ambassadors October 2008

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Fedora conference co-located with Linux Symposium?
by Matt Domsch 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

Andrew Hutton caught me online earlier today and asked if Fedora would be interested in hosting a conference of any size, to run concurrent with the Linux Symposium (previously held in Ottawa) in Montreal 13-17 July 2009). Plenty of space is available for a 2-day concurrent conference, and he's working on chartered busses from several (nearby) cities such as Boston, Ottawa, and Toronto to ease getting to Montreal. This wouldn't be a Fedora 12 planning FUDCon as we've traditionally had such, given that mid-July is pretty late for such assuming we get back to our May 1 / October 31 release schedule. But it could be an opportunity for Fedora-specific side-tracks to LS, or a hackfest, or any number of ways to use the time and space. If we had 2 days and space for 100+ people in Montreal that week,, how could we use it? I'd like an interested Ambassador to step up and volunteer to run such an event. Volunteers? Thanks, Matt

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Fedora DVDs
by Affix 10 Nov '08

10 Nov '08

Hello Fellow Ambassadors, I was wondering how I could get around 100 DVDs to donate to people around West Lothian College. And to be used for a Fedora 10 Release Party to introduce new users to Fedora. Ive been using Fedora since Core 1 and before that I used RedHat I want other people to experience Fedora and become members of the Open Source Community. Alot of C Developers I know are afraid of Linux because of the lack of Support for some of the IDEs they use and they dont seem to understand the GUI is very simple to use and there are alternatives to almost every IDE Windows Has to offer. I want to proove Linux is very user Friendly Thanks, Keiran -- - Fedora Ambasador - <affix(a)fedoraproject.org> - Free Software Foundation Associate - <keiran.smith(a)member.fsf.org> Join the FSF as an Associate Member at: http://www.fsf.org/register_form?referrer=6705

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Working with OpenStreetMap
by Yaakov Nemoy 05 Nov '08

05 Nov '08

Hi List, This weekend at the Ontario LinuxFest, I met Richard Weait, who is one of the organizers behind the LinuxFest. His $dayjob, as it turns out is to work as a Community Manager for OpenStreetMap, and he is responsible for the NA Northeast region. In two weeks, he is looking to do a mapping party in Pittsburgh, and he asked for local help in organising the local details, namely, marketing and providing good advice on a decent central location. I am curious if the rest of the Ambassadors are willing to help out here too. Would it be a good idea, and are you, the Ambassadors willing, to offer up our help in providing local resources? This means I will point Richard to our Ambassadors roster, and suggest that he plan mapping parties where there are Fedora presences. He would feel free to contact anyone who is an Ambassador to ask for pointers on how to market, where to run, and how to run a mapping party in that local region. One of the OpenStreetMap guys would come and run the actual party, so I would imagine it wouldn't be more than just handling a few emails and maybe an hour of contacting a local venue (local cafes are excellent) to get the necessary permissions. Is this something that has some potential within the Fedora Ambassadors? -Yaakov

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SFD Tunisia : online report
by Thomas Canniot 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

I just noticed the SFD page has been updated fallowing the SFD in Tunisia. Thanks for your great work guys !! https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/SFD/SfdTunisia2008 Regards, Thomas

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Re: [Ambassadors] NA Release Party Owners: F10 t-shirt proposal
by Kam Salisbury 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

-----Original Message----- From: "David Nalley" <david(a)gnsa.us> Subj: [Ambassadors] NA Release Party Owners: F10 t-shirt proposal Date: Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:09 pm Size: 686 bytes To: fedora-ambassadors-list(a)redhat.com Clint and I were discussing some of the upcoming release issues and he came up with the idea of having an F10 release shirt available. So I am announcing the proposal and 1) trying to gauge interest in the proposal. and 2) Solicit input for the proposal. Clint, in conjunction with at least one member of the art team will be working on the artwork. Feel free to continue this thread with ideas or just flood Clint on irc :) So are you interested in having t-shirts for release events? If so, how would you have them look? Brian and I just started emailing about this (I am rarely on irc due to sleep and firewalls) Maybe something generic is the way to go so the shirts can still be relevant after the release month? -- Kam http://kamsalisbury.com GPG key: FAF1751E

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Call for help from TLDP and a question.
by susmit shannigrahi 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

Hi list, This _may be_ slightly off topic here. But as it is very much related to Linux and many of us still consult LDP, I can not resist myself from forwarding this to you. Please see the mail below. Please help if you have time. The new URL is wiki.tldp.org. BTW according to jdd , LDP used to be included as RPM in RedHat. If yes, can we include them again if document licences permit? Thanks. Susmit ======================================================================= ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: jdd for http://tldp.org <jdd(a)dodin.org> Date: Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 8:47 PM Subject: Re: [discuss] http://wiki.tldp.org/Page_Status To: Susmit <susmit.shannigrahi(a)gmail.com> Hello, I see that you work with Fedora. I have two things to do with Fedora :-) * do you know if the ldp HOWTOs are included in the fedora rpms? they used to be in red Hat, but the last time I checked was... extremely long time ago :-( * could you relay to the fedora user's mailing list the need of help for the LDP? thanks jdd -- jdd for the Linux Documentation Project http://wiki.tldp.org http://www.dodin.net

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Intro
by Md. Sabrul Jamil 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

Hello, I am novice in Fedora Ambassadors, and glad to become a member of Fedora Ambassadors Group. Just recently subscribed to the Ambassadors mailing list. I'm a student of EEE ( Electrical & Electronic Engineering) in The University of Asia Pacific <http://www.uap-bd.edu/>, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Personal info: Name: Sabrul Jamil Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh. IRC (Freenode) Nick: ador Google ID: ador.sj E-mail: ador(a)fedoraproject.org Started in:Fedora Ambassador in Bangladesh. My plans: I wish to become active in Ambassadors, because of that i join to the Ambassadors Group with large plans for Fedora Project in Bangladesh. In Bangladesh there is a very few number of Fedora users , my plan is to enlarge Fedora community in Bangladesh soon. Therefore i wish to recruit additional users and trainee to enlarge community.For the time being, i will be present at Fedora Events in Bangladesh. Maybe i will organize some Event in my city. Glad to become a part of Fedora project and community. Best regards, Sabrul Jamil ador(a)fedoraproject.org

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Fedora 10 Presentation
by Rishikesh Sharma 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

Hi All, I need a Fedora 10 overview and features presentation (English) to showcase on my upcoming event "Manipur Fedora 10 Release Party and Install Fest 2008" at Imphal on 7 December, 2008. My event url is http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/ReleaseParty/F10/Manipur I have gone through event resource page and only found presentations for Fedora 8 and 9 only. I request someone to prepare a nice presentation on Fedora 10 overview and features. Regards, Rishikesh Sharma Fedora Ambassador Imphal, Manipur.

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Fedoraforum.........
by Doug Berry 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

Hey guys, Just a word about the Fedora Forum topic raised by Randika. I not sure about creating a whole new forum, whether that is workable or not. But Randika raised a very valid point about Fedoraforum.org, that being that in searching it, you often get outdated and obsolete information. There is nothing worse then having an inexperienced user trying to do something that no longer works, because he found it on the Forum. This user wants to do thus and such, and he ends up in a terminal, trying to create directories or "make" something, and screwing it all up, when the 2,674th result in that search is some guy saying: "why don't you just yum install the rpm from atrpms." That user would certainly wish that his search started with that result. That criticism is valid for all the other Linux forums also. Google a search topic to find info about something and the recent, up-to-date stuff might in last place out of the 2 million hits you get. -- w Douglas Berry -- slasherzee(a)fedoraproject.org

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MIDs and PS3s
by hagr182 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

Well my friends, Ive been doing a bit of research and well Fedora doesnt mix very well with the PS3, my point is: -We should promote the creation of a Fedora 10 alternate cd install (as of right now the best version for the PS3 is core 5). -We should promote the creation of an MID edition of Fedora. I know both projects arent exactly an easy piece of cake, but we need to get ahead already, the PS3 is a perfect opotunity to make fedora popular, as the PS3 represents a whopping 45% of the console market, of course well be competing head to head with ubuntu and yellow dogLinux. On the other hand MID devices are becoming pretty common, so we should promote MID development aswell, on both projects im more than willing to help-

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