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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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Spread Fedora
by Beth Lynn Eicher 27 Feb '11

27 Feb '11

I attended the marketing talk at the Southern California Linux Expo... http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale9x/presentations/two-girls-one-talk-thel… The following question came to my mind 2 days after seeing that talk. The spreadubuntu.org website was mentioned but spreadfedora.org was not mentioned. While the spreadfedora.org site seems to be on message, the content looks stale. A 'whois' reveals that domain name is not registered to Red Hat Inc. Nonetheless, the site appears to be owned by a fan of Fedora. Is this a good opportunity for cooperation with the marketing team so that spreadfedora.org can spread? Does anybody know what happened to spreadfedora.org ? Thanks, Beth Lynn Eicher

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[In the news] Beyond FUDCon with Robyn Bergeron, Fedora Program Manager
by Rahul Sundaram 25 Feb '11

25 Feb '11

Hi http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Beyond-FUDCon-with-Robyn-Bergeron… ""I personally would love to see more folks getting involved in areas that don't necessarily require coding skills. I think that there is enormous room for growth and contribution in these areas, and there are plenty of Linux enthusiasts out there who have the skills and imagination to make great contributions in these places." ~ Robyn Bergeron " Rahul

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[In the news] Fedora 15 alpha delayed - Btrfs may be default in 16
by Rahul Sundaram 25 Feb '11

25 Feb '11

Hi http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Fedora-15-alpha-delayed-Btrfs-may-be… "The Fedora project has postponed the release of the first and only alpha version of Fedora 15, originally scheduled for 1 March, by a week. This was due, at least in part, to a bug in X Server that occurred in connection with keyboard layouts for such languages as German or French and prevented users from successfully logging into GDM. Subsequent milestones in the release schedule for Fedora 15 remain unaffected at present, and the final release is still scheduled for 10 May. " "The fifteenth Fedora release is currently planned to be the first version that won't require a special boot parameter to be submitted to the installer in order to format a storage device with the experimental Btrfs file system. Red Hat employee Josef Bacik, who is heavily involved in the development of Btrfs, has now proposed on the project's most important developer mailing list that Btrfs should be made the default file system in Fedora 16, which is expected in late October or early November" Rahul

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[in the news] Fedora discussing btrfs for Fedora 16
by Vinzenz Vietzke 25 Feb '11

25 Feb '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, the discussion about changing to btrfs with Fedora 16 has been in the German news: "Für Josef Bacik von Fedora ist das im Herbst kommende Fedora 16 eine mögliche Gelegenheit, auf Btrfs als Standard-Dateisystem umzustellen. Da Btrfs über ein eingebautes Volume Management verfügt, sollte die Unterstützung für LVM aufgegeben werden. Schon seit Fedora 11 ist Btrfs verfügbar, in der kommenden Version Fedora 15 wird es auch ohne besondere Boot-Optionen zur Nutzung bereitstehen." Pro-Linux.de: http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/16746/fedora-diskutiert-ueber-btrfs-als-stan… Fedora-Blog: http://www.fedora-blog.de/2011/02/btrfs-wird-standard-in-fedora-16/ Regards, - -- Vinzenz Vietzke Fedora Ambassador m: vinz(a)fedoraproject.org wk: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Vinz mb: https://identi.ca/vinzv | https://twitter.com/vinzv -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNZ5YOAAoJEGlfvjH68y2dlwwIAKoFVaUiwjdle6bulcYexRFV +gtn+FpnlnhsAt63xxRlckiXwQeNNBd3MyW9Hlpop4xJhS87uUJMRC3WiNIcOkZb B0SmrgPT0jEKrcfkYWCkpuk8fp0iRO4zWfUD/9KGYpZtRRwGEnaoVM0liZHC0Cmo XBRhqRv5xvHjlypTPw3zCvbI7hsWGXTt1UDakQfjp7hTK/rzdoSZOn5MO64XWYmL RAQyMg8OrPCNh0i805dFB6zXl0Wnv6Yby3JiZDxCkEKlrhgUxY5aCvJ5a2ufYvh/ lWzx/TKqr504agHAboxguCHj2FSuiKBBWfopa4hspoRktmK7STea39qelGdhbC0= =bI4n -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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New Year, New advertising campaign?
by María Leandro 24 Feb '11

24 Feb '11

Hola people! As several of you may know, today I made a couple of posters to fill a ticket asking for 4 foundations artwork. After receive some complains (really few, but we as Fedora listen to everyone) about the message that we are sending I think that is a good idea to have a small (but intense) thread about "what" we can do to have a more powerful and -clear- message that we can use this new year. Mo and Fab where chatting about how impressive are marketing ads from companies like Apple and others, and they also talk about what they show as product. I think that is a good idea to try to come up with a solid marketing strategy this year, not only to increase our consolidation as artwork/Marketing team; but also to help us recruit not only more users, but also more contributors. We want users to choose fedora because "what we are and what we do", not because we are winning money. Even so, we want more people to know about foss benefits. Reading just a little, there are several list with the best campaigns [1], but the ones I found interesting were: * McDonald's, "You deserve a break today", Needham, Harper & Steers, 1971 * U.S. Army, "Be all that you can be", N.W. Ayer & Son, 1981 * Saturn, "A different kind of company, A different kind of car.", Hal Riney & Partners, 1989 * Polaroid, "It's so simple", Doyle Dane Bernbach, 1977 Now, What made me focus on this ones? They are worldwide known. Being a non_en speaker (you can know by my terrible english) We should be thinking in an _easy, short and consistent between languages_ slogan that defines Fedora. Also, as artwork team i think is not a bad idea to use some ideas to take advantage and to try out a strong campaign this year (probably will take us a couple of months to develop it and put it in production a couple more of months) to recruit those "already new users" and turn them into real contributors. One of the problems I see (don't know if is only LATAM or if this is happening in other regions) is that people come to events to know about $distro , install their pc's, and become users; considering them as a 100% of new candidates, only a 20-30% become contributors, and another 5-10% quit after their 1st year. So.. the real question after this huge and with bad grammatical mail is: Do we, as design-marketing team can do an advertising campaign to get more help and spread even more Fedora? If anyone has ads campaigns that can be examples (of good and bad stuff) or ideas, pls let me (us) know about them :) See ya! [1] http://adage.com/century/campaigns.html -- tatica Maria Gracia Leandro http://www.tatica.org http://www.fedora-ve.org http://proyectofedora.org http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MariaLeandro LinuxUser= 440285 GPG Public Key: E1CDCC56 "Be yourself... Don't be anyone else"

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Sprinting Tomorrow, 11:00AM - 2:00pm EST: F15 Talking Points
by Robyn Bergeron 22 Feb '11

22 Feb '11

Hey Folks, We'll be having a fun sprint-fest on the Fedora 15 talking points TOMORROW, February 23rd, from 11am - 2pm EST (that's starting at 1600 UTC, for our international folks wanting to help out). Please join us! They're basically unwritten at this point, and need to get done this week. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_talking_points See you tomorrow! -Robyn

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[In the news] Fedora to include hacking tool Sqlninja after all
by Rahul Sundaram 22 Feb '11

22 Feb '11

Hi http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Fedora-to-include-hacking-tool-S… "As recorded in the minutes of the most recent meeting of the Fedora board, the Fedora Project is to integrate hacking tool sqlninja into its Linux distribution. The minutes record that Tom 'spot' Callaway, member of the Fedora board and Fedora Engineering Manager, met with Red Hat's legal team who said they considered there was no risk involved in including sqlninja. The Fedora board voted unanimously to lift the block on the application" Rahul

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marketing
by Harpreet Singh 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

Hi, my name is *Harpreet Singh* and I live in Punjab, india. My Fedora Account System (FAS) username is Moujia, and I am new to IRC and would like help getting started. I learned about the Fedora Marketing team through Fedora project, and am interested in joining because Linux user and lover. This is the first FOSS project I have worked on! My skills, which I hope to utilize in Fedora Marketing, include: (Marketing Skills) -yes (Other Skills) - Leadership, Organizer I'd also like to learn _________________. When I'm not working on Fedora, I am Student at Punjabi University Please help me get started! -- Harpreet Singh 9803528766

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