ambassadors December 2005

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Event: Strasbourg (date partly finalised)
by Chitlesh GOORAH 11 May '06

11 May '06

Hai there, I have good news and maybe bad news. Its Still fresh. First as long awaited here in Strasbourg, France there will be an "open source" day http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/jl4/index on the 23-25 June 2006. This event will be intended as I mentioned in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents to promote open source softwares and linux. If somebody is motivated to make a conference about fedora, do inform me. Hence you will become the guest of our lug. We ( the lug members ) are looking forward to invite lecturers and to pay their journey and hotel too. This needs to be confirmed. The money required to host the lecturers will be from either paid entrance or companies paying for the booth. to rent a booth for fedora, we have to pay. Price will be communicated later. There are also talks about free booth for associations. But nothing yet confirmed. Its possible to sell Fedora t-shirts or other goodies for fund raising. But in this case, we must rent a booth for Fedora. Now comes the "maybe" bad news: this scheduled date for the event interfere badly with two of MY private life things: 1. I have already booked two tickets (my gf and I) to Mauritius. 2. my contract with the hostel ends in the beginning of June and somebody will be occupying my actual room. so meanwhile send your comments, queries or any other proposals :) regards, Chitlesh GOORAH -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Red Hat Magazine article on Fedora Ambassadors
by Rahul Sundaram 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

Hi If you arent reading Red Hat Magazine on a monthly basis or even reread it daily you should. It has tons of interesting articles and many of them are about Fedora. This month has a article on Fedora Ambassadors by Greg Dek http://www.redhat.com/magazine/014dec05/features/ambassadors/ with special appearances from our very own Thomas Chung, Behdad Esfahbod, Chitlesh Goorah and Jack Aboutboul. Of course anybody who contributes to Fedora has their names embedded on the history of people who changed the world anyway and by the way, here is a red carpet welcome to any new Fedora Ambassadors who keep signing up on a regular basis. Invite your friends,family,relatives and perhaps more importantly your pets. Keep them coming I say... Here is my favorite part for now ""There is this one particular sushi bar in San Francisco which is visited by a number of Fedora contributors every time they are on the West Coast. On our last trip there, we realized that the music system in the sushi bar was running Fedora. So it turns out the great atmosphere in the place was due in part to us. On that particular night, the sushi tasted a little bit sweeter!"" -- Rahul Learn. Network. Experience open source. Red Hat Summit Nashville | May 30 - June 2, 2006 Learn more: http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] meeting notes fedora ambassadors Dec 29, 22:00 UTC
by Alex 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

Next meeting: Location: irc.freenode.net, channel #fedora-mktg Time: January 5, 2006, 14:00 UTC Today's meeting (listing active participants only): Attending: ChitleshGoorah, rwhetsel, nman64, GeroldKa, mether Discussed: 1 Steering committee members confirmed: * Patrick Barnes (nman64) * Thomas Chung (tchung) * Greg DeKoenigsberg (gregdek) * Alex Maier (Chair pro tem) (lxmaier) * Rahul Sundaram (mether) * Robert Whetsel (rwhetsel) We are still one or two (depending whether Greg can be an active member) members short, so if anyone hears the call of duty, please step up. For the first week or so Alex will continue to lead this group after which the Committee will either confirm her as permanent Chair or have one of the members step up himself. The SC is there mostly to decide on priorities, such as what event to spend the money on, and to make sure we set the goals for the group and decide on the guidelines if necessary. 2 More ambassadors should be contributing to the http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/PressArchive 3 Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006 Solutions Linux 2006 Paris, France we seem to have missed the deadline to secure a spot for fedora, so aurelien will be representing us on the local LUG booth. it is suboptimal but better than nothing. Chitlesh Goorah estimates he will need EUR 160 to be able to attend Solutions Linux. SC will decide whether we can give Chitlesh money and if yes, how much? 4 Feb 8-10, 2006 LinuxAsia 2006 New Delhi India Rahul has provided a draft presentation under: http://people.redhat.com/sundaram/Fedora.sxi Please everyone take a look and give constructive feedback and/or learn from Rahul (mether) if we can get shwag flyers cd/dvds etc that would be nice. Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay (sm|CPU) needs to talk about that, since he said he might be able to arrange it himself ChitleshGoorah: if these flyers can be posted online it would be useful to me during the install parties 5 Mar 29 - Apr 2, 2006 Minibit Loerrach Loerach, Germany GeroldKa has got the booth for his LUG 6 x 2 sqm (20x10 square ft) Would be cool to have some schwag and maybe a flag or a banner for the show. It all depends on the fulfillment for Fedora. 7 Alex will re-confirm fedora budget with Red Hat and submit it to the SC and later, once SC goes over it and approves, we'll post it to the list. 8 as both gregdek__ and lxmaier have day jobs, we cannot guarantee timely delivery before we have a working fulfillment system. We were hoping we would have a working automated fulfillment system for ambassadors sooner... but it is not as easy as we all hoped. We are considering two fulfillment companies who can produce DVDs, CDs, t-shirts, pens, and anything else that can be manufactured, on demand for us. 9 email(a)fedoraproject.org it seems to be easy to do, but someone has to do it... and in all likelihood it will be sopwith :) That's largely waiting on a Fedora Infrastructure project to be completed. Elliot I guess hasn't returned from the holidays yet. 10 We have seen a lot of new recruits in the ambassadors team lately. We should encourage them to show up at the meetings. Please see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/HowTo for minimal requirements. All newbies, please be sure that if you are not active during your probation of 30 days, your status will remain "inactive" after this time, and no schwag will be sent to you until you begin to contribute actively to meetings, discussions, and wiki. One good place to contribute is http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/PressArchive in your local language. We need more articles on this page, and I know they are out there! 11 Alex has also pinged a few remaining folks without wiki pages to build them. We need to make sure all ambassadors are easily reachable by public, and a wiki page is essencial for this. 12 A note for the new ones in the meeting, the meeting times alterate each week, by 8 hours--to accommodate ambassadors in all the regions So the next meeting will be at 14:00 UTC, on thu, Jan 5 14 UTC = 9am Eastern = 15 CET -- Check out the new content on Fedora Project page! http://fedoraproject.org

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Online Shopping With Fedora Stuff
by Mauricio Pretto - LM² 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

Hi Guys, I dont know if this already has been discussed here, and if this is the right place to talk about this, but..... There is a online shopping site here in Brazil called LinuxMall (www.linuxmall.com.br) that sells Fedora stuff (t-shirts, pens, mugs and others), i dont know if they have autorization to do this, i guess they dont. I think we can talk with them and make part of this money be donnated to fedora project dont you think ? - http://www.linuxmall.com.br/index.php?category=canetas - http://www.linuxmall.com.br/index.php?category=camisetas - http://www.linuxmall.com.br/index.php?category=camisas Regards -- Mauricio Pretto Consultor de TI 51 8145-9781 LM² Consulting® http://www.lm2.com.br Porto Alegre : 51 3018-1007 São Paulo : 11 4062-9956 Plantão 24hs : 51 8145-2002

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Argentina and its culture
by Juan Lentino 31 Dec '05

31 Dec '05

Hey people... As Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay said "thanks for the poking"... I'm gonna talk about Argentina and its culture about Free and Commercial software. There are some people that have prejudice about free software. These people rather than buying the Commercial one, buy a pirate version of it. So, what's the deal with them? You can be shutted down if you get caught using illegal versions of Commercial software. That's why I'm a person that rely on something that people worked on and know that free software can be even more stable than Commercial one. Perhaps, the people down here expect too much or not but they think that having Commercial software legally or not (this is tricky, lol). Anyway... I'm very happy with FC4 and I'll try FC5 when the final release come out. Of course, it's a superb OS. I'm advising to people to download the ISOs or I'm delivering CDs to a small group of friends and stuff. And, of course, I'm trying to change the people that says free software is bad and you can't rely on. I already told them that free doesn't mean bad. Well... You can't change people but I'm trying. :) I'm gonna write more often, I promise. ;) -- Juan Martin Lentino juan.lentino(a)gmail.com

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] meeting notes fedora ambassadors Dec 22, 14:00 UTC
by Alex 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

Next meeting is Dec 29, 22:00 UTC Present: mjbrej, nman64, abompard, barz, thl, gja, gregdek, roozbeh, hornain, lxmaier Discussed: 1. Events 2. Ambassadors Steering Committee Events ------ Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006 Solutions Linux 2006 abombard is in charge, we most likely have missed the deadline. lxmaier will check with the organizers for a slot in the .org village, but we are not too hopeful. if all else fais, we will be on the local lug booth Feb 25-26, 2006 FOSDEM hornain has everything under control. will report to the list. Mar 28-30, 2006 LWCE Australia barz will find a volunteer or two to jump in and represent Fedora at this show. General Events Stuff 1. we all need to remember that two months befre a show is already too late to participate in most shows. 2. If transportation/accommodation expenses prevent Ambassadors from going to an event, Fedora will try to help with what little money we got. Do not expect to have all expenses covered, but we will try our best not to let you go bancrupt over an event :) Ambassadors Steering Committee As the Ambassadors' numbers grow, we need a few (very likely 7) people to step up and help lead the group--and we will call them "Steering Committee." The Committee will decide on things such as which events receive higher priority (in case of limited funds and materials available), will help set the guidelines for Ambassadors, will take care of meeting preparation, agenda, an protocol, and stuff like that. In general, SC will be the organ which will help us all function better and let us have a backup for Alex :) The members of the committee do not need to be affilliated with Red Hat or any other Fedora project. They need to be experienced enough to know what Fedora is and does, and what Ambassadors are supposed to be doing. Ambassadors program is a meritocracy, so the ones who have shown that they are actively doing the right thing will be best candidates. Everybody please think whether you have the time and resources necessary to be a member of the SC, and if you do, step up! If you wish to be on the committee, or if you wish to propose someone else, write a message to the list. We will be selecting committee members during the next meeting. -- Check out the new content on Fedora Project page! http://fedoraproject.org

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Opening a .org.ar about Fedora
by Juan Lentino 25 Dec '05

25 Dec '05

Hello, I registered www.fedoraproject.org.ar or something like that. Is there any problem with that? -- Juan Martin Lentino juan.lentino(a)gmail.com

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Re: LinuxWorld Install Pavilion
by Alex 24 Dec '05

24 Dec '05

This is great work Jack! Most awesome! What a great holiday present! If you need help from Fedora, just ask. Cheers, a On 12/23/05, Jack Aboutboul <jaboutboul(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 09:18 -0500, Melinda_Kendall(a)idg.com wrote: > > > > I'm in all day. How about 1:00? Though depending on when you get his, > > you can certainly try before that. > > > Hey Melinda, > > O.K. We are all set. We were just going through everything and making > sure we have all the pieces in place. Sorry I didn't get back to you > sooner, we have our weekly meetings on Thursday, so we finally only > heard back from everyone yesterday. As for the marketing material, this > is what we cam up with: > > ____________________________________________________________________ > New For 2006 > LinuxWorld Install Pavilion Sponsored by The Fedora Project and Pogo > Linux > > Interested in getting a taste of Linux on your personal machine? > Looking to deploy Linux at the office, but want to try it at home first? > Not sure how or where to get started? Let us help. > > Bring in your laptop and participate in the newly designed Linux Install > Pavilion, sponsored by the Fedora Project, and Pogo Linux. Get > Installation help and step-by-step guidance through common install > scenarios as well as provide tips, tricks and hints. Experienced > project members will be there to help you on your way to becoming a > Linux guru in no time! > _______________________________________________________________________ > > Optionally, you could change Linux guru to be Linux Master to sort of > cross promote the conference packages. > > Also, before we go ahead and finalize everything, we would like to > provide some mechanism for pre-registration, just so that we have an > idea of who will show up with what hardware. Would you guys be able to > accommodate that on the expo website, or would you prefer we host it on > the fedora website? > > Pending that, we are all set. The other major sponsors are Red Hat and > AMD. They will be providing giveaways as well as other technical > assistance. Other partners will be participating as well, but in a > smaller capacity. I am banking on this being a big success, and I know > it will not disappoint. > > Happy Holiday wishes, > Jack > > -- Check out the new content on Fedora Project page! http://fedoraproject.org

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Introducing myself
by marko milenkovic 24 Dec '05

24 Dec '05

Hello to all, My name is Marko I'm from Belgrade-Serbia. I'm studding and working at biggest Internet cable operator in Serbia as web developer. I started using Linux in 1999 it was the RedHAT 6.1. My professional interest are PHP, Java, DB2, SELinux and Fedora. Playing soccer and watching movies are my hobby's. CU around, -- ___________________________________________________ Marko Milenković e-mail: milenkovic.m(a)gmail.com web page: http://alas.matf.bg.ac.yu/~mr99268 public key: http://alas.matf.bg.ac.yu/~mr99268/linkservice?linkID=0001

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Introducing myself also
by John Chendra 23 Dec '05

23 Dec '05

Since it's like a new trend here, Let me take this chance to introduce myself too, I'm John Chendra from Makassar, Indonesia. A regular Fedora user and system/network administrator. This is my e-mail and I've done my wiki page a bit :) I've been here (on the list) for a few days, lurking, due to a lot of christmas related activities :-) Hoping to learn more about fedora as I represent it to the world and learn more about linux from experts here :-) Sorry for my not-so-good? english, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all. john -- http://john.chendra.net

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