Re: Contributor Spotlight Podcast

2010-01-01 Thread Max Spevack
(Catching up on email after vacation) question: should all interviews be made in english? might be the easy way to understand us all. Also we could use some translation after the interviews so everyone can reach the content. I tend to believe that the international scope of Fedora is

Re: Contributor Spotlight Podcast

2009-12-22 Thread Max Spevack
On Sat, 19 Dec 2009, Mel Chua wrote: Even easier startup: interview chain. You interview someone, they become the next interviewer and have to interview someone else, and so on down the line. (Note: this only works if it's really easy to set up for making a podcast, so that's something to

Re: Marketing FAD 2010 - First Brainstorm

2009-12-10 Thread Max Spevack
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Robyn Bergeron wrote: I know there is probably (a) a budget of sorts, and (b) budgets for a lot of us who wouldn't have corporate sponsorship from our employer (ie - students and such) - so while Hawaii does sound absolutely fabulous, a ticket from Phoenix to Hawaii during

Re: Potential press release for Red Hat to distribute

2009-11-09 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 9 Nov 2009, Kara Schiltz wrote: I think this is a good news item that we could make some noise with in the press. It is something that I'd be willing to put out through the Red Hat channels. However, it's important to note that this press release and any other future Fedora press

Re: Red Hat Delivers Grant To Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science

2009-09-10 Thread Max Spevack
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, Ricky Zhou wrote: http://news.cs.cmu.edu/article.php?a=1029 As a CMU student, this (and what the plans are for this lab) are all of great interest to me, so if anybody knows who's driving this, I'd really love to hear more information about this! That's me, and when we

Re: Fedoracommunity.org index page

2009-09-10 Thread Max Spevack
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, Mel Chua wrote: 2. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/, a site that helps keep track of who is packaging what, and what state those packages are in. Whether on purpose or simply because there is a need to differentiate, most people refer to this as the Fedora

Re: Fedora print magazine proposal from Linux Pro Magazine

2009-09-08 Thread Max Spevack
On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, Max Spevack wrote: (1) Nothing has been decided yet -- as a collective, we need to think about the ideas presented by LPM, as well as the timeline that we would have to operate under, the content that we would need to produce, etc. After reading up on the various threads

Re: Fedora print magazine proposal from Linux Pro Magazine

2009-09-04 Thread Max Spevack
[Trimming the recipient list down a little bit.] *** AMBASSADORS: PLEASE READ THIS EMAIL *** Linux Pro Magazine (LPM) has proposed to make a special Fedora print issue for F12 - thousands of magazines out on newsstands internationally with an F12 DVD tucked inside. This would be very, very

Re: Fedora Pens and Mousepads

2009-08-18 Thread Max Spevack
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, tareq aljurf wrote: How can i get Fedora Labeled pens and mousepads to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Well, we don't have any right now, which makes it a bit difficult. :) You could find someone who is capable of producing those items locally, and then the Fedora Ambassadors

Re: Congratulations

2009-08-17 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote: Congratulations to all the winners, including our very own John Rose, whose participation in Fedora is highlightedin the announcement. John, thanks to all you continue to do for Fedora, and it's wonderful to see your many achievements recognized

Re: [Ambassadors] Re: Congratulations

2009-08-17 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Max Spevack wrote: With Jeroen van Meeuwen as the 2008 RHCE of the Year in Europe, the Fedora community has produced one winner in each of the last two years. Three years out of four for Fedora Ambassadors, my mistake! 2006 -- Marco Palazzotti (Europe) 2008 -- Jeroen

Re: Fedora 12 Marketing Schedule Review

2009-07-23 Thread Max Spevack
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, John Poelstra wrote: Hi Marketing People, I recently came across https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_F12_schedule . I would like to add all the good information you have there to the master Fedora schedule we have for all the teams.

Re: Reminder: Meeting in 24 hours, #fedora-meeting

2009-07-14 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Mel Chua wrote: As usual, we will be going through https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_F12_schedule. I have a topic that I would like to see the Marketing Team address: The last event that I attended, I got a bunch of questions regarding Fedora usage on various

Fedora Marketing meeting Tuesday July 7

2009-07-07 Thread Max Spevack
Hi all, There is a Fedora Marketing meeting on Tuesday July 7th at the usual time (1900 UTC). Mel Chua will be leading the meeting. I would like to propose the following as the primary agenda topic: Update https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_F12_schedule I created this page today to

Interviews from LinuxTag FUDCon

2009-07-02 Thread Max Spevack
(1) Linux Outlaws http://linuxoutlaws.com/podcast/ogg/99 around minute 11 -- Paul Frields Max Spevack around minute 45 -- Mairin Duffy around minute 58 -- Jan Wildeboer === (2) Radio Tux -- Paul Frields Max Spevack http://blog.radiotux.de/2009/06/26/interview-mit-max-spevak-und-paul

Re: Help Wanted?

2009-06-28 Thread Max Spevack
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Pascal Calarco wrote: I'm the current primary editor of FWN, and we have had some discussions in the past year within the team of developing a magazine style publication with JonRob, and even an irregular glossy print publication was proposed by Max and David Nalley.

LinuxTag FUDCon Berlin 2009

2009-06-20 Thread Max Spevack
Hello, Pardon the wide distribution, but I'm trying to make sure that everyone who is attending FUDCon Berlin 2009 and LinuxTag sees this message. Information about retrieving your e-tickets for the event has been emailed out to the list of folks who are pre-registered for the event here:

Fedora 11 - Wow!

2009-06-11 Thread Max Spevack
http://press.redhat.com/2009/06/11/fedora-11-%E2%80%93-wow/ by Jim Whitehurst, President and CEO of Red Hat I’d like to think I’m pretty tech savvy for a CEO and have always been an early adopter of the latest and greatest tech innovations. It comes as no shock to those who know me well that

Re: Fedora 11 Tour

2009-06-05 Thread Max Spevack
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Jack Aboutboul wrote: I've been working on the Fedora 1 Tour page. Link is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_tour I think it looks good -- I made a few little tweaks, and I'm going to add my podcast w/ Dimitris Diego to the list. The screenshots page is

Re: Fedora 11 Tour

2009-06-05 Thread Max Spevack
On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote: By the way, I would argue that this tour subsumes any release summary, and no additional document like that is needed. I agree. I think this page does a good job of giving a tour/overview/summary. --Max -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list

Re: Plans for Monday and Release Day

2009-06-05 Thread Max Spevack
On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Jack Aboutboul wrote: Cross posting this to a couple of lists, so that we can mobilize as many people on the ground as possible. Trimming back down to just marketing. Everything you wrote looks pretty good. I'm curious to know what ended up happening w/ the twitter and

Re: Why not to create Fedora-us and Fedora-non-us branches?

2009-06-01 Thread Max Spevack
On Sun, 31 May 2009, Rahul Sundaram wrote: I don't see it recorded in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Trademark_licensees It doesn't fit the trademark guidelines either. While Red Hat can legally grant a license to anyone and doesn't have to abide by the guidelines, I would expect it to do

Re: Fedora 11 Release Announcement FINAL

2009-05-30 Thread Max Spevack
On Fri, 29 May 2009, Eric Christensen wrote: Thanks to Jack and Paul for stepping up and really getting the release announcement[1] built. We, at Docs, have reviewed the final draft and think we are in consensus that it is complete. Please look over it and see if anything jumps out at you.

Re: Fedora 11 Release Announcement FINAL

2009-05-30 Thread Max Spevack
On Sat, 30 May 2009, Eric Christensen wrote: (1) Change Dr. Brattlesworth to some sort of pun on a Fedora name? Unless Brattlesworth has some other meaning that I simply don't get. Anyone have any suggestions? Who in the Fedora community reminds me most of the Jungle River tour guide at

Re: PK update

2009-05-13 Thread Max Spevack
On Tue, 12 May 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageKit_in_Fedora_11 The blog entry is drafted on this page, and the status updated. I'll take the finished entry and post it on Thursday at about 1400 UTC, and send a link to this list to be further processed by

sending out news (was Re: Fedora Directory Server changes its name)

2009-05-13 Thread Max Spevack
I really like the way Rahul sends the news stories to f-marketing-l and cc's the various news outlets that we want to inform of the story. That should be our standard operating procedure for getting news out. When you send a story out to anyone (News Distribution Network, general F11 press,

Re: Start of F11 Marketing and Press Push

2009-05-12 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Jack Aboutboul wrote: The press push for Fedora 11 will be in full effect starting tomorrow. Below is what I will post to the Fedora planet and submit to other news channels tomorrow. Something will be posted about this to announce list tomorrow. Also, this is what

Re: DRAFT: Plan for F11 Marketing/Press Push

2009-05-11 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Jack Aboutboul wrote: Mon May 11 -- draft of May 12 news to fedora-marketing-list Tue May 12 -- release news about General Release Run-up Audio Interview with Jesse Keating, Fedora Release Engineer Do we have some text that is going to accompany this release? I also

Re: podcats/in-depth-feature rollout plan

2009-05-08 Thread Max Spevack
On Thu, 7 May 2009, Jack Aboutboul wrote: Just to be clear, what do you mean by news since there is an awful lot of reference to it, but no clear definition. I take news to many anything which is going to be written up and presented, including not only print stuff, but podcasts as well. Are

Re: libre graphics meeting

2009-05-06 Thread Max Spevack
On Sat, 2 May 2009, Max Spevack wrote: http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2009/ Is anyone from the Fedora community attending this? For next year's meeting, I'd really love for us to send a couple of people. This year's event caught me by surprise, but I would be happy to sponsor

Re: libre graphics meeting

2009-05-06 Thread Max Spevack
On Thu, 7 May 2009, María Leandro wrote: Excelent program, but I'm really really far :( I think it moves around all over the world :) --Max___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com

Re: F11 Podcasts?

2009-05-06 Thread Max Spevack
On Wed, 6 May 2009, Jack Aboutboul wrote: I have 4 so far and would like peoples thoughts on what types of things they would like to hear about so that I can do some more. Remind us of the interview subjects that we've already got, and then we can probably come up with some other names.

podcats/in-depth-feature rollout plan

2009-05-06 Thread Max Spevack
Jack and I just spoke about the in-depth-feature and podcast rollout plan as part of the lead-up to Fedora 11. I'm going to summarize the general plan that we discussed here for any comments. Jack, note that I've made a few tweaks from what we discussed on the phone. All news is slated to

Re: FUDCon Berlin T-shirts

2009-05-03 Thread Max Spevack
On Sat, 2 May 2009, Max Spevack wrote: As for the words in the tag cloud, we can keep the generic ones related to Fedora, and we should remove the Boston/Massachusettes/MIT words and replace them with some related to this FUDCon: A great mockup was posted here: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk

Re: FUDCon Berlin T-shirts

2009-05-03 Thread Max Spevack
On Sun, 3 May 2009, Charlie Brej wrote: The program is available [1] and is easy to modify. There is a script, called fudcon_logo_script, which you can modify to change the words. With multiple word blocks put speech marks around them (just like I forgot to). You will also need

libre graphics meeting

2009-05-02 Thread Max Spevack
http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2009/ Is anyone from the Fedora community attending this? --Max ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list

FUDCon Berlin T-shirts

2009-05-02 Thread Max Spevack
Hi all, I wanted to take a moment to ping about the FUDCon Berlin tshirt designs, which should be very easy given that we're simply adopting the FUDCon Boston design, with the following changes: s/Boston/Berlin As for the words in the tag cloud, we can keep the generic ones related to

Re: F11 screenshots tour

2009-05-01 Thread Max Spevack
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Steven Moix wrote: I started to upload pictures on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Screenshot_Tour This is a great, great start! Thanks veyr much, Steven. --Max -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com

Re: Press kits

2009-04-30 Thread Max Spevack
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote: Who's reviewed the text and design at this point? Jack, you need to work to integrate the existing press kits with the stuff that you are meeting with Mairin about in Westford, and ultimately get Paul's buy-in on whatever it is you come up with.

Re: Interview with Contributor Christoph Wickert (german)

2009-04-29 Thread Max Spevack
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, wonderer wrote: last weekend Christoph and I sat together to record a small Interview about his participation around fedora and also a little about the forthcoming Linuxtag [1] and FUDCon [2]. The 10 minute interview in german is available here: Thank you very much for

User Testimonials

2009-04-29 Thread Max Spevack
Going over the marketing schedule, and I see that own, clean, revitalize the User Testimonials page had a target date of March 31. What's the status of that page? Do we have a plan for the page, are are we simply going to archive it? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/UserTestimonials The idea

Press kits

2009-04-29 Thread Max Spevack
What's the status of press kits for Fedora 11? Are they designed? Has the content been reviewed/approved? When will be sending them out? etc. --Max -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list

F11 screenshots tour

2009-04-29 Thread Max Spevack
Two of the topics on the marketing schedule are: 1) Update the screenshots page. What is this page? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Screenshots has nothing on it. I put a deadline of next Tuesday's marketing meeting down for this (May 5). 2) Update the Fedora tour page. Jack's currently

Re: User Testimonials

2009-04-29 Thread Max Spevack
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Jack Aboutboul wrote: I started trolling around in #fedora a while ago and asking people that. Henrik was supposed to be doing that stuff and he dropped off the face of the earth so we added my name to it. I don't want to archive it, I want to go forward with it. I can

Re: F11 screenshots tour

2009-04-29 Thread Max Spevack
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Jack Aboutboul wrote: Is someone willing to volunteer to do this? Moixs is listed as the owner of the screenshots. Can we confirm whether or not he's still able to do it? I think the screenshots should focus LESS on every page of the installer and more on showing

Re: F11 screenshots tour

2009-04-29 Thread Max Spevack
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Max Spevack wrote: 2) Update the Fedora tour page. Jack's currently listed as the owner. What's the plan? I went ahead and created the stub page for F11's tour. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_tour -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list

Re: F11 screenshots tour

2009-04-29 Thread Max Spevack
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Clint Savage wrote: Ugh! I just finished creating https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Screenshot_Tour I wonder if they'll work together well Yes, because your page is a subset of the larger Tour. :) -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list

Re: Slogan, redux

2009-04-28 Thread Max Spevack
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote: Thus far I really like Lead the pack the best -- but I'm going to hold this over for another 24 hours just in case someone comes in with a fantastic late-breaking entry. I like it too. Fearless Leader, has a final decision been made now? :)

Re: picture book update

2009-04-16 Thread Max Spevack
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Nicu Buculei wrote: We can postpone the book for two months Why don't we start laying stuff out with good photos that we have now, and simply add to it after Berlin? We don't have to put everything on hold just because FUDCon Berlin will show us some new pictures,

FUDCon Berlin 2009 LinuxTag 2009

2009-04-15 Thread Max Spevack
We're about 2 months away from FUDCon Berlin and LinuxTag, and it's time to give the community a few reminders and details. LinuxTag -- June 24 - 27 FUDCon Berlin -- June 26 - 28 Both events are being held in the same location, and FUDCon is OPEN TO EVERYONE, regardless of whether or not you

picture book update

2009-04-14 Thread Max Spevack
In summary, we need to separate CONTENT CREATION and DISTRIBUTION into two separate tasks. CONTENT CREATION We need to read over their file creation guide as well as their cover template generator, and their color cover/interior suggestions/guidelines. The sales guy

Re: Meeting schedule, do we need strict UTC?

2009-04-08 Thread Max Spevack
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Jack Aboutboul wrote: For what its worth, IMHO we should go by regular, non-UTC fixed, because I wouldnt want to be at a meeting which was at 23:00. We basically chose our 5pm eastern time meeting because that was when Ian and Mo could make it to the meetings. At the

Interview with Dimitris Diego

2009-04-05 Thread Max Spevack
Right before Dimitris and Diego returned to Greece, we sat down and I conducted a brief interview with them about Fedora Localization, Transifex, and their various contributions to Fedora. The 15 minute interview is available here: http://mspevack.fedorapeople.org/glezos-diegobz-20090403.ogg

Re: Fedora Mascot

2009-04-02 Thread Max Spevack
/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Female_ferret_Emily_cinnamon_color.jpg/160px-Female_ferret_Emily_cinnamon_color.jpg Faithfully submitted, Max Spevack Ex-FPL and Level 50 Troll ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com

Re: Fedora Mascot

2009-04-02 Thread Max Spevack
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote: I thought you were all about the lemurs, now it's ferrets? Anyway, the answer is NO, Spevack! Now go pay some attention to your cat, whom you're probably ignoring so you can troll us ;-D Just so you know, I'm doing my weasel war dance, and you

Re: New Concept for F11 King

2009-03-31 Thread Max Spevack
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Charlie Brej wrote: theme. There are 4 levels of complexity. Which one do people think is best? http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/temp/lion2.jpg this one is my favorite. All nice, nice work. Color me impressed. --Max 3 fedora-art-team

Re: F11 Announcement

2009-03-31 Thread Max Spevack
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Steven Moix wrote: Are you aware of https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_news_distribution_network, which is used for the first time today? Have we seen any success stories from this yet? --Max -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com

Re: F11 Announcement

2009-03-31 Thread Max Spevack
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Jack Aboutboul wrote: I have contacted my list of press people. Its very early, I'm sure many of them will have something out today or tomorrow about this. Better question then: are people actively looking for these sorts of stories, and where will we aggregate them?

2009-03-31 meeting log

2009-03-31 Thread Max Spevack
http://mspevack.fedorapeople.org/logs/2009-03-31-marketing.html -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list

Re: New Concept for F11 King

2009-03-30 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Máirín Duffy wrote: Would anyone be especially opposed to going with Samuele's Lion idea, seeing that both Samuele and Charlie have committed to helping out with it? Also, some of our splash ideas

Re: REMINDER: MEETING TOMORROW 2009.03.23 @ 21.00UTC

2009-03-24 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Jack Aboutboul wrote: This is just your friendly reminder that our marketing team meeting will be tomorrow at 21.00UTC, thats 5 Eastern, 2 Pacific in #fedora-mktg. Can we please have an advanced roll call again as well? Unclear. I've got meetings w/ JBoss people

Re: F11 Beta release annoucment for NDN RFC

2009-03-24 Thread Max Spevack
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote: I'm not sure if you were aware that the Docs team is already working on the official Beta release announcement, which is found here: What's our plan for solving the necessary cross-communication between Marketing, Docs, Artwork, and Websites during

Re: Meeting TODAY 2009.03.24 @ 21.00UTC

2009-03-24 Thread Max Spevack
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Jack Aboutboul wrote: We will have our regularly scheduled marketing meeting today, as scheduled. I will be unable to attend today's meeting, but I will read the logs. I hope everyone has a good meeting, and thanks for all your efforts. --Max -- Fedora-marketing-list

FUDCon Berlin 2009

2009-03-23 Thread Max Spevack
Hi art team, On behalf of the FUDCon Berlin 2009 organizational team, I've got a few artwork requests that I'd like to make. We already have: * the basic FUDCon Berlin logo, for use on a website * the FUDCon signage http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/collateral/fudcon-signage/ * the

Re: FUDCon Berlin 2009

2009-03-23 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Nicu Buculei wrote: With German text? then we will need some help from a German speaker and lay the ad starting from that text. Probably both in English and German. I'll come up with something in English, and we can mock it up there, and then translate it. I'll get

Re: Slogan for F11

2009-03-23 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Jack Aboutboul wrote: We have some pretty good ones, so far. Anyone else have anything? I'm hoping we can discuss these tomorrow at the meeting. I like Nicu's suggestion: A tradition of freedom. --Max -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list

Re: This Weekend

2009-03-14 Thread Max Spevack
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Rahul Sundaram wrote: about it but I am curious as to why these particular features are being picked among the many many new features planned for Fedora 11. I think, we need to make sure we are picking the right features to focus on, first. We discussed this stuff

Re: This Weekend

2009-03-14 Thread Max Spevack
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Max Spevack wrote: about it but I am curious as to why these particular features are being picked among the many many new features planned for Fedora 11. I think, we need to make sure we are picking the right features to focus on, first. We discussed this stuff publicly

Re: This Weekend

2009-03-14 Thread Max Spevack
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Now If I had to pick a few, I would highlight these in no particular order. They show leadership, uniqueness and ability to drive fundamental changes throughout many upstream projects and distribution level improvements as well. All of these get

FUDCon Berlin 2009 LinuxTag reminders

2009-03-12 Thread Max Spevack
Howdy FUDConners! I'm here to remind everyone about the relevant details for FUDCon Berlin 2009 and LinuxTag 2009. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Berlin_2009 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxTag_2009 LINUXTAG: Berlin, Germany. June 24 - 27. FUDCON: Berlin,

Re: FUDCon Berlin 2009 LinuxTag reminders

2009-03-12 Thread Max Spevack
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Max Spevack wrote: WHO: You! FUDCon is free to attend. However, because FUDCon is being held in conjunction with LinuxTag, attendees will need a LinuxTag ticket. The Fedora Project will be able to provide these tickets, free of charge, to attendees who pre-register

Re: theme song

2009-03-12 Thread Max Spevack
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote: But a song about something that Fedora holds dear seems like a perfectly awesome idea to me. What about a song about friendship and community? And if Greg DeKoenigsberg suggests a workers' anthem, please ignore him. ;-) Greg is working on a tune

Last night's meeting log

2009-03-11 Thread Max Spevack
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Marketing_meeting_2009-03-10 -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list

in-depth look at F11 features

2009-03-11 Thread Max Spevack
Hi list, Please take a look at this page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F11_in-depth_features The purpose of this page is to take an in-depth look at particular features in the Fedora 11 release. The page offers several suggestions of how that might be done. The F11 marketing

Re: [Picture book] time to open submissions?

2009-03-11 Thread Max Spevack
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Ian Weller wrote: I'd like to know by tomorrow about this time whether or not we should open it up. Unless I get a good reason for a -1, I'll go ahead and add the now accepting submissions banner to the fp.o rotation (woo we get to compete with F11 beta) and we'll flood

Re: REMINDER Meeting Tomorrow @ 21.00 UTC DST Changes!!

2009-03-10 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, j...@redhat.com wrote: We will have our regularly scheduled meeting meeting tomorrow at our fixed time of 21.00 UTC. Please bear in mind due to US DST this is now 5pm eastern and 2 pacific. This shouldn't create too much of a conflict for but again I will ask people to let

F11 schedule and Template

2009-03-09 Thread Max Spevack
Hi list, I took a few minutes today to clarify some of the timeframes and categories that we break our tasks down into for both the F11 schedule and also the template. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_F11_schedule https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_schedule_template I hope it

f11 in depth feature focus

2009-03-09 Thread Max Spevack
My deliverable for this week: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F11_in-depth_features Next step is to assign ownership and then help people do a great job with their feature. --Max -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com

Spreading the word about FUDCon Berlin

2009-03-02 Thread Max Spevack
Hi everyone, I'd like to take a moment to talk a little bit about our Marketing and Press plans for FUDCon Berlin and LinuxTag, which is taking place in June. Last week, Red Hat issued a press release about the event, but that is just the first in what is going to be a larger marketing

Re: Spreading the word about FUDCon Berlin

2009-03-02 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Ian Weller wrote: If we can also take this time to start recruiting photographers (with decent cameras) to take photos for the Fedora Picture Book[1], that would be awesome. Since the release forms are finally done I think we can have a ton of great photos from the

Re: Status of the picture book

2009-02-25 Thread Max Spevack
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Ian Weller wrote: * Approve mockup of page designs * Compile images and stories * Place images and stories in book * Proof stories for typography and content * Pressure FPL to write foreword * Approve photo placement * Create index of people in back * Other last-minute

Re: New Meeting Time (JonRob/Ian please read)

2009-02-24 Thread Max Spevack
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Jack Aboutboul wrote: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jack/Meeting_matrix I've overlayed Ian's availability schedule with everything on the page above, and it seems to me the best times are: Mon 21:00 UTC Tue 21:00 UTC Thu 21:00 UTC I would propose that we (a)

FUDCon Berlin 2009

2009-02-17 Thread Max Spevack
Hi there Fedorans, In September 2008, we had an excellent FUDCon in Brno (credit to the local team there, led by Radek Vokal, who helped to make the event happen. Feedback about FUDCon Brno was all incredibly positive, and we'll bring FUDCon back to Brno for sure. However, the one thing

Re: FOSDEM Video: Micro Distro Summit

2009-02-16 Thread Max Spevack
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Rahul Sundaram wrote: http://www.linux-magazine.com/linux_magazine_com/online/news/fosdem_video_micro_distro_summit While the representatives from Debian and Red Hat's Fedora can share philosophies, those from openSUSE and Fedora see more eye to eye on technological

4 foundations

2009-02-09 Thread Max Spevack
I'm writing my FOSDEM trip report, and I wanted to link to a page that specifically explains Fedora's 4 foundations. Does one exist that I don't know about? If not, I think one should be created. --Max -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com

Re: 4 foundations

2009-02-09 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) wrote: http://www.nalley.sc/david/?p=55 http://www.nalley.sc/david/?p=59 http://www.nalley.sc/david/?p=73 http://www.nalley.sc/david/?p=75 I think that the page itself should contain content itself, and not links to other articles, but that we

Re: Meeting Summary and Log of 5/2/2009

2009-02-08 Thread Max Spevack
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, Steven Moix wrote: The page has been updated with spevack's comments Thanks to whoever did that! It was on my post-FOSDEM to do list, but I'm appreciative that someone else took care of it for me. --Max -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list

F11 background proposal

2009-01-29 Thread Max Spevack
Leonidas at Thermopylae http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Jacques-Louis_David_004.jpg/800px-Jacques-Louis_David_004.jpg I guess the artwork team's job is done. :) -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com

Re: F11 background proposal

2009-01-29 Thread Max Spevack
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Keiran Smith wrote: Its a nice Image. But I think fedora should have a sleek backgroud with a web 2.0 style with a nice colourful gradient. I was joking :) -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com

Re: Picture Book....

2009-01-02 Thread Max Spevack
On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote: There is one large and lingering question, though, which is profit. We have no place for that profit to reside here in the USA, and probably won't for some time. Perhaps this project should be coordinated with Fedora EMEA so any profits can be

Re: [Ambassadors] Re: Picture Book....

2009-01-02 Thread Max Spevack
On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Ian Weller wrote: Can the profit be added to budgets for Ambassadors events or whatnot? I don't see any reason why not. We just want to make sure we know who is holding the money, and how much there ends up being. I think it's a pretty simple straightforward problem

Re: I still want a Fedora coffee table book, and you are going to help me make one.

2008-12-16 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Lisa Brewster wrote: D'oh, this is the marketing list. There are so many projects and ideas and excited people that I'm having trouble keeping up with everything that's going on! But yeah...new ambassador, noob mistake, nice to meet you, etc etc etc. =] Happy to see

Re: FUDCon Boston 2009 tshirt designs

2008-12-15 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Máirí­n Duffy wrote: design 1: https://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/1/17/Artwork_T(2d)Shirt_fudcon-boston-2009-1_design.png design 2: https://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/1/19/Artwork_T(2d)Shirt_fudcon-boston-2009-2_design.png (Wiki page is:

FOSDEM 2009 in Brussels (Feb 7-8)

2008-12-15 Thread Max Spevack
Hey Fedora folks in Europe! We're organizing FOSDEM 2009 over on the Fedora Wiki, and we need you to do a few things: (1) Sign up if you will attend. (2) Take a look at the list of things we need, and put your name next to anything you can bring. (3) Sign up to give a talk in the Fedora dev

Re: FUDCon Boston 2009 tshirt designs

2008-12-15 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Máirí­n Duffy wrote: design 1: https://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/1/17/Artwork_T(2d)Shirt_fudcon-boston-2009-1_design.png design 2: https://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/1/19/Artwork_T(2d)Shirt_fudcon-boston-2009-2_design.png (Wiki page is:

Re: Moving the marketing team forward

2008-12-14 Thread Max Spevack
Hi Jon, Great to hear from you. This is an excellent email, and I thank you for writing it. A few thoughts, inline: As things stand, it seems to me that the main activities related to marketing Fedora are: * FPL's release interviews * Ambassadors events * Documenting media coverage on

Re: Neowin Article Meeting Today @ 19:00 UTC

2008-12-11 Thread Max Spevack
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Jack Aboutboul wrote: I should be around then, I'll be lurking in the channel. Ping me then please. What's the current status of this? How can I help? --Max -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com

congrats

2008-11-25 Thread Max Spevack
Hi websites-list, I just wanted to send all of you my congrats on the web work that was done for F10. It wasn't too many months ago that people were clamoring for some organization and structure around the websites team, and over the past few months everyone has really solidified as a team,

f10 websites postmortem

2008-11-25 Thread Max Spevack
In follow up to my previos congratulatory message, I would like to also recommend that somewhere in the next few weeks we use the opportunity to try to call a larger meeting of current (and former) websites contributors and discuss things that went well during the F10 cycle as well as areas

Re: Comments: IN DEPTH: Fedora 10 Preview

2008-11-11 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, Russell Harrison wrote: I don't know that I agree here. It's all good -- I wasn't necessarily advocating that we *actually* make any changes to the release cycle. I was just throwing it out there as something for the list to consider. Quite a few people disagreed

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