ambassadors January 2010

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REMINDER: EMEA Ambassador Meeting this Wednesday !
by Pierros Papadeas 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

Ladies and gentlemen! Don't you remember there is an EMEA Ambassador meeting next Wednesday (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa) on #fedora-meeting ? Day : Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 Time : 20:00 UTC (check http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=27&month=01&year=2… to know your own time depending on your countries) Channel : #fedora-meeting Meeting agenda (add your topic before the meeting please) : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Ambassadors_2010-1-27 Meeting will also be a round-up preparation meeting for FOSDEM. Update your agendas, and don't forget to join us :) Kind regards, Pierros -- Pierros Papadeas PGP key: 0x6130DBF8 http://pierros.papadeas.gr pierros(a)papadeas.gr liknus @ GRnet , Freenode

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swag for FOSDEM
by Max Spevack 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

The purpose of this email is to triple-check that we have everything that we need for FOSDEM. (1) Posters and decorations for the booth. Who is bringing it, and what do we have? (2) Fedora 12 media GNOME - Who is bringing it, and how much? KDE - Who is bringing it, and how much? XFCE - Max will get some made and bring it/ship it LXDE - Max will get some made and bring it/ship it (3) Other stuff Buttons -- Max has some, and will bring them in his suitcase. Case badges -- These should be arriving from the producer with enough time for Max to bring them in his suitcase What else do people have, or are people bringing? What am I forgetting? What do we need to produce more of in EMEA? Thanks, Max

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FOSDEM 2010 - Pick up your Event SWAG!
by Joerg Simon 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

Dear EMEA Event Owners, i will bring LiveCD, DVD-Media and T-Shirts(Splatter) with me to FOSDEM 2010. If you attend FOSDEM 2010 and plan an EMEA Event or need SWAG for your Ambassador Work - please add your request to https://fedorahosted.org/emea-swag-tracking/ -- Joerg (kital) Simon jsimon(a)fedoraproject.org http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JoergSimon http://kitall.blogspot.com Key Fingerprint: 3691 0989 2DCA 58A2 8D1F 2CAC C823 558E 5B5B 5688

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FAMSCO meeting 1/25
by Max Spevack 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

Hi Ambassadors, Just a reminder that FAMSCO meets tomorrow (1/25) at 1800 UTC in #fedora-meeting-1. Agenda -- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_agenda The meeting, of course, is open to all, and we will likely have some extra time at the end for open floor. --Max

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NA updates
by Max Spevack 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

Hi NA Ambassadors, I've got Tuesday night conflicts until mid-March (then no longer) which I apologize for, so here's a few updates from me once again in advance of tonight's meeting: (1) The window clings are ordered, and have been charged to my RH credit card. (2) Budget 100% exists to make new tshirts in the current quarter, and we should certainly do it. (3) inode0 started some early planning for FAD NA 2010, and unless some sort of horrible conflict comes up, I'll plan to be there. -- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_NA_2010 (4) I owe not just NA, but all regions, a end-of-January budget report, so that we can see how much funding remains to be spent in the first weeks of February before the end of Red Hat's fiscal year. But if there's a shopping list of stuff besides window clings and tshirts that we need more of, let's give it serious thought. (5) The case badges are supposed to be shipping any day now. I'll get a status update from the manufacturer. --Max

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Re: [Ambassadors] Events calendars
by Carl Walker 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

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Fedora Ambassadors Welcome
by Joerg Simon 24 Jan '10

24 Jan '10

Dear Ambassadors, let´s welcome our new sponsored Ambassador Group Member: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adil452100 from Morocco mentored by Mathieu Bridon Regards Joerg p.s. Please do not send private "Welcome" Messages to Ambassador List -- Joerg (kital) Simon jsimon(a)fedoraproject.org http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JoergSimon http://kitall.blogspot.com Key Fingerprint: 3691 0989 2DCA 58A2 8D1F 2CAC C823 558E 5B5B 5688

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REMINDER French Fedora Meeting Today 1830UTC #fedora-meeting
by Thomas Canniot 24 Jan '10

24 Jan '10

This mail is a reminder for today´s meeting for French ambassadors and _every_ interested people. 2010-01-24 / 18:30 UTC IRC: freenode #fedora-meeting Ce mail est un rappel pour la réunion des ambassadeurs francophones, qui aura lieu ce dimanche (24 jan.) à 20h30 heure de Paris sur IRC (freenode) #fedora-meeting . L'ordre du jour est disponible depuis cette page : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/FrenchTeam/Reunions N'hésitez pas à le modifier pour rajouter des sujets qui vous semblent intéressants. Merci de répondre à ce message en cas d'indisponibilité. Thomas Canniot

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Cerea fair reports
by Luca Foppiano 23 Jan '10

23 Jan '10

Hi all, we are back from Cerea Fair in italy. Impressive event and, let me say, completely full of people...nice experience, nice team :) . Here you can find more detailed reports: Alexjan Carraturo (it) http://axjslack.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/fiera-di-cerea-una-ottima-esperien… Lorenzo Villani (en) http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/lvillani/2010/01/20/cerea-fair-january-20… Luca Foppiano (en) http://blog.foppiano.org/2010/01/20/cerea-fair-report-jan-2010/ ...and here some photos: * Lorenzo Villani: http://share.ovi.com/album/lvillani.CereaFair2010 * Luca Foppiano: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lfoppiano/sets/72157623247389422/ Cheers Luca PS: @LarryCafiero, could you please add this news on the next Fedora Weekly News about ambassadors? Thanks :)

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[wrap up] Camp KDE 2010
by Ryan Rix 22 Jan '10

22 Jan '10

hello everyone, Hope everyone is doing well. :) Last weekend I had the chance to visit San Diego, California to attend Camp KDE, the largest KDE event in North America and an awesome chance to meet and connect with KDE developers. You can see my blag posts about it here: http://hackersramblings.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/campkde-day-1/ http://hackersramblings.wordpress.com/2010/01/16/camp-kde-day-1/ http://hackersramblings.wordpress.com/2010/01/17/camp-kde-day-1-seriously-i… is-this-time/ http://hackersramblings.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/camp-kde-day-2/ http://hackersramblings.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/camp-kde-day-3/ http://hackersramblings.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/things-i-learned-at-camp- kde-2010/ As the event was a little less of a general convention, and more of an ad-hoc developer meeting, we had no table or booth, and only the chance to talk with a bunch of KDE developers and users, and a bunch of people who were new to Free Software in general. As a result, the posts are a little less "hey here's what we did at the event" but the team building and hanging out that we did in the evening. There was a large KUbuntu and OpenSuSE presence at the event, so getting Fedora and the Fedora KDE SIG some much needed PR was a Good Thing, and I think we were pretty well received at the event. I did however take away a few things which I will go into details on below. Feel free to dissect the post. Media: I'm in possession of a KUbuntu 9.10 CD and an OpenSuSE 11.2 DVD. I've noticed a few things about each. The OpenSuSE DVD is a dual sided DVD with 32 bit packages on one side and 64 bit on another. This was the only image that they shipped, and the fact that it was dual sided was also interesting. I think that in the F13 or F14 time frame, we should look at using DVDs for the Ambassador media. Last I heard, the Desktop team was going to be producing 1gb live images, which wouldn't fit in a CD anyways. If we used a DVD for the primary images, we could ship more software, and have the ability to showcase other spins in the live media (whether it's as a separate squashfs on the image, or as a single image, with GDM having the ability to choose between GNOME, KDE, Moblin, XFCE, etc, even Sugar?) which would, imo, be a Big Win. The Dual Sided-ness is probably a little bit overkill, but still a cool thing to see. The KUbuntu CD(? may have been DVD, don't have it nearby) was packaged in a sleeve that had an extra flap that that primarily keeps the media from sliding out of the sleeve it is stored in. But what I think is even better is that, when you open it up, there is information on the inside, answering common questions... How can I use this CD as a live test? How can I install KUbuntu? What is KUbuntu? What is free software? How is this software available free of charge? etc. Something like this is easy to add to our media, and should be looked at, imo. As it is, if $person picks up a Fedora live image, it's fairly non-certain what they should do with the disk, how they should run it, etc, if they have never used a live media before. It's a little intimidating, I think. A few KDE developers and I spoke with a fellow at the place we stayed at for about a half hour about these sorts of things, and about Free Software in general, and it was a good discussion. However, in many cases, we will not have the chance to engage in such discussion with prospective users, and this can lead to unfortunate cases of users simply picking up the media and not knowing how to use it, or doing something even worse (picking up install media and using it thinking it's live because they don't know any better, or other such things the IRC support channels have seen) Fedora from a KDE developer's point of view: As a whole, the KDE development community represented at Camp KDE has become increasingly impressed with the Fedora distribution as a whole over the last few releases and the KDE SIG's work at creating a "well integrated" KDE distribution. A few were also impressed at the spins.fedoraproject.org redesign, so major props to the design team and everyone else involved in that redesign :) As far as I could tell, there were only one or two folks their running Fedora on their systems, but one of them was a past employee at Mandrive, so we can't be doing that badly ;) [cc'd the KDE SIG list as it has some impact on them too] Best to all, Ryan Rix -- Ryan Rix Fedora KDE SIG Member, Phoenix AZ Ambassador, News KDE Beat writer New Mail address: phrkonaleash(a)gmail.com -> ry(a)n.rix.si !! http://hackersramblings.wordpress.com | http://identi.ca/phrkonaleash XMPP: phrkonaleash(a)gmail.com | MSN: phrkonaleash(a)yahoo.com AIM: phrkonaleash | Yahoo: phrkonaleash IRC: rrix(a)irc.freenode.net/#srcedit,#plugaz,#fedora-kde and countless other FOSS channels.

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