and have been using fedora for about 2 years also i have been working on linux (RedHat) servers for about 3 years. If anyone has any ideas on anything i can help out on please email me at ryanc75 AT gmail.com and if i can i will help. Thanks Ryan

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Fedora Mascot
by rerushg＠homexpressway.net 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

I'm a newcomer to all this but I'll throw in two cents anyway. Been on Fedora some two months now so my view is as a relative newbie, lots of computer experience but not a "geek" or "power user". In my past career I was responsible for a technical product that was the best. Even our competition did not argue. But being the best is not enough. You must still "sell" your product. An important part of selling is making the potential customer feel comfortable with you, with the product, and with your company. Having said that..... One of you said something about the "techie image". I think that comment was right on target. Website needs to be "softened" (see Ubuntu site:...people...working together). Maybe a formal mascot is not necessay. There are possible pitfalls with use of mascot. Maybe reworking the website a bit to make it more friendly could be helped by using small "unofficial" images of "possible mascots" as place markers. Maybe one of the images will become popular. By the way. People don't think much of goats in US. Unfortunately, an athlete who goofs up at the wrong time is called a "goat"; the guy who lost the game for the team. I like dolphins though. Don't know of any bad thoughts about dolphins. Intelligence, speed, freedom, good attitude all come to mind. And it would be easy to work dolphins into the existing Fedora blue colors. Mascots (or at least "organic" images) connote "warm & fuzzy". Fedora could use some warm & fuzzy.

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Fedora User Statistics
by Rahul Sundaram 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

Hi If you are attending a event promoting and discussing Fedora, you might want to take advantage of this poster that has been successfully used in FOSDEM 2007. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/StatisticsPoster Rahul

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Dell Linux Survey has Fedora as an option
by Christopher Aillon 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

Just a note that Fedora is listed on Dell's Linux Survey[1] as an option for a potential OS to be preinstalled on future Dell hardware. I encourage people to vote by March 23rd. Hopefully there will be a high number of votes for Fedora and/or RHEL depending on what people think is the better choice for Dell to ship. Getting support from a big name hardware vendor for Fedora or even a Fedora-based distribution such as RHEL would be really cool for Fedora. Feel free to forward this on to others. [1] http://www.dell.com/linuxsurvey

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FOSDEM AIGLX talk
by Rahul Sundaram 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

Hi Kristian is the main guy behind AIGLX FYI http://fosdem.org/2007/schedule/speakers/kristian+hoegsberg http://ftp.belnet.be/mirrors/FOSDEM/2007/FOSDEM2007-AIGLX.ogg Rahul

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