ambassadors May 2010

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FOSSCon (Rochester, NY, USA 2010-06-19) looking for event owners
by Mel Chua 03 May '10

03 May '10

The FOSSCon folks have asked if Fedora can come and do a table at their event, http://fosscon.org, in Rochester NY (on the RIT campus) on June 19th, which is a Saturday. The table for Fedora would be free, and all tables come with 2 tickets (usually $30 each) for those responsible for said table. I'll be there and would be more than happy to take a shift (and help haul swag from Boston - I'm driving over and back), but can't be the event owner because I'll have a bunch of profs from http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_RIT to gear up for a panel in the afternoon. Halp? Interest from anyone stepping up to do https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/Organization? --Mel

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Re: [Ambassadors] couple of questions
by Ben Williams 03 May '10

03 May '10

"I got started with Fedora, and I would love to become an ambassador. I completely understand the process of becoming an ambassador, so around 6 months ago or so I attempted to start the process by getting a mentor. I was very upset in that I found it impossible to find one. I could understand that if I was new and excited about Linux I might be underqualified and trying to get involved in everything before understanding the work involved, and therefore no mentors would want to mentor me, however I feel I have made a clear contribution to both Ubuntu and Fedora among others, and have for over a year. I'm not saying, either, that I would make the cut and become an ambassador, but I wish it was easier to find a mentor so I could start the process. With all of this being said, I can sum it up in one request: I would like to become an ambassador for the Fedora linux distribution. If anyone would be willing to mentor me, I would very much appreciate it.:-) Thanks, guys, for everything that you do. Bryan" As a Mentor for North America I will gladly mentor you please see the following urls: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Joining_Ambassadors now i had several people contact me about being a mentor then I would email and I would never hear from them again please contact me through the email on the mentor page. <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Siddhesh> -- Ben Williams Windows-Linux Specialist 460 McBryde Hall Blacksburg VA 24061-0123 540 231-2739

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REMINDER: Upcoming NA meeting 5/5/2010
by Scott McBrien 03 May '10

03 May '10

Hi everyone, just a friendly reminder about tomorrow's NA Ambassador meeting. Sorry, I was a bad moderator and didn't update the wiki until tonight, so please add any agenda items on the wiki: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Ambassadors_2010-5-05 See you tomorrow evening! -Scott

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EMEA F13 media order revisited
by Christoph Wickert 03 May '10

03 May '10

Hello world, in the last meeting the EMEA ambassadors decided to order 6000 F13 media: 2000 GNOME live i686 2000 Install DVD i386 2000 Install DVD x86_64 I just talked to Jörg and it seems that this *way is too much, even with Africa who might need more media as there only is slow internet. Jörg just told me that last year we had 880 media each live and install, this means 1760 in total. Suggestion: 1500 GNOME Live i686 1000 DVDs i386 1000 DVDx x86_64 ---- 3500 media, already twice as much as last year! Enough even if we give a large amount to Africa. According to the numbers Sascha gave us in the last meeting this should be around 3200 US $ I guess. Of course the value for money is not as good as on the big order but I doubt we really can spend all the media throughout the F13 cycle and if we order less, we still have money for the spins. 1000 KDE Live i686 500 LXDE Live i686 500 Xfce Live i686 ---- 2000 Spin media, should be enough and hopefully affordable within the current budget. What do you people think of these numbers? Do they sound reasonable? I asked Sascha to get mire quotes for different numbers (500, 1000, 1500) from the media company and I think we need to revisit this topic in the next EMEA ambassadors meeting because we should not waste our money for media we will never be able to spend. If we spend so much money, we should at least spend it on more variety. Regards, Christoph

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Meeting Minutes FAmSCo Meeting 2010-05-03
by Joerg Simon 03 May '10

03 May '10

Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-05-03/fedora-meeting… Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-05-03/fedora-meeting… Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-05-03/fedora-meeting… -- 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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FLISoL Venezuela 2010
by María Leandro 03 May '10

03 May '10

Hello to all. Past April, 24 we held in 14 Venezuelan cities the "Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre - FLISoL Venezuela 2010", this event is held in all latinamerica the same day for the past 5 years and has become one of the most important events in our region, because joins all the countries in a single party for software freedom spread. In Venezuela, I was on the national organization helping not only Caracas (city that I organize) but also the 14 cities who join to this party. Thanks to FAmSCo help we could buy new banners (onethat I will keep for 7 events that I have in the next 3 months) and the other will be given to the rest of the Venezuela community to help them to spread Fedora. Also we where able to buy badges, stickers (vinyl) and dvd to gift Fedora isos. Was great to see people thankfull receiving this gestures. In Caracas, we had a Fedora team with 4 new members, who where really the soul of the Fedora booth. This girlsand guys make everyone wear a Fedora tattoo and spread that Fedora is a community of profetionals and friends. Also, they give some demostrations of how to play and use Fedora in a regular environment, showing the attenders that Fedora is a true option to change their OS. Caracas had an estimated attendance of +2000 (2283) and if we add the rest of the cities, the number goes up to 5000. We also had +60 new users who walk out using fedora, so I guess was our best flisol. Here you can find the flisol official photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kamihacker/sets/72157623932324984/ and a special group of fedora latam people working at flisol: http://www.flickr.com/groups/fedora-latam/pool/ Thank you so much to the people who encourage us and helps us to make of this, our best event ever. Thank you. -- tatica Maria Gracia Leandro http://www.tatica.org http://www.fedora-ve.org http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MariaLeandro LinuxUser= 440285 GPG Public Key: E1CDCC56 "Be yourself... Don't be anyone else"

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RedHat EMEA Partner Summit
by Zied Fakhfakh 03 May '10

03 May '10

Hi, anybody attending the RH EMEA summit in Valencia ? would be a pleasure to meet you, Zied. -- Zied FAKHFAKH Dot TN - CTO @: fzied(a)dottn.com t: +216 71 82 89 58 f: +216 71 82 89 58 w: http://www.dottn.com a: Centre Molka, Esc E, Bur 17 - Manar 2 - 2092 - Tunis - Tunisia

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Re: [Ambassadors] Questions asked at event booths
by Ben Williams 03 May '10

03 May '10

Looks like the page is coming along fine IMHO yes we can mention rpmfusion but make sure you give the spill on why things like codecs etc are not in fedora, if in doubt send them to fedorasolved.org -- Ben Williams Windows-Linux Specialist 460 McBryde Hall Blacksburg VA 24061-0123 540 231-2739

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REMINDER French Fedora Meeting Today 1830UTC #fedora-meeting
by Thomas Canniot 03 May '10

03 May '10

This mail is a reminder for today´s meeting for French ambassadors and _every_ interested people. 2010-05-03 / 18:30 UTC IRC: freenode #fedora-meeting Ce mail est un rappel pour la réunion des ambassadeurs francophones, qui aura lieu ce dimanche (03 mai) 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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Ambassadors Cert Exam?
by Jeff Sandys 01 May '10

01 May '10

Should we have an Ambassadors Certification Examination? I enjoyed working the fedora table at LinuxFest NorthWest. Because I am familiar with many of the packages available in fedora I was able to point out special applications that would meet user's needs. When a user asked about ATI graphics issues I replied I couldn't answer. But when a user carrying an imac (comparing it to colorful OLPCs) asked if we had a powerPC version, I answered incorrectly, saying no. It would be useful to have a quiz or list of frequent and infrequent questions so that we could be better ambassadors. I don't think the quiz should be mandatory for being an ambassador, just using the subject line to create a dialog. Thanks, Jeff Sandys

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