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== Marketing ==


In this section, we cover Fedora Marketing Project.
==Marketing==
 
In this section, we cover the happenings for Fedora Marketing Project for the last week.


http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing


Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
Contributing Writer: [[User:pcalarco | Pascal V. Calarco]]
 
=== Interview with Jim Whitehurst ===
 
Rahul Sundaram shared [1] an enlightening interview with Red Hat's CEO Jim Whitehurst [2], who reveals he's been a long-time Fedora user and talks about some of his insights in his first few months at Red Hat.
 
[1] [https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00009.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00009.html]


[2] [http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,23797416-24169,00.html http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,23797416-24169,00.html]
We are looking for a new writer to take up the weekly Marketing beat. If you are interested, drop a note to one of the FWN editors!


=== Screencast Ideas ===
=== MMM. Almost as tasty as a beefy miracle... your weekly delicious Marketing Meeting Minutes are here! ===


Michael Beckwith offered an initial list of screencast ideas to explain Fedora features to new users [1], and encourages everyone to add ideas to the wiki page [2]. Michael explained that any Ambassadors interested can "...edit the wiki page and type out what the screencast should cover. Explain with details or an example problem that the screen cast would solve, if necessary."  Nicu Buculei forwarded a helpful link [3] to a screencast of how to set up Fedora to create screencasts [4]
[[User:Rbergero|Robyn Bergeron]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013755.html</ref> the availability of the latest Marketing team minutes


[1] [https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00003.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00003.html]
"Greetings, Marketeers!


[2] [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/ScreencastIdeas https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/ScreencastIdeas]
F15 goodness is well underway. If you're interested in picking up  anything on the schedule, including doing a feature profile or want to  start digging in on one page release notes, please let us know!


[3] [https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00048.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00048.html]
Notes from the meeting are below.


[4] [http://howto.nicubunu.ro/video/howto-istanbul.ogg http://howto.nicubunu.ro/video/howto-istanbul.ogg]
See you next week!


=== Linux World News Recommends Fedora 9 for Laptops over others ===
Minutes<ref>http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2011-03-22/fedora_marketing.2011-03-22-20.03.html</ref>


Max Spevack forwarded LWN's recent review of five current distributions on an aging Thinkpad X31 and votes Fedora 9 to be the best: "Your editor must now make a choice as to which distribution will remain on these laptops. For the X31, the choice makes itself: Fedora. It works the best while installing only free software."
Full logs<ref>http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2011-03-22/fedora_marketing.2011-03-22-20.03.log.html</ref>"


[1] [https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00015.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00015.html]
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=== Fedora contributor video ===
=== SxSW photobooth awesomeness and its future ===


Jeff Spaleta invited FUDCon attendees to consider bringing laptops with Cheese and video capture to conduct "some candid documentary styled interviews of individual contributors". [1]  There was some followup discussion focusing on what questions to ask, concise responses and the ideal outcomes for this experiment.  There was some further discussion along these lines of taking longer video using Miro.
[[User:herlo|Clint Savage]] discussed<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013744.html</ref> strategies for making the "SxSW photobooth awesomeness and its future" more universal to FAmNA events.


[1] [https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00021.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00021.html]
"As you probably know, I've been hanging around Fedora for a few years now. I helped improve the events that Fedora attends by creating the Fedora EventBox. It's been going really well, but this week, I saw a big improvement because of just a few people at SxSW. I would like to thank Mo, Emily, Spot, Jared and anyone else who helped make the booththere awesome!


=== Ubuntu 8.04 vs Fedora 9 ===
. . .


Valent Turkovic forwarded a comparative review [1] of the latest Ubuntu and Fedora have to offer from PCWorld Australia and summarized in OSNewsThe review concludes "For users who are already familiar with Linux, Fedora 9 is an excellent choice. Robust security features and installation options make it somewhat more versatile than Ubuntu, which offers a more streamlined (and therefore more restricted) installation. For most users, though, including millions interested in trying Linux for the first time, Fedora lacks the polish and ready-to-run simplicity of its more popular rival." There were a significant number of comments on this last statement in the comments section on OSNews.
But there's more we can do with this, and that's where I think the value lies.  For one, it is cool that each participant get's a nice little card printed right there with a QR code so they can go retrieve it. But it would also be nice to let them share their photos on social networking sites like Facebook, identi.ca, foursquare, twitter, etcI can also see gaining contributors from this concept, in that they are now 'part' of Fedora's legacy.  Maybe having them show up on the FedoraProject front page when an event is happening?  I seriously think that this is stuff that everyone in Fedora would love."


[1] [http://osnews.com/story/19818/Ubuntu-8.04-vs.-Fedora-9 http://osnews.com/story/19818/Ubuntu-8.04-vs.-Fedora-9]
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Latest revision as of 14:19, 24 March 2011

Marketing

In this section, we cover the happenings for Fedora Marketing Project for the last week.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing

Contributing Writer: Pascal V. Calarco

We are looking for a new writer to take up the weekly Marketing beat. If you are interested, drop a note to one of the FWN editors!

MMM. Almost as tasty as a beefy miracle... your weekly delicious Marketing Meeting Minutes are here!

Robyn Bergeron announced[1] the availability of the latest Marketing team minutes

"Greetings, Marketeers!

F15 goodness is well underway. If you're interested in picking up anything on the schedule, including doing a feature profile or want to start digging in on one page release notes, please let us know!

Notes from the meeting are below.

See you next week!

Minutes[2]

Full logs[3]"

SxSW photobooth awesomeness and its future

Clint Savage discussed[1] strategies for making the "SxSW photobooth awesomeness and its future" more universal to FAmNA events.

"As you probably know, I've been hanging around Fedora for a few years now. I helped improve the events that Fedora attends by creating the Fedora EventBox. It's been going really well, but this week, I saw a big improvement because of just a few people at SxSW. I would like to thank Mo, Emily, Spot, Jared and anyone else who helped make the booththere awesome!

. . .

But there's more we can do with this, and that's where I think the value lies. For one, it is cool that each participant get's a nice little card printed right there with a QR code so they can go retrieve it. But it would also be nice to let them share their photos on social networking sites like Facebook, identi.ca, foursquare, twitter, etc. I can also see gaining contributors from this concept, in that they are now 'part' of Fedora's legacy. Maybe having them show up on the FedoraProject front page when an event is happening? I seriously think that this is stuff that everyone in Fedora would love."