April 2006 - ambassadors - Fedora mailing-lists

[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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Re: [Fedora-ambassadors-list] DemoFest Cincinnati LUG
by Merlin 30 Apr '06

30 Apr '06

Hello I will sory i can't read your email from last 2 month becous i was in hospital bat now i read slowely every one:D

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] DemoFest Cincinnati LUG
by Pat McKelvey 29 Apr '06

29 Apr '06

Well, We are working to get together the First Annual Demofest for Linux for Cincinnati, Ohio. We are trying to make contact with any other LUGs in our area to join in the fun. It is looking like September 23, though nothing is firm yet. It is hard to guess how many will come as we have not done this before. I have looked on the Ambassador Wiki for ideas and found some. Does anyone have other ideas for getting groups / companies to come and join in this one day event? Once we have a venue, I thought I might try putting out an email to all the companies that I can find that use Linux in this area and invite them to demo their software. They can also use this as a potential chance to recruit Linux people, if they need any. Is it proper to put up a collection box for covering costs? No tickets just limiting the number inside to the Fire Department limit. I expect that it will be located in a public library basement meeting area which will hold about 200 people. That would require the free aspect of the DemoFest. I am trying to get a local branch of Barnes & Nobel to set up a Linux book store for the event. Sort of iffy at the moment. Any suggestions are welcome. I won't promise I will follow them. I may not be able to. Pat -- Fedora Ambassador to the Midwest USA Patrick C. McKelvey PE (License E-45489 expires 12/31/2006) 3315 Ashwood Dr. Cincinnati, OH 45213 pmckelve(a)fedoraproject.org GnuPG - DSA - 9b7e48b3 at pgp.mit.edu 19DC C758 DB34 4AE0 98EE 99E4 A983 6CCE 9B7E 48B3

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Linuxfest Northwest 2006
by Thomas Chung 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

I know it's late but is anyone going Linuxfest Northwest 2006? http://linuxfestnorthwest.org/ Regards, -- Thomas Chung http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] LinuxWorld in Warsaw
by Pawel Sadowski 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

Hi, I'm writing to ask you if anybody is going to LinuxWorld on 21th June in Warsaw? I'm not sure yet, but if somebody from Ambassadors gonna there, I'm almost sure I also would be ;) I've just sent an e-mail to person responsible one of the event's organizers and asked if it would be possible to have a presentation on Fedora during the event, or have a booth for promoting Fedora. I would be glad to welcome some of the Ambassadors there :) Regards, Pawel Sadowski

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Fedora Ambassadors Meeting Minutes 2006-04-27
by Thomas Chung 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

All, Fedora Ambassadors Meeting Minutes 2006-04-27 has been posted: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings/2006-04-27 Our next meeting is scheduled on 2006-05-04 22:00 UTC See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings for your local time. Regards, -- Thomas Chung http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Local repository
by Rodrigo Menezes 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

Hi guys, I have something in mind here. I want to create a repository in Brazil only with packages created here in Portuguese_BR. The main idea is to have a centralized webpage with information and softwares created in Brazil for Fedora Users (always .rpm files) for home users and companies. This way companies can find softwares needed for them to be used at home and in companies. In this last event we heard a lot of complaning because the users didn't find solutions to implement in their companies. With this webpage we can recruit developers do create softwares for companies and for home users and distribute them as GPL. I want to call it Fedora-Extras-BR, it this ok? What do you think about it? Thanks in advance, Rodrigo Menezes --------------------------------- Abra sua conta no Yahoo! Mail - 1GB de espaço, alertas de e-mail no celular e anti-spam realmente eficaz.

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Meeting Reminder: Thursday, April 27, 2006, 14:00 UTC
by Alex 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

Add your items to the Schedule: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Schedule Espesially those of you heading up initiatives, make sure to add your initiative to the "Project Reports" item! Thanks, a -- Check out the new content on Fedora Project page! http://fedoraproject.org

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Weekly Reminder for Fedora Ambassadors
by Thomas Chung 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

RE: Weekly Reminder for Fedora Ambassadors This is your Weekly Reminder that everyone in Fedora Ambassadors Program should sign CLA and join ambassadors group in your Fedora Account System. See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/AccountSystemHowTo Also, we have a Fedora Ambassadors Meeting tomorrow at 2006-04-27 14:00 UTC See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings for your local time. Regards, -- Thomas Chung http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Keeping track of news
by Rahul Sundaram 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

Hi There was some discussions earlier on enabling ambassadors to keep track of news and announcements related to the Fedora Project easily. Fedora announce list has been changed now into being a low track important announcements only list while the other package updates go into a separate list. I would like every ambassadors to subscribe to the fedora announce list and will be moving forward to make this a requirement for all the ambassadors in the near future. If you have any objections to this, let me know Announcement: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006- April/msg00199.html Related discussion: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2006- April/msg00020.html Other places to keep track of updates include: http://fedoranews.org http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/WeeklyReports/Archive http://redhat.com/magazine http://planet.fedoraproject.org Rahul

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] test
by Robert Whetsel 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Report : Event Lan
by Chitlesh GOORAH 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

Report; This LAN gaming was a 2 days event. My speech had a duration of one and half hour, which was about OSS and how easy is to use them. Things i've discussed: - mp3 versus ogg - licenses : GPL, Propriety, BSD , which was very interactive. - intelligent downloading with yum - XGL, I used my girlfriend's dapper to do that. In the end, there was questions, lots of questions. I was surprised. Nevertheless, there was some propositions too, A guy told me that he shifted from Fedora to Ubuntu, just because he did a yum update from FC4 to FC5 which failed. At his disposal was ubuntu breezy, so he gave it a try. In accordance to him, there is a lack of tutorials for users (for FC) that missing compared to Ubuntu. See http://www.ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=100 (note he wasn't talking about patents softs) Eg. Which I tried myself and gave up to sleep. When Fedora Core 5 is installed on a USB harddisk ( which any new linux user will do), after a successfull installation, it won't boot from the USB just because the drivers are not modprobe before seeking the kernel. Some of the linux users gave up, Fedora for Ubuntu for this reason, because they found a howto some how on the internet. e.g what my girlfriend did : http://zerlinna.blogspot.com/2006/03/dual-boot-on-external-usb-drive-with.h… Most of the linux users there are using Ubuntu, for the mere simple reason Ubuntu's ShipIt. These guys don't go to each linux events which are hardly enough in their locality. So no Fedora DVDs! In fact, I think, many users have given a try to Fedora, because they heard so much about it. But in the end, they don't have enough materials online to continue their journey with it. Personnally it is something the Fedora Project should work on. Fedora Marketing is working good, but the achievement is not durable. Regards, Chitlesh Goorah -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] FISL Update
by Rodrigo Menezes 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

Hi guys, We are in the second day of FISL event, below you can find some photos. We'll update the website as soon as the event is running. http://projetofedora.org/node/28 We found some guys from Red Hat, Christofer came with OLPC, some Juan Ruiz and other guys. They seen to be happy with ou presence here. We wanna says thanks to you all. Our webdesigner (Jayme Ayres) says: "I'm sorry", because the templates in the website is not good. We'll fix this as soon as we find some time. Thanks guys! Rodrigo Menezes --------------------------------- Abra sua conta no Yahoo! Mail - 1GB de espaço, alertas de e-mail no celular e anti-spam realmente eficaz.

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Re: Marketing ideas -- I have to strongly _disagree_ with 99% of this ...
by Clair 23 Apr '06

23 Apr '06

On Saturday 22 April 2006 08:55, Jasper O'neal Hartline wrote: > I must also include, I was already put-off by asking why we had > Fedora Ambassadors spying on Mandriva install parties on this list. > > I don't know what is or isn't the job, idealogy or focus of Ambassadors > but I can say personally that isn't how things work around my house. > Spying on other projects install parties to better yourself is exactly > what it was, whether you want to take it in that context or not. > > In any case I had shown the mails to a few people and they were less than > impressed. I think the ambassadors need to stop with the tunnel vision and > try to think about priorities. As an Ambassador I would think it is in your > focus to promote Fedora Core, end of story. If it was spying, they'd be wearing black clothes and jumping in through the ceiling :) But seriously, an ambassador went along to an install party to see "how they did it", so that Fedora ones can take any good ideas from it. No harm in that, is there? Clair

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Meeting Reminder: Thursday, April 20, 2006, 22:00 UTC
by Alex 22 Apr '06

22 Apr '06

Be there, Ladies and Gents! -- Check out the new content on Fedora Project page! http://fedoraproject.org

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Are we in a state of Chaos?
by Tejas Dinkar 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

Well, the question is in the subject. Is the ambassadors project in utter chaos, and losing focus? First the ambassadors is the entire marketing initiative Then, we announce ambassadors is strictly for spreading events, and the marketing list is for all else. And now, we are bringing non-ambassador stuff back to the ambassadors meetings? And the meetings... We seem to be spending as much time arbitrarily disciplining ambassadors for `speaking out of turn`, as we are getting the work done. I hate to say this, but I don't know if the current team of lxmaier + tchung as chair of the meeting is working out :(, no offense to either lx or thomas. May I please volunteer EvilBob to perhaps lead the next meeting, if he is available? Perhaps it is time for each ambassador to rethink why (s)he is part of the project, and what they hope to contribute. Gja

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Fedora Ambassadors Meeting Minutes 2006-04-20
by Thomas Chung 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

Fedora Ambassadors Meeting Minutes for 2006-04-20 available at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings/2006-04-20 Our next meeting will be 2006-04-27 14:00 UTC. See our meeting page for local time: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings Regards, -- Thomas Chung http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Let's talk about stuff, OR Taking the focus off events a bit
by Alex 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

Folks, I have been thinking about what makes us look so awfully event'centric, while we have so many other things going, like the Free Media, Word of Mouth, Sponsored Media, and other exciting projects going on? So here is the solution: >From now on, before reviewing the events, and right after the Famsco update in the Ambassadors meeting, there will be a section dedicated to project reports, in which people belonging to the particular project can report on their activity. This will help us know what is going on besides the events, and also to hold the Ambassadors accountable for the projects they run, so we can assure excellence of all our projects. See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Schedule for the new Schedule item, and add your own project to the list! Cheers, a -- Check out the new content on Fedora Project page! http://fedoraproject.org

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] FUDCon San Francisco 2006?
by Karsten Wade 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

Is anyone interested in having a FUDCon this year to coincide with LinuxWorld San Francisco? The target date would be 18 August. Alternately, is there another great San Francisco/Silicon Valley event that we could attach to or pair up with to have a FUDCon? Our big challenges are: 1. A venue 2. A draw I saw recently how valuable and useful the Boston University space was (mad props to Matt, Paul, and all the BU folks). Good facilities and early access are essential. What draws people to the FUDCon? Good speakers, that's one thing. How many Fedora developers are in the Bay Area? Another draw is being connected to a big open source attractor such as LinuxWorld. Except, uh, LWCE isn't the same kind of FLOSS draw as it was in the past. Is there something better? Planning to commence here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConSanFrancsico2006 I know Guntharp is out there. What other Fedora Ambassadors and project contributors are local to Northern California? - Karsten -- Karsten Wade, RHCE * Sr. Editor * http://people.redhat.com/kwade/ gpg fingerprint: 2680 DBFD D968 3141 0115 5F1B D992 0E06 AD0E 0C41 Fedora Documentation Project http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject Learn. Network. Experience open source. Red Hat Summit Nashville | May 30 - June 2, 2006 Learn more: http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Meeting timing
by Russell John 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

Thomas Chung wrote: > Also, we have a Fedora Ambassadors Meeting tomorrow at 2006-04-20 22:00 UTC > See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings for your local time. Hi Thomas, I won't be able to join the meeting as it'll be 4 in the morning my place. Ambassadors from my region including the Indian Ambassadors will face the same problem if they don't suffer from insomnia... Is it possible to stick to the 14:00 UTC timing for our meetings? Thanks, Russell -- Fedora Ambassador for Bangladesh <russell(a)fedoraproject.org> <russell(a)fedora.redhat.com>

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Weekly Reminder for Fedora Ambassadors
by Thomas Chung 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

This is your Weekly Reminder that everyone in Fedora Ambassadors Program should sign CLA[1] and join ambassadors group in your Fedora Account System[2]. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/Licenses/CLA [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/AccountSystem Please read "Minimal Requirements" in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/HowTo Also, we have a Fedora Ambassadors Meeting tomorrow at 2006-04-20 22:00 UTC See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings for your local time. Regards, -- Thomas Chung http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Fwd: Open Source Lab Details for NECC 2006
by Thomas Chung 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Steve Hargadon <steve(a)hargadon.com> Date: Apr 19, 2006 12:04 PM Subject: Re: Open Source Lab Details for NECC 2006 To: Fedora Education Initiative <fedora-education-list(a)redhat.com> On 4/19/06, Thomas Chung <tchung(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote: > Hi Steve, > > This is my first time hearing "National Educational Computing Conference 2006". > Two questions. > 1. Have you contacted anyone in Fedora Marketing or Fedora Ambassadors > for any help? No. I have been talking with Sarah Jones from Red Hat who does events, and I thought we were going to get some support but I haven't heard from her in some time. I'd be very interested in making contact on either front. Can you help? > 2. Do you have a webiste where we can learn more about this event? The NECC website is at http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2006/. This is the second year I've been asked to lead the Open Source effort there, and the first year that our presenters are actually listed in the program as full speakers. It's significant progress, and came out of providing a similar lineup at the cue.org show in Palm Springs some weeks ago. -- Steve Hargadon Thank you Steve, As a start, I'm forwarding your email to Fedora Ambassadors and Fedora Marketing mailing lists to get an attention. Once we have enough interests and resources, we should be able to find someone to help your event and promote Fedora Project at the same time. -- Thomas Chung http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] go inside FC 5
by Rajesh Ranjan 18 Apr '06

18 Apr '06

Rahul Sundaram is your guide... :-) http://www.redhat.com/magazine/018apr06/features/fc5_overview/ Regards, Rajesh Ranjan

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] any Fedora Ambassadors in Toronto?
by Max Spevack 17 Apr '06

17 Apr '06

Hi folks. If there are any Fedora ambassadors in Toronto who would be interested in leading up a Fedora presence at LinuxWorld Toronto next week, please contact famsco-list(a)redhat.com Red Hat is going to have a presence there, and is willing to offer help with budget and coordination, but we need to find some bodies who can actually represent Fedora in our space. There will be an opportunity to give a talk about Fedora as well, if someone wants to do that. :-) This is a fast-moving target and opportunity, so if you're a Fedora person in the area with the desire and ability to help, make yourself known ASAP. :-) --Max -- Max Spevack + gpg key -- http://people.redhat.com/~mspevack/mspevack.asc + fingerprint -- CD52 5E72 369B B00D 9E9A 773E 2FDB CB46 5A17 CF21

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Report on "A day with Fedora"
by Kushal Das 17 Apr '06

17 Apr '06

Hi, I am back. The event, "A day with Fedora" ended properly except a few moments. Here is the report: I reached Durgapur on 3rd April. That was a holiday in BCREC college, but my dgplug colleagues were there to do the final work. We checked the banners, seminar room etc. We also burned a few copies of FC5 DVD in night. The next day started properly. There were four speakers, Me , Indranil Dasgupta, Sayamindu Dasgupta & Soumyadip Modak. There were around 120 students. http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126889972/in/set-7205759410441324… http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126890182/in/set-7205759410441324… First we played "Truth Happens", it took lot of attention. The first speech was from Indranil named "All about Fdora". http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126890302/in/set-7205759410441324… The slides was made Sankarshan & IDG. http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126890420/in/set-7205759410441324… It lasts around 2 hours. He first talked about FOSS, then stared how Fedora project fits in. A few M$ lover asked why Linux?? and got perfect punch back to them & the first half ended that way. We distributed FC4 DVDs & tee as the reward of asking questions. The second session started with my talk. http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126892052/in/set-7205759410441324… I was talking about different apps in FC5 & I opened them one by one as the slides goes on. But suddenly current was gone, hopefully it came back with 10 minutes. During that time we had lots of question about the applications in Fedora. Third talk was from Sayam, he showed a bengali KDE in FC5. His talk was mainly about how to translate. Then Soumyadip showed some live translation example, he mainly came to talk about translation for Ubuntu. The last talk was again from Sayam, "Programming in Linux". That started with basic C programming to GTK programming. The day ended with Soumya's vote of thanx. http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126893037/in/set-7205759410441324… In the next day we had a Install fest in the college lab. In the first half a complete loadshading was there, so we started from the second half. http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126893566/in/set-7205759410441324… First I showed the installation process in a box. http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126894278/in/set-7205759410441324… Then the students started installing in the boxes one after another. http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126893763/in/set-7205759410441324… http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126894932/in/set-7205759410441324… Forget to tell you, that was my first text based installation, the boxes have only 128MB ram. At the end I had a very bad error. http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126797188/in/set-7205759410441324… It came only for one box. The same CD/DVD works fine in other boxes. The points came up during the event was: 1. Why can't we do a full install in FC5? 2. How to use the DVD/CD to install apps using pirut ? 3. Fedora T-shirts, should have g-size(for girls) :) check http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126890542/in/set-7205759410441324… http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126890823/in/set-7205759410441324… You can check the photos in http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/sets/72057594104413249/ Regards, Kushal

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