ambassadors February 2007

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Fwd: Alex Maier's Retirement from FAMsco
by Thomas Chung 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

All, For those of us who knew Alex, she just announced her retirement from FAMSco. Let's give her a farewell and a well deserved applaud! Best Regards, ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alex Maier <lxmaier(a)gmail.com> Date: Feb 13, 2007 8:48 AM Subject: [Famsco-list] New horizons... or whatever To: famsco-list(a)redhat.com Folks, I think after being involved with the Ambassadors group for a year and a half, it is time for me to move on to new projects, and me being me, I would like to turn all of my attention to those new projects, and so I will have to retire from Famsco. What is it that I will do? For starters, I will try to streamline the package review process as to enable more people to thrash out the bugs faster, and to lower the entry barrier for them to do that. >From what I know about the package review so far, this will take a lot of time and concentration, and I would be lying if I promised to spend any time at all on the Ambassadors. Then there is a bunch of other stuff going on that I would like to get my hands dirty with--One Laptop Per Child is one, and my own art and photography projects, which I have only been able to pursue half-heartedly so far. So here, I am "retiring." Good luck gentlemen and keep the good work going! Thank you for all the good times, and for all your commitment. We will see each other :) Cheers, a -- Alex Maier Art and Photography http://amaier.net ---------- End Forwarded message ---------- -- Thomas Chung http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung

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Ambassadors' meeting reminder - Thursday 15th February 14.00 UTC
by Francesco Ugolini 14 Feb '07

14 Feb '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I want to remember all ambassadors that tomorrow there will be a meeting at 14.00 UTC in #fedora-mktg channel. I invite all to attend it to discuss about events, new projects etc... You can see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings/2007-02-14#preview, to see the agenda or to add new topics to this one. Thanks for your attention and thanks Alex for your great job here, hope to see you. Francesco Ugolini - -- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FrancescoUgolini -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF0y6lo7ksRmSqXkYRApY7AJwLlmqX22z7c40Dy+KjXM9Q8sac+ACgpkpL eLgORz3Y2uWhaYwnGaR9074= =iZpn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Ambassadors Report - SCALE5X
by Thomas Chung 14 Feb '07

14 Feb '07

All, Here is my report on SCALE5X[1] - Fifth Annual Southern California Linux Expo. According to recent announcement[2], there were over 1000 attendees in this year's event. Close to 70 exhibitors[3] including Non-Profit Organizations, Commercial Vendors and User Groups. This is my second year participation for Fedora Project[4] and I feel this year is much improved and crowded event than previous year. Also I was told this is the first time Red Hat[5]'s participation to this event. Our booth was manned by myself alone this year since I could not find any help or volunteers. Although a nice folk from CACert Booth (right behind our booth) was very helpful and even offered me to cover our booth while I need to take a short break. Also I would like to give special thanks to Jeff Carlson from SCALE staff who checked on me everyday if I need anything. This year, we've decided to accept contributions for Fedora Core 6 DVDs (x86, x86_64 and ppc) which was Max Spevack's idea. We accepted $1 for each DVD and $5 for custom built Fedora Updates DVD and Live CD. There were several people who just made donation without taking any media. We also offered a Drawing of Free Fedora T-Shirts for those contributed for media but most of them just wanted to order on the spot to support Fedora Project and Fedora Free Media Program[6] which all proceeds will go to this program. Overall, I had a great time even though I suffered a minor backache and lost my voice. Here are some photos[7] I took. The last photo is me in our booth sitting alone thinking how can we get booth babes, I mean more volunteers just like Google booth which was right next to our booth. :) [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/SCALE5X [2] http://mail.socallinuxexpo.com/pipermail/scale-announce/2007-February/00004… [3] http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale5x/exhibitions.php [4] http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale5x/exhibitions/fedora.php [5] http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale5x/exhibitions/redhat.php [6] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia [7] http://fedoranews.org/tchung/scale5x/ -- Thomas Chung http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung

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swag at FOSDEM
by Max Spevack 14 Feb '07

14 Feb '07

For the ambassadors who are doing FOSDEM: I have packed up several boxes, including: * several hundred FC6 DVDs (x86, x86_64, ppc) * a bunch of Fedora tshirts (L and XL) * a bunch of Fedora pens and stickers I am either going to have them shipped to FOSDEM or bring them with me on the plane. We need to plan to "ask for contributions" for this stuff at the booth, to help cover some of the costs for the event, and other events in Europe. So, I'm wondering what we should charge, and once we agree, if someone can volunteer to print up some papers that have the "suggested donation" on it: My first attempt: Pen or Sticker -- 1 euro DVD -- 2 euros Shirt -- 10 euros (is that too much?) Please offer your feedback. --Max -- Max Spevack + http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MaxSpevack + gpg key -- http://spevack.org/max.asc + fingerprint -- CD52 5E72 369B B00D 9E9A 773E 2FDB CB46 5A17 CF21

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Thomas Chung...
by Max Spevack 14 Feb '07

14 Feb '07

... is too modest to post this link himself, so I will. http://www.enblogopedia.com/2007/02/12/a-word-of-thanks/ :-) --Max -- Max Spevack + http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MaxSpevack + gpg key -- http://spevack.org/max.asc + fingerprint -- CD52 5E72 369B B00D 9E9A 773E 2FDB CB46 5A17 CF21

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Linuxtag in Germany
by Gerold 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

Hi Ambassadors, Linuxtag himself has opened his secrets to us :-) Linuxtag will be held ... Date: 2007-05-30 till 2007-06-02 Location: German capital city, Berlin We are looking and searching for people/Ambassadors who are willing to present Fedora at the booth, show users Fedora or only share the time with us and answer user questions ... If you like to participate do not hesitate and send me your personal details for better coordination ... Thanks in advance and see you latest at Berlin .. -- Regards Gerold Kassube Fedora Ambassador Deutschland / Germany Schweiz / Switzerland Email: GeroldKa(a)fedoraproject.org 1024D/F33128B9 4ABC A903 F1F4 D9CC C422 AACA EDF1 DF42 F331 28B9

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Issue about multimedia codes while migrating a music school to half Fedora, half Suse.
by Bart De Soete 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

Hi all, At this moment, I'm working hard on my current project which is migrating a music school from MS Windows XP (and for their servers: Windows Server 2003) to Fedora 6. However, there were already a few music tutors and staff familiar with openSUSE. They agreed to migrate for 100% to Linux, but preferred to use openSUSE. The migration went well if we speaking about basics, but one of the main issues are multimedia codecs. Multimedia is a very important aspect for the clients in that organisation. I gave them the Helix Banshee-player to play music and fixed the MP3-support-issue. However, they also want to be able to play following codecs: Movieformat: MPEG and likewise formats ?? DVD-format: 1) how to rip dvd's ? 2) how to watch the ripped VOB-files on hard disk, 'cause they 're standard not supported. Soundformat: WMA and likewise formats ?? I tried already a few things, but Banshee, Totem and Real-player always are giving the same error: you need to install a plugin to play this format. I installed the w32codec-all which should contain Win32 and other binary codecs, but NO RESULT. Can someone help me? Kind regards, -- --- Bart De Soete, Fedora Ambassador – Belgium

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FOSDEM scheduling
by Max Spevack 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

So, I have some questions about making sure our time at FOSDEM is spent as well as possible. I'm sending this to ambassadors-list because I don't want to leave off people who will be at FOSDEM from the list, if I sent the email separately. So, my personal schedule: * Arrive in Brussels Thursday morning after an all night flight. I will spend the day resting and being a tourist. * Friday - Is there a Fedora event happening, or are we all going to meet at the CentOS/Fedora event? - Are we going to the "official" beer night? - I'd like to talk with Chitlesh about the presentation that he and I are "sharing" on Saturday to make sure we know what we're going to say. * Saturday and Sunday - In the booth/devroom - Dinner after the event for the Fedora folks? Things that need to be scheduled: 1) Gerold wants to have a general meeting about Fedora. That's something we can do over dinner one night, perhaps. 2) When is the Fedora/OpenSUSE meeting? 3) I personally want to make time to chat with some of the CentOS folks, but I'm not worried about finding time for that. -- Max Spevack + http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MaxSpevack + gpg key -- http://spevack.org/max.asc + fingerprint -- CD52 5E72 369B B00D 9E9A 773E 2FDB CB46 5A17 CF21

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Accomodation during FOSDEM
by Pawel Sadowski 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

Hi, I have a great news, as I'm going at FOSDEM :) I have just one problem right now... Does anybody know a place when I could have an accomodation from Thursday to Monday? Possibly cheap of course ;) Regards, Pawel

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Short info about Linux Solutions Event (France)
by Armelk (AKServer) 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

Good afternoon Fedora Community, the last week we have in France the major event about the Open Source and Linux (10 000 Visitors). In this event the major companies are present (RedHat, Novell, Mandriva, IBM Open Source, Alcove, Bull,...) and in parallel a lot of free associations or development are present to (Fedora, Debian, Unbutu, KDE,...) During this event a lot of French Fedora Ambassadors are present and the Fedora Users are present to. We have a lot of very interesting discussions about the future of Fedora, issues, requests, .... It's very interesting time for the Fedora French community to share the same knowledge and the same passion. In the Linux community, we have a very good image and Fedora is a serious distribution. But the French Ambassador Team doesn't play in the same division of Unbutu, Debian,... WHY ? No real support from the Fedora US, we waiting the Fedora DVD and Fedora T-Shirt. Special thank to RedHat EMA, Frantz Meyer, William Hoffman, for 100 Fedora Core 6 DVD. This is the second time we have the same issue with the Famsco, lot of promise but nothing in the acts. The French ambassadors are really despites. I cross the fingers for the next event WE have a VERY STRONG SUPPORT from the Famsco side, for your info, in France during the spring we have a lot of local events (Install Party, Linux Day,...) and the next major event for you is the Fosdem/Fudcon and I 'sorry I don't participate at this event. Have a nice day. ArmelKermorvant French Ambassador & Vice-President Fedora-FR

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