Fedora 24 Beta Release Readiness Meeting, Thursday, April 28 19:00 UTC
by Jan Kurik
Join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting for the Fedora 24 Beta
Release Readiness Meeting meeting.
The meeting is going to be held on Thursday, April 28, 2016 19:00 UTC.
Please check the [FedoCal] link for your time zone.
We will meet to make sure we are coordinated and ready for the Beta
release of Fedora 24 on Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016. Please note that this
meeting is going to be held even if the release is delayed at the
Go/No-Go meeting on the same day two hours earlier.
You may received this message several times, but this meeting is open
to all teams and I'll also hope this will raise awareness and more
team representatives will come to this meeting. This meeting works
best when we have representatives from all of the teams.
More information available at [RRM] link.
[FedoCal] https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/meeting/3878/
[RRM] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Readiness_Meetings
Thank you for your support and Regards, Jan
--
Jan Kuřík
Platform & Fedora Program Manager
Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic
8 years, 2 months
Fwd: The 2016 NASA Space Apps Challenge is This Weekend!
by Justin W. Flory
Hi all,
Coming up this weekend, the 2016 NASA Space Apps Challenge is happening.
It has events all across the world, but I will be attending as an
Ambassador over the weekend at the Rochester Institute of Technology in
Western New York.
If you are local to the area or think you could spare the time / travel
money, you're welcome to attend. The event will have around 40-60 people
there. Fedora-specific information is on the wiki. General event details
are below in this email.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RIT_NASA_Space_Apps/2016
-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: The 2016 NASA Space Apps Challenge is This Weekend!
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 15:05:14 +0000
From: Daniel Schneiderman <dan(a)magic.rit.edu>
Hey all,
The 2016 NASA Space Apps Challenge is this weekend! We’re looking
forward to seeing the out of this world solutions everyone comes up
with. Here is are some general tips for this upcoming weekend:
*Location and Schedule:*
The 2016 Space Apps Challenge will be taking place in Student Innovation
Hall (https://maps.rit.edu/) at RIT. We recommend parking in parking lot S.
Check-in will be starting at 9am, opening remarks will be kicking off at
9:45am, and working on projects will continue through Midnight on
Saturday. Sunday will start back up at 9am and presentations will take
place at 5pm. We will be giving out awards at 7:30 that evening. Lunch
and dinner will be provided on both days to all participants.
A detailed schedule can be found at:
https://2016.spaceappschallenge.org/locations/rochester-ny-usa.
*Challenges:*
This year there are 25 challenges spread across six different themes:
Earth, Space Station, Solar System, Technology, Aeronautics, and Journey
to Mars. Within these themes the challenges are broken out by difficulty
and range from easy to advanced. We recommend that you start exploring
this year's challenges and brainstorm ideas for this weekend at:
https://2016.spaceappschallenge.org/challenges.
*Social Media:*
When posting about the NASA Space Apps Challenge this weekend, we
recommend using including the twitter accounts:
@spaceapps <https://twitter.com/spaceapps>
@RITMAGIC <https://twitter.com/RITMAGIC>
@ATT <https://twitter.com/ATT>
and the following hashtags: #spaceapps, #spaceappsROC, #at&t.
Be sure to check out NASA Space Apps Challenge website for the challenge
specific hashtags.
*Other:*
If anyone requires interpreting services, you can request services at:
https://myaccess.rit.edu/2/
Additionally, if you have any dietary concerns, or have any general
questions about the Space Apps Challenge, feel free to send me an email
at anytime at: dan(a)magic.rit.edu <mailto:dan@magic.rit.edu>.
Blasting Off,
Dan Schneiderman
FOSS@MAGIC Research Associate and Community Liaison
585-478-6898
magic.rit.edu
8 years, 2 months
Marketing Weekly Meeting Recap 2016-04-20
by Justin W. Flory
Hi all, these are the minutes from the most recent Marketing meeting
today. I'm circulating the minutes and logs out to a few more lists than
usual to help boost awareness for some of the discussions happening in
the Marketing team right now.
Discussion always welcome on marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org!
===
Meeting ended Wed Apr 20 23:01:08 2016 UTC.
Minutes:
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2016-04-20/marketing.2...
Minutes (text):
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2016-04-20/marketing.2...
Log:
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2016-04-20/marketing.2...
* * * * *
========================================================
#fedora-meeting-1: Fedora Marketing meeting (2016-04-20)
========================================================
Meeting started by jflory7 at 20:55:26 UTC. The full logs are available
at
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2016-04-20/marketing.2...
.
Meeting summary
---------------
* Roll Call (jflory7, 20:55:40)
* Name; Timezone; Other sub-projects / interest areas (jflory7,
20:55:48)
* Justin W. Flory; UTC-4; Marketing / Magazine, CommOps, Ambassadors,
Join, and more (jflory7, 20:56:08)
* decause; UTC-4; CommOps, Council, * (decause, 20:57:00)
* Corey Sheldon UTC-5 |US/EDT,
Commops,mktg.Join,Docs,Security,Ambassadors * (linuxmodder,
21:00:14)
* Brian Proffitt UTC-4, Social Media, content (bkp, 21:00:52)
* plugged in -server mtg yesterday for release notes additions as
well as for security / sysadmin guides (linuxmodder, 21:01:14)
* Announcements (jflory7, 21:04:53)
* === "Photography with the Fedora Design Suite" === (jflory7,
21:05:03)
* LINK: https://fedoramagazine.org/photography-fedora-design-suite/
(jflory7, 21:05:04)
* YouTuber Riley Brandt did a review of the Fedora Design Suite and
its applications towards photography. It's a great overview of the
Design Suite. Feel free to share the article or video among your own
circles! (jflory7, 21:05:09)
* LINK: https://youtu.be/mEYiafBl01s (jflory7, 21:05:13)
* === "BrickHack 2016 and Fedora: Event Report" === (jflory7,
21:05:19)
* LINK:
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/brickhack-2016-event-report/
(jflory7, 21:05:25)
* The full event report for BrickHack 2016 was published last week. It
looks at what happened at BrickHack 2016 and tries to evaluate our
impact at the event. (jflory7, 21:05:29)
* === "Time to test Fedora 24 internationalization" === (jflory7,
21:05:35)
* LINK:
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/time-test-fedora-24-international...
(jflory7, 21:05:46)
* The F24 Internationalization (I18n) test day recently came to a
close. You can read more about what it aimed to accomplish on the
Community Blog. (jflory7, 21:05:53)
* === "Live Media Writer Test Day (2016-04-19)" === (jflory7,
21:06:06)
* LINK:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@lists.fedoraproject.or...
(jflory7, 21:06:07)
* LINK:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2016-04-19_Fedora_Media_Writer
(jflory7, 21:06:12)
* The Fedora Media Writer (formerly known as Live USB Creator) was
recently rewritten and was tested for default inclusion in F24
yesterday. (jflory7, 21:06:24)
* === Bitcamp Spring 2016 event reports available for reading ===
(jflory7, 21:07:00)
* LINK:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bitcamp_Spring_2016#Event_Report
(jflory7, 21:07:06)
* LINK: linuxmodder's report on his blog
https://linuxmodder.ameridea.net (linuxmodder, 21:07:33)
* GSoC Final Slot Selection was today (decause, 21:08:08)
* GSoC Accepted Students Announcements should go public from Google on
4/22 (decause, 21:08:27)
* ACTION: decause start drafting "Welcome to GSoC" article on commblog
(decause, 21:09:02)
* Action items from last meetings (jflory7, 21:09:41)
* LINK:
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2016-04-13/marketing.2...
(jflory7, 21:09:46)
* === [COMPLETE] jflory7 Follow up with ryanlerch about Marketing Trac
ticket #210 for Fedora Magazine categories === (jflory7, 21:09:54)
* === [INCOMPLETE] jflory7 Parse the CommOps power sessions pad for
the Python "targeting categories" and ticket-ify the info to make
later discussion easier === (jflory7, 21:10:02)
* ACTION: jflory7 Parse the CommOps power sessions pad for the Python
"targeting categories" and ticket-ify the info to make later
discussion easier (jflory7, 21:10:09)
* === [COMPLETE] bkp / linuxmodder Continue looking into Diaspora and
GNU Social for Fedora and update the Marketing team at next week's
meeting === (jflory7, 21:10:15)
* LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/223#comment:3
(jflory7, 21:10:21)
* === [COMPLETE] bkp Look at the latest feedback in Ticket #219 for
the Python brochures and incorporate it into the brochure; add
newest files to the ticket === (jflory7, 21:10:26)
* LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/219#comment:19
(jflory7, 21:10:33)
* === jbishop Continue working on the Affiliates and Current
Affiliates wiki pages for now and try to bring it closer to a final
draft. Once ready, share the pages on the Marketing mailing list to
get feedback among the rest of the team. === (jflory7, 21:10:39)
* ACTION: jbishop Continue working on the Affiliates and Current
Affiliates wiki pages for now and try to bring it closer to a final
draft. Once ready, share the pages on the Marketing mailing list to
get feedback among the rest of the team. (jflory7, 21:11:12)
* Tickets (jflory7, 21:11:34)
* LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/report/12 (jflory7,
21:11:40)
* === Ticket #219 === (jflory7, 21:11:46)
* LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/219 (jflory7,
21:11:50)
* "Create Python talking points for Ambassadors" (jflory7, 21:11:56)
* ACTION: bkp Write a short snippet on the Community Blog announcing
the availability of the new Python + Fedora brochures (jflory7,
21:14:15)
* ACTION: mizmo Begin final prepwork for print-ready versions of the
Python + Fedora brochures (jflory7, 21:15:51)
* LINK:
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/writing-community-blog-article/
(jflory7, 21:17:21)
* === Ticket #222 === (jflory7, 21:19:04)
* LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/222 (jflory7,
21:19:05)
* "Publicizing "Fedora affiliates" (or groups using Fedora)"
(jflory7, 21:19:16)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Affiliates_SOP
(jflory7, 21:19:18)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Scratch/Affiliates
(jflory7, 21:20:01)
* LINK:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Scratch/CurrentAffiliates
(jflory7, 21:20:05)
* AGREED: jbishop has recently edited the page and is actively working
on this still. He isn't at this meeting, but we will check in again
soon. Progress is forthcoming! (jflory7, 21:23:00)
* === Ticket #223 === (jflory7, 21:23:12)
* LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/223 (jflory7,
21:23:18)
* "Create Social Media Accounts for Fedora on Diaspora and GNU Social"
(jflory7, 21:23:25)
* bkp has concerns about setting up a GNU Social account given
diminishing returns on the admin/setup and the need to fill one more
channel with content. (bkp, 21:26:06)
* bkp would like to see how traffic/content does in Diaspora and then
make call later. (bkp, 21:27:01)
* Diaspora account is set up on the diasp.org pod. Next point to
address is storage of login and password information. Currently
stored in a database with OSAS. Next steps will be to address how to
manage them in the context of the Fedora community. (jflory7,
21:28:08)
* ACTION: decause talk to jmad about printing/ordering all the "Fedora
<3 Python" things (decause, 21:40:16)
* ACTION: bkp Reach out to decause, stickster, and ryanlerch about
thoughts of distributing social media privileges to other members of
the Fedora community and how to formalize the process for helping
with social media (jflory7, 21:42:31)
* bkp will get the word out on other channels about the new Diaspora
presence (jflory7, 21:43:16)
* Upcoming Tasks (jflory7, 21:44:04)
* LINK:
https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-24/f-24-marketing-tasks.html
(jflory7, 21:44:11)
* Current / upcoming tasks: (jflory7, 21:44:16)
* (1) Proposed Changes Profiles (due: Tue 2016-04-05) (jflory7,
21:44:22)
* LINK:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/marketing@lists.fedoraproje...
(jflory7, 21:44:28)
* (2) Update and Package Firefox Bookmarks (due: Thu 2016-03-31)
(jflory7, 21:44:35)
* LINK:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/marketing@lists.fedoraproje...
(jflory7, 21:44:43)
* (3) Tag Updated Bookmarks Package for Fedora 24 (due: Thu
2016-03-31) (jflory7, 21:44:49)
* (4) Beta Freeze (00:00 UTC) (due: Tue 2016-04-19) (jflory7,
21:44:55)
* ACTION: decause ask stickster and mattdm what needs to be done for
tag Updated Bookmarks Package
(https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-24/f-24-marketing-tasks.html)
(decause, 21:46:51)
* LINK: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-6212
(jflory7, 21:48:09)
* ACTION: jflory7 File tickets with fedora-websites team for adding
links to the getfedora.org for whatcanidoforfedora.org and
fp.o/easyfix (jflory7, 21:50:25)
* Open Floor (jflory7, 21:51:23)
Meeting ended at 23:01:08 UTC.
Action Items
------------
* decause start drafting "Welcome to GSoC" article on commblog
* jflory7 Parse the CommOps power sessions pad for the Python "targeting
categories" and ticket-ify the info to make later discussion easier
* jbishop Continue working on the Affiliates and Current Affiliates wiki
pages for now and try to bring it closer to a final draft. Once ready,
share the pages on the Marketing mailing list to get feedback among
the rest of the team.
* bkp Write a short snippet on the Community Blog announcing the
availability of the new Python + Fedora brochures
* mizmo Begin final prepwork for print-ready versions of the Python +
Fedora brochures
* decause talk to jmad about printing/ordering all the "Fedora <3
Python" things
* bkp Reach out to decause, stickster, and ryanlerch about thoughts of
distributing social media privileges to other members of the Fedora
community and how to formalize the process for helping with social
media
* decause ask stickster and mattdm what needs to be done for tag Updated
Bookmarks Package
(https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-24/f-24-marketing-tasks.html)
* jflory7 File tickets with fedora-websites team for adding links to the
getfedora.org for whatcanidoforfedora.org and fp.o/easyfix
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* bkp
* bkp Write a short snippet on the Community Blog announcing the
availability of the new Python + Fedora brochures
* bkp Reach out to decause, stickster, and ryanlerch about thoughts of
distributing social media privileges to other members of the Fedora
community and how to formalize the process for helping with social
media
* decause
* decause start drafting "Welcome to GSoC" article on commblog
* decause talk to jmad about printing/ordering all the "Fedora <3
Python" things
* bkp Reach out to decause, stickster, and ryanlerch about thoughts of
distributing social media privileges to other members of the Fedora
community and how to formalize the process for helping with social
media
* decause ask stickster and mattdm what needs to be done for tag
Updated Bookmarks Package
(https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-24/f-24-marketing-tasks.html)
* jbishop
* jbishop Continue working on the Affiliates and Current Affiliates
wiki pages for now and try to bring it closer to a final draft. Once
ready, share the pages on the Marketing mailing list to get feedback
among the rest of the team.
* jflory7
* jflory7 Parse the CommOps power sessions pad for the Python
"targeting categories" and ticket-ify the info to make later
discussion easier
* jflory7 File tickets with fedora-websites team for adding links to
the getfedora.org for whatcanidoforfedora.org and fp.o/easyfix
* mizmo
* mizmo Begin final prepwork for print-ready versions of the Python +
Fedora brochures
* ryanlerch
* bkp Reach out to decause, stickster, and ryanlerch about thoughts of
distributing social media privileges to other members of the Fedora
community and how to formalize the process for helping with social
media
* stickster
* bkp Reach out to decause, stickster, and ryanlerch about thoughts of
distributing social media privileges to other members of the Fedora
community and how to formalize the process for helping with social
media
* decause ask stickster and mattdm what needs to be done for tag
Updated Bookmarks Package
(https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-24/f-24-marketing-tasks.html)
* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)
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* decause (142)
* linuxmodder (101)
* bkp (72)
* mizmo (36)
* zodbot (14)
* croberts (1)
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Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
8 years, 2 months
Talking points about open-source software
by Nemanja Milosevic
Hello fellow ambassadors! :)
As discussed in our EMEA meeting, I will be invited (most likely) to a Microsoft conference here in Belgrade, Serbia (1000+ developers are expected) to hold a presentation about .NET developer toolchain on Linux. It will be a great opportunity to promote Fedora and FOSS. The Fedora part I got covered, and I know what I will talk about. Mostly about how Fedora plays nice with many developer tools, how developer friendly in general it is and how it's fantastic with the frequency of tools updates. Also how nicely it integrates into some of the already existing Microsoft Services (like Azure)
However the second part about open source software - I'm stumped. Does anyone here have any talking points or prior presentations experience on trying to "sell" the idea of FOSS to someone who is only making proprietary software? It's a pretty hard topic and I would love to hear some of people with greater experience in promoting the FOSS way of thinking than myself.
I just have no idea on where to even start. I thought about talking about some great open source libraries for .NET developers and that would be fine since I am using many of them and have only had great experiences with them, but than comes the issue of licensing and selling open source software as a part of a closed software solution. Most of the mentioned libraries are GPL licensed if I remember correctly so you see what is the issue.
So in short, how would you present greatness that is the FOSS philosophy to developers who make a living on selling custom-made business/enterprise software.
Any insights, tips or materials would be greatly appreciated.
The conference is about a month away, and I think this is an interesting subject even if I don't get to present it. :)
Thanks in advance to everyone.
Cheers!
Nemanja
8 years, 2 months
No F23 DVDs left in EMEA
by Jiri Eischmann
Hi,
just a notification for all EMEA ambassadors: We've run out of all F23
DVDs in your EMEA distribution center (Brno). We won't have any
available DVDs until we produce F24 ones which will probably be in mid
June. Please keep it in mind when you make swag requests. All other
standard swag should be in stock.
Jiri
P.S. if you have any sizable amount of F23 DVDs for which you'll have
no use until F24 is released, please offer them to ambassadors who may
still need them for their events.
8 years, 2 months
Want 6 Fedora lanyards ASAP
by Jeff Sandys
I would like to get 6 Fedora ribbon lanyards for the medals I got for the SuperTuxKart tournament we are running at LinuxFest NorthWest this weekend April 23rd and 24th.
The medals came with stock ribbons so I can live without them, but it would be cool to have the Fedora ribbons instead. If you have six, please contact me and send them by one day shipping to:
Jeff Sandys (guest)
c/o Hampton Inn Bellingham-Airport
3985 Bennett Dr
Bellingham, WA 98225
I will reimburse you for shipping.
Thanks,
Jeff Sandys
8 years, 2 months
BrickHack 2016 Event Report
by Justin W. Flory
Hello all,
Earlier last week, my full event report on the BrickHack 2016 event in
Rochester, New York was published. In the report, I covered what
happened for Fedora, the impact we had with attendees, what worked well
for us at this event, and plenty of pictures to go along with it.
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/brickhack-2016-event-report/
One thing that I thought was really interesting... of the 363 attendees
at BrickHack, 23 attendees (or 6.3% of attendees) claimed the BrickHack
2016 badge. This might sound small, but if you look at FOSDEM 2016, 77
out of roughly 5000 attendees claimed that badge (which equates to about
1.5% of all attendees).
If you have the time, I'd appreciate it if you read the report and
shared feedback either as comments on the post or back on the email
list. Thanks all!
--
Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
8 years, 2 months
[APAC] Bi-weekly Ambassadors meeting minutes - 15 Apr 2016
by P J P
=======================================================
#fedora-meeting: APAC Ambassador's meeting, 15 Apr 2016
=======================================================
Meeting started by pjp at 05:04:40 UTC. The full logs are available at
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-04-15/apac_ambassador's_meeting.2016-04-15-05.04.log.html
.
Meeting summary
---------------
* Roll call (pjp, 05:05:34)
* ticket #234 To elect FY17 APAC delegates ->
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-apac/ticket/234 (pjp, 05:10:59)
* ticket #229 F24 Swag preparation ->
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-apac/ticket/229 (pjp, 05:26:32)
* ACTION: pjp to collect F24 media /swag requirements again (pjp,
05:33:23)
* ticket #230 https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-apac/ticket/230 (pjp,
05:39:06)
* ticket #231 -> https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-apac/ticket/231 (pjp,
05:44:21)
* ticket #235 -> https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-apac/ticket/235 (pjp,
05:47:55)
* open floor (pjp, 05:58:10)
Meeting ended at 06:00:26 UTC.
Action Items
------------
* pjp to collect F24 media /swag requirements again
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* pjp
* pjp to collect F24 media /swag requirements again
* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)
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* MarkDude (24)
* pravins (22)
* praveenkumar (10)
* zodbot (7)
* yudocaa (4)
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8 years, 2 months
