[Fedora-marketing-list] Re: Fedora Free Media Program - December 2006

2007-01-05 Thread Nicola Losito
Il giorno 06/gen/07, alle ore 01:05, Behdad Esfahbod ha scritto: Everyone not in the US is free to ship to those destinations. But advertising it on a US-based server is considered indirect exporting. Laws are silly, yes. So, in short, just ship and tell the list that you shipped. Or, sinc

[Fedora-marketing-list] fedora legacy

2006-12-19 Thread Nicola Losito
How comes that in these last days I've never heard a word about Fedora Legacy slow dying ? I think it's a great loss, that it will affect a not so little portion of audience and that will need some changing in the release cycle of ours future releases of Fedora. Am i the only one seeing t

[Fedora-marketing-list] Re: Name for future Fedora distribition?

2006-12-04 Thread Nicola Losito
Il giorno 03/dic/06, alle ore 16:46, Charles VINCHON ha scritto: I don't like the FC X.Y format but i think that releasing one version by year instead of two is a good idea. a longer life cycle would be welcomed by me but only if we can provide a "current" tree with latest kde or gnome or

[Fedora-marketing-list] Re: Name for future Fedora distribition?

2006-11-30 Thread Nicola Losito
Il giorno 30/nov/06, alle ore 12:56, Matthew Miller ha scritto: On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 02:37:21AM -0500, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: How about "Fedora Synergy"? That name implies the effort from both community and developers and the fact it is the base of several distribution like Red Hat En

[Fedora-marketing-list] new italian Fedora site/forum

2006-11-26 Thread Nicola Losito
Hi list, due to a really unpleasant discussion between the owner of the FedoraItalia.org domain and the core member of the Associazione ILDN which ended up in a complete divorce (with papers and "contracts" get done with a lawyer) the latter has decided to start another resource: -

[Fedora-marketing-list] Re: Community - Was - Ubuntu Release Party...

2006-11-12 Thread Nicola Losito
Il giorno 12/nov/06, alle ore 09:18, Rahul Sundaram ha scritto:Not sure what this means. Are you talking about the Fedora Weekly News wiki or the Fedora Project wiki? A weekly tips section of weekly news doesnt require wiki access and you can just email the editor. How do you want to simplify acces

[Fedora-marketing-list] Re: Community - Was - Ubuntu Release Party...

2006-11-12 Thread Nicola Losito
Il giorno 12/nov/06, alle ore 06:03, Rahul Sundaram ha scritto:I guess we havent had many tips coming in these days. I am sure contributors to that section is welcome. I beg your and other's pardon.Won't be then more helpful to have "tips" coming if a specific section of the wiki undergoes a simpli

[Fedora-marketing-list] Re: Community - Was - Ubuntu Release Party...

2006-11-11 Thread Nicola Losito
Il giorno 11/nov/06, alle ore 10:27, Karlie Robinson ha scritto:My best advice for Michael and Rahul... Tip of the week!  Not only would you be helping novice users, but you'd get people into the documentation to do a little more learning on their own.I'm sure a tip of the week would be a welcome a

[Fedora-marketing-list] Re: Ubuntu Release Party in Beijing, what about Fedora?

2006-11-10 Thread Nicola Losito
Il giorno 30/ott/06, alle ore 09:34, Leo ha scritto:If we assume Fedora is for Desktop users, I think reducing the numberof CDs is a must. Make it within 2 CDs would be nice. At least thereshould be an install option that does not require all 5 CDs.Reading some old threads here will make you become

[Fedora-marketing-list] Re: Ubuntu Release Party in Beijing, what about Fedora?

2006-11-10 Thread Nicola Losito
Il giorno 30/ott/06, alle ore 10:13, Jasper Hartline ha scritto:Not all installation types require 5 CDs.5 CDs comprises the whole of the Fedora Core distribution.Sounds plenty conservative to me, compared to Mandriva's 10 CD set or something.[CUT]Why don't you just move on and forget about Linux r

[Fedora-marketing-list] Re: 10,000 Fedora downloads in five hours

2006-11-07 Thread Nicola Losito
Il giorno 06/nov/06, alle ore 01:39, Rahul Sundaram ha scritto:Hihttp://news.com.com/2061-10795_3-6129149.htmlThe torrent presents a even more interesting picture when comparing number of downloads of Fedora Core 6 with previous releases.http://koolinus.wordpress.com/2006/11/01/fedora-core-6-downlo

[Fedora-marketing-list] Re: Info

2006-11-04 Thread Nicola Losito
Il giorno 03/nov/06, alle ore 12:34, Sam Folk-Williams ha scritto:But there is *no* upgrade path from Fedora to RHEL. In other words, to upgradefrom Fedora to RHEL you have to do a clean reinstall. That's not to sayI wouldn't recommend Fedora (of course), but you don't want to implythat there is an

[Fedora-marketing-list] Re: false fedora mirror...

2006-09-27 Thread Nicola Losito
Il giorno 23/set/06, alle ore 18:27, Max Murdock ha scritto:I'd like to make you notice a thing, maybe you can't see it becauseyou're not Italian...I had to download the cd isos this week so I went to look for someitalian mirrors and I found that the one of ngi is RESTRICTED!...http://fedora.ngi.it

[Fedora-marketing-list] Re: Fwd: [Famsco-list] video driver

2006-09-20 Thread Nicola Losito
Il giorno 19/set/06, alle ore 14:17, Alex Maier ha scritto:Tejas,We need to make sure to be friendly and open towards other people'srequests, even if their questions are addressed somewhere else, likein a forum or in an FAQ.[CUT]The [EMAIL PROTECTED] requests usually come from first-time users and

[Fedora-marketing-list] Re: Italian Linux Day

2006-09-18 Thread Nicola Losito
Il giorno 18/set/06, alle ore 15:19, Francesco Ugolini ha scritto:Nicola Losito ha scritto: Hi people,the 28th of October in Italy we will have the sixth edition of the Linux Day.The LinuxDay is a national wide event that "calls to arm" every single LUG and free software group in the territory to t

[Fedora-marketing-list] Italian Linux Day

2006-09-18 Thread Nicola Losito
Hi people,the 28th of October in Italy we will have the sixth edition of the Linux Day.The LinuxDay is a national wide event that "calls to arm" every single LUG and free software group in the territory to talk about and spread the GNU/Linux verb (sorry, no BSD and such).Unfortunately the main site

[Fedora-marketing-list] Re: slashdot

2006-08-30 Thread Nicola Losito
So here i am again. I've let settle down a little dust in the discussion with Raul.From a Marketing point (yes, techicians ALL hates marketing) point how can/want we "force" the developers to appeal more customers ? And i do not mean professional ones which uses XEN or SElinux in a "conscious" way

[Fedora-marketing-list] Re: Slashdot interview with Fedora Project leader Max Spevack

2006-08-23 Thread Nicola Losito
Il giorno 23/ago/06, alle ore 12:09, Rahul ha scritto:OKbut to me it seems you're avoiding to see my point :-) Just that your point was perhaps not clear to me.It's a pity, because Gian Paolo has understood me, maybe his words are more clear than mine:[GPM original message]However now knowing that 

[Fedora-marketing-list] Re: Slashdot interview with Fedora Project leader Max Spevack

2006-08-23 Thread Nicola Losito
Il giorno 22/ago/06, alle ore 06:16, Rahul ha scritto:Nicola Losito wrote: When you install and run Ubuntu you got enabled a bunch of features that doesn't make feel the user on his own (Gnome sounds enabled, when i'm supposed to enter the sudo password the screen goes dark leaving only the appropr

[Fedora-marketing-list] Re: slashdot

2006-08-23 Thread Nicola Losito
Il giorno 23/ago/06, alle ore 00:37, Max Spevack ha scritto:That's because on the last question "Have you tried Ubuntu yourself? Is there, in your opinion, something Ubuntu does better than Fedora?" Max didn't actually answered. He cites the main site/wiki efficency and the fist second impression o

[Fedora-marketing-list] Re: Slashdot interview with Fedora Project leader Max Spevack

2006-08-21 Thread Nicola Losito
Il giorno 21/ago/06, alle ore 17:24, Rahul ha scritto:Nicola Losito wrote: http://interviews.slashdot.org/interviews/06/08/17/177220.shtml Does the interview actually ends up with Max saying "Which is why I think a lot of the OSS "religious wars" don't make a lot of sense." ??If so i am a bit disap

[Fedora-marketing-list] Re: Interesting Article

2006-08-21 Thread Nicola Losito
Il giorno 21/ago/06, alle ore 08:22, Nicu Buculei ha scritto:Marc Wiriadisastra wrote: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/06/ubuntu_linux_a_threat_to_mac_o.html ... Are we missing something? or how should I put am I missing something?Is ubuntu that much better than fedora?  If it is why is it? 

[Fedora-marketing-list] Re: Slashdot interview with Fedora Project leader Max Spevack

2006-08-21 Thread Nicola Losito
Il giorno 18/ago/06, alle ore 16:34, Rahul ha scritto:Hihttp://interviews.slashdot.org/interviews/06/08/17/177220.shtml Does the interview actually ends up with Max saying "Which is why I think a lot of the OSS "religious wars" don't make a lot of sense." ??If so i am a bit disappointed :-)That's b