ambassadors May 2007

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release announcement talking points (HURRY!)
by Karsten Wade 22 May '07

22 May '07

Please help us get these completed: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/ReleaseAnnouncements/TalkingPoints Um ... by tomorrow. Seriously. Or there won't be any time at all for Ambassadors et al to write up their local version. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/ReleaseAnnouncements#Schedule - Karsten -- Karsten Wade, 108 Editor ^ Fedora Documentation Project Sr. Developer Relations Mgr. | fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject quaid.108.redhat.com | gpg key: AD0E0C41 ////////////////////////////////// \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

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LinuxTag at Fachhochschule Salzburg
by Oliver Falk 21 May '07

21 May '07

Hi! As one or the other knows, there was a LinuxTag in Salzburg/Austria at the Fachhochschule (http://www.fh-salzburg.ac.at/News_Detail.82.0.html?&no_cache=1&L=%3F%3F%3F%…) As you can read in the above mentioned URL, SuSE and Ubuntu where there as well as myself (speaking for Fedora instead of DavidHackl who was busy with business). However. My experience/notes. It was my first (bigger) speach. I was quite enthusiastic, but also quite nervous, as you can guess. :-) I only received positive feedback yet, that's fine. OpenSuSE Xen Workshop ===================== They where in trouble. FH installed OpenSuSE 10.3 on the day before. Every time you booted the machine with Xen kernel and X came up, the machine crashed (blank/black screen) nothing except holding the power key to power it off worked. I was asked if I may help. As a clear statement I answered yes and tried to debug the problem. OK, in the first moment I was quite amused, that it doesn't work - but thinking as a technician, I though if it would happen to me with Fedora, I would also be happy if someone tries to help me. At one moment I thought it has something to do with the vga option they pass along and the vgabios patching they do, but actually this wasn't the reason and I gave up without a real solution. At this time, a Fedora-Xen-LiveCD would have helped. :-P User question: YaST is free, cannot Fedora also use it? ====================================================== Clear answer: Yes, we could. I believe it's FOSS, as it has GPL license, but it would be hard to accomplish this mission, as SuSE does configuration in a total different style. AFAIK. However, the question showed me: Users want a single point of entry for their configuration (tasks). Like 'Control panel' under Windows it seems. They want to configure their resolution, theme, desktop background, etc. And even Xen they want to see inside there it seems - SuSE has Xen in YaST. Fedora Beryl Workshop ===================== Not too many people joined it, as it was the first Workshop at this day, but the people who where there actually enjoyed it. The beryl settings manager is better now. But it's overloaded. A simple GUI as we have it with beryl-settings-simple, would be the best entry point for the users I believe! For people with more experience, we still have an advanced button there, isn't it? :-) Ubuntu/SuSE/Fedora ================== We had a clear statement; A linux user is a good user, which distribution he begins with or uses doesn't mind in the first line. We where nice to each other and didn't flame-war; That wouldn't make be a good picture for none of us. Dress code ========== I'm not sure if I will wear a suite next time. I actually felt a bit overdressed (you'll see on the pictures - I'll send a link as soon as I have one). On the other hand, I think I stated, that we are not geeky, freaky staff, making geeky, freaky stuff. :-) Users ===== I actually had the feeling that many SuSE users joined. SuSE is definitely the desktop distribution of choice in Austria. I'm not sure why... A buyable package with a book - documentation. No need to download ISOs. See next paragraph as well. What users think about Fedora/SuSE/Ubuntu ========================================= I already told JoergSimon. I'm quite sure I was able to find out what people think about the 3 distributions. - SuSE is for desktop/laptop They have good tools like KNetworkManager. And it actually seems to work fine for most home-/laptop-users. - Ubuntu is for starting with Linux Easy to install, easy to use, not the big decision, which of the x mail clients to use - there's only one... - Fedora is for professionals and servers That's the picture about us. OK, it's not a bad picture, but it would be better if it would be Fedora is for experienced users. (point!). Fedora on the Desktop. If we want this, we need to get an idea of what users prefer, how they work. I have 100 % clear idea of that. I'm a technician; I don't use OpenOffice regular, I don't need to switch between networks every day or even every few hours. I don't know if there are big bugs in Gnome/KDE. I use XFCE. :-) Presentations Group/Team ======================== Already talked with JoergSimon also about this. I had the Chitlesh presentation with me. I removed a few section, updated a few others and translated it to German - where possible (Release early, release often: You cannot really translate it to German). Joerg told me, that there already is a Wiki for this and if I have time to come to LT Berlin, I will bring this up at Fedora Ambassadors day; If not Joerg will do this for me. For short: The idea. A new group "Fedora Presentations Team". A team, that works together with Documentation, Artwork and Translation; Creating short presentations with nice artwork translated to different languages. For Ambassadors it would be easier then to put together a bigger presentation - if needed. It would be also easier hold a speech about whatever people are interested (not the full-blown presentations). If you're fast, open another presentation, ... many options here.... Behind the idea; Presentations team, would make sure, that presentations are kept up 2 date and translated. The team would be mostly made of Ambassadors I guess, but under a new hood, with separate m/l-list and so on. Ambassadors without interest in this part would be overwhelmed with another bulk of mails. Got it? :-) /me should have written this in English at the first time. Not first tellin' Joerg and now to the list. Silly /me. :-) A hope you enjoy(ed) the report. -- Oliver Falk UNIX/Linux Systems Administrator Mail: oliver(a)linux-kernel.at Phone: +43 (664) 838 59 25

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I'm back!
by Pawel Sadowski 20 May '07

20 May '07

Hi guys! I'm writing to inform you that I'm already back after my exams. I have 5170 mails to read, so I can find out what's going on :) Ok, I think that's all for now. It's wonderful to be here again :) Cheers, Pawel

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REMINDER French Meeting today 1830 #fedora-meeting
by Thomas Canniot 20 May '07

20 May '07

This mail is a reminder for today´s meeting for French ambassadors and _every_ interested people. 2007-05-20 / 18:30 UTC IRC: freenode #fedora-meeting Ce mail est un rappel pour la réunion des ambassadeurs francophones, qui aura lieu ce dimanche (20 mai) à 20h30 heure de Paris sur IRC (freenode) #fedora-meeting . Thomas

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Introducing myself
by red_alert 19 May '07

19 May '07

Dear ambassadors I only just became an ambassador for Switzerland today. Therefore I meant to say hello to everyone of you. Instead of writing you a very long e-mail I'll just give you the link to my wiki page which I've just created. I've written down everything I've got to say about myself at this very moment. So here it is: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SandroMathys Any advise on improving my wiki page or my work as a ambassador is very welcome. I hope to see some of you at the LinuxTag 2007 in Berlin. Regards red

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Participation in GITEX 2007
by John Babich 18 May '07

18 May '07

Fedora Ambassadors: I would like to be involved in representing Fedora at GITEX 2007, held in Dubai from September 8 to 12. There's a 95% probability that I can attend. Since I'm new to the Fedora Ambassadors, but not Fedora Project, I would appreciate any advice and assistance in getting this going. The following is from the official website: "Among the world's top 3 ICT Exhibitions, GITEX is the Middle East's largest IT exhibition. Located in the business hub of the region and alongside GULFCOMMS, the Middle East's Largest Telecommunications Event, GITEX provides the perfect platform for companies looking to take advantage of the exceptional growth of the ICT industry in the region. GITEX 2006 attracted 133,139 attendees and continues to be the most important gateway to the Middle East market with over 3,269 participating companies from 119 countries." Source: http://www.gitex.com/Default_en_gb.aspx John Babich Fedora Ambassador

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New Header (banner image) for Ambassadors
by Thomas Chung 18 May '07

18 May '07

Thanks to Nicu Buculei with Fedora Arts Team, we now have a new Header (banner image) for Ambassadors[0] consistent with Arts[1], Docs[2] and Infrastructure[3]. [0] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure Cheers! -- Thomas Chung http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung

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Weekly meetings
by Fabian Affolter 18 May '07

18 May '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, The meeting today was a bit chaotic in my eyes. There are a few points everybody should remember. - - Follow the protocol [1]. By the way, this is not a wish, this is more or less an order. - - Every week have a single page on the wiki for summarize the meeting. If you want to discuss a topic then add it before the meeting has started to the "Agenda". The standard run for a meeting is: * FAmSCo updates * Projects updates * Events updates * Ideas/Proposal and moreover ... The last part of the meeting is for your stuff and the discussion about that. I would really appreciate when everybody would consider this points. Because like this we can handle the meeting efficient and productive for all attendees. Regards, Fabian [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/IRCHowTo#Protocol -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGTIkT4jzS3TakOX8RAt+GAJ4yEejQS0hWFFOLToA5N+ikFhOTmQCffscn azinxTWLLAcP3VLmXBpJtxE= =h93P -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Ambassadors] Ambassadors' meeting reminder - Thursday 17th May 14.00 UTC
by Ama M 17 May '07

17 May '07

Guys Sorry, I missed the meeting today. I planned to attend but found out late ( 13.10 UTC) that my Network admin has blocked irc, yahoo ms, skype etc. Can anybody suggest anyway to beat it, i tried java applet irc to no avail. if not then i can only attend only meetings after work time Thx ------------------------------------- Ama Mgbeoji http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AmaMgbeoji ------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ---- From: Francesco Ugolini <fugolini(a)fedoraproject.org> To: fedora-ambassadors-list(a)redhat.com Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 8:21:40 PM Subject: [Ambassadors] Ambassadors' meeting reminder - Thursday 17th May 14.00 UTC I want to remember all ambassadors that tomorrow there will be a meeting at 14.00 UTC in #fedora-meeting channel. We will discuss about: - FAmSCo updates - Projects updates - Events updates - Ideas/Proposal and moreover ... Http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings/2007-05-17to see the agenda or to add new topics to this one. Thanks for your attention Francesco Ugolini -- Fedora-ambassadors-list mailing list Fedora-ambassadors-list(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list ____________________________________________________________________________________Sick sense of humor? Visit Yahoo! TV's Comedy with an Edge to see what's on, when. http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/222

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fedora-cs-list for discussion about Fedora in Slovak and Czech language
by Marek Mahut 17 May '07

17 May '07

Hello all, Let me introduce you our new mailing list [1] for Czech and Slovak Fedora users. If you are speaking one of those languages, feel free to join. [1] http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-cs-list -- Marek Mahut Tel.: +420-532-294-111 (ex. 826-2046) Fedora Ambassador GSM: +420-731-076-674 http://www.fedoraproject.org http://www.jamendo.com ____________________________________________________________________

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