ambassadors March 2006

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Getting Fedora ISO images before release
by Pawel Sadowski 11 Mar '06

11 Mar '06

Hi, I have a question in connection with upcoming Fedora Core Open Days. It'll be unpossible to send us Fedora DVDs with the new FC5. Hence my question: will it possible to download Fedora Core 5 before the official release, I mean 16-17 march. We would burn it on our owns and could hand out during FCOD. Maybe it could be possible to give us acccess to some server which we could download the new Fedora from? Regards, Pawel Sadowski

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] A new version of beta1 (codename beta4)
by Francesco Ugolini 11 Mar '06

11 Mar '06

I've made a new version of the beta1 banner. The next banner will be avaible later. Thanks very much for your feedback. Francesco Ugolini

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Marketing call to action.
by Robert 'Bob' Jensen 11 Mar '06

11 Mar '06

Hi All, Sorry I am cross posting this between the marketing list and ambassadors list. Please reply on the marketing list if you would. I am of the opinion that the marketing project has been allowed to die and be carelessly replaced by the Ambassadors project that was born from the marketing project. I see that we can do things several ways. We can continue on ignoring the Fedora community posting requests for input to the private ambassadors list that a small number will ever see or we can be sure to become active in the marketing list involving the community as a whole in how Fedora is marketed. Why have the private list? The privacy of the Ambassadors list has a purpose and should be maintained in my opinion. One of the things it was designed to do is help protect the limited advertising resources of the Foundation by preventing the pilfering of media and other goodies like t-shirts. However much of the "noise" on this list in the past could have been better with community input from the marketing list. What can the marketing list bring that the ambassadors can not? The marketing list can bring greater visibility from the community by being a public sounding board for ideas. Many of these ideas can be hashed out in public, refined in private and still have the "splash" that may be desired. I would urge all ambassadors to be part of the greater marketing list and also to avoid cross posting of information between the lists unless it is absolutely needed. Fedora is a community driven project, in fact community may very well be the most important part of Fedora. If the Ambassadors are to take over all the marketing in private we are in my opinion destined for failure. We will have removed the community from the drivers seat and made it a second class passenger. -- Robert 'Bob' Jensen <marketing-list(a)fedoralinks.org> Fedora Marketing Projects

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] irc support for upcoming fc5 release
by Rudolf Kastl 10 Mar '06

10 Mar '06

Hello List! As the new fc5 release will come out next week i am pretty sure that irc support questions will reach its peaks on the releaseday to the end of the upcoming weekend, so i decided to take the next week off work and will be (as earlier when i was less involved) available for support on irc with a guess rate of around 12 hours/day until the end of the weekend after the upcoming fc5 release to support and channelize bug reports with proper debug infos towards bugzilla. In my eyes "presence" and "help" is a very good marketing factor when it comes especially to new but generally computer experienced end users. Mouth to mouth propaganda is the most effective advertizing you can get in my eyes. Hence why i report this to this list at all. >From my personal experience most users that survive the first few weeks will stay atleast for a while with what they get since we all know fedora is a really sweet desktop product. I know there are various people offering good help on the irc support channel but i ask myself if it would help to "organize" that more. Like with a "voluntarys schedule". Whats your opinion about that? regards, Rudolf Kastl

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Ambassadors meeting notes March 9, 2006, 22-23:30 UTC
by Alex 10 Mar '06

10 Mar '06

17:00:15 -- Meeting start Present: lxmaier: AlexMaier GeroldKa: GeroldKassube tchung: ThomasChung ke4qqq: DavidNalley MrTom: ThomasCanniot [splinux]: DamienDurand FrancescoUgolini: FrancescoUgolini gregdek_home: GregDeKoenigsberg BobJensen: BobJensen puneet_batura: PuneetBatura fusion94: TonyGuntharp Regrets: greendesease: JackAboutboul Schedule posted on: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Schedule item 1: Review upcoming events (90 days) 1.1 Mar 12, 2006 Local organisation, AREL France, Revin: Explanation of "what is a free software?" + Demo of FC5 with Kadischi + Flyers. This event is announced here on the agenda du libre website Owner: ThomasCanniot Status: Everything is ready from the event organizer MrTom: well i just learned about this event this week... but everything seems to be ok for the moment. i won't be able to take my computer and i will only be able to show fedora through livecd. i will use the flyer in french, for the media it's far too late. it will be a booth for a complete organisation, not only for fedora. the organisation will promote free software and i will promote fc among them MrTom: the local lug does not exist yet on this area in France, but people are working on it MrTom: AREL is an organisation that works for education and entertainment. they are organising the event on sunday, which will bring many organisation of the area MrTom: i'll take photos as in FOSDEM, as much as i can 1.2 Mar 13-16, 2006 Jornada de Divulgacion Bogota, Colombia - A whole day organized for an Recognized University in Colombia for conferences on subjects related to Open Source Software as well as telecommunications, medical artificial intelligence and computer science. It will have universities of the country and the world. http://www.sistemasunbosque.edu.co and http://www.equisl.org Owner: JoseTarazona Owner not present 1.3 Mar 18-19, 2006 Fedora Core Open Days: The first event of this kind in Poland. It will be a conference connected with users and sympathizers meeting, setting Fedora promotion as a main goal. Rybnik, Poland. Owner: MateuszHalaba, PawelSadowski If anyone is interested in participating, please contact one of the ambassadors involved. Official site: http://fcod.b7.pl pawel and mattheusz both not present 1.4 Mar 18-19, 2006 glugc FLOSS Meet 2006 GNU/Linux Users Group Calicut (glugc) (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/glugc ) has been working inside the campus to promote FOSS. glugc successfully conducted FLOSS Meet 2005, a seminar on Free/Libre and Open Source Software. NIT Calicut is participating in FOSS Month 2006 (glugc FLOSS Meet 2006 will be a part of the FOSS Month celebrations). Owner: KushalDas Kushal will conduct the BoF kushal is not present 1.5 Mar 25, 2006 FLISOL 2006 (Brazil - DF) FLISOL stands as Latin-America's Free Software Installation Festival (http://test.installfest.info/FliSol), and aims to install as many systems with Linux and free software. Also, there is minu-courses and speakings. It happens in many cities and countries and happens in the same day. Owner: HugoCisneiros HugoCisneiros will present a talk about the Fedora Project and will distribute Fedora LiveCDs in Brasilia, DF (local page) Owner not present 1.6 Apr 3-6, 2006 LinuxWorld Boston 2006 Boston, MA, USA - LinuxWorld US: See LinuxWorld/LinuxWorldBoston2006. Owners: MatthewMiller, JackAboutboul Owners will contact JesseKeating or local PC vendor about hardware needed for the booth. Matthew will conatct JackAboutboul about registering for free booth. Apr 7, 2006 FUDCon Boston 2006 Boston, MA, USA - Sequel to the first FUDCon: See FUDCon/FUDConBoston2006 Owners: MatthewMiller, JackAboutboul We're still looking for speakers and papers. Help wanted. Greg and Alex will support wherever they can. In absense of owners, gregdek_home will give an update gregdek_home: We've got a full slate of speakers. Just need to update the page accordingly and start advertising. If Jack doesn't pick this up in the next day or two, I've got it. LWCE is all set too. tchung: I've been working with Jack on Wiki page so I'll contact him again for the Schedule 1.7 Apr 11, 2006 Local LUG - Campux France, Lille. Owner: ThomasCanniot Have to translate presentation, and don't think i need any schwag. 20-25 people will be attending. MrTom: ok, aurelien bompard send me his french presentation. i will certainly switch to the new template we had on the list. i don't think new fc5 media will be ready for this date, if they can, i may ask for some. however, it will be the same receipe, flyers, livecd ... :) if media are not available i'll burn some dvd myself 1.8 Apr 19-22, 2006 FISL 7.0 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil - 7th International Free Software Forum: This is the biggest conference for IT Infrastructure and Developers in Brazil. See FISL for more description. Owner: RodrigoPadula See FISL for status. rodrigo isn't present and nobody from his region is 1.9 May 3-6, 2006 LinuxTag/FUDCon Wiesbaden 2006 Wiesbaden, Germany - LinuxTag Germany: See FUDCon/FUDConWiesbaden2006 Owners: GeroldKassube, FlorianBrand Help wanted and needed GeroldKa: we don't have the booth really approved by Linuxtag, and I'm not really sure; we should attend lxmaier: tchung: linuxtag is putting us under pressure to make sure red hat pays up. we are working to some funding from rhat. and also i have a contact to a large corporation, hope they will throw us a chunk of money too lxmaier: There is some good new though: I have a tentative okay for holding the FUDCon at the Heinrich Heine University of Duesseldorf--which leaves us with more options, shall LinuxTag decide to be uncooperative. GeroldKa: for me it's very difficult to have the contact to Linuxtag, because they don't know me and they want to see money from Red Hat. and I belive if they don't see money from Red Hat they'll say "you're not a free project." gregdek_home: We need to make a call. And it sounds like LinuxTag is going to be an Ubuntu love fest anyway. Would we rather try to put on a Fedora-only event? ke4qqq: typically in the US when con organizers behave badly like that forking the event normally takes care of things. gregdek_home: We should not have our event on the same date though. We don't want to make the community choose--but we do want our own event, our own way, and I don't think we should submit to being blackmailed. GeroldKa: debian is also not at Linuxtag, and opensuse will also not be registered till today. They have invited 50 open source projects, but not OpenSuse, Novell, Debian, Fedora, Red Hat 1.10 May 15-16, 2006 LinuxWorld Italy 2006 Milan, Italy - LinuxWorld Italy Owners: FrancescoUgolini, AndreaMaurizioGnerre Andrea has contacted the organization of the event. They moved to a sponsorized event format. I have prices for that if anybody is interested. FrancescoUgolini: i've talk with maurizio, i don't know some of specifics, i've only started to talk about the problem, but we are discussing about this event. i will tell about this event in the m-list in a few days lxmaier: we are finished with the events for the next 90 days item 2 Promotional material for Kadischi Owner: DavidNalley Time-critical. Within 10 days maximum. Will have to be ready for FC5 Compilation of material like presentations, help and videos would be good ke4qqq: 2 videos are done....http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kadischi/Videos and the balance should be up tonight. additional promotional materials for inclusion on the livecd will hopefully be up for review tonight/tomorrow morning item 3 A tour at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tours/FedoraCore5 Owners: RahulSundaram, FrancescoUgolini, and anyone interested Time critical. Within 10 days maximum. Will have to be ready for FC5. FrancescoUgolini: i have post the banner in the m-list, i'm working on it. If is possible i would to know if it's the good way. I will publish my graphics on the wiki after i finsh to install the system update item 4 Video contest Owner: AlexMaier Shortly after FC5 release: Announce and conduct a short video contest. What we need to figure out: - Format (currently OGG, all agree?) - Max file size (currently 10M, all agree?) - Submission guidelines (AlexMaier needs to draft) - Prize (no idea, but needs to be spiffy and not too expensive) lxmaier: i have a half-finished draft i need to finish and submit to the list. A discussion about movie requirements was held--to be continued on the list item 5 Schwag pipeline and a Standard Ambassadors Survival Kit Owner: GregDeKoenigsberg End of March 2006: Need to make sure that the schwag pipeline is functional. This is separate from the actual stuff we send; this is just making sure that the stuff we send actually gets to the places it needs to go. We need a standard "kit" for all Ambassadors; DVDs, promotional materials, and schwag gregdek_home stepped out item 6 Standard design elements for all Fedora pages Owner: AlexMaier April 1, 2006: Need to create a set of design elements such as backgrounds, icons, CSS style sheets, etc for use across all Fedora-affilliated pages to improve the brand identity lxmaier: i have it all almost done. we will soon have photoshop files for a set of unified icons and buttons and backgrounds and such for use on all fedora pages. we will edit them and store on our site for download as pngs or so. we also plan to create a suggested css style sheet. BobJensen: what does this have to do with Ambassadors? lxmaier: it has to do with ambassadors who run fedora pages on their own, soon they will be able to make their pages look like fedora BobJensen: shouldn't such a project be addressed by the marketing list for input? lxmaier: okay, we'll move this to the list lxmaier: we have covered all topics for which the owners were present. the meeting is officially adjourned at 18:05:48

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Attachments to the list
by Rahul Sundaram 10 Mar '06

10 Mar '06

Hi Its great to see the flurry of new activity in the list and contributions but if you are collecting feedback or presenting any material to the list, dont send in attachments. It would be good to upload them in your personal space in any website or within the Fedora project wiki and then drop in a link to the list. Its a good idea not to fill in people's mail boxes with huge attachments and it would generally be better for quick feedback to send in links instead. Thanks. -- Rahul

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Open Text template
by Gerold 10 Mar '06

10 Mar '06

Hi, based on the graphics "some hours" ago which were send by David Barzilay I created a small Impress template ... Feel free for use it if you want to ... -- 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] Vrtual Meet- A thought!
by puneet batura 10 Mar '06

10 Mar '06

Hi all, I just wanted to have u r valuable feedback on a thought regarding: Since we all are associated with Linux Users Group in one way or the other hence we can have local LUGS meeting scheduled on the IRCs ( thats what i have named as virtual meet!) and can invite other countries fedora ambassadors to those virtual meets to spread Fedora there like a guest speaker. So everytime there's a new fedora ambassador(key attraction) joining in to give his/her valuable views . I think that will make LUGS more functional and we can reach more and more people with the word FEDORA at large.. Waiting for your valuable feedbacks..... -- Regards, Puneet Batura Open Source Developer

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Live : promotional material
by Chitlesh GOORAH 09 Mar '06

09 Mar '06

Hai there, Following the promotional material on the livecd, and refering to a previous mailing discussion, we decided to add promotional material of Fedora on the desktop of the fedora live cd (beta) We, DavidNalley and I decided to work on 2 items: item 1 : videos DavidNalley will come with some updates soon. item 2 : select appropriate presentations/handouts to display on the livecd and the kadischi impress document. concerning this part, Ive chosen the handouts in french and english as well as greg's linuxasia presentation. by the way, that presentation is great :) gregdek +1 I was thinking about to add only the presentations made on 2006 ! what do you think knowing the fact that its a FC5 livecd? If translators can translate the handouts in other languages it would be great too :) Too many materials would burst a 700mb CD :( So we must choose the appropriate one. If I missed some important materials, do point them to me because I would that the livecd might be helpful to any ambassador during their conference or events/shows. here is a screenshot of how it will be: http://www.flickr.com/photos/29842792@N00/108925615/ but as you can see the index.html file is not so pretty, im calling for "visual" enhancements :) this index.html will contain links of videos, handouts and presentations (in pdf) as you can see . if anyone wants share an enhanced index.html with more relevant contents, she/he is welcome. (ive attached my lame index.html to this mail) Im looking forward to upload another livecd by tomorrow night (im not promising anything). an english version this times :) I can see many will smile :) Yes, there are some updates compared to the first beta, I don't know whether you tried it or not. Chitlesh GOORAH ps: im not uploading my fedora approuved logo. I think you do have one already :) -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Banner concept
by Francesco Ugolini 09 Mar '06

09 Mar '06

i've made three banner, they use the same fonts and color, the main change consist on the size and the type, now tell me about them.

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