ambassadors August 2008

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intro for new ambassador Idaho Area
by brian henson 25 Aug '08

25 Aug '08

Brian Henson 8 Years Fedora/Debian/Ubuntu experience Work for US Air Force I have always tried to get people to see the plus of using Linux or OSS to do a job. Always willing to help with a project where I can. Email Bhenson(a)xenocomp.com Brian Henson Lead Systems Administrator Xenocomp Bhenson(a)xenocomp.com

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new user introducing himself
by Kevin Higgins 25 Aug '08

25 Aug '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am Kevin Higgins. I grew up in PaloAlto California during the Silicon Valley growth period. I developeda strong dedication to computers and computer programming during myyouth. Now I live in Vancouver, Washington and have been teachingLinux to my daughters and to individuals who purchase my refurbishedcomputers. I have built my business, Crossbytes, based on the theorythat everyone should have a computer and the software available toreach their individual goals. I have installed Fedora on severalcomputers and have adapted Fedora to the ASUS EEE laptop computer. My daughter uses the ASUS EEE for all of her school assignments andnow in her senior year she is planning on using it in college aswell.My clients range from middle schoolstudents to senior citizens. Fedora has allowed me to open a wholenew world to many people. These individuals have not only learned touse Fedora in their everyday lives they have learned the innerworkings of the system allowing them to continue growing as computerusers. They enjoy learning new programs and they rest assured in thesecurity and stability that Fedora offers them. My goal is to rebuild and refurbishused computers and put them in the hands of children that could nototherwise afford them. I am building relationships with severalschool districts in both Portland and Vancouver to begin a nominationprocess for deserving students. Each nominated student will receivea complete computer system from Crossbytes with a custom spin ofFedora consisting of a Monitor, tower, keyboard, mouse, printer andset up for internet access. All of the computers and printers comefrom people within the community who have donated them to Crossbytes.Everyone who has converted to Linuxfrom other operating systems are impressed with the security and easeof use. I want to continue educating individuals about Fedora andpromoting Fedora to everyone who desires to learn. Not one personhas converted back to an old operation system. They have referredtheir friends and family to me for Fedora systems and education. The foundation for the Fedora surge Ihave envisioned has been laid. As I progress with my goals I foreseethe surge becoming a wave. Linux touches so many different agegroups in so many different ways that numerous educationopportunities arise. I am ready for each new adventure andopportunity as they become available. User: crossbytesName : Kevin HigginsFedora Ambassador For Vancouver, WA.,USA I was not sure if this is the correct way to sign an e-mail but I signed. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://getfiregpg.org iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJIseh3AAoJEKnF/V3J6U+W+d4P/03A8QrAXLGe3yZ+QvEqI1Aj o3ZfQxp8ilqYQ3ELZD5p84dwiiW01eBA5VKEDCHxKdvG/bXzV6qtDJhTlJClLTCR Bs17i0Z8ngamR9Ojaj2vKuEQg84W3Tfa/TLACdneNK9bERsDVC2296vyvNkWq7FS rKwUXTOfbD7OSTtb+iwirAWaZJ1szIDwGknubnPCVQVvio4PCUYV35YuKfnFtPpm 005GSO+xINEj9uBiTZSIHawNqhMFWeSdHvcRcgnuwU4Pdg5aLxLDRYUHL/XiDCEj mgBW9UTwHXh8d8X4Wm94LibR/JSj+oTa+g5WzrLgjcoOOzw2hnV7Rt7S3AGIPA/4 Na/bCglFcExiDphLvnGUhxWsflY/XoRy/JK4hm/SOG586LSp2rplQ8KtY74P6vCf nO37yXefpcfPjVpxxmyDMVykNmjMS3tQiIztY6SwFTRxS30yHhOHeILgLwHA6POp tbkTBY7LtJi2rCMxHhE4t+jwJpmdjaOMOXXl3mlS1E1XFth2mVjLks+Ph77gB/WS jpaKbIw5mmMKKZOZBCfMQ/jhjwYmCksCwcCzPzJYc7jLrJZjEU9JB4rofIRd2dbw gJ/GEOfSgqn6xZKzcp4TkSXymFtn2PUg9XUXElY3Tx7c39IK7xF6im3/In23pMrd O7N1y52JimUpdHsLx41z =MC2D -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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China Fedora Support Community Set Up!
by Haowei 24 Aug '08

24 Aug '08

Honest members of Fedora Project: Hi,all users and all ambassadors,I have got this idea since I first come to join Fedora project. However,at that time I was in my university life,do not have so enough time to do this important thing. At present,as an ambassador of China,I am so exciting to tell all of you that there is a community which will try his best to do all support affairs in China comes out today! This is *China Fedora Community*( http://www.fedoraforum.org.cn). Now,I am so single to do this community.The most important thing for me to do now is to make a good style of our community and do some plan for our community development.I send this email to all of you in order to inform all that there is a community keep to support Fedora all the time.I do really hope that there will be some friends not only from China but also from all of the world can give us good advice to help our work for fedora support.I will warmly welcome all of you. Best Regards for all of you, Nathanael Lee from China 2008.8.24

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REMINDER French Meeting today 1830 #fedora-meeting
by Thomas Canniot 24 Aug '08

24 Aug '08

This mail is a reminder for today´s meeting for French ambassadors and _every_ interested people. 2008-08-24 / 18:30 UTC IRC: freenode #fedora-meeting Ce mail est un rappel pour la réunion des ambassadeurs francophones, qui aura lieu ce dimanche (24 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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Interesting Thread at LQ
by A. Mani 23 Aug '08

23 Aug '08

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/lq-suggestions-and-feedback-7/makin… It is also about the impact of brand names on new users. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc

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China's Second Ambassador comes back.
by Haowei 23 Aug '08

23 Aug '08

jsimon and every ambassadors, Hi! I did not see everybody here so long time since I left for my study in the university. I am almost the second ambassador,have leaded this Chinese team in China,maybe you can find my first email sent to this group with haowei2007(a)gmail.com. My English name is Nathanel Lee and Chinese name is Haowei Lee.I have been focusing on linux desribution and fedora since 2005.Now,I work in Chongqing China as an English interpreter and a very free system engineer. In this year,I have been awarded by Microsoft for Community Influencer Certificate for my outstanding technical support of Windows Live. At present,I do plan for set up one site for Fedora in China.I have searched in Baidu.com and Google.com.Because I rearly found enough resource and information for our Chinese people. I warmly welcome any ambassador who need help when there is something involve Chinese.You can contact me by this email.Also you can contact me by popular MSN. My MSN is nathanael(a)msn.cn Thank you very much! Thank you Fedoraproject! Best Regards for all of you, Nathanael Lee 2008.8.23

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question regarding listing events
by Neville A. Cross 23 Aug '08

23 Aug '08

Hello, I was reading on the wiki, on FedoraEvents [1], about some entries regardin SFD2008 to be celebrated on different places, like Salvador (Brazil), Tunis (Tunisia), and Quezon City (Phillipines). Fedora-ni is supporting the celebration of SFD2008 at Managua [2] (Nicaragua). We will have a talk on games by Rafael Marquez[3], one of the Fedora Ambassadors. We will also have fedora installations and distribution of fedora installation media. I would like to add this event to the list, as we are promoting fedora in this event. But as a newbie I am not sure about what are the rules for approving this entry or how to be sure it qualifies to be listed. There is no one listed as responsible for this page. Also, it troubles me that I am not sure if I have to list Nicaragua as part of South America or North America, as we are right mid way. Best regards to all, Neville A. Cross[4] Linux User # 473217 ------------- [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents [2] http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/centralandsouthamerica/Nicaragua [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rmarquez [4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Yn1v

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Fwd: TexLive2008 for Fedora
by A. Mani 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

TexLive 2008 has a lot of new features including automatic updates. And now we have some good news for Fedora too. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Aug 2008 16:38:58 +0200 From: Jindrich Novy <jnovy(a)redhat.com> Subject: [tex-live] tl2rpm: TeX Live 2008 packages to rpm converter To: tex-live(a)tug.org Message-ID: <20080818143858.GA20012(a)dhcp-lab-186.brq.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi all, I'm happy to announce first success to package TeX Live 2008 fully automatically to RPM. This was possible thanks to the great design of tlpkg metadata that is very easy parsable. And it is actually a result of desperate need to package TeX Live in some sensible way in Fedora. The RPMs are created by a bash script [1] that resolves a dependency tree for given set of schemes/collections/packages and generates package descriptions, filelists and requirements. Then a final spec is generated from "_main.spec" template. The script allows either to have each package separately within one huge spec file which will result in a possibility to install any package in TeX Live 2008 separately, but with the cost of very high number of subpackages (~4000+). Another option is to have only schemes and collections within spec with an assumption that collections won't conflict. This reduces number of subpackages to ~400. The generated specs can be seen here [2] for TeX Live to be packaged solely to schemes and collections and here [3] for one RPM subpackage for each TeX Live package (+collections and schemes dependent on them). Please note that the script is still under development and it doesn't yet generate %post actions for packages even though the code is mostly designed but untested (and heavily based on install-tl). The size-sorted list of RPMs for the collection only install can be seen in [4]. Jindrich [1] http://people.redhat.com/jnovy/files/texlive/tl2rpm [2] http://people.redhat.com/jnovy/files/texlive/texlive-only_collections.spec [3] http://people.redhat.com/jnovy/files/texlive/texlive-all_packages.spec [4] http://people.redhat.com/jnovy/files/texlive/texlive-rpmlist.txt ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are a few minor issues with tl2rpm, but those should be resolvable. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc

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Infrastructure update link (LATE)
by Paul W. Frields 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

Infrastructure report, 2008-08-22 UTC 1200: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-August/msg00012.ht… I neglected to forward URLs to some other important lists, and apologize profusely for the oversight. -- Paul W. Frields gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://paul.frields.org/ - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug

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Projeto Fedora no CESoL !
by Lucas - Linux Sys. Admin (CEFETCE/UAB) 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

http://www.projetofedora.org/node/92 GO GO GO ! :) -- -- Atenciosamente, Lucas do Amaral Saboya CEFET-CE - UAB-CE. Linux System Administrator Fedora Ambassador & Fedora Translator

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