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Marketing

In this section, we cover the Fedora Marketing Project.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing

Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco

Cirgon Will Ship a Fedora Linux HTPC - Encore Media Server

Paul Frields reposted [1] an article [2] detailing the planned August 2008 release of a new Fedora Linux-based $2000 home theatre personal computer (HTPC), Encore Media Server, from Cirgon [3].

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-July/msg00105.html

[2] http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/2008/07/14/cirgon-will-ship-a-fedora-linux-htpc-encore-media-server/

[3] http://www.cirgon.com/index.html

Open Source in Brazil's Supreme Court

Teseu publicized that the Supreme Court in Brazil is starting to initially replace Microsoft Office for OpenOffice in the Supreme Court offices there. This will hopefully expand to other software applications as well, he indicates.

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-July/msg00112.html

[2] http://teseu.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/o-primeiro-passo-para-um-mundo-maior/

Improved audio from Paul Frields' 2008 FudCon talk

Valent Turkovic reported [1] that he enhanced the audio on Paul Frields' FudCon 2008 talk [2] that is available on FedoraTV [3], and posted how he did it. Jeff Spaleta remarked that "[y]ou just validated what we are trying to do here by having everything openly licensed and publicly available." [4]

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-July/msg00115.html

[2] http://herlo.fedorapeople.org/files/fudconf10paulfrields.ogg

[3] https://miroguide.com/channels/6891

[4] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-July/msg00120.html

#1 Supercomputer in the World Runs Fedora

Rahul Sundaram shared [1] his posting on OSNews [2] documenting that the $100 million IBM Roadrunner [3], the current fastest supercomputer in the world, runs Fedora Linux.

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-July/msg00122.html

[2] http://osnews.com/story/20054/_1_Supercomputer_in_the_World_Runs_Fedora

[3] http://www.top500.org/system/9485

July 17th Marketing Meeting: A new Fedora Brand Motto

Michael Beckwith posted the log of the July 2008 Marketing meeting. One of the major topics of the meeting was the Fedora brand of "infinity / freedom / voice" vs. the motto of "friends / freedom / features / first", developed earlier this year. Paul Frields later posted [2] that these new "four foundations" need to come to the front and become the new motto for Fedora. He invites ideas to express the four foundations graphically, and is going to be moving the request into the Artwork project queue.

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-July/msg00141.html

[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-July/msg00142.html