marketing August 2009

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Congratulations
by Paul W. Frields 09 Sep '09

09 Sep '09

Red Hat has announced its 2009 RHCE of the Year winners, and if you look here, you'll see a very recognizable name: http://bit.ly/g6Zto Congratulations to all the winners, including our very own John Rose, whose participation in Fedora is highlightedin the announcement. John, thanks to all you continue to do for Fedora, and it's wonderful to see your many achievements recognized with this award. I look forward to seeing you in Chicago in a few weeks! -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug

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usesthis.com interview
by Máirín Duffy 03 Sep '09

03 Sep '09

Hi, I was interviewed by waferbaby (Daniel Bogan) about my hardware/software setup and I go through my usage of Fedora in the interview: http://mairin.duffy.usesthis.com/ Daniel's got some really interesting interviews on usesthis.com, e.g., with Jakob Nielsen and Joe Hewitt (creator of Firebug). Also an interview with Danah Boyd from Microsoft Research who surprisingly uses a Mac... Anyhow since Fedora is mentioned quite extensively I figured I'd point it out. ~m

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Fedora swag
by Eelko Berkenpies 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

Hi there, I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask but here it goes; Since I'm getting more and more of a Fedora enthusiast I was looking for some cool office accessories today. After doing a quick search I ended up at RedHat's on-line store with a very limited range of accessories. Anyway, I noticed the $2,- decals and I put a few of them in my shopping chart. (about 5). While trying to figure out the rest of the order procedure I came across the shipping costs. It turned out that $65 (or $120 depending on shipping method) would be added to the current order (still 5 stickers) to get them shipped over to The Netherlands. Heck, if the money would all go to the Fedora Project I might have even considered buying them but I wasn't planning on sponsoring UPS too. :) After taking a little bit more time I bumped into an other possibility; a French web-shop which had a whole wardrobe of fedora clothing (and yet again very limited accessories). Besides that, I don't know French and I couldn't discover a possibility to switch to English (I might have not looked good enough though). So still no luck. I also found out that there's a Fedora Shop SIG at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Store (referring to this mailinglist). Unfortunately the most recent activity seems to be somewhere around in 2008. Now my actual question; is this SIG still alive and if not, how much interest is there to reincarnate it? I'd be happy to assist where I can. The reason that I'm asking here is because the page doesn't state on contacting a person or other mailing-list than this one. Thank you for your time. -- With kind regards / Met vriendelijke groet, Eelko Berkenpies http://blog.berkenpies.nl/

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Fedora 12 Beta Release Notes: How you can help
by Rahul Sundaram 29 Aug '09

29 Aug '09

Hi, As I noted in the last marketing meeting could have done a better than with the release notes for the Alpha release than we did. I just ran out of time. The Beta release is schedule at 2009-10-13. So we don't really have too much time. As promised, here are more details. The Beta release notes is a important source of information for our users, testers, ambassadors, even fellow developers and press for that release. So I am asking you all to help you a bit. Here is how: I have "open sourced" my process of finding information and my notes and copied over all that information to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Beta_release_notes If you don't have much time, take one item in this list and add more information. I will also help you avoid even clicking on a link and copy the same information below: Quick notes: * Hybrid ISO - earlier revision in Alpha release notes history. Confirm that it works well before adding it here * Status of http://www.ing.unibs.it/openfwwf/ in Fedora? How well does it work? * Moblin - Explain in detail with potentially a screencast * GNOME Shell - Ogg Screencast possibly with voice over * Yum Presto - In GNOME and KDE groups. What about delta rpm generation? * http://live.gnome.org/GTK%2B/ClientSideWindows - Eclipse and Adobe Reader needs a workaround * Abrt - whats the status? * Anaconda MDRaid - Explain in detail * Lower Process Capabilities * Contact KDE SIG and gather important changes. Phonon has changed to gstreamer backend in Alpha release and was not mentioned. So call it out in the Beta release. Additional sources: * Look at F11 Preview release notes and use it as a template. It matches the beta this release because of rel eng decision to tweak the release process a bit * Read rawhide reports in between alpha and beta release for new packages as well as import changes worth noting here * Quickly skimp through all threads in fedora-devel and fedora-test list for note worthy changes * Read Planet Fedora and reference developer blogs when important changes are mentioned * Consult with QA team and make sure note worth issues are mentioned. If anything needs explicit testing, highlight it * More details at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/12/FeatureList. Read the release notes section of each of the approved feature Thanks. Rahul

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Fedora Insight status
by Mel Chua 26 Aug '09

26 Aug '09

To keep everyone in the loop - here's what's up (see log at end of email). As promised, I'll be updating the actual project page to reflect status later tonight (must find food first; stomach rumbly) - progress is *extremely* rapid right now, so keeping everything in sync will be a challenge. For future reference for where these discussions will be taking place: zikula-deployment-related things (modules, packaging, infrastructure, theming, etc) will all be on the logistics list. FI-content/workflow-related-things will all be on the marketing list. There will be a lot of overlap for the next few weeks, since the modules we're working on for deployment heavily affect the workflow we'll be using for our content. If you're on both lists, you'll get everything. If you're only concerned with zikula deployment and don't care about the details of how FI content will function, watch logistics. If you're only concerned with FI as a platform for marketing materials and don't care about the details of how that platform gets set up, watch marketing. We might have a few torrents of information on this over the next few weeks, as I will be erring on the side of transparency (information on what is happening available to everybody all the time). In particular, IRC conversations on FI zikula deployment will be summarized (and logged when possible) and sent to list - thanks to Rahul for the transparency-poke. We're moving fast, so things are chaotic. Thanks for keeping up and putting up with the construction mud and noise - I am *amazed* at how this is progressing. You folks rock. --Mel --- itbegins> mchua: Work overtook me the last couple of nights - how are we doing with Zikula? <mchua> itbegins: hey! mmcgrath was looking for you in #fedora-admin earlier about that, actually. <mchua> itbegins: he's getting it up on staging for us, but the fasauth plugin isn't working - it seemed to work when manually installed (grab source from git repo, stick in modules folder) but when the package was yum installed. <itbegins> mchua: Shoot, the package is out of date <itbegins> mchua: The code changes I made need to be mirrored into the package <itbegins> I completely forgot <mchua> itbegins: EvilBob went packager-hunting last night, and was successful - Chitlesh packaged at least one of the two modules you were looking for. * mchua looks to see which one. <mchua> itbegins: zikula-feeds. and mether is going to submit them for review. <mchua> itbegins: afaik, we still need pagemaster packaged and submitted and all that. <itbegins> If we get pagemaster done, we might be able to do this properly the first time - I can work on pulling it all together and walk mizmo through converting her templates <itbegins> if we just have feeds, that satisfies mizmo's biggest need when she was templating things <mchua> itbegins: this strikes me as a decent summary of activity in the last 24 hours, so I'm going to send the last few lines of this log to the marketing and logistics mailing list as a holdover for the better project status updates I should be writing tonight. <itbegins> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=519483 <itbegins> looks like we got both <mchua> itbegins: WOW. That... awesome. *Both* packages. Wow. *torrent of gratitude towards Bob, Chitlesh, and Rahul* <itbegins> yes, I was impresed to say the least

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Re: Fwd: Fedora Insight Zikula Instance - please help us find a packager
by Mel Chua 26 Aug '09

26 Aug '09

Truly, Bob is a Recruiter of Awesome. > The always awesome Chitlesh Goorah is working on zikula-feeds. And the amazing Rahul Sundaram has submitted both. Feeds: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=519482 Pagemaster: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=519483 Toshio, how quickly can we get these reviewed? --Mel, who is in awe

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Fedora Insight Zikula Instance - please help us find a packager
by Mel Chua 26 Aug '09

26 Aug '09

Marketing folks: We need packaging (or packager-recruiting) help. I'm going to be traveling in some way for the next 12 hours, but in that time we need to find someone to do two simple packages (it looks like they'll be extremely fast for an experienced packager, and Toshio stands ready to review them tonight whenever they are ready). We need the two modules listed at http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/logistics/2009-August/000185.html for Fedora Insight, preferably within the next 24 hours. We need these packages in order to have RSS feeds and events blocks on the F12 deployment of FI. Can anyone package or help find someone who can package? Thanks! --Mel --- >> We would need them earlier though, because the theming depends on the >> modules. E.g. right now the theme templates I'm writing depend heavily >> on the news module and the themes would have to change if we use >> different modules for different widgets on the page :-/ >> > Do we have someone who can package them tonight? I can do a review for > licensing and bundling which would allow us to copy the package to the > Fedora Infrastructure repo until they are in Fedora and EPEL. If we > don't even have someone who can get them packaged up then it sounds like > it's a bit late for hitting F12. > > -Toshio

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Meeting minutes 2009-08-25
by Mel Chua 26 Aug '09

26 Aug '09

Also at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings#2009. Happy Alpha Day, everyone! Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-08-25/fedora-meeting.2… Later tonight I'll be sending out two more updates - a FI project update and a "Marketing: Alpha Is Past, Now What?" update that should (hopefully) answer questions about where we are and where we're headed, since a lot of us are transitioning back to school or getting back from vacation and such. Whee! --Mel PS: This is the farthest over I can ever remember running a meeting (6 minutes past the scheduled time, 4 minutes over an hour - we started a little late). August heat is getting to me too... ;)

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NDN: Spread the news about Fedora 12 Alpha!
by Steven Moix 25 Aug '09

25 Aug '09

Hello dear Fedora News Distribution Network people, As you may have noticed, Fedora 12 Alpha was released. You can read the full release announcement on [1]. Feel free to translate it in your language, select the important bits from your point of view and submit this good news to as many websites/magazines as possible :) Meanwhile, it would be a good idea to clean up and add things the list of publications in you language [2]. Also please follow the comments on your news during the following days to kill some Myths [3], and report every news story to the press Archive page [4]. 1: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Alpha_Announcement 2: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_press_publications 3: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_myths 4: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_press_archive Thanks, your work is very appreciated! Steven

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Reminder: #fedora-meeting, 20:00 UTC
by Mel Chua 25 Aug '09

25 Aug '09

<mchua> .nextmarketingmeeting <zodbot> mchua: 11 hours, 8 minutes, and 44 seconds https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings --Mel "The same thing we do every day, Pinky. Try to expand the Fedora user and contributor base!"

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