19:01:35 #startmeeting 19:01:35 Meeting started Thu Sep 13 19:01:35 2012 UTC. The chair is suehle1. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 19:01:35 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 19:01:58 MEETIN 19:01:58 #meetingname Fedora Marketing 19:01:58 The meeting name has been set to 'fedora_marketing' 19:02:03 #topic roll call 19:02:06 * jnalley is here 19:02:12 * rbergeron is here-ish 19:02:25 * suehle1 orders her computer to stay connected through this meeting for once 19:02:36 * rbergeron will also be in the other meeting (fudcon) 19:02:55 and the other one (go/no-go) 19:03:15 though fudcon may actually be in an hour ;) anyway 19:03:30 I've lost a week. I was trying to figure out why I couldn't find the minutes from 9/13. 19:03:34 I guess that means I gained a week. 19:03:50 #topic Press tracking 19:03:53 * graphite6 is here 19:04:02 jbrooks didn't say he was here, but I thought if I asked if anything was new, he might appear. :) 19:04:19 * suehle1 casts the summon jbrooks_ spell 19:04:19 does he highlight on "new" or something? lol 19:04:25 That's what happened last time 19:04:45 Spell cast, we'll come back if he comes. 19:04:55 mmhmm 19:04:58 #topic Fedora Weekly News 19:05:18 We've pretty much pounded this on the mailing list, but I figured that meant it was worth discussing. Should have invited the news people. 19:05:31 yeah, i have a few things for this topic, i suppose 19:05:35 Go rbergeron! 19:05:45 LOL 19:05:54 okay 19:05:57 * graphite6 gets out her pom poms 19:06:03 * rbergeron shoves the pizza in her mouth and tries to swallow 19:06:10 so: i like the under the brim name. 19:06:20 I do wonder if (a) we need to not be so ambitious and just go to monthly. 19:06:40 Is that too seldom? Would two weeks be a good compromise? 19:06:45 Or is there just not enough to say? 19:06:52 (b) if we can bring in some new content, or figure out new methodologies for content. 19:06:55 I like the suggestion that it be more general than news, like maybe there's a tips and tricks section. 19:07:04 well, here's the thing: it depends on what the audience is, right? 19:07:07 * jbrooks_ is here, late 19:07:08 right 19:07:28 becuase right now it's mooooooostly been "wtf is going on in fedora-contributor-land" and a bit of outreach / news beyond that 19:07:57 which is helpful for us, but not necessarily something that totally gets others pupmped up and wanting to immediatley tattoo fedora on their arm 19:08:01 We should probably get off-list, off-this-meeting, with all the right people who want to do it and have a meeting just for regrouping how FWN works 19:08:02 (which is totally the goal, right??) 19:08:15 The other thing is the whole Fedora Insight project 19:08:21 * suehle1 looks for rbergeron's tattoo 19:08:28 I always read FWN to find out about what was happening in the project 19:08:39 which has been going on FOR EVER - but the goal of that in the first place was to help change that workflow - and to get some of that content into a portal. 19:08:42 See, the summon spell worked :) 19:08:48 I check it out about once a month 19:08:54 "portal"... god, i hate that word. 19:09:13 Good game, though... 19:09:22 but what they've been doing lately, i have no idea. but i am not kidding when i tell you that project has been ongoing since 2009. 19:09:29 Insight? 19:09:39 * graphite6 doesn't know what Insight is 19:09:43 so it might be a good point to group marketing and the insignt folks on the logistics ist and the FWN folks 19:09:46 EXACTLY! 19:10:06 So maybe someone should ask on the marketing list for someone to explain what this Insight thing is. 19:10:17 I tihnhk that stickster would probably be able to give a very nice explanation. 19:10:23 #action suehle Group up mktg, news, and Insight and figure out how we're all going to work together for the greater good of goodness 19:10:33 +1 19:10:36 Since he's been working with some of the other awesome peeps (peter borsa, etc) 19:10:49 to do drupal packaging, drupal modeule packaging, etc. 19:10:58 Part of it was also calendaring-related, events-related, etc. 19:11:01 So. 19:11:15 suehle1: most of the insight "stuff" happens on the logistics mailing list. 19:11:28 from what i read on the wiki, it seemed like the end all be all to a lot of problems 19:11:30 noted 19:11:33 If that hepls you to find people. But I think Paul could give thte long, sordid history, from the days of working with zikula. 19:11:37 I think I joined logistics for that reason 19:11:38 Many moons ago. 19:11:48 or was it zarafa 19:11:56 i can't keep all the z projects straight. anyway.... 19:12:22 that's my food for thought. I tihnk it would probably draw more content if we had cooler content in there. 19:12:35 +1 19:12:43 +1 19:12:52 one other thing i was goin to mention wrt it was that sparks had mentioned an idea in a board meeting a while ago about having a place where contributors could kind of publicly thank others - maybe that's a nice spot at the end of the newsletter. 19:12:57 Anyway. 19:12:59 that's all i have to say there. 19:13:00 :) 19:13:09 (until my brain barfs more stuff up in 10 minutes) 19:13:10 Aw, that'd be a good use of that FRIENDS F. 19:13:32 I think the key is for the relevant teams to want to get there information out there, and to be ready to enlist a beat writer to do it 19:13:35 For the content part 19:13:49 Then there's the presentation part, which certainly could stand an upgrade 19:14:17 Yeah, it would help if there were a list of team leaders to ping "hey, what's new lately?" when compiling it 19:14:22 I've been on the fwn team for ~six months, just doing In the News -- and just doing it when there was an issue to go out 19:14:23 I tihnk just making it easier or giving people a new name other than beat writer could just be the easy thing to do. 19:14:34 suehle1: yes, and that is also easier on a monthly or every-other-week basis. 19:14:45 [people don't feel liike they are perpetually on the hook. 19:15:07 And it doesn't seem depressing when you have a week without news, because you have more weeks of time to get shit done. 19:15:08 We can assemble some content streams, get them flowing, and then take distribution/presentation as a separate step 19:15:27 So whether or not FWN is going out that week, people who want their info going out would prepare their bit 19:15:31 But i think we should talk to the insight folks to see what they are planning 19:15:36 it might also help to let them know, what type of content we're looking for and some example articles, announcements, etc...so they don't get bogged down by a blank page 19:15:48 since a lot of that was about collecting that type of info, making that workflow far easier. 19:15:57 graphite6: yup. 19:16:34 I know that I've assembled the In the News some weeks, but the issue hasn't come together, so I haven't done anything with the blurb 19:17:35 I was thinking, maybe I should just throw it up somewhere, on my blog or something, in the time being, to stay in the flow of actually getting it together w/o waiting for the whole fwn to gel that week 19:18:18 But, as others have said, it'd be good to include the fwn-ers in this disc 19:18:22 yup. 19:18:38 pascal could probably give some thoughts, though i know his time to give to it is thin now. 19:18:48 suehle1: do yo want to move on to the next topic ;) 19:18:59 sure! 19:19:24 #topic Press tracking 19:19:32 Since the summon spell worked... anything new to report? 19:20:14 Well, let me ask you all -- how do we want to log mentions -- in the wiki page? 19:20:36 More words... what do you mean "how"? 19:20:43 I can take the mentions I've been logging for In the News and put them wherever -- I don't think automated will be great 19:21:01 I guess, where and in what form 19:21:33 jbrooks_: i assume you have seen how it was done in the past 19:21:36 We're looking to log the mention, and also log the publication, and add that pub to a list of pubs if it isn't alreay there? 19:21:38 There are release pages, like http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_press_archive 19:22:21 * rbergeron thinks the easiest thing would be to have a webform to wiki ... something or another 19:22:36 it's easy to get people to contribute articles, not so easy to get them to want to do wiki tables. 19:22:39 which suck. 19:22:42 they are hateful. 19:22:51 That would be handy 19:22:55 For a lot of pages :) 19:23:14 Could we reuse the one ianweller did for FUDCon registration? ...that doesn't go to the wiki though, does it? 19:23:21 agreed but can the wiki interact with forms? 19:24:02 graphite6: maybe? 19:24:06 lol 19:24:12 * rbergeron wonders if python-mediawiki could be magical here somehow, but who knows. 19:24:23 suehle1: we could, but that's all on openshift hosted 19:24:39 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TableEdit 19:24:42 so it necessitates someone to have an account there to change shit 19:24:56 oh that maube just gives you better wysiwyg buttons for it 19:25:00 let me just say that's a lot of work 19:25:08 that is all :) 19:25:16 and ther eyou have it. 19:25:23 All righty then 19:25:39 Ok, I'll spend some time meditating on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_press_archive, et al 19:25:48 :D 19:25:57 I think there'll have to be a human element 19:26:12 surely someone wants to be the Fedora Librarian. 19:26:12 but this can dovetail w/ the news stuff 19:26:14 :) 19:26:26 "Historian" sounds like a way better title 19:27:21 * graphite6 wonders where she packed her curlers and bifocals.... 19:28:02 #action jbrooks to meditate on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_press_archive, 19:28:11 #topic open floor 19:28:19 I feel like I forgot something. What was it? 19:28:29 Release deliverables? 19:28:32 Flyers? 19:28:41 I want a sysadmin flyer for puppetconf and haven't done anything about it. 19:28:43 Well, with the release pushback, there's not a lot in imminent need. 19:28:51 That's pretty soon. :) 19:28:57 Oh, graphite6: i need to beep at you about if you ahve spare jboss or cloud cards. 19:29:06 suehle1: yeah. i may just do regular flyers. 19:29:28 I've got spare jboss cards, I have some cloud cards 19:29:39 do you need some? 19:30:13 graphite6: I know you've been moving, but have you worked on the stationery idea yet? 19:30:45 nothing other than the thought that I need the .svg of the fedora logo...so if you could send it to me :D 19:30:59 but I'm back to normal now so I can work on it 19:31:18 graphite6: i would love some for puppetconf if you ahve some. 19:31:25 I've regained full connectivity with the internets!!!! 19:31:31 graphite6: will ping you post meeting about it ;) 19:31:44 rbergeron: definitely I can send them out ASAP 19:31:49 Can do. Although I've also wondered if the most timeless option might be to just put the logo on some foldover blank cards. 19:31:51 * rbergeron also sort of wants more beefy stickers to take to fudcon paris for peeps there but doesn't know if ruth has a stack in RDU 19:32:02 Yeah, I saw your email, and I was going to count what I have left. 19:32:04 suehle1: /me nods 19:32:08 suehle1: okay 19:32:13 I've got some in the bag from oscon and some in the stuff from moving out of the office 19:32:17 lol 19:32:36 * rbergeron has like 5 bags of swag/sticker bags/assorted batches of crap 19:33:03 Yeah, I think opensource.com stickers might be multiplying in my house. I find one here, one there. 19:33:05 * jnalley fedora swag != crap 19:33:23 suehle1: that's kind of what I had in mind...simple on some nice paper 19:33:37 I'm sure she meant "in the same bag with crap accumulated from other organization's booths" :) 19:34:21 haha, i know 19:34:41 Is that all we have for today? 19:35:37 going once, twice... 19:35:55 This is usually the part where my wifi drops, and I realize I'm talking to myself... :D 19:35:59 #endmeeting