Distro Review: Fedora 11
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
http://danlynch.org/blog/2009/07/fedora11/
"I think things are really looking up in the Fedora world. They have
lots of innovative features and things that will no doubt end up in
future releases of other distros. This is where they see themselves, the
ground breakers or pioneers who explore new things on behalf of the rest
of us. The developers have done a great job on Fedora 11 and I encourage
you to take a look at it and let me know how it works for you."
Rahul
14 years, 9 months
FooBar: The wiki page and update
by Mel Chua
Rather than fill your inboxes with another long email, this page
reflects everything I could find and everything I know about FooBar
(which needs a new name). You'll notice that "everything Mel knows" ==
"not all that much," so please take 5 minutes to add your own braindumps
here!
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FooBar
JonRob and Ian are attacking the page as we speak, and Ian will be
calling for participation on certain spots on this page in just a moment. ;)
--Mel
14 years, 10 months
$foobar update
by Jonathan Roberts
Damn, I thought I'd sent this earlier but it didn't make it to list
'cos I used the wrong email address!! After seeing the meeting logs,
it seems like a) it's rubbish that I couldn't be there, and that b)
ianweller has picked up some jobs Jack asked me to do while he was
away Re: foobar. If he's happy, that's fine by me, but just to say
that I'm certainly going to be in attendance at the Zikula meetings
etc so can help out as needed,
Jon
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jonathan Roberts <jonrob.one(a)googlemail.com>
Date: 2009/7/7
Subject: $foobar update
To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base
<fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com>
I can't make the meeting tonight, so I thought I better throw this out
there now so that if the topic is reached, I won't be holding back
progress!
I've e-mailed the news list, and Pascal replied so positively that
I've copied his reply in below:
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Hi Jon and all --
Its good to see that there is some traction with getting wordpress-mu
going again for FWN and other content. I just read the Fedora
Marketing meeting log, and count me in to help with work on this. The
most obvious benefit we'll get is a graphical branded presence, and
then syndication as well.
I am not sure in this new format the extent to which the name Fedora
Weekly News needs to be retained. In a sense the entire effort is
going to be news on the project, right? OTOH, FWN does have name
recognition, and it might help to identify sections of the site, since
there are going to be content from all across the project.
Most of the current sections of FWN will find sections of their own in
the new format, I'd think. Certainly Ambassadors, Planet, Art/Design,
Translation, Development. Dale's virtualization beat is a creation
unto itself, covering several different areas. We'll hopefully be
able to get content from other areas that aren't even represented.
I think we should use this opportunity to fully commit FWN to this
larger effort. News will gain a lot from a branded presence and we
can all contribute to a larger goal.
Perhaps the place to start is simply going through and determining
what sections make sense in the new site, and where FWN could
contribute content to these areas?
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My suggestion was that we should move forward by trying to arrange a
joint meeting between all effected and involved... so I'm thinking
news, marketing, infrastructure and docs.... anybody I've missed?
Ian, have you had a reply from the infra people yet about their side
of things? Tomorrow evening there's a Zikula meeting that I'll be
attending, and so we can consider that as a possibility on the infra
side as well.
I think it might be best to move these discussions out of the
marketing list and onto the new logistics list at some point in the
near future... at least partially.
Hope this is helpful, and bon chance with this evenings meeting,
Jon
14 years, 10 months
[Fwd: Marketing Meeting Agendas for Next Two weeks]
by Mel Chua
Hey, folks - for context in the meeting on what we're talking about,
here's an email I probably should have forwarded out earlier. But this
is where I'm getting the "it looks like we have $action_item..." stuff
from that recently appeared on the F12 schedule page.
--Mel
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Marketing Meeting Agendas for Next Two weeks
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:37:21 -0400
From: Jack Aboutboul <jaa(a)redhat.com>
To: Mel Chua <mel(a)redhat.com>, ianweller(a)fedoraproject.org,
Jonathan Roberts <jonrob.one(a)googlemail.com>
Okay so I'm gonna be out for the next couple of weeks and Mel is going
to taking over the marketing meetings for me. I wanted to leave a brief
agenda behind so that the meetings have some sort of focus and to let
you know what I would have had the meetings about.
7/7 Agenda: Jon Rob is the lead on all the FooBar related stuff and I
will have briefed him on everything and where things should proceed in
two weeks. For this meeting, follow up from last week. We had 3
actions items and we should be reporting on each of those, which where
to talk to various different teams about FooBar related stuff. I am
supposed to be working with docs on a publication list, which Sparks
might get out to everyone next week, this isnt blocking anything so
worst case it can wait. Second, Ian is supposed to be coordinating with
Infrastructure to see what platform is best to use, we should have an
update on this as this is the biggest item probably. Jon Rob was
talking to news to see what their thoughts are and so that we can start
syncing up with them and there should be a report on that. After that
assuming we have some thoughts from the News team and we have an idea of
what platform we want to use, we should assign tasks to start getting to
work on putting the platform beta up and then coordinating with Mo for
styling.
Also, we need to take stuff from
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_schedule_template and added into
a schedule for f12 similar to what we did for f11:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Schedule. I'm sure this will
all change at some point but for right now we are using this so lets
stick to it, it worked well last time.
7/14 Agenda: This is going to be more follow up and I can't really
speak too much about the agenda directly because it will be based on
whether a platform choice was made and whether we have a beta of that
choice up. If so, we should aim to help mo get styling done, and
everyone else test other pieces out, someone should created the
standardized feed etc. I guess I will read the 7/7 log and then post
more comments on this after that.
Jack
14 years, 10 months
Re: Self-Introduction
by Salvadesswaran P.S.
Hi Rob,
It is great to have you on board, welcome to the world of Fedora! And
I agree with you, patents need to be kept out of not only EU but the
whole world.
Salva
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Hi
Please take some time to read my message.
My name is Robert strickland. I come from Boston, England and I am an open
source fanatic. I started using Linux around 4 years ago and I have never
lost my enthusiasm for this great operating system. Although I drive a truck
for a living i have just finished a web development/marketing (CIW )course
that i have been studying in my spare time. I hope to bring everything I
have learned to the marketing team. I will be attending lug radio live later
on this year and I would like to know if any other members of the marketing
team are attending, Maby we could do some promotional stuff for the fedora
project.
I am also against software patents as I feel they stifle competition. I will
be attending my euro mp's surgery to make my views known. Lets keep software
patents out of the EU.
Thankyou for taking the time to read my first post.
Regards
Rob.
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14 years, 10 months
Fedora Marketing meeting Tuesday July 7
by Max Spevack
Hi all,
There is a Fedora Marketing meeting on Tuesday July 7th at the usual
time (1900 UTC).
Mel Chua will be leading the meeting.
I would like to propose the following as the primary agenda topic:
Update https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_F12_schedule
I created this page today to get us ready for the F12 cycle -- our
schedule starts 6 weeks before Alpha, which is today!
I'd like to see all of the items in the first section of the page have
an owner, and an initial check-in date, at the end of tonight's meeting.
Thanks, and good luck on a new Fedora Marketing release cycle.
--Max
14 years, 10 months
Robert Strickland
by Robert Strickland
Hi
Please take some time to read my message.
My name is Robert strickland. I come from Boston, England and I am an open
source fanatic. I started using Linux around 4 years ago and I have never
lost my enthusiasm for this great operating system. Although I drive a truck
for a living i have just finished a web development/marketing (CIW )course
that i have been studying in my spare time. I hope to bring everything I
have learned to the marketing team. I will be attending lug radio live later
on this year and I would like to know if any other members of the marketing
team are attending, Maby we could do some promotional stuff for the fedora
project.
I am also against software patents as I feel they stifle competition. I will
be attending my euro mp's surgery to make my views known. Lets keep software
patents out of the EU.
Thankyou for taking the time to read my first post.
Regards
Rob.
14 years, 10 months