Re: groupware backends in fedora

2009-02-02 Thread Rex Dieter
Jonas Karlsson wrote: > Has there been any discussion about starting with Kolab rpm's in the > Fedora distribution? On Kolab's website the last entry is for Fedora 6. None that I'm aware, would be very nice to have (but would be a fair amount of work to make happen). -- Rex -- Fedora-marketin

Re: Developers vs Grandmas

2008-10-23 Thread Rex Dieter
Doug Berry wrote: > Let me give an example: Fedora 8-KDE, the GIMP spin-off Krita. Great > little version except that it was almost un-usable for a real artist. Why, > because the pop-up menu boxes, you needed to do the work, obstructed the > image area. Sometimes, they got so big you couldn't ev

Re: wikipedia goodbye redhat and fedora

2008-10-18 Thread Rex Dieter
Frank Murphy wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 17:25 +0530, Arnav Kalra wrote: >> why don't we have a long release (even no.) released every year which >> has support for 2 more long releases. scrap odd no. releases for >> fortnightly test releases like opensolaris. > > Basically there's no interest

Fedora9/KDE4 talk @ akademy2008

2008-08-26 Thread Rex Dieter
Looks like my talk at akademy is now available. http://stecchino.blip.tv/file/1200031/ available there in flash/ogg. Sound isn't the best unfortunately. I was nervous enough to forget the standard "can everyone hear me ok?" question to start. oh well. :) Would be a good candidate for adding t

Re: I was just thinking about a Fedora News Channel

2008-06-27 Thread Rex Dieter
Nicu Buculei wrote: > Markus McLaughlin wrote: >> If anyone loves the idea too, let's propose : FedoraNews.wordpress.com >> , which anyone can add a blog posting, >> a photo, a video in Theora & QuickTime from a FUDcon, audio using OGG >> Vorbis & AAC... > > How

Fedora 9 Released with KDE 4.0.3

2008-05-13 Thread Rex Dieter
http://dot.kde.org/1210692815/ digg it: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Fedora_9_Released_with_KDE_4_0_3 "The Fedora Project has announced the release of Fedora 9, codenamed "Sulphur". As your periodic table will tell you, Sulphur is the element below Oxygen, a fitting release name for the third major

Re: Mandriva supports eee

2008-03-20 Thread Rex Dieter
Valent Turkovic wrote: > http://justingill.com/blog/2008/03/18/mandriva-linux-spring-2008-release-on-the-asus-eee-pc/ > > Interesting article. > > I know there is eeedora but that is not an official fedora spin but a > project maintained by only one eee and fedora user [1] > [1] http://www.redha

Re: Fedora Marketing Meeting this week: RSVP

2008-02-27 Thread Rex Dieter
Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: > Proposed meeting times (all eastern US time): > 1300-1700 Thursday > 1000-1700 Friday > If you'd like to attend, please RSVP with times you can make. Meeting > will be held on #fedora-mktg on freenode. Count me in, any of those times ok. -- Rex -- Fedora-marketing-

Re: ubuntu marketing

2008-02-22 Thread Rex Dieter
Valent Turkovic wrote: > Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> Zhukov Pavel wrote: >>> i'm talking with around 10 people "what feature in ubuntu better than >>> similar in fedora". most of them told me: "one click install for >>> codecs, nvidia drivers, etc". >> ... which Fedora is never going to support. >

Re: KDE 4 interview

2008-02-14 Thread Rex Dieter
Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Rex Dieter wrote: >> Rahul Sundaram wrote: >>> Jonathan Roberts wrote: >>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JonathanRoberts/F9Interviews/KDE4 >>> There are actually five active contributors to KDE SIG IIRC. 3 >>> volunteers a

Re: KDE 4 interview

2008-02-13 Thread Rex Dieter
Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Jonathan Roberts wrote: >> Hey all, >> >> I've just put up the text for the KDE 4 interview which I'd like to >> get out as soon as possible but I'm really short on time the next few >> days. >> >> If anyone could help me out that would be awesome :) It just needs >> movi

Re: Fedora 7 KDE spin and Akademy

2007-07-10 Thread Rex Dieter
Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Rex Dieter from the KDE SIG in Fedora gave a talk about the Fedora 7 KDE > spin Akademy, the KDE conference. Apparently, Fedora is the only major > distribution planning to include KDE 4 by default in the next version. I'd qualify that as saying no one else

Re: Infinite Freedom???

2007-06-20 Thread Rex Dieter
Rodrigo Padula wrote: > Ok > > Reading the answers i see how the VOICE of the community is heard and is > "very important" in the project! Rodrigo, Actually... I'd like to thank you for speaking up, especially about something you are clearly passionate about. Just because not everyone agre

Re: Infinite Freedom???

2007-06-20 Thread Rex Dieter
Bryan J Smith wrote: > I tried to be nice in my first response, making a suggestion for > consideration by the board. Technical feasibility, after redistribution > and related indemnification issues, is the priority before we put > philosophy in front of simple, GPL compatible bundling. An absolu

Re: Infinite Freedom???

2007-06-19 Thread Rex Dieter
Rodrigo Padula wrote: > - FREE SOFTWARE DEFINITION - By Free Software Foundation ... > These firmwares below affect us directly, affect our freedom! software != firmware. The Board's current position is that firmware (that doesn't run on the host CPU) is a reasonable exception (to modifiability)

Re: Suggestion @ Fedoraproject / Wiki

2007-02-26 Thread Rex Dieter
Siddharth Upmanyu wrote: > I would like to suggest to change the Header and Footer images on the wiki > to match the latest release of Fedora... fedora-artwork has that as one of their tasks, to theme the wiki. -- Rex -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com ht

[Fedora-marketing-list] Re: Re: Red Hat's Fedora to Get Longer Support

2007-01-11 Thread Rex Dieter
Paul Stauffer wrote: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 08:49:53AM -0800, Ama M wrote: >> - Who takes the final decision on the name and When?? > The Fedora Board will need to make the decision eventually. afaic, the decision to use "Fedora" has pretty much been settled, though it's not yet been etched

[Fedora-marketing-list] Re: Re: Can I use the template of the fedorawiki for my private website?

2006-11-06 Thread Rex Dieter
Tejas Dinkar wrote: > On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 08:49:28PM -0500, Alex Maier wrote: >> On 11/3/06, Benny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >Hi lxmaier! >> >The template of moin looks very nice. So I want to use it for my >> >personal moin wiki. Can I use it for that? > > I say let him :p > As long as h

[Fedora-marketing-list] Re: Fedora in numbers, kde defaults in future Fedora releases

2006-09-27 Thread Rex Dieter
Chitlesh GOORAH wrote: > On 9/27/06, Rex Dieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You betcha! (: >> >> Personally, I'm of the mind to go KISS (keep it simple, stupid) and >> recommend going with kde default crystal(icon)/plastik(widgets). > > It depends si

[Fedora-marketing-list] Re: Re: [Ambassadors] Fedora in numbers!!!

2006-09-27 Thread Rex Dieter
Rahul wrote: > Chitlesh GOORAH wrote: >> On 9/27/06, Rahul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Theme for KDE? GNOME? both? Icons or Window manager? What are the other >>> alternatives recommended? >> >> >> I mean KDE. I've noticed no change of kde theme or icon sets since >> FC3, but gnome did have c

[Fedora-marketing-list] Re: Fedora 6 to strengthen virtualisation features with Xen 3.0.3

2006-09-13 Thread Rex Dieter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> From: Rahul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> http://www.itweek.co.uk/itweek/news/2163965/fedora-strengthens > Quote from article: > " Red Hat is preparing to release version 6 of its free Fedora Core > Linux operating system next month. " > Does Red Hat release Fedora, or the Fe

[Fedora-marketing-list] Re: RH making fun of us ?

2006-08-31 Thread Rex Dieter
Thomas Canniot wrote: > Did I miss something, or RH CTO has problem with Fedora first Myth ? > > http://ipcommunications.tmcnet.com/news/2006/08/25/195490.htm?p=ica > > "We're convinced that there is a better way to develop software, so what > we did is we blew up the notion of an Alpha and we u