Thinking out loud about a Fedora Handbook

ition to release-centric flyers. Would anyone like to take a look at this and, figure out how to move forward with the content ? The original idea I had was to re-use existing content so as to not burden everyone with writing fresh snappy lines. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.random

Fwd: Web page for distro life cycle stage

Forwarding this to the marketing list with the idea of initiating a discussion around the visual representation of this suggestion. /sankarshan -- Forwarded message -- From: Shakthi Kannan Date: Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:21 PM Subject: Web page for distro life cycle stage To

Fedora Event at Sastra [was:Re: Is Fedora for you?]

Apologies about the thread fork. On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Sreeram Vasudevan wrote: > I am student from SASTRA Tamil Nadu, India and I found that Fedora 11 is > really cool and ideal for educational and research oriented purposes. Many > of my friends want to do their academic mini projec

Re: TOI Artiicle - Open source is more stable and better supported

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 9:26 AM, beta tester wrote: > Really great article will help a lot to me in convincing other people. If you would be using OOo as an example, do please take time to read up on how to handle migrations from MS-Office to OOo and, what are still OPEN issues. The idea is to pre

Re: F11 Podcasts?

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote: > Maybe you would be interested in doing one on ibus?  The information > you need to do the actual recording is on the wiki: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_make_a_podcast I'm passing this to the i18n folks. It would be apt to get

Re: F11 Podcasts?

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 9:38 PM, 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. There a couple of i18n/l10n improvements in F11, does it make sense to see if there could be a podcast ? -

Re: Face of Fedora

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Yannik Stadelmaier wrote: > Ok, so as we talked yesterday at the meeting, i help to run this project. > > Do we call the whole campaign (written & audio & video interveiws) Face of > Fedora? was what Kushal had start

Re: Proposal: The New Fedora Marketing

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 4:48 AM, Jack Aboutboul wrote: [a snip here] > There are 3 main areas in which we can improve: > > 1. Better organization and workflow - we know what we need to do, just that > often times we don't know when. Also, records and methods of tracking are > sufficient, sub-op

Re: FEL in Electronics For You

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:39 AM, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote: > Sounds like they like FEL :) They do. EFY does have a reasonably loyal subscriber base. > Has anyone bought the magazine? Is it the official FEL livedvd spin? > because I see there are other text on the dvd cover. I can check that out si

Re: Community input wanted: How to compile questions for an interview.

Jeff Spaleta wrote: Okay, I have the ear of a certain Dr. Gregory B. Newby concerning the use of Fedora and scientific computing. yay !! Here's what I'd like to do. I'd like to compile a list of questions taken from the community to ask him and them I'm going to hold a somewhat longish video

Re: Small Businesses WILL need a Red Hat Linux suited for them!!!

Markus McLaughlin wrote: I remember Red Hat Linux all too well, I think it needed to go away for a while, but now that Vista isn't doing so well, it is time to revive RHL but have it sold to Small Businesses instead. So I will put out the Proposal on my Linux Blog and see if that need could be

Re: Fedora Contributor Stories

Ricky Zhou wrote: At FUDCon, one of the things that I loved was hearing peoples' stories of how they got involved with Fedora. Could it be a good marketing campaign (aiming to attract new contributors) to collect and publish these somewhere? Maybe this could somehow be related to Mairin's "I am

Re: Student partnership program. Extending fedora mentor program to students.

susmit shannigrahi wrote: Generally the final/pre-final year engineering students need to do some project work on a topic. What I personally saw that they desperately search for one. we can make a lot of new contributors if we provide them with a project to work, some guidence and may be a cer

Re: Fedora on Slashdot topics

Dimitris Glezos wrote: I just noticed that Fedora isn't listed on the Slashdot topics: http://slashdot.org/topics.shtml And Slashdot editors fall back in using the Red Hat symbol with their Fedora announcements. Any reason not to request adding Fedora there? Getting a bunch of folks on Fedo

Re: Associating the Red Hat and Fedora brands?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: | So let me ask you: | | If, in splash screens for Fedora, we put a tasteful "sponsored by Red | Hat" with the Shadowman logo somewhere small... how would you all feel | about that? isn't this similar to what https://www.re

Re: "your fedora story" idea?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Beckwith wrote: | Are we going to have real people take real photos of real fedora users | smiling? or should we just find ourselves some stock photos? :P real people, real stories and real photographers as well :) when does one begin ? the

Re: Boxed version of Fedora

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rahul Sundaram wrote: | To some extend but we have found creative ways around that. Refer | http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Contribute But this still does not tell the potential individual contributor who can and wishes to only contribute money "And,

Re: Boxed version of Fedora

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ian Weller wrote: | I really think this idea is neat, and is something missing from | Fedora... it's not absolutely necessary, per se, but many other | distributions have CDs you can buy that support the project. If i recall the "contribute to Fedor

Re: ubuntu marketing

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: | Let Spaceman worry about being popular. Let's concern ourselves with | being right, and being productive -- even when it's difficult. Amen. - -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http:/

Re: ubuntu marketing

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Zhukov Pavel wrote: | there is one interesting graph about fedora and ubuntu: | http://www.google.com/trends?q=fedora%2C+ubuntu Please please read http://www.google.com/intl/en/trends/about.html#6 as well - -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine lite

Somewhat OT but a strange marketing effort nonetheless

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - Original Message Subject: [ILUG-BOM] [Commercial] Fedora Core 8 DVDs at cheap prices. Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:40:15 +0530 From: Amit Joshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> T

Re: We suck at explaining stuff

city bills is always a fun thing :) ~sankarshan - -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/L

LCA/Fedora MiniConf URLs

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://linuxsoftware.co.nz/blog/2008/01/28/fedora-miniconf http://jp79.net/things/?p=18 are a few URLs popping up via Google Alerts ~sankarshan - -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public

Re: Distrowatch on Fedora this year

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Do we have a overtly technical image? What we need to do to change it? Yes and let's not start hiding it. We need to talk more about the small but important improvements that have been happening. Any desktop user who desires t

Re: FUDCon Marketing?

the user base for Fedora has been on the upswing across Asia - so, a typical lame question would be - what does it take to propose a FUDCon somewhere in Asia (note : I am not specifically saying India) and when does that process begin ? :sankarshan - -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature

Re: [Ambassadors] Machines roll out at Bijra High school

t a while trying to get some information about LTSP and Fedora (see the -education list) - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw www.linkedin.com/in/sankarshan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Ver

Re: I want to know MORE about F8 and F9!!!

you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw www.linkedin.com/in/sankarshan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHDb6OXQZp

Re: Spins vs official content

at never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw www.linkedin.com/in/sankarshan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHDYYSXQZpNTcrCzMRAs2JAJ45XIwE7LBiCM2SM8aNext1392WFgCeP7G6

Re: Fedora: Freedom is a Feature.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chitlesh GOORAH wrote: > Sounds good, but isn't primarily for fedora. But it just fits the SUCCES bits of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_to_Stick :) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora

Re: Fedora: Freedom is a Feature.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: > > What do people think of this as "The Slogan" of Fedora? > > Max and I gave a Fedora talk at the Triangle Linux Users Group not too > long ago. Luis Villa was in attendance as well, and in the audience > participation se

Re: First interview up

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan Roberts wrote: > I've just posted the Bluetooth interview to the interviews page. > (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Interviews/BastianNocera) s/Bastian/Bastien ? Wonderful read though - thanks :) :Sankarshan -BEGIN PG

Re: Editorial on competition and choice

we > can get to them slowly. Let's focus beyond the developers too towards the i18n and l10n teams and how they think their work makes Fedora "the" OS - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - Geo

Re: Editorial on competition and choice

boys" do > and they are useful for the project. ACK - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw www.linkedin.com/in/sankarshan -BEGIN

Re: Minority: helping upstream to market their product

You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw www.linkedin.com/in/sankarshan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD

Re: Editorial on competition and choice

race fanboys. Pertinent point - so what would you be doing to embrace the developers of tomorrow ? :Sankarshan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG5jgVXQZpNTcrCzMRAnkyAJ9a6A8Px5g2JvlVP65liIPc

Re: Editorial on competition and choice

ftware forward, > then the project would still be a resounding success. Ubuntu's numbers have > absolutely nothing to do with Fedora's success. Oh Lord !! I love this statement. Well said and encore... :Sankarshan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Co

Re: Editorial on competition and choice

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rahul Sundaram wrote: > My understanding is that it is an attempt to emphasize on the value of > popularity. I don't necessary agree with the view point but it is a > valid perspective and a common one. It is a valid perspective and a common one and

Re: Possible marketing idea.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Giacomo Succi wrote: > I think the idea "Certified on Fedora" would be great if some vendor > (I think to the smaller one not to the big such Dell or like that) > could use it if, and only if, if all the hardware run great on Fedora. Hardware Certifi

Re: Possible marketing idea.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Giacomo Succi wrote: > Everyone, unfortunatly, have clear in their mind the M$ stickers like > "Designed for XP" and things like that. > Anyone plan to create something like that for Fedora? The "Designed for Windows XP" sticker as far as I know is h

Doing a Fedora Project Day at foss.in

w to contribute to Fedora o A Bug Triage section o Fedora and a11y :Sankarshan - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comm

Re: Its good to be back and a few events.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 susmit shannigrahi wrote: >>> On 25th August we are arranging a install fest at West Bengal > University of Technology(WBUT),Kolkata.Though the capacity is limited > to 30-35, We are looking for a series of such events.Distros will be > Fedora and pro

Re: [Fwd: [foss.in] FOSS.IN/2007: Event Announcement]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tejas Dinkar wrote: > Someone, puhlese read this document: > http://foss.in/2007/info/Project_Days The CfP is still not there - any ETA on that. > And propose A Fedora Project Day. Rahul was talking something along these lines based on demand etc

[Fwd: [foss.in] FOSS.IN/2007: Event Announcement]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - Original Message Subject: [foss.in] FOSS.IN/2007: Event Announcement Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 22:44:07 +0530 (IST) From: Atul Chitnis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FOSS.IN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dear all, It's th

Re: A face-to-face conversation with Max Spevack of Fedora

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rahul Sundaram wrote: If you loose it, your data is encrypted, so > it's not as much of a catastrophe loose (sic) it ? :) - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw

Re: Technetra | Review: Flying High with Fedora 7

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > http://www.technetra.com/writings/archive/2007/07/01/review-fedora-7 > > Fedora 7 is a first class distro that demonstrates solid progress in > improving the user experience, easing the move to virtua

Technetra | Review: Flying High with Fedora 7

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.technetra.com/writings/archive/2007/07/01/review-fedora-7 Fedora 7 is a first class distro that demonstrates solid progress in improving the user experience, easing the move to virtualization and enabling the user to create their own custom

Re: Fwd: Has fedora lost its charm ? ? ?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan Roberts wrote: > *Easy media installation (similar to codecbuddy except they point to > gstreamer-ffmpeg etc rather than fluendo) Doesn't the above require an additional repo to be configured/uncommented ? Or, does it do the pointing by defa

Re: a call to action [Fwd: LWN headline: Blame Fedora = High Praise]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bryan J. Smith wrote: [snipping a very large and very well written bit] > Fedora advocates don't have to "bark back" to make a point. They just > need to repeat, even like a broken record, "we product a 100% > redistributable distribution with 0% in

Re: a call to action [Fwd: LWN headline: Blame Fedora = High Praise]

quot;blame Fedora" is more to do with "it works in F00 Distribution so why can't you". The only way to counter this is perhaps keep on spreading the message through as many means we can - blogs, Ambassadors being among the well trod ones. :Sankarshan - -- You see things;

Re: [Fedora-marketing-list] Derivate distributions and GPL

might just be able to deliver a derivative distribution. I am not suggesting that upstream take on the onus for providing the source, rather what I would like to know whether there can be a means for the derivative distributions to point to upstream sources as pristine and hence be able to (re)distribute them

Re: Default wallpapers to breeze Developers & Enthusiastic Fedora users

oto op :) ) Regards Sankarshan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Red Hat - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD0ILZ+g4kmZ76nyERArxAAKCIl++tGteDNJd7zqylWL4GKGVXNQCeKx41 I7W+v7FrR9TusnM/toaXTyk= =2oun -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Fedora-marketi

Re: Marketing Fedora Worldwide

to the Marketing field! http://live.gnome.org/MarketingTeam - some ideas can be adopted :) Rgds Sankarshan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Red Hat - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDVL52+g4kmZ76nyERAkJmAJ9ZtKkjAyYnkVbWxGX

Re: Linux User Groups

shing out. So what are the Action Items to take this forward ? Regards Sankarshan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Red Hat - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDFcEX+g4kmZ76nyERAjKWAJ4vg+XiQHOFNYCRQ++0XMmdkLSNjACgo6zN r6+L/ul+VYX0lvY5AxID

Re: [Re: Fedora Foundation around the world]

ncept is creating the right waves, creating Marketing Packs or FUDCon (Fedora ?) in a Box would provide the right impetus towards setting the interaction in process. Regards Sankarshan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Red Hat

Re: Linux User Groups

-) Let's have the introductory blurb, I'll blog it at http://planet-india.randomink.org and perhaps get it to be mentioned at LinuxForYou (www.linuxforu.com) as well post to a few of the Indian LUGs. Regards Sankarshan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) C

Re: Desktop Linux

could not find a better word) about the *learning curve*. Regards Sankarshan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD4DBQFDAq/N+g4kmZ76nyERAiqlAJYn6vtULg8hXSoNobBAG0gZSIVIAJ0cHb72 JobRYTPrlbTgjcMBDSX4Lw== =

Re: Linux User Groups

Have dedicated BugSquad members from the LUGs Regards Sankarshan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDAfMK+g4kmZ76nyERAgONAKCeEdRqcHz0hfYsPpBod6hAU7Sx7QCgnlgL 3VXc1C5rGuuYL4mox5/e8SE= =Oxn6

Re: Someone's missing the point...

> install. [b] is an idea that will be greatly welcomed. Having a *Toast Your Own Fedora* is probably a right approach to the dilemma of having a Live CD *and* an Install CD. An installable LiveCD is generally neither here nor there. Regards Sankarshan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Ver

Re: Fedora review

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc Wiriadisastra wrote: > I don't know if this has been posted on the list or not but situations > like this need to be looked at because it can only hinder the progress of > Fedora over time unfortunately. > > http://distrocenter.linux.com/distroc