[Fedora-marketing-list] FWN Column

[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 04:00 +0530, Rahul wrote:
> Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > NOTE: Followup set to fedora-marketing-list at redhat.com
> > 
> > Fedora Weekly News, in association with the Fedora Documentation
> > Project, is soon to start a new regular column devoted to giving answers
> > to common user problems.  The result would be similar to "Ask Shadowman"
> > in Red Hat Magazine -- somewhat like a weekly FAQ, with the significant
> > difference being that it's completely Fedora-centric, and we have the
> > ability to be a bit more current through dipping into the input stream
> > in real time.
> 
> Sorry I couldnt respond to this while the earlier discussion came up but 
>   if we are starting a column, we should be expanding the scope of it a 
> bit more. "Ask Shadowman" is useful because it doesnt limit the column 
> to merely tech support questions. We can ask things like say " Why 
> should I switch from Slackware to one of the Red Hat products" and still 
> get an answer.
> 
> http://www.redhat.com/magazine/020jun06/departments/ask_shadowman/

Agreed -- this wasn't apparent from my post, but that's what I intended.
In fact, I was going to add some similar questions to the queue when I
get a chance.  Any you'd like to contribute are welcome of course!

> So in my opinion we are better off renaming the column as "Ask Fedora" 
> or something like that and let the community ask whatever they want to. 
> I was about to start my own blog series 
> (http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/008505.html) or 108 
> community "Ask Rahul" and get all the glory but I will sacrifice that 
> now for the greater cause.

Whatever money we recoup, I'll give you half.  :-D

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