Fedora 14 Release Event at Managua, Nicaragua
by Neville A. Cross
I am dead tired and my head is trying to process all things that this
day has brought. I will make a beautiful and complete report.
By now I wanted to share some quick random data about the event.
At some point I make a head count and we have 50 people in the hall,
not sure how many people were crowding the OLPC stand and the Fedora
stand in the lobby in front of the conference hall. Later there was
more people coming, but I did not have time to do another head count.
I have to look what the registries said.
We distributed 5 KDE LiveCD, 11 Gnome LiveCD and 27 Install DVD. There
was a lot of leaflets, but ony were distributed 19. Stickers were
about 25 case badges (paper, not shiny) and 50 Fedora Bubbles. 18
T-shirts were distributed.
We have people from three different entities talking about their
experiences using Fedora: one web developer firm, one NGO and one
foundation. The foundation is the one carrying the most successful
OLPC implementations in Nicaragua.
Besides talking about experiences with Fedora we got one talk about
what is fedora, one about what is new in fedora 14, using YUM, and one
about post-install. What was most dazzling was one person showing XBMC
running in Fedora.
I want to say that was a charming chaotic event. We have some problems
during the event, but we have new people at the mike talking about
Fedora. I was told that one girl throw up before the event as she was
nervous, but then she gathered courage and stand in front of the crowd
to make her presentation. I also very happy that three talks were
given by girls. We got some lessons learned the hard way, but not to
bad to make look bad the event.
The final point is that for Managua, release party is not over yet...
we have another smaller event this saturday !!
Best regards!
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Neville
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Yn1v
Linux User # 473217
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13 years, 4 months
Ambassador Wear - APAC focused
by Buddhike Kurera
Hi,
APAC ambassadors have decided to prepare an official wear to represent events.
Type : Polo Tshirt with collar
Color : Related with Fedora blue
I handle this project and I am seeking proposals towards the idea.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Bckurera/APAC-shirts
Please refer to the wiki, and give some love too.
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Regards,
Buddhike Chandradeepa Kurera
The Editor in Chief - FOSS User Magazine
Fedora Ambassador - Sri Lanka
13 years, 4 months
Fedora Board, FESCo & FAmSCo Elections - Voting Information
by Robyn Bergeron
Greetings,
The elections for the Fedora Board, Fedora Engineering Steering
Committee (FESCo), and the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee
(FAmSCo) began at 0000 UTC on 20th November 2010, and are scheduled to
run until 23:59 UTC on 28th November 2010. (Please refer to a UTC
time zone converter, such as
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html if you are unsure
of your time zone's relation to UTC.)
All groups have chosen to use the Range Voting method
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_voting).
Ballots may be cast on the Fedora Elections System at
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting. If this is the first time
you've used the voting system, please refer to the Fedora Elections
Guide, currently located at
http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/documents/elections-guide.
To read more about the candidates, please refer to each group's
nomination pages:
* FAmSCo: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_election_2010_nominations
* Fedora Project Board:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Elections/Nominations
* FESCo: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations
For more general information about the election, as well as finding
links for reading candidate answers to questionnaires and IRC town
hall transcripts, please refer to
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections.
Please remember to cast your vote!
Thanks,
Robyn
13 years, 5 months
Issue raised at 2nd FAmSCo townhall
by Larry Cafiero
Hello, all --
I was unable to attend the second FAmSCo town hall -- to be honest, it was
at 2 a.m. my time and I fell asleep before it started -- and while I don't
have any specific disagreements with any of the other candidates'
statements, I do have a significant problem with this one:
11:25:08 <kaio> 2. I would rephrase that into "Upgrade the ambassadors
to superambassadors." - multi-functional ambassadors
who specialize also in something they prefer: Development, Design,
Documentation, Infrastructure, Testing, Marketing,
Release, etc. I expect superambassadors are keen to share their
knowledge and experiences via presentations and
discussions in meet-ups.
I am not sure what this suggestion means. Does it mean making a higher
"level" of ambassador membership? Taking this back to front, don't
ambassadors already "share their knowledge and experience via presentations
and discussions in meet-ups"? My understanding is that many Ambassadors wear
several hats in the Fedora Project (no pun intended -- no, really) -- and
while we all contribute to the Ambassador program at our own level, it's
expected thatt $AMBASSADOR_A who knows x, y, z is already imparting that
knowledge at presentations, etc., s/he is doing.
In other words, the multifunction aspect here is already in place and should
be a part of an individual Ambassador's toolkit when s/he advocates for FOSS
in general and Fedora in particular.
Again, if this is a suggestion to make a different, possibly higher, tier of
ambassador, I am completely against it.
We are already trying to dispel a myth that the mentors in FAmSCo hold some
sort of special "rank and privilege" within the organizational structure of
FAmSCo. The last thing we need is to add fuel to this inequality "fire" by
adding ranks where none should exist.
Larry Cafiero
13 years, 5 months
