ambassadors September 2007

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GITEX 2007 (The Final Post)
by John Babich 21 Sep '07

21 Sep '07

As the organizer of Fedora's first presence at GITEX - now that I have had a week or so to reflect on (recover from) the show - what went well and what can we do better? WHAT WENT WELL * PLANNING: By giving Red Hat plenty of advance notice, Red Hat graciously provided us with a demo pod and HP desktop. The desktop with integrated Intel graphics allowed us to wow the passers-by with wobbly windows and rotating cubes - eye candy, but eye-catching, important at a large show. A special thanks to Veronique Borel, who organized Red Hat's presence at GITEX. * BLOGGING: Posting about the Fedora Project at GITEX was well worth the effort. Incidentally, we were the top page rank for GITEX on Google for quite a few weeks. Thanks to the Fedorans who encouraged me to blog. * ONE-ON-ONE: Lloyd Almeida and I, as Fedora Ambassadors, spoke to dozens of people about Fedora and FOSS. Lloyd, who works in Dubai, made contacts for the linux user group he hopes to start up soon. Thanks, Lloyd, for your invaluable help and enthusiasm. * MEDIA (CDs and DVDs): All told, we distributed hundreds of media to the crowds. Red Hat shipped about 400 Fedora 7 DVDs to the show, which were put to good use. Red Hat and the RH partners were very helpful in spreading the word about Fedora. They gladly handed out Fedora DVDs and Live CDs. Thank you to my fellow RedHat EMEA, OpenNet MEA, Margirus, AMD and IT University booth dwellers. * BROCHURE: The Fedora Project flyer in both English and Arabic was a great tool. The excellent artwork gave a very positive impression of the Fedora Project. Thanks, Ahmed Kamal, for your bilingual design. * OLPC: The OLPC XO laptop was well-displayed and caused quite a stir. I was able to speak to several VIPs about this significant educational project. Yes, the technology is cool, too. Thank you to the Red Hat and Fedora people involved in the OLPC project. * BUDGET: On a personal note, I stayed within my modest budget in a very expensive city. Thanks, Bill, for putting me up and putting up with me. WHAT WE CAN DO BETTER * I personally printed the two-sided flyers on a deskjet printer at Bill's villa. Next time, I'll get them professionally printed. * More Fedora ambassadors would be very welcome. Lloyd and I could only cover 3 out of 5 days of the show. (We did have some ambassadors who volunteered, but were unable to attend due to the prohibitive cost of flights and hotels in Dubai.) * I would like to present a booth talk on the One Laptop Per Child, perhaps in a more official capacity. CONCLUSION Going to the GITEX commercial exhibition, with a little help from my friends, was definitely worthwhile. I believe we, as Fedora Ambassadors, were able to inform people about the advantages of free and open source software. I found it personally rewarding to demonstrate the OLPC XO laptop and to introduce people to the Fedora Project. Best Regards, John Babich Fedora Ambassador

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Fwd: Media for Lug
by Thomas Chung 21 Sep '07

21 Sep '07

Any volunteer? I believe he's a college student from Canada. http://www.cegepsherbrooke.qc.ca/ Regards, ps. I'm on vacation until Sept 21. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rémi Goyette-Allaire <savanconinus(a)hotmail.com> Date: Aug 31, 2007 9:18 PM Subject: Media for Lug To: tchung(a)fedoraproject.org Hi M. Chung, I would like to know if it would be possible to send 80 sorted cds/dvds or fedora 7 to our lug. We would like to distribute them, since we had lot of demands for it and that we do not have a burner. If you can't do it directly, could you put me in contact with someone that could do it? Remi Goyette-Allaire Lug of Cégep de Sherbrooke ________________________________ Émoticônes : Lorsque les mots ne suffisent pas pour s'exprimer

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Meeting Reminder 2007-09-20
by Siddharth Upmanyu 20 Sep '07

20 Sep '07

Hello Fedora Ambassadors This is a AmbassadorsMeeting Reminder for toways Meeting at #meeting channel on irc.freenode.net .. Todays Meeting will be at 14:00 UTC.. Agendas can be updated here http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings/2007-09-20 Regards Siddharth

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REMINDER French Meeting today 1830 #fedora-meeting
by Thomas Canniot 16 Sep '07

16 Sep '07

This mail is a reminder for today´s meeting for French ambassadors and _every_ interested people. 2007-09-16 / 18:30 UTC IRC: freenode #fedora-meeting Ce mail est un rappel pour la réunion des ambassadeurs francophones, qui aura lieu ce dimanche (16 sept) à 20h30 heure de Paris sur IRC (freenode) #fedora-meeting . Thomas Canniot

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Convite pessoal
by Helder Donda 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

Convite pessoal

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GITEX 2007 Presentation
by John Babich 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

As requested, I uploaded my GITEX 2007 Presentation, which was quickly done as an exercise in code reuse, in this case, Greg's Linux Asia 2006 slides. Thanks, Greg! I did, however, update it for Fedora 7 and added a few pithy insights of my own. I put in transitions to show off OpenOffice.org Impress. I also think it's important to explain that this was produced completely in OOo Impress on a Fedora 7 system, especially at a commercial ICT exhibition. The intended audience is the open-minded, non-FOSS ICT professional. Mozilla Firefox and OpenOffice.org, not explicitly mentioned in the presentation, are two FOSS apps which are an excellent bridge from using a certain proprietary OS to switching to Fedora. I used them as examples in my talk, I think, to good effect. The wiki page link is http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Presentations. and the title under the OVERVIEWS section is "All About Fedora (GITEX Edition), John Babich". Best Regards, John Babich Fedora Ambassador

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Preliminary GITEX 2007 Report
by John Babich 13 Sep '07

13 Sep '07

Fedora Ambassadors: Here is a preliminary report on Fedora's first presence at GITEX, which just finished in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Note: The Fedora Project wiki page for GITEX is now at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents/2007 I was able to volunteer all day on Saturday, 8 September, the opening day of the show, Sunday, 9 September, and most of Monday,10 September. Lloyd Almeida, a fellow Fedora ambassador working as an animation artist in Dubai,did a terrific job of representing the Fedora Project. A special thanks to Lloyd. Keep in mind that GITEX is one of the world's largest ICT trade shows, with an emphasis on commercial offerings. Free and Open Source software (FOSS) is still very much in the minority at the show. Highlights: - Red Hat, our corporate sponsor, did a great job with the booth and generating interest in linux and open source. For instance, there were only five daily GITEX IT Solutions newspapers published. On Monday, OpenNet MEA, a Red Hat partner, was the cover story, featuring its new agreement with Red Hat, complete with a photo of a gentlemen with a red hat at the RH booth. Since Red Hat was the only major open source linux company present among thousands of companies, this was an amazing piece of publicity for FOSS. - The Red Hat partners in the booth, OpenNet MEA, Magirus, IT University, and AMD, were a great bunch of people. They helped distribute Fedora 7 DVDs and Live CDs to their potential customers and anyone interested. They also directed people to us who had questions about linux in general and Fedora in particular. - One Laptop Per Child was well-publicized. There was a dedicated demo pod for the OLPC XO laptop. People were actually taking pictures of the laptop like it was the crown jewels. There was tremendous interest in promoting the OLPC laptop in the EMEA region. Many people wanted to buy one on the spot. I was privileged to demonstrate it and answer questions for people as an unofficial spokesperson. - The synergy among Red Hat, OLPC, AMD and the Fedora Project was fantastic. Because Fedora linux is the base software for the OLPC XO laptop, as well as RHEL5, with AMD providing the OLPC CPU, I was able to tie together all the organizations and explain how open source provides a virtuous circle of collaboration which is all too rare in the corporate world. AMD had just announced it was open sourcing ATI video drivers, so I could explain the advantages of open source, open standards, and unencumbered binary drivers. AMD also announced the new quad-core Barcelona CPU during the show. - There was great interest in localization (l10n), internationalization (i18n), and translation. We showed, for example, how GNOME supported three dialects of Arabic (Lebanese, Eqyptian and Saudi). I also promoted Transifex, and the Fedora Documentation and Translation Projects. - I gave two booth talks on the Fedora Project to an audience of IT professionals just becoming acquainted with FOSS. - One attendee literally praised God when I gave him a Fedora DVD, saying that he was unsuccessful in downloading it for the past few weeks. We forget that there are large sections of the world which don't have reliable, high-speed internet connections. Finally, thanks to everyone in the Fedora Project who helped out. Finally, I posted some photos at www.photobucket.com. See the slideshow (flash plugin required) at http://s190.photobucket.com/albums/z242/jmbuser/?action=view&current=0a4fe4… Best Regards, John Babich Fedora Ambassador

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Fwd :[ IMP ] Call for participation: Freedom toaster alike project at WBUT.
by susmit shannigrahi 12 Sep '07

12 Sep '07

Hi *, Hopefully you are all aware of the recent activities at WBUT. After successful install-fests and establishing a public mirror consisting of different Distros [Its up, details are coming once we harden the box], the WBUT-LUG is going to undertake another ambitious project which is much like the Freedom Toaster project. First we are going to place the machine at WBUT so that people can come and burn the distros they want. We also look forward to spread that to different colleges. Hereby we are calling for participation in the freedom toaster alike project. People in and around kolkata is preferred , so that they can come down personally, but they need not be WBUT students. Please note its not going to be a replica of the freedom toaster project. We shall write our own softwares and change the specs according to our needs.[so that participants can spend a few sleepless nights :). ] We are also going to make our own kiosk, so we also need people who can do mechanical engg jobs. For any further quary or expression of interest, please post a message to the list with your details. Alternately you can contact me or idg. Hope to hear from you soon. Thanks and regards, Susmit. -- ssh 0x86DD170A http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/SusmitShannigrahi

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Regarding Software Freedom Day 2007
by Abhishek Singh 12 Sep '07

12 Sep '07

Dear All, I really apologize for not being active in the mailing list as well as IRC meetings. Actually, these days, I've been busy with my research regarding "Business Incubation and sustainable models for developing countries". This is just to inform you that we're celebrating Software Freedom Day 2007 (see http://www.tuxolta.com/wiki/index.php?title=Software_Freedom_Day_2007)at Nepal. The event is sponsored by High Level Commission for Information Technology (see http://www.hlcit.gov.np), a wing of the government of Nepal. They have also exhibited positive signs for revising the ICT policy of the country and regarding FOSS as an necessary element. On my part, as an ambassador, I'm presenting on Fedora 7 which includes the following topics: * Fedora Project: An introduction (very brief) * Why Fedora 7 * GNOME (on F7) * SELinux * Xen * some discrete apps (yet to be finalized) Moreover, I'll be distributing 250 DVDs of F7 (which has been sponsored by my university) at the event. I need some help to prepare for my presentation, specially SELinux and Xen. I hope to hear from you soon. Thanking You. Regards, Abhishek Singh

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[Fwd: Fedora-india mailing list]
by Rahul Sundaram 11 Sep '07

11 Sep '07

Hi Just in case folks here aren't subscribed to the announcements list. Rahul

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