#fedora-mktg
<Strikeforce> Isn't the meeting supposed to happen?
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<mether> ok
so we can start the meeting now
<jmbuser_> JohnBabich
<mether> RahulSundaram
<Strikeforce> Up to you guys just thought I was late or something :)
<mether> no we have been starting slowly so that people can join in
<Strikeforce> no worries
<mether> who else is around?
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<mether> i was hoping mizmo would be
but she seems to be not available in irc yet
here is the list of things I think we should be doing for the Fedora 8 release
Artwork - Labels, banners, promos that we can run on the website etc
Identify which features to highlight - We have a good number of them and we should figure out any two or three features that are important
and promote them specifically
<Strikeforce> When you say artwork you mean in F8 or on the website? same for Labels, Banners, promos.
<mether> in the website
not within the distribution
that work is already done
the organized focus on interviewing developers going through all the Fedora 8 features isn't over yet but it is clearly very successful
pretty much of them have been referred to from many websites including digg, lwn.net, osnews.com. lxer etc
except the first one where we didnt highlight digg properly all of them got several hundreds digg's and hit the front page
* couf tunes in
<mether> the website needs some clean up
especially on the download page
and Mo has been working on designing the spins section
we will have http://spins.fedoraproject.org shortly
which will explain what a spin is, list out all the different spins of Fedora, identify how to do your own custom spins etc
check out http://mihmo.livejournal.com/47056.html for that
http://mihmo.livejournal.com/47315.html
<couf> download page is being redsigned as well, see http://ivazquez.fedorapeople.org/files/fedora-web/get-fedora.html for an example idea
<mether> i think we should look closely
at what OpenSUSE and Ubuntu is doing in this space
I find a list of links to be overwhelming compared to what they have done
<Strikeforce> Ubuntu has the basic Gnome/KDE and XFCE and then a server version
x86 and x86_64
so they would have 8 downloads
maybe if it started with gnome -> x86 or x86_64 then the links
<mether> we have a choice of spins, dvd or cd. arch, installation methods
I think http://software.opensuse.org/ is pretty neat
One thing that we one additional choice that we need to figure how we can present well
<Strikeforce> I would have to agree
<mether> is the differentiation between
official and custom spins
<Strikeforce> Should we link them to the front page?
<mether> I think what we need to do
<Strikeforce> Would it not be better to say see what the community is doing -> and point them that way
<mether> is list only the official spins in the front page
and link to http://spins.fedoraproject.org
for more
front page as in the download page
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<couf> mether: +1
<mether> if we do it well
we don't have to worry about pushing in whatever spins that come up