ambassadors January 2011

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Another subtle blow on Software Freedom?
by twohot 13 Jan '11

13 Jan '11

Today, In the spirit of a Fedora Ambassador, I convinced a neighbour to release her HP Compaq 615 so I install Fedora 14 for her. For first-timers, I usually go the dual-booting way. So, I booted it up using a live USB and started to check what's possible. What do I get? I find a scenario similar to the one I experienced 3weeks back: The machine came with a 320HDD fully partitioned off. system | Windows | recovery | Tools (boot) | (OS) | (installer) | hardware At first, the challenges are not apparent because I'm used to these partition labels, but what I have discovered recently is that their order have changed. The Recovery, Tools, and system partitions usually come first before the Windows Partition. Now, the OS is sandwiched in-between critical partitions effectively nullifying the creation of free space using partition shrinking. Anaconda cannot use free spaces on a drive that has all its "Standard Partitions" in use, and in the above scheme, Extended partitions are not possible -- not without loosing data. I thought about moving the partitions around and then I recall that some vendors have their BIOS set to access the Tools and Recovery Partitions. I am not sure whether the vendor software expect instructions at specific sectors on the drive, but I suspect so. If I'm right, then this looks like a subtle attempt to discourage dual-booting. On a machine that is mine, I wouldn't hesitate to backup (mirror) my partitions and wipe the hard-drive clean. However, this is appearing more on machines owned by wanna-be Linux users; people who still want a fall-back plan (Windows) when they get lazy to learn. These people don't have extra drives that can be used for drive mirroring ... they don't have recovery CDs (some hardware don't ship with those these days). Has any one been through this? How does an Ambassador deal with this? Regards Oku, Onyeibo ---- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:twohot

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Answer to "Flood in Brisbane" questions
by Caius 'kaio' Chance 12 Jan '11

12 Jan '11

Hi, I have received a few questions about "How is the flood in Brisbane?" from ambassadors who live overseas. I may answer it on the mailing list at once. 1. The flood is happening in some rural area (Rockhampton). It is more than 500 kms from Brisbane. [1] [2] 2. I live about 25 kms from CBD and there is no flood here at my house. 3. LCA and FAD will be held at City (almost CBD) so it will be fine even there are heavy storms. So I am not replying you guys with half my legs in water. There are frequent rains for sure. :) Regards, kaio [1] http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/01/06/3107208.htm?site=brisbane [2] http://www.abc.net.au/news/maps/map.htm?lat=-23.3782&long=150.5106&caption=… -- Regards ☺ Caius 'kaio' Chance Fedora Project Contributor - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kaio [IRC] kaio @ freenode | [Twitter] @K410 | [Blog] kaio.net

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REMINDER: EMEA Ambassador Meeting this Wednesday
by Christos Bacharakis 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

Ladies and gentlemen! Don't you remember there is an EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa) Ambassador meeting this Wednesday on #fedora-meeting ? Day : Wednesday, November 10th, 2010 Time : 20:00 UTC (check [1] to know your own time depending on your countries) NOTE ! Keep in mind the recent DST changes! Channel : #fedora-meeting Meeting agenda (add your topic before the meeting please) : [2] Update your agendas, and don't forget to join us :) Kind regards, Christos [1] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=12&month=01&year=2… [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:EMEA_Ambassadors_2011-01-12 -- Christos Bacharakis christos(a)bacharakis.com http://bacharakis.com cmpahar on Irc

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REMINDER: (CORRECT) EMEA Ambassador Meeting this Wednesday
by Christos Bacharakis 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

Ladies and gentlemen! Don't you remember there is an EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa) Ambassador meeting this Wednesday on #fedora-meeting ? Day : Wednesday, January 12th, 2011 Time : 20:00 UTC (check [1] to know your own time depending on your countries) NOTE ! Keep in mind the recent DST changes! Channel : #fedora-meeting Meeting agenda (add your topic before the meeting please) : [2] Update your agendas, and don't forget to join us :) Kind regards, Christos [1] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=12&month=01&year=2… [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:EMEA_Ambassadors_2011-01-12 -- Christos Bacharakis christos(a)bacharakis.com http://bacharakis.com cmpahar on Irc

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A friendly reminder that the APAC meeting will be on Saturday, January 15th 2011 at 04:00 UTC. :)
by David Ramsey 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

Hello Everyone, A friendly reminder that the APAC meeting will be on Saturday, January 15th 2011 at 04:00 UTC. :) ======================================= See the following URL to check and verify your own timing based on your location - http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2011&month=01&day… For any proposed changes to the draft agenda, then please update - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings/2011-01-15#Agenda ======================================== On Freenode IRC Channel : #fedora-meeting Help on IRC - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/IRCHowTo ======================================== I hope that you may be able to join us. :) Sending positive Fedora 14 and Fedora 15 energy your computer now. :v) Please have a great day and/or evening! :~) Take Care Sincerely =-=-=-=-= - David - =-=-=-=-= David Ramsey --------------------------------- 猿も木から落ちるさるもきからおちる Even monkeys fall from trees. Even experts make mistakes. --------------------------------- = Fedora Project's Japan & Maryland Ambassador dramsey(a)fedoraproject.org http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Dramsey * Three (3) dual core systems with 8.0 GB of RAM running the Fedora 14 (Laughlin) kernel - 2.6.35.10-76.fc14.x86_64 * One (1) dual core system with 8.0 GB of RAM running the Fedora 15 (Lovelock) kernel - 2.6.37-0.rc7.git0.2.fc15.x86_64 * Two (2) dual core systems with 3.0 GB of RAM running the Fedora 14 (Laughlin) kernel - 2.6.35.10-76.fc14.i686.PAE * One (1) dual core system with 3.0 GB of RAM running the Fedora 15 (Lovelock) kernel - 2.6.37-0.rc7.git0.2.fc15.i686 * One (1) dual core system with 3.0 GB of RAM running the Red Hat 6 (Beta) kernel - 2.6.32-19.el6.i686 With sixteen (16) x86_64 computing cores, 80 GB of RAM and eight SATA Seagate 7200.12 - 500 GB harddisks. =

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FOSDEM accommodation
by Bogomil "Bogo" Shopov (Fedora Project) 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

Hey folks, is anyone here still un-accommodated and wants to share a room/apartment/hostel with me? -- Bogomil "Bogo" Shopov Open(Web) Thinker and doer. http://talkweb.eu ++ Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. -- Nelson Mandela

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REMINDER French Fedora Meeting Today 1830UTC #fedora-meeting
by Mathieu Bridon 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

This mail is a reminder for today's meeting for the French speaking community. 2011-01-10 / 18:30 UTC IRC: freenode #fedora-meeting Ce mail est un rappel pour la réunion de la communauté francophone, qui aura lieu ce lundi (10 janvier) à 20h30 heure de Paris sur IRC (freenode) #fedora-meeting . L'ordre du jour est disponible depuis cette page : http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Réunions_hebdomadaires_de_la_French_team N'hésitez pas à le modifier pour rajouter des sujets qui vous semblent intéressants. Merci de répondre à ce message en cas d'indisponibilité.

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Meeting minutes FAmSCo 2010-1-8
by Pierros Papadeas 08 Jan '11

08 Jan '11

Hello all, Today FAmSCo had its meeting at #fedora-meeting We reviewed past action items and set new owners for them, also adding new items [1]. FAmSCo tasks [2] are updated accordingly. You can find the meeting minutes here [3] and logs here [4] In this meeting we mainly addressed the creation of Ambassadors SOPs (more to come on the list) and the reforming of FAQ page. Regards, Pierros Chair of FAmSCo [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_agenda [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_tasks [3] http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-01-08/famsco-meeting-2… [4] http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-01-08/famsco-meeting-2… -- Pierros Papadeas PGP key: 0x6130DBF8 http://pierros.papadeas.gr pierros(a)papadeas.gr liknus @ GRnet , Freenode

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Fedora Ambassadors Welcome
by Joerg Simon 08 Jan '11

08 Jan '11

Dear Ambassadors, the Fedora Project welcomes our new sponsored Ambassador Group Member: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kalpurush from Bangladesh mentored by Caius 'kaio' Chance Regards Joerg p.s. Please do not send private "Welcome" Messages to Ambassador List - if you find from the wiki that this new ambassador lives near you, welcome them offlist. -- 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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Re: [Ambassadors] [FZH] Harish Pillay 將蒞臨北京，期望與 Fedora 社區會面。
by Gerard Braad 08 Jan '11

08 Jan '11

2011/1/1 Caius 'kaio' Chance <kaio(a)fedoraproject.org>: > I got this new from apac meeting instead. When is the following meeting for APAC? I thought these took place on Sundays. 2011/1/1 Caius 'kaio' Chance <kaio(a)fedoraproject.org>: > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:HarishPillay >From this page: > a) To meet with Fedora Ambassadors in APAC at least once a month (online and in meat space); and FAmSCO. Agree to this very much. Some regions need additional support, like Korea and China. > b) To help set up and run POSSEs in APAC - also find ways to scale POSSE I have some contacts in Renmin University, but any idea about this will be helpful. Especially if you are a student in a university, please get in touch. Gerard -- Gerard Braad -- 吉拉德 Project-lead Fedora-MIPS Regional Mentor for APAC/China, Member of FAmSCo http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:gbraad

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