Hy all, as I had some time before MKTG FAD starts I take that opportunity to write some "howto write presstext SOP" (see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Writing_press_Releases_HowTo ) in order to improve our procedure of marketing / strategics. So in the future (and also in the past) was such things as "I have a new spin / event / thingy ... please write some about that..." and I think we can structurize that process some more. But now I will get some coffee at the coffee-bar and I hope you fuínd that helpfull. mit freundlichen Grüßen / best regards Henrik Heigl - wonderer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx PGP/GnuPG: 8237 D432 0616 D567 DBC6 3FE3 0D52 B374 F468 A5F0 Am 12.03.2010 19:35, schrieb Karsten Wade: > Yesterday we turned in our mentoring organization application[1] for > the 2010 Google Summer of Code[2]. We won't know until next week if > our umbrella organization is accepted, but we'd like to get ahead on > preparing a press release. This idea came from a side discussion with > Kara, Mel, Paul, and myself. > > The idea is to have a press release to out via the Red Hat press blog > (http://press.redhat.com), and have it be usable by Fedora and > JBoss.org. > > Below is the background, and here are some relevant pages. > > This is our plan: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GSoC_2010_plan > > This is the in-progress page with information for students, mentors, > sub-projects, upstreams, and admins: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GSoC_2010 > > Fedora Project and JBoss.org have submitted together as a single > umbrella organization, which was Google's preference in the past. > We've worked up some new ideas and plans to fix problems from the > past, and our goal is to increase both the quantity and quality of > student projects. > > Bottom line is this: more quality proposals means more that we like > and rank, which increases the quantity of student slots from Google. > The better we can simplify and amplify our message, the more of that > goodness we'll all get to enjoy. > > == Background == > > I'm working on this because last fall I wrote up a report[3] that > revealed some surprising and pleasing results. After that, our > team[4] agreed it was worth a portion of my time ongoing if we could > accomplish several goals: improve 2010 GSoC as a proving ground; help > push out the framework/methods to other projects (such as what RIT is > doing with our assistance); take lessons and apply them to a larger > idea of improving mentoring and our ability to take in new > contributors in a similar way to students. > > For the last few GSoC years Fedora Project has been paired with > JBoss.org under a single "Red Hat umbrella"; this was Google's choice, > and reasonable from the perspective of their watching the program's > size and budget. Our experience was mixed for two main reasons: no > previous communication channels between Fedora and JBoss that didn't > go through Red Hat; different community types and styles. JBoss.org > is more like the Apache project - a series of upstreams, loosely or > tightly coupled, that all sit on top of a large number of OSes. > > For this year, the already collected mentors began last fall in > working out differences and laying plans for resolving previous > problems. One example is that we are having mentors and associated > sub-projects compete directly for student slots based on the strength > of the student proposal. I.e., there is no direct attempt to divide > the slots, some to Fedora, some to JBoss, to create an artificial > fairness. > > A few of our mentors, Toshio Kuratomi and Yaakov Neemoy, attended the > Mentor Summit last fall, and brought back ideas and specific plans > from other umbrella organizations that have had greater success than > ours has. For example, KDE has managed around 40 student projects for > the last few years, compared to our average of 10. > > All of that has brought us to this point, where we need to broadly > explain to various target audiences the value of working with our > umbrella organization. > > - Karsten > > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Community_Architecture > [2] http://socghop.appspot.com/ > [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GSoC_report_2009 > [4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Community_Architecture > -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
