Regarding awareness about linux

2014-09-04 Thread Sachin Vardhan
We, GLUG-NITH (http://glug.nith.ac.in) are planning to celebrate Software Freedom Day (http://softwarefreedomday.org/) on 20th September in our college. We were thinking if it would be possible any of you provide us with Fedora CD/DVDs, stickers, tees so that we can distribute them to students and

Re: Regarding awareness about linux

2014-09-04 Thread Truong Anh. Tuan
- Original Message - From: Sachin Vardhan sachin.vardha...@gmail.com To: marketing@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Thursday, September 4, 2014 1:38:48 PM Subject: Regarding awareness about linux We, GLUG-NITH ( http://glug.nith.ac.in ) are planning to celebrate Software Freedom Day

Re: F21 media

2014-09-04 Thread Joe Brockmeier
On 09/03/2014 06:41 AM, Jiri Eischmann wrote: Hi, yesterday in FAmSCo, we started a discussion what media we should produce for F21. We have been producing Multidesktop Live DVD for many releases, but with the Fedora.Next changes we need to revisit it. In FAmSCo, we've pretty much agreed

Re: F21 media

2014-09-04 Thread Chris Roberts
Do we really need server media? I'd expect that in most environments where someone is using the server product they 1) have sufficient bandwidth to download the image, and 2) have the expertise to handle creating their own USB or CD/DVD. I'd keep it simple and produce the Workstation image for

Re: F21 media

2014-09-04 Thread Jiri Eischmann
Joe Brockmeier píše v Čt 04. 09. 2014 v 08:26 -0500: On 09/03/2014 06:41 AM, Jiri Eischmann wrote: Hi, yesterday in FAmSCo, we started a discussion what media we should produce for F21. We have been producing Multidesktop Live DVD for many releases, but with the Fedora.Next changes we

Re: F21 media

2014-09-04 Thread Amita Sharma
On 09/04/2014 07:52 PM, Chris Roberts wrote: Do we really need server media? I'd expect that in most environments where someone is using the server product they 1) have sufficient bandwidth to download the image, and 2) have the expertise to handle creating their own USB or CD/DVD. I'd keep it

Re: F21 media

2014-09-04 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 04:33:48PM +0200, Jiri Eischmann wrote: That's a question. I wrote off physical media for the cloud product right away, but I'm not sure about the server. We didn't reach a consensus in FAmSCo. Some say they have installed server OSes from a DVD recently. That's why we

Re: F21 media

2014-09-04 Thread beta tester
On Thursday, September 4, 2014, Amita Sharma amsha...@redhat.com wrote: On 09/04/2014 07:52 PM, Chris Roberts wrote: Do we really need server media? I'd expect that in most environments where someone is using the server product they 1) have sufficient bandwidth to download the image, and 2)

Re: F21 media

2014-09-04 Thread Jiri Eischmann
Matthew Miller píše v Čt 04. 09. 2014 v 12:38 -0400: On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 04:33:48PM +0200, Jiri Eischmann wrote: That's a question. I wrote off physical media for the cloud product right away, but I'm not sure about the server. We didn't reach a consensus in FAmSCo. Some say they have

Re: F21 media

2014-09-04 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 10:09:01PM +0530, beta tester wrote: +1 to this i fully agree with amita we should not limit people to any flavour otherwise we are not supporting the spread of fedora. This isn't a question of limiting people. It's a question of what we spend our limited money on to

Re: F21 media

2014-09-04 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 4 September 2014 11:14, Jiri Eischmann eischm...@redhat.com wrote: Matthew Miller píše v Čt 04. 09. 2014 v 12:38 -0400: On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 04:33:48PM +0200, Jiri Eischmann wrote: That's a question. I wrote off physical media for the cloud product right away, but I'm not sure

Re: F21 media

2014-09-04 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
- Original Message - Joe Brockmeier píše v Čt 04. 09. 2014 v 08:26 -0500: On 09/03/2014 06:41 AM, Jiri Eischmann wrote: Hi, yesterday in FAmSCo, we started a discussion what media we should produce for F21. We have been producing Multidesktop Live DVD for many releases, but

Re: F21 media

2014-09-04 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 11:20:21AM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: How many USB 8 gb sticks could we order with that money (the 1750?)? And how instead of giving it away we went to a 'earn the fob by sharing or helping someone else' system? At some non-Fedora-focussed conferences I've been

Re: F21 media

2014-09-04 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
- Original Message - On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 11:20:21AM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: How many USB 8 gb sticks could we order with that money (the 1750?)? And how instead of giving it away we went to a 'earn the fob by sharing or helping someone else' system? At some

Re: F21 media

2014-09-04 Thread Clint Savage
Over the past years, this conversation regularly comes up. It's a good time to discuss it again. I think either way, people are going to reformat them, it's what I do when I get media from others. But more importantly, two things come to mind. First, branding is important. If we brand the usb

Re: F21 media

2014-09-04 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 01:14:46PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 10:09:01PM +0530, beta tester wrote: +1 to this i fully agree with amita we should not limit people to any flavour otherwise we are not supporting the spread of fedora. This isn't a question of

Re: F21 media

2014-09-04 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 02:47:30PM -0400, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: - Original Message - On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 11:20:21AM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: How many USB 8 gb sticks could we order with that money (the 1750?)? And how instead of giving it away we went to a 'earn the

Re: F21 media

2014-09-04 Thread Jiri Eischmann
Stephen John Smoogen píše v Čt 04. 09. 2014 v 11:20 -0600: snip How many USB 8 gb sticks could we order with that money (the 1750?)? And how instead of giving it away we went to a 'earn the fob by sharing or helping someone else' system? Red Hat Czech recently ordered business-card-like 8GB

Re: F21 media

2014-09-04 Thread Joe Brockmeier
On 09/04/2014 01:47 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: It could be cheap now to create such device, just some manual work would be required to create nice box. So - depending on the size of the box, etc. You may spend more $$ on shipping and managing the box to events than you would just drop-shipping

Fedora Magazine Maintenance

2014-09-04 Thread Chris Roberts
Hey Everyone, Saturday night around 1AM-2AM I will be doing some maintenance to the Fedora Magazine, I will make all the changes I need to make and then restart the instance. I expect the downtime to only be around 15 minutes, although while I am doing things the site may appear slow. When:

Re: F21 media

2014-09-04 Thread Jiri Eischmann
Jaroslav Reznik píše v Čt 04. 09. 2014 v 14:47 -0400: - Original Message - On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 11:20:21AM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: How many USB 8 gb sticks could we order with that money (the 1750?)? And how instead of giving it away we went to a 'earn the fob by

Re: F21 media

2014-09-04 Thread Joe Brockmeier
On 09/04/2014 02:18 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: I recall such a device being present at LinuxTag about 5 years ago. However, I also seem to recall it, and the booth, being overwhelmed by people wanting to take advantage of it. In some sense that's a good problem to have (would we?); in another

Re: Fedora 21 Alpha Release Readiness Meeting :: Thursday, Sep. 04, 19:00 UTC

2014-09-04 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
== #fedora-meeting-2: F21 Alpha Readiness Meeting == Meeting started by jreznik at 19:01:15 UTC. The full logs are available at

Re: F21 media

2014-09-04 Thread Mike Ruckman
On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 02:47:30PM -0400, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: - Original Message - On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 11:20:21AM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: How many USB 8 gb sticks could we order with that money (the 1750?)? And how instead of giving it away we went to a 'earn the

Re: Fedora Magazine Maintenance

2014-09-04 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 03:30:39PM -0400, Chris Roberts wrote: Hey Everyone, Saturday night around 1AM-2AM I will be doing some maintenance to the Fedora Magazine, I will make all the changes I need to make and then restart the instance. I expect the downtime to only be around 15 minutes,

A very rough F21 alpha release announcement draft

2014-09-04 Thread Joe Brockmeier
Current draft here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F21_Alpha_release_announcement A couple things that need to be filled out: - More detail on each of the products. - Anything we're missing that needs to be emphasized *during the alpha release*? - We don't currently have a F21 common bugs page.