The Time Has Come to Say Good Bye

2009-08-14 Thread Jack Aboutboul
It's hard to say good bye, but part we must. When you love what you do, when you love the people you get to do it with, when you love the way you do it, there is never a good time to leave, but there is a right time, and for me, personally and professionally, this is that right time. I wish

I won't be around Wednesday during the day

2009-07-29 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hey Guys, I'm gonna take most of Wednesday off to take care of some personal stuff, so I won't be near a PC. I will be back sometime later in the day. Mel has the keys to the car if anyone needs them. Jack -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com

Jack is Going, Going, Going...Gone!

2009-07-27 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hey Everyone, I think I told most people that I wanted to tell privately so it's time to tell the list and out myself to the public. August 14th will be my last day at Red Hat and of temporary daily direct involvement in the Fedora project. In 1997 I got my first taste of Linux, Red Hat

Jack's Going on Vacation!!!

2009-07-02 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hey Guys, I'm going to be on vacation from sometime in the afternoon tomorrow until the 20th. I have spoken to people to ensure that things will remain smooth and we keep building Project FooBar and conduct meetings, list discussions etc. Look to Jon Rob or Ian for guidance during this

Meeting TODAY 2009.06.30 @ 20.00UTC/4PM Eastern/1PM Pacific

2009-06-30 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hello All, Please join us for our regularly scheduled marketing meeting today at 20.00UTC in #fedora-meeting. I would like to discuss the activity surrounding Project FooBar over the last week and start working on a plan to move things forward solidly. Thanks, Jack --

Re: CMS (Zikula) kick-off

2009-06-29 Thread Jack Aboutboul
John Poelstra wrote: Still waiting for a volunteer here :) Hey John, I will attend whatever needs attending... Jack -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list

Re: Help Wanted?

2009-06-28 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Max Spevack wrote: IMHO: Fedora News team continues to provide tons of content. Fedora Marketing Websites Design figures out delivery mechanism. Others are encouraged to create content and help out as well. It's a meta-project which has value to multiple Fedora sub-teams Yes very true,

Re: Help Wanted?

2009-06-25 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 06/25/2009 03:42 PM, Jonathan Roberts wrote: Good morning all, Just a little note to say that I've just handed in my final piece of work for this year, and am hoping to pick up little bits and pieces of Fedora stuff over the summer. I've been keeping tabs on what's

Re: Help Wanted?

2009-06-25 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Rahul Sundaram wrote: Rahul, That bug should be considered defunct. Please stop referring people to it. Really? Why? Rahul Hi Rahul, Sorry for my quick reaction. I was a bit confused because I had never heard or read about the news.fp.o stuff that you are working on. We have

Re: Help Wanted?

2009-06-25 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 06/26/2009 02:11 AM, Jack Aboutboul wrote: Well, the news.fp.o effort is more than a year old and nothing new. Just without progress in a long time since I or others haven't been to find time to work on it. All the details you need is in the ticket. I assume, your

Re: Help Wanted?

2009-06-25 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Jonathan Roberts wrote: Hey Jack, After a quick bit of mailing list searching, found record of the news.fp.o going back to at least march 2008 (https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-March/msg00207.html). It goes back before that, but I've not kept looking. Me and Rahul

Re: Help Wanted?

2009-06-25 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 06/26/2009 04:47 AM, Jack Aboutboul wrote: The time is ripe, we have many good ideas, we have vision, many of our guys are back on the radar, and enough so that I think we can honestly pull something like this off with a little bit of work in a fairly decent (3-4

Meeting TODAY 2009.06.23 @ 18.00UTC/2PM Eastern/11AM Pacific

2009-06-23 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hey All, We will have our general, regularly weekly meeting today at the MODIFIED time of 18.00UTC in #fedora-meeting. We will be discussing issues relevant to what I posted on the list/blog yesterday and future directions for marketing. If you feel like you have something good to

Can we have tomorrow's meeting 2 hours early?

2009-06-22 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hello All, We are scheduled to have our regularly scheduled meeting tomorrow. The agenda will be talking about the future of marketing and plans, titled Project FooBar, about which you will see an email soon. I was wondering however, if people didn't mind, if we can have the meeting 2

test post

2009-06-22 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hey Guys, Been trying to post to the list for a few hours and posts arent coming in. Just checking... Jack -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list

Re: test post

2009-06-22 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hmm, weird, my own posts arent showing up. Did the one about moving tomorrow's meeting make it? Thanks, Jack Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Jack Aboutboul j...@redhat.com wrote: Hey Guys, Been trying to post to the list for a few hours and posts arent

Meeting TOMORROW 2009.06.23 @ 18.00UTC/2PM Eastern/11AM Pacific

2009-06-22 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hello All, Tomorrow's marketing meeting will take place in #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net at a special time of 18.00UTC/2PM Eastern. We will be discussing future directions of the Marketing project and everyone should reference this wiki page before tomorrow:

Fedora Marketing TNG: Project FooBar

2009-06-22 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hey Everyone, Just wanted to keep people posted as to what's going on in Marketing and the outcome of my trip to Westford last week. As many of you know, I've been thinking about what the next steps we need to take in Fedora Marketing should be. I feel that we have come along way in terms

Re: recording more metrics and doing more data mining about Fedora

2009-06-19 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Ian, Thanks for posting this. Its very promising. As a matter of fact, I know that there are a number of us that are interested in this and certain groups already their own tools to measure certain things. I think it might be beneficial for us to all get on a conf call or figure out some

Re: Attendees needed for Fedora 11 Retrospective on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @ 14:00 UTC

2009-06-12 Thread Jack Aboutboul
John Poelstra wrote: Hi Marketing Team, At your earliest convenience please fill the name of the additional person from your team that would like to attend the Fedora 11 Retrospective. This meeting will be a conference call to talk about the good and not so good of the Fedora 11 release

FEEDBACK: How did we do for F11?

2009-06-12 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hello Everyone, I am writing up a somewhat brief retrospective on the activities of the Marketing team for the F11 cycle. My hopes are that we can analyze our process and timelines and find places where can optimize or do things differently. I want to include thoughts from everyone in

Official Digg Link

2009-06-09 Thread Jack Aboutboul
http://digg.com/d1tM7c Fedora 11: Leonidas Begins it's Reign. Digg it! -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list

Re: Official Digg Link

2009-06-09 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Jack Aboutboul wrote: http://digg.com/d1tM7c Fedora 11: Leonidas Begins it's Reign. Digg it! Use this too: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Fedora_11_Leonidas_Begins_it_s_Reign -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora

Re: Fedora 11 leaps into filesystem unknown

2009-06-09 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Gianluca Sforna wrote: Are we going to collect review links? if so, I'd start with the one from The Register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/09/fedora_11_review I would definitely recommend Fedora 11 to anyone using 10, but think it might also be a nice alternative for those growing

Fedora 11 Tour

2009-06-08 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hey Everyone, I put up a little blurb on my blog pointing to the Fedora 11 tour. You can find it at: http://jaboutboul.blogspot.com/2009/06/fedora-11-tour.html Some nice bits of info and screen shots, multimedia, etc. to get people pumped for tomorrow! Jack -- Fedora-marketing-list

Fedora 11 and Ext4: The Straight Bits

2009-06-08 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Read the complete interview here: http://jaboutboul.blogspot.com/2009/06/fedora-11-and-ext4-straight-bits.html Let's face it--We're addicted! To files that is. More importantly, we are addicted to the massively large and ever increasing storage devices upon which we store those files. Make no

Re: Fedora 11 Tour

2009-06-05 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Paul W. Frields wrote: It also missed the freeze for the press.redhat.com blog entry, which had to go out for review early in the week. Nevertheless I'll see if we can get this inserted -- can't hurt to try. Couldn't we have linked to it even though it wasn't in its final state at that

Plans for Monday and Release Day

2009-06-05 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hello All, Cross posting this to a couple of lists, so that we can mobilize as many people on the ground as possible. Tuesday is sure to be a very big day for all of us. I'm gonna try and lay out some of the activities that are being planned for Monday, to build buzz, and then for Tuesday,

Re: Plans for Monday and Release Day

2009-06-05 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Max Spevack wrote: By that I am really asking two questions: (1) How to most effectively use them on Monday and Tuesday -- real-time updates of statistics, announcing the instant that it's available, trying to gain followers like Ashton Kucher (and no, i don't care if I spelled his name

Re: Bracing for Impact

2009-06-04 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Part of the plan, post F11 is to do something with marketing where can not only create content, but also try and get more fine grained metrics. One of the items on my to-do list is to sit with Mike the week or so after release and figure out what we can do to make that a reality. Any other

Fedora 11 Tour

2009-06-04 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hey All, I've been working on the Fedora 1 Tour page. Link is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_tour Can anyone tell me how they like it and if they think it is lacking anything? Thanks, Jack -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com

http://jaboutboul.blogspot.com/2009/06/fedora-11-raise-thy-might-finger.html

2009-06-03 Thread Jack Aboutboul
http://jaboutboul.blogspot.com/2009/06/fedora-11-raise-thy-might-finger.html Authentication is an aspect of computing which many take for granted. What's all the fuss? you think. Username, password and that's that. In the following QA session with Bastien Nocera, long time Fedora Contributor

Fedora 11: Raise thy Mighty... Finger?

2009-06-03 Thread Jack Aboutboul
http://jaboutboul.blogspot.com/2009/06/fedora-11-raise-thy-might-finger.html Authentication is an aspect of computing which many take for granted. What's all the fuss? you think. Username, password and that's that. In the following QA session with Bastien Nocera, long time Fedora Contributor

Re: Twitter Identica Accounts

2009-06-03 Thread Jack Aboutboul
k...@kamsalisbury.com wrote: Ok, now that our next release is just days away, its time to think about passing the 'fedora-linux' openid, identi.ca and twitter accounts to another marketing person. I had put the accounts together to help us spread Fedora information in the short text media

Meeting TODAY 2009.06.02 @ 20.00 UTC

2009-06-02 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hey Everyone, We are going to be having our regularly scheduled marketing meeting today Tuesday 2nd June 2009 at 20.00UTC. Thats 4 Eastern and 1 Pacific. The meeting will be in #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net. The agenda will be to once again run through the plan for this week,

Bracing for Impact

2009-06-01 Thread Jack Aboutboul
In case anyone missed this on planet, Jef Spaleta has a wonderful post in which he mentions that the recent spikes in traffic to the site may be linked to our spectacular and ongoing coverage of Fedora 11 Features. This is just a testament to the good work that we in marketing do, and I

Media and Content for next week 6/1-6/8

2009-05-28 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hey All, Seeing as that we slipped another week, I don't think we should stop the barrage of podcast and interviews that are coming out. There are a few more topics that I think I can cover, and will present them here as a sort of schedule for next week. Again, for those of who are

Meeting Today 2009.05.26 @ 20.00UTC

2009-05-26 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hey All, We will be having out regularly scheduled marketing meeting today, May 26th 2009 at 20.00 UTC. That's 4 Eastern, 1 Pacific. The meeting will be taking place in #fedora-meeting. On the agenda is the things we need to have done for release day next week and their status, things to

Fedora 11: Virtual(ization) Reality

2009-05-26 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Cutting edge virtualization technology has always been one of Fedora's strong suits and Fedora 11 looks to continue that trend. In an interview with Daniel P. Berrange, Red Hat Virt Team Engineer and Fedora Virtualization guru, we talk about the many key upgrades to virt technology in F11

Draft of Tuesday's News- Virt Interview with Daniel Berrange

2009-05-22 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Below is the the text of the interview, didn't really think about the lead it, but thats trivial... *1. Please introduce yourself and what you do and how you got started working on virtualization.* I'm one of the lead developers for the libvirt project and am actively involved in many

The Sound of Fedora 11 - An Interview on Fedora 11's enhanced Audio Control with Lennart Poettering

2009-05-21 Thread Jack Aboutboul
An Interview on Fedora 11's enhanced Audio Control with Lennart Poettering Where would we be without sound? It's the most primitive of communication methods, and yet it has spawned so much technology around it. Whether you're a musician, a DJ, riding a bus to work, or even just stuck in a

Draft of Tomorrow's 05/21 Print Interview w/Lennart Poettering

2009-05-20 Thread Jack Aboutboul
*The Sound of Fedora 11 - Audio Control with Lennart Poettering* Where would we be without sound? It's the most primitive of communication methods, and yet it has spawned so much technology around it. Whether you're a musician, a DJ, riding a bus to work or even just stuck in a cubicle

Re: Draft of Tomorrow's 05/21 Print Interview w/Lennart Poettering

2009-05-20 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Awesome. Thanks, Jack Paul W. Frields wrote: Awesome. I made a couple minor spelling and other trivial fixes throughout. New version below: * * * *The Sound of Fedora 11 - Audio Control with Lennart Poettering* Where would we be without sound? It's the most primitive of communication

Fedora 11 Podcast #4 - KMS with Adam Jackson

2009-05-19 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Kernel Mode Setting with Adam Jackson For the fourth podcast in our Fedora 11 podcast series, we turn to the magic that is our display system. One of the coolest new features in Fedora 11 is the ability to do kernel based mode setting for the display. Kernel mode setting

Marketing Meeting Today 2009/05/19 @ 20.00 UTC

2009-05-19 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hey Everyone, We will be having our regularly scheduled meeting today. The times are 20.00 UTC which is 4 Eastern, 1 Pacific. We will be discussing the wrap up of all the content we have/need to complete before release, plans for release day and the follow up. See you there, Jack --

Non English Podcast?

2009-05-19 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Does anyone on the list who speaks another language, fluently, such as French, Spanish, German or any of the languages in India have any interest in recording a podcast with a feature owner who can speak the same? Might be good to have some audio in something other then english, what do you

Re: F11 Release Announcement

2009-05-19 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Any updates on this? Jack Eric Christensen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have started a wiki page[1] for the F11 Release Announcement. The Docs Project has started putting together some ideas but I'd like to open up the opportunity for writing the announcement to the

Re: F11 Release Announcement

2009-05-19 Thread Jack Aboutboul
with Firefox : http://getfiregpg.org (Version: 0.7.5) iEYEARECAAYFAkoTYI4ACgkQfQTSQL0MFMFQ/gCg0BYr59RYl6m1xGWvArY6JzE1 2fMAniiERq74trgXDRnnZFdNwm5DY+1H =LITf -END PGP SIGNATURE- On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 16:49, Jack Aboutboul j...@redhat.com wrote: Any updates on this? Jack Eric

Fedora 11 Podcast Series #3 - General Overview of F11 with Tom 'Spot' Callaway

2009-05-18 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Continuing on in our series of Fedora 11 podcasts, we present an interview of the series with Tom 'Spot' Callaway. In case you don't know Spot, he's been making Fedora happen since before Fedora was called Fedora. Spot is a Red Hat Engineer, the Fedora Engineering Manager, and of course an

Draft of Tomorrow's news/podcast with Ajax

2009-05-18 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Oops, sorry I forgot to send this out sooner. -- Kernel Mode Setting with Adam Jackson For the fourth podcast in our Fedora 11 podcast series, we turn to the magic that is our display system. One of the coolest new features in Fedora 11 is the ability to do kernel based mode

Fedora 11 Tour--Something Fun

2009-05-15 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hey Everyone, There is a page set up for the Fedora 11 Tour. Clint (Herlo) is supposed to have the screenshot tour done real soon, but other than that we have some stuff that needs filling in on that page. Does anyone want to give the text portions a go? Shouldn't be too complicated and

Re: Fedora 11 Tour--Something Fun

2009-05-15 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Jack Aboutboul wrote: Hey Everyone, There is a page set up for the Fedora 11 Tour. Clint (Herlo) is supposed to have the screenshot tour done real soon, but other than that we have some stuff that needs filling in on that page. Does anyone want to give the text portions a go? Shouldn't

DRAFT: Monday's Podcast with Spot

2009-05-15 Thread Jack Aboutboul
This is a draft of what will go out on Monday morning. Please let me know what you think. Also, spot, is the audio content okay with you? Oh, also please not this is without the audio introduction which I will edit in once everything is done. Thanks, Jack - Fedora 11

Re: Podcast feed

2009-05-14 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Paul W. Frields wrote: I brought this up briefly in IRC this morning and didn't want to forget about it. We really need a central podcasting feed from somewhere. There is a CMS coming soon, and that would be ideal. Would it be possible for the Fedora Planet to simply carry these things in a

Re: ETA on the CMS? (Was: Podcast feed)

2009-05-14 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Where is the documentation on whats going on with this, if any? What did we decide to use? Jack David Nalley wrote: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Ian Weller i...@ianweller.org wrote: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 05:17:29PM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: CMS coming soon

[Fwd: [Lf-announce] Announcing the New Linux.com]

2009-05-13 Thread Jack Aboutboul
I just wanted to pass this on so everyone is informed about it. They are trying to start a social network. What do you guys think about it? Jack ---BeginMessage--- The Linux Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of the new Linux.com. In addition to Linux news, product listings, and

Re: [Ambassadors] Re: Start of F11 Marketing and Press Push

2009-05-12 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Kushal Das wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:54 AM, Ian Weller i...@ianweller.org wrote: This really does need to be OGG Vorbis. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems#MP3_Support Also the properly encoded and clickable URL is

The Countdown to Fedora 11 Begins!

2009-05-12 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Fedora 11 is less than two weeks away. The excitement is in the air as well can't wait to see the product of more than a few long months of hard work. It's prime time to start the countdown clock and start talking about the upcoming release, talk about what users can expect to see, highlight

Please Digg This Mornings Post

2009-05-12 Thread Jack Aboutboul
http://digg.com/d1r0NZ -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list

Re: [Ambassadors] Please Digg This Mornings Post

2009-05-12 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Clint Savage wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Ankur Sinha sanjay.an...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 10:31 -0400, Jack Aboutboul wrote: http://digg.com/d1r0NZ The link you really want to give is: http://digg.com/linux_unix/The_Countdown_to_Fedora_11_Begins

DRAFT: Plan for F11 Marketing/Press Push

2009-05-11 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Below is a DRAFT plan for the marketing and press push for Fedora 11. Please let me know what you think. Any and all comments are welcome. Max Spevack wrote: 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

REMINDER: Meeting Tomorrow 2009.05.12 @ 20.00 UTC

2009-05-11 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hey All, We will have our marketing meeting, as scheduled, tomorrow. IT IS CRITICAL that everyone who is involved in the final steps of the marketing plan for Fedora 11 and our final marketing and press push leading up to the release be present. On the agenda will be to review the DRAFT

Start of F11 Marketing and Press Push

2009-05-11 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hello All, 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 should be distributed by the NDN

Re: News and media coverage plan for Fedora 11

2009-05-08 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Was this posted to ambassadors-list? Steven Moix wrote: Hello everyone, The release date for Fedora 11 is coming close, so it's time for some coordination between the Ambassadors and the Marketing group! In this mail, I'm going to address different points, so everyone has a clear view of what

Re: podcats/in-depth-feature rollout plan

2009-05-07 Thread Jack Aboutboul
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 we on the same page? Max Spevack wrote:

Re: Fedora Release Engineering Meeting Recap - 2009-05-04

2009-05-06 Thread Jack Aboutboul
John Poelstra wrote: 1) What dates are we proposing for releasing development snapshots before the beta? We should put these on the schedule now. Okay so this confused me a bit and I'm not so sure what this means. Does this mean that we eliminate the alpha entirely with the current beta

F11 Podcasts?

2009-05-06 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hey Everyone, I was in RH Boston last week and I've been recording a series of podcasts about the upcoming F11 Release. Most of my interviews so far have been centered around the Fedora release process and interesting new features in F11 and what its like to work on Fedora. I have 4 so far and

Re: hey look a shirt

2009-05-06 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Mario Torre wrote: Il giorno mer, 06/05/2009 alle 19.58 +0200, Mario Torre ha scritto: I like it :) In fact, it could be better if even the fedora logo could also be splatted, don't know if this is possible though. Mario heh, probably against logo guidelines. jack --

Meeting TODAY 2009.05.05 @ 20.00UTC / 4 Eastern

2009-05-05 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hello All, Please join us for our weekly Fedora Marketing Team Meeting, Today, Tuesday May 5th 2009 @ 20.00 UTC. That's 4 Eastern and 1 Pacific. The meeting will take place in #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net. On the agenda for today is the wrap up of all actionable items, work on

Re: User Testimonials

2009-04-29 Thread Jack Aboutboul
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 spend some time today and tomorrow getting

Re: F11 screenshots tour

2009-04-29 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Is someone willing to volunteer to do this? Jack Clint Savage wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Max Spevack mspev...@redhat.com wrote: Two of the topics on the marketing schedule are: 1) Update the screenshots page. What is this page? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Screenshots has

Meeting TODAY 2009.04.21 @ 20.00 UTC

2009-04-21 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hello All, We will be having our regularly scheduled Fedora Marketing meeting today at 20.00UTC. Thats 4 Eastern, 1 Pacific and 22.00 CET, please set you clocks accordingly. The meeting will take place in #fedora-meeting. If you have anything which needs to be done or have any ideas for

Meeting Today 2009.04.14 @ 20.00UTC / 4 Eastern

2009-04-14 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hey All, We will have our weekly meeting today, April 14th, 2009, at 20.00 UTC which is 4pm Eastern and 1 Pacific, in #fedora-meeting. We are coming up on the preview release and we need to begin ramping up to the release. Jack -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list

Re: Marketing idea mandatory for everybody

2009-04-14 Thread Jack Aboutboul
I love the idea, but I think we should have something not graphically F11 related so we can always use them. +1 Jack Gerold Kassube wrote: Hello everybody out there, what do you think about name plates like https://kermit.homelinux.net/misc/nameplate.jpg ? I would like to see every

I'm Out!!

2009-04-14 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hey Everyone, I will be out tomorrow and Thursday, returning on Friday. If anyone needs help with anything, please direct your questions to either Max Spevack, mspev...@redhat.com, or Steven Moix, steven.m...@axianet.ch. Thanks, Jack -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list

In depth features profiles

2009-04-13 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hey All, Can anyone who has an outstanding in depth feature profile due, try and get them done soon. Moksha and Ext4 are outstanding as well as two of my own, I am working on those now. I would like to have them done by the meeting next week. Thanks, Jack -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing

New Meeting Time Tomorrow 2009.04.14 @ 20.00 UTC

2009-04-13 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hey Guys, Sorry I sent this earlier today from my friends computer and was wondering why it didn't show up. He just emailed me now telling me I sent mail through his account. Sorry guys!! Hey Everyone, We have a new meeting time for tomorrow. We are going to go to non-utc fixed, which

Re: Meeting schedule, do we need strict UTC?

2009-04-08 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Paul Frields wrote: I've always thought that (1) teams should be free to set their meetings either at strict UTC, or following DST however they can agree; and (2) computers work in UTC, and humans work on wall clocks. My $DAYJOB schedule, for example, @3:00pm on a Thursday doesn't change

Happy Holidays and My Schedule

2009-04-08 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hello All, I would like to wish everyone a happy holiday season. Thursday and Friday are Passover and Friday is Good Friday and Sunday is Easter. I personally will not be around, on the computer or phone until sometime this weekend, lots of family stuff going on! If you need anything you

Re: French press kits

2009-04-07 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hey Steven, This is awesome. They are really spectacular!!! Are you able to post up the text you have on their either in original or translated form? Keep up all the awesome work, Jack Steven Moix wrote: Hello all, Here is the first picture of an almost finished French press kit:

Meeting TODAY 2009.04.07 @ 21.00 UTC

2009-04-07 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hello All, Fedora Marketing Team Meeting When: Tuesday the 7th of April 2009 @ 21.00 UTC, remember this is now 5PM Eastern and 2PM Pacific, Also 23.00 CET. Where: #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net What: Continuing work on the agenda, update on progress of press kits, deadline for slogan

French Press Kits WAS Re: 2009-03-31 meeting log

2009-04-01 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Okay, so how about I will wait until the end of the week and see what you have and maybe work with the translation team on putting things together. Meanwhile, is this up somewhere or do you have a list of contents? Jack Steven Moix wrote: Hi, On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 00:16 +0200, Max Spevack

Re: F11 Announcement

2009-04-01 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Ha! I didn't say that, Max did! Jack Steven Moix wrote: Hi, On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 20:24 +0200, Max Spevack wrote: On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Jack Aboutboul wrote: Better question then: are people actively looking for these sorts of stories, and where will we aggregate them? It usually

Meeting TODAY 2009.03.31 @ 21.00UTC

2009-03-31 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hey All, Sorry I didn't send out a mail yesterday, I've been fighting a bad flu. We WILL be having our regularly scheduled meeting today. Fedora Marketing Team Meeting When: Tuesday the 31st of March 2009 @ 21.00 UTC, remember this is now 5PM Eastern and 2PM Pacific. Where: #fedora-meeting

Re: F11 Announcement

2009-03-31 Thread Jack Aboutboul
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. Jack Max Spevack wrote: On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Steven Moix wrote: Are you aware of https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_news_distribution_network, which

Re: F11 Announcement

2009-03-31 Thread Jack Aboutboul
I'm following on google news, set up a google alert and following on tweetdeck. Jack Max Spevack wrote: 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

Re: in-depth look at F11 features

2009-03-26 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hey Guys, I finished the print part of the KMS feature and I picked up another one, the virt console improvements. Someone should pick up the volume control one, its fairly easy. Anyway want to try? Jack Max Spevack wrote: Hi list, Please take a look at this page:

Re: Face of Fedora

2009-03-25 Thread Jack Aboutboul
I set up a wiki space for this a while back. I just went in and edited it, someone added some stuff and I had to remove the word video, since its more than that. Yannik, you can have some fun here, and anyone else feel free to add to it... https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Face_of_Fedora

Re: Slogan == Call to action

2009-03-24 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Paul W. Frields wrote: The best slogans are calls to action. Can we agree to concentrate not on descriptions of Fedora for a slogan, but calls to action, with an active verb? Freedom to rock out: Not such a good slogan. There's no call to action, just a description of what the product

Re: Self-Introduction: Yannik Stadelmaier

2009-03-24 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hello Yannik, Welcome to the team, we are glad to have you. We are working on something called the Face of Fedora which is supposed to be a video highlighting the contributors in the community, but at this point I don't know who is holding the ball on that. Paul, any updates on that? If

Meeting TODAY 2009.03.24 @ 21.00UTC

2009-03-24 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hello All, We will have our regularly scheduled marketing meeting today, as scheduled. What: Fedora Marketing Team Meeting When: 21.00UTC, 5PM Eastern, 2PM Pacific Where: #fedora-mktg on irc.freenode.net What: Review things on schedule here:

REMINDER: MEETING TOMORROW 2009.03.23 @ 21.00UTC

2009-03-23 Thread Jack Aboutboul
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? Thanks, Jack -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com

Re: Mostafa Daneshvar

2009-03-18 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Whoa, that was intense :) Mostafa Daneshvar wrote: On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 19:07 +0330, Mohsen Mostafa Jokar wrote: با عرض سلام و خسته نباشید خدمت آقای دانشور سال نو شما مبارک. ببخشید لطفا در مورد فعالیت های خود بیشتر توضیح دهید؟شما در مورد چه زمینه ای در حال تدریس هستید؟هدفتان چیست؟ با

Translation for News Bits?

2009-03-18 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hey All, At the beta readiness meeting today we spoke briefly about the news distribution network. One of the points that was brought up was whether or not we could work together with the Fedora L10N team to translate some of the stories from english to other languages or vice-versa and how

REMINDER: MEETING TOMORROW 2009.17.03 @ 21.00 UTC

2009-03-16 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hello All, Sorry I forgot to send this sooner. Our meeting will take place as regular scheduled tomorrow, 21.00UTC, 5PM Eastern, 2 Pacific, in #fedora-mktg. Can we get a preview roll call again? Thanks, Jack -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com

Re: Picture book submissions now open

2009-03-16 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Ian Weller wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:25:14PM -0400, Andrew Jamison wrote: I want to go to the zoo and see if they will let me take a picture of a Penguin with a fedora sweater on it ^ To repeat the clanging bells of Paul... mixed marketing fail!

This Weekend

2009-03-13 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hey All, So on the heels of everything that went on this week, there are a couple of things that could use some love over the weekend. First and foremost, at the meeting, the In Depth Features coverage idea was announced and there was a page up here:

Re: This Weekend

2009-03-13 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Rahul Sundaram wrote: Jack Aboutboul wrote: Hey All, So on the heels of everything that went on this week, there are a couple of things that could use some love over the weekend. First and foremost, at the meeting, the In Depth Features coverage idea was announced and there was a page up

Re: [Picture book] time to open submissions?

2009-03-11 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Looks good to me. I would say lets get the ball rolling. Let us know when to spam planet... Jack Ian Weller wrote: I think we've got a pretty good procedure down. It's available at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Submitting_images_for_the_picture_book Max helped me out yesterday by making

This Weekend?

2009-03-06 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hey Guys, I was wondering if anyone had anything interesting they planned on doing over the weekend and whether anyone needs help. Let us know, Jack -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list

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