Re: [Ambassadors] CD / DVD stickers needed
by Vali Cobelea
Hi,
Thank you for this info, I'm planning several short presentations about
Fedora Project at the University of Galati, Romania, and I did not know from
where / how to get Fedora 11 CDs / DVDs.
Valente
7 years, 10 months
F12 talking points are out!
by Mel Chua
The F12 talking points have been released, and are ready for use (and
improvement!) Many thanks to Steven Moix, Paul Frields, and Jon Roberts
for their hard work.
Talking points (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talking_points) are key
features of the new release that we want to point out. There are
different types of talking points for different types of people: users,
developers, sysadmins, and more. They are meant to answer the question
"so what cool stuff is in the latest release of Fedora?"
Reading the talking points should get someone who's *not* necessarily
already a member of the Fedora community excited. (This is something
that I think the talking points could still use some help with; which
ones are unclear? Which ones don't get you as excited yet?) Please take
a look at the talking points and think about how you'd like to use them
for F12 outreach - and if you can think of a better way of phrasing
something, or think something should be improved, please let us know (or
use the wiki and just make the change yourself).
Ambassadors in particular: how can we turn these talking points into
marketing materials that will help you spread the word?
--Mel
13 years, 6 months
IEEE International Conference in Tunisia
by Chitlesh GOORAH
Hello there,
The 16th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and
Systems, ICECS 2009 [1], will be held in Tunisia on the 13th to 16th
December 2009.
The wiki page [2] says we have 7 ambassadors in Tunisia. Can anyone of
you represent FEL at that conference ?
Tasks include:
- writing and sending a paper (will be done by me)
- prepare local ambassadors with the talking points (will be done by me)
- attend the conference and distribute your Fedora business cards (eat
good food too :) )
- if our paper is selected by the chair, the ambassador will give a
brief introduction about Fedora&FEL
You may find other publications, screenshots and presentations on [3].
I believe that FEL should be sending papers to technical conferences
around the world. These papers will describe our opensource EDA
solutions and Fedora's key features eventually.
If you are aware of such conferences in your locality, please let me know :)
[1]: http://www.icecs2009.org/
[2]: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/CountryList#Africa
[3]: http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL
Kind regards,
Chitlesh
http://clunixchit.blogspot.com
13 years, 9 months
Re: What questions would you like to ask the Candidates for the Fedora Board, FESCo, and FAMSCO?
by Thorsten Leemhuis
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote on 11.11.2009 22:30:
>
> As you may have heard already, several seats of the Fedora Board, FESCo,
> and FAMSCO are up for election soon(¹). Right now we are in the
> nomination period, which will be followed by a "Candidate
> Questionnaire." That means we'll give candidates a list of questions to
> answer by private mail within one week after the nomination period
> closed; the results will be publish soon after that to make sure they
> are available to the public before the Town Hall meetings on IRC happen.
> [...]
> If you have one or more questions you'd like to send to the candidates
> simply go and add them to:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections/F13_Questionnaire
I did some cleanups and added a few more question from the last questionnaire. Find below what I plan to sent to the candidates this evening at something like 19:00 UTC. If you dislike something please comment until then in a way to make sure we don't further delay things (yes, I know, that is a tight schedule, but I thought a RFC period of 12 hours is better then none). tia!
CU
knurd
=== Main questions ===
# What is ''The Fedora Project'' to you?
# What do you consider to be Fedora's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raison_d%27%C3%AAtre raison d'etre]?
# Where do you see the project in one years?
# Where do you see the project in two years?
# Do you see a long-term goal or a "target audience" Fedora should strive for?
# What part of the Fedora project would you change, given total power to do so?
# Please name three things you plan to work on and realize while being on the Committee you run for!
# How would you measure your success as an elected member?
# What are your unique strengths and what are your weaknesses?
==== Committee specific questions: Board ====
# Suppose a user/contributor brings up an issue that bothers an important fraction of Fedora community and he proposes a change in the default behavior of Fedora; but either you don't have personal interest in that area, or (as a user) the issue doesn't bother you. How would you approach the problem?
==== Committee specific questions: FAmSCo ====
# What would you be doing to ensure that as a body FAmSCo is communicating more with its constituents ?
# What things should be done to promote Fedora in countries where there is little or no Fedora presence, and how you see FAmSCo can support those initiatives?
# Do you see any shortcomings in the mentoring overall process? What do you want to change in that process?
==== Committee specific questions: FESCo ====
# Do you feel that a Fedora release should have a more conservative update policy than rawhide, and if so what types of updates do you feel are acceptable to a stable Fedora release?
# Suppose a user/contributor brings up an issue that bothers an important fraction of Fedora community and he proposes a change in the default behavior of Fedora; but either you don't have personal interest in that area, or (as a user) the issue doesn't bother you. How would you approach the problem?
=== More questions ===
# Why are you a member of the Fedora project?
# Please mention if you are running for re-election or not. Further: If you are running for re-election, what are the things that you promised but could not do? Why so? What are you planning to prevent a recurrence? If you are running for the first time, in your opinion, what are the things that the previous committee could do but couldn't/didn't?
# What is the most important part of the Fedora the distribution? (IE, Desktop, FEL, AOS)
# From your perspective what is it that Fedora brings to linux distros that is unique and original? What sets Fedora apart?
13 years, 10 months
Teaching Open Source Resources o web links on spanish
by alejandro perez
Helo,
Any one, do you know if there a web sites, for teaching open source or
free software on Spanish. Sites from Spain or Latam. I need to refer to
some web sites a couple of teachers that are interested on the matter,
Mel Chua give some links on English, thanks for those.
Thanks
13 years, 10 months
Inspired by Ambassadors: TOS Conferences
by Mel Chua
Shouting upstream - another thing Fedora Ambassadors can do is serve as
a role model for other Ambassadors-like programs. Like this one:
http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Conferences#Upcoming_events
"Our goal: To have a TOS Ambassador present - and presenting at - every
higher education conference in the world."
That goal should sound familiar. ;)
--Mel
PS: Was prompted to send this email by the following exchange in famsco
townhall today.
18:54:12 < mchua> re #5: I'll note that there are other
education-and-open-source initiatives that have been *directly* inspired
by famsco + Ambassadors
18:54:18 < mchua> for instance, see
http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Conferences#Upcoming_events
18:54:51 < mchua> so one thing famsco could also do is serve as a role
model for other ambassador-like programmes instead of trying to do it
all within the Fedora umbrella
18:56:05 <@spevack> mchua: :)
18:56:06 < ke4qqq> mchua: can you cite them?
18:56:45 < mchua> ke4qqq: the TOS link above is one; I'm slowly moving
towards proposing the same thing for Sugar Labs (which is doing it
informally)
18:57:53 < ke4qqq> ha - I am on mailing lists for both, and didn't know
they were trying to do the same thing - perhaps we could be better role
models if we knew people were emulating us.
18:57:58 < ke4qqq> :)
19:01:01 < mchua> ke4qqq: ...wow, you're right, I *totally* hadn't
realized we hadn't shouted back upstream! thanks!
13 years, 10 months
Re: [Ambassadors] Promoting Open chip design philosophy
by xie yunpeng
hi,
i want to know what is the exact name of the university.Xi'an Jiaotong University or just Xi'An University?
thank you,
Xielingyun
2009-12-01
woqimingweipeng
发件人： Chitlesh GOORAH
发送时间： 2009-11-30 15:28:14
收件人： fedora-ambassadors-list
抄送： fedora-electronic-lab-list
主题： [Ambassadors] Promoting Open chip design philosophy
Hello there,
I have a contact who will soon travel to the Xi'An University in China
to promote the opensource philosophy with the IC design people there
and talk about how FEL can help.
I would like to ask you, Fedora Ambassadors, whether you can do the
same, if you have to chance to meet key people at your local
university.
We have some slides of previous events here (together with an
openoffice template):
http://spins.fedoraproject.org/fel#publications
Feel free to use them and let us know about your coverage :)
FEL : http://spins.fedoraproject.org/fel
thank you,
Chitlesh
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