We are a small team of young people, we started in 2015 with the idea in mind to bring the people the Linux devices that they deserve at a fair price.
We are excited to announce our official collaboration with The Fedora Project. A few months ago, we sent one of our ultrabooks to the Fedora team for testing. Our ultimate goal is to launch an official Fedora Slimbook ultrabook in the near future.
This collaboration marks another milestone in our ongoing partnerships with the Linux community. In 2017, we successfully launched the official KDE Slimbook, which has been well-received. You can find more information about the KDE Slimbook at:
We are currently in the final stages of the project before the launch of the Fedora Slimbook, and we are actively seeking ideas and marketing assistance from all of you. We value your feedback and input on this project.
Hi, and welcome! I’m moving this post from Ask to the Project Discussion category, because I think that’s really the right place.
Everyone — I’ve been talking for a while with the Slimbook folks about an official Fedora Slimbook, so this isn’t out of the blue. Let’s work to make this amazing!
@slimbookteam Alright, I’m going to get some ideas out for the kinds of posts we can do leading up the launch of the laptop. Some of these maybe for specific points in the process. Some can happen before, at, or after the launch.
I also want to open this up for our Spanish-speaking contributors! Slimbook is based in Spain so it would be nice to have a few pieces of content in Spanish for their purposes and to the benefit of the Spanish-speaking Linux community.
Ideas:
Post for when specs and other details are announced.
Post for when it’s ready to purchase, with additional post for any new markets that you can ship to that weren’t available at the start.
Posting or boosting reviews for the laptop.
Insight into the behind the scenes of supporting a new distro. There can be lots of ideas here. Even a small detail or picture can be worth a post to drum up excitement.
Pictures on your end. Fancy shots of the laptop running Fedora. Shots of you guys working on the laptop. Maybe a picture of a video meeting with Fedora people to show how we’re doing this together. Maybe shots from the factory or something to show how Fedora is being preloaded (assuming it’s interesting enough)?
Post about what support will look like for this laptop from Slimbook. Depending on what it is we may not be able to pitch it that much, but if we’re talking something like customer support with folks trained to support the Fedora install, that’s noteworthy.
General post tying this laptop to finding help on Ask Fedora.
Post about sales data to show how successful it’s been (I’m not super sold on this idea, but could work).
Tales from working specifically with Fedora. Was there maybe an unexpected win or easy thing to implement that you were able to do because you were working with Fedora? How did the distro or the contributors make this initiative easier for you?
I can probably think of more if I had too, lol
Besides these ideas, I think we can for sure do a Fedora Magazine article and a Fedora Podcast episode. We can pull from the ideas above for topics, and we also don’t have to limit ourselves to only one episode or article.
< caveat > I will say that we don’t want to come across as spammy, so despite all the ideas we may have, they’ll have to be tempered by the vibe of our socials and other things we have going on. We can fuel the hype train and post more as launch day approaches, but I want to set this expectation up front. We’re excited get the word out, but we have to balance out the interests of the rest of the community. < /caveat >
I am very excited for this!!! Please let us know if there are specifics we can help you with from a marketing perspective.
Yeah, glad you’re into this! So we don’t have anything on that yet. Now that we have Lenovo and Slimbook that we’re thinking about, it may be better to split this conversation off into its own thing.
Where is the best place for that? Should we make a ticket in the Websites and Apps gitlab? Should we keep it as a discussion thread for now until we get more information?
For those who don’t know, the idea of putting together a table of all the information we would need on laptops that come preloaded with Fedora (or intentionally support Fedora like Framework does) was mentioned in the Lenovo thread (see below). If you’re looking for a way to contribute, helping to put this together would help take something off our plate.
Last thing: we’re active in our Marketing Team matrix channel. That’s also a good spot to ask questions or get a hold of someone.
Have a look on the link. The top post is a “Discourse Wiki” it means it has a “Pencil Icon to edit” even if I created the topic. Almost everyone can edit while we are keeping together an eye on it.
Now it is just missing to decide where the topic (this kind of topics) should reside.
I remember you built that, and sorry I forgot to respond in the other thread. I like the content, but shouldn’t we just make a wiki in the Fedora Wiki? Seems more official to me. No need to bring Discourse into this IMO, and the forum-like layout Just doesn’t look “official” enough IMO to link to from /workstation/downloads as a Offically Recommended Hardware link? For example, there’s already a bunch of comments on that Discourse Wiki, confusing things.
Why don’t we just copy-paste your great initial draft there into the Fedora Wiki under “hardware” as a first step? @joseph no need for a Websites ticket IMO - I think discussing next steps on here is fine until we’re aligned?
PS - Just checked out the list again and https://www.lenovo.com/linux doesn’t go anywhere really Let’s get Slimbook on that awesome list to offer some more more clearly purchasable options haha
There are a lot of things on the wiki that aren’t official at all. I think this is basically in the same ballpark. If we want it to be more official, we should put it on the docs site.
Feel free to do so. I will not do it because afterwards it will be my job to keep it up to date. In discourse nobody can say I do not know how to write a wiki. It is as writing a Topic, it is just a collaboration, a wiki topic.
If you put it in to the docs, you make a minor group of volunteers responsible to keep it up to date. That is why I think it should live in the discussion alias ask section.
Thanks for your excellent comment Joseph. These are great ideas.
I’ll try to briefly reply to your ideas one by one.
Ideas:
Post for when specs and other details are announced.
Post for when it’s ready to purchase, with additional post for any new markets that you can ship to that weren’t available at the start.
We are planning to do that, the exact specifications will be revealed before launch of the product and any other details.
Posting or boosting reviews for the laptop.
Review units will be sent, we don’t have specifics yet. Any suggestions? Do you happen to know any friends of fedora who have an impact on social networks?
Insight into the behind the scenes of supporting a new distro. There can be lots of ideas here. Even a small detail or picture can be worth a post to drum up excitement.
Pictures on your end. Fancy shots of the laptop running Fedora. Shots of you guys working on the laptop. Maybe a picture of a video meeting with Fedora people to show how we’re doing this together. Maybe shots from the factory or something to show how Fedora is being preloaded (assuming it’s interesting enough)?
Yes, nice idea, we are planning to do a photo session of the laptop running Fedora. We would put the pictures in the next fedora.slimbook.es webpage (it’s not available yet).
And talking about the next webpage, what do you guys want the site to contain? The kde.slimbook.es webpage was made by KDE, take a look and tell us if you want us to implement something specific.
In addition to the product information, would you want some introduction to Fedora? Like something to stand out to new-coming Fedora users?
Post about what support will look like for this laptop from Slimbook. Depending on what it is we may not be able to pitch it that much, but if we’re talking something like customer support with folks trained to support the Fedora install, that’s noteworthy.
The main support we will give to our Fedora-Slimbook laptops will be hardware, but we will also give software support at initial installation level.
General post tying this laptop to finding help on Ask Fedora.
Not a bad idea, but it’s not up to us, we could ask the council tho.
Post about sales data to show how successful it’s been (I’m not super sold on this idea, but could work).
Again, not a bad idea but that is not our decision to make, the sales data is confidential and the main board does not want to share it.
Tales from working specifically with Fedora. Was there maybe an unexpected win or easy thing to implement that you were able to do because you were working with Fedora? How did the distro or the contributors make this initiative easier for you?
We would implement a section in our future website.
I can probably think of more if I had too, lol
Go ahead! we’d like to see more ideas from all of you!
Let’s get Slimbook on that awesome list to offer some more more clearly purchasable options haha
to keep it up to date. In discourse nobody can say I do not know how to write a wiki. It is as writing a Topic, it is just a collaboration, a wiki topic.
