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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: #128: Press Release for FUDCon KL 2012
by Marketing Team 27 Aug '13

27 Aug '13

#128: Press Release for FUDCon KL 2012 --------------------+------------------------------ Reporter: izhar | Owner: Type: task | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Future releases Component: FUDCon | Severity: urgent Keywords: | Blocked By: Blocking: | --------------------+------------------------------ Hi, Could we have a press-release for FUDCon KL 2012 which is happening this May?. We are planning to distribute it to local newspapers and news sites. We are originally planning to produce our own but FPL said that marketing might want to do and approve it. In term of dateline, .. erm .. is 27th March too short?, or more than enough?. The earlier the better of course Thanks. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/128> marketing-team <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing> Marketing team for the Fedora project.

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Re: Documenting Features
by Jaroslav Reznik 04 Mar '13

04 Mar '13

On Tuesday 29 of January 2013 17:29:47 pete wrote: > Hey guys, > > I've been reading the Feature discussions on devel@ today, and an idea > came to mind. A process for documenting accepted Features would help > prevent major changes from slipping through the cracks. Here's what I > came up with so far; I think we can hammer it into something useful: Hi Pete, thanks for kicking this off - I've been overflooded with all features coming and I did not have time to start it (actually I had time, but mentally ;-). At FUDCon we had a long discussion how the feature process should look like and the result is - we would like to do the real proper planning and tracking of features (so it will be Planning process, not feature process - even we could find some other name?) and split it from marketing side - so only a subset of these proposals will be featured (and thus it's the word "feature"). > Accepted Features[1] will be listed in a table roughly analogous to that > used for Release Note Beats[2]. The table would have columns for the > Feature name, a docs volunteer, and developer contact, as well as others > reflecting the Feature documenting workflow. Believe me - maintaining even FeatureList is a big pita - but speaking about tracking of development and splitting marketing - this could be done on the main FeatureList - I'm definitely open to any suggestions from documentation team how to enhance FeaturesList to work for you - as we really want all planning/tracking to happen in one place (and definitely not anything that's out of sync often etc.). One idea is to try to use some other tool than plain wiki - that's not very suitable for this task (but with more parsing scripts...). But at least there's huge resistance to Trac at least in FESCo ;-) > A set of guidelines for the docs volunteer covering a feature will come > along with the table. The set of tasks to be juggled might include: > - Establishing an appropriate developer point of contact to aid in > documentation. Note that this isn't always the feature owner. But mostly it is Feature owner (but anyone willing to help could be added to Owner section as "Developer contact"). > - Ensuring the content of the Feature is understandable by a > hypothetical average user. This is something I'm not sure based on the split we want - as we really need technical details for planning features and that users/press part should be processed differently (and aim on the user). > - Working up a basic guide to implementing the feature, if applicable. > - Creating an entry for the Feature in the appropriate Release Notes > beat. +1, again - more features = more data for RN > - Checking existing guides for impact caused by the new Feature, filing > bugs as needed, and assisting the guide owners in updating as > appropriate. > > A defined process like this will help split up the workload caused by > feature churn and cut redundant efforts by providing new information for > multiple published works. Your thoughts? It's a good idea to have a good source for multiple published works in the way - FeatureList for tracking (RNs, docs) etc -> pick up spotlight Features (we'd like to Feature) -> Announcements are for free, leaflet for media is for free, ambassadors... Btw. I understand that we can never split the feature process completely, and there will be always people using the internal planning/tracking process for articles etc. - we are open project and we will never hide any kind of information. But FreeBSD kernel is a good example how it works :) I'm CC'in marketing team for feedback. Jaroslav > [1] > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/19/FeatureList#Fedora_19_Accepted_Fea > tures [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Documentation_beats

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F18 - huge drop in user numbers
by Jiri Eischmann 05 Feb '13

05 Feb '13

Hi, frankly I'm not sure which mailing list I should write this to, but I guess the marking one is the best fit. I was really surprised (in the negative way) by the Fedora stats [1]. Repository connections in the first week dropped by 52 percent compared to F17 and F17 was already low compared to releases before. F18 has pretty bad reception, but such a huge drop is hard to believe. The number of direct downloads is down by 7 percent. Are these numbers still comparable or the way they're calculated has changed? If not, it's a pretty bad trend. The difference in drops between direct downloads and repository connections is also interesting. It seems like a lot of users downloaded F18, but never installed it, and connected to repositories which pretty much correlates with my observation at linux portals, forums, mailing lists. I've seen so many comments of users who said they didn't have balls to install F18 on their hard drives with other systems and stayed with F17 or switched to another distro. Jiri [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics

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ask.fedoraproject user looking for a teddy bear...
by Matthew Miller 01 Feb '13

01 Feb '13

Do we have an official answer to questions like this? https://ask.fedoraproject.org/question/3766/is-there-somewhere-i-can-buy-a-… I'm not *personally* interested in a teddy bear (with two kids, I already have way too many plush animals around the house, despite my 6-year-olds protestation that there's no such thing as too many). But I wouldn't mind pointing people to somewhere they could buy shirts and pens and so on. The Red Hat store used to carry Fedora items, but since that was rebooted last year, they don't. The only thing I could find was http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors:Swag which is sad and empty. -- Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>

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Fedora Project page on FB
by Jiri Eischmann 31 Jan '13

31 Jan '13

Hi, we still don't have an official page on Facebook. I spoke with the guy who owns the most popular Fedora page, he is a redhatter, but he doesn't post news very frequently and doesn't seem to be willing to hand over the page to someone else. That's why I'd like to create a completely new official page that we would build from the scratch. It will take more time to get a significant number of followers, but I think it's the cleanest and easiest way. If there are no other plans already in the works or no one objects I'll create the page and be maintaining it (I'll post there pretty much what I post on G+) until some other volunteer steps into it. Jiri

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Fwd: Fedora 18 Beijing Release Party Event Report
by Christopher Meng 31 Jan '13

31 Jan '13

I'll help promote Fedora as far as I can. btw,anyone else in China of marketing team except me? ---------- 转发的消息 ---------- 发件人："Tommy He" <lovenemesis(a)fedoraproject.org> 日期：2013-1-31 PM5:58 主题：Fedora 18 Beijing Release Party Event Report 收件人： <ambassadors(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> 抄送："Tao Zhao" <alick9188(a)gmail.com>, "Christopher Meng" <cickumqt(a)gmail.com>, "Gerard Braad" <gbraad(a)fedoraproject.org> Hi ambassadors, I would like to share a few joyful moment after Fedora 18 Beijing Release Party last weekend. It's the second Fedora themed event in Beijing after the FAD 2011. The event was hold in Information Technology Academy of Tsinghua university. Six "Spherical Cow" related presentations were presented by long-term project contributors, Red Hat engineers and open source hackers from other communities. The topics cover i18n, cloud computing and open source hardware. 50 Fedora 18 LiveDVD 64bit(40 GNOME 10 KDE) were burned and distributed. Another 20 or so legacy Fedora DVDs were spread for backward compatibility. Nearly 70 people have participated the event. Feedback survey were sent to attendances via email. Result can be expected in a week or so. One thing worth to mention is that we had a preliminary agreement with people from GNOME Chinese User Group to hold a Tech Seminar every month. More specific details will be finalized after Chinese New Year holiday. Report in Chinese, also shared on via FedoraProject Weibo: http://linuxtoy.org/archives/fedora-18-release-party-event-report.html Event G+ (with more photos): https://plus.google.com/events/activity/cpcjji4lbi1mllmk2s4nihcq6ug Photo Booth on YouTube: http://youtu.be/tB1iD1SmQB8 After Event Survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RWYQZDV This release party is initialized and organized by Ambassador Alick Zhao, with assistance from Marketing Christopher Meng, Photographer Tommy He and Mentor Gerard Braad. Thanks, Tommy -- Take a Deep Breath out of Windows https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Lovenemesis

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People ask sometimes Why Fedora does not rolling distro? Sometimes think so too.
by Álvaro Castillo 26 Jan '13

26 Jan '13

Yeap, I'm ambassador and one of my task is to show Fedora's values between other things. However, some people ask me about why Fedora does not a rolling distro? It's too lazy have to upgrade system without any bugs each 6 month or 1 year month if you do not want lose Fedora security and software updates. I do not understand, Fuduntu is a very good laptop-based distro, based on Fedora and comfortable for end-user such as Ubuntu, and It's a rolling distro, you can get latest software without do a lot, and... when Fuduntu's team releases a new version, you only do a yum upgrade to change a new version without do a lot of and not suffer upgrade process. And Fedora has got an testing group something like rawhide on Fedora. Also, had known a people uses CentOS as desktop because does not like have to upgrade your system each 6 month, do not like a possible bugs after upgrade to Fedora new version or fix rpmnews... and would not like cross your fingers to find a bug that could be break the system. Why do you think about this? Fedora could be follow Fuduntu's steps? Or it's no problem worry about some people wants? Off: Please, I hope do not hurt with my "engrish" words because I'm trying day-to-day improve my english, if you cannot understand, please let me know. -- Álvaro Castillo Fedora Project, EMEA ambassador http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Netsys Linux user #547784

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Fedora Marketing team minutes - Jan 24, 2013
by Ruth Suehle 24 Jan '13

24 Jan '13

Quick summary and request for input: - Progress on language-specific brochures continues. Please speak up if you're interested in contributing content for one of these. First to be completed is Python in time for PyCon in March. - We've discussed several times moving to HootSuite for Fedora's social media needs, as the benefits outweigh the issue of it not being open source (and there not being an open alternative). Consider this the last call for fervent objection. :-) - Stay tuned for Fedora 18 videos fresh off of FUDCon! Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2013-01-24/fedora_marketi… Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2013-01-24/fedora_marketi… Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2013-01-24/fedora_marketi…

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