Re: F21 media

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Ryan Lerch píše v St 01. 10. 2014 v 12:41 -0400:
> On 10/01/2014 11:01 AM, Jiri Eischmann wrote:
> > Jiri Eischmann píše v St 03. 09. 2014 v 13:41 +0200:
> >> Hi,
> >> yesterday in FAmSCo, we started a discussion what media we should
> >> produce for F21.
> >> We have been producing Multidesktop Live DVD for many releases, but with
> >> the Fedora.Next changes we need to revisit it.
> >> In FAmSCo, we've pretty much agreed that Multidesktop Live DVD is not
> >> very aligned with the Fedora.Next initiative where we want to emphasize
> >> the official products and those products should be delivered as clear
> >> offerings all the way to the users. Merging them with other spins means
> >> that the clear product offering is lost before it reaches the users.
> >> Although Multidesktop Live DVD is economically the best solution, it is
> >> not from the marketing perspective and doesn't deliver the message of
> >> Fedora.Next products.
> >>
> >> Suggestions that have come up at the meeting:
> >> * the Cloud product doesn't really need a DVD media,
> >> * having one DVD with Workstation and Server Products,
> >> * having separate DVDs with Workstation and Server,
> >> * creating additional DVD with other flavors of Fedora (other desktops,
> >> many other specialized spins?) if there is enough interest and demand.
> >>
> >> Christoph Wickert is going to bring it up on the workstation and server
> >> group mailing lists and I'd like to start the discussion here because
> >> this is very related to marketing. Opinions? :)
> >>
> >> Jiri
> >>
> >> P.S. we also discussed replacing DVDs with usb flash drives. As much as
> >> we'd love to offer flash drives instead of DVDs it's still not a viable
> >> option because flash drives are still 10x more expensive than DVDs. Not
> >> much has changed there in the last two years :/
> > We discussed the topic in FAmSCo again.
> > The topic was discussed on several mailing lists and we've only
> > registered strong demand for DVDs of Fedora Workstation. There have been
> > some suggestions to add Fedora Server to FW as a virtual machine, but no
> > one has volunteered to execute this idea and we really need to move the
> > matter forward.
> > So the plan is to produce Fedora Workstation DVDs, 64bit only because we
> > don't know of 32-bit computers which could run FW reasonably.
> 
> With my Fedora Design hat on here, does this mean that the sleeve and 
> disc designs could
> use the "Fedora Workstation" branding?

Yes, I suppose they should use the FW branding since the FW product will
be the only content of the DVD.

Jiri


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