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Fedora Events - FLISOL 2007
by Thomas Chung 07 Mar '07

07 Mar '07

All, It comes to my attention we need to clean up following in our FedoraEvents page. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents April 28, 2007 - FLISOL 2007 Buenos Aires - PabloBarrera , NicolasCorrarello April 28, 2007 - FLISOL 2007 - HernanPachas April 28, 2007 - FLISOL 2007 - GuillermoGomez WilmerJaramillo, WalterCervini Do we really need to have 3 separate entries here? If so, we need to distinguish them by adding Country next to FLISOL 2007 Also, please re-write the short description in English Regards, -- Thomas Chung http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung

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Proposal: Fedora European Infrastructure
by Mirjam Wäckerlin 06 Mar '07

06 Mar '07

Hello, Chitlesh and I we created the draft for Fedora European Infrastructure with the help of some people on #fedora-mktg. The Page still needs a lot of work, add your constructive comments and proposals on: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Drafts/Europe This is the first draft as a result of the discussions at fosdem 2007. This draft should be completed and hopefully someone will step in for the post as the Fedora European Executive before LinuxTag 2007 Berlin. After LinuxTag the real work should get started. Subscription to the wikipage is adviced. Regards, Mirjam

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fosdem2007: report
by Chitlesh GOORAH 05 Mar '07

05 Mar '07

Hello there, Here is my report: http://clunixchit.blogspot.com/2007/02/fosdem2007-switching-language-confli… Things that we have done at the booth and what visitors liked: * a paper saying what are the languages Fedora Booth staffs can speak * well decorated booth * women at the fedora booth * professional booth staffs rather than geeks with long hair and beards * polo-shirts * people like to engage into discussions to booth staff directly rather than someone who is constantly behind a screen. * to hear new features * what makes fedora so special What we lacked: * business cards (though it is already among the Fedora Ambassador wiki items) * any way so that visitors or anyone can see with whom they are talking too What we have achieved: * good contacts with centos * talks on packaging guidelines with opensuse * internal fedora talks between various fedora contributors (marketing,documentation,packaging,translation...) * internal fedora talks between max and fedora contributors * chemnitz linuxtag preparation * preparing LinuxTag2007 Berlin Fudcon * "Fedora European Infrastructure" drafts regards, Chitlesh -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

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Self introduction about Robert Scheck
by Robert Scheck 05 Mar '07

05 Mar '07

Hello folks, my name is Scheck, Robert Scheck. Currently, I'm 21 years old and I'm from Germany. Maybe you know my name from Bugzilla reports after updating my development system to Fedora Core Development, anciently called Rawhide. I'm also writing some e-mails from time to time to fedora-devel-list and fedora-extras-list. Professionally, I'm a programmer at Linux and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) environments working for a young and tiny IT company called ETES GmbH. Some time before I did my apprenticeship to IT specialist field systems integration at Hewlett-Packard Germany as result of my personal interest in computers started in December 1998. And in July 2004, I did my certification as Red Hat Certified Technician - during my apprenticeship, but paid by me! ;-) As you surely recognized, I'm more technical related, thus I'm maintainer for 10 packages in Fedora Extras. Oh, but I'm not a greenhorn regarding the representation of company, projects and products: At the CeBIT 2003 in Hannover/Germany I was presenting "wireless clinic" and mobile solutions for on-site technicians for HP - but on the Microsoft booth while listening and watching the Microsoft Windows 2003 Server clips and announcements. It's no joke, even it maybe sounds funny for a Linux guy. Of course I did the same at the HP booth when switching with colleagues from there... When thinking about this, it's a good time to repent at the LinuxTag 2007 in Berlin/Germany which is my initial goal as Fedora Ambassador. At first, I'll mainly support Gerold Kassube and Florian Brand until things for the days are clarified. Finally I want to say thanks to Gerold, who encouraged me to walk this way and to get an ambassador. Greetings, Robert

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Fedora
by Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira 05 Mar '07

05 Mar '07

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Report of the event "Free software and proprietary software, a choice for complementarity"
by nihed mbarek 04 Mar '07

04 Mar '07

In February 28 took place an event in the technological pole El Ghazela, Tunisia, called "Free software and proprietary software, a choice for complementarity". It was an opportunity for me and a friend to present The Fedora Project. Many persons belonging to different fields found out how to create a local Fedora repository and to make LAMP architecture work. We used Fedora France banner with some modifications: http://nihedmbarek.googlepages.com/affiche-fedora.png Some pictures of the event: http://infoplusplus.blogspot.com/2007/03/image-du-27-fev-2007.html -- M'BAREK Med Nihed, Fedora Ambassador, TUNISIA, Northern Africa

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nihed wants to share sites with you...
by nihed mbarek 04 Mar '07

04 Mar '07

nihed (nihedmm(a)gmail.com) has invited you to StumbleUpon! You can see my other favorites here: http://nihed.stumbleupon.com Thanks, nihed --- StumbleUpon lets you discover great sites with a single click. Give it a try at: http://www.stumbleupon.com/join.php?friend=1459409&emailcode=q45yyy5ctumvuv…

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REMINDER French Meeting today 1930
by Thomas Canniot 04 Mar '07

04 Mar '07

This mail is a reminder for today´s meeting for French ambassadors and _every_ interested people. 2007-03-04 / 19:30 UTC IRC: freenode #fedora-mktg-fr Ce mail est un rappel pour la réunion des ambassadeurs francophones, qui aura lieu ce dimanche (04 mars) à 20h30 heure de Paris sur IRC (freenode) #fedora-mktg-fr . Thomas

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IU LinuxFest - 11-Apr-2007 - clarification, please.
by Gaddis, Jeremy L. 03 Mar '07

03 Mar '07

Good {morning|afternoon|evening} list, Please forgive what may be my ignorance as I have just recently become involved with the Fedora Project, am still trying to take everything in, and am sure there are things I don't yet completely understand. IU LinuxFest[1] is an annual, one-day event organized by the Unix Systems Support Group[2] at Indiana University[3] to draw attention to Linux from students, faculty, staff, and the general public. Though not on behalf on the Fedora Project, I have attended this annual event for the last several years. Seeing as how I recently became involved in the Fedora Project as an Ambassador, I thought this would be an excellent first opportunity to help promote Fedora. I know the organizers of this event and have been reserved booth space for a Fedora display. "How to be an Ambassador"[4] states, "For the first 30 days, the status of a newbie Ambassador will be 'on probation', during which time they have a chance to prove themselves to the group by contributing to the project (see Ideas below)". Under Ideas, one thing listed is "Sign up Fedora Project for regional events", which I have now done. Unfortunately, the Material Request Form[5] states, "Ambassadors must also complete at[sic] thirty-day probation period before they can request new merchandise, ...". Last October, I once again attended the Ohio LinuxFest in Columbus, Ohio, and witnessed a Fedora booth there (manned by Jeffrey Tadlock, perhaps?). It was well set-up and looked very nice with the Fedora banners and such (yes, I bought a bumper sticker and t-shirt!). Ideally, I would like to be able to obtain a banner to set up at the booth. I understand that t-shirts are on short supply and probably out of the question, but that's not an issue. I can burn a few hundred Fedora DVDs and eat the cost myself, that's not an issue either. Since I am still under the umbrella of the 30-day probationary period, however, am I correct in my understanding that I cannot request items such as a banner for temporary usage at a Linux event and that I am pretty much left up to my own resources to handle this? Any clarification is appreciated. [1] http://tinyurl.com/2voxb4 [2] http://www.ussg.indiana.edu/ [3] http://www.indiana.edu/ [4] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/HowTo [5] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/GetStuff Thanks, -j -- Jeremy L. Gaddis, MCP, GCWN jeremy(a)linuxwiz.net LinuxWiz Consulting http://linuxwiz.net

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Max's Blog Post re: Ambassadors Discussion
by Jeffrey Tadlock 02 Mar '07

02 Mar '07

In reading Max's blog post on 2/24 [1] he brings up some key points that I feel merit further discussion on helping build a strong foundation for the ambassadors. :Begin snippet of Max's Blog post: "Part of this problem is one of localization. You can go through the process of learning to be an Fedora packager regardless of where you live, but unless you are near a place where there are already active Ambassadors organizing events, it's hard to get real experience doing an event. Another topic of conversation was helping to delegate responsibility. If an event is going to happen, there are several roles that need to be filled. One is purely operational -- coordinating with the location, scheduling the talks, making sure that there are handouts or posters, getting swag, publicity, etc. The skill set needed to do these kinds of things is different from the skill set needed once you actually get to the event and stand at the booth or deliver a talk. Once you're actually speaking about Fedora, now it's about the message, and I think that for a lot of Ambassadors, we need to do a better job of filtering. Freedom, choice, community model -- those are the core principles of Fedora. After that, you need to be able to say in about 30 to 60 seconds what the high points of the current release are, and what the next release will include." :End snippet of Max's Blog post: Organizing an event does take some real work and for some it might not be their area of expertise. I do think there are several things the Ambassador project could do to help lower this hurdle and increase the number of local events Fedora has a presence at. My thoughts are based on what I learned from helping organize the Fedora presence at the Ohio Linux Fest in 2006. While we prepared for this event we felt there must be a better way to organize for something such as this - something a little more cookie cutter to reduce the actual work load of organizing the materials and such and allow more time focusing on other areas while at the event. I think one thing that could go very far in helping with some of the larger events is to see the Event Kit that Jack Aboutboul worked on come to realization. The page for the Event Kit [2] is blank. I think we should look at the Gnome Event Box [3] as something the Fedora Project should put in place. For those unfamiliar with the Gnome Event Box, it is a large, sturdy box that they ship to Gnome volunteers presenting at various events. It includes an LCD screen, a desktop computer, mouse, keyboard, various networking equipment, posters/banners and materials to help in hanging these things at the booth. It is close to a booth in a box. Something such as this reduces the amount of work that must be repeated each time someone from the Fedora Project attends an event. A Fedora Event Box would allow an ambassador to request the box for a certain date and have it shipped to them. When they receive the box they will have all the basic materials needed to put together a good looking booth for Fedora and also allow them more time to focus on other aspects of an event. To me this lowers the hurdle significantly to volunteering to attend an event. The costs of such a box are filling the box with the appropriate materials and then the shipping costs from event to event. The benefits to these costs are well put together Fedora Booths and hopefully more participation in local events. Beyond the Event Box, making sure people know the core principals of Fedora is important. For this I present the Ubuntu Marketing Flier [4] as an example of a very clean at-a-glance look into the distro. I think Fedora needs a similar brochure to promote what makes Fedora what it is. We can also state where to get Fedora, where to ask questions and where to get support from the community. We can make such a flier readily available for Ambassadors in a format that will allow ambassadors to take the file to a print shop for local production. For Release Features in upcoming versions a clean, well formatted single page can cover the highlights of future releases. This document can get updated for each upcoming release and be readily available to ambassadors to take to their local print shop for production for the actual event. Many ambassadors also bring DVDs, T-Shirts, stickers, etc to events for sale from the booth to help defray the costs of getting us there to begin with. Our booth at the Ohio Linux Fest had all of these and we were pretty successful at paying for most (not all) of our costs to attend the event. Having templates that are ready for production and guidelines on how to give the information to the T-shirt maker or sticker maker can also reduce the amount of repeated work. For ambassadors with their own ideas, they could certainly run with that, but for other ambassadors they can just take the templates from the web and use the guidelines provided on the site. I see this as lowering the hurdle for event planning and organization. In summary I see the following setup as greatly helping ease the organization efforts of attending events and hopefully leading to an increase in the number of events Fedora is able to attend - simply because we have made it easier. * Fedora Event Kit (box): This will include the basic materials to get a booth up and running. An ambassador requests and receives this and can be assured of having a near immediate professional presence at an event. * Marketing Fliers: Two fliers, one brochure covering the core principals of Fedora - explains what Fedora is about, where to obtain Fedora and where to get support from the community. The other flier lists the features in the upcoming release - to be updated with each new release. These would be readily available on the web to allow the ambassador to locally produce the materials. * Schwag. Readily available (or at least clear steps on how to obtain the necessary high resolution images) images and templates for use with T-Shirt and Sticker logos. Also guidelines on what to tell a T-Shirt or sticker producer to make sure you get the materials you want. By laying these ideas out clearly on wiki I think the hurdles to organizing events can be reduced greatly. This will either allow a person to simply request the materials and have access to the brochures to have a good presence at an event with minimal effort or free up valuable time for people who organize the Fedora Booth at events to focus on lining up speakers, prepping a birds of a feather session, etc, etc. I know if there had been these elements in place for the Ohio Linux Fest we would have had a much easier time of getting everything organized. And finally, when I helped organize the Fedora Booth at the Ohio Linux Fest I was assigned a "mentor". This was a single contact that if I ran into trouble along they way or had questions in general I could easily email and he would either answer the questions I had, get me in contact with the correct person or get the answers for me. I think we should continue this. Let those of us that have organized events previously volunteer to be a mentor. Most likely those of us that volunteer to mentor will be familiar enough with the Ambassadors and people within the Fedora Project itself to help get answers and help guide new event organizers as needed to insure a successful Fedora presence at events. We would just be a friendly ear to help keep folks from getting overwhelmed. --Jeffrey [1] http://spevack.livejournal.com/9394.html [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/EventKit [3] http://live.gnome.org/GnomeEventsBox [4] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DIYMarketing?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=Ubuntu…

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