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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Event: Strasbourg (date partly finalised)
by Chitlesh GOORAH 11 May '06

11 May '06

Hai there, I have good news and maybe bad news. Its Still fresh. First as long awaited here in Strasbourg, France there will be an "open source" day http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/jl4/index on the 23-25 June 2006. This event will be intended as I mentioned in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents to promote open source softwares and linux. If somebody is motivated to make a conference about fedora, do inform me. Hence you will become the guest of our lug. We ( the lug members ) are looking forward to invite lecturers and to pay their journey and hotel too. This needs to be confirmed. The money required to host the lecturers will be from either paid entrance or companies paying for the booth. to rent a booth for fedora, we have to pay. Price will be communicated later. There are also talks about free booth for associations. But nothing yet confirmed. Its possible to sell Fedora t-shirts or other goodies for fund raising. But in this case, we must rent a booth for Fedora. Now comes the "maybe" bad news: this scheduled date for the event interfere badly with two of MY private life things: 1. I have already booked two tickets (my gf and I) to Mauritius. 2. my contract with the hostel ends in the beginning of June and somebody will be occupying my actual room. so meanwhile send your comments, queries or any other proposals :) regards, Chitlesh GOORAH -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] First Fedora-day in The Netherlands
by Thijs Hulshof 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Hi, Last Saturday the first Fedora-meeting in The Netherlands took place, it was very nice. About 25 people came to the event, as expected. The biggest part of the visitors was just started with Fedora Core, or wanted to start. That was exactly the public were the event was meant for. I'll definitely organize a Linux / Fedora-event again in the future ! Next time I'll maybe place a small advertisement in the local newspaper to reach more interested people. - Thijs

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] [Fwd: [foss.in] Invitation to NITC FOSS Meet]
by Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A Fedora BoF being conducted by Kushal as in the mail below. /me would take the responsibility of supplying some Fedora T Shirts to Kushal (if he is willing to lug them there :) ) - -Sankarshan - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [foss.in] Invitation to NITC FOSS Meet Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 19:42:51 +0530 From: ??????? ? (Praveen A) <pravi.a(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: foss-in(a)yahoogroups.com To: foss-in(a)yahoogroups.com Hi, This is an invitation to join NITC FOSS Meet 2006. The latest version of this document is availbale in wiki form at http://fci.wikicities.com/wiki/Calicut/NIT/FOSS_Meet/06/Invitation Regards Praveen A [snip] - Arun M Foss - General Talk [FOSS in Society] Intellectual Property, Copyright, Licence issues - Gopal Vijayraghavan DotGNU / Mozilla Hack - Kalyan Varma Network Security - Philip Tellis Education/Creative Commons - Praveen and Dilip Debian Workshop - Premshree Pillai Ruby - Sharath Lakshman Live CD Workshop - Shreekumar Quake 3 - Fun and more - Shreyas Srinivasan GNOME Hack - Pradeepto K Bhattacharya KDE Development - Shyam Mani Gentoo Developer - Aanjhan R Embedded Linux - *Kushal Das Fedora BOF* [snip] - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Red Hat - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEAyNnXQZpNTcrCzMRAsOVAJ4/gs7CuoPFQ1j9ey4k9qK9CrZMiwCgnXwZ XvJX8LgD5q9qww7qmNPEOlc= =rJzE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] FOSDEM 2006 Report
by Thomas Canniot 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Hi everybody, FOSDEM is over, here is my report ! :) FOSDEM was held the 25 and 26th of February in Brussels (in Belgium). Even if it is a developper event, many users were there as well asking many questions about free software in general. We were four speaking for Fedora on the booth: Frederic Hornain (from Belgium), Andreas Kupfer (from Germany), Matthias Saou (from France, Canada and Spain), and myself Thomas Canniot (from France). We had no presentation in any auditorium. Many people came to talk about Fedora Core and asked some questions about it. We can retain that few questions were still about our relationship with Red Hat. Others asked whether Fedora Core was a new distro, because they haven't heard of it before. Maybe Frederic will add some comments on this discussion. I could also give the flyers we made this week but I didn't that FOSDEM visitors mostly speak English however, the flyers were in French (as Belgium is a French speaking Country). So I really need to translate them into English. For my part, I *only* came on Sunday, with my computer with FC5T3 on it. Most of users were very interested with the next release and I was proud to show them that FC5 is going to be a great one. We had only good feedbacks for Pirut and Pup. Some users were also very interested in the system-config-control package. Some of them asked questions about the new logo, and some of them disliked it. But, be relieved, a majority of people told that the new artwork was good stuff! I also took advantage of the booth to stick handouts everywhere written "Kadischi show every hour!" on them, as I was suggested to do so in the last thursday meeting. This worked fantasticaly! As kadischi is not very known yet, many users came and asked "What is Kadischi show?". As they had a good question, we had a good answer :) Many people wanted to *see* Kadischi running, i.e building the livecd, and I built about 6 livcds on the whole day (I arrived at 9.30am and left at 5pm - with lunchtime of an hour or so). They were also very interested in the customization it allows. Some features were asked as well about it and I will contact Chitlesh Goorah for it. Showing Kadischi there was more than successful. Photos of the booth and the event in general are available from: http://mrtomlinux.multiply.com/photos/album/5 Fedora Booth is shwon in the 9 first photos. More photos about FOSDEM 2006 (no Fedora booth in them): http://flickr.com/groups/fosdem Regards, Thomas Canniot

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Re: Red Hat offers Linux eye candy alternative
by Alex 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Sorry for cross-posting guys :) Thank you for forwarding the article Peter. However, the author got at least the names of the project and the distro all wrong--which indicates that he has no clear picture of the relationship between Fedora and Red Hat. Will someone from the Ambassadors maybe contact the author and correct him? a On 2/24/06, Peter Gordon <admin(a)ramshacklestudios.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 10:14 -0500, taharka wrote: > > Red Hat offers Linux eye candy alternative > > February 23, 2006 1:32 PM PST > > > > The next version of Red Hat's Fedora Linux will include software to give > > the operating system some of the eye candy of a rival Novell > > project--but it will use a less intrusive mechanism, advocates say > > > > Full story at; http://news.com.com/2061-10795_3-6042651.html > > > > taharka > > > > Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A. > > That's awesome. :D > > CC-ing to the Marketing List... > -- > Peter Gordon (codergeek42) > GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xDA3634D7 > Fingerprint: 0629 F604 3C14 937E F088 E5E9 B3CB 48EC DA36 34D7 > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQBD/8/1s8tI7No2NNcRApdHAJ0fRCebl8EtsEzIe4IdjCEFXetCXQCgkk2c > lrXe77D/s+YypTwT88fmSj0= > =NLEo > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > Fedora-marketing-list mailing list > Fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list > > -- Check out the new content on Fedora Project page! http://fedoraproject.org

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Presenting a LiveCD in public for the First time
by Chitlesh GOORAH 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

Hai there, Our ambassador ThomasCanniot will present for the first time in public a Fedora Live CD build by Kadischi. Any livecd made by Kadischi when boots does not show any with respect to Fedora. Ive created a page with my screenshots and texts which I propose to integrate in within the livecd. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kadischi/Development/boot have a look suggestions are welcome. RahulSundaram suggested https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182985 Ive already did the neccessary. if the text can be enhanced somehow, do post something to the list. by the way in a 800x600 resolution, we can not add much info per page. Why only 5 F-keys? I found it kewl to add only 5 F-keys. 5 F-keys 5 FC Versions. concerning a splash.lss, I failed to make a proper one. if you look at the right hand top corner of the first screenshot you will see a broken blue spot. This is my broken splash.lss if anyone wants to create one for Fedora, do send it to me. Ill add it. Of course if its related to the Fedora Core 5 theme. Maybe the FedoraArtwork department can help me with it. The last screenshot is a 1024x768 resolution (16 bit) screen. Chitlesh GOORAH -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Ambassadors meeting notes February 23, 22-23 UTC
by Alex 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

Meeting notes: Feb 23, 2006, 22:00 UTC Attending: lxmaier: AlexMaier tchung: ThomasChung MrTom: Thomas Canniot nman64: PatrickBarnes kushal: KushalDas gregdek: Greg DeKoenigsberg StillBob: BobJensen GeroldKa: GeroldKassube CraZy675: Nick Yeoman mspevack: Max Spevack lxmaier: okay, looks like we have enough people JoseTarazona: JoseTarazona ChitleshGoorah: ChitleshGoorah JorgeTorres: JorgeTorres agenda is available here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Schedule item 1 Review upcoming events 1.1 There was a discussion on the list about whether it makes sense to always discuss the events first events take up a lot of time ***lxmaier supports the idea that attending and organizing events in the main purpose of this group GeroldKa: maybe it's a good thing to be better prepared from the owners, to have the best effort for all and a speedy update of the event themselves as nobody present seemed to be in favour of moving the events to the end, the Schedule order will remain unchanged. 1.2 Feb 25, 2006 Fedora Day Hengelo (Gld), Netherlands - The first day in The Netherlands to promote Fedora and to support new users. Owner: ThijsHulshof http://www.fedora-linux.nl/bijeenkomst Fedora presentations and install fest Thijs'll send feedback to the list when the day is finished. 1.3 Feb 25-26, 2006 FOSDEM Brussels, Belgium - The sixth Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting in Brussel -Belgium- http://www.fosdem.org/2006 Owner: FredericHornain, ThomasCanniot Status: Reserved Fedora Stand, Thomas emailed FredericHornain and the booth is reserved, we have DVDs and tshirts Fred will bring his computer and Thomas will demo FC5T3 The owners are working with ChitleshGoorah for a handout to give with the DVDs A livecd might be also an option. StillBob: having F4 and FC5T3 side by side might be interesting to visitors lxmaier: you might want to find a microphone and an amp and talk to your demo. you schedule a live demo at say every even hour, and you make an on-the-booth presentation, so that people can gather at the scheduled times. usually this draws a considerable crowd. you might want to combine it with a short presentation from the slides available online 1.4 Mar 13-16, 2006 Jornada de Divulgación Científica y Tecnológica Bogota, Colombia - A whole day organized for an Recognized University in Colombia for conferences on subjects related to Open Source Software as well as telecommunications, medical artificial intelligence and computer science. It will have universities of the country and the world. http://www.sistemasunbosque.edu.co and http://www.equisl.org JoseTarazona My participation and Stand confirmed JoseTarazona has been talking with people to get two PCs for the stand Jose would like to have a live videoconference between 12:00 and 18:00 GMT – 5:00. A prerecorded video session could be useful, but the Q&A section will be missing this way. but it will be appreciated anyway. Jose also wants to know if there is any chance to receive some DVDs and some T-Shirts? lxmaier: we might be able to ship freshly-burned FC5 DVDs to JoseTarazona if we are EXTREMELY lucky 1.5 Apr 3-6, 2006 LinuxWorld Boston 2006 Boston, MA, USA - LinuxWorld US See LinuxWorld/LinuxWorldBoston2006. MatthewMiller JackAboutboul He will contact JesseKeating or local PC vendor about hardware needed for the booth. He will conatct JackAboutboul about registering for free booth. Apr 7, 2006 FUDCon Boston 2006 Boston, MA, USA - Sequel to the first FUDCon. See FUDCon/FUDConBoston2006. gregdek: LWCE: Looking to get a Fedora-branded install pavilion at the .org at LWCE, with the help of Pogo. LWCE: Booth squared away by Jack today. FUDCON: Space all set. FUDCON: RFP for sessions has been out a couple of weeks, closes tomorrow nite, he's got about a dozen possible sessions, plus sessions that will be given by RHATters from the Boston area. FUDCON: Pre-registration will open up next week. Space *may* be limited, so people who preregister will get stickers onsite and will have first preference. We'll have 1 1/2 tracks. :) One morning track, 2 afternoon tracks. 1.6 Apr 19-22, 2006 FISL 7.0 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil - 7th International Free Software Forum. This is the biggest conference for IT Infrastructure and Developers in Brazil. See FISL for more description. Owner: RodrigoPadula. 1.7 May 3-6, 2006 LinuxTag/FUDCon Wiesbaden 2006 Wiesbaden, Germany - LinuxTag Germany See FUDCon/FUDConWiesbaden2006 GeroldKassube FlorianBrand help wanted and needed! In the last meeting GeroldKa gave the wrong date for the decission from the organisation team; it's not the Feb. 20th. Decission will be informed on 24th and that's tomorrow ... So nothing more news till right now; we've to wait until tomorrow but I stay in contact with FlorianBrand and JensKuehnel for all things$$ GeroldKa: for me / us it's very important be be supported by all of you 1.8 May 15-16, 2006 LinuxWorld Italy 2006 Milan, Italy - LinuxWorld Italy AndreaMaurizioGnerre Andrea has contacted the organization of the event. They moved to a sponsorized event format. I have prices for that if anybody is interested. FrancescoUgolini: i don't know if i'm avaiable—i will find out in the first week of march item 2 FedoraLibraries Owner: ChitleshGoorah ChitleshGoorah: Each week, Im sending a reminder in the list to push things forwards. Personnaly the SC might force things forward, since FC5 is coming out soon. Let's integrate Fedora in the daily life of everyone. This might be a way to make them aware of fedora. FedoraLibraries needs a Fedora Live CD. ChitleshGoorah will talk with gredgek later to move things in that perspective. ChitleshGoorah is going to FUDCon Wiesbaden depending on his practical class schedule ChitleshGoorah: next week, Ill talk with the directory of my university if he can push things for me too lxmaier: okay, so ChitleshGoorah, what do we need to do to get ISBN and ISSN codes for the CDs and DVDs? kushal: If you wish to obtain an ISBN, you should contact the national or regional ISBN agency in your own country. Presently, more than 160 countries or territories are official ISBN members. greendisease: i can work on that. i think the filing fee is 250 USD. you get a lot of 20 codes, and then the issn numbers work for a series tchung: shoudn't Fedora Foundation file ISBN for Fedora DVD or CDs media *** lxmaier strongly agrees ***gregdek wonders if we should be considering Lulu for this... gregdek will ask Mr. Hogan from Lulu what he knows about ISBN numbers. ChitleshGoorah and greendesease will pursue the project further if gregdek hooked him up with Lulu people. item 3 Schwag pipeline Owner: AlexMaier / GregDeKoenigsberg Need to make sure that the schwag pipeline is functional. This is separate from the actual stuff we send; this is just making sure that the stuff we send actually gets to the places it needs to go. gregdek has cost estimates for the US store. this means that we can start the production soon, and request to replicate the stores in EMEA and APAC. then we will be able to give out "credits" to some ambassadors, like when they attend events, so they can stock up on schwag. We need to determine policy and procedure first, but we expect to have both kits and vouchers. item 4 Funding for attendance lxmaier: here we have a kind of unwritten policy: if an ambassador wants money to attend and/or run an event, they will write an email to one or all of FAMSCO (Fedora AMbassadors Steering COmmittee) members, who will then discuss and approve the expense ...or not. for the upcoming quarter (march-may 2006) we are still waiting for a budget approval from red hat. as soon as the budget is approved, gregdek will report to the list. tchung: can any ambassadors can write for famsco-list ? lxmaier: tchung: they can write, but i will have to approve for the message to go through item 5 Presentations for Ambassadors We need to provide Ambassadors with some slide decks for various presentations. We should probably aggregate the ones we already have and make them available. We should also figure out our policy for licensing these presentations! ChitleshGoorah: as MrTom said, we are working on a one-page flyer in French. at the same time we will create an updated one for FC5 ChitleshGoorah is creating a OOo Impress document concerning Kadischi. Hence ambassadors can spread the word. gregdek: Have folks seen the presentation I uploaded from FUDCon Delhi? puneet_batura can tell you how it went... You can find it at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConDelhi2006 FrancescoUgolini: due to work prblem in the past week i could translate only two chapter of fedora install guide, now, i've translated 6 chapters, i think i will able to complete all, if i haven't any problem, in two weeks. greendisease: would like to perhaps set up an asterisk server, so we could do Ambassadors meeting that way. he will post to the list to introuduce the idea for discussion. nman64: We cannot preclude people that might not have adequate technologies. IRC is already a problem for a few people. lxmaier: i think asterisk is a good idea--to try at least once and see how it goes greendisease: yeah, it should be fairly straightforward and we can build on success if it works out Next meeting: 2006-03-02 1400 UTC -- Check out the new content on Fedora Project page! http://fedoraproject.org

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Self-Introduction: Pawel Sadowski
by Pawel Sadowski 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

Hi, My name is Pawel Sadowski (aka McGiwer) and I'm a Fedora Ambassador in Poland. I'm 18 years old and I'm studying at high school. I'm also translating Fedora Core Release Notes to Polish and I'm a moderator on www.fedora.pl (Polish site and support forum). My adventure with Linux has begun with Red Hat Linux 9, and then I heard about Fedora Core (that was FC2). Since then, I've used only Fedora Core and I just love this system :) pub 1024D/45B9C2B2 2006-02-12 [expires: 2008-02-12] Key fingerprint = CC75 1395 6DFA E265 30D0 C330 BC58 F517 45B9 C2B2 uid Pawel Sadowski (Fedora Project) <mcgiwer(a)gmail.com> uid Pawel Sadowski (Fedora Project) <mcgiwer(a)fedoraproject.org> sub 2048g/C0C072DF 2006-02-12 [expires: 2008-02-12] Regards, Pawel Sadowski

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] meeting for all Ambassadors
by Gerold 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

Hi all, in the meeting today I brought in the idea for an "only Fedora Ambassadors meeting" ... We are always doing presentations for Fedora, we're always "on the run" on presentations, in meetings everywhere ... But ... ... fromeach other we only know the name, sometimes a photo (somewhere seen in the web) but there is no time for us to have a meeting only for us; discussing all things which are laying on our tongue. Meetings in IRC are nice things but, there is not alway time to discuss really, no real life meeting can be replaced by IRC or mailing list. So let's plan an AMBASSADORS Meeting! What do you think about???? Somebody talked about money?! Why? I spend my money for traveling in Europe and for one or two nights in a hotel if I get the possibility to meet for example all EMEA Ambassadors somewhere on the continent EUROPE ... OK, I think, a Ambassadors meeting must be a continental plan. One Meeting in NA, one in APAC and one in EMEA ... tell me your ideas and let's have a look if it makes sense to speed up this idea! Regards -- Regards Gerold Kassube Fedora Ambassador Deutschland / Germany Email: GeroldKa(a)fedoraproject.org 1024D/F33128B9 4ABC A903 F1F4 D9CC C422 AACA EDF1 DF42 F331 28B9

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] My introduction
by Kushal Das 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

Hi, I am Kushal Das, a new member of the ambassador project. I am the chief coordinator of linux user group of Durgapur, West Bengal, India. I started my journey in FOSS with Ankur Bangla project (http://www.bengalinux.org) I am also with FOSS.EDU & KDE.IN groups. My goal is to spread Linux as the major Desktop OS in education & common users' field. Fedora is always my favorite. Regards, Kushal

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Meeting Reminder: Thursday, February 23, 2006, 22:00 UTC
by Alex 23 Feb '06

23 Feb '06

Be there or be square! -- Check out the new content on Fedora Project page! http://fedoraproject.org

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Be a critique
by Rahul Sundaram 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

Hi Fedora Core 5 is going to be released in a month or so. We need to understand better where we are heading towards and you can help. Lets reverse the roles for a change. Play devil's advocate?. What is the best criticisms that you can put forward on areas that Fedora needs to improve? How do we improve on those? -- Rahul Fedora Bug Triaging - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] FUDCon Delhi 2006 report
by Rahul Sundaram 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

Hi http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConDelhi2006 FUDCon Delhi 2006 was organized as part of LinuxAsia in Feb 9th 2006. Though it is supposedly a business focused events it has been overwhelmed by students and other developers interested in all sorts of things. Foss.in still seems to do a better focusing on developers and the community if thats where your interests are. We have a full day of Fedora speeches and presentations on the main auditorium and I believe we did a decent job with it in getting a number of people interested and some of them have even show up here as Fedora Ambassadors. The auditorium was generally packed during the day and getting thinner in the day leading to low amount of crowd during the end of the day Fedora BOF which otherwise might have turned out to be more interesting in relative terms. The original startover from Venky and Alolita was fairly generic followed by a inspiration speech from Greg Dek. Chris Blizzard who leads the desktop team within Red Hat talked about the desktop changes and gaps in two different presentations. Kishore Bhargava gave a update on what was happening within the community in terms of LUG's and open source developers in India. Sankarshan from Red Hat Bangalore rehashed my general introduction presentation on Fedora with his own interesting quirks. Colin Charles who used to lead the Fedora marketing effort is now on MySQL as the community manager and was fairly upbeat on MySQL and Fedora presentation with changes like MySQL 5 finally landing in Fedora Core 5. Ramakrishna Reddy from the Red Hat Engineering team and my office colleague Ankit Patel, language maintainer - Gujarati gave a combined presentation on L10N which was well received. Satish Mohan had an update on what Red Hat Engineering has been doing in Bangalore which includes working on odd devices such as dotmatrix printers and scanners (http://oss-drivers.sourceforge.net/) that organizations refuse to move off from. I had to brush over my presentation rapidly to leave room for the final panel discussion on Fedora since Klaus Knopper of Knoppix fame took his own time during noon for a verbose and broad presentation on where we are heading towards in terms of appliances, software patents and such. The BOF had various ideas thrown about back and forth between the audience and people in the stage and many thought it went well. Pics and videos are on the pipeline. Anyone has them, get them out. We had a Fedora booth running on all three days - 8,9 and 10th in LinuxAsia manned by many people in Red Hat Delhi and Bangalore offices attracting hundreds of people in a daily basis. Tejas was doing the videos. Kevin Verma showed up everywhere. We gave away thousands of goodies like Free DVD's of Fedora Core 4 an t-shirts. There were many introductory basic questions around how Fedora relates to RHEL, the licensing terms, how we sustain it, the schedule and roadmaps. There is a lot of interest and goodwill in the project out there which could be turn out into contributions if we figure out more means to do it. I think we came away with the idea that driving changes towards getting individual CD's for people on low bandwidth connections and Live CD would be useful. The traditional way of throwing away packages to slim down Fedora wouldnt work for us since we already have a large existing userbase to worry about. Figuring out a reorganization that does what we are already doing for the existing users while giving a desktop or server or any other odd ball combination within individual CD's with the help of tools like Kadischi seems to be the way forward. We havent been doing a good job in getting users aware of the existing features or the changes we helped drive within Fedora. The handout that we gave way on the Fedora stall helped in a large way towards that in the conference though we might have included that in the LinuxAsia kit too.We just have to keep doing what we are doing and use the material that piles up on a regular basis and organize it. The good thing in Fedora is that we get to do it every six months or so and every new release gets a lots of attention in the form of downloads, new users, negative criticisms and praise. Helping the community involved in a more open fashion and communicating both within the project and to the interested users and everyone out there is what we need and what are going to continue doing. Others feel free to pitch in with their own comments. -- Rahul Fedora Bug Triaging - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Idea: Fedora in Library
by Chitlesh GOORAH 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

Hello everyone, I think im going to write a lot lol. Ok an Ubuntu marketing agent told me about their idea of having Ubuntu in Libraries. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuInLibraries No, its not about installing Ubuntu in the computers but to lend Open source cds to their subscribed users. Actually they copied it from Openoffice. http://www.openoffice.org/nonav/issues/showattachment.cgi/11838/Open%20Sour… Personally its a wonderful idea because having CDS in libraries will affect the complete newbies mind set of fear towards linux. Considering the fact that librairies is a body of trust. This is mostly an activity done by the lug. Of course if we ambassadors provide enough materials/translation to. Im eager to do it right away in Strasbourg. But comparing to another distros like ubuntu,suse,etc they already have enough materials in their pocket. Example, live cds. I prefer to wait for Fedora to catch up with materials. Let's take for example, Fedora. If a lug happens to realise this project. Among other distros we will only have handouts and Fedora DVDs. Meanwhile students or anyone will prefer to give a try to live cds, leaving Fedora behind. Saying that this particular live distro is based on Fedora isn't enough for the complete newbies. It would rather be useless. If someone tried the "official" fedora LIVE cd if he/she likes it he/she can easily get the install DVD for free for their local lug or lug ambassador or from the library directly. Some testimonials: http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/04/04/16/1923248.shtml?tid=137&tid=185&… http://slashdot.org/articles/03/12/15/193231.shtml?tid=146&tid=149&tid=99 Since in the last 3 meetings (see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Schedule ) we didn't really progress in Emails, funds, Schwag because we are waiting for additional info. I suggest we talk and plan about this idea. I know ambassadors from India or Brazil will have alot to say :)) I know we (majority)ambassadors we only popped in during meetings hours, talk and talk. This sounds like acting. Its time to move A55 :) for REAL action. Chitlesh GOORAH -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Fedora Tour
by Rahul Sundaram 21 Feb '06

21 Feb '06

Hi We have a tour on Fedora Core 5 at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tours/FedoraCore5 but that doesnt cut it. Its just a bunch of screenshots now. What we really need is a informative appealing overview on the major changes from Fedora Core 4. Something like http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/gnome-2-14/ for example. . We could include this tour as part of the announcement and even as the default home page in Fedora with due credit to all contributors. How many people want to grab that opportunity? -- Rahul Fedora Bug Triaging - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Moving the events to the end
by Tejas Dinkar 21 Feb '06

21 Feb '06

Hey all, The structure of the ambassadors meeting is usually this: 1) Discuss all the items in FedoraEvents and then 2) Continue with discussions of general ambassadors stuff... I propose that we switch the two around, having fedora events at the end. this has the obvious advantages: Ambassadors not attending any events soon need not wait around People who are late will come in for their events. Lots of people were late for the last meeting, which badly dis-structured the meeting, especially when event owners missed their event, and we had to re-open it. And the following disadvantage: We may spend hours arguing about the common stuff, and run out of time before we can get to the events. I guess the SC will have to watch the above and/or set a fixed time limit of (say) 30 min. Gja -- Tejas Dinkar - tejasdinkar AT gmail DOT com Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] meeting notes fedora ambassadors feb 16, 14:00 UTC
by Alex 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

Fedora Ambassadors weekly meeting: 2006-02-16 1400 UTC Next meeting: 2006-02-23 2200 UTC Attending: lxmaier AlexMaier die-Sel JoeEarly tchung ThomasChung maikaru MikaelJacobsson MrTom ThomasCanniot thl ThorstenLeemhuis GeroldKa GeroldKassube puneet_batura PuneetBatura barz DavidBarzilay JoseTarazona JoseTarazona ChitleshGoorah ChitleshGoorah FrancescoUgolini FrancescoUgolini mattdm MatthewMiller gja TejasDinkar iWolf JeffreyTadlock PabloBarrera PabloBarrera cds CliarShaw Thijs_H ThijsHulshof abhisheksingh AbhishekSingh http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Schedule 1 Review upcoming events 1.1 Feb 25, 2006 Fedora Day The first day in The Netherlands to promote Fedora and to support new users. Hengelo (GLD), The Netherlands ThijsHulshof http://www.fedora-linux.nl/bijeenkomst Thijs will organise a small event for people interested in Fedora / Linux, Fedora presentations and install fest. Thijs_H is advertising on his website. +/-30 subscribtions 1.2 Feb 25-26, 2006 FOSDEM The sixth Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting in Brussel -Belgium- http://www.fosdem.org/2006 FredericHornain Reserved Fedora Stand Fred not in meeting -- will report on the list 1.3 Mar 13-16, 2006 Jornada de Divulgación Científica y Tecnológica A whole day organized for an Recognized University in Colombia for conferences on subjects related to Open Source Software as well as telecommunications, medical artificial intelligence and computer science. It will have universities of the country and the world. http://www.sistemasunbosque.edu.co and http://www.equisl.org JoseTarazona JoseTarazona has a confirmation for a stand there and also time for a conference JoseTarazona wants to know if there is any chance for someone to give a videoconference too. right now he will be on the stand and at night I will give the conference about Fedora. that will help to show students the commitment of Fedora members and help us to recruit some developers and many enthusiasts. tchung: no, I don't think so we discuss the event via IRC and List puneet_batura: i fully agree with jose in this. but if video conferencing is not available then let us look ofr other alternatives to it. 1.4 Mar 16-18, 2006 Free Desktop Event Its the first year of this event, the focus its about companys using desktops with Linux/Open Source. http://www.desktoplivre.org.br MauricioPretto (?) ? barz is chasing Mauricio, but also know he's going for a long trip. Will double-check if he still can make it. BTW, Brazilian Ambassadors have been focusing on local website and a big local event, FISL, where other sth american representatives will be present Mauricio is not present. Will report on the list. 1.5 Apr 3-6, 2006 LinuxWorld Boston 2006 Boston, MA, USA See LinuxWorld/LinuxWorldBoston2006. JackAboutboul MatthewMiller He's confirmed :) Apr 7, 2006 FUDCon Boston 2006 Boston, MA, USA: Sequel to the first FUDCon. See FUDCon/FUDConBoston2006. MatthewMiller JackAboutboul help wanted. Greg and Alex will support wherever they can. Jack will be there. mattdm is not going to go to any sessions at the conference itself, so he can hang out at the booth pretty much all the time, in fact mattdm is not attending the conference proper. (It's expensive!) Can RH get him a free exhibit floor pass? mattdm can do short presentations. What sort of resources are there likely to be at the booth? tchung wants to know: Is there any possibility for reimbersement if I use my own budget to attend FUDCon Boston? lxmaier: tchung: i guess there is some chance for that, especially if you volunteer to talk at the FUDCon 1.6 Apr 19-22, 2006 FISL 7.0 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil 7th International Free Software Forum. This is the biggest conference for IT Infrastructure and Developers inBrazil. Lot of developers communities in this meetings and manylectures, in 6 auditoriums. In 2005, FISL 6.0 had 4,414 attendees from11 countries and almost every Brazilian state. barz got it barz: FISL, on behalf of Rodrigo: all events - presentation and community event proposals - have been approved! working on presentation, free pass 4 speakers, DVDs request sent to FAMSCO, producing banner, thinking of other collateral for event and writing comprehensive proposal 2 make sure we don't miss any detail. we wanna talk on FC generally, bring FC5 improvements, explain community devel, call for contributions and try to link that all with the digital divide, serious issue in Brazil. 1.7 May 3-6, 2006 LinuxTag/FUDCon Wiesbaden 2006 Wiesbaden, Germany - LinuxTag 2006 See FUDCon/FUDConWiesbaden2006 GeroldKassube FlorianBrand help wanted and needed. afaik there should be the next FUDCon similiar to the second FUDCon we ever had FUDCon/FUDCon2 GeroldKa: we've got the mail from the organisator that our booth request will be decided till February 20th, so we've to wait what's the decision. we (FlorianBrand, JensKuehnel and me) are preparing a contest. ChitleshGoorah will also hold a talk for KADISCHI. so imho, at the moment it's all in the right way. ChitleshGoorah: Ill be present too with GeroldKa. I'll burn free some fedora based live cds as stated in the wiki GeroldKa: a few days ago I received the mail from a friend of mine; developer at debian. Debian will not participate the Linuxtag in Wiesbaden. so it's more important for us to get an absolutely great show and event 1.8 June 23-25, 2006 Journée du Libre 4 Strasbourg, France. This event is intended for the promotion of open source softwares and linux. There will also be conferences about various open source topics ChitleshGoorah First It coincides with my trip to Mauritius. It is possible to sell Fedora goodies (T-shirts for example) for fund raising. Alone it will be difficult for me to handle. Booth Reserved http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/jl4/stands-assoc ChitleshGoorah: the booth is reserved. Ive postponed my trip to Mauritius. I'll be present! I'M CALLING FOR SOMEONE WHO WANTS TO MAKE A CONFERENCE ON FEDORA, because ill be at the booth, and there must be someelse with the conference GeroldKa: I'll try to attend then, but I don't speak french 2 FedoraLibraries - Inform about this project. Bring up with some ideas. What do we lack for this project ChitleshGoorah Fedora Libraries : Ill write more about it soon on Fedoranews in order to promote it 3 Presentations for Ambassadors - We need to provide Ambassadors with some slide decks for various presentations. ChitleshGoorah Presentation on Kadischi is in Progress here barz tchung: we r still preparing ooimpress 4 FISL, but will take us some more time puneet_batura ok guys catch up with u later... :) ChitleshGoorah a french flyer is under developpement with MrTom too tchung I saw 3-fold hand out from LinuxAsia/FUDCon. This will be great for any Linux Event 4 Standard Ambassadors kit We need a standard "kit" for all Ambassadors; DVDs, promotional materials, and schwag. tchung: As far as I know Greg is putting together a kit for Ambassadors as much as $100 worth 5 Misc Unidentified Ambassador: does anybody know where can i get the red or blue hat in fedora style from? That'd be helpful in promoting Fedora ;) lxmaier: this is URGENT: we do not EVER use fedora hats to promote Fedora Fedora =! fedora hat not red, not blue, not at all :) Inidentified Ambassador: lxmaier i know, but it's related to Fedora's history :> lxmaier: no discussion of fedora hats will change this lxmaier: i am sorry, but it is our brand guideline Number One: No fedora hats tchung: this is a specific request from Red Hat not to use Fedora Hat in our project lxmaier: it is a matter of highest priority that all ambassadors be aware and follow the brand guidelines -- Check out the new content on Fedora Project page! http://fedoraproject.org

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Re: My introduction & request for approval as an ambassador
by Thomas Chung 19 Feb '06

19 Feb '06

On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 04:25:44 +0530, Kushal Das wrote > Hi, > I am Kushal Das, from Bangalore, India. > I am the chief coordinator of Linux User Group of Durgapur (http://dgplug.org) > and also member of Ankur Bangla team(http://bengalinux.org). > > I want to become an ambassador. > Please approve me. > Regards, > Kushal > -- > http://kushaldas.blogspot.com Hi Kushal, Please read How to be an Ambassador[1] and make sure register to Fedora Account System[2]. [1]http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/HowTo [2]http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/AccountSystemHowTo Regards, -- Thomas Chung http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Mirrored Kadischi
by Wassim K. 18 Feb '06

18 Feb '06

I have not tested Kadischi yet (lack of time and hardware), but I will do it soon. Some friends have the CVS port blocked (firewall), so I mirrored Kadischi, at least as long as CVS is the only possibilities to download it. No spec file available yet? Link: http://fedora-tn.org/?q=node/64 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBD9eAj5dHs3elIuzoRAo8XAKC80ItZ6l4UDB5wiYufe7NIe2/bMwCgzWek GZ8VJtC3bn9KIY+M8NvYm9Y= =74BA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Fedora-ambassadors-list] One Laptop per Child (OLPC) initiative
by Patrick W. Barnes 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

As most of you know, RHEL is based upon Fedora. In much the same way, Red Hat's OLPC production will be based upon Fedora. It will be heavily stripped down and modified, so in reality the final result won't have much more in common with Fedora Core than it will with RHEL. It will truly be unique from either. Mailing lists and other resources are currently being set up. More information will be made available when it exists. -- Patrick "The N-Man" Barnes nman64(a)n-man.com http://www.n-man.com/ -- Have I been helpful? Rate my assistance! http://rate.affero.net/nman64/

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Re: CLA
by Thomas Chung 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:45:30 -0500, Alex Maier wrote > I do not know Joe. Is anyone on the FAMSCO list in the know? > > Please reply to all, as joe is not on FAMSCO list :) > > Cheers, > a > > On 2/16/06, Joe Early <joeylives(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Alex, I am having some problems regarding the Contributor License > > Agreement. > > > > I have attempted 4 times to sign and return to the server. I get a reply > > with the following: > > > > With regards to "Re: Fedora Individual Contributor License Agreement". > > Your message could not be processed. > > Reason Signature was not valid. Please see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/UsingGpg/CreatingKeys > > > > > > Id there another way i can sign and return? > > > > Regards > > Joe Joe, What seems to be a problem? Have you read http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/AccountSystemHowTo Regards, -- Thomas Chung http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Kadischi
by Rodrigo Menezes 16 Feb '06

16 Feb '06

Today I found an odd situation, I was on a "potential" client talking about Fedora features and he asked me to show him. 3 things passed in my mind: - I could bring a notebook there (too much time) - I could get a local computer and install Fedora (too much time) - I could boot Kadischi in any machine and show him Here my problem start. In his company I only found MS PCs, there wasn't any CVS program to download Kadischi. I almost cried. :P Why not distribute Kadischi through http in any webpage or torrent files? Thanks in advance, Rodrigo Menezes --------------------------------- Yahoo! Acesso Grátis Internet rápida e grátis. Instale o discador agora!

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] meeting REMINDER
by Gerold 16 Feb '06

16 Feb '06

Next meeting: 2006-02-16 1400 UTC in approx 10 min. irc.freenode.net #fedora-mktg don't miss :-) regards Gerold

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Fedora Documentation ?
by Chitlesh GOORAH 15 Feb '06

15 Feb '06

Do we have documentation (complete) like this one, anywhere? http://doc.mandrivalinux.com/MandrakeLinux/101/en/Starter.html/ or any material concerning Install Parties and Fedora Core ? -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Self-Introduction: Thomas Canniot
by Thomas Canniot 14 Feb '06

14 Feb '06

Hello, my name is Thomas Canniot, i'm 23 and I leave in the North fo france. I'm one of the administrator of the French Fedora Community website (www.fedora-france.org) I'm also translating the wiki into French. I'm using fedora at home as a simple user. I'm also member of a French LUG (www.campux.org) and i have a presentation of Fedora and the Fedora Project planned on the 11th of April. I will certainly ask for some DVDs, in case there are not enough in the standard kit. Thomas Canniot

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