EMEA ambassadors meeting 2011-09-07 minutes
by Christoph Wickert
We had quite a lot of people attending this week's meeting, so it took a
little longer than usual but was quite productive and we have a lot of
action items that need to be done until we meet again.
Thanks everybody for joining us!
Minutes:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-09-07/emea_ambassado...
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http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-09-07/emea_ambassado...
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Meet you again on
Wednesday, September 21st (two weeks from now)
at 20:00 UTC
in #fedora-meeting!
Regards,
Christoph
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Meeting summary
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* role call (cwickert, 20:05:25)
* LINK:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:EMEA_Ambassadors_2011-08-24
(cwickert, 20:08:59)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/IRCHowTo#Protocol
(cwickert, 20:09:48)
* Announcements (cwickert, 20:09:53)
* Status of the F16 media shipping (cwickert, 20:11:28)
* so if you need media, there is only a few left, file a ticket ASAP
(cwickert, 20:12:51)
* if you received media, please make sure it is in the inventory in
the swag tracker (cwickert, 20:13:11)
* Ambassadors Schedule (cwickert, 20:22:01)
* ACTION: sesivany to find out who did the RH USB keys (cwickert,
20:41:25)
* ACTION: cwickert to prepare quotes for F16 media until next week
(cwickert, 20:41:37)
* ACTION: cwickert to file a ticket for media budget (cwickert,
20:44:43)
* we will discuss the F16 media order in two weeks from now. please
join us in the 2011-09-21 meeting (cwickert, 20:45:22)
* ACTION: arthurbuliva to figure out if media can be produced in
Africa cheaper (cwickert, 20:54:19)
* if you file a ticket for media shipping, please help us by looking
for the customs regulations of your country and provide the info in
the ticket (cwickert, 20:55:25)
* if you want other swag produced, please make suggestions ASAP so we
can file budget requests (cwickert, 20:56:44)
* ACTION: rbergeron to adjust the Ambassadors schedule: "Regional Team
Meetings and Select POC for Swag/Media production" and "Regional
Teams Submit Funding Request For Swag/Media Production" are too
scheduled tight. Extent to at least two weeks please (cwickert,
20:59:42)
* Events (cwickert, 21:00:15)
* ACTION: dbouida to add the Algerian SFT to the wiki (cwickert,
21:04:55)
* if you need a room for FUDCon Milan, please contact jsmith ASAP
because the hotels are filling up fast (cwickert, 21:11:07)
* FUDCon attendees who have travel subsidies already have a room
reserved (cwickert, 21:12:37)
* Those who don't either need to contact me or find a room on their
own (cwickert, 21:12:50)
* If the UNA Hotel Mediterraneo is full, the secondary hotel will be
the Hotel Perugino (cwickert, 21:12:56)
* LINK:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmzMMPA67hiGdEhZWUxRa2lfbFd2...
(cwickert, 21:14:03)
* ACTION: Affix to add his FAD at Forth Valley College in Falkirk to
the wiki (cwickert, 21:14:45)
* Action items from previous meetings (cwickert, 21:22:25)
* Open Floor (cwickert, 21:23:22)
* ACTION: gnokii to help sesivany with the artwork for LinuxCon
(cwickert, 21:27:41)
Meeting ended at 21:36:02 UTC.
Action Items
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* sesivany to find out who did the RH USB keys
* cwickert to prepare quotes for F16 media until next week
* cwickert to file a ticket for media budget
* arthurbuliva to figure out if media can be produced in Africa cheaper
* rbergeron to adjust the Ambassadors schedule: "Regional Team Meetings
and Select POC for Swag/Media production" and "Regional Teams Submit
Funding Request For Swag/Media Production" are too scheduled tight.
Extent to at least two weeks please
* dbouida to add the Algerian SFT to the wiki
* Affix to add his FAD at Forth Valley College in Falkirk to the wiki
* gnokii to help sesivany with the artwork for LinuxCon
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* Affix
* Affix to add his FAD at Forth Valley College in Falkirk to the wiki
* arthurbuliva
* arthurbuliva to figure out if media can be produced in Africa
cheaper
* cwickert
* cwickert to prepare quotes for F16 media until next week
* cwickert to file a ticket for media budget
* dbouida
* dbouida to add the Algerian SFT to the wiki
* gnokii
* gnokii to help sesivany with the artwork for LinuxCon
* rbergeron
* rbergeron to adjust the Ambassadors schedule: "Regional Team
Meetings and Select POC for Swag/Media production" and "Regional
Teams Submit Funding Request For Swag/Media Production" are too
scheduled tight. Extent to at least two weeks please
* sesivany
* sesivany to find out who did the RH USB keys
* gnokii to help sesivany with the artwork for LinuxCon
* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)
People Present (lines said)
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* cwickert (209)
* sesivany (39)
* jsmith (28)
* arthurbuliva (26)
* Affix (18)
* zodbot (16)
* rbergeron (14)
* kanarip (12)
* dbouida (10)
* gentt (9)
* gnokii (6)
* igorps (3)
* ardian (1)
* shaiton (1)
12 years, 7 months
Review about the FrOSCon 2011 in Sankt Augustin, Germany
by Robert Scheck
Hello folks,
I finally managed it to write and complete this review about the FrOSCon
2011 (Free and Open Source Software Conference) in Sankt Augustin, Germany.
The event itself took place at building for computer science and business
administration of the Bonn-Rhine-Sieg University of Applied Sciences.
At the 19th August, I started my trip at home - unfortunately at afternoon
of a Friday. Somehow everbody who can't drive acceptably seems to be on the
highways at that time. I run into three traffic jams, where one of them was
a full closure and so I needed about 5.5 hours for only 350 km; a distance
that should be ridable normally in 3 hours. However, I arrived at 8:30 pm
at the university and we quickly built up the booth, because I carried all
the banners, rollups and of course the EMEA event box with the table cloth.
Afterwards we were looking for dinner and Andreas mentioned that he would
prefer to go to the nearby city Bonn (capital of West Germany between 1949
and 1990) rather just staying in Sankt Augustin where our hotel was. One of
the regional XFCE guys recommended Roha Café, an Ethiopian restaurant. On
the way to the restaurant, Andreas got a call and decided to stay with his
colleagues instead with us. We nevertheless had a nice evening, especially
with the Ethiopian food, which might have been a bit strange to one or the
other of our Fedora people. Similar like at a real Indian restaurant, we
grabbed our food using pieces of injera (a special kind of flatbread) from
a plate and wrapped it around - no flatware involved at all, just our right
hand and the injera. And of course we made a beginner's mistake, we ate to
much of the injera while grabbing too less of the "real" food, the socalled
wots. This likely was the reason that we didn't manage it with nine people
to get rid of our three ordered plates...fortunately it was not expensive.
The next day started early, because the FrOSCon decided to open its doors
for visitors at 8:15 am - on a Saturday! Don't know if they really realized
that it's a community event with geeks and nerds rather business people. We
made our Fedora booth ready for the visitors and then did our job: Answered
questions, helped at problems and received really a lot of "GNOME 3 sucks"
feedback. That's why I also went to the GNOME booth and talked with them
about my specific GNOME 3 problems and why it got unusable for me. Some of
the issues (e.g. missing task bar/pane) will be available with GNOME 3.1 or
3.2 as an extension. The overall answer to my raised issues was: You don't
need that, we know that you don't need it and that is why it was removed...
They even asked if we could send Fedora users complaining about GNOME 3 to
them, they maybe had live to rue it. One of the "really sucks" features of
GNOME 3 is that you can't disable the screensaver/blanking without GConf or
similar. Explicitly asking for that, I was told that the movie player/the
application used for presenting needs to disable the screensaver itself -
but what if we just want to show a Fedora with opened applications etc.? I
didn't get a good answer. For the time being, I just +1 the opinion of our
lovely Linus Torvalds regarding GNOME 3.
In the evening after the doors of the FrOSCon officially were closed, the
social event took place in the inner courtyard: Barbecue. It was very nice,
if there wouldn't have been the endless long queues for getting sausage or
especially meat. Maybe the organisation team implements threading or some
kind of parallelisation for the next year? :)
Closed to midnight, some of us decided to leave the social event to get a
nightcap in a bar next to the hotel. Keep in mind, that I didn't drink any
alcohol at the social event, because I was going by car. With the time we
fooled around and somehow came via the card, which mentioned "wheat beer
with juice", to beer-based mixed drinks. I'm pretty sure, some of you know
banana wheat beer (German: Bananenweizen), which is actually banana juice
and wheat beer. But we thought about tomato juice. Yes, tomato juice.
I think it was around 1:30 am, when I finally decided that I would drink a
tomato wheat beer (German: Tomatenweizen), because all others just talked
about it but were not brave enough. When we ordered it, we got a wheat beer
and a small bottle of tomato juice, so somebody else got a half beer and I
filled up the half-empty beer with tomato juice. I stired it and drank it.
It tastes a bit strange, because the beer isn't bitter as well. And I might
should have flavoured the tomato juice before a bit with salt and pepper. A
tomato wheat beer does not taste that strange as it sounds. As I am not a
fan of green cabbage/borecole and to give a comparision: The beer mix still
tasted better to me. Thanks to Sven for paying this funny try :)
The next morning, Sunday, started very early again - surprise, I survived
the tomato wheat beer - because FrOSCon opens the doors at 9:00 am for the
visitors. I helped to get the booth ready and built up some more stand-up
banners on the floor to ensure that the visitors will find our Fedora room
where the Fedora Activity Day takes place starting at 10:00 am.
The first talk, "Fedora Home Server", was held by Benedikt Schäfer who is
one of our newer and younger ambassadors. He described how he set up his
home server in the areas network, DHCP and masquerading, samba with shares
and printers, media server using ushare and proxy with squid. After the
presentation itself, we even got a live demonstration of some points with
the help of Christoph.
I started my talk "Introduction into SELinux" at 11:15 am and surprisingly
there were a lot of attendees and thus not many empty seats were left in
the room. Even the topic is quite complex, there were interesting questions
where I got the feedback that at least some people understood what I talked
about.
Afterwards, Andreas Thienemann gave a talk about Func. I never investigated
into the Fedora unified network controller before, thus it was interesting
to me. Andreas also did some live demonstrations using the server farm of
his employer booking.com. Of course the servers were taken out of the load
balancer setup before he stopped the httpd service ;-)
After the lunch break, Christoph Wickert gave two talks, "Remix Fedora" and
"RPM Packaging". The last of the two talks was enhanced to avoid content
overlaps with the same named talk by Mageia in the regular FrOSCon program.
Even we were a couple of people, we could improve our booth attendance for
the next time, because Sven Lankes did booth service for more than 6 hours
at Sunday - thank you very much for your work!
By the way...Sirko Kemter, one of our newer ambassadors gave a FrogLabs
workshops where he introduced kids and teenagers (and grown-ups as well)
into Inscape and its possibilities. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to attend
his workshop because it overlaped with my own talk.
In the evening, I travelled back and this time it took around 3 hours as I
had fortunately no traffic jams.
I can't do any comparisons with past FrOSCon events as it was my first time
at FrOSCon. But I still think, we got a slightly sub-optimal booth place as
you can see at some of the pictures in my gallery:
http://robert.fedorapeople.org/events/2011/froscon/
My plan for the future is to integrate my event reviews into the gallery
and add RSS feed support for Fedora Planet. But due to lack of time at the
moment, this has to be delayed for now.
Finally, it was a successful event from my point of view. Christoph, thank
you very much for your time, efforts and your patience! :)
Greetings,
Robert
12 years, 7 months
A very quick event report Festival of Cergy's associations 2011
by Kaesar ALNIJRES
This is a quick report about the Festival of
Cergy's associations.
I am really tired after this event, but wanted to
deliver some hot news.
Every year there are a lot of organizations that
participate in this event, about 300. All sort of
organizations (non-profit), education, sport,
universities, associations for young people,
retired, or for children. All booths are in a big
parc, each in a separate tent.This Saturday the
sun was chinning and it was a little bit hot, an
ideal situation to have the maximum of visitors. I
have announced my association's booth, Fedora User
Group Cergy, and Fedora 15 DVS, in many local
medias, some weeks ago.
I arrived there at about 9.30 am, we were two
persons. A big surprise were there, there were 3
visitors waiting for their Fedora Live DVD.
We began at once to prepare the booth for the
event. We had a Fedora poster, some banners,
Fedora's live DVDs, some decorations and gift
(T-Shirts, Caps, mugs, stylos, goodies, ...).
There were a lot of people interested by Fedora.
Many of them had read about Fedora 15, and wanted
to test it. Most of them are students, some
discovered Fedora for the first time. Some Linux
users were there just to have a little talk, about
Fedora and Linux
There were a lot of Windows users, they think that
Linux installation is difficult for them. After a
little discussion about how easy is to install
Fedora, and the possibility to discover Fedora
without any prior installation using the live DVD,
these people were interested in trying Fedora.
Many Windows users think that using Fedora or
generally Linux is easy, the most difficult for
them is to install it, especially without losing
their data.
There were also some of other Linux distributions
users, they read about Fedora 15 on the Web, or in
magazines, and are also very interested in trying
Fedora 15.
I also visited some other booths to promote Fedora
I think that globally this event was really
positive, with many interesting contacts. I
distributed about 100 Fedora's DVD. A local radio
will invite me to talk about Fedora and Fedora
User Group of Cergy. I met at least 150 persons,
most of the time in groups, in other booths. I
have contact with two universities, here in Cergy
for an install party, next year.
The Mayor of Cergy (60.000 habitation) visited the
booth and was happy to have a Linux User Group in
his town.
At last, but not the least, i have now 10 users
for Fedora User Group of Cergy.
One last note, there were a question like "why do
you promote Fedora? Do work for Red Hat?". The
answer off course was that I'm a Fedora
Ambassador, and that i'm proud to promote it :)
PS. I'll put some photos on my web site, very
soon, maybe tomorrow.
12 years, 7 months
