Fedora 9 Alpha Release Marketing Plan WAS Re: Fedora 9 Marketing plan?

[Kerrin Catallozzi]

The blog is posted now, under the Fedora Team name: 
http://www.press.redhat.com/2008/02/05/help-shape-fedora-9-alpha-release-now-available/.  
Thanks for all the input. 

Kerri

Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
> Thanks everyone for pulling this together.
>
> Did Kerri say we have a "Fedora Team" author to choose from?  Or should
> we have a Marketing Project members do the posting?  I think a few of us
> have accounts to post to press.redhat.com.
>
> On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 09:49 -0500, Kerrin Catallozzi wrote:
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>> Here's the latest version with all of the suggestions incorporated.  
>> Would be great to have any final input by about 12pm ET so that we can 
>> get this posted today. 
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> I've put changes below the line changed with appropriate pointers.
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>> Help Shape Fedora 9: Alpha Release Now Available
>> by Fedora Team
>>
>> As Fedora (http://www.fedoraproject.org) contributors, one of the most 
>> exciting parts of the development process of new Fedora distributions is 
>> determining which cool, new features will be included in the next 
>>     
>                              ... features are included ...  
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>> release. Fedora 9 is due out at the end of April 2008, and we started 
>>     
>            Fedora 9 (Sulphur) is due out ...
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>> making plans for it as soon as we released Fedora 8 back in November. 
>> We've already begun to implement the changes and features we want 
>>     
>  We've been implementing the changes ...
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>> included in this release, and with the Fedora 9 Alpha release today, 
>> it's time for the whole community's input.
>>     
>                                    ... input. Obtain your Alpha live
> spin at http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease.
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>> During each Fedora cycle, there is an Alpha release, a Beta release and 
>>     
>                                                              release, and 
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>> a series of weekly snapshot releases. 
>> (http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-9/f-9-releng-tasks.html)  
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>   (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/Schedule)
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>> The Alpha release gives everyone the opportunity to provide feedback on 
>> the work that has been done so far as the first step in the testing 
>> cycle. It's the first time that the larger Fedora community can get 
>> really involved in testing out the new features and is encouraged to 
>> provide input on what's working, and what's not. It's easy to gain 
>> access to the Alpha release because you don't have to install any 
>> software -- everything you need is provided through live CDs. Then, to 
>> give us feedback, you can file bug reports and enhancement requests and 
>> make other recommendations.
>>
>> If you want to help us test and shape the next release of Fedora, you 
>> can find details about the new features we're exploring, about how to 
>> get involved in the Alpha release and about how to provide feedback and 
>>     
>                             release, and
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>> get involved in the process by visiting our Fedora 9 Alpha release 
>>     
>       involved with Fedora by visiting       
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>> notes. (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/Alpha/ReleaseNotes)
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