#fedora-mktg
<Strikeforce> Isn't the meeting supposed to happen?
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<mether> ok
 so we can start the meeting now
<jmbuser_> JohnBabich
<mether> RahulSundaram
<Strikeforce> Up to you guys just thought I was late or something :)
<mether> no we have been starting slowly so that people can join in
<Strikeforce> no worries
<mether> who else is around?
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<mether> i was hoping mizmo would be
 but she seems to be not available in irc yet
 here is the list of things I think we should be doing for the Fedora 8 release
 Artwork - Labels, banners, promos that we can run on the website etc
 Identify which features to highlight -  We have a good number of them and we should figure out any two or three features that are important
 and promote them specifically
<Strikeforce> When you say artwork you mean in F8 or on the website? same for Labels, Banners, promos.
<mether> in the website
 not within the distribution
 that work is already done
 the organized focus on interviewing developers going through all the Fedora 8 features isn't over yet but it is clearly very successful 
 pretty much of them have been referred to from many websites including digg, lwn.net, osnews.com. lxer etc
 except the first one where we didnt highlight digg properly all of them got several hundreds digg's and hit the front page
* couf tunes in
<mether> the website needs some clean up
 especially on the download page
 and Mo has been working on designing the spins section
 we will have http://spins.fedoraproject.org shortly
 which will explain what a spin is, list out all the different spins of Fedora, identify how to do your own custom spins etc
 check out http://mihmo.livejournal.com/47056.html for that
 http://mihmo.livejournal.com/47315.html
<couf> download page is being redsigned as well, see http://ivazquez.fedorapeople.org/files/fedora-web/get-fedora.html for an example idea
<mether> i think we should look closely
 at what OpenSUSE and Ubuntu is doing in this space
 I find a list of links to be overwhelming compared to what they have done 
<Strikeforce> Ubuntu has the basic Gnome/KDE and XFCE and then a server version
 x86 and x86_64
 so they would have 8 downloads
 maybe if it started with gnome -> x86 or x86_64 then the links
<mether> we have a choice of spins, dvd or cd. arch, installation methods
 I think http://software.opensuse.org/ is pretty neat
 One thing that we one additional choice that we need to figure how we can present well
<Strikeforce> I would have to agree
<mether> is the differentiation between
 official and custom spins
<Strikeforce> Should we link them to the front page?
<mether> I think what we need to do
<Strikeforce> Would it not be better to say see what the community is doing -> and point them that way
<mether> is list only the official spins in the front page
 and link to http://spins.fedoraproject.org
 for more
 front page as in the download page
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<couf> mether: +1
<mether> if we do it well
 we don't have to worry about pushing in whatever spins that come up