marketing November 2016

marketing@lists.fedoraproject.org

19 participants
32 discussions

Partnership opportunity with freenode!
by Justin W. Flory 17 Dec '16

17 Dec '16

Hey everyone, A few weeks back, you may have received an IRC notice from the freenode staff about their community team and a blog post they had authored on their website. https://freenode.net/news/community In short, the freenode community team is looking for more ways to engage with the open source communities throughout freenode and to showcase the awesome work happening throughout freenode. I reached out via email to their community team to see if Fedora could try to help pilot something with regards to these new outreach efforts. Fortunately, the freenode folks have been more than kind to help provide us with some awesome opportunities! This is exciting because I think we will be helping drive this effort throughout the entire freenode community as positive role models. There's two things they were hoping to work with us on: 1) Articles about the Fedora Project, the Fedora community, or other exciting news about Fedora for the freenode blog and other platforms 2) Hosting an AMA on IRC to accompany a blog post for community members across freenode to ask questions about Fedora and engage with the project They were also interested in having general articles about open source, IRC tips, etc. that could be a good opportunity to showcase technical expertise from Fedora community members for sharing across freenode. One of the first things I would like to help put together for this is a general, introductory article about Fedora for a broad open source audience. It seems like an obvious thing to do, but I was having troubles locating any kind of "usual spiel" on this. Since it's something fundamental to identifying Fedora in the open source community, I wasn't sure if there was any kind of content like this available already we could pull from? If not, I would be happy to try writing something up and getting feedback from the rest of the team, but I figured I would ask first before accidentally duplicating work. Thanks everyone! If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Also, feel free to idle in their channel as well (#freenode-community). -- Cheers, Justin W. Flory jflory7(a)gmail.com

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Introduction for Joing the Group
by Sahil Khan 12 Dec '16

12 Dec '16

Hello fellows I am Sahil Khan from India. I have recently started contributing to fedora Project.I have been using fedora since a long time and doing my RHCE certifications thats my technical grounds which can help me in Marketing. I would love to start Marketing In fedora Project as i truely love Fedora Linux and i want people to use and know what is linux and linux is not just Ubuntu.I will be gratefull If i am sponsered for the project and Guided so that i can use my good communication skills to do some good marketing and let people of city know something more about fedora. I am really happy to be a part of fedora Maketing group. Warm regards Sahil Khan https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/user/view/codesahil

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Helping re-energize Marketing
by Justin W. Flory 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

======================================================================= | tl;dr | ======================================================================= | WHAT: Bringing more energy into Marketing team | | HOW: Identifying problems, proposing solutions | | WHY: Improve experience in Marketing, helping move towards more | | creative innovation as a team | | WE NEED YOU: Check ticket, read solutions, give feedback | | LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-commops/issue/48 | ======================================================================= Hey everyone, I wanted to bring a topic up for discussion that started in CommOps a while back and I'm now getting time to revisit. In CommOps, we are working through helping individual sub-projects improve their on-boarding tools and strategies to bring in more contributors and also to help retain them. In the original CommOps meeting to brainstorm, Gabriele and I helped provide context to identifying some of the current struggles and problems of Marketing. After gaining some of the background, we all tried to come up with some ideas on how to fix these problems and improve the experience for newcomers (and maybe even long-time contributors too). :-) All of this discussion is summarized into nice bulletpoints in this ticket: https://pagure.io/fedora-commops/issue/48 It would be great if some other Marketing folks could check out this ticket and leave feedback. Since I'm contributing in both CommOps and Marketing, I'm helping guide this along and hopefully we can begin trying to create a plan or steps to follow to help implement some of the solutions in the ticket at the next Marketing and CommOps meetings. Thanks everyone! -- Cheers, Justin W. Flory jflory7(a)gmail.com

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Fedmag post for Digital Ocean
by Dusty Mabe 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

Hey all, We have Fedora in DigitalOcean now. I'd like to propose that we make a post on the magazine. The post is in the magazine as a "pitch" right now. If possible I'd like to receive comments and then make any edits myself. This allows me to grow over time as I write more articles. Thanks, Dusty

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[Minutes] Fedora Marketing Meeting: Nov. 29, 2016
by Brian Proffitt 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

====================================================== #fedora-meeting: Fedora Marketing meeting (2016-11-29) ====================================================== Meeting started by bkp at 14:00:58 UTC. The full logs are available athttps://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-11-29/marketing.201… . Meeting summary --------------- * Agenda (bkp, 14:01:17) * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Marketing_meeting_2016-11-29 (bkp, 14:01:24) * Roll Call (bkp, 14:01:32) * Name; Timezone; Other sub-projects / interest areas (bkp, 14:01:39) * Brian Proffitt; UTC-5; Social media, marketing (bkp, 14:02:22) * Gabriele Trombini; Rome UTC+1; Amby, mktg, fed-join and others. (mailga, 14:03:10) * Eduard Lucena; UTC-3; Ambassadors, Marketing, Magazine (x3mboy, 14:03:13) * Announcements (bkp, 14:09:26) * === In the news: "Fedora 25 Linux arrives with Wayland display support" === (bkp, 14:09:34) * LINK: http://www.zdnet.com/article/fedora-25-linux-arrives-with-wayland-display-s… (bkp, 14:09:37) * "So when Matthew Miller, the Fedora Project Leader, says "the Fedora operating system seeks to deliver the latest innovations in the world of free and open-source software to our users", he's not making an idle promise. Today, Fedora is once more the leading edge Linux distribution." (bkp, 14:09:40) * === In the news: "Fedora 25 Released With Wayland, GNOME 3.22, And Kernel 4.8" === (bkp, 14:09:51) * LINK: https://fossbytes.com/fedora-25-released-download-features/ (bkp, 14:09:54) * Not much of an opinion article, mostly an altered version of the release announcement. Still positive exposure. (bkp, 14:09:57) * === In the news: "JetBrains’ Rider public EAP, Fedora 25, and MapR’s Customer 360 Quick Start Solution—SD Times news digest: Nov. 22, 2016" === (bkp, 14:10:11) * LINK: http://sdtimes.com/jetbrains-rider-public-eap-fedora-25-maprs-customer-360-… (bkp, 14:10:14) * Short blurb, doesn't offer much opinion. Wayland is definitely stealing the spotlight this release. (bkp, 14:10:17) * === In the news: "Fedora 25 News & Update: New Linux Based Operating Sytem Available Now; Is This Windows 10, Mac OS Killer?" === (bkp, 14:10:32) * LINK: http://www.gamenguide.com/articles/73507/20161124/fedora-25-news-update-new… (bkp, 14:10:35) * Not much of an opinion offered – mostly repeating information from the release announcement. The ending harps on the inability of Windows and macOS users to run Linux – perhaps this is something to note for future cycles this release. (bkp, 14:10:38) * === Opinions needed: Fedora + freenode partnership article === (bkp, 14:10:52) * LINK: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/marketing@lists.fedoraproject… (bkp, 14:10:52) * We're working on doing a partnership with freenode to publicize the open source projects living on freenode. A first draft of an initial article to publish was shared on the mailing list. Please take a moment to review and offer any feedback. (bkp, 14:10:55) * LINK: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/?p=3065&preview=1&_ppp=ed70b52525 (bkp, 14:11:53) * ACTION: jflory7 is given positive feedback on the freenode/Fedora article, with the suggestion to add F25 features. (bkp, 14:16:00) * ACTION: jflory7 maybe a more detailed explanaion of useful commands and some rules on how to follow meetings. But I dazo see that a freenode-fedora howto should be more complex. (bkp, 14:16:51) * Action items from last meetings (bkp, 14:17:45) * LINK: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teams/marketing/marketing.2016-11-22-14.3… (bkp, 14:17:59) * How This Works: We look at past #action items from the last meeting for quick follow-up. If a task is completed, we move on to the next one. If it isn't, we get an update and re-action it if needed. If no status, we'll try to get a quick update and move forward. (bkp, 14:18:02) * === linuxmodder Make commits and comments to the page now, with action to come next week === (bkp, 14:18:14) * === bkp to follow up and see if Fedora Magazine feed failing to validate is even still an issue === (bkp, 14:19:57) * Tickets (bkp, 14:22:04) * LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-marketing/issues?tags=meeting (bkp, 14:22:12) * === Ticket #241 === (bkp, 14:22:32) * "Fedora Magazine feed fails to validate" (bkp, 14:22:32) * LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-marketing/issue/241 (bkp, 14:22:32) * Checked earlier this morning, and lots of errors seem to be related to images hosted on the CDN (many of which are not currently displaying). Once this is fixed, some of the RSS errors may resolve themselves. Once we clear up any remaining issues with the CDN, we can troubleshoot more specifically and find a solution. Should be discussed in #fedora-magazine. (bkp, 14:22:33) * ACTION: : bkp to raise ticket #241 on the #fedora-magazine channel this week. (bkp, 14:25:02) * === Ticket #242 === (bkp, 14:25:40) * "Update release activity steps / process on the wiki" (bkp, 14:25:47) * LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-marketing/issue/242 (bkp, 14:25:54) * Some examples of things we can do to expand the wiki page section were added to the ticket. Feel free to give feedback on those suggestions. To build further, what other kind of key tasks for Marketing can we identify and describe in this section of our wiki page? (bkp, 14:26:04) * The page in question is https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing#Release_activities (bkp, 14:26:38) * IDEA: Ticket #242: ign the task to the people willing working on it direcly in the wiki, without any ticket opening? (bkp, 14:31:29) * ACTION: x3mboy to poll lost to see about altering release activities page to a more action-oriented table like the one at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Docs_Project_tasks?rd=Docs_Project_…, or some variant in-between (bkp, 14:38:52) * Upcoming Tasks (bkp, 14:40:35) * LINK: https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-25/f-25-marketing-tasks.html (bkp, 14:40:43) * (1) Monitor news sites to provide corrections & info (due: Mon 2016-12-05) (bkp, 14:40:54) * (2) Marketing Retrospective (due: Tue 2016-12-06) (bkp, 14:40:58) * Earlier examples can be found here if you want to review before next week: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Marketing_retrospective?rd=Marketin… (bkp, 14:42:38) * Open Floor (bkp, 14:45:35) * ACTION: Check into existence of SurveyMonkey/LimeSurvey/similar account in Fedora-land (bkp, 14:49:01) Meeting ended at 14:55:34 UTC. Action Items ------------ * jflory7 is given positive feedback on the freenode/Fedora article, with the suggestion to add F25 features. * jflory7 maybe a more detailed explanaion of useful commands and some rules on how to follow meetings. But I dazo see that a freenode-fedora howto should be more complex. * : bkp to raise ticket #241 on the #fedora-magazine channel this week. * x3mboy to poll lost to see about altering release activities page to a more action-oriented table like the one at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Docs_Project_tasks?rd=Docs_Project_…, or some variant in-between * Check into existence of SurveyMonkey/LimeSurvey/similar account in Fedora-land Action Items, by person ----------------------- * bkp * : bkp to raise ticket #241 on the #fedora-magazine channel this week. * x3mboy * x3mboy to poll lost to see about altering release activities page to a more action-oriented table like the one at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Docs_Project_tasks?rd=Docs_Project_…, or some variant in-between * **UNASSIGNED** * jflory7 is given positive feedback on the freenode/Fedora article, with the suggestion to add F25 features. * jflory7 maybe a more detailed explanaion of useful commands and some rules on how to follow meetings. But I dazo see that a freenode-fedora howto should be more complex. * Check into existence of SurveyMonkey/LimeSurvey/similar account in Fedora-land People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * bkp (119) * dhanesh95 (28) * x3mboy (25) * mailga (23) * zodbot (18) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot -- Brian Proffitt Principal Community Analyst Open Source and Standards @TheTechScribe 574.383.9BKP

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[fedora-marketing] Issue #242 `Update release activity steps / process on the wiki`
by Pagure 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

jflory7 added a new comment to an issue you are following: `` @bproffit @linuxmodder @mailga I think the best next step for this ticket will be identify key tasks and responsibilities associated with the Marketing team, and then updating the wiki page with more descript versions of those tasks. To help get some brainstorming going… * **Create talking points** * The Marketing team coordinates with other Working Groups, SIGs, and teams in Fedora to summarize what's new in the coming release of Fedora. This information is used to build the release announcements and is often quoted directly by the press. It's important this task is started around two weeks before the Alpha release so accurate information can be collected. * **Collect screenshots** * The team also collects screenshots from the upcoming versions of Fedora to use for release announcements, sharing with the press, or promoting new features in all of Fedora's Editions and Spins. These screenshots are usually shared wide and far. When taking the screenshots, it's important to use a "stock" configuration of the Edition or Spin to accurately reflect what the user will see when first logging in. Perhaps we could use this as an opportunity to flesh out some of our other tasks, like the press kit, feature profiles, and other things (perhaps related to #232?). `` To reply, visit the link below or just reply to this email https://pagure.io/fedora-marketing/issue/242

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[fedora-marketing] Issue #241 `Fedora Magazine feed fails to validate`
by Pagure 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

jflory7 added a new comment to an issue you are following: `` I double-checked this now, and it seems like a lot of the errors being thrown are related to images hosted on the CDN. We're troubleshooting an issue with images now, so I'm not sure if it's related to some of the failures found in the RSS validation. I would like to try to get to the bottom of this once we clear up any remaining issues with our CDN. `` To reply, visit the link below or just reply to this email https://pagure.io/fedora-marketing/issue/241

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Fedora marketing meeting time poll
by Benson Muite 28 Nov '16

28 Nov '16

A poll to possibly change the meeting time is at: https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/anonymous/FedoraMarketing/ Times are UTC - you will need to do a conversion (hope to add this feature) but for now the site below may be helpful: http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_UTC.aspx Marketing and website developers, comments and suggestions on the polling software also appreciated. The code can be found at: https://github.com/kellerben/dudle One thing might be to add Fedora css style sheet if can find a host for it, such as poll.fedoraproject.org or fedoraproject.org/poll Regards, Benson

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[Fedocal] Reminder meeting : Marketing IRC Meeting
by Justin W. Flory 28 Nov '16

28 Nov '16

Dear all, You are kindly invited to the meeting: Marketing IRC Meeting on 2016-11-29 from 09:00:00 to 10:00:00 US/Eastern At fedora-meeting(a)irc.freenode.net The meeting will be about: This meeting is for active members or interested participants in [Fedora Marketing](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing). At our meetings, we share announcements and review tickets for covering with the rest of our team. If you're looking to [become involved](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Joining_the_Fedora_marketing_proje… with Fedora Marketing, this is a great time to introduce yourself to the team and see what we're working on. Source: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/meeting/4434/

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[Minutes] Fedora Marketing Meeting, Nov. 22, 2016
by Brian Proffitt 26 Nov '16

26 Nov '16

====================================================== #fedora-meeting: Fedora Marketing meeting (2016-11-22) ====================================================== Meeting started by bkp at 14:35:19 UTC. The full logs are available athttps://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-11-22/marketing.201… . Meeting summary --------------- * Agenda (bkp, 14:35:52) * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Marketing_meeting_2016-11-22 (bkp, 14:35:53) * Roll Call (bkp, 14:36:06) * Name; Timezone; Other sub-projects / interest areas (bkp, 14:36:07) * Brian Proffitt; UTC-5; Social media / marketing (bkp, 14:36:34) * Announcements (bkp, 14:42:45) * === Fedora 25 Out Today === (bkp, 14:42:45) * LINK: https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-25-released/ (bkp, 14:42:45) * LINK: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/fedora-25-now-generally-avai… (bkp, 14:42:46) * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F25_general_press_release (bkp, 14:42:48) * === Fedora 25 Linux Workstation to Ship with MP3 Playback Support Through New Plugin === (bkp, 14:42:51) * LINK: http://news.softpedia.com/news/fedora-25-linux-workstation-to-ship-with-mp3… (bkp, 14:42:54) * MP3 support on Fedora 25 (bkp, 14:42:57) * === Fedora 25 Linux Delayed by a Week, Could Arrive on November 22, 2016 === (bkp, 14:42:59) * LINK: http://news.softpedia.com/news/fedora-25-linux-delayed-by-a-week-could-arri… (bkp, 14:43:02) * Boot menu was not available on a Mac OS X dual boot install (bkp, 14:43:05) * === Migration from Trac / FedoraHosted === (bkp, 14:43:08) * LINK: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/migration-from-trac-fedorahosted/ (bkp, 14:43:10) * Amita's excellent article (bkp, 14:43:13) * === Flock Stories 2016, Episode 3: Brian Exelbierd === (bkp, 14:43:16) * LINK: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/flock-stories-2016-brian-exelbierd/ (bkp, 14:43:18) * Profile of new FCAIC (bkp, 14:43:21) * === Flock Stories 2016, Episode 4: Matthew Miller === (bkp, 14:43:24) * LINK: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/flock-stories-2016-matthew-miller/ (bkp, 14:43:26) * Profile of current FPL (bkp, 14:43:29) * === What’s new in Fedora 25 Workstation === (bkp, 14:43:32) * LINK: https://fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-fedora-25-workstation/ (bkp, 14:43:34) * stickster lays it out (bkp, 14:43:37) * === Introducing Fedora Hubs === (bkp, 14:43:39) * LINK: https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-hubs/ (bkp, 14:43:42) * Solid overview of Hubs (bkp, 14:43:44) * Action items from last meetings (bkp, 14:43:50) * LINK: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-11-08/marketing.2016-… (bkp, 14:44:03) * LINK: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-11-15/marketing.2016-… (bkp, 14:44:06) * How This Works: We look at past #action items from the last meeting for quick follow-up. If a task is completed, we move on to the next one. If it isn't, we get an update and re-action it if needed. If no status, we'll try to get a quick update and move forward. (bkp, 14:44:09) * === [COMPLETE] Follow up on repurposing of Southern_Gentlem blog for Fedora Community Blog without notification and possibly without consent. === (bkp, 14:44:13) * LINK: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-ohio-linuxfest-2016/ (bkp, 14:44:16) * Issue resolved, process for permissions to be followed. (bkp, 14:44:19) * === [IN PROGRESS] marketing_team Release Activities page needs to be updated https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing#Release_activities === (bkp, 14:44:22) * LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-marketing/issue/242 (bkp, 14:44:25) * linuxmodder to address this (bkp, 14:44:27) * == [IN PROGRESS] Fedora Magazine feed fails to validate, bkp to follow up with infra team to see if this is fixed == (bkp, 14:44:30) * LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-marketing/issue/241 (bkp, 14:44:33) * No response from infra (bkp, 14:44:35) * == [COMPLETE] Fedora 25 screenshots page == (bkp, 14:44:38) * LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-marketing/issue/243 (bkp, 14:44:40) * bkp and dhanesh95 completed F25 screenshots page https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/F25_Screenshots (bkp, 14:44:43) * == [COMPLETE] Style and process changes for Fedora 25 GA announcement == (bkp, 14:44:46) * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F25_general_release_announcement (bkp, 14:44:49) * Changes made, announcement ready to go (bkp, 14:44:51) * Tickets (bkp, 14:44:54) * Tickets (bkp, 14:46:52) * === Ticket #242 === (bkp, 14:47:10) * "Update release activity steps / process on the wiki" (bkp, 14:47:10) * LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-marketing/issue/242 (bkp, 14:47:10) * On the Marketing wiki, the Release activities is barren and can be expanded to be more comprehensive of activities the Marketing team performs each release. (bkp, 14:47:11) * ACTION: Make commits and comments to the page now, with action to come next week, per linuxmodder (bkp, 14:48:03) * LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-marketing/issues?tags=meeting (bkp, 14:48:27) * === Ticket #241 === (bkp, 14:48:27) * "Fedora Magazine feed fails to validate (bkp, 14:48:27) * LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-marketing/issue/241 (bkp, 14:48:28) * ACTION: bkp to follow up and see if this is even still an issue (bkp, 14:48:55) * Upcoming Tasks (bkp, 14:49:07) * LINK: https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-25/f-25-marketing-tasks.html (bkp, 14:49:21) * (1) Marketing Retrospective (Tue 2016-11-29) (bkp, 14:49:24) * (2) Monitor news sites to provide corrections & info (Mon 2016-12-05) (bkp, 14:49:26) * linuxmodder to check #241 and note the ticket (linuxmodder, 14:49:55) * Re: upcoming tasks, next week will be an important meeting to discuss how things went right and wrong for this release cycle. It is important not to miss! (bkp, 14:51:06) * Open Floor (bkp, 14:57:38) * LINK: https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/anonymous/FedoraMarketing/ (bkm, 14:58:19) * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F25_general_press_release (bkp, 15:02:04) * linuxmodder editing the wiki release page to reflect proper node.js (linuxmodder, 15:02:35) * * Node.js 6.9.1, the latest version of the popular server-side JavaScript engine now showing on wiki (linuxmodder, 15:04:33) Meeting ended at 15:05:54 UTC. Action Items ------------ * Make commits and comments to the page now, with action to come next week, per linuxmodder * bkp to follow up and see if this is even still an issue Action Items, by person ----------------------- * bkp * bkp to follow up and see if this is even still an issue * linuxmodder * Make commits and comments to the page now, with action to come next week, per linuxmodder * **UNASSIGNED** * (none) People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * bkp (116) * linuxmodder (23) * bkm (10) * zodbot (9) * sgallagh (6) * rdieter (2) * mattdm (1) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot -- Brian Proffitt Principal Community Analyst Open Source and Standards @TheTechScribe 574.383.9BKP

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