Fedora Ambassadors Africa

[Joerg Simon]

Hello Fellows,

during our EMEA Meetings in February and March the EMEA Community
decided to give more support to Africa. And there were a lot heated
discussions about influence of Europe in Africa and how we can help them
best.

http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-02-17/fedora-meeting...
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-03-31/fedora-meeting...

I noticed that there was no Africa Meeting anymore for a longer time
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Africa_Meetings

Maybe i missed a decision, that we are ready now and no longer need
special separate Meetings on Africa, but if we follow the 14 Day cycle
the last 3 Africa Meetings have not happened.
Or maybe it was just not enough attendance on them?

However - with the good organized community in North Africa and now that
we have some first really good results and learning expiriences in Ghana
from Idlelo - where we start new efforts in localization and hire new
contributors
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-June/014662.html
http://pierros.papadeas.gr/?tag=ghana

and also could gain first personal real live contact and colaboration
with FOSSFA, i think we should not throw away what is achieved right now.

This is a chance that Fedora get piggipacked to another countries by
FOSSFA if we collaborate with them.

From my personal pov - if Africa still needs separate Meetings - i think
if a Contributor from the African mainland can step up to lead and
continue with the work and also continues with the Meetings, would be
save the work we have done already. Sure, that i will help and
campaigning for him to get what he need to be succesful.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Africa
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Africa_Meetings



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[Christoph Wickert]

Am Donnerstag, den 17.06.2010, 12:02 +0200 schrieb Joerg Simon:
>  
>  I noticed that there was no Africa Meeting anymore for a longer time
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Africa_Meetings
>  
>  Maybe i missed a decision, that we are ready now and no longer need
>  special separate Meetings on Africa, but if we follow the 14 Day cycle
>  the last 3 Africa Meetings have not happened.
>  Or maybe it was just not enough attendance on them? 
AFAIK Sascha tried to do at least the 3rd Africa meeting, but there were
no attendees from Africa.

Regards,
Christoph

[Onyeibo Oku]

On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:14 +0200, "Christoph Wickert"
<christoph.wickert(a)googlemail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Am Donnerstag, den 17.06.2010, 12:02 +0200 schrieb Joerg Simon:
>  > 
>  > I noticed that there was no Africa Meeting anymore for a longer time
>  > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Africa_Meetings
>  > 
>  > Maybe i missed a decision, that we are ready now and no longer need
>  > special separate Meetings on Africa, but if we follow the 14 Day cycle
>  > the last 3 Africa Meetings have not happened.
>  > Or maybe it was just not enough attendance on them?
>  
>  AFAIK Sascha tried to do at least the 3rd Africa meeting, but there were
>  no attendees from Africa.
>  
>  Regards,
>  Christoph
>  
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Interesting... and I have been checking to see the log for that meeting.
 I didn't know the criteria for holding EMEA Africa meeting was that an
african ambassador must be present (although that makes sense ... it
didn't come to me as a rule).  I had problems attending for reasons
peculiar to Nigeria but I have long overcome that limitation. So, when
is the next meeting holding?

I believe its a little early to take a bow now and leave africans to run
EMEA-Africa.  I'd suggest we revisit this topic after the media has been
circulated and observe african participation up to the next release. I
have no bias whatsoever about Europeans chairing the meeting. OR -- we
could still use a European/Middle-East co-chair for sometime. Fedora is
more important than our differences. Now I know I may be naive ... but
that's just my perspective judging from challenges I'm facing within my
own small African environment.
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[Sascha Thomas Spreitzer]

Hello friends,

I was organizing those meetings in the past, but sadly i was overrun
by work, family stuff and other projects.
I have to apology on this.

I see that things in africa run different and time is not such an hot
topic as it is in europe.
We tried to conclude on a new meeting time, without a result. Some
action items from EMEA and from africa meetings get bounced to the
mailing list and bounced back to the meetings without someone stepping
up and resolving them.

Joerg, what I think is;
- bootstrapping a region is not done in 4 meetings nor is it done in one year
- we must give africa its time and the people in africa will tell you
and me how things run in africa and how they will do Fedora


Isaac pointed out to me (due to my lack of time i couldnt forward it),
 africa needs one regional coordinator in every region (north, east,
south and west) and the spreading of media inside africa is the most
vital awareness medium. We know that LATAM spreads media by
pressing/burning them with some kind of station? What about providing
such stations to future four regional coordinators?

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[Joerg Simon]

Am 17.06.2010 13:08, schrieb Sascha Thomas Spreitzer:
>  Isaac pointed out to me (due to my lack of time i couldnt forward
> it),
>   africa needs one regional coordinator in every region (north, east,
>  south and west) and the spreading of media inside africa is the most
>  vital awareness medium. We know that LATAM spreads media by
>  pressing/burning them with some kind of station? What about providing
>  such stations to future four regional coordinators? 
i already suggested professional burning stations as a alternative to
Isaac, but have no idea myself if this is the right way for Africa to
get media distributed and if it is doable from a logistic pov for them.
I know that Rodrigo Padula bought such a machine for brazil maybe he can
enlight us here - how they handle this issue.

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[Neville A. Cross]

2010/6/17 Joerg Simon <jsimon(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;:
>  Am 17.06.2010 13:08, schrieb Sascha Thomas Spreitzer:
> > Isaac pointed out to me (due to my lack of time i couldnt forward it),
> >  africa needs one regional coordinator in every region (north, east,
> > south and west) and the spreading of media inside africa is the most
> > vital awareness medium. We know that LATAM spreads media by
> > pressing/burning them with some kind of station? What about providing
> > such stations to future four regional coordinators?
>
>  i already suggested professional burning stations as a alternative to
>  Isaac, but have no idea myself if this is the right way for Africa to
>  get media distributed and if it is doable from a logistic pov for them.
>  I know that Rodrigo Padula bought such a machine for brazil maybe he can
>  enlight us here - how they handle this issue.
>  
I have been exploring options for Central America.  After burning 75
DVD and 75 CD at home over one weekend someone pass me a link to a
project called turbojet.

http://turbojet.sourceforge.net/

I have started to built my own dvd burner in an old PIV box with
fedora 13. I have acomodate 4 DVD-RW units. I needed a ¨Y¨ cable with
molex connectors for powering all devices. You can see a picture of
this PC in the following link.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?pid=31372116&id=1125406417

I still ironing some IRQ issues with a pci USB2.0 card, as the old
motherboard only have old USB ports.

I hope this helps someone before he or she starts to burn disks.

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[Joerg Simon]

Am 17.06.2010 19:51, schrieb Neville A. Cross:
>  I have started to built my own dvd burner in an old PIV box with
>  fedora 13. I have acomodate 4 DVD-RW units.  
...
>  I still ironing some IRQ issues with a pci USB2.0 card, as the old
>  motherboard only have old USB ports.
>  
>  I hope this helps someone before he or she starts to burn disks. 

geeky - ;)


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[Frank Murphy]

On 17/06/10 18:51, Neville A. Cross wrote:

>  I have been exploring options for Central America.  After burning 75
>  DVD and 75 CD at home over one weekend someone pass me a link to a
>  project called turbojet.
>  
>  http://turbojet.sourceforge.net/ 
I just got this (the black one)
to not use up a PC,
it copies and compares against original.

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[Antonio Sebastian Salles M.]

On 06/17/2010 02:23 PM, Frank Murphy wrote:
>  On 17/06/10 18:51, Neville A. Cross wrote:
>
> > I have been exploring options for Central America.  After burning 75
> > DVD and 75 CD at home over one weekend someone pass me a link to a
> > project called turbojet.
> >
> > http://turbojet.sourceforge.net/
>
>  I just got this (the black one)
>  to not use up a PC,
>  it copies and compares against original.
>  
I had better result with this multiburn script:


#!/bin/bash
#
#Program to initiate cdrecord on multiple devices, recording on successive
#blanks until SIGINT (Ctrl-C) is received.

#help...
if [ $# == 0 ] || [ $1 == "-h" ] || [ $1 == "--help" ]
     then
     echo "This program starts cdrecord to burn one image file to 
multiple devices,"
     echo "ejecting the cd when recording has finished. When a blank CD 
is inserted"
     echo "into any of the specified drives, recording of the image 
begins again."
     echo ""
     echo "Usage: $0 image devicelist"
     echo ""
     echo "'image' is the name of the image to be burned."
     echo "'devicelist' must be a list of devices which cdrecord 
understands -"
     echo "                                   see 'man cdrecord' for 
details."
     echo ""
     echo "Do Ctrl-C to terminate when recording is finished."
     exit 0
fi

#Arg check
if [ $# -lt 2 ]
     then
     echo "Not enough arguments. See '$0 -h' for help."
     exit 1
fi
if ! [ -e $1 ]
     then
     echo "$1 does not exist. Exiting."
     exit 1
fi

ISOFILE=$1

burndrive()
{
     echo "Please insert a blank CD into $1 to begin."
     while true
       do
       sleep 2
       STATUS=`cdrecord -V --inq dev=$1 2>&1`
       echo $STATUS | grep "medium not present" &> /dev/null
       if [ $? != 0 ]
           then
           echo "CD loaded on $1. Continuing."
           cdrecord --eject dev=$1 -data $ISOFILE &> /dev/null
           case $? in
               0)
                   echo "Burning completed successfully on drive $1."
                   echo "Insert a blank disc to continue on $1.";;
               254)
                   echo "Disc in $1 is not blank."
                   echo "Please insert a blank disc in $1.";;
               *)
                   echo "Unknown error on $1.";;
           esac
       fi
     done
}

for go in $*
do
   if [ $go == $1 ]
       then
       echo -n
   else
       burndrive $go &
       PIDLIST="$PIDLIST $!" #Collect subshell PIDs
   fi
done

#Kill subshells, then exit
trap "kill -9 $PIDLIST; exit 0" SIGINT

#This sleep loop is just to retain control of the console -
#for message output, and to catch Ctrl-C
while true
   do
   sleep 1000
done


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