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F12 In-depth features - Print / Podcast interviews
by Robyn Bergeron 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

As discussed in the marketing meeting yesterday on irc.... Now that the Fedora 12 talking points have been settled, we need to start doing print or podcast interviews around some of those points / features. We selected 4 talking points in the marketing meeting yesterday that should definitely have interviews to go along with them - Next-Gen Ogg, NetworkManager enhancements, Virt improvements, and Systemtap improvements - but to do the interviews, we still need interviewers. The tools / information to start doing interviews are available here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:F12_in-depth_features ... and please note the table for features and owners. If you are willing to take something on, please add your name to the wiki as the owner so we know that we (a) have an owner, and (b) don't have 12 owners being redundant. Stickster has graciously volunteered to do the SystemTap interview. (Thank you, Paul :D ) Mchua - I don't know if you want to open marketing tickets for each of these interviews, if so I can do that. Mchua previously issued a call to action on this - https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/73 - and so we're still looking to synchronize interviewees and interviewers. If you have any ideas, please post your suggestions in the wiki and/or on the mailing list. Of course, other interviews around the talking points / features for Fedora 12 are welcome as well - please add your work to the list in progress! Comments welcome of course. Thanks, Robyn

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Fedora People on PBOOK-flickr
by María Leandro 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

Hello to all. I've using flickr since some months and I think that this could help us to get more photos for our picture book. People just need to add their pictures to the group and read the description. I need a little help with the full terms, so if you have ideas... go ahead :D Also I add a pic, so if you're ready to start sharing them, just log into flickr and add your photos to the group. http://www.flickr.com/groups/fedora_people/ -- tatica Maria Gracia Leandro http://www.tatica.org http://www.fedora-ve.org http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MariaLeandro LinuxUser= 440285 GPG Public Key: E1CDCC56 "Be yourself... Don't be anyone else"

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Fedora Insight: FWN experimentation
by Pascal Calarco 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

After resolving an issue with Zikula on publictest6 kindly resolved by Simon, I've been putting some of the content into the test instance of Zikula for Fedora Insight, and have a few comments. 1) Stories need to be marked up in HTML to get the same linkback functionality we currently have with the wiki version, so one decision point is whether we do this markup within Zikula or if we have writers externalize this and use an HTML editor of their choice and then paste in the news story in FI, or whether we want to try to integrate a WYSIWYG editor into Zikula. There are pros and cons to both, but I might suggest external editors, for the reason below. 2) The timeout value on Zikula is too short. In trying to enter the news story for FWN 195 announcements, after finishing the news item my session timed out and all my work was lost. It would be easier to edit this locally and then just create the news story when I am done. 3) We need to decision what level to create news items at. If there is a desire to continue FWN as a identifiable entity, there would be value in presenting news stories at the beat[1] level, and marked and tagged as such. People could subscribe to FWN content by subscribing to anything tagged as FWN, and using the categories, people could do the same as well [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Beats 4) I was not able to create child categories from the FWN category, which would be useful if people want to subscribe at the beat level, say if they only care about Marketing, for example. How do I do this? 5) It is possible to retain the editorial workflow within FI, since content creators can submit their news items for review before they are published. This isn't the default right now though, so I might suggest having Zikula set up so that it doesn't publish the item right away, at least from an FWN perspective. Okay, that's enough to get discussion started. Comments most welcome! I plan to attend FUDCon Toronto in December and hopefully we can spend some quality time hacking on this on the Sunday and Monday. - pascal Fedora Ambassador, Indiana USA Fedora Weekly News editorial team

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Fedora Insight schedule slip: new launch date 10/14
by Mel Chua 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

We originally planned to launch Fedora Insight on September 29 (right before infrastructure freeze), but I think we'll be in a much better position to get a stable platform up and tested, with a contribution workflow we're all happy with, if we push the launch date out until right after the freeze instead. Therefore, our new launch target is Oct 14 (when the freeze lifts), and our revised schedule is on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight#Schedule. I'd like everyone to be happy with what we're putting out there, instead of feeling panicked and scrambling to rush things in before the freeze hits - sanity is good. You'll see me chugging away on FI stuff over the weekend and as next week gets underway - please join the fun if you can. ;) Cheers*, --Mel *...and concerns, questions, comments, etc totally welcome, as always.

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Meeting minutes 2009-09-29
by Mel Chua 29 Sep '09

29 Sep '09

For your perusal. 22:09:34 < zodbot> Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-09-29/fedora-meeting.2… 22:09:35 < zodbot> Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-09-29/fedora-meeting.2… 22:09:38 < zodbot> Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-09-29/fedora-meeting.2…

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A reminder for new Marketing team members...
by Mel Chua 29 Sep '09

29 Sep '09

A friendly reminder: If you're relatively new to the Fedora Marketing team and haven't yet completed the steps in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Joining_the_Fedora_marketing_project, you should go and take a look. There are some useful things there that you can do to make sure you've got access to all the places where we work - for instance, some people who have posted on this mailing list don't yet have a FAS account, which will let you create and work on tasks in our ticket tracker. And some people have requested FAS membership without posting an introduction to the mailing list, which is a prerequisite for granting Marketing group membership. Little things, but nice to get out of the way ASAP. If any of the terms in the last paragraph confused you, go to the link and read the Join instructions, 'cause that probably means we haven't given you access to everything just yet. ;) Your friendly local minion, --Mel PS: We've got a meeting in ~37 minutes, too - #fedora-meeting, irc.freenode.net. Woo!

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Upcoming Fedora 12 Marketing Tasks
by John Poelstra 29 Sep '09

29 Sep '09

Upcoming Fedora 12 Marketing Tasks Name Start End In-depth feature profiles: 0% to 75% complete Tue 2009-08-04 Tue 2009-09-29 Coordinate with news beats authors about feature coverage Tue 2009-09-22 Tue 2009-09-29 Finish in-depth feature profiles Tue 2009-09-22 Tue 2009-10-06 Final (Beta) Freeze: Development Code Complete Tue 2009-09-29 Tue 2009-09-29 Update press kits Tue 2009-09-29 Tue 2009-10-06 Beta Project Wide Release Readiness Meeting Wed 2009-10-07 Wed 2009-10-07 Start One-page Release Notes: Docs & Marketing Tue 2009-10-13 Tue 2009-10-13 Beta Release Public Availability Tue 2009-10-13 Tue 2009-10-13 Create one page Release Notes with Marketing Tue 2009-10-13 Tue 2009-10-20 I realize the formatting of these emails is not pretty if your email reader uses a proportional font. The mail archives are worse, for example https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-September/msg00082.h… Right now I'm using a simple python script to parse and add spaces to a CSV file created by TaskJuggler. Let me know if there are any ideas for fixing this. Thanks, John

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Fedora 12 demonstrates sandbox for desktop applications
by Rahul Sundaram 29 Sep '09

29 Sep '09

Hi http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/145755 "Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) specialist and Red Hat developer Dan Walsh has souped up the security mechanisms in Fedora and SELinux by adding a desktop sandbox which he's calling "sandbox -X". Users can run desktop applications of their choice inside his sandbox, which then protects the underlying system from any possible damage." Rahul

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Fedora Marketing weekly meeting, 20:00UTC #fedora-meeting
by Mel Chua 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

Details and agenda at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings. See you folks there! --Mel

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Marketing beat in
by chaitanya mehandru 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

Hi, The marketing beat is in for the week: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Beats/Marketing Please feel free to edit or add any info, if useful. Thanks, Chaitanya

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