So we have a few things going on at SCALe 8x, 19 to 21 Feb in Los
Angeles, CA. These are newsworthy, such that we think it's worth
cranking up the joint Red Hat-Fedora PR mechanisms. What are they?

Here's what is going on, in a nutshell:

* Friday - Fedora Activity Day to work on Summer Coding and getting
ready for the coming Google Summer of Code.
* Friday - Women in Open Source - The self-described Fedora Mascots
are going to give a talk, "Ultimate Randomness - Girl
voices in open source."[1] These are Larry's 12-year-old
and my 12- and 9-year-old daughters.
* Saturday - I give the 10 am keynote, "Being a Catalyst in Commnities
- The scientific facts about the open source way."[2]
* Saturday - Richard Fontana talks at 4:30 on Sunday, "Improving the
Open Source Legal System."
* Sat/Sun - Fedora booth in the main expo hall (booth 43, straight in
the front doors, second cross-aisle, turn right, on the
left in the middle, where the [F] is:

Entrance
<-----------------/ ------------------->
1st row
<_________________ ___________________>
2nd row
<_______[F]_______ ___________________>
Back row
__________________________________________

Anything I'm missing?

What is Red Hat planning around PR for this event?

What can we do together?

As we did last year, Fedora Ambassadors will be making out some flyers
publicizing Fedora and Red Hat talks. So far, Richard's is the main
one I see, but there is also a Sugar presentation we might want to
connect with?

- Karsten

[1] http://quaid.fedorapeople.org/presentations/proposals/SCALE_8x_2010/WiOS-Ultimate_Randomness-Girl_voices_in_open_source.txt
[2] http://quaid.fedorapeople.org/presentations/proposals/SCALE_8x_2010/Being_A_Catalyst_In_Communities-proposal.txt
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On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 11:08:13AM -0800, Karsten Wade wrote:
> So we have a few things going on at SCALe 8x, 19 to 21 Feb in Los
> Angeles, CA. These are newsworthy, such that we think it's worth
> cranking up the joint Red Hat-Fedora PR mechanisms. What are they?
>
> Here's what is going on, in a nutshell:
>
> * Friday - Fedora Activity Day to work on Summer Coding and getting
> ready for the coming Google Summer of Code.
> * Friday - Women in Open Source - The self-described Fedora Mascots
> are going to give a talk, "Ultimate Randomness - Girl
> voices in open source."[1] These are Larry's 12-year-old
> and my 12- and 9-year-old daughters.
> * Saturday - I give the 10 am keynote, "Being a Catalyst in Commnities
> - The scientific facts about the open source way."[2]
> * Saturday - Richard Fontana talks at 4:30 on Sunday, "Improving the
> Open Source Legal System."
> * Sat/Sun - Fedora booth in the main expo hall (booth 43, straight in
> the front doors, second cross-aisle, turn right, on the
> left in the middle, where the [F] is:
>
> Entrance
> <-----------------/ ------------------->
> 1st row
> <_________________ ___________________>
> 2nd row
> <_______[F]_______ ___________________>
> Back row
> __________________________________________
>
> Anything I'm missing?
>
> What is Red Hat planning around PR for this event?
>
> What can we do together?
>
> As we did last year, Fedora Ambassadors will be making out some flyers
> publicizing Fedora and Red Hat talks. So far, Richard's is the main
> one I see, but there is also a Sugar presentation we might want to
> connect with?
>
> - Karsten
>
> [1] http://quaid.fedorapeople.org/presentations/proposals/SCALE_8x_2010/WiOS-Ultimate_Randomness-Girl_voices_in_open_source.txt
> [2] http://quaid.fedorapeople.org/presentations/proposals/SCALE_8x_2010/Being_A_Catalyst_In_Communities-proposal.txt

Kara is interested in doing some Red Hat PR around SCALE -- there will
be a great mix of both Fedora and Red Hat principals at the event
speaking. (I think Thomas Cameron should show off both his tattoos.)

Karsten, is the FAD still going to feature work on our Summer Coding
engagement for 2010?

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On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 03:42:25PM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>
> Kara is interested in doing some Red Hat PR around SCALE -- there will
> be a great mix of both Fedora and Red Hat principals at the event
> speaking. (I think Thomas Cameron should show off both his tattoos.)
>
> Karsten, is the FAD still going to feature work on our Summer Coding
> engagement for 2010?

Aye, that's the plan. I'm working on exactly what we'll be doing, but
the hand-wavy bits are easy enough to do right now.

Here's a paragraph that can be used or tweaked for press materials.
Bounce back suggested fixes, thanks!

<para>

On the Friday of SCALE 8x special events, Fedora Project contributors
are conducting a Fedora Activity Day (FAD). The focus of this FAD is
preparing the Fedora Project/JBoss.org joint mentoring organization
for the upcoming 2010 Google Summer of Code. The team plans to create
process and how-to content, find and solve mentor problems, and
educate the wider JBoss.org and Fedora projects about how
participation is conducted this year. The work prepares the
organizations for the goal of improving capacity for more students and
mentors.

</para>

- Karsten
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How about including a sentence or two on how Fedora has worked with
Google Summer of Code in previous years and any success we've helped create?

-Kara

Karsten Wade wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 03:42:25PM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>
>> Kara is interested in doing some Red Hat PR around SCALE -- there will
>> be a great mix of both Fedora and Red Hat principals at the event
>> speaking. (I think Thomas Cameron should show off both his tattoos.)
>>
>> Karsten, is the FAD still going to feature work on our Summer Coding
>> engagement for 2010?
>>
>
> Aye, that's the plan. I'm working on exactly what we'll be doing, but
> the hand-wavy bits are easy enough to do right now.
>
> Here's a paragraph that can be used or tweaked for press materials.
> Bounce back suggested fixes, thanks!
>
> <para>
>
> On the Friday of SCALE 8x special events, Fedora Project contributors
> are conducting a Fedora Activity Day (FAD). The focus of this FAD is
> preparing the Fedora Project/JBoss.org joint mentoring organization
> for the upcoming 2010 Google Summer of Code. The team plans to create
> process and how-to content, find and solve mentor problems, and
> educate the wider JBoss.org and Fedora projects about how
> participation is conducted this year. The work prepares the
> organizations for the goal of improving capacity for more students and
> mentors.
>
> </para>
>
> - Karsten
>

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Hy,

here are my 0,02Cents...

> Here's a paragraph that can be used or tweaked for press materials.
> Bounce back suggested fixes, thanks!
>
> <para>
>
> On the Friday of SCALE 8x special events, Fedora Project contributors
> are conducting a Fedora Activity Day (FAD). The focus of this FAD is
> preparing the Fedora Project/JBoss.org joint mentoring organization
> for the upcoming 2010 Google Summer of Code. The team plans to create
> process and how-to content, find and solve mentor problems, and
> educate the wider JBoss.org and Fedora projects about how
> participation is conducted this year. The work prepares the
> organizations for the goal of improving capacity for more students and
> mentors.
>
> </para>
>
Sounds good.
Is it possible to include some persons names or write it a bit more
personal like "The team around Karsten Wade [and XYZ], a Redhat Worker
and Fedora Enthusiast, plans to create process [...]".
Also I think thats a small snippet on what is going on on SCALE and the
text can focus in one other paragraph a bit deeper at the point what
Redhat/JBoss/Fedora can do for Organisations (because it was mentioned
in the sentence "The work prepares the organisations [...] <-- wich ones?].


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On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 04:01:59PM -0500, Kara Schiltz wrote:
> How about including a sentence or two on how Fedora has worked with
> Google Summer of Code in previous years and any success we've helped create?

Yeah, I did a report end of last year:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GSoC_report_2009

To summarize the main points it might sound like this:

"Participating in the Summer of Code has already brought Fedora and
JBoss improved project infrastructure, new software, new contributors
and hires for Red Hat, and strengthened ties with existing
contributors and upstream projects. It has made the projects more
efficient, provided valuable mentor training, and added legitimacy in
new areas. For example, Transifex.net is a community translation tool
and open source business that started as a Summer of Code project in
the Fedora Project, and now provides the back-end for Fedora
translations as well as hundreds of other open source projects."

- Karsten
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On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:51:32PM +0100, wonderer wrote:
> Hy,
>
> here are my 0,02Cents...
>
> > Here's a paragraph that can be used or tweaked for press materials.
> > Bounce back suggested fixes, thanks!
> >
> > <para>
> >
> > On the Friday of SCALE 8x special events, Fedora Project contributors
> > are conducting a Fedora Activity Day (FAD). The focus of this FAD is
> > preparing the Fedora Project/JBoss.org joint mentoring organization
> > for the upcoming 2010 Google Summer of Code. The team plans to create
> > process and how-to content, find and solve mentor problems, and
> > educate the wider JBoss.org and Fedora projects about how
> > participation is conducted this year. The work prepares the
> > organizations for the goal of improving capacity for more students and
> > mentors.
> >
> > </para>
> >
> Sounds good.
> Is it possible to include some persons names or write it a bit more
> personal like "The team around Karsten Wade [and XYZ], a Redhat Worker
> and Fedora Enthusiast, plans to create process [...]".

Interesting point. My instinct is to de-personalize it; too often it
seems that we try to rally people around personality and celebrity. I
wanted to emphasize that it is a group effort, and since the group is
made up of "whoever shows up and works", it's hard to name those folks
in advance.

Still, I can see some other ways that personalize it, so it appeals to
humans , without making it a cult of personality.

<para>

On the Friday of SCALE 8x special events, the Fedora Ambassador team
is conducting a Fedora Activity Day (FAD). The focus of this FAD is
preparing the Fedora Project/JBoss.org joint mentoring organization
for the upcoming 2010 Google Summer of Code. Team members, including
Fedora contributors Ben Williams, Larry Cafiero, Scott Williams, and
Karsten Wade, plan to create process and how-to content. They are
looking to find and solve mentor problems, and educate the wider
JBoss.org and Fedora projects about how participation is conducted
this year. The work prepares the Fedora/JBoss.org organizations for
improving capacity for more students and mentors even beyond the
Summer of Code efforts.

</para>

> Also I think thats a small snippet on what is going on on SCALE and the
> text can focus in one other paragraph a bit deeper at the point what
> Redhat/JBoss/Fedora can do for Organisations (because it was mentioned
> in the sentence "The work prepares the organisations [...] <-- wich ones?].

Do the above changes address these ideas?

- Karsten
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