marketing February 2009

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Status of the picture book
by Ian Weller 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

stabus report/slight rant time now -- it looks long but please read :) 1) Blocking on release forms. I'm assured RH Legal is working on it. In the meantime if you're willing to take photos of people and have their contact information so you can hunt them down with a New and Improved Release Form then there's no reason stopping you; you just can't upload them to the wiki yet. 2) As far as I'm concerned we'll be using Lightning Source Inc. (LSI) for publishing. It'll be on-demand, woo. We've yet to make a decision on whether to print color or grayscale pages, and what page size we want (I think I'm leaning towards 8.5" square). Any objectors should reply to this email. 3) I have no clue how we're getting initial funding. I made some original contacts with gregdek and spevack but I'm so confused about it. Somebody who knows what they're talking about with relation to this (community architecture, etc) please reply to this message or to me personally. 4) The original plan of publishing four of these books at the very start seems to be getting... less and less feasible per day. Right now I'm at the idea of publishing one, 80-page book and selling that. We can get at least 200 photos in there (more than one per page). Understanding that we got about 20 or so photos from the wonderful Mo Duffy at FUDConF11, this will make the target much more feasible. 5) We've got a great number of volunteers on our wiki page[1] but we could still use more regional photographers. Keep in mind that if you own a nice camera (generally a D-SLR) and you might have extra time we'd absolutely love you to volunteer as a regional photographer. 6) Does anybody know what we do to convert bitmap images to CMYK with free software? 7) Are there any currently unanswered questions people have? [1]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Picture_book -- Ian Weller <ianweller(a)gmail.com> http://ianweller.org GnuPG fingerprint: E51E 0517 7A92 70A2 4226 B050 87ED 7C97 EFA8 4A36 "Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet." ~ Douglas Adams

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SCALE 7x: Clint Savage of the Fedora Project on Spinning Your Own Linux LiveCD
by Clint Savage 28 Feb '09

28 Feb '09

Not wanting to toot my own horn too much, but this is awesome!! http://www.thebitsource.com/2009/02/28/scale-7x-clint-savage-of-fedora-proj… and currently, it's the featured story on their home page. Clint

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four foundations
by Rahul Sundaram 28 Feb '09

28 Feb '09

Hi The wiki page at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Foundations claims that "infinite, freedom, voice" slogan is legacy but I see it on top right of http://fedoraproject.org/index.html Should that be replaced by the four foundations? Rahul

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Intel, Nvidia Kernel Mode-Setting In Fedora 11
by Rahul Sundaram 28 Feb '09

28 Feb '09

Hi, http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzEwMA "Enabled by default on Fedora 11 will be Intel kernel mode-setting (along with the ATI kernel mode-setting that can already be found in Fedora 10). More on this is also available from the Fedora Wiki. ATI kernel mode-setting has been enabled since Fedora 10, but in Leonidas the support will be extended to support KMS on ATI R100/200 hardware. Kernel mode-setting allows for a nice, flicker-free boot process with the Plymouth project, fast VT switching, improved suspend and resume support, and other benefits. Kernel mode-setting is also a prerequisite for running the Wayland Display Server. " Rahul

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Intel, Nvidia Kernel Mode-Setting In Fedora 11
by Rahul Sundaram 28 Feb '09

28 Feb '09

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Marketing Meeting 2009-02-26 IRC Log
by Steven Moix 28 Feb '09

28 Feb '09

Hello, Here is the marketing meeting log for 2009-02-26: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meeting_2009-02-26 * During this meeting, we mainly reorganized the Fedora 11 schedule page [1] until the feature freeze phase. Dates were set and people assigned to tasks. * Items under the feature freeze milestone will be discussed next Tuesday. * Themayor is going to update the general task list [2] * The news distribution network concept is going to be deployed. moixs is going to contact the ambassador list to find candidates for each language. fugolini (Italian), themayor (English) and moixs (French) already volunteered. 1: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_F11_schedule 2: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_tasks Have a nice day Steven

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Self-Introduction: Mike Naughton
by Michael Naughton 27 Feb '09

27 Feb '09

Hi all: My name is Mike Naughton. I'm a criminal defense attorney (associate at James C. Thomas, P.C.) from Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A. I first tried Linux when I installed Fedora Core 3. I am running Fedora 10 x64 and it feels very sharp and responsive. As far as how I can contribute, in my role as a criminal defense attorney I have a lot of experience with advocacy, community outreach and working with media. In fact, I have been involved in cases in the Detroit area that garnered national and local media attention. My participation required working with attorneys around the country and media outlets. If you google my name you will see Michigan Supreme Court and Michigan Court of Appeals briefs I wrote over the summer and for what case. I think Fedora and Red Hat have really done a terrific job of creating a more vibrant community and putting together some really nice resources online (fedoraproject.org, fedoraforum.org, fedorafaq.org, etc.). I would like to be more involved in this community. I believe that, for better or worse, the economy and Vista have really created an opportunity for people to discover Fedora and be very pleasantly surprised. I would really like to get more involved in marketing Fedora, especially to professionals like myself who are solo-practitioners or small business owners. Fedora really provides all the tools necessary for a person to build a business right out of the box. In fact, I have been using Linux in my practice. I use Openoffice.org to prepare correspondence, motions, orders and other forms of legal writing. I use Thunderbird with the Lightning plugin to keep track of my calendar. I listen to music with Rhythmbox, mount NTFS drives, play games (World of Goo is really incredible and a great example of the traction Linux is starting to gain) and run the occasional Windows app in Crossover Office. Admittedly, I would like to see more billable programs for Linux. I have tried Gnu Cash but I find it a bit cumbersome for simple time tracking and invoicing. Additionally (like a lot of other people), I'd like to able to use Adobe programs in Linux. Obviously this is not a Fedora gripe but an Adobe one. I am confident that as Linux desktop adoption grows, Adobe will reach out to this market and provide products. It already has with Flash and Acrobat. I am also a part-time web developer and use Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop and Illustrator. It would be nice to not have to boot into OS X use these tools. Thanks for reading. I am really excited about joining the marketing team and making some contributions to the community. --Mike

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MEETING TODAY 2009.02.26 @ 19.00 UTC
by Jack Aboutboul 26 Feb '09

26 Feb '09

Hello All, We will have our regularly scheduled meeting today, details below. ***PLEASE NOTE: This will be our last meeting at this time, following today's meeting we will move to Tuesdays at 21.00UTC*** For Today: What: Fedora Marketing Team Meeting When: 19.00 UTC, that's 2PM Eastern, 11AM Pacific Where: irc.freenode.net, #fedora-meeting (Someone please remind me to notify them that we are changing times) Why: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_schedule_and_task_list, working on tasks for f11 and talk about the picture book! Thanks and see you in a couple of hours, Jack

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REMINDER: MEETING TOMORROW 2009.02.26 @ 19.00 UTC
by Jack Aboutboul 26 Feb '09

26 Feb '09

Hey Everyone, This is the early reminder for tomorrow's meeting. This is the last meeting we will have at this time, as we will switch over to Tuesday nights at 21.00UTC, since that seems to be more convenient for us all. Tomorrow is as scheduled, continue to work on the calendar. Now that everything is solidified, we will work mostly on figuring out who is doing what for F11. See you tomorrow, Jack

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Marketing Guide
by John Poelstra 26 Feb '09

26 Feb '09

Might be some good ideas for us here: http://contribute.mozilla.org/Marketing John

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