Fedora Events - FLISOL 2007
by Thomas Chung
All,
It comes to my attention we need to clean up following in our FedoraEvents page.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents
April 28, 2007 - FLISOL 2007 Buenos Aires - PabloBarrera , NicolasCorrarello
April 28, 2007 - FLISOL 2007 - HernanPachas
April 28, 2007 - FLISOL 2007 - GuillermoGomez WilmerJaramillo, WalterCervini
Do we really need to have 3 separate entries here?
If so, we need to distinguish them by adding Country next to FLISOL 2007
Also, please re-write the short description in English
Regards,
--
Thomas Chung
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung
17 years, 2 months
Proposal: Fedora European Infrastructure
by Mirjam Wäckerlin
Hello,
Chitlesh and I we created the draft for Fedora European Infrastructure
with the help of some people on #fedora-mktg.
The Page still needs a lot of work, add your constructive comments and
proposals on:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Drafts/Europe
This is the first draft as a result of the discussions at fosdem 2007.
This draft should be completed and hopefully someone will step in for
the post as the Fedora European Executive before LinuxTag 2007 Berlin.
After LinuxTag the real work should get started.
Subscription to the wikipage is adviced.
Regards,
Mirjam
17 years, 2 months
fosdem2007: report
by Chitlesh GOORAH
Hello there,
Here is my report:
http://clunixchit.blogspot.com/2007/02/fosdem2007-switching-language-conf...
Things that we have done at the booth and what visitors liked:
* a paper saying what are the languages Fedora Booth staffs can speak
* well decorated booth
* women at the fedora booth
* professional booth staffs rather than geeks with long hair and beards
* polo-shirts
* people like to engage into discussions to booth staff directly
rather than someone who is constantly behind a screen.
* to hear new features
* what makes fedora so special
What we lacked:
* business cards (though it is already among the Fedora Ambassador wiki items)
* any way so that visitors or anyone can see with whom they are talking too
What we have achieved:
* good contacts with centos
* talks on packaging guidelines with opensuse
* internal fedora talks between various fedora contributors
(marketing,documentation,packaging,translation...)
* internal fedora talks between max and fedora contributors
* chemnitz linuxtag preparation
* preparing LinuxTag2007 Berlin Fudcon
* "Fedora European Infrastructure" drafts
regards,
Chitlesh
--
http://clunixchit.blogspot.com
17 years, 2 months
Self introduction about Robert Scheck
by Robert Scheck
Hello folks,
my name is Scheck, Robert Scheck. Currently, I'm 21 years old and I'm from
Germany. Maybe you know my name from Bugzilla reports after updating my
development system to Fedora Core Development, anciently called Rawhide.
I'm also writing some e-mails from time to time to fedora-devel-list and
fedora-extras-list.
Professionally, I'm a programmer at Linux and ERP (Enterprise Resource
Planning) environments working for a young and tiny IT company called ETES
GmbH. Some time before I did my apprenticeship to IT specialist field
systems integration at Hewlett-Packard Germany as result of my personal
interest in computers started in December 1998. And in July 2004, I did my
certification as Red Hat Certified Technician - during my apprenticeship,
but paid by me! ;-)
As you surely recognized, I'm more technical related, thus I'm maintainer
for 10 packages in Fedora Extras. Oh, but I'm not a greenhorn regarding the
representation of company, projects and products: At the CeBIT 2003 in
Hannover/Germany I was presenting "wireless clinic" and mobile solutions
for on-site technicians for HP - but on the Microsoft booth while listening
and watching the Microsoft Windows 2003 Server clips and announcements.
It's no joke, even it maybe sounds funny for a Linux guy. Of course I did
the same at the HP booth when switching with colleagues from there...
When thinking about this, it's a good time to repent at the LinuxTag 2007
in Berlin/Germany which is my initial goal as Fedora Ambassador. At first,
I'll mainly support Gerold Kassube and Florian Brand until things for the
days are clarified. Finally I want to say thanks to Gerold, who encouraged
me to walk this way and to get an ambassador.
Greetings,
Robert
17 years, 2 months
Fedora
by Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira
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17 years, 2 months
REMINDER French Meeting today 1930
by Thomas Canniot
This mail is a reminder for today´s meeting for French ambassadors and
_every_ interested people.
2007-03-04 / 19:30 UTC
IRC: freenode
#fedora-mktg-fr
Ce mail est un rappel pour la réunion des ambassadeurs francophones,
qui aura lieu ce dimanche (04 mars) à 20h30 heure de Paris sur IRC
(freenode) #fedora-mktg-fr .
Thomas
17 years, 2 months
IU LinuxFest - 11-Apr-2007 - clarification, please.
by Gaddis, Jeremy L.
Good {morning|afternoon|evening} list,
Please forgive what may be my ignorance as I have just recently become
involved with the Fedora Project, am still trying to take everything
in, and am sure there are things I don't yet completely understand.
IU LinuxFest[1] is an annual, one-day event organized by the Unix
Systems Support Group[2] at Indiana University[3] to draw attention to
Linux from students, faculty, staff, and the general public. Though
not on behalf on the Fedora Project, I have attended this annual event
for the last several years.
Seeing as how I recently became involved in the Fedora Project as an
Ambassador, I thought this would be an excellent first opportunity to
help promote Fedora. I know the organizers of this event and have
been reserved booth space for a Fedora display.
"How to be an Ambassador"[4] states, "For the first 30 days, the
status of a newbie Ambassador will be 'on probation', during which
time they have a chance to prove themselves to the group by
contributing to the project (see Ideas below)". Under Ideas, one
thing listed is "Sign up Fedora Project for regional events", which I
have now done.
Unfortunately, the Material Request Form[5] states, "Ambassadors must
also complete at[sic] thirty-day probation period before they can
request new merchandise, ...".
Last October, I once again attended the Ohio LinuxFest in Columbus,
Ohio, and witnessed a Fedora booth there (manned by Jeffrey Tadlock,
perhaps?). It was well set-up and looked very nice with the Fedora
banners and such (yes, I bought a bumper sticker and t-shirt!).
Ideally, I would like to be able to obtain a banner to set up at the
booth. I understand that t-shirts are on short supply and probably
out of the question, but that's not an issue. I can burn a few
hundred Fedora DVDs and eat the cost myself, that's not an issue
either.
Since I am still under the umbrella of the 30-day probationary period,
however, am I correct in my understanding that I cannot request items
such as a banner for temporary usage at a Linux event and that I am
pretty much left up to my own resources to handle this?
Any clarification is appreciated.
[1] http://tinyurl.com/2voxb4
[2] http://www.ussg.indiana.edu/
[3] http://www.indiana.edu/
[4] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/HowTo
[5] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/GetStuff
Thanks,
-j
--
Jeremy L. Gaddis, MCP, GCWN jeremy(a)linuxwiz.net
LinuxWiz Consulting http://linuxwiz.net
17 years, 2 months
Max's Blog Post re: Ambassadors Discussion
by Jeffrey Tadlock
In reading Max's blog post on 2/24 [1] he brings up some key points that
I feel merit further discussion on helping build a strong foundation for
the ambassadors.
:Begin snippet of Max's Blog post:
"Part of this problem is one of localization. You can go through the
process of learning to be an Fedora packager regardless of where you
live, but unless you are near a place where there are already active
Ambassadors organizing events, it's hard to get real experience doing an
event.
Another topic of conversation was helping to delegate responsibility. If
an event is going to happen, there are several roles that need to be
filled. One is purely operational -- coordinating with the location,
scheduling the talks, making sure that there are handouts or posters,
getting swag, publicity, etc. The skill set needed to do these kinds of
things is different from the skill set needed once you actually get to
the event and stand at the booth or deliver a talk.
Once you're actually speaking about Fedora, now it's about the message,
and I think that for a lot of Ambassadors, we need to do a better job of
filtering. Freedom, choice, community model -- those are the core
principles of Fedora. After that, you need to be able to say in about 30
to 60 seconds what the high points of the current release are, and what
the next release will include."
:End snippet of Max's Blog post:
Organizing an event does take some real work and for some it might not
be their area of expertise. I do think there are several things the
Ambassador project could do to help lower this hurdle and increase the
number of local events Fedora has a presence at.
My thoughts are based on what I learned from helping organize the Fedora
presence at the Ohio Linux Fest in 2006. While we prepared for this
event we felt there must be a better way to organize for something such
as this - something a little more cookie cutter to reduce the actual
work load of organizing the materials and such and allow more time
focusing on other areas while at the event.
I think one thing that could go very far in helping with some of the
larger events is to see the Event Kit that Jack Aboutboul worked on come
to realization. The page for the Event Kit [2] is blank. I think we
should look at the Gnome Event Box [3] as something the Fedora Project
should put in place. For those unfamiliar with the Gnome Event Box, it
is a large, sturdy box that they ship to Gnome volunteers presenting at
various events. It includes an LCD screen, a desktop computer, mouse,
keyboard, various networking equipment, posters/banners and materials to
help in hanging these things at the booth. It is close to a booth in a
box. Something such as this reduces the amount of work that must be
repeated each time someone from the Fedora Project attends an event.
A Fedora Event Box would allow an ambassador to request the box for a
certain date and have it shipped to them. When they receive the box
they will have all the basic materials needed to put together a good
looking booth for Fedora and also allow them more time to focus on other
aspects of an event. To me this lowers the hurdle significantly to
volunteering to attend an event. The costs of such a box are filling
the box with the appropriate materials and then the shipping costs from
event to event. The benefits to these costs are well put together
Fedora Booths and hopefully more participation in local events.
Beyond the Event Box, making sure people know the core principals of
Fedora is important. For this I present the Ubuntu Marketing Flier [4]
as an example of a very clean at-a-glance look into the distro. I think
Fedora needs a similar brochure to promote what makes Fedora what it is.
We can also state where to get Fedora, where to ask questions and
where to get support from the community. We can make such a flier
readily available for Ambassadors in a format that will allow
ambassadors to take the file to a print shop for local production.
For Release Features in upcoming versions a clean, well formatted single
page can cover the highlights of future releases. This document can get
updated for each upcoming release and be readily available to
ambassadors to take to their local print shop for production for the
actual event.
Many ambassadors also bring DVDs, T-Shirts, stickers, etc to events for
sale from the booth to help defray the costs of getting us there to
begin with. Our booth at the Ohio Linux Fest had all of these and we
were pretty successful at paying for most (not all) of our costs to
attend the event. Having templates that are ready for production and
guidelines on how to give the information to the T-shirt maker or
sticker maker can also reduce the amount of repeated work. For
ambassadors with their own ideas, they could certainly run with that,
but for other ambassadors they can just take the templates from the web
and use the guidelines provided on the site. I see this as lowering the
hurdle for event planning and organization.
In summary I see the following setup as greatly helping ease the
organization efforts of attending events and hopefully leading to an
increase in the number of events Fedora is able to attend - simply
because we have made it easier.
* Fedora Event Kit (box):
This will include the basic materials to get a booth up and running. An
ambassador requests and receives this and can be assured of having a
near immediate professional presence at an event.
* Marketing Fliers:
Two fliers, one brochure covering the core principals of Fedora -
explains what Fedora is about, where to obtain Fedora and where to get
support from the community. The other flier lists the features in the
upcoming release - to be updated with each new release. These would be
readily available on the web to allow the ambassador to locally produce
the materials.
* Schwag. Readily available (or at least clear steps on how to obtain
the necessary high resolution images) images and templates for use with
T-Shirt and Sticker logos. Also guidelines on what to tell a T-Shirt or
sticker producer to make sure you get the materials you want.
By laying these ideas out clearly on wiki I think the hurdles to
organizing events can be reduced greatly. This will either allow a
person to simply request the materials and have access to the brochures
to have a good presence at an event with minimal effort or free up
valuable time for people who organize the Fedora Booth at events to
focus on lining up speakers, prepping a birds of a feather session, etc,
etc. I know if there had been these elements in place for the Ohio
Linux Fest we would have had a much easier time of getting everything
organized.
And finally, when I helped organize the Fedora Booth at the Ohio Linux
Fest I was assigned a "mentor". This was a single contact that if I ran
into trouble along they way or had questions in general I could easily
email and he would either answer the questions I had, get me in contact
with the correct person or get the answers for me. I think we should
continue this. Let those of us that have organized events previously
volunteer to be a mentor. Most likely those of us that volunteer to
mentor will be familiar enough with the Ambassadors and people within
the Fedora Project itself to help get answers and help guide new event
organizers as needed to insure a successful Fedora presence at events.
We would just be a friendly ear to help keep folks from getting overwhelmed.
--Jeffrey
[1] http://spevack.livejournal.com/9394.html
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/EventKit
[3] http://live.gnome.org/GnomeEventsBox
[4]
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DIYMarketing?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=Ubun...
17 years, 2 months
