ambassadors March 2006

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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] Talk at the BLUG
by Tejas Dinkar 08 Apr '06

08 Apr '06

As I said yesterday, I gave a 15 min speed talk at My Lug (The Bangalore LUG) on the new Fedora Core 5. The wiki page upload is cursed, and everytime I try to upload my slides, my router gets disconnected, or my power goes, so I will upload them later. For now, you can get some photos. All photos of the whole meet here: http://blug.in/image/tid/17 A Photo of Me, with my talk is here: http://blug.in/node/155 In particular, during my talk, I stressed on how Fedora Core 5 has dramatically improved for the Laptop. The photo of the demo I gave is here: http://blug.in/node/159 And apart from this, the slides will be up soon. The talk itself was aimed to help train *speakers* in my lug. Sort of Like American Idol style. At the end, I was told that I gave my talk a bit too fast, so that is something I need to work on. Gja PS: These Guys are the Local Gentoo Fanatics, watch out for them ;) http://blug.in/node/165

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Questions
by Gerold 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

Hi all! as you all have read, we've canceled our participation at Linuxtag 2006 in Germany, Wiesbaden due to the fact, that this is to expensive for all and we haven't a budget for that by now! But there is no doubt, that we need to organize a FUDCon later on in the year; after the football world championship as a trinational event between FRANCE, GERMANY and SWITZERLAND. But for now I need to get the following information from you all: How many auditorium do we need? How many addional rooms? How many tables and booths? How many people will attend approximate? Please feel free and give me all information you have that we can arange a great FUDCon in EMEA ... Thanks in advance and happy new FC5 :-) -- Regards Gerold Kassube Fedora Ambassador Deutschland / Germany Email: GeroldKa(a)fedoraproject.org 1024D/F33128B9 4ABC A903 F1F4 D9CC C422 AACA EDF1 DF42 F331 28B9

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Fedora in a dance programme for 30 seconds
by Kushal Das 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Hi, My tentant's daughter will have a dance programme in her college. So, I did some small mixing (songs) for her using audacity in fedora and I asked her to talk about fedora (for at least 30 seconds) after her performance. :) She also asked me to talk with their principal about any future program in their college. Reards, Kushal

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Re: My status and some other stuff
by mosp 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

>You want to build a new marketing specific website something like >http://www.spreadfirefox.com/. can we talk more about in the marketing >list before getting involved in the cost discussion? > >Rahul I want to build something in Swedish, maybe like the one you mentioned. I have some ideas for how things should be. I will sign up to the marketing list as soon as possible.. Mikael

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Breaking an ambassador rule?
by Wassim K. 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello everybody! I should invite people and encourage them to use Fedora, however, there are forbidden items I should avoid to talk about: [quote] You really should not be directing people to copyright infringing code with your Fedora Ambassador hat on. This means, that with the exception of what we provide in Fedora Core, or Fedora Extras, you are not to be telling people to go and get other 3rd party applications (that can read their PDFs better, or play their illegal MP3 music). Pointing them to a resource like Google, or the FedoraFAQ might be a good idea, but don't send them to a third-party repository. [/quote] If I respect this rule, I will lose users. Most of my friends and people I meet don't (or did not) know anything about Fedora, and if I tell them "google for this", this won't help me a lot. I explain: In Tunisia, piracy is not a tabu thing: there're no "digital" laws, and even if there are, they are not seriously respected. Thus, anyone can get CD's of Windows, Office, Adobe and Macromedia softwares, development environment (Visual Studio and so), etc. All this stuff for less than $10! This is not really clandestine, since you may find in Tunis hundreds of shops where it's written "gravure logiciels pour 1 dinar". What I wanted to say, is that "restrictions" and fairness won't convert curious and hesitating people; besides, if they have to use Linux, they automatically choose Mandriva and SuSe: they like their interfaces! Here are some frequent answers when I talk about restrictions in Fedora: "Why do I have to care about USA? Do I seem to live there? They even refused to me a student visa" "With Linux, I can't play my favorite games, do you want me to forget my favorite music too?" "If you offer me an OGG player, then I will convert all my MP3's to OGG" "It's the first time that I legally get a DVD, and I'm not allowed to watch it?""I paid $500 for this camera, I want at least to watch scenes I made" There are more serious ones: "I use J2E for living; if I migrate from Windows, then I have to find Sun's Java on the other OS" I can't say that I haven't broken this condition; yes, I did, otherwise, people would not accept to install Fedora: I have a CD containing only a tarball archive and a bash script, if you execute the script, it will install everything missing in /usr/local , and I admit it's one of the points that made me succeed to promote and spread Fedora around friends and people asking for help. I'm not doing a mea culpa, but I think that I have to inform Fedora ambassadors about my infraction, if you may call it so. Nothing is illegal anyway: There's no law here that prohibits using MP3; besides, according to the licenses, I'm allowed to copy and distribute the non open source softwares "as is". What do you think, dear ambassadors, and what ideas do you suggest? Attracting people, event if they are not that serious, or sermonizing, which makes them escape? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFELTpssBDlgRgEI4IRAu75AKDRNHRzwdMd6kwdu+c+ynlaqylJVACaA+OQ KQDmAyNbCwnskUvIf/fEIb0= =674Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. -- Albert Einstein

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Ambassadors Meeting Minutes 2006-03-30
by Thomas Chung 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

Here is the meeting minutes for this morning's Ambassadors meeting: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings/2006-03-30 See you in two weeks! -- Thomas Chung http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Absence to this and next week meeting
by Francesco Ugolini 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

Sorry but i can't follow the ambassador meeting in those two week because i'm in Rome and then in Innsbruck and Munich for work. I can follow the newsletter thanks to business laptop (but i don't have propretary access to install irc :( ). So thanks for your patience. Francesco Ugolini

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] My status and some other stuff
by mosp 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

Hi! I have had some serios problems with FC5 and havent been able to reply to anything on the list. Here are some updates on my last post on the list and some thoughts/requests. --- My Status as an ambassador --- Sorry Alex for not replying to you message on my ambassador status. My computer crashed and i lost that list. Anyhow, i have decided to stay and to do what i can. I have signed up for the project that Clair mentioned to me about. Mainly now i am focusing on how i can do my work as an ambassador. Mainly i would need a professional website to get where i need to be. Other than that i will continue with what i have been doing. I will not attend that many meetings. Mostly because of lack of time, but also because they dont really help or give me anything useful. --- Distributing dvd's --- Attended last meeting and followed the discussion on dvd's being distributed. I really dont care how or where these are distributed. What i do care about are that if these dvd's are handed out or mailed somewhere, these cds have to look professional. We really need to have an image that will be printed on every dvd distributed that makes it look manufactured (take a look at the ubuntu project) A homeburned dvd with some simple print on it is really bad. That doesnt look good at all. And can basically hurt Fedora Core. I have seen and heard people talk about these things and a simple print is just as bad as if you write Fedora Core on the dvd with a marker. --- Help with marketing/support --- I really need some help with builing an base for fedora. A website with a proper domain. And considering that the government is taking most of my income i cant pay this myself. Is there any possibility to get help with domainregistration and webhotell fees? I can talk to companies about the price so it wont be expensive. This would make a huge difference from how things are today. I dont have the proper channels to promote fedora. No way to do this in a professional way. Thats all for now! Best regards, Mikael Jacobsson (mosp) Fedora Core Sweden

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] I'm on Holiday!!!
by Tejas Dinkar 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

Hey all, I'm going to be unavailable until the 10th, as I'm going on holiday. I WILL have limited access to gmail, so if you have the sudden urge to flame me, or to generally get my attention, please send a mail to tejasdinkar AT gmail DOT com, or CC me if you are sending to the list. Thanks a Load Gja

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