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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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Reminder: Fedora marketing weekly meeting 08/31/2010, 20:00UTC, in #fedora-meeting-1
by Robyn Bergeron 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

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

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Upcoming Fedora 14 Schedule Tasks
by John Poelstra 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

Start End Name Tue 10-Aug Tue 02-Nov Creative team videos Tue 10-Aug Wed 03-Nov Public Relations Tue 17-Aug Tue 14-Sep Feature Profiles Tue 24-Aug Tue 31-Aug Review Firefox Bookmarks For Update Tue 31-Aug Tue 14-Sep Start drafting Beta blog Tue 31-Aug Tue 28-Sep Beta press blog entry Tue 31-Aug Thu 02-Sep Update and Package Firefox Bookmarks Thu 02-Sep Thu 02-Sep Tag Updated Bookmarks Package for Fedora 14 Tue 14-Sep Tue 21-Sep Red Hat PR send Beta blog to Legal Tue 14-Sep Tue 14-Sep Features 100% Complete Deadline Tue 14-Sep Tue 14-Sep Beta Change Deadline Have you found something that is working really well in your schedule? Or maybe you've found something you believe would work better in the future? Update the schedule retrospective page now to capture all of the important details as they happen: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_Schedule_Retrospective

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[in the news]: The H: Glibc finally free software
by Jonathan Nalley 29 Aug '10

29 Aug '10

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Glibc-finally-free-software-1068035.… "Fedora Engineering Manager Tom 'spot' Callaway has announced that glibc, the GNU C Library, is finally free software..."

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FUDPub @ Sparky's Den (Part two)
by Robyn Bergeron 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

Okay. Here's an update on Sparky's Den after I did some phone calling today. * We can rent Sparky's Den on Saturday or Sunday night; both are currently available. Cost would be $155/hr. * Sparky's Den, as previously mentioned, has 8 lanes of bowling, 14 billiards tables, 2 table tennis tables, foosball, 4 tvs, and an arcade. The cost for all of these activities, including bowling shoe rental, is included in the $155/hr cost. Sparky's is open until 11pm. * We would need to utilize University catering or other approved catering places for food. * We can have alcohol. We would need to work with a bartending service, specifically Pourmasters (the only one asu catering usually works with). We are able to provide our own alcohol, but per university rules, we cannot have a cash bar. It must be an open bar. * There is some sort of rule about no under-21's in the serving area. I'm not sure exactly what that means, but obviously that is something we need to figure out. If that means we can't have people under 21 near the alcohol, or we all need to be cordoned off, that's not going to work so well. I have (yet another) call put in to figure this out. We would also need to get a liquor permit from the University, which from what I understand is a very easy process. * Checking into the Pourmasters website, we can hire a bartender for $25/hr (5 hour minimum), and we would have to rent at least one bar ($75). Alternately, there is a package for $3.25/person (for 100 people, probably drops slightly with another 50 people) that includes: Bartender, Bar, bottled water, Sodas, mixers (juice / tonic / margarita / etc), Ice, Cups, napkins, etc. From what I can see the latter option is a reasonable deal, otherwise we have to figure out all of those items on our own and provide them anyhow. The whole service would run ~$630, for 150 people (including overestimated sales tax and what I assume will be a 20% gratuity added on). (I have a call into Pourmasters to verify this stuff.) Assuming that the "no under 21's" means that we just need to keep our underage pals within some distance from the bar (ie: this is a viable plan), we have a few options. Let's assume fixed cost of $630 for bartending, and $620 for 4 hours in Sparky's Den (6-10, or 7-11), for a total of $1250. With the current budget of $4k, that would leave us with $2750, or $18/person. 18 bucks a person would buy a reasonable buffet dinner, including rolls, tea, and something including vegetarian options; $10/person would buy a plentiful variety of appetizers. #1) Head over fairly early in the evening, have a catered buffet-style dinner while we play and whatnot. Let those who want to drink alcohol throw in $10 and we (I + a helper or two) can do a beer run at some point on Saturday. #2) Head over after dinnertime-ish, let people fend for themselves for dinner, and provide appetizers and stay from maybe 7 or 8 - 11pm. Provide drinks and alcohol for everyone. Or some combination of the above. We could go early, eat, skip the alcohol and stay till 9pm - and adjourn and let the drinkers move onto bar-land on Mill Avenue, etc. For the record, I've looked into "how much alcohol do we need" and came up with the following for 100 drinkers (I know we'll have some underagers from ASU, plus our own underagers, plus kids.) Recommended was - 16 bottles of spirits, 240 beers (40 6-packs), and 24 bottles of wine, assuming we are 20% wine drinkers, 40% liquor drinkers, and 40% beer drinkers. If we buy 16 bottles of liquor at ~$25/apiece, 40 6-packs at $8 = $360, and 24 bottles of wine at ~$10 (yes, I realize this is not a lot for a bottle of wine, but I think we could do well sale-hunting) - that total would clock in around $760. If we had 80 people chip in $10, that would get us all of the above, and they'd likely get a lot more bang for the buck than they would at a regular bar. Also, if we overshoot, we can take leftovers back for a refund, or send them home with someone who is of drinking age and lives in Arizona (ha ha ha). :) We'd have to provide a list of what quantities of alcohol we were using beforehand, and count on the goodness of people's hearts to pony up once they're in town. I think this seems like a reasonable option, provided we can accommodate underage attendees. Also, we know people will show up on time to go to FUDPub, and they'll then know the way to Memorial Union on Monday morning. :) It would be good to see what something would run at Dave and Buster's or Gameworks. I suspect the cost to (a) rent buses to go to Dave and Busters / Gameworks or (b) rent out sparky's den will be very similar, and we'll have all "fun" taken care of at Sparky's for that price. However, I think the food at ASU might be slightly more pricey, but I'm not entirely sure. Will update with more tl;dr once I hear back on the underage situation, and the bartender can provide a more solid quote for what 150 people would run us. -Robyn

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[in the news]: Threatpost: Some Linux Distros Vulnerable to Version of DLL Hijacking Bug
by Jonathan Nalley 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/some-linux-distros-vulnerable-version-dll… "Tomas Hoger, a member of the Fedora Security Response Team, said on the OSS Security mainling list Thursday that Fedora is in fact vulnerable to this bug."

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Re: release slogan, round 2.
by Jan Wildeboer 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Soar sounds too much like stock price stuff IMHO, why not "The F in Freedom" or "rising by design" "powered by freedom" "Crossing the tipping point" "More Freedom" Ah, #needbeer ;-) Jan ----- Original Message ----- From: marketing-bounces(a)lists.fedoraproject.org <marketing-bounces(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> To: Fedora Marketing team <marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> Sent: Mon Aug 23 12:39:46 2010 Subject: Re: release slogan, round 2. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Robyn Bergeron <robyn.bergeron(a)gmail.com> wrote: > In an effort to come up with something that ties into our theme, I've > done a little bit of thinking about some of our theme descriptions > (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_release_slogan#Themes). > > I started off with some words, and flipped (err, hit spacebar a lot) > through the thesaurus online to see what other words came up. > > I started off with - emerge/emergence - started working with the words > lead, rise, direction, advance... still didn't get a lot of things. > But what I have so far is: > > Rise Up. > Be everywhere. > Soar. > > Annnnnnd... that's it. > > I'm not sure if we should kick off a second wiki table on the same > page, or just bring suggestions to the marketing meeting on tuesday. > If anyone would like to throw in a suggestion either way, I'm happy to > follow. > "Rise Up" is at the wiki and I like it. Not sure if we are going to get problems with riseup.net or riseuplabs.org "Soar" can be conflicted with http://sourceforge.net/projects/soar/ For me this a minor conflict. What about "freedom ascension" ? I am a bit shy to propose as English is not my first language. Sometimes I feel that I don't fully grasp the meaning. But again I hate to have matches on google ... http://www.ascensionsoftware.com -- Neville https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Yn1v Linux User # 473217 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Check: http://www.clickmanagua.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- marketing mailing list marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing

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Your help wanted! And... MMM. Marketing Meeting Minutes. 2010/08/24
by Robyn Bergeron 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Minutes from today's meeting follow below. Feature Profiles are next on the Marketing team's deliverables for Fedora 14. We selected a few during today's meeting, including profiles on EC2, systemd, Mini-SIGs, and Debugging tools. If you are interested in doing a feature profile on debugging tools, let us know! We also need some help in doing the Mini-SIG Feature profile. Information on how to do a Feature profile can be seen at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Feature_profiles_SOP, and if you want to see examples of Feature Profiles done for F13, they can be found here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_feature_profiles Just drop the email list a note, or ping me on IRC (rbergeron) if you are interested in helping out. Thanks! -Robyn Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-08-24/marketing_meet… Full Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-08-24/marketing_meet… =================================== #fedora-meeting-1: Fedora Marketing =================================== Meeting started by rbergeron at 20:00:16 UTC. The full logs are available at http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-08-24/marketing_meet… . Meeting summary --------------- * Roll Call (rbergeron, 20:00:32) * Agenda (rbergeron, 20:01:39) * Had some conflicts about the name chosen last week; need to make some decisions. (rbergeron, 20:02:24) * Release Slogan: what to do? (rbergeron, 20:02:59) * AGREED: Skipping slogan for F14; may revisit in the future, or focus on selecting a long-term slogan. (rbergeron, 20:26:22) * ACTION: stickster to talk to mizmo about lack of slogan on website, or thinking about long-term slogans. (rbergeron, 20:26:47) * Feature Profiles (rbergeron, 20:28:17) * LINK: http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-14/f-14-marketing-tasks.html (rbergeron, 20:28:22) * LINK: http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-14/f-14-marketing-tasks.html (stickster, 20:30:02) * LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Feature_profiles_SOP (rbergeron, 20:30:11) * LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FeatureList (rbergeron, 20:31:08) * LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_talking_points (rbergeron, 20:31:24) * Feature Profiles are typically interviews conducted and stories written on specific features off of feature list and/or Talking Points. (rbergeron, 20:32:00) * The marketing team typically writes 3 - 5 feature profiles for each release. (rbergeron, 20:32:18) * Right now the Creative team video lineup includes systemd and EC2 (stickster, 20:33:34) * Creative team will probably be in Westford shooting in < 2 weeks (stickster, 20:41:19) * LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_feature_profiles (rbergeron, 20:50:56) * LINK: http://press.redhat.com/2010/04/27/fedora-13-spotlight-feature-exploring-ne… <-- Red Hat press blog entry, with interview page linked in paragraph 5 (stickster, 20:51:30) * LINK: http://press.redhat.com/2010/05/10/making-3d-free-for-innovation-fedora-13-… (rbergeron, 20:51:45) * AGREED: EC2, systemd, debugging tools, and mini-sig for Feature Profiles. (rbergeron, 20:54:10) * ACTION: stickster to do FP on systemd (rbergeron, 20:54:29) * ACTION: jsmith to do FP on mini-sig. (rbergeron, 20:54:41) * ACTION: rbergeron to do EC2 (rbergeron, 20:54:48) * ACTION: rbergeron to advertise in blog / mailing list for volunteers for debugging tools FP. (rbergeron, 20:55:29) * ACTION: rbergeron stickster to collectively look for mini-sig FP additional volunteers (rbergeron, 20:56:15) * There is a chance that systemd may get yanked from F14 depending on passing criteria for acceptance; FESCo working on this now (stickster, 20:58:13) * ACTION: stickster will take mini SIG FP if systemd gets yanked from F14 (stickster, 20:58:36) Meeting ended at 21:00:25 UTC. Action Items ------------ * stickster to talk to mizmo about lack of slogan on website, or thinking about long-term slogans. * stickster to do FP on systemd * jsmith to do FP on mini-sig. * rbergeron to do EC2 * rbergeron to advertise in blog / mailing list for volunteers for debugging tools FP. * rbergeron stickster to collectively look for mini-sig FP additional volunteers * stickster will take mini SIG FP if systemd gets yanked from F14 Action Items, by person ----------------------- * jsmith * jsmith to do FP on mini-sig. * rbergeron * rbergeron to do EC2 * rbergeron to advertise in blog / mailing list for volunteers for debugging tools FP. * rbergeron stickster to collectively look for mini-sig FP additional volunteers * stickster * stickster to talk to mizmo about lack of slogan on website, or thinking about long-term slogans. * stickster to do FP on systemd * rbergeron stickster to collectively look for mini-sig FP additional volunteers * stickster will take mini SIG FP if systemd gets yanked from F14 * **UNASSIGNED** * (none) People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * rbergeron (137) * stickster (90) * jsmith (36) * leoboulton (9) * zodbot (4) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot

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[MOVED TO DISCOURSE] Fedora Marketing - https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/tag/marketing August 2010