On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 03:33:59PM -0400, Justin W. Flory wrote: > On 04/09/2016 10:53 PM, Huiren Woo wrote: > >Hey all, > > > >This article idea was spun and discussed a little in a Common Ops. On to > >the idea itself: > > > >Interview various Fedora users about what they look forward to in F24 > >and why. We could do Fedora server, Fedora workstation all together in a > >single article. The purpose of this article would be to excite folks > >about Fedora and make them talk about Fedora. More details available on > >Fedora Magazine [1]. > > > >What are your thoughts? > > > >[1] - https://fedoramagazine.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=12557&action=edit > > > > I'm personally +1 to this idea for the Magazine to help build some hype for > the upcoming release. If we could time this for the week of the beta > announcement, I think this article could have a very high impact right > around that time period. Maybe even the week before the beta drops to get > the suspense rolling. I love the idea too. The only thing I might suggest is holding on to this until after Beta (during which time anyone can still download it), but building excitement for GA. > I've thought about the idea a bit since I think we discussed this in IRC > last week. I feel like it would be better to try doing this in a single > article versus splitting it up to each edition. I think it would be cool to > do an article for each edition, but at the same time, I feel like that could > create a lot of duplicate work and might be a delay in getting the article > out on time. So I think it would be best to aim for fitting all of the > different interviews, quotes, and news into a single article. Ha, spoken like a grizzled editor, Justin! :-) I could go either way, but I think your rationale here makes a lot of sense. > The format for this could take on the form of Jiri's article a while ago > with email clients. I think the way his article looked and was organized is > very effective. > > https://fedoramagazine.org/email-clients-fedora/ > > I say you could start putting this draft together now and aim to have it > ready the weekend before the week of the beta announcement, just so we have > plenty of time to review the content and make sure it all checks out. I'm huge +1 and thanks to both of you for great input. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
