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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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Re: Talking points/spotlight features
by Ryan Rix 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

On Fri 30 July 2010 10:20:15 Nicu Buculei wrote: > On 07/29/2010 06:58 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FeatureList > > > > Off the top of my head, I see some very compelling stuff to which we > > might call people's attention: > > > > * systemd > > * EC2 > > * MeeGo > > * Roll-up of programming tools (D, Eclipse Helios, GNUstep, debugging > > tools) > > Can we have at least 1-2 talking points "end-users" (i.e. not developers > and sysadmins) would actually care? You know, *desktop features*. Hi Nicu, The current feature list is indeed a little bit .. ahem... lacking on the end- user front, you're right, honestly. The creation of Fedora's marketing talking points is mostly an ad-hoc process done by, well, anyone who is interested at all, marketing, or ambassadors, or infra, or design or... :) So, I guess the question then, what do *you* want to see that attracts "end- users"? :) Granted, Fedora 14 won't ship Firefox 4 (your biggest disappointment I'd guess, based on your blog post[1]), but there has to be *something* that users will care about? Anything new in microblogging on the GNOME end? What about in evolution or gnome-games or ...? (I'm just listing off random ideas... I'm not a GNOME Desktop Edition user, and probably dont have much to give to the "end-user" experience discussion outside of the KDE Plasma Desktop Edition release.) > Also, since it was delayed, should not we take GNOME 3 out of the > features list? I think that's more of a FESCo decision, correct? I'd assume that it'd be taken out, and the fallback provisions (shipping GNOME 2, basically, with GNOME 3 still labelled as "experimental") would be followed... All the best, Ryan [1]: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2010/07/no-video-for-you.html -- Ryan Rix == http://hackersramblings.wordpress.com | http://rix.si/ == == http://rix.si/page/contact/ if you need a word ==

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Talking points/spotlight features
by Paul W. Frields 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

It's that time again -- time for us to figure out the features that we want to spend a little extra effort calling out in the next Fedora release because they're particularly innovative or interesting. The full explanation of talking points is found here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talking_points_SOP Note that talking points are *not* a comprehensive list. The list is meant to be short and effective at sparking the interest of many different groups. This helps show that there is something for lots of people in Fedora. The main source for the talking points is in the feature list: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FeatureList Off the top of my head, I see some very compelling stuff to which we might call people's attention: * systemd * EC2 * MeeGo * Roll-up of programming tools (D, Eclipse Helios, GNUstep, debugging tools) Things not on that list which might merit inclusion include the new website design, underway and hopefully rolling out for F14. I've been working on a PR schedule to assist Jared in his FPL duties, and next week he is supposed to meet with Red Hat's Creative team. In the near future, the team will shoot videos to help show off spotlight features in Fedora 14. So the sooner we have talking points included, the easier we will make their job too. Can we start this process slightly early? -- 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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Goodbye
by Francesco Ugolini 31 Jul '10

31 Jul '10

In our life, sometime, it comes the time where the things you want to do become far and, even you can try to keep up with it, all the efforts result in a failure. I think this is just the case. You don't know how disappointed I can be writing these lines, but I can't fool myself and you with future plans: i can't keep up with the project. First of all I want to make clear one thing: I'm using Fedora Linux and will continue to use it. What is changed since I have joined the project? I started contributing without any ambition and I received things that I didn't expect to receive: experience, leadership and new friends. These are the rewards for all the time I spent in the project, trying to improve and make it bigger. I don't know if I have succeeded but, sure, I've done all my best. My student's duties took me away for a while, like it happened in the previous years, but, when I went back, it wasn't the same. Thing were changed and, damn, they had changed in better. Ambassadors project had become well organized, with a great FAmSCo, great Ambassadors and great mentors, but I wasn't able to work like I did. My fault. Soon I have become an inactive Ambassador, like the many I've tried to convince to come back. I get more that I expected and now it's time to have new experiences and find something that could boost my knowledge and energy. Sure, my experience here will help wherever I'll go! Now, here I'm. Writing this goodbye email with a sad heart, but a conscious brain. Many people didn't trust me at the beginning, then they changed mind. These are the first ones I want to thank. If I've tried to improve myself, it's because of you. I commend you to continue to do the same with the men and women that empower this amazing community. A big thank to all the people who helped me being what I become, especially who I met during the events I attended around Europe and the FAmSCo members I worked with. Many of you have become part of my soul. Max, Joerg, Francesco, Luca, Gerold and more and more (sorry if I can't name all of you). I'll never forget you and I hope to stay in touch with you, even if not directly for this special project. Saying goodbye is not simple. You think at what you want to underline and what to not forget but, at the end, you know you have missed something, forget to thank someone and, maybe, think that you are doing the wrong thing. But time is passing, things are changing and looking back doesn't help taking the right decision. So, here I am. Thank you my friends for everything. I wish you all my best. Long life to Fedora Project, one of the marvelous experience I've ever had. Francesco

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Combined FAD
by wonderer 30 Jul '10

30 Jul '10

hello there, I am thinking for quite some time about a "combined" Design-Team and Marketing-Team FAD of some kind. If I look around on the ML and also on IRC there are much overlapping ideas, Talking points, goals, etc. so I think it would be a good time after we grow good Teams to meet all together to discuss some main points which concerns both Teams. * Main Points (so far I can think of) -- Design Templates: Design Presentation and other Templates to have some base also for Marketing (e.g. Design Template for the Talking Points, Press Kit, Presentation Template, poster, etc. -> same Theme) -- User Research: how do the users "feel" with the Presentations, CD/DVD Covers, posters, Banners, Marketing Material, etc. and also how good can Ambassadors and others work with those materials? Do we need more / others? -- Other Design Base Templates which should be adapted (e.g. a new event or spin leads to a new bannerdesign leads to a new posterdesign leads to changes if the Release is changing ...) -- What does Marketing and PR need from Design - what does Design need from Marketing -- didn't we have the idea of a photobook some time ago... * other thoughts -- produce some base Templates and maybe workflow (e.g. if $event is happening then $trigger > do Texta, Textb, Bannera, poster > timeline > workflow > end) in ageneric way to addapt on a wide range of new projects that can came up (new release, new spin, new SIG, new event, etc.) ... because the work that have to be done is almost the same... -- maybe work on longtime or pending tasks (e.g. Design Guide, etc.) That also leads maybe to other Combined FADS .... but maybe more later or not :-) mit freundlichen grüßen / best regards H. Heigl - wonderer(a)fedoraproject.org

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bettercodes
by nihed mbarek 30 Jul '10

30 Jul '10

Hi, " I saw a new social network regrouping opensource contributors. http://bettercodes.org/ I think that a fedora project presence will be a good point. Regards -- M'BAREK Med Nihed, Revenue Assurance Engineer Tunisie Telecom http://www.nihed.com Fedora Ambassador, TUNISIA, Northern Africa PUB 1024D/9E2FFB76 Date 2009/02/14

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Participation of Fedora Project on FISL in Porto Alegre - Brazil
by Wolnei 29 Jul '10

29 Jul '10

Since 22 July at 24 July, the Fedora Project participated of the FISL 11 - Forum Internacional de Software Livre (International Forum of Open Software) in Porto Alegre, Brazil. We had one medium stand in one of the corners of the place where the event occurred. Our stand: http://projetofedora.org/files/image/fisl11/GEDC0576.JPG Stand location: http://projetofedora.org/files/image/fisl11/planta-do-fisl.jpg In this place was developed some activities like: Quick keynotes about “how became a packager“ and “KVM“. http://projetofedora.org/files/image/fisl11/IMG_4027.JPG, http://projetofedora.org/files/image/fisl11/IMG_4235.JPG and http://projetofedora.org/files/image/fisl11/_mg_5340.jpg Distribution of pens, livecds, dvds and stickers. http://projetofedora.org/files/image/fisl11/GEDC0578.JPG The numbers of that distribution was: * 300 - Stickers with the logo of Fedora;; * 900 - Pens with brand of Fedora; * 2000 - LiveCD of Fedora Gnome Spin for 32-bit; * 1000 - DVD for 32-bit. We (Jared and me) had been interviewed about the news features of Fedora 13, how the project work and became a contributor. http://projetofedora.org/files/image/fisl11/IMG_4201.JPG One lecture about the success of relationship of Fedora and Red Hat by Jared Smith. http://projetofedora.org/files/image/fisl11/IMG_4423.JPG Was installed Fedora 13 on as many users machines as possible The Fedora Project was represent in this event by: Wolnei Cândido Tomazell Junior <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Wolnei> - BRASIL Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rodrigop> - BRASIL Rafael Conrado <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rafaelconrado> - BRASIL Rafael Aquini <http://br.linkedin.com/in/aquini> - BRASIL Marcelo Moreira de Mello <http://tchellomello.blogspot.com/> - BRASIL Leonardo Menezes Vaz <http://leonardovaz.org/site/doku.php?id=start> - BRASIL João Lenno do Nascimento Azevedo<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Lennoazevedo>- BRASIL Fábio Olivé Leite <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Fleite> - BRASIL Douglas Schilling Landgraf <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Dougsland> - BRASIL Dennis Gilmore <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ausil> - EUA Jared Smith <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jsmith> - EUA Toshio Kuratomi <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Toshio> - EUA Final picture of event: http://projetofedora.org/files/image/fisl11/DSC00005.JPG -- Wolnei Junior Brazil Fedora Ambassador Telecommunications Engineer Student Linux User #477062

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[in the news] FISL 11 article in Terra.com.br
by Kara Schiltz 29 Jul '10

29 Jul '10

7.23.10 Terra.com.br One of the Fedora news articles from FISL that ran last week in a Brazilian news portal. It's in portuguese -- can anyone help translate some of the main points from the article to English? Link to article: http://tecnologia.terra.com.br/noticias/0,,OI4582605-EI16771,00-Fisl+novo+l… -Kara <http://www.terra.com.br>

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