Let me introduce myself

["G"]

Hi

This is Balaji from India . I reside in chennai and i work for an
TeleCom Company as a Software developer. I am happy to be part of the
Fedora Ambassadors team and i look forward to extend my contributions
more to the fedora project. I am already part of the Bug Triagging
team and test packages from the bodhi repository and give feedback to
the developers.We use Fedora in our company/projects to a great
extent.

Now that i ve become an official member of the Ambassadors team i
would like to help in expanding the fedora user base and the
contributor base.

Things which i feel could be done to kick off my contribution:
1.There are lot of people whom i know who are new to Linux and i help
them setting up fedora in their boxes/laptops . I ve been doing that
and would continue to do that.
2. There are tech savy people whom i know are interested in being part
of big open source projects but are not in a position to start
contributing to the projects. I feel this would be a great opportunity
to pull in those people to be part of the Contributors team
3. As mentioned above there are lot of people who use fedora in my
place of work and hence would like to act as a funnel between those
people and the fedora community to bring in their ideas and
suggestions that would help us in improving the experience.

I would appreciate any sugestions on the above points :)

Look forward for this exciting journey.

Cheers,
Balaji

[Rahul Sundaram]

"G" wrote:
>  Hi
>  
>  This is Balaji from India . I reside in chennai and i work for an
>  TeleCom Company as a Software developer. I am happy to be part of the
>  Fedora Ambassadors team and i look forward to extend my contributions
>  more to the fedora project.  
Good to have you here. Welcome to Fedora Project.

I am already part of the Bug Triagging
>  team and test packages from the bodhi repository and give feedback
> to
>  the developers.We use Fedora in our company/projects to a great
>  extent. 
Willing to let us know how many systems/users roughly? Note that we are 
also desperately looking for more Indian mirrors and if you/your 
organization is interesting in helping out, let me know.

>  1.There are lot of people whom i know who are new to Linux and i
> help
>  them setting up fedora in their boxes/laptops . I ve been doing that
>  and would continue to do that. 
There seems to be a few ambassadors in Chennai now. Maybe you all can 
together and hold a release party following the Fedora 9 release. If you 
coordinate with the local LUG, it would be a great opportunity to reach 
more users.

Videos linked from http://jkeating.livejournal.com/59623.html can come 
in handy for knowing what's new in the release.

>  2. There are tech savy people whom i know are interested in being
> part
>  of big open source projects but are not in a position to start
>  contributing to the projects. I feel this would be a great opportunity
>  to pull in those people to be part of the Contributors team 
We have opportunities all over the place to do exactly that.

http://fedoraproject.org/join-fedora

>  3. As mentioned above there are lot of people who use fedora in my
>  place of work and hence would like to act as a funnel between those
>  people and the fedora community to bring in their ideas and
>  suggestions that would help us in improving the experience. 
Wishlist sort of approach doesn't tend to go very well with community 
projects but collaboration certainly will.

Rahul

["G"]

Hi

>   Good to have you here. Welcome to Fedora Project. 
Thank you so much and i am happy and excited to be part of this project.

>   Willing to let us know how many systems/users roughly? Note that we
> are
>  also desperately looking for more Indian mirrors and if you/your
>  organization is interesting in helping out, let me know. 
In my project which is a 10 member team we have some 6-7 boxes running
fedora and this is just in one project so there are many projects
where fedora is installed as THE linux Distribution.Regarding setting
up the mirrors, i shall take this up with the company and will let you
know whats happening on this front. I would like to know some details
on this. What would be the bandwidth required to set this up and what
kind of systems you feel would be good enough to handle the load.and
any other details that would help me in taking this forward too

> There seems to be a few ambassadors in Chennai now. Maybe you all can
>  together and hold a release party following the Fedora 9 release. If you
>  coordinate with the local LUG, it would be a great opportunity to reach more
>  users. 
True !!! If i am in chennai during/immediately after the release we
ambassadors (from chennai) will collaborate and hold a release part
for sure . It would be really enjoyable. i might be out of station for
a week though i would be able to check mails and participate virtually
and share the joy after the release :)

>   We have opportunities all over the place to do exactly that. 
Yeah exactly there is lot of info but lot of my friends ask me on how
to contribute and stuff like that though i used to point them to the
same link i felt that a little bit of intro on what happens in Fedora
( a small introduction on whats happening) should be really useful i
feel :)

>   Wishlist sort of approach doesn't tend to go very well with
> community
>  projects but collaboration certainly will. 
Yeah wishlist does not work as every wish could not be satisfied and
morever certain things would not just work out but what i meant here
was not exactly wish list which would be like it would be good if
Fedora 10 has got mp3 support by default so that i could play mp3s but
places where fedora could improve upon not from the micro level on a
feature by feature basis but something on on a macro level. Ubuntu has
something called as an ideastorm/brainstorm but their they discuss
specific features where votes are given for each feature but here i
thought some feedback and suggestions from people if they have any i
feel should reach the fedora project in time .

Please let me know if you have any suggestions too


Thanks,

Cheers,
Balaji

On 5/7/08, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
> "G" wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > This is Balaji from India . I reside in chennai and i work for an
> > TeleCom Company as a Software developer. I am happy to be part of the
> > Fedora Ambassadors team and i look forward to extend my contributions
> > more to the fedora project.
> >
>
>   Good to have you here. Welcome to Fedora Project. 
>
>  I am already part of the Bug Triagging
>
> > team and test packages from the bodhi repository and give feedback to
> > the developers.We use Fedora in our company/projects to a great
> > extent.
> >
>
>   Willing to let us know how many systems/users roughly? Note that we
> are
>  also desperately looking for more Indian mirrors and if you/your
>  organization is interesting in helping out, let me know. 
>
>
> > 1.There are lot of people whom i know who are new to Linux and i help
> > them setting up fedora in their boxes/laptops . I ve been doing that
> > and would continue to do that.
> >
>
>  There seems to be a few ambassadors in Chennai now. Maybe you all can
> together and hold a release party following the Fedora 9 release. If you
> coordinate with the local LUG, it would be a great opportunity to reach more
> users.
>
>  Videos linked from
> http://jkeating.livejournal.com/59623.html can come in
> handy for knowing what's new in the release.
>
>
> > 2. There are tech savy people whom i know are interested in being part
> > of big open source projects but are not in a position to start
> > contributing to the projects. I feel this would be a great opportunity
> > to pull in those people to be part of the Contributors team
> >
>
>   We have opportunities all over the place to do exactly that.
>
>  http://fedoraproject.org/join-fedora
>
>
> > 3. As mentioned above there are lot of people who use fedora in my
> > place of work and hence would like to act as a funnel between those
> > people and the fedora community to bring in their ideas and
> > suggestions that would help us in improving the experience.
> >
>
>   Wishlist sort of approach doesn't tend to go very well with
> community
>  projects but collaboration certainly will. 
>
>  Rahul
>
>  --
>  Fedora-ambassadors-list mailing list
>  Fedora-ambassadors-list(a)redhat.com
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list
>

[Rahul Sundaram]

"G" wrote:

>  
>  In my project which is a 10 member team we have some 6-7 boxes running
>  fedora and this is just in one project so there are many projects
>  where fedora is installed as THE linux Distribution.Regarding setting
>  up the mirrors, i shall take this up with the company and will let you
>  know whats happening on this front. I would like to know some details
>  on this. What would be the bandwidth required to set this up and what
>  kind of systems you feel would be good enough to handle the load.and
>  any other details that would help me in taking this forward too 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Mirroring

Note that the current couple of Indian mirrors don't meet the precise 
bandwidth requirements and have been despite that since relatively 
slower mirrors are better than nothing. More such mirrors would help. So 
if you have the disk space and reasonable bandwidth, your mirror could 
still be added.

> >  We have opportunities all over the place to do exactly that.
>  
>  Yeah exactly there is lot of info but lot of my friends ask me on how
>  to contribute and stuff like that though i used to point them to the
>  same link i felt that a little bit of intro on what happens in Fedora
>  ( a small introduction on whats happening) should be really useful i
>  feel :) 
Agreed. Hand holding people through specific processes that match their 
interests is still useful c.f. mentors.

Rahul

["G"]

Hi

>   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Mirroring 
Thanks for the link . I ll read through it and take it forward.

>   Agreed. Hand holding people through specific processes that match
> their
>  interests is still useful c.f. mentors. 
One of the Ambassadors Goal says that the Ambassador could recruit
people for contributing to the proiect . As an ambassador am i allowed
to do it ? . If yes how do i proceed in that front too ?

Thanks,

Cheers,
Balaji



On 5/7/08, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
> "G" wrote:
>
>
> >
> > In my project which is a 10 member team we have some 6-7 boxes running
> > fedora and this is just in one project so there are many projects
> > where fedora is installed as THE linux Distribution.Regarding setting
> > up the mirrors, i shall take this up with the company and will let you
> > know whats happening on this front. I would like to know some details
> > on this. What would be the bandwidth required to set this up and what
> > kind of systems you feel would be good enough to handle the load.and
> > any other details that would help me in taking this forward too
> >
>
>   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Mirroring 
>
>  Note that the current couple of Indian mirrors don't meet the precise
> bandwidth requirements and have been despite that since relatively slower
> mirrors are better than nothing. More such mirrors would help. So if you
> have the disk space and reasonable bandwidth, your mirror could still be
> added.
>
>
> >
> > >  We have opportunities all over the place to do exactly that.
> > >
> >
> > Yeah exactly there is lot of info but lot of my friends ask me on how
> > to contribute and stuff like that though i used to point them to the
> > same link i felt that a little bit of intro on what happens in Fedora
> > ( a small introduction on whats happening) should be really useful i
> > feel :)
> >
>
>   Agreed. Hand holding people through specific processes that match
> their
>  interests is still useful c.f. mentors. 
>
>
>  Rahul
>
>  --
>  Fedora-ambassadors-list mailing list
>  Fedora-ambassadors-list(a)redhat.com
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list
>

[Rahul Sundaram]

"G" wrote:
>  Hi
>  
> >  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Mirroring
>  
>  Thanks for the link . I ll read through it and take it forward.
>  
> >  Agreed. Hand holding people through specific processes that match their
> > interests is still useful c.f. mentors.
>  
>  One of the Ambassadors Goal says that the Ambassador could recruit
>  people for contributing to the proiect . As an ambassador am i allowed
>  to do it ? 
Of course.

  If yes how do i proceed in that front too ?

One of the best ways to be a ambassador for a project is to have a high 
level overview of the history (important milestones atleast) and changes 
happening within the project. This includes new features in upcoming 
releases, governance, issues the community is facing, plans to address 
those issues etc. Read the relevant lists or atleast the announcements 
lists and the weekly news reports.

While you don't necessarily need to have a keen understanding of every 
single aspect of the community, having a general idea is important. 
Being aware of the general steps involved in joining a sub project or at 
least being aware of the sub project leaders can be quite useful.  It is 
easier to mentor someone else if you are actively doing it yourself.

Most importantly, ask questions. If you are comfortable asking it here, 
that would be just fine. We usually have folks hanging around in 
#fedora-mktg and  #fedora-india IRC channels in freenode for casual 
conversations too.

Rahul

["G"]

Hi

>   Of course. 
Thanks

>   One of the best ways to be a ambassador for a project is to have a
> high
>  level overview of the history (important milestones atleast) and changes
>  happening within the project. This includes new features in upcoming
>  releases, governance, issues the community is facing, plans to address those
>  issues etc. Read the relevant lists or atleast the announcements lists and
>  the weekly news reports.
>
>   While you don't necessarily need to have a keen understanding of every
>  single aspect of the community, having a general idea is important. Being
>  aware of the general steps involved in joining a sub project or at least
>  being aware of the sub project leaders can be quite useful.  It is easier to
>  mentor someone else if you are actively doing it yourself.
>
>   Most importantly, ask questions. If you are comfortable asking it here,
>  that would be just fine. We usually have folks hanging around in
>  #fedora-mktg and  #fedora-india IRC channels in freenode for casual
>  conversations too. 
Thanks a lot for the information and i have started talking to the
company regarding the mirror setup. They were quite curious to know
the benefits they would get in setting up a mirror (public/private) .
Some sort of advertisements for the company somewhere in the website
and a name mention in the web site ?

I would keep you posted on this front .

Cheers,
Balaji

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Rahul Sundaram
<sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
> "G" wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> >
> > >  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Mirroring
> > >
> >
> > Thanks for the link . I ll read through it and take it forward.
> >
> >
> > >  Agreed. Hand holding people through specific processes that match their
> > > interests is still useful c.f. mentors.
> > >
> >
> > One of the Ambassadors Goal says that the Ambassador could recruit
> > people for contributing to the proiect . As an ambassador am i allowed
> > to do it ?
> >
>
>   Of course. 
>
>
>   If yes how do i proceed in that front too ?
>
>   One of the best ways to be a ambassador for a project is to have a
> high
>  level overview of the history (important milestones atleast) and changes
>  happening within the project. This includes new features in upcoming
>  releases, governance, issues the community is facing, plans to address those
>  issues etc. Read the relevant lists or atleast the announcements lists and
>  the weekly news reports.
>
>   While you don't necessarily need to have a keen understanding of every
>  single aspect of the community, having a general idea is important. Being
>  aware of the general steps involved in joining a sub project or at least
>  being aware of the sub project leaders can be quite useful.  It is easier to
>  mentor someone else if you are actively doing it yourself.
>
>   Most importantly, ask questions. If you are comfortable asking it here,
>  that would be just fine. We usually have folks hanging around in
>  #fedora-mktg and  #fedora-india IRC channels in freenode for casual
>  conversations too. 
>
>
>
>  Rahul
>
>
>  --
>  Fedora-ambassadors-list mailing list
>  Fedora-ambassadors-list(a)redhat.com
>  https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list
>

[Rahul Sundaram]

"G" wrote:

>  
>  Thanks a lot for the information and i have started talking to the
>  company regarding the mirror setup. They were quite curious to know
>  the benefits they would get in setting up a mirror (public/private) .
>  Some sort of advertisements for the company somewhere in the website
>  and a name mention in the web site ?
>  
>  I would keep you posted on this front . 
If the company becomes a sponsor, they get credited in 
http://fedoraproject.org/sponsors. They can talk to the infrastructure 
team for specific details.

Becoming a private mirror allows everybody within the organization to be 
transparently redirected to a local mirror. If you have many users 
within the organization using Fedora and updating it regularly, you 
don't have to waste company bandwidth and time reaching out to public 
mirrors.

Rahul

["G"]

>  If the company becomes a sponsor, they get credited in
>  http://fedoraproject.org/sponsors. They can talk to the infrastructure team
>  for specific details. 
Thanks. I had a look at the same link and i am in talks with the
company for setting up the mirror as well as for the sponsor (i.e for
giving some funds as sponsor). Its in talks and i am following it up.
I would like to know the following stuff.

1. I would like to know what could be the minimum amount that would
enable the company to get their name and logo in the sponsors link if
its in the form of cash Is it possible?
2.If the company is ready to buy some new hardware what should be the
amount  and how would the company send the fund if they agree to it .
?

Please let me know

I will update you on the same once i get some more info

I am doing all i could for the above things to happen successfully
.Hope it turns out really positive for us :)

Thanks,

Cheers,
Balaji

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Rahul Sundaram
<sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
> "G" wrote:
>
>>
>> Thanks a lot for the information and i have started talking to the
>> company regarding the mirror setup. They were quite curious to know
>> the benefits they would get in setting up a mirror (public/private) .
>> Some sort of advertisements for the company somewhere in the website
>> and a name mention in the web site ?
>>
>> I would keep you posted on this front .
>
>  If the company becomes a sponsor, they get credited in
>  http://fedoraproject.org/sponsors. They can talk to the infrastructure team
>  for specific details. 
>
> Becoming a private mirror allows everybody within the organization to be
> transparently redirected to a local mirror. If you have many users within
> the organization using Fedora and updating it regularly, you don't have to
> waste company bandwidth and time reaching out to public mirrors.
>
> Rahul
>
> --
> Fedora-ambassadors-list mailing list
> Fedora-ambassadors-list(a)redhat.com
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list
>

[Rahul Sundaram]

"G" wrote:
> > If the company becomes a sponsor, they get credited in
> > http://fedoraproject.org/sponsors. They can talk to the infrastructure team
> > for specific details.
>  
>  Thanks. I had a look at the same link and i am in talks with the
>  company for setting up the mirror as well as for the sponsor (i.e for
>  giving some funds as sponsor). Its in talks and i am following it up.
>  I would like to know the following stuff.
>  
>  1. I would like to know what could be the minimum amount that would
>  enable the company to get their name and logo in the sponsors link if
>  its in the form of cash Is it possible?
>  2.If the company is ready to buy some new hardware what should be the
>  amount  and how would the company send the fund if they agree to it .
>  ? 
You probably can get in touch the infrastructure lead, Mike McGrath 
(CC'ed) who can let you know the details.

Rahul