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.
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