Media production

The purpose of this page is to catalog our processes for producing Fedora media worldwide.

General process

Funds for Fedora media come from the FAmSCo budget.

NA

Clint Savage has been handling the media production with Advanced Media Solutions for the past few releases.

The NA regional ambassadors decide what quantities and flavors of media they want, and Red Hat pays for it with either a purchase order or a credit card.

We make one giant batch of media for all of NA, and then ship it as needed to regional ambassadors in the USA and Canada.

LATAM

We need to clarify and define a process that not only gets media created and paid for, but also distributed throughout the region.

Previously, media was created by Rodrigo Padula using a printer that was purchased by Red Hat, but this is pretty slow and limited in its reach.

There has been talks about given resources to Central America (Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama). Producing media in one of those countries will be easily move to the others. There is no real advantage on trying to send media from Central America to other countries as shipment cost will increase the overall cost. Neville A. Cross has been working on this. Exploring about a media production like Brasil has, or just to hire a company to produce the media. Talks have lead toward the last option.

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EMEA

For the last several releases, the media was produced in Munich, with one of the folks in Red Hat's marketing team handling the details with the local media production company.

We're going to make this process more community-friendly starting with Fedora 13. Sascha Spreitzer has volunteered to be the main point of contact between Fedora and the media company in Munich. Red Hat will continue to pay for the media using a purchase order, so that the Fedora contributors don't have to handle any money.

Here are the specific steps:

We start by introducing Sascha to the folks at the media production company, and clarify exactly what they need from us in order to make an order, and how much time they need to produce it. We make it clear that Red Hat is still paying directly. In progress.
EMEA Ambassadors determine the different spins and quantities that we want to produce.
We provide the media company with ISOs and artwork, as well as a list of shipping addresses and quantities.
Red Hat's EMEA marketing opens the purchase order and charges it to the Community Architecture expenses.

India

We need to clarify and define a process that not only gets media created and paid for, but also distributed throughout the region.

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APAC

We need to clarify and define a process that not only gets media created and paid for, but also distributed throughout the region.

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Fedora 13 plans

Artwork for Fedora 13:

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FYI, the following URL is for Fedora 13 Alpha, eventually update with newer and final designs information.

Artwork for Fedora 13 Alpha