Hello! new member here
by Bruno Barrera Yever
Hello,
My name is Bruno Barrera Yever and I live in Mexico City. I joined the
Ambassadors group because I enjoy telling the people around me about
FOSS and Linux.
Right now I dual boot Fedora and Ubuntu since I think those are the
best distributions available, and thats why I am also trying to market
them together to some extent.
My target audience are schools. I believe FOSS and Linux should be
used in education because schools normally don't have al the money
they require and paying for licences is just wasting a lot of money
that could go into buying equipment for a lab or some books or
whatever.
My plan is to go to schools and offer them the two best distros out
there, and let them chose which ever one they want. This gives them
options, which is what Linux is all about, chosing and using what is
best for you.
Regards,
--
Bruno Barrera Yever
15 years, 10 months
Re: one small thing / eine kleine Sache
by Peter Reuschlein
Yaakov Nemoy schrieb:
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Max Spevack <mspevack(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Christoph Wickert wrote:
>>
>>>> I agree, breakfast was wonderful. But the lack of wireless that was free
>>>> is really almost a deal-breaker for staying there again.
>>>
>>> +1
>>
>> I do think it's important to stay somewhere with a good breakfast. I know
>> that for myself, being able to eat a big meal in the morning gave me a lot
>> of energy, which kind of made up for the not-so-good lunch.
>
> It makes up for the hangover too. (What do you mean you didn't wake
> up with one, at least once?)
+1
I personaly dont care what kind of ho(s)tel it is. We are there for
sleeping and breakfast, so there should be a bed and something to eat in
the morning ;) .
Beds are not that important ( at least for me ) but a good breakfast
keeps you strong the whole day.
peter
15 years, 10 months
Fedora LATAM Meetings
by Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira
Hello Guys!!
I'm talking with the LATAM's Ambassadors at
embajadores-fedora-latam-bounces(a)redhat.com
I will lead the LATAM meetings
All Thursdays: 01:00 UTC (Brazilian time = Wednesday 22:00 GMT/UTC-3)
See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meetings
The first meeting will be tomorrow at #fedora-meeting
Rodrigo Padula
15 years, 10 months
thank you to LinuxTag team!!!
by Max Spevack
I want to say a big THANK YOU to our entire LinuxTag team.
We had *by far* the most professional, best-looking, and most useful
booth, staff, and presentation of any group.
I will be preparing the rest of my blog posts and trip report soon, but
very quickly I must say that this was the best Fedora event I have been
to, and I am so proud of our entire EMEA team.
Congratulations to all of you -- make sure you take a moment to enjoy
the success of this week, and to feel proud about how much Fedora has
achieved!
We were the #1 booth at the fair -- far more professional, far much more
traffic, and far much more interest than any of the other communities
that compete with us for contributor and developer mindshare.
More to follow on my blog in the next day or so....
Thank you all so much,
Max
15 years, 10 months
Cebit 2009
by Robert M. Albrecht
Hi,
OpenSource is THE focus for Cebit 2009. We should be there.
California is the partner country and they invited Schwarzenegger :-))
cu romal
www.romal.de
blog.romal.de
15 years, 10 months
LinuxTag 2008
by Robert M. Albrecht
Hi,
for all people that don`t want to download the whole 250 MB chunk, I have
posted some pictures in my blog.
cu romal
www.romal.de
blog.romal.de
15 years, 10 months
Philippines Fedora Ambassadors' Meet
by Magie Antonio
Dear fellow Philippine Ambassadors,
If you have time on Monday, maybe we can meet up for lunch and talk about
Fedora among other stuff. Lunch is on me. ;)
I hope we can all make it on June 9, (that's a non-working holiday for us)
at around 11AM at Bluepoint Foundation, Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila.
You can also email me directly - magie(a)fedoraproject.org for anything.
Best regards,
Magie
--
Magie Antonio
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MagieAntonio
15 years, 10 months
North and South America IRC Meeting Log - 2008-06-02
by Jeffrey Tadlock
The North and South America IRC meeting was held today. The IRC
meeting log is below.
=== LOG ===
16:02 < iWolf> Anyone here for the North America and South America meeting?
16:02 < ahoffsta> me
16:02 < pcalarco> yes
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16:03 * spevack
16:03 < iWolf> Let's wait another few minutes to see if more folks arrive.
16:03 < gotencool> yes
16:03 < ahoffsta> ok
16:05 * gregdek hullos
16:06 < iWolf> Let's roll with what we have. Please state your name
for roll call.
16:06 < gregdek> GregDeKoenigsberg
16:06 < pcalarco> PascalCalarco
16:06 < iWolf> JeffreyTadlock
16:06 < ahoffsta> ArturoHoffstadt
16:06 < iWolf> gregdek: can you fill in for me if $dayjob pulls me away?
16:06 < gregdek> iWolf: You bet.
16:06 < iWolf> We'll follow the agenda here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings/2008-06-02
16:07 < svbrand> SvenVonbrand
16:07 < iWolf> gregdek: thanks!
16:07 < iWolf> Okay, first up FAmSCo news.
16:07 < iWolf> I can cover that.
16:07 < iWolf> Our main period of release parties is wrapping up. We
saw a lot of great party reports from all over.
16:08 < gotencool> EduardoVillagran
16:08 < iWolf> So that seems to have been a good success.
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16:08 < iWolf> This week we will be determining the contest winner for
the laptop bag and announce that later this week if all goes well.
16:08 < iWolf> We have also wrapped up working on teh budget for Q2.
16:09 * iWolf looks for a link to the budget. Any question while I dig it up?
16:09 * gregdek waits patiently.
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16:10 < iWolf> here is a link:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CommunityArchitecture/Expenses
16:10 < iWolf> we don't have it broken down for the regions yet in Q2,
but you can see the total amount.
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16:11 < iWolf> Any questions on FAmSCo news before we get to Events?
16:12 < gregdek> ?
16:12 < pcalarco> !
16:12 < iWolf> gregdek:
16:12 < gregdek> I'm guessing that if we see a $15k budget line,
that's about $5k available for NA/SA events.
16:12 < gregdek> Should we all see fit to use it. :)
16:12 < gregdek> eof
16:13 < iWolf> gregdek: yes, I believe that is about how it worked out.
16:13 < gregdek> OK.
16:14 < iWolf> I have the spreadsheet we worked off, but I am not sure
it is the most current.
16:14 < iWolf> In that ballpark though.
16:14 < iWolf> pcalarco:
16:14 < pcalarco> There is an initial charge for $50 related to the
Fedora polo, but I am assuming that this could be requested out of
Event funds?
16:15 < iWolf> pcalarco: the way to spend the event money is largely
left to the organizers of the event, with the idea being they decide
how the money is best spent.
16:15 < iWolf> The results of which we see through the event reports.
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16:16 < iWolf> I *think* emea pays for their own polos though, out of pocket?
16:16 < iWolf> I am not certain of that.
16:16 < petreu> yes they are
16:16 < iWolf> petreu: thanks!
16:17 < iWolf> We can cover polos more later on the agenda.
16:17 < pcalarco> Yes, they should but there is an initial $50 charge
for the embroidery that I am hoping can be covered by the project; in
any case we can discuss when we get to that item in the agenda
16:17 < pcalarco> eof
16:17 * gregdek thinks we can cover that.
16:18 < iWolf> pcalarco: ah - that might be possible to work in, the
initial fee.
16:18 < iWolf> The Fedora Events page is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents
16:18 < pcalarco> thx. eof
16:19 < iWolf> It looks like we have 3 SA events this quarter.
16:19 < iWolf> and 7 NA events.
16:19 < iWolf> rather than cover each event here, is there anyone here
that is organizing or attending one of the events listed?
16:19 < pcalarco> !
16:19 < iWolf> and bring us up to speed on the details.
16:19 < iWolf> pcalarco:
16:20 < pcalarco> I plan to attend Ohio LinuxFest and can help with
any Fedora activities there
16:20 < gregdek> pcalarco: Nice! Where are you based?
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["Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he
usually gets it all wrong."]
16:20 < pcalarco> South Bend, IN
16:21 * gregdek woos!
16:21 < iWolf> pcalarco: great! I will get to meet you there!
16:21 < pcalarco> Wonderful!
16:21 < quaid> !
16:21 < iWolf> quaid:
16:21 < quaid> KarstenWade btw, coming in a bit later
16:21 < quaid> I need to add an event for 4 July in NA, FYI
16:22 < iWolf> quaid: which one is that? it's on the 4th?
16:22 < quaid> yes
16:22 < quaid> http://faq.fixedbylinux.com-a.googlepages.com/lindependence2008-bringingl...
16:23 < iWolf> oh yeah, I remember seeing that one floating around.
16:23 < quaid> Lindependencd 2008; mountain town 10 km from me are
switching to Linux for the week, a few businesses, etc.
16:23 < quaid> I just learned about it and got hooked up with Larry,
who just joined Ambassadors
16:23 < iWolf> awesome! so we do have it covered people wise?
16:24 < quaid> I think so, so far, and for who is in the area
16:24 < quaid> larry has been organising, I'm trying to see if we can
fit in a Fedora sponsorship
16:24 < quaid> (whatever that means :)
16:24 < gregdek> For $100? I would think si. :)
16:25 < quaid> it's going to be much more do than talk, so e.g.
speaking engagements won't be much, but I intend to be there all over
the place
16:25 < quaid> I'll put up details and start working on the details
via mailing list
16:25 < quaid> eof
16:25 < iWolf> quaid: yeah, add it to the page and i imagine there is
some slush fund for it. Our CFO is crafty that way. :)
16:25 < quaid> iWolf: :)
16:26 < iWolf> Any other events we should cover by people here?
16:26 < jds2001> have we yet talked about staffing plans for Summit/FUDCon
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16:26 * jds2001 getting in late
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16:27 < iWolf> jds2001: I didn't have that on my agenda - i assumed
the community guys were handling that piece?
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16:27 < gregdek> afaict, Paul and Max have that covered. But it's
unclear to me.
16:27 < gregdek> spevack: ?
16:27 < spevack> uh
16:27 * spevack reads
16:28 < spevack> there will be a general information/registration booth
16:28 < spevack> at the summit
16:28 < spevack> that will need some staffing
16:28 < spevack> informally
16:28 < quaid> lxmaier?
16:28 < spevack> there's one or two redhatters who have volunteered, like alex
16:28 < spevack> exactly
16:28 < spevack> but we probably ought to make a simple "fudcon info
booth volunteer list" on the wiki and let people take 1 hour shifts or
something
16:29 < spevack> the most important will be in the mornings
16:29 < spevack> especially the first morning.
16:29 < jds2001> i was more thinking about the booth on the exhibit
floor, but anything's good
16:29 < spevack> I'm sure i'll be in that area the first morning myself
16:29 < gregdek> When does FUDCon open? Wednesday or Thursday?
16:29 < spevack> jds2001: that too!
16:29 * jds2001 will be around for the Summit
16:29 < spevack> thursday
16:30 < quaid> smooge said he'd work the booth, iirc
16:30 < gregdek> Who gets the wiki page?
16:30 < gregdek> i.e. who gets the duty of editing and maintaining the
wiki page for handling staffing?
16:31 < jds2001> the Summit doesn't leave one with a ton of spare
time, but what time I have I'll be at the booth :)
16:31 < jds2001> or wherever else is required :)
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16:32 < iWolf> solicit a call to the mailing lists?
16:32 * gregdek isn't even sure what "booth duty" is required.
16:32 < quaid> gregdek: there are some open floor times
16:32 < quaid> we should have those covered
16:32 < gregdek> Well...
16:33 < quaid> the exhibit hall might be closed during other times anyway
16:33 * gregdek thinks.
16:33 < gregdek> Do we have anyone whose job it is to just greet
people and answer their questions?
16:33 < gregdek> Even when "events" are going on?
16:33 < quaid> and we can't guarantee an EXHIBITOR badge for all
volunteers, so I would only plan staffing for the open times
16:33 < quaid> info booth?
16:33 < gregdek> Yeah, kinda.
16:33 * gregdek is frankly confused about the Thursday/Friday FUDCon plans.
16:33 * gregdek also wonders if we should take it offline.
16:34 < jds2001> offline to where?
16:34 < jds2001> I agree this is likely not the best place, but where is?
16:34 < gregdek> Mailing list?
16:34 < iWolf> If its a typical Fedora booth at an event the
Ambassadors m-l would be a good place?
16:35 < gregdek> +1
16:35 < jds2001> +1
16:35 < pcalarco> +1
16:35 < iWolf> so... who will start the dialog on the mailing list?
16:35 < iWolf> :)
16:35 * quaid votes for Paul or Max, the event "owners"
16:35 * jds2001 volunteers spevack
16:36 < jds2001> :)
16:36 < iWolf> +1 - just because I am not familiar enough with the
need at the moment.
16:36 < quaid> I bet Paul comes back from LinuxTAG all fired up for
how to do events :)
16:36 < spevack> if someone wants me to do something, i will.
16:36 < spevack> gregdek: i understand the thu/fri
16:36 < spevack> i can explain here
16:36 < quaid> iWolf: yes, it's a bit complex with the Summit interweaving
16:36 < spevack> in a minute
16:36 * spevack is making an Important Point in websites meeting ;)
16:36 < gregdek> We'll come back to it. :)
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16:36 < gregdek> Or spevack, just tell the list.
16:37 < iWolf> spevack: just jump in when you have a momennt and we'll move on.
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16:37 < iWolf> any other events that we should discuss with the people
present before moving on?
16:37 < gregdek> Are there no SA event owners here?
16:37 < gregdek> *crickets*
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16:38 * gregdek makes some notes for a post-meeting email. :)
16:38 < iWolf> i don't see Rodrigo.
16:38 < iWolf> he has 2 of the 3 SA events.
16:39 < gregdek> I'll ping him offline.
16:39 < iWolf> gregdek: sounds good.
16:39 * spevack is back
16:39 < gregdek> I'm sure he's got details.
16:39 < iWolf> spevack: go ahead, we were just getting set to move to
the next item - so a good spot for you.
16:39 < spevack> ok
16:39 < spevack> Saturday is your standard FUDCon Bar Camp
16:39 < spevack> Thursday and fRiday, envision like this:
16:40 < spevack> in the "exhibition hall" of the convention center
16:40 < spevack> is space for all sorts of RH partners and whatever to
have little booth
16:40 < spevack> fedora will have a booth there
16:40 < spevack> our goal being to drive people to fudcon
16:40 < spevack> which is off in its own little area
16:40 < spevack> once you get to the fudcon area
16:40 < spevack> there's an information table
16:40 < spevack> and there's a couple of rooms.
16:40 < spevack> one room will have the setup for lightning talks
16:41 < spevack> and Jim Whitehurst is going to speak for like 30
minutes to FUDcon at some point -- paul knows exactly when that is.
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16:41 < spevack> the other spaces are like a normal FUDCon hackfest.
16:41 < spevack> we've got circular tables
16:41 < spevack> portable white boards
16:41 < spevack> wireless
16:41 < spevack> all that stuff
16:41 < spevack> and those are our hackfest days
16:41 < gregdek> spevack: Jim will speak Sat, or Thu/Fri?
16:41 < spevack> either thu or fri
16:41 < spevack> other than our Fearless Leader, we don't really have
a Bar Camp keynote
16:42 < gregdek> OK. We need to firm that up offline, b/c I've got
some stuff I want to get done on those days.
16:42 * spevack gets to watch this one from the peanut gallery :)
16:42 < gregdek> Paul is point on all this?
16:42 < jeremy> spevack: are you even going to be in the us for it? :)
16:42 < spevack> yeah, i will!
16:42 < jeremy> hrmph
16:42 < spevack> Paul is logistical point.
16:42 * jeremy makes a note to talk to INS ;-)
16:42 < spevack> but the flow is really quite similar to past fudcons
16:42 < jds2001> release the hounds!
16:43 < spevack> gregdek: you ought to be able to reserve a section of a room
16:43 < spevack> for a full day
16:43 < gregdek> I'll take it offline. :)
16:43 < spevack> and make it your space for the Important Topic About
Which We Have Spoken :)
16:43 * spevack is done, unless there are any other fudcon questions
16:44 * iWolf waits for other questions on fudcon before moving on
16:44 * gregdek is done
16:44 < gregdek> (and has to leave in about 10m)
16:44 < iWolf> okay, moving on.
16:44 < iWolf> next is material request tracker.
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16:45 < iWolf> most of that is done via budget and the event organizer
sorting things out with the money assigned.
16:45 < iWolf> so I think we can skip that item.
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16:45 < iWolf> Ambassador membership verification.
16:45 < iWolf> not a lot to report here - Fabian has enlisted some
help and is processing the new ambassador queue.
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16:46 < iWolf> F8 and F9 media is on the list.
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16:46 < iWolf> I think that is a left over from FISL.
16:46 < iWolf> so... the last item is Ambassador polos for NA and SA.
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16:46 < pcalarco> I have an update on that
16:46 < iWolf> pcalarco: has been working on this some I believe.
16:47 < iWolf> ah!
16:47 < iWolf> pcalarco:
16:47 < pcalarco> I have enough for about 10 polos @ $22.05 plus shipping
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16:47 < pcalarco> there is a one-time $50 charge for the initial embrodery setup
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16:47 < pcalarco> but then we can go back to the vendor to order more
subsequently
16:48 < iWolf> pcalarco: when you say enough, as in you have received
interest from 10 people?
16:48 < pcalarco> polo is at
http://www.4logowearables.com//CDD36BB771654D5EB36ED73F301BA619.asp?pcs_k...
16:48 < pcalarco> French Blue is the color
16:48 < gregdek> Nice.
16:48 < pcalarco> I have expressed interest from: Grady Laksmono, John
Rose, Jason Fenner, Brian Powell, inode, Pascal Calarco
16:49 < pcalarco> likely: Jeffrey Tadlock, Rashadul Islam
16:49 < pcalarco> as well
16:49 < pcalarco> some of the folk above want more than one shirt
16:49 < jds2001> pcalarco: count me in :)
16:49 < iWolf> pcalarco: great! awesome work on taking on this task!
16:49 * quaid too
16:49 < pcalarco> ok, please send me your name and address to pcalarco(a)nd.edu
16:50 < pcalarco> and I will add you to the list.
16:50 < iWolf> pcalarco: we might want a reminder email to the list
again, and I have a few folks local who might want one as well.
16:50 < inode0> !
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16:50 < iWolf> inode0:
16:50 < pcalarco> I will send out one more call for shirts and then
get the ordering started
16:50 < ahoffsta> ?
16:50 < inode0> pcalarco: do you know I seem to be on your list twice?
16:50 < pcalarco> I can cover the initial $50 cost, but it would be
great if this could be reimbursed
16:51 < pcalarco> Folks will cover the cost of the shirts themselves
16:51 < gregdek> We can figure that out.
16:51 * gregdek has to run... does someone have minutes?
16:51 < iWolf> gregdek: I have a log.
16:51 < pcalarco> ah, ok inode -- you are JohnRose?
16:51 < inode0> Let's just split it up among the first run buyers and
be done with it?
16:52 < iWolf> pcalarco: i think we can sort out the $50
16:52 < iWolf> ahoffsta:
16:52 < ahoffsta> pcalarco: do you have the shipping costs for SA
(Chile)?, it may be cheaper for us to make the polos @ our country.
16:52 < pcalarco> yeah we can do that
16:52 * iWolf has to look at a $dayjob issue - back in a moment or two
16:52 < inode0> JohnRose is late but here
16:52 < pcalarco> I believe it would be best to have a supplier for
USA & Canada and then a separate one for SA, yes
16:53 < jds2001> yeah, if we have 10 interested and split the $50
amongst ourselves, that's $5 each
16:53 < gregdek> ahoffsta: I agree.
16:53 < ahoffsta> ok (we will try to find a suplier in Chile)
16:53 < pcalarco> ok, I will proceed with that
16:53 < pcalarco> that's all I have to report on this
16:54 * gregdek says so long, thanks everybody
16:54 < pcalarco> eof
16:55 * iWolf is back
16:55 < iWolf> I think that wraps it up!
16:56 < iWolf> Anyone have anything to add in these last few minutes?
16:56 < ahoffsta> !
16:56 < iWolf> ahoffsta:
16:57 < ahoffsta> About the wiki migration, I have found some pages
that have many broken links, and missing attachments. I have contacted
some people, but we carefull with your wiki pages.
16:57 < ahoffsta> eof
16:57 < iWolf> ahoffsta: thanks for the reminder! We did have a wiki
migration item on the agenda to.
16:58 < iWolf> and a good note for folks - double check your wiki
pages to make sure the links and attachments are fine after the
migration.
16:58 < iWolf> ahoffsta: thanks!
16:59 < iWolf> if that's it - the meeting will adjourn.....
16:59 < iWolf> </meeting>
15 years, 11 months