[Marketing] Re: [Magazine] Schedule for GA release week

2016-06-09 Thread Remy DeCausemaker 
On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Paul W. Frields <sticks...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Marketing/Magazine folks,
>
> I wanted to start ball rolling for Magazine schedule around the GA.
> As I understand it, we would be publishing the following articles on
> GA day:
>
> * Official release announcement
>
>   This has yet to be written I think.  Am I correct that Remy has the
>   task of putting it together?

Correct. I'm going to ship this copy by EoB today God Willin' and the
crick don't rise.
--RemyD.

>
> * What's new in F24 Workstation
>
>   I'm working on this today and will have it ready to go shortly.
>
> * What's new in F24 Server
> * What's new in F24 Cloud
>
>   Am I correct that these articles were desirable?  If so, is someone
>   committed to write each one?
>
> There's also at least one potential follow-up article to be pushed at
> some point *after* GA day:
>
> * Upgrading from F23 -> F24 Workstation
>
>   I saw Justin already has a draft of this article, and it's waiting
>   on two things: (1) word that FESCo is OK with us promoting this; and
>   (2) confirmation of when the capability is expected to be pushed in
>   F23 updates.
>
> Anything missing from this list currently?
>
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[Marketing] Re: Need help in reviewing the Microbit article

2016-06-01 Thread Remy DeCausemaker 
On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 4:50 PM, Paul W. Frields <sticks...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 10:11:26PM -0400, Justin W. Flory wrote:
>> On 05/28/2016 01:42 AM, Kushal Das wrote:
>> > On 27/05/16, Justin W. Flory wrote:
>> >
>> > > I just went through the article and did a short round of edits. 
>> > > Everything
>> > > looks great to me! I think we can add this to our publishing schedule 
>> > > soon
>> > > (we will check in on this at our next meeting on Thursday).
>> > >
>> > We should really be pushing this either Monday or Tuesday as those are
>> > first two days PyCon US. Most of the Python devels are here, and it will
>> > be easier to talk about this to them. Ideal time would be Monday as that
>> > is when PyCon main conference starts, and we can talk about this in the
>> > booth.
>> >
>> > Kushal
>> >
>>
>> Okay, including both Ryan and Paul in this reply to see if either of them
>> might have a chance to make a featured image in time to ship this one out
>> the door when they get in tomorrow. Content is "go" from me.
>
> I'm back today after a four-day holiday (for me), and fortunately Remy
> pointed me at this thread, which was the first I saw of this article.
> Happy to push this out within the next hour, working on the featured
> image now.
>
> In the future, with somewhat "timed" articles like this, it's
> important to give advance notice.  A holiday weekend for many is not
> the best time to seek fast review/action.

Agreed. The timing was pretty rough with the Holiday, and with PyCon.

Super duper shout-out to stickster for making this happen on such
short notice. Way to come together :)
--RemyD.

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[Marketing] Re: New Contributors

2016-05-23 Thread Remy DeCausemaker 
On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 10:01 AM, Matthew Ames <matthew@matty.digital> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My name is Matthew Ames, and I have just read on Fedora Magazine that you're 
> looking for help with articles, specifically from Power Users and Developers. 
> I am a system admin by trade, and have solely been using Linux since 2008, 
> and Fedora specifically from 2015, starting with Fedora 22, though I have 
> much past experience with Red Hat and CentOS too.
>
> I have always been looking for ways which I can help to give back to the 
> community, and I try to do a little writing over at https://matty.digital/. 
> If I can help in any way, I would certainly like to offer some articles.
>
> My area of expertise is mostly in web hosting, and I'm doing a lot of work 
> these days in docker, lxc and gnome-boxes, though with the job I do, I often 
> pick up other skills along the way.
>
> Thanks for reading, and please let me know if I can be of any assistance.
>
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Matthew,

Welcome and thanks for answering the call :)

Quoting Ryan Lerch's advice for new contributors to the Magazine below:

"""
First up (if you haven't already), you can log into the Magazine
wordpress instance with your FAS account:
http://fedoramagazine.org/logging-into-fedora-magazine-with-fas/

Once you have done that for the first time, let us know for FAS
username here on this list, and one of the editors can grant you
permission to create new posts.

Once we have gotten that access sorted, feel free to jump in to the
wordpress instance, and create a new "pitch". A pitch is typically
just a few sentences of what you think your proposed post will cover.
All of the posts in the magazine start with a pitch, just to be sure
that we don't waste time writing up a full article that might not be a
good fit for the magazine.

Also, feel free to jump into #fedora-mktg on Freenode anytime and ask
questions, there should be people around to answer!
"""

We look forward to getting to know you, and helping you help us tell stories :)
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[Marketing] Re: Marketing trac #222: Publicizing "Fedora affiliates" (or groups using Fedora)

2016-04-04 Thread Remy DeCausemaker 
On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 2:49 PM, Mark Terranova <doctorf...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 9:44 AM, Remy DeCausemaker <deca...@redhat.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 9:18 AM, James Bishop <ja...@jamesbishop.ca> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 00:42 -0400, Justin W. Flory wrote:
>> >> On 04/03/2016 10:59 AM, Sylvia Sánchez wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > Hi Justin!
>> >> > Your link doesn't exist or has no text...  Is it right?
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > Cheers!
>> >> >
>> >> Yes, nothing is there yet, but the info we are looking at drafting up
>> >> is
>> >> intended to go there.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Cheers,
>> >> Justin W. Flory
>> >> jflo...@gmail.com
>> >>
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>> >> ect.org
>> >
>> > Hi Justin,
>> >
>> > Thanks for getting back to me yet. The big thing I was wondering about
>> > was what was already done, since I saw a few names already attached to
>> > the ticket. I was also concerned about stepping on toes due to going
>> > ahead and doing stuff without checking in first.
>>
>> This is a totally normal thing to wonder about, and I have an answer for
>> you:
>>
>> Just Do It.
>> Do the things.
>
> /me loves this idea. It's one of the things that drew me to Fedora.
> Unfortunately, it falls apart at times when it come to the reality of
> FUNDING. We should add parenthetically; go to more meetings, and have your
> soul die a bit as you do so.

The recommendation here in this ticket was not "go to meetings" it was
to "do stuff."

Though not always fast or easy, meetings are a necessary part of doing
distributed decentralized work in open and public ways.

I don't think everyone on this list, or elsewhere Fedora, feels the
same way about meetings as you do MarkDude. We must not diminish the
time and effort that contributors put into making meetings happen,
which almost always have public agendas that are open to contributions
and suggestions, should you feel they are not maximally productive.

I would point to the Fedora Design team's re-worked meeting protocol
as a model for keeping meetings focused, task oriented, and
ticket-driven (described by mizmo here):
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/the-state-of-fedoras-design-team/

>> Your are implicitly powered, as a member of the Fedora community, to
>> dive in an contribute. You don't need my permission, or the marketing
>> team's, or anyone else's. Most of us would rather celebrate progress
>> than have you block on process. In the event that you do make a
>> mistake, the wiki is revision controlled, and we can revert it if we
>> need to, or migrate your work to a different place.
>>
> This is true, Fedorans by basic nature want to help. We already have
> processes to avoid minutiae taking all of our time. RH are great sponsors,
> but, they can do more. We are doing value adds for them. Reciprocity. To be
> clear, I love Fedora, and am proud to be part of it. But that funding thing
> is a mofo (and so arbitrary at times.)

I think that funding and budgetary requests--though an important
issue--are somewhat out of scope for this thread.

If you would like to comment on budget impact and reciprocity, please
see my most recent requests to the Ambassadors--whom the Fedora
Council and Ambassador Steering Committee have empowered to spend (and
report) their own regional budgets as they see fit.

I'm still waiting on either reports, proposals, or delegation
selections from each region, which are necessary for us to continue
budget planning and allocation for FY17:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/ambassad...@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/GQTDW23QIJYYSDMJEX7GLN5WAZ5SEMWU/


Thank you jbishop for taking the initiative on this ticket to help
bring more light to the places where Fedora is having a positive
impact outside of our community. This is an important role that
members of the CommOps team serve in the project, and can potentially
make a big difference :)
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[Marketing] Re: Marketing trac #222: Publicizing "Fedora affiliates" (or groups using Fedora)

2016-04-04 Thread Remy DeCausemaker 
On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 9:18 AM, James Bishop <ja...@jamesbishop.ca> wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 00:42 -0400, Justin W. Flory wrote:
>> On 04/03/2016 10:59 AM, Sylvia Sánchez wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi Justin!
>> > Your link doesn't exist or has no text...  Is it right?
>> >
>> >
>> > Cheers!
>> >
>> Yes, nothing is there yet, but the info we are looking at drafting up
>> is
>> intended to go there.
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> Justin W. Flory
>> jflo...@gmail.com
>>
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>> ect.org
>
> Hi Justin,
>
> Thanks for getting back to me yet. The big thing I was wondering about
> was what was already done, since I saw a few names already attached to
> the ticket. I was also concerned about stepping on toes due to going
> ahead and doing stuff without checking in first.

This is a totally normal thing to wonder about, and I have an answer for you:

Just Do It.
Do the things.

Your are implicitly powered, as a member of the Fedora community, to
dive in an contribute. You don't need my permission, or the marketing
team's, or anyone else's. Most of us would rather celebrate progress
than have you block on process. In the event that you do make a
mistake, the wiki is revision controlled, and we can revert it if we
need to, or migrate your work to a different place.


> The one question that I had was where I should put my work. Does it go
> on the TRAC, or the wiiki?


Think of the wiki as the "whiteboard" or "working document," and the
Trac as the place where we track the task at hand. There can be
information sharing and flow between them, but generally, Trac is the
place where we update everyone with links and progress, and the wiki
is where we collaboratively edit the content.

Hope This Helps,
--RemyD.

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Re: [Marketing] April Fool's Article

2016-03-30 Thread Remy DeCausemaker 
On Mar 30, 2016 19:36, "Chaoyi Zha"  wrote:
>
> Hey all!
>
> As you may know, April Fool's is coming up this Friday. For those
unaware, it is a day where many people and organisations play "pranks" by
writing interesting articles.
>
> For instance, Microsoft recently has posted an article about "bash in
Windows 10", which also includes a section joking about the availability of
Ubuntu binaries within Windows 10.
>
> Justin and I were thinking about publishing an April Fool's article on
Fedora Magazine. Some ideas included "Internet Explorer now default
internet browser in Fedora 24" or "Fedora will support sticky keys in
Fedora 24"
>
> If we made an April Fool's article about Internet Explorer (r), we would
be using a Microsoft trademark. However, the usage should be covered under
fair use because it is a parody and “use of some elements of a prior
author’s composition to create a new one that, at least in part, comments
on that author’s works.” (Campbell v. AcuffRose Music, Inc.)
>
> See
https://apps.americanbar.org/litigation/committees/intellectual/roundtables/0506_outline.pdf
>
> I think the post about Internet Explorer could be interesting, and sticky
keys would also be a quite interesting post. It would help us garner free
publicity and enjoy a good joke :)
>
> After April Fool's, we can mend the article to show that it was an April
Fool's prank. It seems only fair since Microsoft has made April Fool's
pranks about Linux for many years in a row :)
>
> Any input is appreciated! You may also ping us on #fedora-mktg
>
> If either of these ideas are good, I can draft an article and get it
ready to publish before April 1st :)
>
> Cheers,
> Chaoyi

I'm +1 to something cheeky, but -1 to it being about Microsoft.

I think we'd have to think carefully about about this, but I'm open to
ideas. Even just making the magazine upside-down for the day could be funny
enough without making it about anyone else.

http://www.webmaster-source.com/2012/04/03/how-to-flip-a-page-upside-down-with-css/

I like the idea though :)
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Re: [Marketing] F24 Release Announcement -- Now on Pagure

2016-03-28 Thread Remy DeCausemaker 
On Mar 28, 2016 23:10, "Ryan Lerch"  wrote:
>
> Do you think it would also be useful to create a fedora-marketing group,
and add this repo to it?

Yes, I wasn't sure how to use pagure groups when I created the repo, so I
added members manually, but groups would be preferable. +1

> also, are there any other ideas of content that we might host on pagure?
would it be worth making this repo called fedora-release-announcements,
rather than just a fedora-mktg catch all? or maybe spilitng this up is a
bad idea.
>
> cheers,
> ryanlerch

I know release announcements will be an ongoing and repeat item, so there
is a folder for those in there for sure. If we do find other content, then
we can add new folders in this repository as a general purpose resource. I
don't think having per content repos would provide more value than having
all the mktg issues and content in one spot. That's just like, my opinion
though, so I'm open to other suggestions.

Thanks Ryan,
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Re: [Marketing] F24 Release Announcement -- Now on Pagure

2016-03-28 Thread Remy DeCausemaker 
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Spins and Labs
--
Fedora Spins are alternative desktops for Fedora that provide a
different desktop experience than the standard Fedora Workstation
edition. Fedora Workstation is built on the GNOME desktop environment
and aims to provide a compelling, easy-to-use operating system for
software developers, while also being well-suited to other users. Our
spins showcase KDE Plasma, Xfce, LXDE, Mate-Compiz, Cinnamon, and
Sugar on a Stick (Soas) on the same Fedora Base.

Fedora Labs are collections of software for specific purposes — Games,
Design, Robotics, and so on. They are pre-selected sets of Fedora
software and are ideal for events or audiences with the corresponding
specific interest. Fedora 24 comes with a new lab, the Astronomy Spin, a
set of tools for astronomers and astrophysicists.

Note that the SoaS spin and Security, Games, and Design Suite labs are
missing from the Fedora 24 Alpha release. We plan to fix this for the
Beta release.


ARM
---
ARM images are available as usual for several usecases. Fedora 24 ships
Desktop images, such as Spins and Workstation, but also provides a
Server image. A minimal Fedora image completes the wide set of install
options for you ARM board.


Atomic Host
---
Fedora Atomic Host releases on a two-week schedule, and each release is
built on the latest overall Fedora OS. This schedule means the Atomic
Host is currently built on Fedora 23, but will switch to Fedora 24 when
we're out of Beta. There currently is no Fedora Atomic Host built on
Fedora 24 Alpha, but we plan to have that for the Beta.

However, you can try one of the newer features with recent Fedora Atomic
Host builds today. Since Fedora 23 was released, Atomic Host has added a
"developer mode" that gives a better developer experience overall. When
running in DEVELOPER MODE, the host will download and start Cockpit and
fire up a TMUX session to make it easier to work at the console and
obtain necessary information (like the root password, IP address,
etc.).

Issues and Details
--
This is an Alpha release. As such, we expect that you may encounter bugs
or missing features. To report issues encountered during testing,
contact the Fedora QA team via the mailing list or in #fedora-qa on
Freenode.

As testing progresses, common issues are tracked on the Common F24 Bugs
page.

* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F24_bugs

For tips on reporting a bug effectively, read "how to file a bug
report."

* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_file_a_bug_report


Release Schedule

The full release schedule is available on the Fedora wiki:

* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/24/Schedule

The current schedule calls for a beta release towards the beginning of May, and
the final release in early June.

Be aware that these dates are development targets. Some projects release
on a set date regardless of feature completeness or bugs; others wait
until certain thresholds for functionality or testing are met. Fedora
uses a hybrid model, with milestones subject to adjustment. This allows
us to make releases with new features and newly-integrated and updated
upstream software while also retaining high quality.


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Registration is now open at https://register.flocktofedora.org.

For more information about our Latin American and Asia-Pacific
Conferences, stay tuned for announcements on the Fedora Community
Blog:

* https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org

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FEDORA 24 ALPHA RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT


The Fedora 24 Alpha is here, right on schedule for our planned June
final release. Download the prerelease from our Get Fedora site:

- Get Fedora 24 Alpha Workstation 
https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/prerelease/
- Get Fedora 24 Alpha Server https://getfedora.org/en/server/prerelease/
- Get Fedora 24 Alpha Cloud https://getfedora.org/en/cloud/prerelease/
- Get Fedora 24 Alpha Spins https://spins.fedoraproject.org/prerelease 
- Get Fedora 24 Alpha Labs https://labs.fedoraproject.org/prerelease 
- Get Fedora 24 Alpha ARM https://arm.fedoraproject.org/prerelease 


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[Marketing] [Proposal] Auto-publish CommBlog posts to main @Fedora Twitter Account

2016-03-28 Thread Remy DeCausemaker 
mktgs,

As per a discussion we've been having on the commops list
(https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/comm...@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B5NCPOLUVOVQGOBSXW7UOLTO5TU5M2ZA/
) Churchyard has pointed out that the @Fedoracommunity twitter account
is basically just an RSS feed, and that the machine generated titles
are boring, and not very engaging for current or potential followers.
I've been asked to put forth a proposal to unify our social media
auto-posting presences.

Currently, there are three active twitter accounts: @Fedora,
@Fedoracommunity and @Fedobot.

@Fedora https://twitter.com/fedora is our main twitter account, which
has the Fedora Magazine auto-publishing to that feed via the jetpack
plugin in Wordpress. It has 68.9K followers.

@Fedoracommunity https://twitter.com/fedoracommunity is a separate
twitter account we set up in the early days of the CommBlog, to test
out jetpack auto-posting. It has 143 followers.

@Fedobot  https://twitter.com/fedobot is a twitter bot that has been
used for experimental auto-posting not associated with our Wordpress
blogs, such as wordcloudbot (auto-posts wordclouds based on IRC
meeting logs.) It has 51 followers.

It has been suggested that we adjust the community blog's jetpack
plugin to post to the main @Fedora twitter account, so that we are not
dividing our content. The only possible issue that we have here is
that there is occasional cross-promotion that occurs between Magazine
and CommBlog. When we have big announcements--we post pointer or
wrapper articles between the two. This would create some overlap or
echo within the twitter feed.

Even with this echo consideration in mind, I would propose to the mktg
list that we auto-publish posts from the CommBlog to the main @Fedora
twitter account, now that we've established our readership and
editorial process a bit further.

This will *significantly* improve the visibility of our contributor
focused content published on CommBlog, as well as increase the
frequency of posts to the @Fedora twitter account (roughly 2-10
articles per week.)

Thank you all for your time and attention to this proposal, and votes
and discussions are welcome here.
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Re: [Marketing] Review Requested: Updated Python Brochure

2016-03-24 Thread Remy DeCausemaker 
On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Brian Proffitt <bprof...@redhat.com> wrote:
> As per ticket #219[1], I have updated the Fedora Python brochure to include
> more current information. The updates are almost all around content, I left
> the design elements pretty much alone.
>
> I would like the group to examine the content and let me know if anything is
> wrong or missing. If I could get feedback to me by 1200 EDT (1600 UTC)
> Wednesday, March 30 (to allow for the upcoming US and EU holidays), that
> would be great.
>
> The pdfs are attached; my apologies for not attaching these files to the
> ticket itself; there was a file size limit. Please let me know if posting
> them somewhere else will be helpful.
>
> Peace,
> Brian
>
> [1] https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/219

Looks Good!

Some Feedback:

- The "free software" in the first paragraph of panel #3 in the inner
graphic should be capitalized
- Where we have bullet points, perhaps we could use some kind of
graphical element, instead of boring old dots? That heart, scaled
down, could do nicely, or little python logos maybe? Just a though.
- in the "outer" file, the "did you know" panel is a little
wall-o-text-y. Can we fit line breaks between the bullets?
- in the 'outer' file, maybe getting rid of the bullet points in the
"Python Questions" and instead mirroring the type of formatting you
used in "Get packages"?
- putting a "$" in front of our "dnf" commands, and possibly adding
"sudo" to the front of "dnf install" command?
- Possibly intentional, but the yellow snake is overlapping the "did
you know?" box in the bottom left corner. Perhaps we can make the blue
snake overlap on the top right, or drop the yellow one below for
consistency?
- I would udpdate the Fedora loves python section with pyrasite
https://github.com/lmacken/pyrasite, and Tahrir
https://github.com/fedora-infra/tahrir

Thanks BKP,
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Re: Self-Introduction: Ricardo David Carrillo Sánchez

2016-03-02 Thread Remy DeCausemaker 
On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 2:09 PM, Justin W. Flory <jflo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 02/14/2016 01:13 AM, Ricardo David Carrillo Sanchez wrote:
>>
>> Hello everybody,first I apollogize for my english, and second I begin
>> with my introduction:
>>
>> My name is Ricardo David Carrillo Sanchez, I'm from Mexico specifically
>> from Estado de Mexico, but actually i live on Ciudad de Mexico (Mexico
>> City). The username on the Fedora Account System (FAS) is dominusceo,
>> and into Freenode  I usually signed on as dominusceo.
>
>
> Hello Ricardo! Welcome to the Fedora Marketing team, we're glad to have you
> with us.
>
>> I'm interested on Linux topics, in fact I've been involvend into linux
>> world since my college, starting with distros like Debian, passing  by
>> Ubuntu, Gentoo and anothers, but  today I use Fedora for full time,
>> because in the place I work I use Red Hat systems and I think Fedora is
>> very similar.As professional, I have worked  with Linux  for a long time
>> designing some critical and large implementations some projecs that I've
>> been involdend with include:
>>
>> - LDAP migration.
>> - Migration of 332 distributed machines over my country centralizing all
>> network services.
>> - Administering and migrating part of the Electronic Mail System into my
>> organization, - Consolidating distributed services.
>>
>> As Independent Linux and Security consultant  I've helped a couple
>> organization's to accomplish some of the most important security
>> stantdars in addition to consolidate its infrastructure.
>
>
> Sounds like you have a lot of experience in the systems administration area
> -- there's many ways you can apply those skills and abilities back into
> Fedora.
>
>> The main reason to ask a subscription to the fedora marketing list and
>> another Fedora projects is  because i would like to give back a little
>> bit how much this Open Source project has given to me; in addition to i
>> want to spread Fedora use
>> as dailly work system and for personal use into my country (mainly in
>> Mexico City).
>>
>> The skills which I hope to use in Fedora Marketing, include Blogging,
>> Graphic Design (a little bit), Web Design, Database administration and
>> Securiy administration, I have patient to develop documentation -I would
>> like to help to develop spanish documentation.
>
>
> Based on what you've said, there's a number of areas that you may be more
> interested about learning in the Fedora Project. I believe you and I spoke
> in #fedora-ambassadors and you were already in the progress of contacting a
> mentor, so I won't mention the Ambassador Program again.
>
> For blogging, you may be interested to check out the Fedora Magazine, our
> premier publishing platform. We write all kinds of articles on there,
> related to technical how-tos, news in the Fedora community, and more.
>
> For graphic design, you may be interested in checking out the Fedora Design
> team as well. You can find more information about them here!
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_Design_Team
>
> For your experience with systems administration, the Fedora Infrastructure
> team primarily works in this field. They help power all of the different
> systems and services for Fedora. You can find more information about them
> here.
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/GettingStarted
>
> Finally, if you have a strong interest in helping improve Fedora's Spanish
> translations of our documentation and other content, the
> Internationalization (I18n) team might also be of interest to you.
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N/Join
>
> Hopefully you will find some of this information also helpful to finding a
> place that's most enjoyable for you to give back to Fedora.
>
>> Now, another skills but that I would like improve are docs writing and
>> learn how to express in public ( When I have to done).
>>
>> Please help me get started!
>
>
> The best way to get started with Marketing will actually be this upcoming
> Wednesday. At 22:00 UTC, we are having our first Marketing IRC meeting in a
> long time. You can find the agenda for this meeting in a ticket here.
>
> https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/213
>
>
>
> Let us know if you have any other questions! :)
>
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Ricardo,

Welcome to the project!

Jflory7 has done a fantastic job introduci

F24 Talking Points: Fedora Server Edition

2016-03-02 Thread Remy DeCausemaker 
Server Folks,

It's that time of year again where Fedora Marketing is collecting all
of the talking points for our upcoming F24 release!

For those of you who don't know about talking points, you can read the
ticket in the marketing trac (which includes the SOP instructions)
here: https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/220

tl;dr -- talking points are basically highlights about the release
that are worth mentioning when talking to Fedora Users and other
interested press. This can include things like:

 - Performance Enhancements/Increases
 - New Features
 - Fixed Bugs
 - Newly Implemented Ideas
 - Collaborations and Partnerships
 - Things that often go into Release Notes
 - Other novel stuff that only WG contributors would know about, but
the rest of the world should know too!

You can reply-all here, or on the ticket itself, and the CommOps folks
cc'd here will help to integrate your input :)

Thanks for your time, and Happy Hacking.
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F24 Talking Points: Fedora Server Edition

2016-03-02 Thread Remy DeCausemaker 
Server Folks,

It's that time of year again where Fedora Marketing is collecting all
of the talking points for our upcoming F24 release!

For those of you who don't know about talking points, you can read the
ticket in the marketing trac (which includes the SOP instructions)
here: https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/220

tl;dr -- talking points are basically highlights about the release
that are worth mentioning when talking to Fedora Users and other
interested press. This can include things like:

 - Performance Enhancements/Increases
 - New Features
 - Fixed Bugs
 - Newly Implemented Ideas
 - Collaborations and Partnerships
 - Things that often go into Release Notes
 - Other novel stuff that only WG contributors would know about, but
the rest of the world should know too!

You can reply-all here, or on the ticket itself, and the CommOps folks
cc'd here will help to integrate your input :)

Thanks for your time, and Happy Hacking.
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Re: Marketing materials for Python events

2016-03-01 Thread Remy DeCausemaker 
On Mar 1, 2016 22:17, "Justin W. Flory"  wrote:
>
> On 03/01/2016 09:01 AM, Jiri Eischmann wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> as Matthew announced at DevConf.cz our primary marketing focus for this
>> year are Python developers.
>> In EMEA, we've reacted and increased the number of Python events in the
>> list of planned events (several PyCons, planning to be at EuroPython
>> again...), but I realized we're not ready for that at all, or at least
>> I'm not aware of anything.
>
>
> As a note of reference, fale put together a list of all Python-related
events across the world on the wiki. This can help serve as an excellent
resource for planning for events and putting dates on the calendar.
>
> I encourage all Ambassadors of all regions to take a glance at this page
and see what's coming up soon if you are not aware already.
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Python_Events_2016
>
> fale++

Yes, thank you big-time Fale. Nice work!

>> We have no marketing materials. Miro created a "Fedora loves Python"
>> sticker for Python CZ, but that's all we have in EMEA. Today, we were
>> offered an opportunity to add our swag in conference bags at PyCon SK,
>> but we don't have anything usable. Something like a flyer that explains
>> why Fedora is the right system for a Python developer would be great.
>
>
> I think this is something that the Marketing team can and definite
Ambassadors are also encouraged to help with this as well if they are
interested. Like Ruth mentioned, we do have a flyer, but it needs updating.
I think a good immediate objective is:
>
> 1) Compiling a list of Python "hot topics" (e.g. "What makes Python great
on Fedora?" "How can working on Python in Fedora be easier than other
distros?" And so on.)

+1

Whether this is a wiki page, or etherpad, or whatever, it should be a
living document that many folks can contribute to.

Let's make sure EMEA has these knowledge resources ASAP, printed or not.

> 2) Submitting a ticket on the Design Team Trac with this info and a
request to update the flyer for distribution in 2016.

Yes, but being mindful that design team is one of our most stretched, and
we want to have as much of this legwork done as possible when we come to
them. Let's see if we can't base our deadlines reasonably on the European
events recently listed by Jiri in another thread earlier today (cc'd
here.), with PyCon North America being our first major milestone.

> The CommOps team is also heavily invested in helping with this area too
as a supporting team. It's also on our backburner but I'm beginning to
think this is something we should begin moving to the forefront of
planning. After all, these events are happening *now* and in the very near
future, so getting the gears turning ASAP is best.

Yes, this is our primary marketing objective this year, and we want to be
fully prepared long before PyCon US at the end of May.

> I'm going to make sure that this email thread is converted to a Marketing
Trac ticket and added to the meeting agenda for Marketing tomorrow.

We should also consider reaching out to the Python SIG mailing list once we
have living documents, and directly ask for input there. I'm cc'ing Kushal
and Nick Coghlin who are known Pythonistas, to bring them into the loop on
soliciting input from other internal and upstream sources. If they or
anyone else here knows of other folks that should be in the loop, please
add them.

>> And it's not only about marketing materials, ambassadors should get
>> instructions what to show Python developers, so that it won't end up
>> like showcasing a la "hey, Fedora is cool, it has Firefox,
>> LibreOffice,... and look it has windows just like Windows or Mac". So
>> we would definitely need at least some talking points.
>
>
> I agree with this point as well. Haïkel listed great starting points in
his reply (I think also mentioning that Fedora is actively helping migrate
to Python3 is an excellent point too). Using this as a base might be a good
idea.
>
> I'm also very very very +1 to what Ardian said. A lot of our
infrastructure is based off of Python and showing some of the cool things
that our own developers have made for Fedora with Python is a great and
real-world example of things people can hack onto. I've been sharing some
Python projects in Fedora with some students in my community, and there's
been a lot of interest in Tahrir, the platform that powers our Open Badges
project. Additionally, the fedmsg system, or in other words, the open
firehose of data in Fedora, is also built in Python, along with many of the
cool tools that let us take this data and show cool things and trends.
>
> Putting together a list of "hot Python projects in Fedora" and some of
the things they enable would also be a good next step to take for providing
talking points and resources to our Ambassadors in the field.

Yes this list is important for us to have available for folks who are very
excited about contributing to Fedora, but we don't want our

Re: DROWN article draft

2016-03-01 Thread Remy DeCausemaker 
On Mar 1, 2016 11:39, "Matthew Miller"  wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 11:39:16AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > Can someone take a look at this, polish it up as needed, add a graphic,
> > and publish it today?
>
> Feel free to tweak the title or whatever, too. I'm not attached. :)

Adding this to CommOps meeting agenda today.
--RemyD.

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Re: [Magazine] Stickers article scheduled for tomorrow

2016-02-21 Thread Remy DeCausemaker 
On Feb 21, 2016 14:50, "Justin W. Flory"  wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> UnixStickers.com sent me some incredible Fedora stickers pictures this
morning along the guidelines for what Paul had originally outlined in the
article draft. The pictures were perfect models and equally hilarious,
including the pictures with the dog. :)
>
> I have the article scheduled for tomorrow at 8:00 UTC. If you don't see
it past then, please double-check and make sure it gets published (in case
an issue occurs with the cron).
>
> Thanks!
>

Nicely done!

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Re: Flock 2015 group photo

2016-01-25 Thread Remy DeCausemaker 
On Jan 25, 2016 23:04, "Justin W. Flory"  wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> If you haven't heard already, the CommOps team is helping assist
> different sub-projects in Fedora write individual "Year in Review"
> articles for the Community Blog.
>
> https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/tag/year-in-review-2015/
>
> Marketing is included in this, and thanks to the 2015 Retrospective and
> mailga, we will have our own YiR published this week.
>
> Later on, though, the plan is to have a larger "Fedora 2015 Year in
> Review" article. I was thinking a great image to have for this would be
> the Flock 2015 group photo from the Strong Museum of Play. I was
> wondering if anyone knew where that picture was and/or who may have a
> copy? I think it would be a great representation of some of the Fedora
> contributor community and would make for a nice featured image for this
> overall YiR article.

I'd check with someone like Kushal, Ryan Lerch, and other Fedora photogs.

HTH,
--RemyD.

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> Thanks!
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Re: My work is lost

2016-01-24 Thread Remy DeCausemaker 
On Jan 24, 2016 13:01, "Sylvia Sánchez"  wrote:
>
> Hi!
> Somehow my work got lost after finishing my Shotwell article. Now it's
completely empty 
> I'm starting over but I'm not sure how it's going to look like or when
it's going to be ready. I'm sorry.

Oh no! So sorry to hear that Sylvia :( save early and often, and maybe keep
an offline copy too in the future?

Best of luck,
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Re: [Social Media] Community Operations - Year in Review

2016-01-20 Thread Remy DeCausemaker 
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 8:43 PM, Justin W. Flory <jflo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 01/19/2016 06:25 AM, Sylvia Sánchez wrote:
>
>> You're right. I'll do so with my accounts.
>> Besides, if someone wants to write for the year in reviews, should it
>> be on behalf of a team?
>>
>
> Yes, if someone wants to write a Year in Review, they should talk to the
> rest of their sub-project about it first, come up with the highlights and
> goal(s), and then propose someone to be the writer for the CommBlog article.


The CommOps team has templates you can use to get the "meat" of the article
together, and once you have a draft added to the CommBlog, we'll help you
edit and publish your article too :)

We've got your back :)
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Re: Using the fedoramagazine-images repo

2016-01-08 Thread Remy DeCausemaker 
On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Joe Brockmeier <j...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 01/07/2016 06:10 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>> If you want to try your hand at making a banner image for the
>> Magazine, start by using the templates that Ryan has helpfully
>> provided.  You'll need the Inkscape app installed.
>>
>> 1. Open a terminal.
>>
>> 2. (optional) Change directory to the folder where you like to store
>> your project work.
>>
>> $ cd projects# or some other folder
>>
>> 3. Clone the repository
>>
>> $ git clone https://pagure.io/fedoramagazine-images.git
>>
>> 4. Open Inkscape, and choose File > Open... (or Ctrl+O).  Navigate to
>> the project folder, then into "fedoramagazine-images", then into
>> "images."  Choose the "template.svg" file.
>>
>> 5. Save this as a *new* file with a different name.
>>
>> You can use the assets inside this file to start with the right sized
>> document, with some pre-configured backgrounds.  Feel free to look at
>> other SVGs for guidance.  Try to stick with fonts and motifs that you
>> see in recent banners.  But also feel free to experiment.  For
>> instance, use photographs (freely licensed, such as CC-BY or CC-BY-SA)
>> with a text overlay for a nice look.
>>
>> If you'd like to post your work somewhere, it's helpful to convert it
>> to a JPG first.  Save your SVG in the "fedoramagazine-images/images/"
>> folder as above.  Let's say it's called "mybanner.svg".  Open a
>> terminal, go to that directory, and type "make mybanner.jpg" and that
>> will create the correct sized JPG for you.  You can post that online,
>> and post the URL of the JPG to this list.
>>
>> * Don't attach files to email to this list -- URLs are preferred.
>
> Does this content live somewhere like the community blog? Cause...
> that'd be a cool thing to put there.
>
> Best,
>
> jzb

Agreed! Publicizing our Open graphics as a tool available to Fedorans
who are contributing written content, or looking to promote our
content visually is an excellent idea.

#action commops add a link to "Fedora Magazine Images Repo" to
"commops toolbox" wiki entry
(https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CommOps#Toolbox)

#action commops add this (as a ticket?) to be discussed during "Wiki
Gardening" on the meeting agenda for next week (1/12)

As far as adding it to the CommBlog, I think we should add it into our
"How to write for CommBlog" article that we point folks to.

#action commops add "Fedora Magazine Images Repo" section in the "How
to write for CommBlog" article
(https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/writing-community-blog-article/)

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Re: Social Media Strategy

2016-01-08 Thread Remy DeCausemaker 
On Jan 8, 2016 12:29 AM, "Beau Mathieson" 
wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have noticed that our primary Facebook and Twitter accounts are
> gearing their content more toward a user who has technical knowledge or
> is already a user of Fedora. Content about systemd, python, elections,
> etc aren't going to draw in potential users of a non technical
> background or one who has never used any Linux operating system before.
> I believe it's best to keep that content to the magazine and use social
> media to draw potential users in. Maybe we should use social media to
> target the everyday user. By doing that we could gain a lot more users
> and potential contributors and maybe we could even gain more of a stake
> in the market. We have a chance to do something amazing!
>
> Kind regards,
> Beau Mathieson

Beau,

We have a newish tool: social-me...@lists.fedoraproject.org as an address
where we can aggregate links and content that should be broadcasted across
our channels. If you have content of the sort you are describing above, you
can send a quick message to that list to get it on the collective  radar.
Please send there, and feel free to subscribe too and individually promote
content if you'd like

Welcome Welcome,
--RemyD.

P.S. - if you aren't there already, I would highly recommend joining
#fedora-mktg and #fedora-commops on freenode, where you'll find many of the
interested parties from this mail list are discussing this type of stuff in
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Re: [commops] Re: [Marketing] Getting in gear for 2016

2015-12-18 Thread Remy DeCausemaker 
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Joe Brockmeier <j...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/18/2015 04:38 AM, Gabriele Trombini wrote:
> > Il giorno gio, 17/12/2015 alle 20.05 -0500, Justin W. Flory ha scritto:
> >> On 12/17/2015 04:42 PM, Joe Brockmeier wrote:
> >>> On 12/17/2015 02:53 PM, Justin W. Flory wrote:
> >
> > Hi guys,
> >
> >>>>
> >>>> I see. How often were meetings happening in the past? From my
> >>>> perspective, I think maybe the frequency as well as the
> >>>> organizational
> >>>> pre-meeting plans could be adjusted. I know for the CommOps
> >>>> group, we
> >>>> have a very rough outline of "things to cover" in the meetings in
> >>>> a wiki
> >>>> outline. Additionally, having ticket-oriented meetings also seems
> >>>> to
> >>>> have had decent success with the Design Team. Perhaps we could
> >>>> try to
> >>>> incorporate tickets as a central part of our meetings?
> >>>
> >>> Tickets wouldn't hurt. It's been a while so I don't recall how much
> >>> we
> >>> were using Trac at the time, but it couldn't hurt.
> >>>
> >>> It seems to me it was weekly for a while, then bi-weekly. Again,
> >>> it's
> >>> been a long while (2013, early 2014 maybe?) and a new flock of
> >>> Fedorans
> >>> to help kickstart.
> >>
> >> With what you and Ruth said, it seems like it might be a good idea to
> >> space meetings on a monthly basis, and maybe increase frequency in
> >> the
> >> month / two months before the release?
> >>
> >> I think the next step might be to put a potential meeting date and
> >> timeslot on the map for 2016.
> >>
> >> --
> >
> > I'm ok with a ticket based meetings (in effect I'm using tickets as a
> > to do list yet). Let me make some considerations:
> >
> > 1) at present few people from magazine is working on marketing as well;
> > 2) in these days I'm looking at the wiki and we need a renovation about
> > that. There are a lot of pages I didn't know they existed;
>
> Yes. We definitely need to overhaul the wiki...

CommOps will add this to our "WikiGardening" section for our next
meeting (after the new year.) We could still use a battle plan though,
in addition to refreshing and revamping old SoP's, and other mktg
content I we already know to be out of date.

> > 3) maybe we should plan meeting time based on our tasks, and monthly
> > only for parsing tickets;
>
> Not sure I fully grok what you're suggesting here. I think you're saying
> monthly meeting to go through tickets, but no sure about "plan meeting
> time based on our tasks."

Ticket based meetings work well for design, and have worked decently
well for CommOps thusfar too. We didn't use this model at first
because our team infrastructure wasn't quite up to speed (people or
tech wise) but I think we've gotten the hang of it now. I would def
recommend bi-weekly, ticket based meetings, at the very least. CommOps
will ship a "whenisgood" poll for this in the near future to nail down
days/times.

> > 4) in order to have a clear marketing meeting I think it don't have to
> > include magazine (magazine meetings can goin'on as usual).
>
> Yeah, I think the magazine folks have a system that's working and don't
> want to tamper with that. This would be for all other marketing issues,
> and if we have something specific to the magazine we can hit up that
> meeting.

Yes, def agree with jzb here. Magazine is rocking and rolling, and we
want that to continue humming along at full-speed :)

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Re: [commops] End of Year Marketing Retrospective

2015-12-15 Thread Remy DeCausemaker 
On Dec 15, 2015 03:33, "Gabriele Trombini" <g.tromb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Remy (and all mktg guys),
>
> Il giorno mar, 15/12/2015 alle 02.41 -0500, Remy DeCausemaker ha
> scritto:
> > mktgs,
> >
> > Across the Project, one of the tools we use to get better at what
> > wedo
> > is a Retrospective. This is a report compiled by contributors that
> > more or less lists the things that went well/not-so-well, and ideas
> > for improvement. You can find examples on the wiki (QA has some
> > recent
> > pages like https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_QA_Retrospective
> > and https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_Retrospective)
> >
> > Marketing Retrospectives were once based upon SOPs (Standard
> > Operating
> > Procedures) for doing marketing tasks like creating the
> > alpha/beta/final
> > announcements, briefing ambassadors, and other interesting and
> > crucial
> > work. Some are a bit dated, but you can find them here:
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Marketing_SOPs
>
> Yes, that's right, in particular the SOP page for retrospective is [1]
> and I would have done the retrospective, but really was busy so I miss
> the date, but thank you for heading this up.
> As the F23 mktg tasks shows [2], it was due in November. I'm going to
> open a mktg ticket for regain the time lost, and work on it soon (in
> fact we have a bit of time before before a new F24 task happens).
>
>
> > Since we didn't totally stick to an SOP for releases this year, we're
> > just going to gather extra 'after the fact' feedback and data to make
> > improvements to our process, going back to Fedora 22 when possible.
> >
> > Here are a few questions we'd like to take a stab at answering on our
> > wiki page:
> >
> >  - What did we do right?
> >  - What can we do better?
> >  - Where did we have gaps?
> >  - How did we bridge them?
> >
> > After we've gotten this retrospective fleshed out, we'd like to
> > reinstate regular mktg meetings on IRC in early 2016. Keep an eye on
> > the lists for updates.
>
> Agreed, I had the same thought. Honestly I'd like to clarify some
> questions inside the mktg just like how many of us are working on
> magazine and how many on tasks?
> I'd like shooting mails to mktg people joined the FAS group asking for
> a better engagement along the tasks time. It is not possible the "usual
> suspects" are the only members working on.
>
> >
> > If folks have any questions about this email, or additional questions
> > they think would provide value to the retrospective, please update
> > the
> > wiki before Friday 12/18 (or even just respond here, and commops will
> > update the wiki from this thread.)
> >
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/2015_marketing_retrospective
> >
>
> We have a mktg page [3] reporting the main links to the  pages, it
> renews automatically every cycle, so the new pages should be opened
> following those red links.
> Wiki is really messed up and mktg part probably more than others, and
> we should try to get it tidy.
>
> Thank you very much.

Thank YOU mailga. I checked to see when the last meeting block was, and you
were def in the logs on the last entry.

Glad to see you're still here too :)

Looking Forward,
--RemyD.

>
> Gabri
>
> > [snip]
>
> [1]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_retrospective_SOP
> [2]
> https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-23/f-23-marketing-tasks.html
> [3]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing#Release_deliverables
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End of Year Marketing Retrospective

2015-12-14 Thread Remy DeCausemaker 
mktgs,

Across the Project, one of the tools we use to get better at what wedo
is a Retrospective. This is a report compiled by contributors that
more or less lists the things that went well/not-so-well, and ideas
for improvement. You can find examples on the wiki (QA has some recent
pages like https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_QA_Retrospective
and https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_Retrospective)

Marketing Retrospectives were once based upon SOPs (Standard Operating
Procedures) for doing marketing tasks like creating the alpha/beta/final
announcements, briefing ambassadors, and other interesting and crucial
work. Some are a bit dated, but you can find them here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Marketing_SOPs

Since we didn't totally stick to an SOP for releases this year, we're
just going to gather extra 'after the fact' feedback and data to make
improvements to our process, going back to Fedora 22 when possible.

Here are a few questions we'd like to take a stab at answering on our wiki page:

 - What did we do right?
 - What can we do better?
 - Where did we have gaps?
 - How did we bridge them?

After we've gotten this retrospective fleshed out, we'd like to
reinstate regular mktg meetings on IRC in early 2016. Keep an eye on
the lists for updates.

If folks have any questions about this email, or additional questions
they think would provide value to the retrospective, please update the
wiki before Friday 12/18 (or even just respond here, and commops will
update the wiki from this thread.)

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/2015_marketing_retrospective

Looking Forward,
--RemyD.

P.S. --

Too often FOSS Communities must take care not to settle into negative
feedback loops. Below is an excellent quote from some further reading
on the subject of pointing fingers and blamery, recommended to me by
mattdm:

"...it's like peeing in your pants. You feel relieved and perhaps even
nice and warm for a little while, but then it gets cold and
uncomfortable..."
~Sydney Decker, "A Look at Looking in the Mirror" by J. Paul Reed.''

http://www.slideshare.net/jhand2/its-not-your-fault-blameless-post-mortems
https://codeascraft.com/2012/05/22/blameless-postmortems/

Retrospectives are all about identifying direction and moving forward
in a positive manner :)

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Re: [Social Media] Last call for FLOCK bids

2015-12-04 Thread Remy DeCausemaker 
On Dec 4, 2015 9:57 AM, "Matthew Miller"  wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 08:58:28AM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > So the first "last call" was some time ago.  There are current bids as
> > indicated in the article as well.  It seems disingenuous to send it
> > out even further without giving folks an idea what the new bidders
> > should be concentrating on that wasn't there in the previous bids.
> > However, I don't want to put anyone on the spot.  Is there something
> > we can highlight appropriately?  (This is probably a question for
> > CommOps and the Flock team.)
>
> AFAIK, it's down to cost. We need somewhere where a) the venue is
> affordable and b) flights are cheap (the benchline is round-trip from
> BOS, RDU, BOM, CDG, and PRG).
>
> Based on experience in Rochester, it's also ideal if the venue _is_ the
> hotel. (As I understand it, in that case, the venue was actually
> _included_ when we booked enough rooms; I don't know if that can be
> duplicated in Europe.)

To my understanding, this is all accurate, yes.
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Re: [commops]Re: [Social Media] Last call for FLOCK bids

2015-12-04 Thread Remy DeCausemaker 
On Dec 4, 2015 14:46, "Justin W. Flory"  wrote:
>
> On 12/04/2015 08:58 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>>
>> So the first "last call" was some time ago.  There are current bids as
>> indicated in the article as well.  It seems disingenuous to send it
>> out even further without giving folks an idea what the new bidders
>> should be concentrating on that wasn't there in the previous bids.
>> However, I don't want to put anyone on the spot.  Is there something
>> we can highlight appropriately?  (This is probably a question for
>> CommOps and the Flock team.)

The reasoning for another call for bids was previous 2016 bids were either
over budget, or incomplete.

Based on feedback from last year, attendees really appreciated the hotel
and conference venue being in the same place, so that would strengthen any
future bids structured this way.

>
>
> My understanding about this article was that it was supposed to be a call
for bids to bring to the drawing board. I believe both of the French
locations had been ruled out due to budget constraints, and there is
currently an (unfinished) proposal for Vienna. I know that some mentioned
the possibility of doing a second year in the US.

Only as a last resort will we ask for NA bids. Hopefully it doesn't come to
that.

>
> Perhaps the article should be edited to make this clear? When I
originally wrote it, I was trying to focus on just encouraging others to
write more bids, but if it might be better to express the urgency of
needing more bids, it might be good to fact check and then pop those in
there, and then shoot it out on the channels.
>
> This was why I thought it might be good to shoot out over social media
channels - it seems like EMEA could use some more Flock bids if it will be
held over there in 2016. I'm not sure when the actual deadline date is as
of this moment.

Actual deadline is asap. As soon as we settle on the messaging in the
article (which is already published, but not promoted) we should push it
out via social media channels.

HTH,
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Re: [Magazine] Reminder: 2016 new meeting time poll

2015-11-30 Thread Remy DeCausemaker 
On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Justin W. Flory <jflo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> As a reminder, please take a minute to add your availability for a new
> meeting time in 2016 for the Magazine editorial board meetings.
>
> Hopefully we can have enough responses to try to make a decision at either
> this meeting or the next. Should take just a minute to fill out.
>
> http://whenisgood.net/fedora/marketing/2016/magazinemtg
>

My day-to-day schedule is going to change once I get down to Raleigh,
so I'd rather not chime in on this just yet. I'll try to fit it in
regardless.

Looking Forward,
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"Thankful" Hashtag Campaign: #FOSSgiving

2015-11-19 Thread Remy DeCausemaker 
bkp,

We're overdue for a catchup on a variety of things, but I have a
specific request from Fedora magazine.

Today, in our Editorial meeting we discussed how with next week being
the Holiday, we wanted to do something special, but we also wouldn't
have as much time/people/resources to publish major articles.

So what we came up with was a social media campaign to encourage
people to be "Thankful" during Thanksgiving, and tag/shout-out/thank
any Free/Open Source Software people/projects in a tweet.

We would then cherry pick some of the best ones, to be embedded in a
Fedora Magazine Post and published on Thanksgiving.

I got no matches on #FOSSgiving, so that one is my vote, but some
other hashtags we were throwing around were:

#FedoraFriends (some noise)
#Friendora (some noise)
#ThankYouFOSS
#FOSSTgiving
#TYFOSS
#FOSSTY
#ThanksFromFedora
#FedoraThanksyou
#thnxfrmfedora
#FedoraLove (noisy)

Some Possible Tweets Introducing the Hashtag:

Have a favorite Free Software or Open Source Project, Community, or
Contributor? Take a moment to say Thank You this year with #FOSSgiving

Have a favorite #FreeSoftware or #OpenSource Project, Community, or
Contributor? Take a moment to say #ThankYou this year with #FOSSgiving

Have a favorite Free Software or Open Source Project, Community, or
Contributor? Take a moment to be #Thankful this year with #FOSSgiving

Have a favorite #FreeSoftware or #OpenSource Project, Community, or
Contributor? Take a moment to say Thank You this year with #FOSSgiving

Some example tweets could be like:

This #FOSSgiving I'm thankful for @tpope and his #vim plugins that
help me every day to write every line of text in a fraction of the
time

This #FOSSGiving I'm thankful for @inkscape which I use to design and
create at home and at work (and for saving me thousands of dollars!)

I'm cc'ing the mktg, commops, and design list on this thread, so that
we can all work together to help promote this and make it happen.

Thoughts?
--RemyD.

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Re: [Magazine] Two New Pitches: Planet and Lasers

2015-11-06 Thread Remy DeCausemaker 
On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 6:14 PM, Paul W. Frields  wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 09:21:30AM -0500, Justin W. Flory wrote:
> > On 11/06/2015 12:11 AM, Ryan Lerch wrote:
> > >This would be good i think +1 for the pitch from me.
> > >
> > >Would be good to make it clear in the post that the planet is kind of a
> > >mix of different content -- stuff about upstreams, community stuff,
> > >fedora user stuff, and even random stuff sometimes :)
> >
> > Seems like a pretty straightforward article so I will see if I can't get
> > this drafted up over the weekend. Should be a fairly easy one to write.
> >
> > >>
> > >>Create your own laser light show with Fedora:
> > >>http://fedoramagazine.org/?p=10758=true
> > >>
> > >This is an *awesome* idea for a post. An interview with someone that
> > >made something cool using Fedora? a big +1 to the pitch from me.
> >
> > Great, I think the student was also super excited about it too, so it
> seemed
> > like a great opportunity to feature a member of the community doing
> > something awesome. :)
>
> +1's for both!
>

Doesn't seem like Featured Image is going to a problem either:

https://imgur.com/a/pBG3L

Big +1 from decause :)
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Re: Post about ansible + Fedora 23

2015-11-03 Thread Remy DeCausemaker 
$ sudo dnf install pandoc
$ pandoc --to=html -i post.rst -o post.html

<3 Pandoc 4 eva

Give it a look to make sure nothing was lost in translation, but it should
have gotten the draft pretty close.

Happy Hacking,
--RemyD.

On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Justin W. Flory  wrote:

> On 11/03/2015 11:04 PM, Dusty Mabe wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I thought it would be useful to educate people on Ansible with a Fed Mag
>> post. I wrote up something at the link below. Take a look and let me
>> know what you think.
>>
>> https://gist.github.com/dustymabe/e844bc6d7ab15017d38b
>>
>
> Hi Dusty,
>
> This looks like something that would be pretty useful for the Magazine -
> do you think you could work on converting it into a WordPress draft? I
> definitely think this is something we add to the upcoming publishing queue!
>
> Cheers,
> 
>
> Justin W. Flory
> jflo...@gmail.com
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Inspired mostly from this post by Lars Kellogg-Stedman.
Intro
Fedora 23 is using python 3 as the default python version that gets installed (see changes), but Ansible still requires python 2. For that reason Ansible errors out when you try to run it because it assumes python 2 by default:
GATHERING FACTS *
failed: [f23] => {"failed": true, "parsed": false}
/bin/sh: /usr/bin/python: No such file or directory
Fortunately there are a few steps you can add to your playbooks in order to fully workaround this problem. You can either choose to apply then in a single play or in mulitple plays as shown below.
Workaround - Single All-in-One Play
In the case of a single play, which is something I use often when applying configuration to vagrant boxes you can workaround this problem by taking the following steps:

Explicitly disable the gathering of facts on initialization
Use Ansible's raw module to install python2
Explicitly call the setup module to gather facts again

The gathering of facts that happens by default on ansible execution will try to use python 2. We must disable this or it will fail before executing the raw ssh commands to install python 2. Fortunately we can still use facts in our single play, though, by explicitly calling the setup module after python2 is installed.
So with these minor changes applied a simple all in one play might look like:
- hosts: f23
  remote_user: fedora
  gather_facts: false
  become_user: root
  become: yes
  tasks:
- name: install python and deps for ansible modules
  raw: dnf install -y python2 python2-dnf libselinux-python
- name: gather facts
  setup:
- name: use facts
  lineinfile: dest=/etc/some-cfg-file line="myip={{ ansible_eth0.ipv4.address }}" create=true
And the output of running the play should be successful:
PLAY [f23]  

TASK: [install python and deps for ansible modules] *** 
ok: [f23]

TASK: [gather facts] ** 
ok: [f23]

TASK: [use facts] * 
changed: [f23]

PLAY RECAP  
f23: ok=3changed=1unreachable=0failed=0
Workaround - Multiple Plays
If you use multiple plays in your playbooks then you can simply have one of them do the python 2 install in raw mode while the others can remain unchanged; you don't have to explicitly gather facts because python 2 is now installed. So for the first play you would have something like:
- hosts: f23
  remote_user: fedora
  gather_facts: false
  become_user: root
  become: yes
  tasks:
- name: install python and deps for ansible modules
  raw: dnf install -y python2 python2-dnf libselinux-python
And, re-using the code from the sample above the second play would look like:
- hosts: f23
  remote_user: fedora
  become_user: root
  become: yes
  tasks:
- name: use facts
  lineinfile: dest=/etc/some-cfg-file line="myip={{ ansible_eth0.ipv4.address }}" create=true
Conclusion
So using these small changes you should be back up and running until Ansible adds first class support for python 3.
Enjoy!Dusty
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Re: Self-Introduction: Justin W. Flory

2015-10-15 Thread Remy DeCausemaker 
> 
> Welcome on board Justin!
> 
> See you soon.
> 
> Gabri

Welcome jflory7, and I look forward to your continued involvement :)

The Pool is on the Roof,
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> [1]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
> [2]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Tasks_and_roles (to be updated)
> [3]https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/report
> [4]https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-23/f-23-marketing-tasks.html
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Re: [commops] working on f23 final release announcement

2015-10-14 Thread Remy DeCausemaker 
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- Original Message -
> From: "Matthew Miller" <mat...@fedoraproject.org>
> To: "Fedora + Community + Operations = Fedora CommOps" 
> <comm...@lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Cc: "Fedora Marketing team" <marketing@lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 12:33:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [commops] working on f23 final release announcement
> 
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 05:22:47PM -0400, Remy DeCausemaker wrote:
> > I'm new here, so bear with me, but Fedora has been really been making
> > the "Friends" foundation a focus of the latest release, by improving
> > our infrastructure and community. I realize this is not necessarily
> > the distro itself, but there are a few activities that come to mind:
> > 
> >  - We deployed Bodhi2 (5 years in the making, huge performance increases,
> >  fine-grained karma, and more...)
> >  - D - Advisor search ongoing, and we've approved funding to hire two
> >  Outreachy interns, helping with Hubs/dev portal & Community Operations
> >  (CommOps)
> >  - Fedora Hubs has already had a successful intern (mrichards) pave the way
> >  for future interns and contributors.
> >  - Fedora-bootstrap is our latest project wide CSS and website theme,
> >  providing cohesion to our web properties.
> >  - Fedmenu is a glimpse into the widgetized future that comes with
> >  embeddable widgets via Fedora Hubs
> >  - http://whatcanidoforfedora.org is like the Fedora Sorting Hat :)
> >  - Fedora Magazine has hit milestone readership and publications (actual
> >  numbers TBD)
> >  - Others that I am not thinking of at the moment
> > 
> > I know this list above includes things that we have shipped along
> > with things we have not yet shipped, but we've made mentionable
> > progress on a number of fronts. I dunno if these 'Community'
> > improvements are part of a release announcement or not, but they are
> > def worth mentioning somewhere (particularly the strides that have
> > been made in front-end, and in Rel-eng.)
> 
> Nice angle — I really like this. I had suggested (or, maybe I glommed
> onto someone else's suggestion beacause I like the idea — I forget —
> anyway, it was suggested) that Fedora development might benefit from a
> "tick-tock" cycle, with one release focusing on process improvements,
> and the next release focusing on OS features. People weren't, overall,
> comfortable with putting Fedora into that model, I think mostly because
> feature changes sometimes come faster than that, but also irregularly.
> In any case, though I think this is clearly a "tick" release, with more
> process and infrastructure improvements than big change within the
> actual distribution.
> 
> On a similar note, at FUDCon Lawrence a few years ago, Tim Burke
> suggested a "red/yellow/green" model for labeling how much scary change
> a release contains. (As an alternative to having major/minor releases.)
> I'm not a big fan of that, because I think we're mostly at the point
> where even our scary releases are actually very solid and are "green"
> in the absolute sense. But from that point of view, this is a "green"
> release too. With our current marketing / press  model, which relies on
> splashy changes to generate talking points, this ironically means the
> releases we'd like _most_ to get into the hands of users get less
> attention.
> 
> So anyway, that's a long way of saying that, yeah, I like the general
> idea. I'm not sure a list of technical infrastructure improvements will
> play any better with the press than a list of software version bumps,
> though. Open to ideas. :)

I'm also open to ideas. I think that getting a solid list of improvements and 
performance enhancements from Fedora-infra about Bodhi2 would a great section 
to include in the notes. It's kinda meta, but still such an epic set of 
improvements from a 5 year undertaking.

I'll reach out to the Infra team and try to get some stats/metrics/facts/bullet 
points.

Same for some bullet points on the Fedora-boostrap redesign too. We're making a 
common look/feel, and it is helping to provide some cohesion in our web 
properties.

I'll also reach out to the Magazine folks, and see if I can get some quick 
bulletpoints/stats for readers/articles published.

> 
> 
> 
> > Is there a standard template for asking the WG's and Subprojects for
> > their bulletpoints? Do we even need to do that, or do we just take
> > the beta notes, and then fancy them