marketing September 2007

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Intro & observations
by Alejo Cerrat0 16 Nov '07

16 Nov '07

Hi, my name is Alejo Cerrato, and I'm Marketing Director of a medium size company in SoFla. I'm very interested in improve my skills on Linux and colaborate with the Fedora Project. So far I've found that if you are not very skilled in Linux it is hard to follow all the steps as they are indicated to succesfully become a contributor. And I guess that there may be people willing to colaborate, but without the minimum Linux skills to do so. For some reason (and I'm not trying to get any help here in this list) I can't validate my CLA. I wonder how many people got discouraged in becoming a contributor because of the complexity of the process, and the intrinsec bureaucracy. I understand at the same time that it has to be done in a secure environment. I'm going to keep on trying and get my CLA validated asap. But at the same time I'll like to help make this process easier for the contributors-to-be, people that may lack Linux knowledge but have other skills that could help. AlejoCerrato.//

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Promotion of Linux is one of many tasks for me!
by Markus McLaughlin 16 Oct '07

16 Oct '07

When I use Fedora a lot more for my own uses, I will write more about it, since I chose it for my main Linux OS. Right now, I am trying to hook up with other writers, I am not a Programmer, just a Super User, looking for alternatives to ALL of the apps I used to use on Windoze and what I use on my MAC as well. My mission is to convert regular folks who don't know Windoze, MAC, or Linux, and convert them into Linux Users, IT guys can help me out with this task! Onward and forward! Mark McLaughlin

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Fedora-fr association was born !
by Thomas Canniot 05 Oct '07

05 Oct '07

Dear Fedora user, All the French Fedora Team is glad to announce you the creation of the association of the French speaking Fedora users. We will need your help to drive this project where all the users of Fedora are working for the same goal, the promotion of Fedora. Why an association ? * In order to promote Free software in general and the Fedora distribution in particular. This promotion will lead to the creation of support for the Fedora promotion, from simple flyers to CD/DVD for the installation of Fedora. * To support our website, one of the most important tool for the French community. * An association helps to increase the presence of the French community and gives more weight to his talk, indeed an association has more credibility in front of its partners, ie Fedora project, Red Hat or others. You should notice that the association has no link with the Fedora project itself or Red Hat. The project has been informed of the creation of the association but did not encourage it or support it in any way. What are the goals of the association ? * Promote free software around a central element: the GNU/Linux distribution Fedora. * Promote Fedora on different associations and events or meetings. * Create a network integrating users and developers of the Fedora GNU/Linux distribution. What are our resources ? * The French ambassador team, localized all around France, involved in different Linux User Group and other association. * The dues from our members. * The sell of goodies (T-shirts, mugs, hat...) should financially help to the association. Who is at the head of the association ? The member of the board are: President: Thomas Canniot (MrTom) Vice-president: Armel Kermorvant (armelk) Treasurer: Johan Cwiklinski (trashy) Secretary: Guillaume Kulakowski (llaumgui) Other members of the board: Maxime Carron (Pingoomax) Thierry Delmonte (Titax) Charles Vinchon (littlecharly) All are Fedora ambassador. Why becoming a member ? * Because you wish to be imply in the association's activities. * Because you wish to financially support the association to promote the distribution GNU/Linux Fedora and Free Software, without being actively involved in these actions. * Because you can become a member from 10 euros. Who can become a member ? The association accepts all French speaking people who wish to help the promotion of the Free software and the GNU/Linux distribution Fedora. How to become a member ? We invite you to have a look at the procedure described on the association's website http://asso.fedora-fr.org/Comment_devenir_membre How to do a simple donation ? If you wish to do a simple donation, you can have a look at the website http://ass.fedora-fr.org/Dons How to be involved in the Association actions ? One of the first goal of the association is to create support for the Fedora promotion during different the events and meetings. If you wish to be involved, actually there are several projects for which we are looking for help: * Small books presenting Fedora * Flyers * Posters * Stickers * Pens * Keyrings * ... We are also looking for partners to create Fedora CDs/DVDs. Where to find information about the association ? One website for all information, http://asso.fedora-fr.org All the team of Fedora-fr association is available to answer your questions and help you to lead your projects. Fedora-fr Team.

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Cool comment
by Jonathan Roberts 30 Sep '07

30 Sep '07

OK, so it's just one comment but it's pretty cool :D "You know, Fedora was one of the first distributions that I really got started with, but I got to say, in my eyes (and in the eyes of many) it got pushed aside when Ubuntu appeared almost out of nowhere. However, with this new set of tools, it makes me really excited to take a look at Fedora 8. Good job!" http://digg.com/linux_unix/Fedora_8_and_Online_Desktop Jon

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Interview 3
by Jonathan Roberts 30 Sep '07

30 Sep '07

Hi all, Before I put this interview up, would some people take a look over the video I've put together for it...worried it's a bit vague/lacking direction - some feed back would be welcome! The address is: http://questionsplease.org/online-desktop.ogg Thanks all, Jon

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Customized spins of Fedora
by Rahul Sundaram 30 Sep '07

30 Sep '07

Hi, http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/09/28/customized-spins-of-fedora/ "When Fedora 7 was released, one of the big features that we talked about was the idea of customized spins of the distribution. Now that Fedora 8 is on the way, it’s useful to look and see how we have done, and what sort of custom spins have been created." Rahul

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Brazilian Event - Aracaju - SE
by Rodrigo Padula 28 Sep '07

28 Sep '07

Brazilian Fedora Project at ENSL II. See www.ensl.org.br and www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/IIENSL for news. Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira Brazilian Fedora Project www.projetofedora.org

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The 7 Most Influential GNU/Linux Distributions
by Rahul Sundaram 27 Sep '07

27 Sep '07

Hi http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/entdev/article.php/11070_3701421_1 "Fedora's main reputation is for being the first distro to include new innovations. For instance, Fedora was the first distribution to include tools that allowed average users to work with SELinux's detailed security options. In the same way, Fedora 7 was the first to include Smolt, a program for collecting hardware information about users; Revisor, a program for creating custom install disks, and the Liberation typefaces that provide the metrical equivalents of Arial, Helvetica, and Times Roman in free fonts. Although some users on Fedora mailing lists suggest that this innovation makes Fedora unsuitable for servers and mission-critical operations, an increased attention to testing is starting to make that generality obsolete. After a slow couple of years, Fedora is also well on the way to realizing its goal of creating a thriving community in which Red Hat is important, but no longer completely dominates decision-making." Rahul

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Release day and links
by Mike McGrath 26 Sep '07

26 Sep '07

Just planning ahead here. During the last release there were a couple of links given out that did not exist or weren't what the Infrastructure team thought they were. Can someone compile a list of the canonical links we're giving out as part of our release and can we make sure the content only exists at that spot? In particular I'd like to know where the release notes officially are. My preference would be docs.fedoraproject.org. I guess I'm asking what our press release will look like. -Mike

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Visual: Mirrors vs Users
by Mike McGrath 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '07

I wrote a little call to help post today as well as a comparison of where our users are vs mirrors. This is using a small sampling of people that have connected to our mirrors site. Not an exact science but interesting none the less, thought I'd share. http://mmcgrath.livejournal.com/8797.html -Mike

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