marketing June 2009

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"materials for ambassadors requests"
by Frank Murphy 30 Jun '09

30 Jun '09

cc' to Marketing Hi The Design team have now a trac system. In which if you need soem material "Stickers" etc. Got to: https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/wiki Open a new ticket: materials for ambassadors requests Frank PS: I would ask that you check existing materials for ambassadors requests. In case someone else may have al;ready asked for it. -- jabber | msn | skype: frankly3d http://www.frankly3d.com http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Development

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OLPC software to power ageing PCs
by Rahul Sundaram 30 Jun '09

30 Jun '09

Hi http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8117064.stm "The latest release - Sugar on a Stick - allows anyone to run the software from a 1GB USB stick. It includes 40 programs, including a word processor, drawing application and games. Mr Bender said the ability to transport the software and plug it into any computer would allow children to have a "consistent experience" wherever they worked. "No matter what computer you have at home or at the library you're going to have the same use experience because you have sugar on a stick," he said." Rahul

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Fedora 12 to be named Constantine
by Rahul Sundaram 30 Jun '09

30 Jun '09

Hi A couple of reports http://www.h-online.com/open/Fedora-12-to-be-named-Constantine--/news/113630 "The next version of Fedora is to be called "Constantine". The result was announced at FUDCon Berlin 2009 and follows a tradition of creating linked pairs of codenames; Fedora 11 was called "Leonidas" and the link in this case is that both Leonidas and Constantine are townships in the state of Michigan, USA. The link must, according to the rules, not repeat. Fedora 11, was preceded by Fedora 10, "Cambridge"; Cambridge and Leonidas were both ships of the United States Navy." http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzM1MQ "After having gone to the community for looking at names, Red Hat has announced that the release of Fedora 12 will be codenamed Constantine. This name had the most votes and was approved by Red Hat's Legal department of being free of any potential issues. Constantine had beat out Umbria, Orville, Rugosa, and Chilon for having the most votes." Rahul

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Sugar on a Stick brings sweet taste of Linux to classrooms
by Rahul Sundaram 30 Jun '09

30 Jun '09

Hi More innovation on top of Fedora brings the advantage of a vibrant community. http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/06/sugar-on-a-stick-brings-swe… "SoaS is built on top of Fedora 11, which was released earlier this month. It is distributed as a 380MB ISO file which includes the operating system and all of the software applications. The image is intended to be written to a CD or USB memory stick so that the entire platform can be booted from removable media and used on regular desktop computers without requiring installation, partitioning, or any other changes to the computer itself." Rahul

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Raising the bar
by Rahul Sundaram 30 Jun '09

30 Jun '09

Hi https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-June/msg02332.html "we'd like to announce the 'Fit and Finish' initiative for Fedora, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fit_and_Finish with the goal to improve the user experience of the Fedora desktop. We want to identify the small (and sometimes large) roadblocks that make everyday computer use harder than it needs to be, and try to fix them." Rahul

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Meeting TODAY 2009.06.30 @ 20.00UTC/4PM Eastern/1PM Pacific
by Jack Aboutboul 30 Jun '09

30 Jun '09

Hello All, Please join us for our regularly scheduled marketing meeting today at 20.00UTC in #fedora-meeting. I would like to discuss the activity surrounding Project FooBar over the last week and start working on a plan to move things forward solidly. Thanks, Jack

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CMS (Zikula) kick-off
by John Poelstra 29 Jun '09

29 Jun '09

Hi, I've volunteered to help kick off and facilitate the Fedora cross-team CMS (Zicula) planning and implementation meetings. I think things will work best if each team puts forth a representative. We will hold our meetings on IRC or over Fedora Talk and they will be open to anyone, but it will make it easier to schedule and coordinate the meetings if I know who the key people from each team are. I believe the key teams we need representatives from are: Documentation, Design, and Marketing. Are there any others? Once I know who the key people are I'll reach out to those people to find a meeting time and day that works best. I'd like to get a response by Thursday, June 25, 2009, so we can kick things off. Thanks, John

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Self-Introduction: Braden Faulkner
by Braden Faulkner 29 Jun '09

29 Jun '09

Hello there, My name is Braden Faulkner. I live in Kitchener, Canada. I am a Student at Huron Heights. My goals in the Fedora Project are to join the marketing team, help spread the word and promote fedora and advertise so, the general public can become aware of the Fedora Project. Overall, my goal is to increase the number of people using fedora from day to day. I like to talk about Linux, Open Source, Android, Fedora and generally anything that has to do with Electronics and Computers, especially Programming/Coding. In Fedora I would like to see a Customized Gnome look that would make it a little more modern, similar to what the OpenSolaris project has done. Something else I'd like to do is design large billboard ads or bus/bench ads that would be eye catching and creative. Launching an ad campaign would be something broader I may also want to do with these ads. I have some marketing qualification. I have taking both a computer business course an a mainstream business course. I have also been to many camps that focus on promotion and creativity, also making commercials. I also, have participated in many (video) commercial making projects. In the past I have worked on (video) commercial projects, creating posters and pressentations (Keynotes, PowerPoints, OO.org etc.). I have slightly more than basic knowledge or marketing but not quite advanced knowledge. However, I have a enormous interest in marketing and would like to learn more and grow my knowledge, although I am actively working to do so, by taking some more advanced courses. Other skills that might be applicable are my sense of humor (Could make for some creative and entertaining ads) and my creative way of thinking. Thank you for taking the time to read this and I wish you and the Fedora Community the best. Thanks again, Sincerely, Braden Faulkner

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f11 dvd
by Arnav Kalra 29 Jun '09

29 Jun '09

when will i recieve the f11 dvd arnav kalra (fedora inside)

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Re: Help Wanted?
by Jack Aboutboul 29 Jun '09

29 Jun '09

Jonathan Roberts wrote: > Hey Jack, > > After a quick bit of mailing list searching, found record of the > news.fp.o going back to at least march 2008 > (https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-March/msg00207.h…). > It goes back before that, but I've not kept looking. > > Me and Rahul both worked quite hard at sorting it out, along with > Frank Chiulli and Bret M, but it never managed to quite make it. The > goals, at least for what I was working towards, were very similar to > what you're trying to do with foobar... > A couple of quick thoughts. Rahul, I looked at the links which you have me for news.opensuse and ubuntu fridge. I don't think that our goals deviate too much as part of the purpose of foobar is to build a better fedora weekly news, both in content and distribution, but also to augment it with additional content. That being said, Jon mentioned that the goals were very similar and as per the thread you linked me to they seem to be. Given that the activity on that has waned over the last year, all things considered, can we discuss maybe merging these two vision under the foobar banner? I'm just curious if you guys think it will work. The time is ripe, we have many good ideas, we have vision, many of our guys are back on the radar, and enough so that I think we can honestly pull something like this off with a little bit of work in a fairly decent (3-4 month) time span and have it be very visually pleasing to boot. From there we can go in any number of different directions regarding who makes what types of content and how often. Thoughts? Jack

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