Re: Contributor Spotlight Podcast

2010-01-01 Thread Max Spevack
(Catching up on email after vacation) question: should all interviews be made in english? might be the easy way to understand us all. Also we could use some translation after the interviews so everyone can reach the content. I tend to believe that the international scope of Fedora is importan

Re: Contributor Spotlight Podcast

2009-12-22 Thread Max Spevack
On Sat, 19 Dec 2009, Mel Chua wrote: Even easier startup: interview chain. You interview someone, they become the next interviewer and have to interview someone else, and so on down the line. (Note: this only works if it's really easy to set up for making a podcast, so that's something to chec

Re: Marketing FAD 2010 - First Brainstorm

2009-12-10 Thread Max Spevack
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Robyn Bergeron wrote: I know there is probably (a) a budget of sorts, and (b) budgets for a lot of us who wouldn't have "corporate sponsorship" from our employer (ie - students and such) - so while Hawaii does sound absolutely fabulous, a ticket from Phoenix to Hawaii durin

Re: Potential press release for Red Hat to distribute

2009-11-09 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 9 Nov 2009, Kara Schiltz wrote: I think this is a good news item that we could make some noise with in the press. It is something that I'd be willing to put out through the Red Hat channels. However, it's important to note that this press release and any other future Fedora press relea

Re: Fedora Insight schedule slip: new launch date 10/14

2009-09-25 Thread Max Spevack
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, Mel Chua wrote: *...and concerns, questions, comments, etc totally welcome, as always. Is there special content planned for launch day/launch week, so that we get off to an exciting start? Or are we just going to launch with a post that says "hello, world"? I feel lik

Re: Red Hat Delivers Grant To Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science

2009-09-10 Thread Max Spevack
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, Ricky Zhou wrote: http://news.cs.cmu.edu/article.php?a=1029 As a CMU student, this (and what the plans are for this lab) are all of great interest to me, so if anybody knows who's driving this, I'd really love to hear more information about this! That's me, and when we

Re: Fedoracommunity.org index page

2009-09-10 Thread Max Spevack
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, Mel Chua wrote: 2. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/, a site that helps keep track of who is packaging what, and what state those packages are in. Whether on purpose or simply because there is a need to differentiate, most people refer to this as the Fedora Commu

Re: CC BY-SA announcement drafts (also: holy crap ian did something!)

2009-09-10 Thread Max Spevack
On Sat, 5 Sep 2009, Mel Chua wrote: How is this press release getting released, when, and where-to? Sorry I haven't been able to keep up with this discussion previously. It's nice that we've done this CC relicensing, and it's nice that we're making noise about it, but there is a difference be

Re: Fedora print magazine proposal from Linux Pro Magazine

2009-09-08 Thread Max Spevack
On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, Max Spevack wrote: (1) Nothing has been decided yet -- as a collective, we need to think about the ideas presented by LPM, as well as the timeline that we would have to operate under, the content that we would need to produce, etc. After reading up on the various threads

Re: Fedora print magazine proposal from Linux Pro Magazine

2009-09-04 Thread Max Spevack
[Trimming the recipient list down a little bit.] *** AMBASSADORS: PLEASE READ THIS EMAIL *** Linux Pro Magazine (LPM) has proposed to make a special Fedora print issue for F12 - thousands of magazines out on newsstands internationally with an F12 DVD tucked inside. This would be very, very co

Re: Fedora Pens and Mousepads

2009-08-19 Thread Max Spevack
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, tareq aljurf wrote: no its not an event only to spread fedora wider so i wont need a lot in the beginning once i found a page on the wiki on fedoraproject.org about paying bills and tickets but i couldnt find it again. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Reimbursements Take

Re: Fedora Pens and Mousepads

2009-08-18 Thread Max Spevack
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, tareq aljurf wrote: How can i get Fedora Labeled pens and mousepads to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Well, we don't have any right now, which makes it a bit difficult. :) You could find someone who is capable of producing those items locally, and then the Fedora Ambassadors Stee

Re: [Ambassadors] Re: Congratulations

2009-08-17 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Max Spevack wrote: With Jeroen van Meeuwen as the 2008 RHCE of the Year in Europe, the Fedora community has produced one winner in each of the last two years. Three years out of four for Fedora Ambassadors, my mistake! 2006 -- Marco Palazzotti (Europe) 2008 -- Jeroen

Re: Congratulations

2009-08-17 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote: Congratulations to all the winners, including our very own John Rose, whose participation in Fedora is highlightedin the announcement. John, thanks to all you continue to do for Fedora, and it's wonderful to see your many achievements recognized with

Re: Fedora 12 Marketing Schedule Review

2009-07-23 Thread Max Spevack
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, John Poelstra wrote: Hi Marketing People, I recently came across https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_F12_schedule . I would like to add all the good information you have there to the master Fedora schedule we have for all the teams. http://poelstra.fedorapeople.or

Re: Reminder: Meeting in 24 hours, #fedora-meeting

2009-07-14 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Mel Chua wrote: As usual, we will be going through https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_F12_schedule. I have a topic that I would like to see the Marketing Team address: The last event that I attended, I got a bunch of questions regarding Fedora usage on various "net

Fedora Marketing meeting Tuesday July 7

2009-07-07 Thread 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 ge

Interviews from LinuxTag & FUDCon

2009-07-02 Thread Max Spevack
(1) Linux Outlaws http://linuxoutlaws.com/podcast/ogg/99 around minute 11 -- Paul Frields & Max Spevack around minute 45 -- Mairin Duffy around minute 58 -- Jan Wildeboer === (2) Radio Tux -- Paul Frields & Max Spevack http://blog.radiotux.de/2009/06/26/interview-mit-max-spevak-

Re: Help Wanted?

2009-06-28 Thread Max Spevack
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Pascal Calarco wrote: I'm the current primary editor of FWN, and we have had some discussions in the past year within the team of developing a magazine style publication with JonRob, and even an irregular glossy print publication was proposed by Max and David Nalley. This

Fedora 11 - Wow!

2009-06-11 Thread Max Spevack
http://press.redhat.com/2009/06/11/fedora-11-%E2%80%93-wow/ by Jim Whitehurst, President and CEO of Red Hat "I’d like to think I’m pretty tech savvy for a CEO and have always been an early adopter of the latest and greatest tech innovations. It comes as no shock to those who know me well that

Re: Plans for Monday and Release Day

2009-06-05 Thread Max Spevack
On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Jack Aboutboul wrote: Cross posting this to a couple of lists, so that we can mobilize as many people on the ground as possible. Trimming back down to just marketing. Everything you wrote looks pretty good. I'm curious to know what ended up happening w/ the twitter and i

Re: Fedora 11 Tour

2009-06-05 Thread Max Spevack
On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote: By the way, I would argue that this tour subsumes any "release summary," and no additional document like that is needed. I agree. I think this page does a good job of giving a tour/overview/summary. --Max -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fed

Re: Fedora 11 Tour

2009-06-05 Thread Max Spevack
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Jack Aboutboul wrote: I've been working on the Fedora 1 Tour page. Link is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_tour I think it looks good -- I made a few little tweaks, and I'm going to add my podcast w/ Dimitris & Diego to the list. The screenshots page is v

Re: Fedora 11 Release Announcement FINAL

2009-05-30 Thread Max Spevack
On Sat, 30 May 2009, Eric Christensen wrote: (1) Change Dr. Brattlesworth to some sort of pun on a Fedora name? Unless Brattlesworth has some other meaning that I simply don't get. Anyone have any suggestions? Who in the Fedora community reminds me most of the Jungle River tour guide at Dis

Re: Fedora 11 Release Announcement FINAL

2009-05-30 Thread Max Spevack
On Fri, 29 May 2009, Eric Christensen wrote: Thanks to Jack and Paul for stepping up and really getting the release announcement[1] built. We, at Docs, have reviewed the final draft and think we are in consensus that it is complete. Please look over it and see if anything jumps out at you.

sending out news (was Re: Fedora Directory Server changes its name)

2009-05-13 Thread Max Spevack
I really like the way Rahul sends the news stories to f-marketing-l and cc's the various news outlets that we want to inform of the story. That should be our standard operating procedure for getting news out. When you send a story out to anyone (News Distribution Network, general F11 press, et

Re: PK update

2009-05-13 Thread Max Spevack
On Tue, 12 May 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageKit_in_Fedora_11 The blog entry is drafted on this page, and the status updated. I'll take the finished entry and post it on Thursday at about 1400 UTC, and send a link to this list to be further processed by t

Re: Start of F11 Marketing and Press Push

2009-05-12 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Jack Aboutboul wrote: The press push for Fedora 11 will be in full effect starting tomorrow. Below is what I will post to the Fedora planet and submit to other news channels tomorrow. Something will be posted about this to announce list tomorrow. Also, this is what should

Re: DRAFT: Plan for F11 Marketing/Press Push

2009-05-11 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Jack Aboutboul wrote: Mon May 11 -- draft of May 12 news to fedora-marketing-list Tue May 12 -- release news about "General Release Run-up" & Audio Interview with Jesse Keating, Fedora Release Engineer Do we have some text that is going to accompany this release? I also

Re: podcats/in-depth-feature rollout plan

2009-05-08 Thread Max Spevack
On Thu, 7 May 2009, Jack Aboutboul wrote: Just to be clear, what do you mean by "news" since there is an awful lot of reference to it, but no clear definition. I take news to many anything which is going to be written up and presented, including not only print stuff, but podcasts as well. Ar

Re: podcats/in-depth-feature rollout plan

2009-05-07 Thread Max Spevack
Any feedback or thoughts? What do folks think makes the most sense in terms of "ordering" the news that we want to get out? What's a good thing to start with? How do we keep momentum and vary the news between different types of users? etc. --Max On Wed, 6 May 2009, Ma

podcats/in-depth-feature rollout plan

2009-05-06 Thread Max Spevack
Jack and I just spoke about the in-depth-feature and podcast rollout plan as part of the lead-up to Fedora 11. I'm going to summarize the general plan that we discussed here for any comments. Jack, note that I've made a few tweaks from what we discussed on the phone. All news is slated to h

Re: F11 Podcasts?

2009-05-06 Thread Max Spevack
On Wed, 6 May 2009, Jack Aboutboul wrote: I have 4 so far and would like peoples thoughts on what types of things they would like to hear about so that I can do some more. Remind us of the interview subjects that we've already got, and then we can probably come up with some other names. How

Re: F11 screenshots & tour

2009-05-01 Thread Max Spevack
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Steven Moix wrote: I started to upload pictures on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Screenshot_Tour This is a great, great start! Thanks veyr much, Steven. --Max -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailma

Re: Press kits

2009-04-30 Thread Max Spevack
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote: Who's reviewed the text and design at this point? Jack, you need to work to integrate the existing "press kits" with the stuff that you are meeting with Mairin about in Westford, and ultimately get Paul's buy-in on whatever it is you come up with.

Re: F11 screenshots & tour

2009-04-29 Thread Max Spevack
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Clint Savage wrote: Ugh! I just finished creating https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Screenshot_Tour I wonder if they'll work together well Yes, because your page is a subset of the larger Tour. :) -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redh

Re: F11 screenshots & tour

2009-04-29 Thread Max Spevack
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Max Spevack wrote: 2) Update the Fedora tour page. Jack's currently listed as the owner. What's the plan? I went ahead and created the stub page for F11's tour. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_tour -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora

Re: F11 screenshots & tour

2009-04-29 Thread Max Spevack
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Jack Aboutboul wrote: Is someone willing to volunteer to do this? Moixs is listed as the owner of the screenshots. Can we confirm whether or not he's still able to do it? I think the screenshots should focus LESS on every page of the installer and more on showing some

Re: User Testimonials

2009-04-29 Thread Max Spevack
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Jack Aboutboul wrote: I started trolling around in #fedora a while ago and asking people that. Henrik was supposed to be doing that stuff and he dropped off the face of the earth so we added my name to it. I don't want to archive it, I want to go forward with it. I can s

F11 screenshots & tour

2009-04-29 Thread Max Spevack
Two of the topics on the marketing schedule are: 1) Update the screenshots page. What is this page? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Screenshots has nothing on it. I put a deadline of next Tuesday's marketing meeting down for this (May 5). 2) Update the Fedora tour page. Jack's currently lis

Press kits

2009-04-29 Thread Max Spevack
What's the status of press kits for Fedora 11? Are they designed? Has the content been reviewed/approved? When will be sending them out? etc. --Max -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list

User Testimonials

2009-04-29 Thread Max Spevack
Going over the marketing schedule, and I see that "own, clean, revitalize" the User Testimonials page had a target date of March 31. What's the status of that page? Do we have a plan for the page, are are we simply going to archive it? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/UserTestimonials The ide

Re: Interview with Contributor Christoph Wickert (german)

2009-04-29 Thread Max Spevack
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, wonderer wrote: last weekend Christoph and I sat together to record a small Interview about his participation around fedora and also a little about the forthcoming Linuxtag [1] and FUDCon [2]. The 10 minute interview in german is available here: Thank you very much for d

Re: Slogan, redux

2009-04-28 Thread Max Spevack
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote: Thus far I really like "Lead the pack" the best -- but I'm going to hold this over for another 24 hours just in case someone comes in with a fantastic late-breaking entry. I like it too. Fearless Leader, has a final decision been made now? :) --M

Re: picture book update

2009-04-16 Thread Max Spevack
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Nicu Buculei wrote: We can postpone the book for two months Why don't we start laying stuff out with good photos that we have now, and simply add to it after Berlin? We don't have to put everything on hold just because FUDCon Berlin will show us some new pictures, right

picture book update

2009-04-14 Thread Max Spevack
In summary, we need to separate CONTENT CREATION and DISTRIBUTION into two separate tasks. CONTENT CREATION We need to read over their file creation guide as well as their cover template generator, and their color cover/interior suggestions/guidelines. The sales guy basicall

Re: Meeting schedule, do we need strict UTC?

2009-04-08 Thread Max Spevack
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Jack Aboutboul wrote: For what its worth, IMHO we should go by regular, non-UTC fixed, because I wouldnt want to be at a meeting which was at 23:00. We basically chose our 5pm eastern time meeting because that was when Ian and Mo could make it to the meetings. At the time

Interview with Dimitris & Diego

2009-04-05 Thread Max Spevack
Right before Dimitris and Diego returned to Greece, we sat down and I conducted a brief interview with them about Fedora Localization, Transifex, and their various contributions to Fedora. The 15 minute interview is available here: http://mspevack.fedorapeople.org/glezos-diegobz-20090403.ogg

2009-03-31 meeting log

2009-03-31 Thread Max Spevack
http://mspevack.fedorapeople.org/logs/2009-03-31-marketing.html -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list

Re: F11 Announcement

2009-03-31 Thread Max Spevack
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Jack Aboutboul wrote: I have contacted my list of press people. Its very early, I'm sure many of them will have something out today or tomorrow about this. Better question then: are people actively looking for these sorts of stories, and where will we aggregate them? -

Re: F11 Announcement

2009-03-31 Thread Max Spevack
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Steven Moix wrote: Are you aware of https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_news_distribution_network, which is used for the first time today? Have we seen any success stories from this yet? --Max -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com h

Re: Meeting TODAY 2009.03.24 @ 21.00UTC

2009-03-24 Thread Max Spevack
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Jack Aboutboul wrote: We will have our regularly scheduled marketing meeting today, as scheduled. I will be unable to attend today's meeting, but I will read the logs. I hope everyone has a good meeting, and thanks for all your efforts. --Max -- Fedora-marketing-list

Re: F11 Beta release annoucment for NDN RFC

2009-03-24 Thread Max Spevack
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote: I'm not sure if you were aware that the Docs team is already working on the official Beta release announcement, which is found here: What's our plan for solving the necessary cross-communication between Marketing, Docs, Artwork, and Websites during

Re: REMINDER: MEETING TOMORROW 2009.03.23 @ 21.00UTC

2009-03-24 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Jack Aboutboul wrote: This is just your friendly reminder that our marketing team meeting will be tomorrow at 21.00UTC, thats 5 Eastern, 2 Pacific in #fedora-mktg. Can we please have an advanced roll call again as well? Unclear. I've got meetings w/ JBoss people today,

Re: Slogan for F11

2009-03-23 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Jack Aboutboul wrote: We have some pretty good ones, so far. Anyone else have anything? I'm hoping we can discuss these tomorrow at the meeting. I like Nicu's suggestion: "A tradition of freedom". --Max -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.

Re: This Weekend

2009-03-14 Thread Max Spevack
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Now If I had to pick a few, I would highlight these in no particular order. They show leadership, uniqueness and ability to drive fundamental changes throughout many upstream projects and distribution level improvements as well. All of these get hi

Re: This Weekend

2009-03-14 Thread Max Spevack
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Max Spevack wrote: about it but I am curious as to why these particular features are being picked among the many many new features planned for Fedora 11. I think, we need to make sure we are picking the right features to focus on, first. We discussed this stuff publicly

Re: This Weekend

2009-03-14 Thread Max Spevack
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Rahul Sundaram wrote: about it but I am curious as to why these particular features are being picked among the many many new features planned for Fedora 11. I think, we need to make sure we are picking the right features to focus on, first. We discussed this stuff public

Re: [Picture book] time to open submissions?

2009-03-11 Thread Max Spevack
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Ian Weller wrote: I'd like to know by tomorrow about this time whether or not we should open it up. Unless I get a good reason for a -1, I'll go ahead and add the "now accepting submissions" banner to the fp.o rotation (woo we get to compete with F11 beta) and we'll flood

in-depth look at F11 features

2009-03-11 Thread Max Spevack
Hi list, Please take a look at this page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F11_in-depth_features The purpose of this page is to take an in-depth look at particular features in the Fedora 11 release. The page offers several suggestions of how that might be done. The F11 marketing sche

Last night's meeting log

2009-03-11 Thread Max Spevack
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Marketing_meeting_2009-03-10 -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list

Re: REMINDER Meeting Tomorrow @ 21.00 UTC DST Changes!!

2009-03-10 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, j...@redhat.com wrote: We will have our regularly scheduled meeting meeting tomorrow at our fixed time of 21.00 UTC. Please bear in mind due to US DST this is now 5pm eastern and 2 pacific. This shouldn't create too much of a conflict for but again I will ask people to let

f11 in depth feature focus

2009-03-09 Thread Max Spevack
My deliverable for this week: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F11_in-depth_features Next step is to assign ownership and then help people do a great job with their feature. --Max -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fed

F11 schedule and Template

2009-03-09 Thread Max Spevack
Hi list, I took a few minutes today to clarify some of the timeframes and categories that we break our tasks down into for both the F11 schedule and also the template. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_F11_schedule https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_schedule_template I hope it

Re: Spreading the word about FUDCon Berlin

2009-03-02 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Ian Weller wrote: If we can also take this time to start recruiting photographers (with decent cameras) to take photos for the Fedora Picture Book[1], that would be awesome. Since the release forms are finally done I think we can have a ton of great photos from the contribu

Spreading the word about FUDCon Berlin

2009-03-02 Thread Max Spevack
Hi everyone, I'd like to take a moment to talk a little bit about our Marketing and Press plans for FUDCon Berlin and LinuxTag, which is taking place in June. Last week, Red Hat issued a press release about the event, but that is just the first in what is going to be a larger marketing campa

Re: Status of the picture book

2009-02-25 Thread Max Spevack
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Ian Weller wrote: * Approve mockup of page designs * Compile images and stories * Place images and stories in book * Proof stories for typography and content * Pressure FPL to write foreword * Approve photo placement * Create index of people in back * Other last-minute check

Re: Status of the picture book

2009-02-24 Thread Max Spevack
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Ian Weller wrote: 1) Blocking on release forms. I'm assured RH Legal is working on it. In the meantime if you're willing to take photos of people and have their contact information so you can hunt them down with a New and Improved Release Form then there's no reason st

Re: New Meeting Time (JonRob/Ian please read)

2009-02-24 Thread Max Spevack
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Jack Aboutboul wrote: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jack/Meeting_matrix I've overlayed Ian's availability schedule with everything on the page above, and it seems to me the best times are: Mon 21:00 UTC Tue 21:00 UTC Thu 21:00 UTC I would propose that we (a) in

Re: Status of the picture book

2009-02-23 Thread Max Spevack
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Ian Weller wrote: 3) I have no clue how we're getting initial funding. I made some original contacts with gregdek and spevack but I'm so confused about it. Somebody who knows what they're talking about with relation to this (community architecture, etc) please reply to

Re: Fosdem Max's video

2009-02-19 Thread Max Spevack
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Pierre-Yves wrote: The only problem is that the file is around 1.7Go so maybe it could be compressed a bit more so that Totem could read it a bit more easily :) 1.7G!!! I should have talked faster :) -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com

Re: IRC LOG of 2009.02.12 Meeting

2009-02-17 Thread Max Spevack
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Jack Aboutboul wrote: Attached below is the log of the meeting. I am working on getting it up on the wiki as well. Hopefeully from next week, moixs will be able to just post them straight to the wiki with the summary in an email instead of the whole log in the email. y

Re: FOSDEM Video: Micro Distro Summit

2009-02-16 Thread Max Spevack
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Rahul Sundaram wrote: http://www.linux-magazine.com/linux_magazine_com/online/news/fosdem_video_micro_distro_summit "While the representatives from Debian and Red Hat's Fedora can share philosophies, those from openSUSE and Fedora see more eye to eye on technological term

Re: 4 foundations

2009-02-09 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) wrote: http://www.nalley.sc/david/?p=55 http://www.nalley.sc/david/?p=59 http://www.nalley.sc/david/?p=73 http://www.nalley.sc/david/?p=75 I think that the page itself should contain content itself, and not links to other articles, but that we sho

4 foundations

2009-02-09 Thread Max Spevack
I'm writing my FOSDEM trip report, and I wanted to link to a page that specifically explains Fedora's 4 foundations. Does one exist that I don't know about? If not, I think one should be created. --Max -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.

Re: Meeting Summary and Log of 5/2/2009

2009-02-08 Thread Max Spevack
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, Steven Moix wrote: The page has been updated with spevack's comments Thanks to whoever did that! It was on my post-FOSDEM to do list, but I'm appreciative that someone else took care of it for me. --Max -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redhat

picture book blocking on RH legal?

2009-02-05 Thread Max Spevack
Nicu commented on my blog that there has been a long wait on something from Red Hat Legal. What exactly are we blocking on? --Max -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list

Re: F11 background proposal

2009-01-29 Thread Max Spevack
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Keiran Smith wrote: Its a nice Image. But I think fedora should have a sleek backgroud with a web 2.0 style with a nice colourful gradient. I was joking :) -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedor

F11 background proposal

2009-01-29 Thread Max Spevack
"Leonidas at Thermopylae" http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Jacques-Louis_David_004.jpg/800px-Jacques-Louis_David_004.jpg I guess the artwork team's job is done. :) -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/list

Re: Meeting this thursday?

2009-01-19 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Jonathan Roberts wrote: Is there a meeting this Thursday? Yes, there is. Jack will provide the agenda and any pre-meeting discussion topics sometime on Tuesday. --Max -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman

Re: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2009-01-14 Thread Max Spevack
This is not the first time Fedora lists have had social networking invitation spam. Everyone, please be careful with what you do! Thanks. END OF THREAD -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list

Re: [Picture book] Where we stand right now

2009-01-13 Thread Max Spevack
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Nicu Buculei wrote: That is a tricky question and something I am also interested in (I sit on a ton of photos from Brno): we have the legal problem of needing release forms signed by the people in picture. At the Boston FUDCon they had a form which was good only then. We w

Re: [Picture book] Where we stand right now

2009-01-13 Thread Max Spevack
On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Ian Weller wrote: == Photos == Mo is amazing and got really creative photos for the book at FUDConF11. They're currently on her Flickr page[1] and we'll be eventually moving them into our wiki-based system of checking what photos we actually can/want to use (more on that lat

Re: Picture Book....

2009-01-05 Thread Max Spevack
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Ian Weller wrote: Lightning Source would then send us a royalty check, I think it's every three months. We can just have them send it to Max and he can disburse any funds. You OK with this, Max? We could just plan for this, and it would make me feel a lot better if we got

Re: Fedora Project Marketing Team

2009-01-03 Thread Max Spevack
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Clint Zeimet wrote: My name is Clinton Zeimet, and I am from Mason City, Iowa, in the United States of America. I work for Target Corporation in Guest Services, and also work as part time staff at The Music Man Square (a local tourist attraction). I also serve as a volunt

Re: [Ambassadors] Re: Picture Book....

2009-01-02 Thread Max Spevack
On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Ian Weller wrote: Can the profit be added to budgets for Ambassadors events or whatnot? I don't see any reason why not. We just want to make sure we know who is holding the money, and how much there ends up being. I think it's a pretty simple & straightforward problem t

Re: Picture Book....

2009-01-02 Thread Max Spevack
On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote: There is one large and lingering question, though, which is profit. We have no place for that profit to reside here in the USA, and probably won't for some time. Perhaps this project should be coordinated with Fedora EMEA so any profits can be devote

Re: Picture Book....

2009-01-02 Thread Max Spevack
On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote: I've been mostly avoiding IRC over the holiday to spend more time with my family during my break, but I'll be around more this weekend and definitely Monday. :-) Wait so does that mean that I'm the only person who sets a place for my laptop at t

Re: I still want a Fedora coffee table book, and you are going to help me make one.

2008-12-16 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Lisa Brewster wrote: D'oh, this is the marketing list. There are so many projects and ideas and excited people that I'm having trouble keeping up with everything that's going on! But yeah...new ambassador, noob mistake, nice to meet you, etc etc etc. =] Happy to see s

Re: FUDCon Boston 2009 tshirt designs

2008-12-15 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Máirí­n Duffy wrote: design 1: https://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/1/17/Artwork_T(2d)Shirt_fudcon-boston-2009-1_design.png design 2: https://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/1/19/Artwork_T(2d)Shirt_fudcon-boston-2009-2_design.png (Wiki page is: https://fedoraproject.org/wik

Re: Moving the marketing team forward

2008-12-14 Thread Max Spevack
Hi Jon, Great to hear from you. This is an excellent email, and I thank you for writing it. A few thoughts, inline: As things stand, it seems to me that the main activities related to marketing Fedora are: * FPL's release interviews * Ambassadors events * Documenting media coverage on the

neowin article

2008-12-14 Thread Max Spevack
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Tasks/Neowin_Article I have made a few edits and suggestions, as well. Jack, do you think you can finalize this on Monday, and then run it by Paul Frields for approval before sending it back? Thanks, Max -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-ma

Re: Neowin Article Meeting Today @ 19:00 UTC

2008-12-11 Thread Max Spevack
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Jack Aboutboul wrote: I should be around then, I'll be lurking in the channel. Ping me then please. What's the current status of this? How can I help? --Max -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/f

Re: Comments: IN DEPTH: Fedora 10 Preview

2008-11-11 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, Russell Harrison wrote: I don't know that I agree here. It's all good -- I wasn't necessarily advocating that we *actually* make any changes to the release cycle. I was just throwing it out there as something for the list to consider. Quite a few people disagreed with

Re: Comments: IN DEPTH: Fedora 10 Preview

2008-11-10 Thread Max Spevack
On Sun, 9 Nov 2008, Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) wrote: Another point that had me scratching my head was the same host indicating that Fedora had a lot of features that were in Ubuntu 8.10. This is certainly true, but the differentiator is that many of these features were *built* by Fedora contr

Re: wanted: Fedora Weekly News beat writer for Planet

2008-11-01 Thread Max Spevack
On Sat, 1 Nov 2008, CyberSpy wrote: I wouldn't mind volunteering for this. Brilliant! You should join fedora-news-list, send a note saying that you volunteer, and then we'll get you into the workflow. Thanks so much! --Max -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redha

wanted: Fedora Weekly News beat writer for Planet

2008-11-01 Thread Max Spevack
Hi, We're looking for a new volunteer to cover the Planet Fedora beat for FWN. Total commitment is about 45 minutes per week. Your job is to read Planet every day (which you probably already do), and make a note of the most interesting blog posts. Then at the end of the week, write a short

Re: Presentation

2008-10-30 Thread Max Spevack
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Luiz Augusto Machado da Silva wrote: Hello Fedora community, My name is Luiz Augusto Machado, I am Brazilian, working with the Fedora since version Fedora Core 2 and am looking to actively participate in the community Fedora, I hope to community My English is not the be

Re: [Ambassadors] Re: store SIG?

2008-10-27 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Clint Savage wrote: There was some discussion about reviving it FADNA this last month. Not sure there was a conclusion other than to say that we all were interested in discussing it more and getting it going IIRC. IMHO, the Store SIG was a more interesting idea before we

Re: social marketing (Re: FWN: Facebook page)

2008-10-07 Thread Max Spevack
On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, Benjamin Lewis wrote: Fair enough. Would it be better to create a todo list or something similar as part of Marketing/SocialNetworks or as a new page Marketing/SocialNetworks/Todo? I just think it would be wise to have this an an agenda item in our larger Fedora Marketing

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