FWN/Beats/Marketing

Marketing

In this section, we cover Fedora Marketing Project.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing

Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco

Correction from last week: LWN.net

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.

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue130#Linux_Weekly_News_Recommends_Fedora_9_for_Laptops_over_others

India Third-Largest Contributor To Fedora Community

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.

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

[2] http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/26965/news.htm

Screencast Ideas wiki

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] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00059.html

[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/ScreencastIdeas

[3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00113.html

[4] https://www.miroguide.com/channels/6891

Flyers for FUDCon 2008

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/msg00064.html

FedoraLife concept

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/msg00080.html

[2] http://linuxglobe.wordpress.com/

[3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00083.html

[4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/ArtTeamProjects/FedoraArtStudio

[5] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00091.html

[6] 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

[2] 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

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