ambassadors March 2007

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FOSDEM 07 Feed Back
by Frederic Hornain 02 Mar '07

02 Mar '07

Dear *, First of all, sorry for the wrong manipulation ! Then I would like to excuse myself to have missed at the last minute this fabulous event this year but as I told to Chitlesh last friday unfortunatly my daughter was very ill and I could not be there. I had to take care of her. Sorry again. :( Nonetheless, I have seen that Fedora presence was successfull. I looked at pictures at http://www.simline.de/fosdem and I recognized some ambassadors that I met previouly. I have also seen that OLPC laptop was at the Fedora Booth as planned. However, I would be very interesting by your fresh feed back in order to improve this event next year. I know already that we would have to increase the size of the booth. Sorry for that but I did not know at the reservation time that as much as Fedora people came. So, Did you have any problems with the Dev'room ? Did you have any problem with the Hardware Insurance ? Do you think that Red Hat and Fedora would have a common booth or a separate booth close each other ? What kind of improvment would you suggest for next year ? What do you think about an annual FUDCON at FOSDEM for EMEA Fedora users ? And so on and so for .... Thanks in advance for you answers. BR Fred ----------------------------------------------------- Fedora-ambassadors-list mailing list Fedora-ambassadors-list(a)redhat.com Olpc mailing list olpc-open(a)laptop.org

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Re: Fwd: Fedora Ambassadors Recognition Awards
by Thomas Canniot 02 Mar '07

02 Mar '07

Le vendredi 02 mars 2007 à 07:17 +0100, Gerold Kassube a écrit : > it's again a great pleasure and honor for me to be the third time > awarded (out of three) ... > > > on the other hand it hurts me to see, that there is no Ambassador > outside Europe which is awarded :-( > > Dear Max, dear Thomas ... > > PLEASE be so kind and have a look what happens with the other regions; > it cann't be or better; I cann't believe that we in EMEA are the active > part of the Ambassador and the "Rest of the world" did nothing .... > Me for myself outgoing from my perspective cann't nominate an Ambassador > from India or the U.S. because unfortunately I don't know them (well) > and know what these guys are doing. So I nominate exclusive EMEA > Ambassadors who I know and also know what he's doing or has done ... > You're entirely right. I don't know how a reward must be seen. From my point of you, rewards for "good" work or to be honest (?), for "excessive buzzing" does not motivate myself more than I am already. I don't think a day about being rewarded for being an ambassador, and I would be very pleased to give my reward to someone for which it would be useful, i.e. motivating. If it can help / encourage people to spread the word about fedora in their countries, then I would be very pleased to give it to any body in Russia, India, Australia, Japan, China or any other country in these areas. I think this is definitely something we have to think about. ps: however, if you've got a job at RH, I would be very pleased to be hired :D Thomas Canniot

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Fedora Ambassadors Recognition Awards
by Thomas Chung 02 Mar '07

02 Mar '07

RE: Fedora Ambassadors Recognition Awards Date: March 1st, 2007 It is my pleasure to announce following Ambassadors will receive Fedora Ambassadors Recognition Awards! * ChitleshGoorah * GeroldKassube * ThomasCanniot * JoergSimon * FrancescoUgolini On behalf of Fedora Ambassadors Project, thank you for your hard work and congratulations! Best Regards, -- Thomas Chung http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung

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OLPC
by Nicolas A. Corrarello 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

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Fedora Emeritus Ambassadors
by Francesco Ugolini 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

I've a small proposal that consist in the creation of a Fedora Emeritus Ambassador, an experienced and active Ambassador who have the possibility to address (trough specific rights) the Ambassadors' activity, i think he will be a good guide to newbie and to everyone that need help (eg. there is a poll and i don't know the effects this will have on the project, like the Merging Issue (www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/MergingIssue). For the beta period i suggest those 6 people, that i see work hard and be the Light of the project: Gerold Kassube Jorg Simon Chitlesh Goorah Thomas Chung Robert Whetsel ... and, at the end, Max Spevack, that is not only a perfect Fedora Leader but an excellent Ambassador (he stayed a lot of time in the booth and work a lot) What do you think? Francesco Ugolini -- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FrancescoUgolini

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FOSDEM 07
by Frederic Hornain 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

De http://www.simline.de/fosdem -- ----------------------------------------------------- Fedora-ambassadors-list mailing list Fedora-ambassadors-list(a)redhat.com Olpc mailing list olpc-open(a)laptop.org

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The end of cross-posting
by Karsten Wade 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

There is a consensus that we have separate topics for fedora-ambassadors-list and fedora-marketing-list. To keep messages on-topic, we need to stop cross-posting to the two lists. There is almost no topic that can be on both lists at the same time. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PostIsOffTopic#fedora-ambassadors-list If a post does not match the topic as defined there, it is off topic and needs to be posted somewhere else. I wanted to call this out in particular so people understand why their post receives a link to PostIsOffTopic. :) - Karsten (Non-cross-posted message with a different Subject but similar topic/wording has been posted to the marketing list) -- Karsten Wade, RHCE, 108 Editor ^ Fedora Documentation Project Sr. Developer Relations Mgr. | fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject quaid.108.redhat.com | gpg key: AD0E0C41 ////////////////////////////////// \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

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release announcement idea [RFC]
by Karsten Wade 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

Last release we had an idea that I'm proposing we try for Fedora 7. For reasons that should be obvious as you read, the Ambassadors seem to be a natural group to do this. Perhaps in coordination/collaboration with Fedora Translation/L10n contributors? The basic idea is to distribute to countries/regions a list of "talking points". Talking points are specific items we want to see covered in any release announcement. Then each region/language can choose to i) form a small team, and ii) collaborate to write a truly localized release announcement. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/ReleaseAnnouncements#Process Background ---------- In the past, the announcement introduction has been written in English in a semi-humorous way. To understand it, you had to know specific cultural references. This made them fairly impossible to translate (or transliterate). Or even understand, period. This new method would rely entirely upon the local groups to collaborate on an announcement, then distribute it within their region as a formal Fedora release announcement. One place to start is fedora-announce. How many different language announcements can we get on fedora-announce for Fedora 7? One concern that is that a release announcement is a very big chance to start misinformation about Fedora. For example, an announcement may be written in a language not read by most of the Fedora leadership, and the authors accidentally choose terms or phrasing that reflect negatively on Fedora. The quality of the writing or grammar also reflects on Fedora. To lower this risk, it seems like a good idea to have the release announcement draft due for review by the final test (usually test3, occasionally test4). Every draft announcement then needs an independent review by a reader of that language. I'm sure that this has been done informally in various countries. This idea is to formalize the process, recognize the people involved with the honor of speaking LOUDLY for Fedora, and make an ever bigger impact with this next release. - Karsten -- Karsten Wade, RHCE, 108 Editor ^ Fedora Documentation Project Sr. Developer Relations Mgr. | fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject quaid.108.redhat.com | gpg key: AD0E0C41 ////////////////////////////////// \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

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Some Idea....please reply
by Giuseppe Pignataro 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

Dear Ambassador and member of the marketing list, I have some idea and want know what do you think about this. The first idea is this: 1) My first idea is to create a site like linuxcounter for people that use Fedora. I believe that this idea is good for two reason. The first reason is that in this way we can counter the user that use Fedora The second reason,this is a marketing reason, this is a good way which a Fedora user can distinguished about another GNU/Linux user.I want that people can undestand the "Fedora way".I want that Fedora User can say: "I'm a Fedora user, I'm a special person because I use this distro, because this distro are the best distro and i have have some that distinguish me from another generic user.I'm Fedora" I want that people can consider Fedora (the distro,the community and all around the project) as a way of life. 2)The second idea is this: I want to create something like a dating site but for Fedora user. Ok, I explain the idea about the dating site. I want to create a site where the user can meet other user in real time. The site can give at all the Fedora user around the world to know other Fedora user.Can give the possibility to resolv the problem that the newbie can have and in this way is possible to see that bihind the Fedora Project there are real people,and not only a mail address. Ok,can you say me wath do you think about this 2 idea? Best Regards, Giuseppe Pignataro Giuseppe Pignataro <http://www.giuseppepignataro.net/> http://www.giuseppepignataro.net Fedora Core Ambassador for Italy A KDE italian translator Socio TAU Visual Member of ILS

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