ambassadors April 2006

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Fedora Arts - DVD - T-shirts - Banner - Flyer
by Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi People!!!! These are the arts created for FISL (Brasil). Fedora Banner (120cm x 90cm ) - - www.projetofedora.org/arquivos/fisl/fedora_banner.jpg Fedora DVD (FEDORA CORE 5) - - www.projetofedora.org/arquivos/fisl/fedora_dvd.jpg Fedora Flyer - - www.projetofedora.org/arquivos/fisl/fedora_flyer.jpg Fedora t-shirt Black (S,L,XL) - - www.projetofedora.org/arquivos/fisl/blackt.jpg Fedora t-shirt White (S,L,XL) - - www.projetofedora.org/arquivos/fisl/blankt.jpg Artwork by Jayme Ayres (jayme.ayres AT gmail.com) - - http://jaymeayres.orgfree.com/ - -- +================================================+ RODRIGO PADULA DE OLIVEIRA (o- MESTRANDO EM ENGENHARIA DE SISTEMAS //\ LINHA DE PESQUISA: BANCO DE DADOS V_/_ COPPE/UFRJ PostgreSQL - PHP - WML - Linux +================================================+ Embaixador do Fedora Core no Brasil http://www.projetofedora.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEPWIYPg3HAC1vlg4RAu9qAJ9UUYI1eIDQHiSVHEqiqzy8DQaIcwCdGUqH h/hiP5smdiwkKzWvi1E+Viw= =BMRN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Meeting Reminder: Thursday, April 13, 2006, 14:00 UTC
by Alex 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

The next meeting will be at 2006-04-13 14:00 UTC Be there or else! :) Cheers, a -- Check out the new content on Fedora Project page! http://fedoraproject.org

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Lille (France) presenation report
by Thomas Canniot 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

Hi everybody, I gave yesterday evening a presentation of the Fedora Project thanks to Aurelien Bompart's slides. This was my first experience in presenting the Project publicly, as if it was a kind of session. It happened during the monthly LUG meeting called "Les Mardis du Libre" (Free Tuedays). About 15 people were attending, regular ones -with their very good knowloedge of the open-source movement- and new ones as well. Some regular ones, essentially gentoo and debian users, were constantly attacking me gentily about some aspects of the distribution : Fedora and Red Hat : Beeing with Red Hat is a bad thing from their point of view, because fedora is controlled by RH and is not independant. I kept on telling them it is a good thing because of the support, infrastructure, development, money, guidelines (...) RH is giving to Fedora. They were hard to convinced on this topic. They were arguing that Debian was surviving thanks to its ideas and ideals, but one of them told that there were a lot of money on Debian bank accounts as well. :) They were as well very doubtless about the fact that Fedora is including bleeding edge technologies and still remains stable AND easy to use. I could only tell them to try Fedora :) During an explanation about Core and Extras and about the duplication apps moving to Extras, Someone asked me if KDE would one day be slipped into Extras. I said "probably, or probably not, the question is still pending." Well i knew most of the guys that were there, they were testing me harshly and teasing me a lot, even if their questions sometinmes were really good questions about the distro and the way we work. Thomas Canniot

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] RedHat v/s Fedora Events
by Chitlesh GOORAH 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

Fedora might not have a booth as .org (here in Strasbourg, France), great !!!! After more than two hours of discussion (on thursday night) with local LUGs members about Fedora's presence as an organization, it might happened that I can't convince my lugs members (and myself). I WAS introduced to the Fedora Project. It all started with : https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-April/msg00016.ht… (which I haven't read before) versus the initial objectives of the Fedora Project. Below are some of the topics discussed, please don't try to fool me around with URLS. I've already made myself a fool today, (thanks) and if there's no CONCRETE information given to Fedora Ambassadors, personally The Fedora Ambassador project needs to be revised. I've nothing against with Red Hat but instead I feel that Fedora is making a fool out of us, free contributors. #001 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/UnleashKDE KDE will be Extras soon for the release of Fedora Core 7, according to UnleashKDE. Really unleash isn't the right word here, it sounds like DUMPING KDE. Question 1a: The Fedora Project is a community driven project, sponsored by Red Hat. But here, it shows clearly that there are 2 groups, Red Hat and Community. In this wiki page, there's a lot of 'Red Hat's. Answer 1a: To answer this Q1, I've listed the authors on this wiki page : RahulSundaram : (starter) Red Hat Rex Dieter : Community PatrickBarnes : Community, I guess from my private chat on IRC with him. Question 1b: Fedora Ambassadors are requested to stay neutral concerning KDE and GNOME. It is clear that moving KDE from Core to Extras this is not Neutral!! Answer 1b: It doesn't make any difference because anaconda will have integrated features to choose Extras packages during the Install. Personal thoughts: Fedora will turn out to be like Ubuntu, where there will be paid developpers from Canonical to work on gnome. And also this contradicts greg's words on the Umeet Conference: http://umeet.uninet.edu/umeet2005/talks/?lang=en&s=fedora @gregdek * And Fedora Ambassadors, in which we encourage individuals to be advocates for Fedora, Linux and open source in their communities, and to whom we provide as much support as we can in doing these things. This means that we, the community and Fedora ambassadors, shall advocate KDE with Fedora, since there sounds like to be a division between Red Hat and Community. Ambassadors were once told in the Ambassador wiki page to redirect any discussions concerning RedHat towards RedHat representatives. This statement is not longer available on the wiki. Why ? #002 -- #004 TO BE CONTINUED !! Just to end (for today), how can the community help the project if event organizers such as Linuxtag (Wiesbaden) does not consider Fedora as an organisation ? It's true that now, Mac's email is supporting Linuxtag's statement. Chitlesh GOORAH -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Requesting a set of DVD-iso & CD-iso's
by Kevin Verma 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

Hello, I'll like to have a bit of help to receive a set of DVD iso and a set of CD isos of FC5 so I can replicate those on my own for local distribution at my talks, I did downloaded a DVD iso but that was with a broken SHA1SUM so can not be relied upon. I am located in India > Punjab , full address is as below, please post in response here before you post those to me so that we don't see un-necessary copies being sent to me. 416, St. No.2, Sunder Nagri, Abohar (Punjab) 152116 Many Thanks, Kevin Verma

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Re: Representing Fedora Project @ Techfest 06, DAVIET, Jalandhar, India
by Kevin Verma 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

Hello, This is to follow up on the announce of my talk earlier. this was delivered in presence of some 300+ audience at DAVIET, Jalandhar (Punjab) India. There is an Fedora Install fest due ahead on April 11th at DAVIET, Jalandhar. Cheers, Kevin On 4/4/06, Kevin Verma <kevinverma(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > This is to inform you all that I've been invited to give a > talk/presentation about Fedora at Subjected event, its starting today > and runs till tomorrow (4th - 5th April) > > Fedora Talk is tomorrow on 5th of April, the organizers seems a bit > running it all on a very short notice so there is a web site but not > much detail of the event, you might like to check that out: > http://www.techkriti.info/home.php > > I'll report how it goes, but maybe I should prepare the presentation first :) > > Cheers, > KEvin >

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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] Resources for FISL - Porto Alegre - Brasil
by Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I need a reply urgently about the resources for the FISL. We have only one week to make the shirts, banners, flyers and DVDs - -- +================================================+ RODRIGO PADULA DE OLIVEIRA (o- MESTRANDO EM ENGENHARIA DE SISTEMAS //\ LINHA DE PESQUISA: BANCO DE DADOS V_/_ COPPE/UFRJ PostgreSQL - PHP - WML - Linux +================================================+ Embaixador do Fedora Core no Brasil http://www.projetofedora.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFENmFtPg3HAC1vlg4RAmC+AJ9O8KeSCr235CG6NSNuyrrQi1fUuQCfYoX0 vtt0mBzoGVZR5wFZFDj/8RI= =BzYt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Presenting Myself
by Othon Batista 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

Hi, I'm a professor at two universities in Salvador/BA, Brazil. Responsible for two Fedora Core Linux Labs, one in each university. We have a free software group in both universities, and I do my best to spread Fedora Project. And I teach a course denominated Operating System Administration, in which Fedora Core Linux is the main subject. Soon, we'll have a national free software festival and I'll surely talk about Fedora. By the way, I'm in the Free Media Project and I have a suggestion for the ambassadors that do it too: we need a design to put in the DVD labels and boxes that we send. An amateur design may compromise Fedora Project. If we already have it, please tell me how to get it. Regards, -- Othon Batista (othonbatista(a)gmail.com) Computer Science MSc

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Problem
by Merlin 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

Hello We have in zabrze a club for children, they paint and do homowork in it. I want to learn children about linux but they dont have money for buy a computer for them, I look for same people who want to give a money for 5 or 6 computers do you now any sponosrs who can be interested in??

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