[Fedora-join] [August] Any newcomers here?

[praveen patil]

Hi Ankur

Thanks a million for all the information and encouragement.
I am working on your suggestions and exploring the Fedora Spin process.
I am also working on preparing rpm package for ExpEYES. Since I am new to
all these things I may need your help.

We have planned for celebrating Software Freedom Day in our city Belgaum.
Need to have some fedora stickers, button badges  and fedora Cds.
I will request for some funding for the event. We have also planned to have
regular FOSS activities  every alternate Friday with a theme "Friday with
Foss and Fedora"  Please suggest some ideas to make it useful to people in
this region.

Fedora Ambassador Kushal is my mentor and is constantly encouraging me to
contribute positively to the community. I will be asking for his help too.

Right now the only problem I have is to contribute to fedora planet or
magazine easily or even to have a fedora mail alias one needs to be a
member of one non-cla group. I have applied for membership of some groups
including Free Media group.
Can you please help me in this regard?



Thanks a lot again.

Friendships
Praveen




On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2014-08-18 at 08:22 +0530, praveen patil wrote:
> > Hello everyone
> >
> > I am Praveen Patil from India. I am a physics teacher and free
> > software user and promoter.
>
> Hi Praveen,
>
> >
> > I am working with a project ExpEYES as a volunteer and have been
> > involved in  FOSS training programs for science teachers.
>
> I just looked at the website. ExpEYES looks really interesting. It isn't
> my area of expertise, but would the software you're using would fit into
> Fedora Electronic Lab or an education spin? You can even have a Fedora
> ExpEYES spin actually. Take a look at the proposal process if you'd want
> to work on a spin. You'd first need to package the software up and make
> it available in the Fedora repositories before you can propose a spin,
> though:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Spins_Process
>
> > Using Free Software and ExpEYES for classroom and laboratory
> > demonstrations for 11th and 12 grade.
> > Maintaining a blog for ExpEYES. Working e-content developer for
> > National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER) for School
> > Education by Central Institute of Education Technology (CIET), NCERT,
> > New Delhi.
> >
> > For ExpEYES project I have been preparing  Ubuntu based live cds with
> > science packages for teachers and students and have been distributing
> > the same.
> >
> > Recently I met many volunteers and ambassadors from fedora at
> > FOSSASIA-2014 and got inspired with fedora culture and spirit. I am
> > now using fedora and have also created Live cd for distributing it
> > with ExpEYES. I am conducting free-software awareness programs for
> > science students and teachers in my region.
>
> That's really great to hear. If you'd like any help from the ambassadors
> team, please let us know. Ambassadors near you can come down and help
> you organise your workshops. You can also request funds from the budget
> to get Fedora CDs/DVDs burnt in large quantities, as well as to buy swag
> (stickers/posters) for your events.
>
>
> > I wish to be an active volunteer of fedora and contribute positively
> > to FOSS. I also wish to contribute to fedora planet and the magazine.
>
> Awesome! You can always write education related posts on the magazine
> too. It'll be easier for users to install the software if it's available
> in the Fedora repositories. It might be slightly incoherent for a post
> on the fedora magazine to ask folks to install debian ;) If you need any
> help with this, drop me an email, or find me on the IRC. I'm already a
> package maintainer and can help you with your spec files/reviews and the
> rest. We could even get together folks and have an IRC FAD (Fedora
> Activity Day) for this!
>
> If you can, it'll be nice to drop in one of the APAC IRC meetings that
> occur on alternate Saturdays and get to know the folks.
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Warm regards,
> Ankur (FranciscoD)
>
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