[Fedora-ambassadors-list] @fedoraproject.org fro Ambassadors
by Hornain Frederic
Dear *,
Well, I have started my pilgrim mission. Gosh, it was not so obvious!
Indeed, last saturday I went to a french engineering school where I talked to the principal about fedora and the fact to do in a first time a fedora project presentation to students.
He was very enthousiast to do it and told me that teachers could also be really interested.
During our conversation, he gave me his visit card and I was a little bit embarassed to give him mine cause I haven't got any fedora project vist card on me. - Could the fedora project provide us visit cards or could we print one based on a standard available on the fedora project web site ? -
So he asked me where I can be reach at the fedora project. Then I had to give him the email address coming from my company.
He was a little bit confused cause he did not understood why I gave him an e-mail address having no relationship with the subject of our conversation. Ok, I can admit that this kind of situation permit to explain deeper the base of Open source and how the community works.
However, it was not so obvious to be convincing when you are in face of peolple who they know nothing about open source.
So, little details can be really helpful.
Well, we talked more than hour.
In addition, he asked me some questions which I had some difficulties to answer.
For instance :
- how is structured the fedora project organization - in term of organizational tree - ?
- Does it exist a program of partnership between schools and fedora?
- Can they use the reference "fedora project" in there school's presentation brochure if they are interacting with the fedora community ?
- and so on and so for ...
Anyway, we have planned to do a presentation of fedora -overview- to students as soon as I would have done my presentation slides and an offcial have commited them.
Thank you in advance if you can give the answers to the previous question.
BTW, if you have any remarks, feel free to contact me.
Best Regards
Fred
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From: fedora-ambassadors-list-bounces(a)redhat.com [mailto:fedora-ambassadors-list-bounces@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Chitlesh GOORAH
Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2005 5:09 PM
To: fedora-ambassadors-list(a)redhat.com
Subject: [Fedora-ambassadors-list] @fedoraproject.org and experience
Hello everyone,
Concerning the last meeting!
We talked about many stuffs.
Among these, I think tchung pointed out that it would be good
that ambassadors could get @ fedoraproject.org alias for emails.
I was wondering if its possible to get it.
Secondly, I was among a group of friends last night "marketing fedora core".
I found it very useful to have a wallpaper with all the major websites listed onto it.
It is easily when you have their eyes and mind glued on the topic "fedora core"
for example, on my wallpaper there were 2 addresses
fedoraforum.org and fedoraproject.org.
when i was talking about what is fedora and saying that this is an open source project.
They pronounced the word "project" with me.
same happened to the word "forum" when i said that the best way to get most of fedora
is having contact with people on forums and mailing lists.
This was my little experience of last night.
Ive enhanced my wallpaper and posted it on kde-looks.org
It would be nice if everyone shares their experience as a fedora ambassador so that other
ambassadors can learn from it.
regards,
Chitlesh GOORAH
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18 years, 5 months
[Fedora-ambassadors-list] @fedoraproject.org and experience
by Chitlesh GOORAH
Hello everyone,
Concerning the last meeting!
We talked about many stuffs.
Among these, I think tchung pointed out that it would be good
that ambassadors could get @fedoraproject.org
<http://fedoraproject.org>alias for emails.
I was wondering if its possible to get it.
Secondly, I was among a group of friends last night "marketing fedora core".
I found it very useful to have a wallpaper with all the major websites
listed onto it.
It is easily when you have their eyes and mind glued on the topic "fedora
core"
for example, on my wallpaper there were 2 addresses
fedoraforum.org <http://fedoraforum.org> and
fedoraproject.org<http://fedoraproject.org>
.
when i was talking about what is fedora and saying that this is an open
source project.
They pronounced the word "project" with me.
same happened to the word "forum" when i said that the best way to get most
of fedora
is having contact with people on forums and mailing lists.
This was my little experience of last night.
Ive enhanced my wallpaper and posted it on kde-looks.org<http://kde-looks.org>
It would be nice if everyone shares their experience as a fedora ambassador
so that other
ambassadors can learn from it.
regards,
Chitlesh GOORAH
--
http://clunixchit.blogspot.com
18 years, 5 months
[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Minutes from the FIRST EVER MEETING!
by Greg DeKoenigsberg
These "minutes" are boiled down from about 2 hours of conversation. :)
1. EVERY EVENT IN 2006!
The stated goal of the Fedora Ambassadors program is to have a
presence at every significant Linux / open source event in the
world in 2006. Everyone present agreed to this goal.
2. PUT THE EVENTS IN THE WIKI!
In order to accomplish our goal, we need a comprehensive list of
events, and we need to know who's planning on attending them.
This list will be kept up-to-date at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents
It is EVERY AMBASSADOR'S RESPONSIBILITY to keep this list
updated!
3. SPREAD THE WORD!
Time to notify everybody about the Ambassadors program. Email,
blog, whatever. Spread the word.
4. ARGUE MORE ABOUT FUNDRAISING!
A crucial question. It costs money for people to go to events,
and we can ask them to:
* Do it out of the goodness of their hearts;
* Get their company to pay for it;
* Sell Fedora-themed schwag onsite to get reimbursed;
* Use Fedora Foundation budget to get them there.
It's a crucial issue that we'll need to continue to discuss.
5. NEXT MEETING TIME!
Probably the original meeting time as suggested by Alex. Which, for
Americans, is Thanksgiving... so the Americans can suck it up, or
not be present, heh.
--g
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Community Relations ] [ to be lighthearted and intelligent. the
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] [ dumb. --mcluhan
18 years, 5 months
[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Suggestions
by Hornain Frederic
Dear Rahul,
Do you have any suggestion to share to us ?
BR
Fred
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From: fedora-ambassadors-list-bounces(a)redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-ambassadors-list-bounces@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Rahul
Sundaram
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 12:00 PM
To: Hornain Frederic
Cc: fedora-ambassadors-list(a)redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Fedora-ambassadors-list] Self-Introduction -Belgium-
Hornain Frederic wrote:
> Dear *,
>
> I am glad to annonce you I am now a Belgium/Nothern France Fedora
> Ambassador.
> You should find my Self-Introduction at the following URL :
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FredericHornain
>
> If you have any remark, feel free to contact me.
>
Welcome Fredreic Hornain,
Pleased to have you onboard.Shouldnt we all talking more about the
ambassador's interest and the grand plans now ;-)
regards
Rahul
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RE: [Fedora-ambassadors-list] How about a Meeting?
by Hornain Frederic
Dear *,
Even if I was quite interested by the mechanism mentionned by Chitlesh, I completly agree with what seth vidal wrote.
Nice try guys ! However it was not coming from a bad intention.
So let's go back to the good old method.
Thanks anyway for that solution from all people who can not use the IRC.
BR
Fred
-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-ambassadors-list-bounces(a)redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-ambassadors-list-bounces@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Rahul
Sundaram
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 3:31 PM
To: fedora-ambassadors-list(a)redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Fedora-ambassadors-list] How about a Meeting?
Hi
>
> If there are policies in place at your place of work to restrict
> access
> to irc then I do not think it is an act of good faith for the fedora
> project to provide you with a mechanism to circumvent those policies
> and/or break those rules.
>
> so what do we do next?
Like I said before, minutes would be available after every meeting..
Check it and followup on this list if necessary.
regards
Rahul
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RE: [Fedora-ambassadors-list] How about a Meeting?
by Hornain Frederic
Chitlesh,
Yes, I was .
And it will be great it this mean could be implemented on fedora project.
BR
Fred
-----Original Message-----
From: Chitlesh GOORAH [mailto:chitlesh@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 2:57 PM
To: Hornain Frederic
Cc: fedora-ambassadors-list(a)redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Fedora-ambassadors-list] How about a Meeting?
On 11/16/05, Hornain Frederic < Frederic.Hornain(a)gb.be> wrote:
Good Idea !
BR
Fred
istinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list <https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list>
hai there,
Hornain, are you able to connected to the link i gave ?
if yes, then the cgi:irc would be a good solution for us.
if the meeting could be scheduled 2 hours later and if anyone could host the cgi:irc for fedora channels, then i would be in paradise :)
Chitlesh GOORAH
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18 years, 5 months
Re: [Fedora-ambassadors-list] How about a Meeting?
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
>
> If there are policies in place at your place of work to restrict
> access
> to irc then I do not think it is an act of good faith for the fedora
> project to provide you with a mechanism to circumvent those policies
> and/or break those rules.
>
> so what do we do next?
Like I said before, minutes would be available after every meeting..
Check it and followup on this list if necessary.
regards
Rahul
18 years, 5 months
