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Self introduction
by Athos Ribeiro 30 Sep '16

30 Sep '16

Hello, My name is Athos Coimbra Ribeiro. I am a computer science MSc student at Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. I am a packager and LATAM ambassador @ Fedora. My interest in this group would be towards getting Fedora Project closer to academic research: we have a lot of students and professors using and collaborating to Fedora Project, it would be nice to identify them and get to know what are their research interests, etc. -- Athos Ribeiro http://www.ime.usp.br/~athoscr

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Self introduction: Alexandre Moine, Paris, France
by Alexandre Moine 30 Sep '16

30 Sep '16

Hi all, My name is Alexandre Moine, and I am currently studying computer science and math at "Université Paris Diderot" [1], in Paris France. I am a packager, translator, and an ambassador since 2013. There is approximately 25 000 students, and, I think, 1000/2000 in computer things, and there is no group about opensource in the university. I am planning to make one as soon as I have found someone in the university to make it with me. Alexandre [1]: http://www.univ-paris-diderot.fr/english/sc/site.php?bc=accueil&np=accueil&…

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BrickHack 2016 Event Report
by Justin W. Flory 19 Apr '16

19 Apr '16

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

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[Campus Ambassadors] Proposed wiki rewrite
by Justin W. Flory 30 Mar '16

30 Mar '16

Hi Amit, On 03/30/2016 03:21 AM, Amit Shah wrote: > Hello, > > On (Mon) 15 Feb 2016 [14:00:13], Justin W. Flory wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> Recently, in FAmNA, we have been discussing a proposed way to revitalize >> the Campus Ambassadors program. >> >> https://fedorahosted.org/famna/ticket/123 >> >> To help finalize the process, I have put together a new draft of the Campus >> Ambassadors wiki page. It would be great to have others' ideas, thoughts, >> and feedback about the rewrite. > > This activity is promising to get new contributors and users, so good > job on getting it going. > > A suggestion I have is we look at a few courses universities offer, > and what software they recommend for their labs or otherwise. We > could have a table suggesting FOSS equivalents of popular proprietary > software that gets used at universities. Agreed – and in terms of curriculum, there's a few schools across the world that have open source as part of their curriculum. The Rochester Institute of Technology in New York has a minor in FOSS, which is something that can be used as a reference too. > Also, if we have experts (or even users) of such software > (e.g. gnuplot), we should invite such experts to write Magazine posts > about using such software, and also perhaps include a cheatsheet that > maps workflows from the prorietary sw to the FOSS sw. This can serve > two purposes: have the Magazine publicise free software (on Fedora), > and also link these articles to the table on the wiki page with the > FOSS sw counterparts. > > With this info, when the campus ambassadors go to the univs, they can > readily suggest software available, and when the campus labs get > going, students know how to play around with the new(?) environment. > This is all fantastic feedback! To help centralize this discussion down and prevent mailing list cross-posting, I've created a ticket for this in the CommOps Trac. You're welcome to CC yourself and/or add some of your own thoughts and ideas to the ticket! https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-commops/ticket/68 Thanks! -- Cheers, Justin W. Flory jflory7(a)gmail.com

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Re: [Ambassadors] Re: Proposed wiki rewrite
by Justin W. Flory 22 Mar '16

22 Mar '16

Hi Ardian, On 03/18/2016 01:38 PM, Ardian Haxha wrote: > Hi all, > > I've had a meeting with my college and they gave me a thumbs up for > organizing events in our college. I've discussed thing more in general, > thing like what is fedora, what we do etc. I am planning with them to > organize for now at least one activity per month. They have also asked > are there any other ways they can help in this process. This is awesome news! Nice work opening the conversation with your university. If you haven't already, I would bring this up in an EMEA meeting or in a ticket to make sure you can help get the support and guidance of others in your region as well. > @Justin they addressed one question regarding marketing, is it ok if we > share a banner with Fedora's logo and their logo too ? the case would be > in roll up banners. As far as logo usage goes, you'll want to take that up with Fedora Legal. I would drop an email to logo(a)fedoraproject.org and explain what you're doing, why you're doing it, and what context the logo will be used around. > I will be organizing my first event with them on Tuesday for Google > Summer of Code, and how the process would be to apply to Fedora. Guess that's today! Best of luck with the event, and hope all goes well! If you need any help or advice at the event, feel free to drop a line in IRC. If I'm online, I'd be glad to help remotely in any way I can. Again, nice work in putting this together with your university! -- Cheers, Justin W. Flory jflory7(a)gmail.com

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Re: Proposed wiki rewrite
by Justin W. Flory 18 Mar '16

18 Mar '16

On 03/17/2016 02:23 AM, Viorel Tabara wrote: > On Tue Mar 15 2016 09:36:43 GMT-0600 (MDT) Justin W. Flory <jflory7(a)gmail.com> > wrote: >> Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Viorel. Curious, did you also have any >> ideas on ways that non-academic professionals in academic settings can >> contribute? I'm assuming this might be like a system administrator at a >> school, or a similar type of position. > > I'll have to start with a disclaimer: These are my personal thoughts and do not > represent the views of my employer. > > I do believe that we need to educate the young generation about the values of > open source and as a professional (I'm not sure if that's a term used across > all educational institutions or only at AU) I can do that by connecting the > academic and professional open source advocates with the community [1] and by > sharing resources as I come across them [2]. Where Fedora could come in is by > being *the* platform to make this happen: technically, socially and culturally > -- more than just a Fedora Ansible-ized OpenStack lab. The logistics of how to > get there is what most of us technical people may be missing. > > [1]:https://landing.athabascau.ca/blog/view/957162/surviving-on-open-source-an-au-course#comment_24486936 > [2]:https://landing.athabascau.ca/pages/view/999709/open-source-course > The links you shared to Athabasca University's pages were awesome to read about. :) These are exactly the kinds of things I think we as a community should be supporting and helping grow. I completely agree with the points you mentioned. However, when it comes to finding ways to deploy and implement this in schools, I'm definitely not an expert nor will I act like I am. Perhaps Remy could chime in on this specifically because it definitely is within his realm of expertise from his time at RIT. I think this thread in itself could make a good topic for the next CommOps meeting! -- Cheers, Justin W. Flory jflory7(a)gmail.com

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Re: [commops] Re: [Campus Ambassadors] Proposed wiki rewrite
by Justin W. Flory 15 Mar '16

15 Mar '16

On 03/10/2016 10:42 PM, Viorel Tabara wrote: > On Thu Mar 10 2016 07:59:27 GMT-0700 (MST) Justin W. Flory <jflory7(a)gmail.com> > wrote: >> My concerns are whether it would be confusing to keep the students in the >> same mailing list / agenda planning as faculty members. Both students and >> faculty may need resources unique from one another in terms of guidance or >> strategical planning for events. > > I'm not experienced in the ambassadors/marketing field so I'm speaking from a > non-academic staff perspective: academics who are interested in open source > will likely want to exchange ideas with their students and look for ways to > promote FLOSS in their courses. There are also, (some) professionals [1] > (non-academic) staff willing to contribute :) So to me keeping all of them on > the same mailing list would make more sense. > Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Viorel. Curious, did you also have any ideas on ways that non-academic professionals in academic settings can contribute? I'm assuming this might be like a system administrator at a school, or a similar type of position. I was just curious if you had any ideas off the top of your head in terms of how they could contribute within their role. -- Cheers, Justin W. Flory jflory7(a)gmail.com

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Re: [Campus Ambassadors] Proposed wiki rewrite
by Justin W. Flory 10 Mar '16

10 Mar '16

On 03/08/2016 01:32 PM, Neville A. Cross wrote: > I think that one thing that may be useful to set as part of the goals > to try to inspire teachers and staff on campus to become part of > ambassadors and campus ambassadors. > > The rationale to include this is that a student may spend from 3 to 5 > years in the university depending on the studying program, but a > teacher or staff may stay at the university longer. > > If the student didn't inspire other students about fedora, fedora's > presence will end when the student graduates. Besides a teacher or > staff may have greater audience than a student. > > It may happen that the teacher or staff may be tempted to use fedora > resources to make their classes or labs more appealing, this may be a > gray area. Like: "I will teach an extra class with free pizza which > will be using fedora". I will trust that most of us are for the > freedom. > > In other hand it may be difficult for some countries this level of > sponsoring. Most of the reimbursement process is made by paypal. In > some countries you can not get funds by paypal. Some of the countries > that you can get the funds you can only used as a electronic wallet and > you can not cash that money. For some people electronic money is > useful, but not for all. So we have to be careful to not create > unrealistic expectations regarding sponsoring. > > Just my two cents on this topic. Hey Neville, Thanks for chiming in on this topic. I definitely agree that getting teachers and academic faculty involved as Campus Ambassadors is a crucial and important dynamic. Like you noted, there is a much larger window for how long the faculty member can impact youth and introduce a new generation to Linux and Fedora. I'm trying to think of a way to frame this within the current draft on the wiki, but I'm thinking maybe it becomes a two-pronged rewrite. There could be a section for students and another section for teachers / faculty to get involved as Campus Ambassadors. My concerns are whether it would be confusing to keep the students in the same mailing list / agenda planning as faculty members. Both students and faculty may need resources unique from one another in terms of guidance or strategical planning for events. What do you all think about adding the faculty dynamic to the Campus Ambassadors rewrite? -- Cheers, Justin W. Flory jflory7(a)gmail.com

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Re: [Ambassadors] Re: [Campus Ambassadors] Proposed wiki rewrite
by Justin W. Flory 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

On 03/03/2016 08:44 AM, Ardian Haxha wrote: > Hi, > > I've sent some emails with my university, they have invited me for a > meeting to see what we can do. The wiki that Justin is working looks > solid for beginning the activity, but having something in final would be > great. I suggest we get in touch ASAP with marketing and design team and > start having fliers and banners/logos with the sign of Campus > Ambassador. Hey Ardian! Took me a lot longer to cycle back on this email than I wanted, but this is a discussion we should definitely have. What were your ideas and thoughts on putting together something "final" to represent the Campus Ambassadors? I am definitely a fan of creating some fliers or other easily distributable info sheet on the program to help encourage students at universities to get involved. As far as internal structure / hierarchy goes, what were your thoughts on my wiki page draft? Were there any details that seemed questionable to you or maybe could be reworded? I'm still meaning to edit it and make the revision that event reports can go on the Community Blog *OR* personal blogs, as a benefit for personal branding for an Ambassador (this was discussed in a FAmNA meeting two weeks ago). For anyone who isn't sure where this draft is, see here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jflory7/Scratchpad/Campus_Ambassadors Other opinions and thoughts are surely welcome on this! Feel free to chime in if you have ideas or thoughts. -- Cheers, Justin W. Flory jflory7(a)gmail.com

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[FAmNA] Weekly Meeting Minutes 2016-02-18
by Justin W. Flory 19 Feb '16

19 Feb '16

Meeting ended Fri Feb 19 03:15:11 2016 UTC. Minutes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-02-19/famna.2016-02-1… Minutes (text): https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-02-19/famna.2016-02-1… Log: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-02-19/famna.2016-02-1… * * * * * ====================== #fedora-meeting: FAmNA ====================== Meeting started by jflory7 at 01:58:39 UTC. The full logs are available at http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-02-19/famna.2016-02-19… . Meeting summary --------------- * === FAmNA Roll Call === (jflory7, 01:58:51) * === Announcements === (jflory7, 02:04:51) * decause recently attended the Women in Technology, New York event in January. He wrote an event report on the Community Blog documenting the event. (jflory7, 02:05:41) * LINK: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/witny-2016-event-report/ (jflory7, 02:05:43) * Today, new announcements were made about Flock 2016 talk submissions and lodging info. If you are considering going to Flock 2016 this year, please read more about the latest announcement. (jflory7, 02:06:30) * LINK: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/flock-2016-update-submissions-and-l… (jflory7, 02:06:31) * BrickHack 2016 now has a badge designed for the event. This badge will be awarded to anyone who walks up to the booth and scans a QR code. Using this, it will be easy to track how many students at the hackathon have FAS accounts (and see if they continue to contribute to Fedora after BrickHack) (jflory7, 02:07:39) * LINK: https://badges.fedoraproject.org/badge/brickhack-2016-attendee (jflory7, 02:07:42) * Fedora pens have also arrived at StabbyMc's residence – these will be sent to nb, ParadoxGuitarist, and jbwillia for distribution soon. (jflory7, 02:08:57) * === Tickets === (jflory7, 02:10:20) * LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/famna/report/9 (jflory7, 02:10:27) * Tickets #119 and #123 have been discussed at prior meeting -- we are skipping those tonight to focus on the other four tickets (jflory7, 02:12:42) * Ticket #122: Need ParadoxGuitarist or juggler to discuss details on getting Fedora banner shipped; if neither make it later tonight, jflory7 will work with them on getting the details finished (jflory7, 02:20:08) * AGREED: For our next sticker order, we will go with UnixStickers, a partner of Fedora, for 3,500 infinity stickers and 3,500 full logo stickers for just under $1,000 (jflory7, 02:34:16) * ACTION: jflory7 Update Ticket #140 with chosen ticket vendor, follow up with UnixStickers.com tonight (jflory7, 02:34:35) * AGREED: We agree to keep the limitation in place to be a member of the Ambassadors FAS group to file a Trac ticket, but Campus Ambassadors should also be added for permissions to create a ticket (jflory7, 02:39:33) * Ticket 131: BrickHack planning is in progress. A badge was created for attendees to scan. Fedora logo added to BrickHack site. Planning for Open Source category is in progress. However, discussion about prizes from Fedora needs to happen tonight. (jflory7, 02:41:46) * permission for campusambassadors added (nb, 02:42:06) * LINK: http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/ijgi/ (wrnash, 02:52:06) * ACTION: jflory7 / nb Look into creating a "BrickHack Winner" badge to give to participants (jflory7, 02:57:47) * AGREED: Add an additional $250.00 to the proposed budget for prizes to give to BrickHack winning participants in the Open Source category (prizes to be decided soon); also approving travel expenses for nb to attend BrickHack, schedule permitting (jflory7, 02:58:54) * AGREED: Ticket #139: FAmNA approves sponsorship of Bitcamp for a sponsorship cost of $999 (nb, 03:11:56) * === Open Floor === (jflory7, 03:11:58) Meeting ended at 03:15:11 UTC. Action Items ------------ * jflory7 Update Ticket #140 with chosen ticket vendor, follow up with UnixStickers.com tonight * jflory7 / nb Look into creating a "BrickHack Winner" badge to give to participants Action Items, by person ----------------------- * jflory7 * jflory7 Update Ticket #140 with chosen ticket vendor, follow up with UnixStickers.com tonight * jflory7 / nb Look into creating a "BrickHack Winner" badge to give to participants * nb * jflory7 / nb Look into creating a "BrickHack Winner" badge to give to participants * **UNASSIGNED** * (none) People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * jflory7 (206) * nb (131) * cydrobolt (57) * decause (32) * zodbot (31) * juggler (23) * wrnash (11) * linuxmodder (10) * cprofitt (6) * masta (4) * mailga (0) * danofsatx (0) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot

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