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Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco


=== Correction from last week: LWN.net ===
=== ScreenCast on Miro updates ===


In last week's marketing section, we incorrectly referred to LWN.net as "Linux World News" [1]  LWN.net used to be known as "Linux Weekly News," but is now known simply as LWN.net.  We apologize for the error.
The ScreenCast thread from last week continues to advance, with ScreenCast samples now available on Miro as Fedora TV. This past week, Lucas Saboya (1) and his folk have started a web form for contributors to upload entries.  Jeff Spaleta [2] and others continue to work through the remainder of defining editor workflow for these submissions


[1] [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue130#Linux_Weekly_News_Recommends_Fedora_9_for_Laptops_over_others http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue130#Linux_Weekly_News_Recommends_Fedora_9_for_Laptops_over_others]
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00162.html
[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00173.html


=== India Third-Largest Contributor To Fedora Community ===
=== Fedora 9 Falls a Little Short ===


Rahul Sundaram forwarded [1] an interesting article from EFYtimes.com of an interview [2] with Michael Chen, Director, Red Hat where he discusses a wide range of issues and thoughts on expanding Linux and open source in India during a recent visit there.  In it, Chen assets that India is the third-largest contributor to Fedora, after North America and Europe.   
Rahul Sundaram shared a LinuxPlanet review of Fedora 9 [1]. The writer was a bit disappointed with the stability of this release.   


[1] [https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00053.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00053.html]
[1] http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/6492/1/


[2] [http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/26965/news.htm http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/26965/news.htm]
=== FedoraLife Concept update===


=== Screencast Ideas wiki ===
Discussion on the "fedoraLife" concept continues.  Valent Turkovic pointed to some of the work that had been done on Diva, which is applicable here, with background [1], Valent's screencast of Diva with additional links [2], and pointed out two other projects, saya-videoeditor [3] and myvideoeditor [4].  Anybody with coding experience is encoraged to joint those projects.  Rick Garcia, Project Lead from the saya videoeditor project added [5] that saya will work with a any decoding library, so that this effort need not be encumbered by patented software codecs.  Discussion continues!


Jeff Spaleta asked [1] for volunteers to watch the ScreenCast Ideas wiki page [2] for new videos and generate an RSS feed to view in miro. Greg Dekoenigsberg [3] created this channel [4]
[1] http://www.mdk.org.pl/2006/12/7/state-of-diva
[2] http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-184428.html
[3] http://saya-videoeditor.blogspot.com/
[4] http://myvideoeditor.blogspot.com\
[5] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00187.html


[1] [https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00059.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00059.html]
=== Student partnership program ===


[2] [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/ScreencastIdeas https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/ScreencastIdeas]
Susmit Shannigrahi suggested [1] an idea originating on the AFEC Fedora Ambassadors meeting to begin a programme to allow students to contribute to the Fedora project [2] Grady Laksmono noted [3] that something like what was proposed is already in place at California State-Los Angeles [4] Jonathon Roberts added [5] that this general idea has come up a few times recently. Francesco Ugolini also expressed support for the idea [6] and suggested that FAmSCo might be able to help with this effort, with some planning.


[3] [https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00113.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00113.html]
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00177.html
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora-Student_Mentor_Programme
[3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00178.html
[4] http://www.calstatela.edu/
[5] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00182.html
[6] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00201.html


[4] [https://www.miroguide.com/channels/6891 https://www.miroguide.com/channels/6891]
=== Page for tracking local Media (CD/DVD) requests ===


=== Flyers for FUDCon 2008 ===
Susmit Shannigrahi offered [1] a wiki page [2] to help track local media requests. 


Paul W. Frields offered some sample text for Ambassadors to use for flyers for FUDCON 2008 [1] Paul welcomes everyone to feel free to adapt this as appropriate.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00192.html
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia/India/LocalContacts


[1] [https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00064.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00064.html]
=== Fedora 9 How to in Spanish ===


=== FedoraLife concept ===
Diego Escobar offered [1] a Fedora 9 how-to page in Spanish [2], and invited those who might find this useful to download it.


Markus McLaughlin offered that it would be goodness to develop a "fedoraLife" concept a la Apple's iLife suite of applications and functionality [1], and suggested some new applications that Fedora could use to round out this feature set.  A concept paper is available on Markus' blog [2]  Duvelle Jones [3] mused that some of this functionality is extent in the Fedora Art Spins [4] Further discussion ensued, with Nicu Buculei reminding folks that the Fedora Art Spin project needs some new contributors to move that project forward, [5] and invited those interested to move discussion to the fedora-art-list [6]  There was some further discussion on the various packages in Fedora that could meet these needs.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00203.html
 
[2] http://suservidorwp.googlepages.com/fedora9.pdf
[1] [https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00080.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00080.html]
 
[2] [http://linuxglobe.wordpress.com/ http://linuxglobe.wordpress.com/]
 
[3] [https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00083.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00083.html]
 
[4] [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/ArtTeamProjects/FedoraArtStudio https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/ArtTeamProjects/FedoraArtStudio]
 
[5] [https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00091.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00091.html]
 
[6] [https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/ https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/]
 
=== Red Hat, the biggest contributing vendor to Xorg ===
 
Rahul Sundaram forwarded [1] an article [2] indicating that Red Hat has been the largest corporate contributor to the X project
 
[1] [https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00118.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00118.html]
 
[2] [http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=x_server_contributors&num=1 http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=x_server_contributors&num=1]
 
=== Hands on: Secrets of Fedora 8 ===
 
Rahul Sundaram forwarded [1] another recent review of Fedora 8 [2] that concluded, "However, Fedora is perhaps the most pioneering distribution when it comes to experimenting with new technology, and for that reason some people may wish to stick with the previous release for a while longer. Fedora 8 has not remained stagnant at all, and has continued to receive very regular updates, including enhancements to security and many other areas."
 
[1] [https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00134.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00134.html]


[2] [http://www.pcw.co.uk/personal-computer-world/features/2218856/hands-secrets-fedora http://www.pcw.co.uk/personal-computer-world/features/2218856/hands-secrets-fedora]
[2] [http://www.pcw.co.uk/personal-computer-world/features/2218856/hands-secrets-fedora http://www.pcw.co.uk/personal-computer-world/features/2218856/hands-secrets-fedora]

Revision as of 18:07, 23 June 2008

Marketing

In this section, we cover Fedora Marketing Project.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing

Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco

ScreenCast on Miro updates

The ScreenCast thread from last week continues to advance, with ScreenCast samples now available on Miro as Fedora TV. This past week, Lucas Saboya (1) and his folk have started a web form for contributors to upload entries. Jeff Spaleta [2] and others continue to work through the remainder of defining editor workflow for these submissions

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00162.html [2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00173.html

Fedora 9 Falls a Little Short

Rahul Sundaram shared a LinuxPlanet review of Fedora 9 [1]. The writer was a bit disappointed with the stability of this release.

[1] http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/6492/1/

FedoraLife Concept update

Discussion on the "fedoraLife" concept continues. Valent Turkovic pointed to some of the work that had been done on Diva, which is applicable here, with background [1], Valent's screencast of Diva with additional links [2], and pointed out two other projects, saya-videoeditor [3] and myvideoeditor [4]. Anybody with coding experience is encoraged to joint those projects. Rick Garcia, Project Lead from the saya videoeditor project added [5] that saya will work with a any decoding library, so that this effort need not be encumbered by patented software codecs. Discussion continues!

[1] http://www.mdk.org.pl/2006/12/7/state-of-diva [2] http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-184428.html [3] http://saya-videoeditor.blogspot.com/ [4] http://myvideoeditor.blogspot.com\ [5] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00187.html

Student partnership program

Susmit Shannigrahi suggested [1] an idea originating on the AFEC Fedora Ambassadors meeting to begin a programme to allow students to contribute to the Fedora project [2] Grady Laksmono noted [3] that something like what was proposed is already in place at California State-Los Angeles [4] Jonathon Roberts added [5] that this general idea has come up a few times recently. Francesco Ugolini also expressed support for the idea [6] and suggested that FAmSCo might be able to help with this effort, with some planning.

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00177.html [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora-Student_Mentor_Programme [3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00178.html [4] http://www.calstatela.edu/ [5] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00182.html [6] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00201.html

Page for tracking local Media (CD/DVD) requests

Susmit Shannigrahi offered [1] a wiki page [2] to help track local media requests.

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00192.html [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia/India/LocalContacts

Fedora 9 How to in Spanish

Diego Escobar offered [1] a Fedora 9 how-to page in Spanish [2], and invited those who might find this useful to download it.

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00203.html [2] http://suservidorwp.googlepages.com/fedora9.pdf

[2] http://www.pcw.co.uk/personal-computer-world/features/2218856/hands-secrets-fedora

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