Hi, Joerg,
Your email has been received and I read it carefully just now. Fedora 10's out, thanks for your hard work.
I am new to Fedora and Linux, I started using Fedora system from Fedora 9, it means I only use fedora for half an year. Fedora 9 is my first time to try Linux in the real sense. Fedora 9 is such an excellent linux distro that I like it so much, that's why I joined in as a Fedora Ambassador, what I wanted to do this at that time was just to prompt Fedora in China Mainland.
Thanks Bbbush (Yuan Yijun), with his leadership and help, we finally established our own fedora-cn Forum, I participated, actually, the forum is currently hosted in my Bluehost account, but, I did only a little.
Although I really like Fedora, and want to introduce it to others, and did something to reach this goal, but it's ineffective (only little).
I'm new to Fedora (and I didn't major in computer, Linux or IT), how and what do you think I can do to help build a Chinese fedora community? I will do what I can do to help prompt Fedora in China.
If you have any suggestions, please kindly tell me, Fedora 10 brings us a lot of latest Linux features, how can I introduce them to have a try, except introducing it in my own blog?
Sorry, Joerg, it's neally 00:00 our time, so maybe I will be late to reply you, it's as eariliest as 8 hours later...
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:52 PM, JoergSimon jsimon@fedoraproject.orgwrote:
Hello Huang and Charles,
As you know the Fedora Project is a global community with a common goal. Divided by EMEA, APAC, NA and LATAM we have already - or try to establish - regional leadership. In some Countries or Areas we have local Teams with special local requirements like the French, Indian or the South American Teams. The Chinese Community has grown much in the last month and i want to ask you Charles, is there a chance that you can help us by building a structured local Community in China? Another important requirement we have, is that you may help out, as a mentor for new Contributors from China? You know by yourself how many Informations you have to consider after joining the Project and how important it is to point people in the right direction or introduce them to the right people. You will get all our support and i have the promise from Paul that you will get the support from the Project Lead also.
Huang, as you could read we try to improve the structure and quality of the Fedora Presence in China. You are a Chinese Ambassador and you are located in Jena, Germany - this is not far away from my hometown Gera. I want invite you, to work with us as the EMEA liason to the Chinese Community. You are welcome to the Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2009 [1], which is near to your place, where we can meet face to face for a talk where you can show us the Chinese requirements and how we can help China and vice versa. Tell me what you think about this. Hope to see you soon.
Regards Joerg
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/CLT
Joerg (kital) Simon jsimon@fedoraproject.org http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JoergSimon http://kitall.blogspot.com Key Fingerprint: 3691 0989 2DCA 58A2 8D1F 2CAC C823 558E 5B5B 5688
Hi charles,
Am Dienstag, 25. November 2008 16:52:34 schrieb Charles Peng:
If you have any suggestions, please kindly tell me, Fedora 10 brings us a lot of latest Linux features, how can I introduce them to have a try, except introducing it in my own blog? I'm new to Fedora (and I didn't major in computer, Linux or IT), how and what do you think I can do to help build a Chinese fedora community?
thanks for your quick reply. One main reasons to ask you, was the very good visibility of your contributions to the rest of the world and your good communication with us all. I was chatting with Paul today about local leadership and he mentioned your name as a potential mentor. As you can see on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:AmbassadorsChina your team has a visible headcount. We want to help the chinese community to put you all in the position to gain bigger influence in your Country.
In my opinion, a way to start is, be a mentor for new Contributors, you can guide them from the beginning, into the relations of the fedora Project, tell them the goals of fedora and the chinese fedora community, help them with the wiki, help them to find their ways in contributing to fedora etc. Me for myself i will send Chinese Contributors to you - or to someone you suggest, who can/will do this job in your Region.
Another part is team building - know who is the right person to do the job. Gather you local fellows for an irc meeting. Set a Agenda with several goals - only a few examples: - important event(s), where more then one contributor should be present (organize "big" participation of Fedora at least one main event) - localized chinese SPINS (we can help you) - localization Marathons - talks at universities - producing low cost SWAG within your region - (i will help in organizing the money) - organizing a Fedora Acitivity Day (FAD) or to avoid travelling a virtual FAD - how mentoring for new chinese Contributors can be done - last but not a least - how can you spread fedora to become more User Base -> Contributor Base ...
Do you think this can be a start?
Regards Joerg
ambassadors@lists.fedoraproject.org