ambassadors June 2008

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North America: Last call for Fedora Ambassador Polos
by Pascal Calarco 29 Jul '08

29 Jul '08

Hi folks -- This is the last call for the first round of Fedora Ambassador polos. Shipment is expected in the next few weeks, in plenty of time for fall cons and the October FUDCon. Please e-mail me off list if you are interested and want to order one with your snail mail address, quantity and sizing. Here is what we are ordering: *Style Number:*D100 Devon & Jones Pima Pique Knit in French Blue *Style Description:* 100% Peruvian Pima Cotton. Additional yarn in collar and cuffs for a neater appearance and greater durability; stretch tape in shoulders for extra strength; three-button placket, Dura-pearl™ buttons; rib-knit cuffs; grey heather is 90% cotton, 10% polyester. *Style Link:* http://www.4logowearables.com//CDD36BB771654D5EB36ED73F301BA619.asp?pcs_key… The polos feature the official Fedora logo on the chest and sleeve. Cost: $42.40 each including shipping for sizes up to XL; $3.00 extra for 2XL and up. For orders of two polos, the cost drops down to $69.00. Payment is either via PayPal or you can send me a check drawn on a US bank in US dollars. Mexican Ambassadors should get in contact with Alejandro Acosta <aacosta(a)fedoraproject.org>, as he will be coordinating finding a vendor in Mexico. Cheers, - pascal Fedora Ambassador, Indiana USA Fedora Weekly News: Marketing beat reporter

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FrOSCon budget and planning
by Max Spevack 22 Jul '08

22 Jul '08

FAMSCo has set aside a budget of about 600 Euros for FrOSCon. Note that Max's travel costs and hotel to the event will *not* come out of this budget. This budget can be used for any costs associated with the show, including swag, and also for subsidizing travel & accomodations for Ambassadors. I have updated the FrOSCon page on the wiki: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/FrOSCon/FrOSCon2008 Here are some of the questions that I would like to ask on the list: 1) Who has the posters and booth decorations from LinuxTag? How can we get some of those things for FrOSCon? 2) Who would like to volunteer to get some stickers made? In particular, I would like to see a good quality production of Nicu's sticker kit, but I leave it up to the actual volunteer. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/MarketingCollateral#Fedora_Stickers 3) We have two XOs in EMEA. Who has them? We need to get one to Robert Albrecht. 4) Max will work with local folks (probably Red Hat Germany) to get more Live CDs made, and also Tshirts. 5) We need someone to volunteer to look into accomodation options near the event. Probably someone who speaks German. :) --Max

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Re: Student partnership program. Extending fedora mentor program to students.
by susmit shannigrahi 07 Jul '08

07 Jul '08

On 6/29/08, Dipanjan Chakraborty <chakraborty.dipanjan(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I had talked to the training and placement cell in our college, as I had > said earlier. They had asked me to detail the entire process. So I have > prepared a draft . There are two documents. One is a letter approaching the > college, and the other is a description of fedora. I am attaching both. > please check them if any additions or deletions are to be made. Am I > entitled to sign the letter? > There's another point, do I write fedora with a small 'f' or a capital 'F'? an/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list Looking into the docs. Thanks for the effort. And the name should be "Fedora". -- Regards, Susmit. ============================================= ssh 0x86DD170A http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:susmit ============================================= -- Regards, Susmit. ============================================= ssh 0x86DD170A http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:susmit =============================================

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CLA details
by Tom Callaway 02 Jul '08

02 Jul '08

Hi Ambassadors, I know that a lot of you are involved (either directly or indirectly) with recruiting new contributors to Fedora. Please keep in mind the following: Whenever someone signs the Fedora CLA, they _MUST_ use their full legal name. Not just their first name, not initials, not part of their name. Obviously, I won't know if someone doesn't use their middle name (nor do we care if they do or not), but I will notice and reject anything like the following examples: John Doe (obviously fake) Mohammed (missing part of their name) J Johnson (first name not complete) Tim L. (not full name) Super Awesome (come on) bigjohnstevenson (please, use spaces) Try to remind new contributors to be sure to be complete here. If they somehow have a full name which meets my "reject" criteria, have them contact me directly. Their username can be whatever they want, but we do need their real name attached to the account for legal reasons. Also, we need a valid mailing address and a phone number. It is not sufficient to put "N/A", "Dont want to", or "123 Anywhere St", I will reject those. If someone legitimately doesn't have a mailing address or a telephone, feel free to contact me directly and we'll try to work something out. Thanks! ~spot (on behalf of Fedora Legal)

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Hello
by Charlie 30 Jun '08

30 Jun '08

Hello, my name is Charlie and I am new to the ambassador team. I am currently in Massachusetts USA, and excited about getting started. -- Charlie

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ETH-0: Hacking event in the Netherlands, July 5-11
by Yaakov Nemoy 30 Jun '08

30 Jun '08

Hi List, This is a bit short notice, but I've just recently found out about a hacking/computer art related event in the Northern part of the Netherlands. It's an outdoor LAN Party with four themes: Open Source Software Embedded Systems Media Arts and Computers Computer Gaming You can find out more information for the event here: http://www.eth-0.nl/ You can see the wiki page I've put up to collaborate on here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/Eth0/Eth02008 There's the possibility for a free day pass for any speakers, and they are still looking for some. Otherwise, it should just be a fun event all around. Max has also stated that there is some money in the budget for the event, so if you have any ideas, or you are just plain interested, send me a mail on or off list. If you do plan on going, please let me know as soon as possible. Since there is not much time left, this will take a bit of coordination to pull of successfully. While we don't need to be as professional looking as we were at LinuxTag, this is still a camping trip, and I don't want to have to have any unfortunate emergencies because something was not planned for in time. Sincerely yours, Yaakov "still not 100% an Ambassador" Nemoy

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Mirror bandwidth and user redirection
by Matt Domsch 29 Jun '08

29 Jun '08

Tonight I deployed a slight update to MirrorManager that I'd been wanting to do for a while. The basic selection algorithm for choosing the order in which to return mirrors to clients remains the same: prefer same netblocks, internet2 in same country if on internet2, same country, same continent, then global, in that order. However, until now, faster mirrors (those with larger bandwidths) were returned with equal probability as slower mirrors. This means not enough traffic was being sent to our gigabit-connected mirrors, and too much traffic was being sent to our slower mirrors. Each mirror's bandwidth value is now used as a weight. Mirrors with larger bandwidth will have a a higher probability of being returned earlier in the mirrorlist selection. Slower mirrors can still be returned as the first mirrorlist selection because this is based on probabilities, but should not be overwhelmed anymore. For countries with fewer mirrors, such as India, where there's some relatively fast mirrors, and several relatively slower mirrors, this should mean that users will more often get directed to the faster mirrors. Thanks, Matt Fedora Mirror Wrangler -- Matt Domsch Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux

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REMINDER French Meeting today 1830 #fedora-meeting
by Thomas Canniot 29 Jun '08

29 Jun '08

This mail is a reminder for today´s meeting for French ambassadors and _every_ interested people. 2008-06-29 / 18:30 UTC IRC: freenode #fedora-meeting Ce mail est un rappel pour la réunion des ambassadeurs francophones, qui aura lieu ce dimanche (29 juin) à 20h30 heure de Paris sur IRC (freenode) #fedora-meeting . L'ordre du jour est disponible depuis cette page : http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/FrenchTeam/Reunions N'hésitez pas à la modifier pour rajouter des sujets qui vous semblent intéressants. Thomas Canniot

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Student partnership program. Extending fedora mentor program to students.
by susmit shannigrahi 29 Jun '08

29 Jun '08

Hi all, In our previous APAC ambassadors meeting we were discussing about this idea[1]. Generally the final/pre-final year engineering students need to do some project work on a topic. What I personally saw that they desperately search for one. we can make a lot of new contributors if we provide them with a project to work, some guidence and may be a certificate at the end. (As they say, target this segment :)) This way we can make much more widespread effect as the student partners themselves will spread Fedora within their peers and their college. Also we may talk about officially tie-up with some colleges. The basic idea is here[2]. Now the question id if this is worth taking up. If yes, lets refine it here. [1]https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2008-June/msg0024… [2]http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora-Student_Mentor_Programme -- Regards, Susmit. ============================================= ssh 0x86DD170A http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:susmit =============================================

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Fedora Ambassador for Nicaragua
by Rafael Márquez 28 Jun '08

28 Jun '08

Hi Fedora Ambassadors My name is Rafael Antonio Márquez Castro recently approved as Fedora Ambassador for Nicaragua, for me is a great pleasure to be in this list. Experience in Fedora Fedora user for 3 years previously used RedHat, I have always preferred this distro over any other. In 2007 motivated by the desires of promoting Fedora I founded Fedora Nicaragua Local User Group (www.fedora-ni.net) since then We have worked to promote the use of our favorite Distro. I hope keep working in this labor with your collaboration Some Fedora Nicaragua's events http://mifedoracore.blogspot.com/search/label/Actividades More about me: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rmarquez

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