ambassadors November 2006

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Name for future Fedora distribition?
by Luya Tshimbalanga 07 Dec '06

07 Dec '06

How about "Fedora Synergy"? That name implies the effort from both community and developers and the fact it is the base of several distribution like Red Hat Enterprise Linux and One Laptop Per Child. -- Luya Tshimbalanga Fedora Project contributor http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/LuyaTshimbalanga

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Ambassadors Meeting Reminder
by Thomas Chung 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

We'll have Ambassadors meeting today at 2006-11-30 22:00 UTC. Please check your local time at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings and plan to attend with your agenda. Regards, -- Thomas Chung http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung

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LUG work
by Paul W. Frields 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

Hello Ambassadors, One of my personal initiatives over the last couple of months has been "revivifying" a Linux User Group in my area that apparently went dormant some time ago. We should have about a dozen members by the time you read this, and hopefully our publicity push (through and after the holidays) should result in some more membership increases. This is my first time participating in or running a LUG, so the HOWTO has been informative, but so also might be any other organizers' advice. Feel free to discuss this on-list, since it's pertinent to many who want to spread Fedora love. http://fred-lug.org/ http://groups.google.com/group/fredlug/ -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project Board: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board Fedora Docs Project: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject

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FOSS.IN 2006 Photos
by Rohan Dighe 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

Well, Here are some of the photos taken during the linux conference FOSS.IN (banglore 24-26nov). Take a look http://flickr.com/photos/tasvirshare thank you ~ -- Rohan Dighe Fedora Ambassador India. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RohanDighe PS:- Kushal Das who's an ambassador and a contributor gave a talk at the event regarding FEDORA EXTRAS and it was really great event ~

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Re: [Ambassadors] Introduction
by Emerson Richt Fabian 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

Thanks to everyone. With regards to the migration project, the migration of the servers went smoothly except for the RAS and our ERP. For the ERP, I already installed Compiere and Oracle in an FC5 machine (http://dev.efabian.com:8088) It is currently being evaluated in our system. For the RAS, I still have no idea how to set it up with Linux, though I can configure a dial-in using mgetty. Another problem I encountered was the installation of mod_perl2 to apache for our calendar server though this one is already solved using PHP and MySQL. With the desktops, our Phase 1 is to install FC6 and FreeBSD to at least 20 initial users with KDE (I personally prefer Gnome) so that the menus will still look like with Windows. There are numerous initial positive feedbacks which include: A. Faster conversion of open office files to PDF files B. Faster browser (Firefox) C. Secured email (Kmail + Spamassasin) On the technical side, the issues we encountered relate to Java Run-time and Flash plug-ins. We our now on Phase 2 where we stabilize networking between Windows, Fedora and BSD. We're currently working on samba and cups for the printing. Our target users of open-source platform in the office is more than a hundred in 3 months time. Regards, E. Fabian ----- Original Message ---- From: Sam Folk-Williams <samfw(a)redhat.com> To: Emerson Richt Fabian <efabian(a)info.com.ph>; fedora-ambassadors-list(a)redhat.com Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 10:51:54 PM Subject: Re: [Ambassadors] Introduction On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 19:17 -0800, Emerson Richt Fabian wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm Emer Fabian. I'm a new ambassador for the Philippines. I work as > sysad to a local company and currently managing the migration of our > desktop and server oses to Fedora6 and Freebsd6.1. So far, I only > encounter problems with printer sharing using samba/cups and the > delayed migration of our erp that still uses peachtree and hopefully > to be migrated to compiere by the start of next year. > Sounds like an interesting project. I'd be curious to know how many desktops we're talking about and any other feedback you have from the migration. Welcome! Sam > Regards, > E. Fabian > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Check out the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta - Fire up a more powerful email > and get things done faster. > -- > Fedora-ambassadors-list mailing list > Fedora-ambassadors-list(a)redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list -- Sam Folk-Williams, RHCE Technical Account Manager Red Hat (919) 754-4558 -- Fedora-ambassadors-list mailing list Fedora-ambassadors-list(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com

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2 more events in Strasbourg
by Chitlesh GOORAH 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

Hello there, As said previously during ambassadors meetings 1. I'll give a presentation of Fedora Core 6 'Zod' (in french)at the local lug meeting in Strasbourg. - 15 November Here is my OOd doc: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ChitleshGoorah?action=AttachFile&do=get&targe… Naturally it will only be related to FC6 and its new features :) some links: -. lug wiki page : http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/actu (AAM section) -. listed in the lug's calender 2. There will be regular Install Parties again in Strasbourg. Paris and Lille got their's recently so why no that of Strasbourg :). a wiki page I made and will be consequently updated during the upcoming days: (in french) http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ChitleshGoorah/InstallParty more links: - http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/install-party/mensuelles/presentation_publique - http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/install-party/mensuelles/ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents has been updated ! I hope my dvds' request will be approuved by famsco :) chitlesh -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

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Fedora Free Media Program and Fedora T-Shirt
by Thomas Chung 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

All, We still have 45 media requests need to be fulfilled in November list: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia/FC6DVD/November To complete this request, I would like to offer you something special this month. If you can fulfill a minimum of 5 requests, I'll send you a Fedora T-Shirt. :) Regards, -- Thomas Chung http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung

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Introduction
by Emerson Richt Fabian 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

Hi everyone, I'm Emer Fabian. I'm a new ambassador for the Philippines. I work as sysad to a local company and currently managing the migration of our desktop and server oses to Fedora6 and Freebsd6.1. So far, I only encounter problems with printer sharing using samba/cups and the delayed migration of our erp that still uses peachtree and hopefully to be migrated to compiere by the start of next year. Regards, E. Fabian ____________________________________________________________________________________ Cheap talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. http://voice.yahoo.com

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VanLUG event report
by Luya Tshimbalanga 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

Back from Vanlug meeting. There were about 40 people attending to the event despite the bad weather. The majority of attendees use Debian distribution. However, they were very open as some of them did not touch Fedora Core since the first release. I felt nervous for the presentation but it went very well. I took the opportunity to demonstrate Sugar interface from OLPC project which attracts a lot of attention, a presentation of Fedora Core 6 and the sub-project. Too bad I did not bring the livespin of Fedora Core 6 because I use a laptop provided by a local computer store. Worse, the Fedora Core 6 DVDs came too late after the event. Some of them are given to a local computer store owner who is willing to provide the system for a demonstration and some of attendees. The remaining will be given to the public interested in Linux. Despite these incidents, the audience were pleased with the presentation available on the <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Presentations">wiki</a> under the title <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Presentations?action=AttachFile&do=get&target…">Exploring Fedora Project</a>. Reported by, -- ¢D0<

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Changing location
by Wassim K. 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

Hello, I'm moving soon to Brno, Czech Republic, and I am not sure about how long I will stay there. I have been spreading Fedora in Tunisia, not only media, but also helping people to get used to it, free assistance, creation of a community http://fedora-tn.org , etc. My question is, after moving to Czr, shall I keep being Ambassador for Tunisia, can I be ambassador for Brno (I don't speak Czech and I don't know almost anybody there), ... Thanks and best regards,

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