The Big Reveal debunked

2010-12-11 Thread Mel Chua
Saw this on http://www.neary-consulting.com/index.php/2010/12/08/curing-shy-developer-syndrome/, via the teachingopensource.org mailing list, and thought it would be interesting for the team: However, another phenomenon is fighting against this desire for openness. It is not uncommon for

Re: FWN reader survey

2010-12-03 Thread Mel Chua
I would welcome your feedback between now and next Wednesday, when I would like to include the survey with the next issue of FWN. The survey looks good to my untrained eyes - I like that you included the completion time and the names of everyone working on FWN... will probably need to do a

Re: Talking points/spotlight features

2010-08-12 Thread Mel Chua
I agree with the idea of putting forward alternate spins under their branding to attract that attention. They feel buried under Spins, in that people may not go there unless they already know what a spin is. +1 to this. btw, I plan on doing an upstream marketing (how to market stuff you

Weekly meeting re-scheduling

2010-07-13 Thread Mel Chua
At the last marketing meeting, I offered to send out a meeting re-scheduling survey to see if we could set a more convenient time for the folks participating in this release cycle (since timezones and school and work schedules and such don't always match up with our current logistics). Fill

Re: MMM. Fedora Marketing Meeting Minutes - 2010/06/08. Delicious!

2010-06-08 Thread Mel Chua
Sorry I missed the meeting - was stuck in traffic on the way back from http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_Worcester_State, alas. My update: 1. Press Kits have been getting some *incredible* love from the Design Team, and a much better-looking version is in the works thanks to Jef

Press release workflow for Fedora Marketing stuff

2010-06-02 Thread Mel Chua
Hi, Kara! I know you're swamped with Fedora 13 press and even more so with the Summit coming up right now, but to put this on your radar for afterwards, when the Fedora PR process is still fresh in your mind... We'd like to work out a press release workflow for Fedora Marketing/PR between the

F13 feature profiles: now in printable version

2010-06-02 Thread Mel Chua
I made printable teaser versions of the F13 feature profiles for use in the press kit. (More on this in a moment.) The pdf version and odt source is linked to from https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_feature_profiles - or see https://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/6/69/F13-feature-profiles.pdf and

F13 release deliverables table complete

2010-06-02 Thread Mel Chua
I'm proud to announce that for the first time ever, we have absolutely no redlinks in our deliverables table - for any of our deliverables, as well as all the explanatory pages and SOPs for them. Sweet. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing#Release_deliverables Okay, some of the SOPs could

Marketing meeting minutes 2010-05-25

2010-05-25 Thread Mel Chua
Happy release day, everyone! Things all seem to be going well. Two notes (from the minutes): 1. We should keep our eyes on community news sites, and try to respond with useful information in a consistent, clear, and cordial way wherever possible. 2. Use the link tracking for download and join

Marketing leadership transition + Trac queue cleanup

2010-05-25 Thread Mel Chua
Robyn and I (with David popping in) sprinted on trac queue cleanup in preparation for the leadership transition. That's right - for those of you who actually read the meeting minutes, Robyn will become the next official Fedora Marketing Team lead as of June 1st. I will stick around for

One page release notes (and all pre-release deliverables) done!

2010-05-24 Thread Mel Chua
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_one_page_release_notes If anyone has an alternative shot for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_one_page_release_notes#Help_make_Fedora.21 (we're reusing the one from last time) where (IMPORTANT!) *everyone* in the photograph has signed a photo release, that

Re: Results of Fedora Participation Survey?

2010-05-19 Thread Mel Chua
Like with our initial methodology to create the survey questions based on longer phone interviews with a dozen participants, followed up my shorter email interviews with several dozen participants, and then pilot testing with specific subgroups in the community, we will be doing something

Re: Results of Fedora Participation Survey?

2010-05-18 Thread Mel Chua
I'll note here that I consider myself to be a Fedora developer even though I'm not active on the Fedora lists: I'm active on upstream lists, though. Any way to get that data? (I know this is tough.) I don't see any reason for us not to publish it on a wiki page, since we're going to the

Help us get screenshots for the one-page release notes!

2010-05-18 Thread Mel Chua
We need screenshots for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_one_page_release_notes - can anyone help? This is a good task for a newcomer to pick up. Robyn and I are both in the middle of things that prevent us from easily upgrading to F13 this week, and we'd love some help. Here's how to help:

What's actionable from Zonker's Classroom session, right now?

2010-05-18 Thread Mel Chua
We talked briefly about jzb's Fedora Classroom session about making life Awesome for journalists, and wanted to start an open thread on this list asking for thoughts. The log is here, full of awesomeness and insight:

Re: Help us get screenshots for the one-page release notes!

2010-05-18 Thread Mel Chua
Luke, Gerard, David, Tatica, and Nelson are awesome. Behold the still-in-progress glory of https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_one_page_release_notes! We still need the following - existing screenshots/photos are also ok! (Folks going to the FAD this week, perhaps some people-snapshots can be

Re: Help us get screenshots for the one-page release notes!

2010-05-18 Thread Mel Chua
On 05/19/2010 12:21 AM, Robyn Bergeron wrote: I will see if I can get some awesome FAD action shots. :) -robyn Awesome. This just in: Ian Weller offered last week to do layout, so we have a deadline of end-of-Friday to get all the screenshots in, because Saturday is the last day he can work

Photograph release forms - thread on advisory-board list

2010-05-17 Thread Mel Chua
If you haven't yet seen it, there's a thread on release forms for photographs on the advisory-board list. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/advisory-board/2010-May/008375.html As we put together new marketing and release materials it's clear the Fedora Marketing and Design teams want to

History lesson: where did the one-page release notes come from, and what did they use to be?

2010-05-17 Thread Mel Chua
Spreading a little history about why we do the deliverables we do. :) http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-mktg/2010-05-17/fedora-mktg.2010-05-17-15.07.log.html and added to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings#2010, linked-to from

Re: Twitter account

2010-05-13 Thread Mel Chua
On 05/13/2010 10:12 AM, Jonathan Nalley wrote: Done. https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/116 This was the first ticket I had created so please do let me know if I wrongly selected some property. Apparently I was a bit too fast on the trigger. :) I've marked my ticket as a

2010-05-11 meeting notes

2010-05-11 Thread Mel Chua
Nicely efficient meeting, good discussion on microblogging at the end. w00t! I wanted to echo my comment from the meeting's end. I feel like we're so much more on the ball for F13 than last release - we've really matured and grown in capacity and ability to manage marketing for a release, and

Re: press kit for Fedora13

2010-05-02 Thread Mel Chua
Hopefully on our next IRC meeting we can plow through it and give that parts an update and when they would be ready. On the agenda for our next meeting. Henrik, you'll have the floor for this one. :) https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/104#comment:1 --Mel -- marketing mailing list

F13 spin websites: home stretch

2010-05-01 Thread Mel Chua
This is what I believe to be the remaining tasks to get the 4 new spin pages to v.1.0 for the F13 release, in order of how close they are to shippable. Copying spin owners here as well. The urgent thing here that we don't already have covered is the banners - so copying the design team also,

Re: Self-Introduction: (Manuel Escudero)

2010-04-29 Thread Mel Chua
On 04/28/2010 03:23 AM, Manuel Escudero wrote: Hello, My Name is Manuel Escudero and I'm from Mexico, I live in Mexico City. My Fedora Account System username is jmlevick Welcome, Manuel! I've sponsored your membership in the Marketing FAS group. I was wondering about the future you as a team

Re: The state of Web Development

2010-04-28 Thread Mel Chua
On 04/28/2010 07:15 AM, Nelson Marques wrote: Since the 'web' is our premier channel of distribution and it's quite relevant to the Fedora Community/Project, I would like to point something amusing: http://www.webdirections.org/sotw10/ Thanks for the call-out, Nelson! Forwarding to the

Re: Upcoming Classroom session: Joe Zonker Brockmeier on How to make life awesome for journalists, next Tuesday

2010-04-27 Thread Mel Chua
On 04/27/2010 06:32 AM, Alexjan Carraturo wrote: Have you ever think about doing something in streaming??? Sure! We'd totally welcome someone setting up a Classroom as a streaming session - it's just a matter of someone stepping up to organize and do it. ;) --Mel -- marketing mailing list

Re: Keyword Optimization on FP / Self-Introduction: Garland Binns

2010-04-27 Thread Mel Chua
On 04/24/2010 11:25 PM, Garland Binns wrote: Hey All, I just finished preparing the Wiki page that Robyn setup for the Keyword Optimization project: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Keyword_optimization Garland, This is awesome! We talked briefly on IRC yesterday, and we'll save some time at

Update for Fedora teams: What's happening with the Allegheny class?

2010-04-27 Thread Mel Chua
Just checked in with jadudm and updated the #fedora-mktg channel, but figured the other two teams (as well as Marketing folks who are not in-channel right now) should also know, and that the FS102 students should see what's being said about them. ;) Thank you, as always, for being part of this

Re: F13 one page release notes - feedback / suggestions for sprinting

2010-04-27 Thread Mel Chua
I just took a pass and left pointers to what needs to be finished at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_one_page_release_notes. I haven't gone through Robyn's suggestions yet, but anyone who wants to hack on one-page release notes should start with those, and then look at the comments inline

Re: Fedora Classroom logs: Joe Zonker Brockmeier on how to make life awesome for journalists

2010-04-27 Thread Mel Chua
Just a heads-up that I added Zonker's classroom session to the marketing meetings log list on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings#2010. and set it as an agenda item for next week's meeting, since we ran out of time today: https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/113 Whee!

F13 release announcement: existing draft

2010-04-27 Thread Mel Chua
Paul brought this up at the Marketing meeting today, but I just realized the action items got chopped up and it was quicker to send this email than to fix 'em. :) Ryan, I know you were working on the F13 announcement - to avoid redundancy, see this :

SoaS spin page content: can haz halp?

2010-04-26 Thread Mel Chua
I'm struggling with the content for the SoaS page (spin webpage). Here's what we've got so far. I think it's better than what it was before, but it still feels... not quite there. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Sugar_on_a_Stick#Spins_Page Goals for the page - as a result of seeing this

Design Suite spin page: current progress (HTML template applied)

2010-04-26 Thread Mel Chua
I took the content from https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design_Suite#Spins_Page and put it into the HTML template to see what it would look like: http://mchua.fedorapeople.org/spins/designsuite_spinpage.html We're lacking images/screenshots and an About section, as described in

Fedora Marketing weekly meeting, Tuesday 20:00UTC #fedora-meeting-1

2010-04-26 Thread Mel Chua
Details and agenda at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings. See you folks there! --Mel -- marketing mailing list marketing@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing

Spin webpage creation SOP (work in progress)

2010-04-25 Thread Mel Chua
Sprinting on spins websites today, documenting the process: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Spin_webpage_creation_SOP Warning: rough! work in progress! will substantially change over the next 12 hours! The Allegheny teams working on spin webpages might find this particularly helpful (er, as it

Re: Press Kit-Allegheny College

2010-04-22 Thread Mel Chua
On 04/20/2010 06:31 PM, Sahar Arbab wrote: Hello Mel, I'm working on the press kit and I have a few questions. We were told one of the things we could do to help would be taking screen shots.So, we have been taking scrren shots of the instalment process. Where should we put these pictures

Re: One Page Release Notes - Draft in Progress

2010-04-22 Thread Mel Chua
Great suggestions - thanks, Adrienne! (Wow, we don't explain Linux at all... you're right. Let's fix that.) Let's sprint on this again during class time tomorrow (11am-12:15pm EST) in #fedora-mktg - incorporate these comments, and finish the content (get it to the point where we'd be happy to

Re: BTRFS feature profile

2010-04-22 Thread Mel Chua
On 04/22/2010 12:16 PM, Hannah Kowen wrote: Hello everyone, An edited version of the interview with Josef Bacik is now on the feature profile page. I'm open for any suggestions you have (or you can add to it as much as you want.) Thanks, Hannah Kowen and the link would be

Meeting minutes 2010-04-20

2010-04-21 Thread Mel Chua
Short version: we're in good shape. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-04-20/fedora-meeting-1.2010-04-20-20.01.html and https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings#2010 Meeting summary --- * FI status update (mchua, 20:02:04) * LINK:

Re: Why Linux isn't attracting young developers

2010-04-21 Thread Mel Chua
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Leigh Cantrell Dayl...@redhat.com wrote: Is there any demographic data available that accurately depicts the Fedora community, beyond the maintainer group? On 04/21/2010 12:57 PM, Robyn Bergeron wrote: Other than geographical locations - not really. Perhaps

Fedora Marketing weekly meeting, Tuesday 20:00UTC #fedora-meeting-1

2010-04-19 Thread Mel Chua
Details and agenda at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings. See you folks there! --Mel -- marketing mailing list marketing@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing

Re: One Page Release Notes Sprint

2010-04-15 Thread Mel Chua
On 04/15/2010 12:13 PM, Tyler Torbet wrote: My name is Tyler Torbet. I am a student at Allegheny College and our group is working with the Fedora Project. We are working on One Page Release Notes and would like to have a sprint tonight at 6:00pm in order to get some more ideas. The chat

Update: python in f13 feature profile now featuring human-readable interview.

2010-04-15 Thread Mel Chua
The Python 13 feature interview now features human-readable text, thanks to brankf, starzej, and niedzwm, who pointed out things that would add more context for a novice programmer. Time to apply the patches Paul suggested, make some supplemental content (I think istanbul works now?), do some

Fun feature: etherpad playback

2010-04-15 Thread Mel Chua
Mostly for the amusement of folks who haven't seen this before - etherpad (the collaborative text editor we used for sprinting on marketing deliverables with groups of Allegheny students today[0]) has a playback feature. For instance, frantic video from the one-page release notes sprint today

Python in F13: David Malcolm interview (so far)

2010-04-14 Thread Mel Chua
A cleaned-up transcript of our interview with David is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Python_in_Fedora_13#David_Malcolm It needs to be shortened and moved to its own page for cleanup, and I'd like to have two supplementary screencasts made (next time I have a spare moment, I'll try my

Re: Marketing ticket # 110

2010-04-14 Thread Mel Chua
On 04/14/2010 10:47 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote: On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 03:33:55PM -0700, bhutto aamir wrote: Categorize and possibly rename virtualization articles Done :P Thanks for doing this Aamir! Awesome - thank you, Aamir! And thanks to Paul for the EasyFix tag idea - we should do

Re: release notes: allegheny students

2010-04-14 Thread Mel Chua
Daniel team, thanks for the kickoff (and to Paul for the first round of comments!) I've added our notes to a wiki page (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talk:F13_one_page_release_notes) so it's easier (hopefully!) for you to migrate it over to the main page

Meeting minutes 2010-04-13

2010-04-13 Thread Mel Chua
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-04-13/fedora-meeting-1.2010-04-13-20.01.html Meeting summary --- * LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/query?status=newstatus=assignedstatus=reopenedkeywords=%7Emeetingorder=priority (mchua, 20:02:01) * Categorize

One page release notes sprint?

2010-04-12 Thread Mel Chua
Hi - you're getting this email because you're either (1) on the Marketing list, (2) listed on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Allegheny_Activism:_Team_Assignments as working on one-page release notes, or (3) a professor for the class. The release is coming up soon, and we'd like to get the one

Re: Btrfs feature profile

2010-04-09 Thread Mel Chua
I personally would like to see an audio interview of Chris or Josef and have him explain what btrfs is, and specifically what this feature means. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_make_a_podcast may be helpful. --Mel -- marketing mailing list marketing@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Opa

2010-04-07 Thread Mel Chua
this in error and can explain how you'll prevent it in the future, I'll gladly return your account to full status. If this message is confusing and you'd like help figuring out what's going on, just let us know and we can do that too. Thanks, --Mel Chua List moderator -- marketing mailing list marketing

Allegheny student projects: what are we working on, anyway?

2010-04-06 Thread Mel Chua
Teams and their projects are listed here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Allegheny_Activism:_Team_Assignments You'll notice that I've gone through and constructed a lot of scaffolding (well, a lot of scaffolding in terms of what we usually have in Fedora; I'm sure it's very little scaffolding

Allegheny Class 3 (IRC day 1): The Aftermath

2010-04-06 Thread Mel Chua
Darren + Matt - possibly a bit wordy, but all the info I wanted to convey is in there... feel free to cleanup/rearrange/annotate/send to the class. Cc'ing the Design and Marketing lists so folks can see what's going on. Allegheny students, if you're reading this, anything your professors say

No meeting today - see message for deliverables to watch, but we're looking good for Beta readiness on Thursday.

2010-04-06 Thread Mel Chua
The following log really says it all. --- 19:43 mchua Really, the only thing we have to cover today is are we ready for the readiness meeting? 19:44 mchua The four things I have to watch for are beta announcement, one page release notes, briefing ambassadors, feature profiles. 19:44 mchua

Re: No meeting today - see message for deliverables to watch, but we're looking good for Beta readiness on Thursday.

2010-04-06 Thread Mel Chua
Apparently momentum has still kicked in and we're talking in #fedora-meeting-1 anyway - ah well. :) Come if you like, logs will be sent out as usual - we're very relaxed and informal right now. --Mel -- marketing mailing list marketing@lists.fedoraproject.org

Fedora Marketing weekly meeting, Tuesday 20:00UTC #fedora-meeting-1

2010-04-05 Thread Mel Chua
Details and agenda at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings. See you folks there! --Mel -- marketing mailing list marketing@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing

Re: List off-topic - Fedora Logo

2010-04-02 Thread Mel Chua
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_Artwork#Beta_Release_Banner Good suggestion. I'll probably do a java script class to automate it (the countdown) and replace the images correctly according to hardware/local time. When this happens, how should I make it available for the community?

Re: Meeting Log - mchua, nmarques, rbergeron talk about Feature Profiles

2010-03-30 Thread Mel Chua
On 03/30/2010 07:29 PM, Robyn Bergeron wrote: Info for SOP on Feature Profiles, and just general q a on doing feature profiles. Mel and Robyn to make SOP sometime tonight. And here it is! Well, a first pass, anyhow; I'm sure there is much improvement to be done, with templates and such.

Call for help/ideas: Beta announcement, briefing Ambassadors

2010-03-30 Thread Mel Chua
From the meeting today: We need someone to work with Docs (likely tomorrow night?) to write the Beta announcement - any volunteers? Support and a howto can be provided[0]. ;) We also need to figure out what we would like to do to brief Ambassadors this round. An incredibly stubby stub page

Re: Need some time in a future Marketing Meeting.

2010-03-29 Thread Mel Chua
I'd like to put forth a counterproposal. Nelson, how about running some Classroom (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Classroom) sessions on the topics you've proposed? * Cultural aspects in Communication - it's importance, as Fedora aims to an International Community. * Consider what we

Re: Fedora 13 Release and Communication

2010-03-25 Thread Mel Chua
Do we have the photo of the twitter diagram that gregdek made somewhere? We should probably link it and the logs specific to that conversation on the wiki. Do you mean http://www.flickr.com/photos/wonderer/4462227596/ ? Perfect! The photo (actually, Henrik, could you CC-BY-SA it?) and logs

Re: SWOT - Strengh's - The Master Plan

2010-03-25 Thread Mel Chua
Back on my SWOT, here's the master plan... I've been working on: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/SWOT_STR My goal with this is to present a light weight call for help to Fedora Community. On that webpage I want to run a community driven contribution (similar to what we done with the

3 upcoming Fedora Marketing Classroom sessions

2010-03-25 Thread Mel Chua
At the Marketing FAD, one thing we agreed on was that (1) we have a lot to learn, and (2) getting cool people into Fedora Classroom to teach things so we can document their wisdom for posterity would be totally rockin'. Kara Schiltz, Joe Zonker Brockmeier, and Sean Daly have all stepped up

Re: Fedora 13 Release and Communication

2010-03-24 Thread Mel Chua
Do we have the photo of the twitter diagram that gregdek made somewhere? We should probably link it and the logs specific to that conversation on the wiki. I've got a vid of Ryan explaining the diagram at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_FAD_2010#Photos, though that's not the most

Talking points in stable equilibrium

2010-03-20 Thread Mel Chua
Just wanted to drop a quick note on the talking points for F13, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Talking_Points#Spins. The short of it is that they're done-enough-to-go, except for spins. Further refinements may happen over time (we may link in new resources/articles/feature-profiles

Re: F13 (and onward) default bookmarks

2010-03-19 Thread Mel Chua
On 03/19/2010 01:40 AM, John Poelstra wrote: Mel Chua said the following on 03/18/2010 08:20 PM Pacific Time: On 03/18/2010 07:31 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 08:27:53AM -0400, Mel Chua wrote: Basically, to bump it, one would do the following: I made a (starter) https

Talking points / Feature profiles SOPs ready for a first round of SIGs and Spins

2010-03-19 Thread Mel Chua
# rbergeron to invite spin groups to use SOPs to do their own feature profiles, talking points, etc. # mchua clean up talking points and feature profiles SOPs so that spin groups can do exactly that Just checkin' in and saying that the SOPs, while not complete, have enough we are not complete,

Press kit next-actions

2010-03-19 Thread Mel Chua
I originally had this on my to-do list, but I think Henrik may actually be taking them on (based on FAD conversations), so I'm writing my notes here so that he'll either (1) pick them up and tell me what I'm doing wrong, or (2) let me know I'm incorrect and actually need to write this SOP. The

F13 feature profiles

2010-03-18 Thread Mel Chua
Paul and I sat down during the Marketing FAD to figure out which talking points we'd like to target as feature profiles. Criteria we used (from the very new and very stubby https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Feature_profiles_SOP): 1. Total amount of engineering effort required to complete the

how to run a marketing meeting SOP revised

2010-03-18 Thread Mel Chua
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_run_a_Fedora_Marketing_meeting SOP revised, triggered by a comment Robyn made at the end of this meeting about a lack of templates for the emails we send out every week. I went... a bit overboard. :D --Mel -- marketing mailing list

Re: how to run a marketing meeting SOP revised

2010-03-18 Thread Mel Chua
One of these days Mel is going to accidentally write an SOP for how to get herself to write an SOP, and the entire universe will disappear into the resulting singularity. I've done that already, actually. ;) On https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Marketing_SOPs, you can find... *

Re: F13 (and onward) default bookmarks

2010-03-18 Thread Mel Chua
On 03/18/2010 07:31 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 08:27:53AM -0400, Mel Chua wrote: Basically, to bump it, one would do the following: I made a (starter) https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_bookmarks_SOP from Chris's instructions. How do we make sure this process

Feature profiles are now called feature profiles.

2010-03-18 Thread Mel Chua
Just did a semi-extended bout of wiki-gardening to clean this up. In the https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing#Release_deliverables, all the Feature Profiles entries now point to the right pages, categories have been added and redirected and reconfigured as necessary, and all that good

Re: Fedora Marketing weekly meeting, Tuesday 20:00UTC #fedora-meeting-1

2010-03-15 Thread Mel Chua
I thought this was moved to thursday for this week? It is, but I didn't stop the auto-announce message in time. MEETING IS THURSDAY! Agenda so far: * Marketing FAD 2010 followup * Feature profiles - make user FAD exploration of user base feeds this * Start finding ambassadors to other teams

FAD day 2 notes

2010-03-14 Thread Mel Chua
Highlights from day 2 of the FAD, including my favorite convo snip with the Brand guys: http://blog.melchua.com/2010/03/15/marketing-fad-day-2-brand-folks-visit-actionability-brainstorm/ Featuring such tidbits as... # Jonathan Opp: “Speak not as a crowd of voices, but a chorus of voices.

Reminder: Marketing FAD ongoing in #fedora-fad

2010-03-13 Thread Mel Chua
We're livetranscribing in the #fedora-fad channel right now, come join us! If you're new to IRC, you can find a howto at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/IRC - or just go to http://webchat.freenode.net and type your name in the first box (for instance, I'm mchua) and #fedora-fad in the second,

Marketing FAD, day 1 morning

2010-03-13 Thread Mel Chua
Video summary, featuring Robyn, plus a spectacular wastebasket basket by Max: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KgxQwQVtTE -- marketing mailing list marketing@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing

Re: DOCS - Communication Matrix Plan

2010-03-08 Thread Mel Chua
So I found some of my old work on getting started with mediawiki and ported it over to Fedora - see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Wiki for a little guide. Hopefully it helps someone else. Feel free to look here also: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Help:Editing Awesome, thanks

Notes from Alpha Readiness Meeting

2010-03-04 Thread Mel Chua
What I said about us at the Alpha Release Readiness Meeting (still ongoing in #fedora-meeting as I type this, but our portion is done): --Mel #info Marketing is looking good; our deliverables are coming in on time (well, the polishing of Talking Points is an ongoing process I'd hoped would be

Re: School Work - Advertising and Communication

2010-03-04 Thread Mel Chua
On 03/04/2010 02:37 PM, Nelson Marques wrote: Hi, I just got news that I need to make a paper about Advertising and Communication. Since the given theme is not motivating at all, I was thinking on making this paper based on Fedora. I haven't the paper matrix yet, but I'm planning to

Re: Upcoming Fedora 13 Tasks

2010-03-02 Thread Mel Chua
On 03/02/2010 01:22 PM, John Poelstra wrote: Tue 23-Feb Tue 02-Mar Create Release Slogan Tue 02-Mar Tue 30-Mar Feature Profiles Thu 04-Mar Thu 04-Mar Alpha Project Wide Release Readiness Meeting Thu 04-Mar Mon 08-Mar Create Alpha Announcement (Marketing Docs) Tue 09-Mar Tue 09-Mar

Meeting minutes 2010-03-02

2010-03-02 Thread Mel Chua
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-03-02/fedora-meeting-1.2010-03-02-20.00.html This is one of the most hilarious IRC meetings I've ever been in, and I've been in a lot of IRC meetings. Log worth reading - it features pwnies. Also available at

Fwd: Reminder F13 Alpha Readiness Meeting 2010-03-04 @ 21:00 UTC (4 PM US Eastern)

2010-03-02 Thread Mel Chua
Engineering Manager -- Tom Spot Callaway Fedora Project Leader -- Paul Frields Infrastructure -- Mike McGrath Marketing -- Mel Chua Quality -- James Laska Release Engineering -- Jesse Keating Translation -- Noriko Mizumoto Websites -- Ricky Zhou -- marketing mailing list marketing

Re: Fwd: Reminder F13 Alpha Readiness Meeting 2010-03-04 @ 21:00 UTC (4 PM US Eastern)

2010-03-02 Thread Mel Chua
This Thursday March 4, 2010, we will meet to make sure we are coordinated and ready for the public release of the Fedora 13 Alpha on Tuesday, March 9, 2010. date: 2010-03-04 place: irc.freenode.net #fedora-meeting time: 21:00 UTC (4 PM Eastern) Before that meeting, I'd like to have... 1.

Fedora Marketing weekly meeting, Tuesday 20:00UTC #fedora-meeting-1

2010-03-01 Thread Mel Chua
Details and agenda at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings. See you folks there! --Mel -- marketing mailing list marketing@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing

FAS scraper

2010-03-01 Thread Mel Chua
and implement it better, as I don't really have the time to do it properly. --- README.txt --- # FAS_scraper.py # v.1.0 (March 1, 2010) # Mel Chua mc...@fedoraproject.org # This is a quick proof-of concept scraper inspired by Diana Martin's research # on the Fedora community; she's trying to get

Re: ESOMAR Code

2010-02-27 Thread Mel Chua
By the way, a suggestion, can we place a small request to our artists for a Fedora Marketing Group logo? Do we need permission from sponsors or anyone else on the organization? We've got one, actually - it's in the banner at the top of https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing, and Tatica made

Fwd: Re: Google Summer of Code press blog

2010-02-27 Thread Mel Chua
-0500 From: Kara Schiltz kschi...@redhat.com Reply-To: kschi...@redhat.com Organization: Red Hat To: Mel Chua m...@redhat.com CC: Karsten Wade kw...@redhat.com, Paul W. Frields pfrie...@redhat.com This all sounds good to me. I can start working up some questions. Thanks, Kara Mel Chua wrote

Mad Libs style forms

2010-02-26 Thread Mel Chua
From #fedora-mktg: Robyn found a cool link! http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1007 - Mad Libs Style Form Increases Conversion 25-40% Basically, if sign-up dialogs looked less like this: name: _ email:_ username: _ password: _ And more like this: Hi,

Re: ESOMAR Code

2010-02-26 Thread Mel Chua
I would like to share this with the list. This is the ESOMAR code. http://www.esomar.org/index.php/codes-guidelines.html Thanks, Nelson - this is very useful, and has a lot of good things to consider. For folks like me who didn't know what the ESOMAR code was before reading the link,

Re: Fedora Insight sprint this weekend: HTML/CSS designers needed!

2010-02-25 Thread Mel Chua
Mel, do you have a suggestion as to which freenode channel we should use for something like this? Perhaps #fedora-meeting-1 ? #fedora-meeting (or #fedora-meeting-1, if the main meeting channel is taken) seems like a fine place to do this sprint - thanks for getting this together, Pascal!

F13 talking points final announcement (draft)

2010-02-24 Thread Mel Chua
This is what I'm likely to send out as a call for this is our final set, descriptions being edited please help! to the usual marketing deliverables announcement list recipients. (marketing, devel, advisory-board) when I wake up in the morning. Patches before then welcome. ;) There's a bit of

Re: Call for Partiticipation Fedora KDE Desktop Edition Talking Points

2010-02-24 Thread Mel Chua
The Marketing team recently standardized SOPs for creating general Fedora release Talking Points, which this push for KDE release Talking Points is based off of. You can view a draft of them here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talking_points_SOP This is, btw, *exactly* what we wanted to

Fwd: Fedora 13 Alpha Readiness Meeting :: 2010-02-25 @ 21:00 UTC

2010-02-24 Thread Mel Chua
-- Máirín Duffy Documentation -- Eric Christensen FESCo -- Kevin Fenzi Fedora Engineering Manager -- Tom Spot Callaway Fedora Project Leader -- Paul Frields Infrastructure -- Mike McGrath Marketing -- Mel Chua Quality -- James Laska Release Engineering -- Jesse Keating Translation -- Noriko Mizumoto

F13 talking points have been chosen - help us add in details!

2010-02-24 Thread Mel Chua
You may recall the Marketing team asking for help selecting the F13 talking points last week - thanks to a great many people who participated, we were able to wrap up the discussion today (which you can see at

Re: F13 talking points have been chosen - help us add in details!

2010-02-24 Thread Mel Chua
And blogged: http://blog.melchua.com/2010/02/24/f13-talking-points-have-been-chosen/ Should hit Planet shortly. --Mel -- marketing mailing list marketing@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing

Re: Self Introduction: Nelson Marques

2010-02-24 Thread Mel Chua
And great work on the release notes, they are awesome. Like I said on the IRC yesterday, we should also have a smaller flier for download for not so technical people, oriented for mainstream users. Lets not do this for F13, as we are short on time, but we can start thinking on to do it for

Re: F13 talking points have been chosen - help us add in details!

2010-02-24 Thread Mel Chua
On 02/24/2010 11:02 AM, Mel Chua wrote: And blogged: http://blog.melchua.com/2010/02/24/f13-talking-points-have-been-chosen/ Should hit Planet shortly. And now that I refresh my feed reader, I see that Justin beat me to it: http://numberedhumanindustries.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/what

Re: Self Introduction: Nelson Marques

2010-02-24 Thread Mel Chua
We have time dedicated to making some standardized branded templates for assorted pretty press materials / deliverables, and I think we were actually going to draft up the one-page notes at Mktg FAD (I may have it mixed up with a different deliverable, though). We have our normal Marketing

Fedora Marketing weekly meeting, Tuesday 20:00UTC #fedora-meeting-1

2010-02-22 Thread Mel Chua
Details and agenda at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings. See you folks there! --Mel -- marketing mailing list marketing@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing

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