marketing June 2008

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OSCON 2008 ?
by John Poelstra 02 Jul '08

02 Jul '08

Hi, I've been following the OSCON page and wondering if there are any more updates coming, particularly with the BOF, swag, and all the TODOs below? Three weeks to go! https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OSCON/OSCON2008#TODOs John

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Recruiting Students (Campus Ambassadors)
by Jack Aboutboul 02 Jul '08

02 Jul '08

Hey All, I'm sorry I missed the marketing meeting earlier today, but I was told that there was discussion of recruiting students to help out with Fedora and Fedora marketing efforts. I have been working for the past couple of weeks to put together something modeled after the ambassadors which I tentatively call "Campus Ambassadors". The mission of the campus ambassadors is something similar to what Mozilla does with the Firefox Campus Rep program--to have someone who can speak to the student body about Fedora and represent Fedora at relevant campus events. Also, I am looking to require campus ambassadors to hold one info session or tech talk type thing per semester to make sure that there is constant action and interest in Fedora. There will be a community architecture team meeting in Raleigh next week at which I would like to present the final plan for this and officially launch. I have already been in contact with a number of students from various universities (Berkeley, Oswego, CMU, Auburn, Texas A&M) and so far there is interest. Just thought I would kick the idea out to the list and see what people had to say. My plan is to put up a wiki page for this tomorrow or over the weekend, so that it can be presented next week. Thanks, Jack

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I was just thinking about a Fedora News Channel
by Markus McLaughlin 01 Jul '08

01 Jul '08

I too think there should a Fedora News Channel site covering success stories with Fedora, Red Hat related news concerning Fedora, educational uses of Fedora, multimedia uses, and FUN things to do with it as well. If anyone loves the idea too, let's propose : FedoraNews.wordpress.com, which anyone can add a blog posting, a photo, a video in Theora & QuickTime from a FUDcon, audio using OGG Vorbis & AAC... This site will automatically use RSS (which I add feeds to my most excellent RSS reader : Rhetoris, for MACs, which utiliizes text to speech.) *GOOGLE Rhetoris, Mac Users!* :D Have a great Fourth of July! Mark McLaughlin linuxglobe.wordpress.com Hudson, MA, USA

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Small Businesses WILL need a Red Hat Linux suited for them!!!
by Markus McLaughlin 30 Jun '08

30 Jun '08

I remember Red Hat Linux all too well, I think it needed to go away for a while, but now that Vista isn't doing so well, it is time to revive RHL but have it sold to Small Businesses instead. So I will put out the Proposal on my Linux Blog and see if that need could be fulfilled. I am tired of seeing Target sell JUST Windows Vista or XP Software. Remember, I am not a Programmer, just a Concept Man. When I have an idea, I go with it, and see if it could be made, be it a film, tv show, or maybe even an Operating System! Never say never! *Mark McLaughlin linuxglobe.wordpress.com Hudson, MA*

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The only way I will submit news to FWN....
by Markus McLaughlin 30 Jun '08

30 Jun '08

The only way I would contribute to Fedora Weekly News is to also have the Fedora related News I write appear on my Linux Blog which I want to convert to a Magazine with other Writers who care about Linux as I do. This is how I want to do it... Mark McLaughlin

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FWN: Marketing beat complete
by Pascal Calarco 29 Jun '08

29 Jun '08

Just a quick note that the Marketing beat has been updated from last week and is complete. Everyone, if you plan to have your beat in for this week, please echo to the list so we have an idea if we have enough content for an issue this week. It seems there is significant momentum building to evolve FWN from the wiki to Wordpress and/or Fedora TV. We may want to start some discussion around this after we get the next issue out. Certainly we could reference and create RSS feeds for audio and video items posted to Fedora TV from within a Wordpress FWN. What needs to happen still to move over to Wordpress Multiuser, and is help needed to get this accomplished? Thanks all! - pascal https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PascalCalarco

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New Miro Update
by Jonathan Roberts 29 Jun '08

29 Jun '08

Hi all, Just thought I'd let you know I've just updated the Fedora TV channel to include the recording Clint made of Paul's FUDCon speech. Should be hitting Miro soon - hopefully the plain audio works :) Best, Jon

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Help Needed: Is Miro Updating?
by Jonathan Roberts 28 Jun '08

28 Jun '08

Hey all, I updated the feed for Miro last night to include one of Kushal's videos, but I'm not seeing it update on either miroguide.com or Miro itself. Could somebody else check to see that it's not just me this is happening to, and also have a look to see if they can figure out what I've done wrong (I don't think I've done anything, but often it's easy to miss simple things!). The feed URL is: http://jonrob.fedorapeople.org/fedora-tv.xml Best, Jon

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My First Linux Desktop
by Kushal Das 28 Jun '08

28 Jun '08

Hi all, Erik Huggers, a Microsoft guy at the BBC, takes a look at Fedora 9 as his first Linux desktop and finds it surprisingly good. "I am glad that I got a chance to test drive Fedora and as a result have come to believe in the potential of Linux as a mainstream operating system." Read it full at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/06/erik_linux.html Kushal -- Fedora Ambassador, India http://kushaldas.in http://dgplug.org (Linux User Group of Durgapur)

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Liberation Fonts Increase Document Interoperability
by Rahul Sundaram 27 Jun '08

27 Jun '08

Hi, Debian had earlier rejected the font claiming the license is non-free but has now reversed that decision. At this point, all the major distributions already provide this font and many of them seem to include it by default too. http://www.quantenblog.net/free-software/liberation-fonts "Red Hat's Tom "spot" Callaway spoke to the FSF and they indicated the license was fine according to them. When I came across this issue, I asked the FSF once more, explicitly pointing them to RMS's point of view. They replied that they definitely consider this license to be valid. And thanks to the persistent work of Holger Levsen, we finally managed to convince the Debian ftp-masters as well." Rahul

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