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Ambassadors' meeting reminder - Thursday 15th March 14.00 UTC
by Francesco Ugolini 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

I want to remember all ambassadors that tomorrow there will be a meeting at 14.00 UTC in #fedora-meeting channel. I invite all to attend it to discuss about events, new projects etc... Http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings/2007-03-15 to see the agenda or to add new topics to this one. Thanks for your attention Francesco Ugolini -- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FrancescoUgolini

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Introduction to Fedora-fr
by Thomas Canniot 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

OK, here is a mail to respond to several topics which seems to be in many people minds. *First, let me re-introduce you the Fedora-fr Community, the "Who-are-you" question.* Fedora-fr.org is a community website whose aim is to promote Fedora. It is lead mostly by active Ambassadors. It is made of a forum, several mailing lists, an IRC channel on Freenode and a local documentation project. There are at the moment more than 9000 members subscribed to our forums. On these forums, we help people if they have problems and questions about the distro, obviously, but we also help people creating their own RPM to help them participating into Fedora Extras. We have also about 15 people contributing to the local documentation project. Fedora-fr is also the area where French Ambassadors are altogether. There are 13 active ambassadors. On Sundays, they meet themselves to discuss the promotion of the distro at a local scale, but also the main decisions taken by the Project in general. *What are you doing?* We are actively promoting the distribution. How are we doing this ? First, we created a strong community website. People can share their thoughts about Fedora, with the forums, the IRC or the blog platform. Finally, Ambassadors and involved people also go to different events. They first met during a big install party which happened in October 2006. And this year, Fedora was officially represented by some ambassadors (6) at the biggest Linux event in France, Linux Solutions. Some French Ambassadors (3) also went to FOSDEM to meet European Ambassadors and worldwide involved people. *What is this Fedora-fr Organisation thing?* First, I need to explain to you how we came to this idea. There were first requests from French people to be able to give Fedora some money. They couldn't, as the Project does not accept gifts due to legal issues. Then, there were several misunderstandings and little organisation (from both side it seems), and we were invited to create our materials locally. As nobody here wanted to spend its own money for it, we decided that a non-profit organisation was a very good thing to do: it would allow us to create our own materials and to be recognised as a fully organised and legal entity both by the Fedora Project and RedHat. Moreover, as RedHat Brandful store goodies shipping costs are completely unaffordable by Europeans, we decided to create a webshop as well. As you can see, everything is about promoting Fedora, as it has never been the case elsewhere and before. *How are you going to do it?* As soon as the organisation will be authorised by the french governement, we will invite people to subscribe to it, if they are willing to. This would create a lot of money. Then, because we know that subscriptions will slow down a day or another and because Fedora goodies are very difficult to find in Europe, we had this webshop idea: on each product that are going to be sold, we will get a small profit for the organisation. Finally, we will have some money to work with, so as to create DVDs and help people promoting the distro (by having a part of their trip reimbursed for example). Involved ambassadors voted for the creation of the non-profit organisation on January 31st, during Linux Solutions event. Here are the involved people: Thomas Canniot (myself -- president), Armel Kermorvant (vice-president), Johan Cwislinski (treasurer), Guillaume Kulakowski (secretary) and two others people involved in the Steering Committee, Thierry Delmonte and Charles Vinchon. *What do you think of Fedora Europe Infrastructure (FEI)?* We think that Fedora Europe Infrastructure is a very good idea and we want to take an active part in its creation. Let me explain to you how we see things. We think that FEI has to help people organise themselves into local non-profit organisations, mostly as we have done here in France. If there are some money to deal with, from RedHat for example, FEI will get the money so as to share it to non-profit organisations which need to promote Fedora locally. If they can't / don't want to create a non-profit organisation or if they don't want to create goodies locally, then FEI will have goodies made for them and send to them. FEI however should only accept large orders and not give DVDs one by one. Local community don't need all the army with them (a big website and all that stuff), but only a legal entity ruled by recognised rules that help FEI understand that they are not trying to get things for themselves. *How should FEI be organised?* Well, I don't think it may be a good idea to have only one person leading FEI. It may be a very good idea however that some people manage things. At least, 3, but not more, to avoid under activity. FEI Steering Committee should be elected by Ambassadors. And only European Ambassadors should be allowed to be at its head (or maybe one person from the Fedora Ambassador Project, as its leader, or even higher, Greg or Max). The French Ambassadors

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Introduction
by Douglas Hardison 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

Hello All, My name is Douglas Hardison. My friends all call me 'Woody'. I have just completed my application to Fedora Amabassadors. The nice people in #fedora on FreeNode alerted me to its existence, and pointed me to the Ambassador HowTo. I am 35 years old ( come this Friday ), and I currently live in Clayton, North Carolina. Clayton is a small town just outside Raleigh. I am recently transplanted from the city of Wilson, NC; home of the 'World's Largest Tobacco Market'. I am married and have a seven year old daughter, and an 11 month old son. I currently work support Linux-based network monitoring appliances. Before that, I was an admin at a local ISP in Wilson, where I obtained most of my Linux knowledge. Everything from email to RADIUS to web proxies, etc... I have been using Linux for approximately 10 years or so. I did not start out with RedHat, but eventually ended up using RedHat 5.0. At that time, I found it the most intuitive, *plus* easy to install distribution. As my wiki page ( http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DouglasHardison ) states, I have played with other distributions, but always return to my roots :-) I hope to become an active member in the Fedora community, and give back a little of what Linux has done for me. --Woody

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Self Introduction
by Mohamed Imran K R 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

Hello I am Mohamed Imran and i belong to the AU-KBC Research Center, Chennai. I really admire the qualities of fedora and i have used it right from its inception to solve my needs. I am indebted to Fedora and i think i can contribute to its to its growth now in a much more proactive manner by advocating it in all forums i present myself. Hope to work with you people to promote Fedora Regards Mohamed Imran K R AU-KBC Research Centre

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Hi :)
by Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

Hello ambassadors, I'm new here ... my name is Mohd Izhar Firdaus , I'm from Malaysia and just joined the ambassador program. .. I'm a student in PETRONAS University of Technology taking ICT course .. have been slowly promoting linux, FOSS and Fedora in the university for a while now .. and just decided to make it official .. I still have a lot to learn .. and hope y'all can guide and help me through .. :D -- ----------------------------------------------- regards Hikaru ----------------------------------------------- Mohd Izhar Firdaus Bin Ismail Amano Hikaru 天野晃「あまのひかる」 Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS ICT 2nd Year 1st Semester mohd.izhar.firdaus(a)gmail.com ----------------------------------------------- kagesenshi.87(a)gmail.com Blog: http://kagesenshi.blogspot.com -----------------------------------------------

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CLT 2007
by simon 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

Hello Friends, my report for Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2007 on http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2757 Cheers JoergSimon -- Jörg Simon jsimon(a)fedoraproject.org http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JoergSimon Key Fingerprint: 3691 0989 2DCA 58A2 8D1F 2CAC C823 558E 5B5B 5688

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Fedora Ambassadors wiki page modify
by Francesco Ugolini 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

At the beginning of Fedora Ambassador Wiki page there is the follow sentence: "Fedora Ambassadors are people like you and me, who go to places where other Linux users and potential converts gather and tell them about Fedora --- the project and the distribution." I propose to use, instead, the http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/TalkingPoints sentence (i add "Ambassadors" at the beggining): "Ambassadors spread the good word of Fedora. Spread the glamor. Spread the action. Make waves. Encourage participation. Encourage the community." What do you think? Regards Francesco Ugolini -- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FrancescoUgolini

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Banner
by Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

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REMINDER French Meeting today 1930
by Thomas Canniot 11 Mar '07

11 Mar '07

This mail is a reminder for today´s meeting for French ambassadors and _every_ interested people. 2007-03-11 / 19:30 UTC IRC: freenode #fedora-mktg-fr Ce mail est un rappel pour la réunion des ambassadeurs francophones, qui aura lieu ce dimanche (11 mars) à 20h30 heure de Paris sur IRC (freenode) #fedora-mktg-fr . Thomas

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Ambassadors' meeting reminder - Thursday 8th March 22.00 UTC
by Francesco Ugolini 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

I want to remember all ambassadors that tomorrow there will be a meeting at 22.00 UTC in #fedora-meeting channel. I invite all to attend it to discuss about events, new projects etc... You can see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings/2007-03-08 to see the agenda or to add new topics to this one. Thanks for your attention Francesco Ugolini -- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FrancescoUgolini

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