ambassadors December 2016

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FAmSCo elections - December 2016/January 2017
by Jan Kurik 20 Dec '16

20 Dec '16

Greetings, FAmSCo elections are now open and we're looking for new candidates: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections For FAmSCo we have opened seven seats: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_nominations The Elections schedule is as follows: * December 13 - December 19: Nomination period open (closes promptly at 23:59 UTC on December 19th) * December 20 - January 09: Campaign period. Individual blog posts, etc. encouraged. We will also have an interview with answers published on the Fedora Community Blog. * January 10 - January 16: Voting open (closes promptly at 23:59 UTC on January 16th) * January 17: Results announcement Elections Questionnaire needs more questions for email/Community blog interviews! If you have anything you would like to ask candidates to FAmSCo, please add it to the wiki. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections/Questionnaire#FAmSCo Read more about the FAmSCo at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Ambassadors_Steering_Committee Thanks for your support, Jan -- Jan Kuřík Platform & Fedora Program Manager Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic

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Slides repository
by Germano Massullo 19 Dec '16

19 Dec '16

Hi everybody. In next weeks I will start doing in Rome @ Fusolab some talks about how to begin to contribute to Fedora. Before I start to create some slides, I would like to ask you if there is a repository containing the slides done by ambassadors for their talks. I wondered about a repository while I was looking at Flock 2016 talks list. Thank you and have a nice day

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Fedora 25 Release Party Beijing report
by Zamir Sun 19 Dec '16

19 Dec '16

Hi, We held Fedora 25 Release Party Beijing on Dec 10th, 2016. Here is my report. https://i-zsun.rhcloud.com/fedora-25-release-party-beijing-report/ -- Ziqian SUN (Zamir) zsun(a)fedoraproject.org GPG : 1D86 6D4A 49CE 4BBD 72CF FCF5 D856 6E11 F2A0 525E Want to know more about Fedora? Visit https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/

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Considering alternative reimbursement methods
by Giannis Konstantinidis 19 Dec '16

19 Dec '16

Dear Fedora Ambassadors, we all know the Fedora Project has an extremely diverse community. Our contributors come from different backgrounds. From time to time, regional communities sponsor contributors to travel either domestically or abroad to represent the project. The model being used is reimbursements, i.e. contributors need to pay for their expenses in advance and then await to receive their money back some time later. This is done for a variety of reasons. Reimbursements are processed exclusively via Paypal. First of all, I understand that not everyone feels comfortable with paying for their expenses in advance and then awaiting to be reimbursed a month and a half later. Secondly, Paypal does not work in all countries - which can be very difficult for some people to receive payments. Are you having any issues with Paypal in your country? If yes I would like to invite you to visit the following wiki page[0], describe the problem and suggest alternative solutions (If you have any in mind). Are you having any issues related to reimbursements? I encourage you to reach out to me and/or any other FAmSCo representative and report any problem, even anonymously. We appreciate your input. Thanks very much. -Giannis PS: As I recall, this topic has been discussed several times in the past. No specific action was taken, however. [0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Reimbursements/Issues -- Giannis Konstantinidis giannis(a)konstantinidis.cc http://konstantinidis.cc giannisk on irc.freenode.net

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Latam Amabassadors meeting 2016-12-17
by Neville A. Cross 17 Dec '16

17 Dec '16

End of the year, no pending tickets. Meeting was open with few atendees. Reminder of the Fedora release party badge was made, so people remember to send reports. If you want the full details, you can check out the minutes and logs. Minutes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-2/2016-12-17/la_tan.2016-1… Minutes (text): https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-2/2016-12-17/la_tan.2016-1… Log: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-2/2016-12-17/la_tan.2016-1… There will be no meetings for LATAM in the upcoming two weeks. See you at the next meeting on January 7th, 2017. Neville

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F25 Release Party Slides (+quiz)
by Nemanja Milosevic 15 Dec '16

15 Dec '16

Hey all, we just had our F25 Release Party in Novi Sad, Serbia. I would like to share my slides (in English) and the now traditional Fedora/Linux/FOSS quiz we have on our release parties (also English) :) Feel free to use them for your events. My presentation is somewhat based on giannisk latest template and my F24 release party presentation. Presentation (What is Fedora and what is new in Fedora 25) ODP: https://nmilosev.fedorapeople.org/f25rpns/f25rpns.odp PDF: https://nmilosev.fedorapeople.org/f25rpns/f25rpns.pdf Quiz (F25 Release Party Quiz) ODP: https://nmilosev.fedorapeople.org/f25rpns/f25rpns-quiz.odp PDF: https://nmilosev.fedorapeople.org/f25rpns/f25rpns-quiz.pdf The pictures from the event (if you are interested): http://imgur.com/a/iqdxZ https://www.facebook.com/pg/tildacenter/photos/?tab=album&album_id=19003647… Hope you are all well! Kind regards, Nemanja

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SeaGL event report
by Andrew Ward 14 Dec '16

14 Dec '16

All, Fedora recently attended Seattle GNU/Linux conference, SeaGL <http://seagl.org/news/2016/11/15/Thanks.html> you will find the report in the link below http://alg0rhythm.livejournal.com/11917.html -- V/R Andrew Ward award3535(a)fedoraproject.org award3535(a)tds.net award3535(a)gmail.com

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APAC Treasurer and Card Holder
by Brian Exelbierd 14 Dec '16

14 Dec '16

Hi, I was corresponding with Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail about the APAC budget. He has not answered emails in 2 months. Has someone else taken over budget duties for APAC? regards, bex

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Fedora at SeaGL
by Jeff Sandys 14 Dec '16

14 Dec '16

The Seattle GNU/Linux conference, SeaGL, intentionally attracts a variety of attendees, students from Seattle Central College, local Linux enthusiasts, curious neighbors, and programmers from big software companies, indies and start-ups. About 500 people attended the exhibits and talks on the two days. The exhibit area was closed for the keynotes so I saw Corey Quinn tell us the Art of Personal Failure and Allison Randal presented Free as in Freedom. Bill Wright received the Cascadia Community Builder Award for his efforts building LinuxFest NorthWest. With Laura Abbott and John Dulaney, we staffed a table featuring Fedora loves Python. We showed Pippy, the Python learning environment on the One Laptop Per Child, and a Raspberry PI 3 running Fedora 25 with beefy-connection, a Python Flask application created by Scott Williams. The RPI arrived the day before the conference, Fedora 25 was easy to install, John Dulaney got beefy-connection (a kiosk to connect with guests) running smoothly, then he installed Xonsh to show me a Python shell. We talked to guests about Python and Fedora, many were just learning Python and many were experienced users. I asked guests, ‘What IDE do you use?’ One guest, a web developer, said a multi-line editor (Sublime?) that we talked about. Then they had some technical questions. I’m thankful that Laura Abbott answered her questions and many others. I ran Jupyter with some of Peter Norvig’s notebooks open, like the Monty Hall probability simulation and Regex Golf problems. Peter Norvig is such an elegant programmer, his notebooks are fun to discuss. And the drawings for the Fedora Loves Python tee-shirts were popular. At Flock I gave a presentation, Spin Your Exhibit, and applied those ideas to the Fedora Loves Python theme. We showed tools for beginner, experienced, and specialized users by talking about IDEs. The OLPC always attracts guests and is a story of Python success. Swag included the Fedora Loves Python trifold, cool buttons and Tee-shirts. Specialized hardware was the Raspberry PI. But I didn’t have a hands on challenge. What sort of quick and easy Python challenge could you set up? I thought of a list comprehension quiz, what ideas do you have? Beefy-connection was hands on but not very challenging or memorable. This is the fourth year for SeaGL and it is growing. Exhibiting is great to make new friends and discuss new ideas. I met the organizer for Puppy (Puget Sound Programming Python) meet-up and will attend with some swag. Talked to Bill Wright about LinuxFest NorthWest (May 6 & 7, 2017), I want to add a QRcode reader to beefy-connection. The Free Software Foundation invited members to a Friday night meet up, our table discussed rights and freedom between web frameworks and tug boats. Thanks to Fedora for sponsoring this exhibit.

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FAmSCo elections
by Abdel Gadiel Martínez Lassonde 09 Dec '16

09 Dec '16

Greetings, This is Abdel Martinez (fas:potty), from FAmSCo. I see that FESCo and Council elections are open, but there are not elections for FAmSCo. On the latest FAmSCo meeting, we agreed to have a new round of elections. FOSCo is still not ready, but new FAmSCo is required. Is feasible to include FAmSCo elections on the same period as FESCo/Council? What should be the steps to follow here? Thank you in advance, Abdel

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