ambassadors August 2008

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Fedora 10 Release Party and Install Fest at Imphal, Manipur
by Rishikesh Sharma 12 Sep '08

12 Sep '08

Hi All, I am planning to organize one Fedora 10 Release Party and Install Fest at Imphal, Manipur, India on December 7, 2008. This will be my first project as ambassador in my region. I hope this event will turn out to be a mega success since this fest will be the first of its kind in Manipur. This event is definetly going to boost the awarness for Fedora Linux in Manipur. The main highlight of the event will be distribution and release of Fedora 10, Demo and Live installation of Fedora 10. The duration of the event will be for 1 day only. I have put up this event on the event wiki. I will be also uploading the details regarding the event on the wiki very soon. So, i need support from all of you to make this event a grand success. I will also try my level best to make this event a mega event. Regards, Rishikesh Sharma Fedora Ambassador Imphal, Manipur, India.

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APAC ambassadors meeting.
by susmit shannigrahi 07 Sep '08

07 Sep '08

It has been a long time we had a meeting for this region. Any taker? -- Regards, Susmit. ============================================= ssh 0x86DD170A http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:susmit =============================================

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How to Organise Fedora Event in my Region
by Rishikesh Sharma 04 Sep '08

04 Sep '08

Hi All, I want to organise Fedora Event, maybe Fedora 10 release or media distribution in my region for the very first time. I am also the only fedora ambassador in my region. So, i would like to organise fedora event for the first time in my region. Please help and support me to organise such event in my region for the first time. Rishikesh Sharma Fedora Ambassador Imphal, Manipur, India.

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NA Ambassadors Meeting 2008-08-27 Meeting Summary
by inode0 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

David Nalley led the meeting. * News from FAmSCo - Jeffrey Tadlock, no meeting this week, budget is nearing finalization. * Current status of tasks + No progress made contacting existing ambassadors. + Potential sponsors for hardware to include in Event Boxes were contacted this week. We hope to acquire small notebooks for each event box. We will also attempt to acquire one XO for each box. + Plans to produce media for F10 proceeding, one or two runs of 3000 are possible. + FAD update and planning. + Planet aggregation continuing - some new ambassadors are on the planet. + Musts/Shoulds/Coulds - will try to get this out of draft in the next week or two. * The Education Strategy - Jack Aboutboul returned to discuss issues that were raised on f-a-l and to further discuss the work he is doing in this area. More discussion is expected. * Dealing with News Media - Larry Cafiero introduced us to a draft he is working on to help us more effectively deal with the media. This opened a discussion of whether a policy is needed to guide ambassadors in dealing with various media issues. Regardless of policy I think it is fair to say the work Larry presented will be a great help to the many ambassadors who may come in contact with the press in various situations. I would again like to thank all the participants, especially the new ambassadors joining us for the first time tonight.

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Event Report: TechTrix '08
by susmit shannigrahi 31 Aug '08

31 Aug '08

Hi, As I said on 29th, I had a talking event at a local engineering college. As the day progressed, excitement grew. It was morning when the organisers called us up and asked if they could shift our talk to open stage. They were having space problem :) No, we said. we are no bollywood stars..are we? Around 10:30, we assembled. It was around 11:10 when we reached the college. Upon entering the room we found that there was around ~100 students, mostly from first and second year. Unfortunately, there was a power cut as soon as we entered the room and though they had backup and generators, they were unable to fix it. Time was running and audience was getting bored, so we decided to start without the microphone and projector. First was the talk by Indranil Das Gupta, upon enquiring the audience let us know, that they have heard of Linux in general, they have no detailed idea but now that they have an opportunity want to know specifically what Fedora and Linux was all about. And there was the HOD of the Computer Sc. who wanted to know more about Fedora as they were migrating a whole lab to Fedora. Interestingly, a few students honestly confessed that they were here because the tech fest was on and they had to come to it anyway. ;) In the middle of talk, power came back and everything was back to normal. After that there was my talk[1]. The audience was listening to it carefully, they asked a few questions, and after the talk a few came up to me and asked that they have already installed Fedora and they were having such and such problems. As I didn't have much time, I told them to follow it up with mail. The scenario there is not much encouraging, as people never heard of sourceforge and kernel et. al., but that give us a lot of opportunity to teach them new things. What I found, they have a LUG, had an install fest and then they had no idea how to proceed. So, I talked to them and asked them to make it a in a workshop format. Probably, I shall go back there soon. :) Next, Sayamindu from OLPC spoke, and demoed the sugar desktop, people was entertained. Unfortunately, time ran out and he had to cut his speech short. (He did a 2 hour presentation in ~20 minutes :D.) So that was all about the event. On our return leg, there was rain, so we had to walk a bit, cross a bamboo bridge with toll tax....("bamboo bridge with a toll tax") and went into the china town to have some nice...but that's a different story. :) Thanks. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Image:Final1.pdf -- Regards, Susmit. ============================================= ssh 0x86DD170A http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:susmit =============================================

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Fedora Ambassador
by Anwarul Mamun 31 Aug '08

31 Aug '08

Hi Everyone, I am Anwarul Mamun, a Free and Open Source software enthusiast working to foster the advancement of Free and Open Source software, Open Standards and F/OSS community since long. Bearing the responsibility of OpenDoc Society, Bangladesh Chapter as Chairman(www.opendocsociety.org). I will represent Bangladesh as an Ambassador and feel great to coordinate with anyone from any region to embrace Fedora. I like and enjoy to present on Free and Open source software matters. My upcoming presentation "Community Development, Marketing, Fund raising - Three pillars of the future of OOo" will be at OOoCon 2008 in Beijing, China on this November. Would like to build a strong community around Fedora through engaging in massive advocacy for Fedora. Thank you and best regards, Anwarul Mamun anwarulmamun(a)fedoraproject.org -- Build it and All will be involved

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Barcelona
by Robert M. Albrecht 31 Aug '08

31 Aug '08

Hi, I´m in Barcelona this week. Are there some ambassadors to meet in real world ? Just drop me a line. cu romal www.romal.de blog.romal.de

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REMINDER French Meeting today 1830 #fedora-meeting
by Thomas Canniot 31 Aug '08

31 Aug '08

This mail is a reminder for today´s meeting for French ambassadors and _every_ interested people. 2008-08-31 / 18:30 UTC IRC: freenode #fedora-meeting Ce mail est un rappel pour la réunion des ambassadeurs francophones, qui aura lieu ce dimanche (31 août.) 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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Re: Fedora 9 CD...
by Jason Benedict Low 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

Sorry, i don't sell Fedora CD. There's a FreeMedia project here:- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia Look for your region you in and can order from there OR if you want to purchase, you may try to read here http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/Project#Vendors_Programs Danoel Teves wrote: > Good day, > > I want to inquire on how much would cost for me to acquire a 6 cds of > fedora 9 and what is the procedure in getting the cd. > > Please tell me, i appreciate very much if you help me sir > > Thank you. > > > Noel Teves > > -- Best Regards, Jason http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Jason_Benedict_Low ------ When i work nobody care. When i rest everybody stare. ------

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Events Q1
by Joerg Simon 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

Hi Ambassadors, i have seen that Q1 is already on the FedoraEvents Page[1], so i have added the CLT2009[2] in Chemnitz added to Q1. If you want help us there, you are welcome. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/CLT CU Joerg -- Joerg (kital) Simon jsimon(a)fedoraproject.org http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JoergSimon Key Fingerprint: 3691 0989 2DCA 58A2 8D1F 2CAC C823 558E 5B5B 5688

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