ambassadors April 2019

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New Ask Fedora
by Ahmad Haghighi 02 May '19

02 May '19

Dear all, With the release of F30, Ask Fedora platform moved to Discourse ( https://ask.fedoraproject.org) and older Ask Fedora (askbot instance) is now in read-only mode, and moved to https://askbot.fedoraproject.org. In new Ask Fedora we're supporting multiple languages to make the site more accessible and usable to local groups. If you can please find some time to inform users (specially in your region) about new website/platform, that would be very helpful. -- Best regards Ahmad Haghighi https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Haghighi

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Re: [marketing] Re: [Mindshare] Re: Talking points and the future of talking points
by Brian (bex) Exelbierd 25 Apr '19

25 Apr '19

+ambassadors list to see if we get anyone to "step up" as Ben has suggested Hijacking a bit as so much good has been said. On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 5:59 PM Eduard Lucena <x3mboy(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > I used the TPs when I was actively doing Ambys work: Knowing what is new and if a new change can be appealing to a certain audience. But I'm probably one of the minor public that actually uses it. I think having someone explain how they use the TP will be helpful. We seem to produce (or attempt to produce) multiple related items: * Release notes * Talking Points * Press Releases * Release post in Magazine While these have different goals, I suspect we could remove the talking points and just by providing links in the Release post to the Release notes cover most use cases. We don't formally "battle card" and we don't have an overarching event strategy so each ambassador/event owner should be picking the focus that makes sense for their audience, regardless of what talking points exist. regards, bex > > I see TPs as a "human-readable" change set, a way to show in a non-technical language what's new and what's awesome, it's meant to be a great way to make people to understand the changes, but actually I'm not sure too much people uses it. I think the best way to know this is to query ambys and other interested teams if they find it useful, or even if there are changes/modifications/improvements to make them better. > > I can run this poll, but we need to come with an medium to make this (web poll, ML, Meetings). > > Br, > x3mboy Lucena > _______________________________________________ > Fedora Marketing mailing list -- marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to marketing-leave(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/marketing@lists.fedoraproject… -- Brian (bex) Exelbierd | bexelbie(a)redhat.com | bex(a)pobox.com Fedora Community Action & Impact Coordinator @bexelbie | http://www.winglemeyer.org

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Fedora 30 Release Readiness meeting
by Ben Cotton 24 Apr '19

24 Apr '19

Dear all, Join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting-1 for the Fedora 30 Release Readiness meeting. This meeting will be held on Thursday, 2018-04-25 at 19:00 UTC. We will meet to make sure we are coordinated and ready for the release of Fedora 30. Please note that this meeting will be held even if the release is delayed at the Go/No-Go meeting on the same day two hours earlier. You may receive this message several times in order to open this meeting to the teams and to raise awareness, so hopefully more team representatives will come to this meeting. This meeting works best when we have representatives from all of the teams. For more information, see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Readiness_Meetings. View the meeting on Fedocal: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/meeting/9514/?from_date=2019-04-22 -- Ben Cotton Fedora Program Manager TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis Pronouns: he/him

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[Fedocal] Reminder meeting : EMEA Ambassadors
by jonatoni＠fedoraproject.org 22 Apr '19

22 Apr '19

Dear all, You are kindly invited to the meeting: EMEA Ambassadors on 2019-04-23 from 19:00:00 to 20:00:00 UTC At fedora-meeting(a)irc.freenode.net The meeting will be about: EMEA Ambassadors regular meeting. * Meeting Agenda: - Roll Call - Announcements - Requests - Ambassadors Schedule - Events - Action items from previous meetings - Open Floor If you have any requests that need to be discussed during the meeting, make sure to file a ticket on pagure. Source: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/meeting/8688/

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[Fedocal] Reminder meeting : APAC Amabassadors' bi-weekly meeting
by pjp＠fedoraproject.org 18 Apr '19

18 Apr '19

Dear all, You are kindly invited to the meeting: APAC Amabassadors' bi-weekly meeting on 2019-04-18 from 11:30:00 to 12:30:00 UTC At fedora-meeting(a)irc.freenode.net The meeting will be about: This is a friendly reminder for our bi-weekly meeting today at 11:30 hrs. UTC. Don't forget to join: #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net. Thank you. Source: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/meeting/6412/

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Re: [marketing] Talking points and the future of talking points
by Justin W. Flory 15 Apr '19

15 Apr '19

Hi Ben, thanks for starting this conversation. I CC'd other lists as well to get wider feedback on this topic. On 4/12/19 4:41 PM, Ben Cotton wrote: > For F31 and beyond, I want to start a conversation about how we want > to produce this (or if we want to continue doing it). Do we know > how/if people are actually using the talking points document? My > observation is that Eduard and others spend a lot of time and effort > trying to drag content out of the working groups and it's not clear > that we get much value from that effort. > To understand the added value of talking points, understanding why this work happens and where people look today for this information is a pre-requisite. Talking points inform Fedora contributors about new things happening in a release. Traditionally, talking points reflect priority areas of Fedora engineering efforts. For example, in Fedora 15, we talked about the GNOME 3 desktop and systemd[1] because those were HUGE parts of F15. That importance was also echoed in the F15 release notes[2]. Today, talking points seem "out of sync" with Fedora's current priority areas. Talking points should be narrative "stories" around the technology areas Fedora is focusing on. For the last ~10 releases or so, talking points read more like a detailed changelog. This seems to repeat what the Fedora Docs already produces each release. For example, consider the distribution-wide changes section of the release notes[3]. Eduard, current Marketing Team members, and past team members have gone to great efforts to producing these every release, but I feel like the Project changed on the Marketing Team in the last ~10 releases. Since the Marketing team is driven by volunteers and not paid staff, it is easy to repeat a familiar process when there are Fedora release deadlines to meet and you are also working another full-time job and/or studying in school. Time spent reflecting on what is working and what is not is cut short. The Mindshare Committee aspired to move strategic planning from the Marketing Team and guide the team towards executing a common marketing strategy determined by Mindshare. But I have not seen those conversations in the Mindshare Committee yet. The Marketing Team needs external support to be more relevant in Fedora today. This guidance could take form of evaluating ways to better return on value of volunteer time. For example, what if instead of producing wiki page talking points, we shifted to Fedora Magazine "feature profiles" that hinted at what is coming in the next Fedora release? This would fit the "storytelling" aspect better and requires creative skills to share this story more widely. (This happens already in Fedora, since these types of articles appear on the Magazine regularly. Perhaps the Marketing Team could better tap into that process as it currently happens.) One way to generate more ideas is to consider asking Ambassadors / Advocates how they keep up with Fedora news today. Have we ever asked our contributor community this? What if we designed a short questionnaire to help inform a better strategy to guide the Marketing Team's work and get the most value out of volunteer contributor time? > On a related note, the design team produces a digital ad that is > displayed in Red Hat offices for Fedora releases[1]. Mo asked how we > should get the content to them and I answered[2] that it should be > part of the talking points process; we should open a ticket with the > design team to provide the wording as we product the talking points. > Any disagreement or other comments? > > [1] https://pagure.io/design/issue/621 > [2] https://pagure.io/fedora-marketing/issue/288#comment-565425 > I agree that this work is useful but I disagree that it should be the responsibility of the Marketing Team to push this work. I believe this role should be taken by the Mindshare Committee. Consider this excerpt[4] from Mindshare responsibilities: Communication between teams (outreach teams rely on the work of other groups). Mindshare ensures all information from technical teams will get out in time to all outreach teams, working out also a common strategy with Marketing of how to communicate them outside and how to manage them within all outreach teams. I think assigning this responsibility to the Marketing Team requires that common strategy to be in place. What and how does the Marketing Team need to communicate to the Design Team for this to happen and for the work to be utilized by Ambassadors / Advocates? For this reason, I think this responsibility lies within the Mindshare Committee to coordinate between outreach teams. This ran a little long, but I hope the feedback is useful and constructive. Most of this comes from the benefit of hindsight for the couple of years I led the Marketing Team and also my term serving on the Mindshare Committee. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_talking_points [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F15_one_page_release_notes [3] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f29/release-notes/sysadmin/Dist… [4] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/mindshare-committee/#_responsibilities -- Cheers, Justin W. Flory jflory7(a)gmail.com

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FAmNA Meeting Minutes 4/11/2019
by Andrew Ward 12 Apr '19

12 Apr '19

All, Please read our meeting minutes from 4/11/2019 Minutes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2019-04-12/famna.2019-04-1… Minutes (text): https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2019-04-12/famna.2019-04-1… Log: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2019-04-12/famna.2019-04-1… -- V/R Andrew Ward award3535(a)fedoraproject.org award3535(a)tds.net award3535(a)gmail.com

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FAmNA meeting reminder
by ANDREW WARD 11 Apr '19

11 Apr '19

All, this is a friendly reminder that FAmNA will hold a meeting tonight 4/11/19 at 9pm east. v/r Andrew Ward award3535(a)fedoraproject.org award3535(a)tds.net award3535(a)gmail.com

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Any experience with promoting Fedora on Maker Faire events?
by Miro Hrončok 10 Apr '19

10 Apr '19

Hi ambassadors. We might be able to represent Fedora on the next (second) Prague Maker Faire. See pics from the latest (first) event: https://www.root.cz/galerie/jak-vypadal-prvni-maker-faire-v-praze/ The important question is: What would we show/do/present there and how? Have any of you ever did a Fedora booth on a maker event? The idea is simple: "Fedora is awesome for Makers" - however how to present that on a booth? The competition (other booths) is very appealing for visitors. Thanks for any tips. -- Miro Hrončok -- Phone: +420777974800 IRC: mhroncok

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[Fedocal] Reminder meeting : EMEA Ambassadors
by jonatoni＠fedoraproject.org 08 Apr '19

08 Apr '19

Dear all, You are kindly invited to the meeting: EMEA Ambassadors on 2019-04-09 from 19:00:00 to 20:00:00 UTC At fedora-meeting(a)irc.freenode.net The meeting will be about: EMEA Ambassadors regular meeting. * Meeting Agenda: - Roll Call - Announcements - Requests - Ambassadors Schedule - Events - Action items from previous meetings - Open Floor If you have any requests that need to be discussed during the meeting, make sure to file a ticket on pagure. Source: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/meeting/8688/

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