release slogan, round 2.
 

In an effort to come up with something that ties into our theme, I've
done a little bit of thinking about some of our theme descriptions
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_release_slogan#Themes).

I started off with some words, and flipped (err, hit spacebar a lot)
through the thesaurus online to see what other words came up.

I started off with - emerge/emergence - started working with the words
lead, rise, direction, advance... still didn't get a lot of things.
But what I have so far is:

Rise Up.
Be everywhere.
Soar.

Annnnnnd... that's it.

I'm not sure if we should kick off a second wiki table on the same
page, or just bring suggestions to the marketing meeting on tuesday.
If anyone would like to throw in a suggestion either way, I'm happy to
follow.

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On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Robyn Bergeron
<robyn.bergeron@gmail.com> wrote:
> In an effort to come up with something that ties into our theme, I've
> done a little bit of thinking about some of our theme descriptions
> (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_release_slogan#Themes).
>
> I started off with some words, and flipped (err, hit spacebar a lot)
> through the thesaurus online to see what other words came up.
>
> I started off with - emerge/emergence - started working with the words
> lead, rise, direction, advance... still didn't get a lot of things.
> But what I have so far is:
>
> Rise Up.
> Be everywhere.
> Soar.
>
> Annnnnnd... that's it.
>
> I'm not sure if we should kick off a second wiki table on the same
> page, or just bring suggestions to the marketing meeting on tuesday.
> If anyone would like to throw in a suggestion either way, I'm happy to
> follow.
>

"Rise Up" is at the wiki and I like it. Not sure if we are going to
get problems with riseup.net or riseuplabs.org

"Soar" can be conflicted with http://sourceforge.net/projects/soar/
For me this a minor conflict.

What about "freedom ascension" ? I am a bit shy to propose as English
is not my first language. Sometimes I feel that I don't fully grasp
the meaning. But again I hate to have matches on google ...
http://www.ascensionsoftware.com

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Soar sounds too much like stock price stuff IMHO, why not "The F in Freedom"
or "rising by design" "powered by freedom" "Crossing the tipping point"
"More Freedom"

Ah, #needbeer ;-)

Jan

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On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Robyn Bergeron
<robyn.bergeron@gmail.com> wrote:
> In an effort to come up with something that ties into our theme, I've
> done a little bit of thinking about some of our theme descriptions
> (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_release_slogan#Themes).
>
> I started off with some words, and flipped (err, hit spacebar a lot)
> through the thesaurus online to see what other words came up.
>
> I started off with - emerge/emergence - started working with the words
> lead, rise, direction, advance... still didn't get a lot of things.
> But what I have so far is:
>
> Rise Up.
> Be everywhere.
> Soar.
>
> Annnnnnd... that's it.
>
> I'm not sure if we should kick off a second wiki table on the same
> page, or just bring suggestions to the marketing meeting on tuesday.
> If anyone would like to throw in a suggestion either way, I'm happy to
> follow.
>

"Rise Up" is at the wiki and I like it. Not sure if we are going to
get problems with riseup.net or riseuplabs.org

"Soar" can be conflicted with http://sourceforge.net/projects/soar/
For me this a minor conflict.

What about "freedom ascension" ? I am a bit shy to propose as English
is not my first language. Sometimes I feel that I don't fully grasp
the meaning. But again I hate to have matches on google ...
http://www.ascensionsoftware.com

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release slogan, round 2.
 

Just putting this out there for discussion, or not: Is $SLOGAN=NONE still an option? Looking at the distro landscape, it appears that we're the only ones that do it -- and if we're not the only ones doing it, that would affirm my main point that slogans may be so secondary to any distro's release name that they are irrelevant.


Larry Cafiero

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Jan Wildeboer <jwildebo@redhat.com> wrote:

Soar sounds too much like stock price stuff IMHO, why not "The F in Freedom"

or "rising by design" "powered by freedom" "Crossing the tipping point"

"More Freedom"



Ah, #needbeer ;-)



Jan



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On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Robyn Bergeron

<robyn.bergeron@gmail.com> wrote:

> In an effort to come up with something that ties into our theme, I've

> done a little bit of thinking about some of our theme descriptions

> (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_release_slogan#Themes).

>

> I started off with some words, and flipped (err, hit spacebar a lot)

> through the thesaurus online to see what other words came up.

>

> I started off with - emerge/emergence - started working with the words

> lead, rise, direction, advance... still didn't get a lot of things.

> But what I have so far is:

>

> Rise Up.

> Be everywhere.

> Soar.

>

> Annnnnnd... that's it.

>

> I'm not sure if we should kick off a second wiki table on the same

> page, or just bring suggestions to the marketing meeting on tuesday.

> If anyone would like to throw in a suggestion either way, I'm happy to

> follow.

>



"Rise Up" is at the wiki and I like it. Not sure if we are going to

get problems with riseup.net or riseuplabs.org



"Soar" can be conflicted with http://sourceforge.net/projects/soar/

For me this a minor conflict.



What about "freedom ascension" ? I am a bit shy to propose as English

is not my first language. Sometimes I feel that I don't fully grasp

the meaning. But again I hate to have matches on google ...

http://www.ascensionsoftware.com



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On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 00:00, Robyn Bergeron <robyn.bergeron@gmail.com> wrote:
> In an effort to come up with something that ties into our theme, I've
> done a little bit of thinking about some of our theme descriptions
> (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_release_slogan#Themes).
>
> I started off with some words, and flipped (err, hit spacebar a lot)
> through the thesaurus online to see what other words came up.
>
> I started off with - emerge/emergence - started working with the words
> lead, rise, direction, advance... still didn't get a lot of things.
> But what I have so far is:
>
> Rise Up.
> Be everywhere.
> Soar.

Vector In.
Ansantz
Starting Point
SuperSolid



> Annnnnnd... that's it.
>
> I'm not sure if we should kick off a second wiki table on the same
> page, or just bring suggestions to the marketing meeting on tuesday.
> If anyone would like to throw in a suggestion either way, I'm happy to
> follow.
>
> -Robyn
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On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:22, Larry Cafiero <larry.cafiero@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just putting this out there for discussion, or not: Is $SLOGAN=NONE still an
> option? Looking at the distro landscape, it appears that we're the only ones
> that do it -- and if we're not the only ones doing it, that would affirm my
> main point that slogans may be so secondary to any distro's release name
> that they are irrelevant.
>
> Larry Cafiero
>

To be honest.. are Release Names really used by people when talking
about Fedora? I see that more often in the Ubuntu/Debian communities
than ever in Fedora/RHL communities.

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On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Larry Cafiero <larry.cafiero@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just putting this out there for discussion, or not: Is $SLOGAN=NONE still an
> option?

Yes, it's still an option. My plan was to 1) figure out what to do
for an F14 slogan and then 2) come up with a long-term plan. Are you
suggesting not having a slogan for F14, or not having a slogan at all,
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On Monday, August 23, 2010 06:37:33 pm Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:22, Larry Cafiero <larry.cafiero@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Just putting this out there for discussion, or not: Is $SLOGAN=NONE still
> > an option? Looking at the distro landscape, it appears that we're the
> > only ones that do it -- and if we're not the only ones doing it, that
> > would affirm my main point that slogans may be so secondary to any
> > distro's release name that they are irrelevant.
> >
> > Larry Cafiero
>
> To be honest.. are Release Names really used by people when talking
> about Fedora? I see that more often in the Ubuntu/Debian communities
> than ever in Fedora/RHL communities.

How about "Free as in Fedora"...? ;)

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On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 03:09:22PM -0400, Jared K. Smith wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Larry Cafiero <larry.cafiero@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Just putting this out there for discussion, or not: Is $SLOGAN=NONE still an
> > option?
>
> Yes, it's still an option. My plan was to 1) figure out what to do
> for an F14 slogan and then 2) come up with a long-term plan. Are you
> suggesting not having a slogan for F14, or not having a slogan at all,
> or both?

I suggested in a couple meetings and other places that a
release-specific slogan that changes every six months doesn't meet the
"simplify and amplify" advice that professional marketeer Chris Grams
gave us in the Marketing FAD earlier this year. I think Larry may be
harkening back to that (or maybe he and I are just simpatico on
this?).

There's a front web page redesign going on right now. I think it
makes more sense for us to invest in a long-term message there that is
consistent with Fedora in general, as opposed to one specific release
theme like the release-specific slogan.


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On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Stephen John Smoogen <



To be honest.. are Release Names really used by people when talking

about Fedora? I see that more often in the Ubuntu/Debian communities

than ever in Fedora/RHL communities.


Frankly, yes. It's easy to refer to F13 as Goddard, just as it's common for those in Ubuntu to talk about Feisty, Gutsy, Karmic, Lucid, etc., in referring* to those releases. In fact, more times than not during the course of a presentation, I'll refer to the release by name rather than by number.


But I've never really used the slogans when describing any Fedora release, so I don't think we should be comparing release names to release slogans.

My point -- maybe missed, maybe not -- is how important is a slogan if choosing one is causing problems and taking away from time better spent elsewhere?


[Incidentally, I am just north of ambivalent about the slogan: If we have one, fine; if not, oh well. So I really don't have a horse in this race, so to speak.]

Larry Cafiero


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