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Marketing-trac: #126: Create a wiki page for magazine covermount information
by Marketing Team 27 Aug '13

27 Aug '13

#126: Create a wiki page for magazine covermount information ----------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Reporter: pfrields | Owner: Type: task | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: F14a: Pre-alpha Component: other | Severity: urgent Keywords: | ----------------------+----------------------------------------------------- We often get inquiries from magazines asking for permission to bundle one or more Fedora discs with a future issue. This is a fairly routine process as long as the disc is an unmodified copy of Fedora media (i.e. an official release). Some interaction with Red Hat Legal is required to send out an agreement to the magazine. We can speed up that interaction and the overall process if we have a page that tells magazines what they need to provide, and to whom, for a covermount agreement. Generally we need the following information, sent to the ''press(a)fp.o'' address: * The name (d/b/a) and address of the company producing the magazine * The exact disc(s) that are to be bundled * Contact information for the person making the request -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/126> marketing-team <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing> Marketing team for the Fedora project.

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Marketing-trac: #125: SSSD F13 feature -- press blog entry
by Marketing Team 27 Aug '13

27 Aug '13

#125: SSSD F13 feature -- press blog entry -----------------------------+---------------------------------------------- Reporter: pfrields | Owner: pfrields Type: task | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: F14a: Pre-alpha Component: Feature Stories | Severity: urgent Keywords: meeting | -----------------------------+---------------------------------------------- I had suggested this earlier to Robyn -- a press blog entry for Red Hat's PR channel (http://press.redhat.com) that would synopsize and point to our interview on the wiki. However, Robyn's pretty busy right now. Kara Schiltz from Red Hat's PR department is willing to publish something next week. I'm going to pick this up and drive it forward, my way of helping this week on something Marketing related! -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/125> marketing-team <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing> Marketing team for the Fedora project.

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Marketing-trac: #124: FUDCon EMEA Announcement needed
by Marketing Team 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

#124: FUDCon EMEA Announcement needed ----------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Reporter: mmoeller | Owner: Type: task | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Future releases Component: other | Severity: urgent Keywords: | ----------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Hi all. We need a press release/announce for FUDCon EMEA. Here is some general information which could be taken as 'source'. I would work out the German translation on my own, afterwards: ... It’s time to announce two events that will take place in September in downtown Zurich, Switzerland that among more share the head organizers (Marcus and me). FrOSCamp 2010 Zurich FrOSCamp is an annual multilingual two-day event that will take place on 2010-09-17/18 and evolves around an exhibition, talks, workshops and hackfests in the world of free and open source as well as creative contents, also including open standards/systems and digital sustainability. Currently planning is in its early stages but the most important points have been or are close to be cleared. Various calls are open: volunteers, projects, talks, workshops, sponsors and more are coming up soon, like the call for hackfests. We’re in negotiations with LPI Central Europe to offer cheap exams and we’re preparing a key-signing party. More is to come – stay tuned by subscribing to the various mailing lists and/or joining #FrOSCamp on Freenode. Note that the event takes place in the German-speaking part of Switzerland but aims at an international audience. Therefore you’ll see different languages on the lists and in the channel. FUDCon Zurich 2010 FUDCon EMEA is the annual Fedora Users & Developers Conference for Europe, the Middle East and Africa and will take place on 2010-09-17/19 and features talks, hacking and barcamp sessions related to anything in the Fedora ecosystem of end users, contributors, upstream, downstream, etc. Planning started some months ago but we did not get the official “go” until earlier this week. We therefore have conference and hotel rooms ready but were not yet able to plan what the agenda will look like and stuff like that. Nevertheless pre-registration is open and more details are added to the wiki on a daily basis. We’ll try to get the agenda outline, the call for talks, the call for sponsors and FUDPub information online ASAP. Soon bi-weekly IRC planning meetings will be announced but discussion is already possible on the FUDCon planning list. Shared Spirit Both events heavily focus on free and open source software and related topics. We therefore encourage the participants of FrOSCamp and FUDCon to mix up, work together, discuss, exchange and whatever else might help to have a productive time together. Fedora is a major Linux distribution and FrOSCamp will feature many of their upstream projects and also some “competitors”, other Linux distributions and UNIX derivatives – it’s always good to sit together and speak about issues or chances! Shared Location Both events take place in the same building on the premises of the ETH Zurich on their Zentrum Campus in downtown Zurich. Zurich can be very well accessed by airplane and train from all over the world. The international airport is approached by most major international airlines and just about 11 minutes away from Zurich main station by train. The main station is a destination of direct trains from many major cities of Europe including Berlin, Paris, Milan and Vienna and it only takes about 14 minutes by tram from the main station to the CHN building, the primary event location. The shared event location makes it even easier to work together and will allow a single agenda featuring the talks of both events so the audience of both events can fully profit. Of course there’ll be Fedora-dedicated rooms and rooms for all the projects participating at FrOSCamp but there’ll only be one shared keynote room. Shared Party On Friday, 2010-09-17 there will be a party after the first event day just next to the primary event location featuring free (as in creative commons) music by live bands and delicious FreeBeer (again as in creative commons). Need to chill a bit after a long event day? Get a beer or two at the party! Need to get lose of some energy because you only sat around all day listening to all those interesting talks? Move to the party’s dancefloor! FUDPub On Saturday, 2010-09-18 there will be a party in the evening in the midst of downtown Zurich and everyone participating in FUDCon is very welcome to join us. There’ll be beer and some snacks and a great possibility to just have some fun together before the last day of FUDCon begins. More details are TBA. We look forward to seeing you in September 2010 in Zurich for our events. Everyone is welcome and both events are free of charge. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/124> marketing-team <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing> Marketing team for the Fedora project.

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Reporting bugs in Fedora 14
by Rahul Sundaram 04 Dec '10

04 Dec '10

Hi http://www.ghacks.net/2010/11/21/reporting-bugs-in-fedora-14/ "Included with recent Fedora operating system releases is a bug reporting tool like no other. The tool is called ABRT (Automatic Bug Reporting Tool) and it is one of the easiest tools you will ever experience for bug reporting. ABRT is a daemon that resides in the background waiting for something to crash. When something does crash ABRT automatically collects the necessary data for the bug reporting tool and then pops up a notice in your notification area. All the user then has to do is click on the notice, select a bug, and click Report. It really is that easy." Rahul

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Query: Survey tool availability for Fedora Project
by Pascal Calarco 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

Hi Logistics, News and Marketing folk -- One of the FWN Beat writers, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay[1], passed along results of a recent survey[2] of Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter[3] to me yesterday. I think it is interesting to see how readers use and value a publication such as FWN, and I'm thinking it would also be useful to inform how FWN on Fedora Insight[4] should be presented and what features readers might expect. My immediate question for the group is whether there is a survey tool that is available on Fedora Project hosted servers that we could use for an FWN survey. Thanks much! [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Sankarshan [2] http://akgraner.com/?p=820 [3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue217?action=show&redirec… [4] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight - pascal --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA / FWN Editor https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pcalarco

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MMM. Marketing Meeting Minutes. 2010/11/30
by Robyn Bergeron 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-11-30/fedora_marketing… Full Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-11-30/fedora_marketing… Full minutes follow below. Thanks to all for coming! -Robyn ================================= #fedora-meeting: Fedora marketing ================================= Meeting started by rbergeron at 21:00:29 UTC. The full logs are available at http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-11-30/fedora_marketing… . Meeting summary --------------- * Roll Call! (rbergeron, 21:00:43) * ACTION: rbergeron to craft some thoughts on "how to gather information from event attendees through ambassadors" relating to discussions we had at Marketing fad last march (rbergeron, 21:11:25) * ACTION: rbergeron to pass along to FAmSCo when she figures it out (rbergeron, 21:11:37) * F15 Marketing Schedule (rbergeron, 21:14:29) * LINK: http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-15/f-15-marketing-tasks.html (rbergeron, 21:15:17) * ACTION: rbergeron to send a mail to the mailing list regarding schedule and if it looks kosher for marketing. (rbergeron, 21:16:43) * ACTION: stickster Kick off discussion on how to break up Line 13 on marketing schedule into definitive tasks (stickster, 21:18:40) * need more clarification around items 24 and 25 on schedule (rbergeron, 21:21:40) * ACTION: rbergeron to seek out volunteer on list to work out the screenshots process, ownership, etc. (rbergeron, 21:21:59) * ACTION: mether to write to list about "brief news distribution network" item on marketing schedule, ideas for app, possible student contribution. (rbergeron, 21:27:46) * Need to cycle Marketing wiki for F15. (rbergeron, 21:29:32) * LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing (rbergeron, 21:30:23) * Thoughts on refreshing a wiki page: (rbergeron, 21:34:21) * (1) Go to the wiki page linked in F15 deliverables, and click to "create this page" when you go to it. (rbergeron, 21:34:46) * (2) Look at one of the early revisions of the F14 version of that deliverable and see how it was set up for a template. (rbergeron, 21:35:09) * (3) Copy that over to a yet-to-be-determined-or-named SOP page. (rbergeron, 21:35:29) * ACTION: rbergeron to set up a fillable SOP page for cycling marketing wiki. (rbergeron, 21:36:46) * ACTION: rbergeron to lay out some steps so that poeple can grab wiki pages as they see fit to help update them for f15 and SOP them at the same time. (rbergeron, 21:37:04) * Any other business? (rbergeron, 21:38:43) Meeting ended at 21:47:18 UTC. Action Items ------------ * rbergeron to craft some thoughts on "how to gather information from event attendees through ambassadors" relating to discussions we had at Marketing fad last march * rbergeron to pass along to FAmSCo when she figures it out * rbergeron to send a mail to the mailing list regarding schedule and if it looks kosher for marketing. * stickster Kick off discussion on how to break up Line 13 on marketing schedule into definitive tasks * rbergeron to seek out volunteer on list to work out the screenshots process, ownership, etc. * mether to write to list about "brief news distribution network" item on marketing schedule, ideas for app, possible student contribution. * rbergeron to set up a fillable SOP page for cycling marketing wiki. * rbergeron to lay out some steps so that poeple can grab wiki pages as they see fit to help update them for f15 and SOP them at the same time. Action Items, by person ----------------------- * mether * mether to write to list about "brief news distribution network" item on marketing schedule, ideas for app, possible student contribution. * rbergeron * rbergeron to craft some thoughts on "how to gather information from event attendees through ambassadors" relating to discussions we had at Marketing fad last march * rbergeron to pass along to FAmSCo when she figures it out * rbergeron to send a mail to the mailing list regarding schedule and if it looks kosher for marketing. * rbergeron to seek out volunteer on list to work out the screenshots process, ownership, etc. * rbergeron to set up a fillable SOP page for cycling marketing wiki. * rbergeron to lay out some steps so that poeple can grab wiki pages as they see fit to help update them for f15 and SOP them at the same time. * stickster * stickster Kick off discussion on how to break up Line 13 on marketing schedule into definitive tasks * **UNASSIGNED** * (none) People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * rbergeron (94) * Southern_Gentlem (16) * jsmith (16) * stickster (12) * mether (7) * pingou (5) * zodbot (3)

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Breaking up schedule items: Feature Profiles
by Paul W. Frields 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

The Marketing team schedule is part of the overall Fedora Project schedule. Line 13 on the Marketing schedule, "Feature profiles," could probably stand to be broken up. Typically schedule items work best when they are actionable items -- people know what they mean in terms of activity, and just as importantly when they are finished. Jared suggested in the meeting breaking up the line like this: * Decide on number and topics of feature profiles * Set feature profile schedule * plan feature profile format (blogs / videos) * Feature Profile 1 due * Feature Profile 2 due * Feature Profile 3 due The only minor adjustment I'd make to this is bullet 2. We actually want to set a preliminary feature profile schedule now, and only adjust later if necessary. That way the schedule is as complete as we can make it, as early as possible. I'd simply call this "confirm" instead of "set." Feature profiles are probably most useful if the topics are set up in coordination with Red Hat PR, so we can get extra boost from releasing the news in a variety of venues including the Red Hat press blog. Jared, can you compare the time available for Feature profiles (March 1st-29th) to any PR schedule that you're working out with Kara Schiltz, and figure out how the tasks above would best mesh with that PR schedule? -- 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/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com

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Reminder: Fedora marketing weekly meeting today! - 11/30/2010, 21:00UTC, in #fedora-meeting-1
by Robyn Bergeron 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

Details and agenda at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings#Agenda. Thanks! -Robyn

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[In the news] Fedora renews committees
by Vinzenz Vietzke 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

Hi, http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/16454/fedora-erneuert-gremien.html German Linux portal "Pro Linux" covers the Fedora Voting and it's results: "Das freie Fedora-Projekt hat neue Mitglieder in seinen Vorstand gewählt sowie weitere Gremien neu- bzw. umgesetzt." Translation: "The free Fedora Project elected new members for it's board and further committees. -- Vinzenz Vietzke m: vinz(a)fedoraproject.org wk: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Vinz mb: https://identi.ca/vinzv | https://twitter.com/vinzv

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[In the news] Fedora 12 approaches end of life
by Rahul Sundaram 29 Nov '10

29 Nov '10

Hi http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Fedora-12-approaches-end-of-life-114… "Fedora Project developer Kevin Fenzi has issued a reminder that Fedora 12, code named "Constantine", will reach its end of life (EOL) on Thursday, the 2nd of December, 2010. Originally released in mid-November of last year, Fedora 11 featured the 2.6.31 Linux kernel, version 2.28 of the GNOME desktop environment, KDE 4.3 and a number of software updates. As of the 2nd of December, no new updates, including security updates and critical fixes, will be available. The developers strongly advise all Fedora 12 users to upgrade to Fedora 13 or 14 to continue receiving updates." Rahul

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