[Marketing] Re: [MAGAZINE PROPOSAL] Fwd: [DRAFT] Why we're retiring 32-bit Images (was Re: Retiring 32-bit images)

On 22 April 2016 at 09:52, Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 09:59:40AM -0400, Joe Brockmeier wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Somehow despite me sending this last night - this was published. How can >> we prevent communication breakdowns like this in the future? >> >> This was sent prior to

Re: [Marketing] April Fool's Article

On 31 March 2016 at 07:14, Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 08:44:07AM -0300, Sylvia Sánchez wrote: >> Hi everyone! >> >> I like the idea of doing some pranks in that day (that I don't >> remember which one exactly is). I think we should throw some ideas to >> the list, and see w

Re: Marketing-trac: #208: emails not coming out of the magazine

On 2 February 2016 at 07:54, Sylvia Sánchez wrote: > Ryan: > Neither I knew. I actually didn't know there was such a redirection. > Mark: > Unsubscribe yourself clicking on the link below every email from this list. > The link is not working currently. I am trying to figure out why and how to fi

Re: [Social Media] Last call for FLOCK bids

On 4 December 2015 at 07:57, 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

Re: Community Blog

On 27 October 2015 at 17:27, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > Not just you.. looking > > On 27 October 2015 at 15:24, Till Maas wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 06:43:58AM +1000, Ryan Lerch wrote: >> >>> The long talked about Fedora Community Blog is no

Re: Community Blog

Not just you.. looking On 27 October 2015 at 15:24, Till Maas wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 06:43:58AM +1000, Ryan Lerch wrote: > >> The long talked about Fedora Community Blog is now up and running: >> >> http://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/ > > Is it just me or is https not working here?

Re: Help us rebrand rawhide

On 15 August 2015 at 13:01, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 10:24:21AM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> No we actively never made hat references to make sure that we did not >> dilute the trademark in any form. Any names had to be absolutely not >> hat re

Re: Help us rebrand rawhide

On 15 August 2015 at 02:55, Ankur Sinha wrote: > On Sat, 2015-08-15 at 03:21 +, Chaoyi Zha wrote: >> +1 on rolling > > -1 for rolling from me. Here's why: > > 1. Users will most likely misinterpret this codename to mean a > _stable_rolling_release version of Fedora, which rawhide is not. We >

Re: Help us rebrand rawhide

On 15 August 2015 at 07:07, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 05:07:18PM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> I don't know.. this seems like having Debian rename Sid to Lotso or >> Pete because it plays better with the kids these days :). > > Maybe :) >

Re: Help us rebrand rawhide

On 14 August 2015 at 16:10, Matthew Miller wrote: > So, here at Flock, we're talking about improving Rawhide so it's much > less likely to break (it will, for example, be always installable and > always updatable). > > We took the "Rawhide eats babies" readme file away a long time ago, > but it st

Re: "Desktop distributions that are strongly favored by users with servers"

On 1 May 2015 at 10:43, Matthew Miller wrote: > I dunno exactly where to post this, so I figured here is as good as > anywhere. > > The sub-reddit r/Linux runs an annual survey, and the posting > of the 2015 survey made me notice the previous results. One of the > particular focuses of this surve

Re: Turning off List Subscription?

On 23 March 2015 at 15:46, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > On 03/23/2015 11:31 AM, Robert 'Bob' Jensen wrote: > > It comes with the territory of being a list admin IMO. > > I admin several lists - this one is getting a much higher than usual > rate of requests. Not the usual smattering - more of a fireho

Re: Turning off List Subscription?

On 23 March 2015 at 08:42, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > Hi all, > > For whatever reason, we're seeing a fair number of complaints that > people are being spammed by subscription requests. It looks like there's > some sort of script hitting a number of mailman installations and > sending subscribe requ

Re: Will people be grumpy if I include Mac OS X instructions?

You are going to get pushback but I think that since pretty much all the people I am helping on weekends with Vagrant are MacOSX users.. that it needs to be done. On 16 March 2015 at 13:22, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > Hey all, > > Question - I'm wondering if folks are likely to be grumpy en masse if

Re: Query on Magazine post

On 3 March 2015 at 21:59, Trupti Kini wrote: > On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 9:29 PM, Chris Roberts > wrote: > >> Published :) >> >> >>> >>> Hi, > > Why Fedora magazines are not printed hard copy? > There are a couple of reasons that come to mind. First there are the cost factors. There are many cos

Re: store numbers -- and, what's next?

On 8 February 2015 at 02:02, Ruth Suehle wrote: > > Ruth, is it premature to talk about what we'd like to see next? > > This may be a more important discussion to have with the Ambassadors, just > so that it's understood that anything else we take on we are budgetarily > responsible for buying up

Re: DNF Article

On 7 February 2015 at 15:44, Máirín Duffy wrote: > I asked if it was a NASCAR thing bc if DNF means did not finish, it must > have something to do with racing. I have a lot of experience in running and > the leagues and road races I've ran in never used the term afaik. I have > also watched the B

Re: workstation marketing - hardware

On 23 October 2014 11:14, Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 02:57:14PM -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: > > > > > > On 10/22/2014 02:49 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > >OK I am showing my age, but ultrabooks do not fit my definition of > > >wor

Re: Fedora-sponsored specials: All Things Open

On 23 October 2014 10:15, Paul W. Frields wrote: > Agreed. > > One other wrinkle that was mentioned to me: LISA is mostly > experienced sysadmins. It has a lot of attendees, but they may not be > the right people to care about a "Free Yourself From XP" type > message. (Not that they are agains

Re: workstation marketing - hardware

On 22 October 2014 12:38, Máirín Duffy wrote: > > > On 10/22/2014 01:42 PM, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > >> My feeling is that ThinkPads are sort of the informal go-to Fedora >> laptop, but maybe that's just my bias/history showing. >> > > I think that may be more historical now; I'm thinking we shoul

Re: F21 media

On 4 September 2014 13:29, Jiri Eischmann wrote: > Stephen John Smoogen píše v Čt 04. 09. 2014 v 11:20 -0600: > > > > > > How many USB 8 gb sticks could we order with that money (the 1750?)? > > And how instead of giving it away we went to a 'earn the fob by >

Re: F21 media

On 4 September 2014 11:14, Jiri Eischmann wrote: > Matthew Miller píše v Čt 04. 09. 2014 v 12:38 -0400: > > On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 04:33:48PM +0200, Jiri Eischmann wrote: > > > That's a question. I wrote off physical media for the cloud product > > > right away, but I'm not sure about the server

Re: [Fedora Magazine] Wordpress success!

On 12 December 2012 12:25, Máirín Duffy wrote: > Hi folks, > > So a quick update: the Wordpress install is secured and ready-to-go! I > updated the OpenShift repo backing it with WordPress 3.5. Some technical > details for future reference below [1]. > > The hostname http://wp-fedoramag.rhcloud.co

Re: [Fedora Magazine] Wordpress success!

On 11 December 2012 16:49, Ruth Suehle wrote: > You are the best! Let's get a little content seeded before we publicize it of > course. And I assume we want to redirect the URL to something friendlier. > Suggestions? Magazine.fp.o, or a dedicated fedoramagazine.com? It would be good to also tak

Re: Insight and Fedora Weekly News

On 30 November 2012 14:28, Máirín Duffy wrote: > On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 16:02 -0500, Ruth Suehle wrote: >> What we're looking for now is for someone to shout, "good idea!", "bad >> idea!", or "I was already halfway through with something like that!" >> before we continue down the path. "I'd like to

Re: Improve Fedora Project

On 1 September 2012 11:48, Arnav Kalra wrote: > It would be best if we officially start a programme to collect user > suggestions. What do you say? > http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ comes to my mind. It looks like that uses the idea torrent and drupal. We have several drupal groups within marketing

Re: Fedora 18 [Alpha] Release Announcement

On 26 August 2012 15:29, Ben Cotton wrote: > Robyn, Ruth, and I have slapped together the Fedora 18 Alpha release > announcement[0]. It's now in a state that I would consider "done", so > I'll hand it over to the rest of Docs and Marketing to make whatever > improvements are necessary. > > [0]http

Re: The Inquirier on F17

On 4 June 2012 18:44, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 06/04/2012 11:44 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> >> On 4 June 2012 17:01, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"  wrote: >> >>> Not when there is a whole corporation voting for their *coworkers* in th

Re: The Inquirier on F17

On 4 June 2012 17:01, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > > Not when there is a whole corporation voting for their *coworkers* in the > elections which they either do so because of their own free will or because > their manager might have put them up to it. Oh come on. Your accusation is no differe

Re: Love and feeding of marketing team.

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 16:31, Robyn Bergeron wrote: > Helloo Marketing Fans, > > So.. I will be the first to admit that I've been a little lax (okay, > actually, super-lax) in the Marketing area lately.  Some of this has > just been my time, or lack thereof, especially when it comes t

Re: What to do with start.fp.o?

2011/6/17 Sijis Aviles : > Hi all, > > I wanted to start a discussion on what is the goal/purpose for > start.fedoraproject.org. There has been some push on redesigning and > freshening up its 'look and feel' which some of that work has been > completed. However, the problem is we need to answer wh

Re: [in the news] Linux Format magazine article - Ubuntu vs. Fedora: Which is best?

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 22:52, Sergey Podushkin wrote: > Paul-Marc Bougharios пишет: >> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 06:13, Misha Shnurapet >> mailto:shnura...@fedoraproject.org>> wrote: >> >>     13.12.2010, 00:15, "Robyn Bergeron" >     >: >>      > Thanks to the folk

Re: Hello from México, and some ideas.

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 04:57, Jesús Franco wrote: > Hello, farsighted designers of our marketing strategy. > > I have a really vague idea about Marketing, and i'll be lurking on the > list for some months until i get reality of how could i contribute > something specific at your mission. By the w

Re: FUDPub @ Sparky's Den (Part two)

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 21:17, Robyn Bergeron wrote: > Okay. Here's an update on Sparky's Den after I did some phone calling today. > > * We can rent Sparky's Den on Saturday or Sunday night; both are > currently available.  Cost would be $155/hr. > * Sparky's Den, as previously mentioned, has 8 l

Re: release slogan, round 2.

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 14:42, Larry Cafiero wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Stephen John Smoogen < >> >> To be honest.. are Release Names really used by people when talking >> about Fedora? I see that more often in the Ubuntu/Debian communities >> than

Re: release slogan, round 2.

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:22, Larry Cafiero wrote: > Just putting this out there for discussion, or not: Is $SLOGAN=NONE still an > option? Looking at the distro landscape, it appears that we're the only ones > that do it -- and if we're not the only ones doing it, that would affirm my > main poi

Re: release slogan, round 2.

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 00:00, Robyn Bergeron wrote: > In an effort to come up with something that ties into our theme, I've > done a little bit of thinking about some of our theme descriptions > (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_release_slogan#Themes). > > I started off with some words, an

Re: Fedora Buzz needs a new name

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Luke Slater wrote: > Hello all, > > I've been developing Fedora Buzz but before I go much further we really need > to come up with a new name for it because of Google having a service of the > same name; several people have mentioned it recently. > > I can't think

Re: Fedora Buzz needs a new name

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Robert 'Bob' Jensen wrote: > > - "Luke Slater" wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I've been developing Fedora Buzz but before I go much further we >> really need >> to come up with a new name for it because of Google having a service >> of the >> same name; several

Re: Brainstorming - A more representative name for Fedora Summer of Code

On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Karsten Wade wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 08:31:49PM -0600, Clint Savage wrote: >> > * FISH? (Fedora Interning Students Helping) >> >> +1 >> >> Seems very appropriate since that's really what it's all about. >> Teaching them, and not doing for them. > > I have

Re: In the news: Zarafa

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > So, Zarafa is getting a lot of press attention: > > http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=6298 > > some of it is fairly unflattering: > > http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3877446/Fedora-13-Beta-The-Seen-and-Troubling-Unsee

Re: SSSD publicity problem

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 04/12/2010 01:35 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Stephen Gallagher >> wrote: >> I'm trying to figure out ho

Re: SSSD publicity problem

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'm trying to figure out how to do a little PR around the SSSD (the > System Security Services Daemon). I've been tracking mentions of it > around the web with Google Alerts and in the

Re: SystemTap podcast numbers

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Paul Frields wrote: > There are many reasons we might see multiple hits from a single IP > address. Stopping/starting the downloads, or listening in part and > then downloading... A corporate firewall or NAT shows one IP address > so multiple hits from inside would

Re: Release slogan SOP

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 06:44:19AM -0700, Robyn Bergeron wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 5:43 AM, Paul Frields wrote: >> > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Paul W. Frields >> > wrote: >> >> I did a bit of work on the [[Release slogan

Re: Release slogan SOP

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:32 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: > I did a bit of work on the [[Release slogan SOP]] page, including > adding some automagic links that will update with each release. > > I also created a {{Slogan}} template (at [[Template:Slogan]] maybe > obviously) that we'll be able to u

Re: Linux.com article: The Top 7 Best Linux Distributions for You

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 05:57:38PM -0700, Robyn Bergeron wrote: >> http://www.linux.com/learn/docs/ldp/282996-choosing-the-best-linux-distributions-for-you >> >> >> To help users discover the Linux distribution that's best for them, >> this