ambassadors January 2009

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Revisiting FADNA (was: Re: [Ambassadors] FAmNA Meeting Summary from 2008-12-17)
by Larry Cafiero 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

An observation while cursing the bad timing of my final exams (and not being able to address this issue last night): On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:57 PM, inode0 <inode0(a)gmail.com> wrote: > * FADNA > > - Larry Cafiero sent mail to f-a-l indicating willingness to take > ownership of hosting FADNA at SCaLE in February. > > - Discussion about several possible alternate sites and timing. > > - Agreed to let Larry run with this, need to discuss it in more > detail during the coming week and sign off officially at next > week's meeting if all goes well. > > - Not likely to be very much in our Q4 budget for this so we need > to try to proceed prudently. > > * Q4 Budget [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/NA/Budget] Until last night, I don't believe Linuxfest Northwest in April was brought up as an option for FADNA. Until now, my impression, wrongly it appears, was that we were locked into either SCaLE or SELF, the latter of which was deemed to be too close to FUDcon. If LFNW is an option, we should look at it closely, not only because of the time factor involved -- both in organizational terms as well as financial terms (this falls in Q1, right?) -- but also in the fact that this is an historical year for LFNW, it's 10th anniversary. I'll retain ownership of this, needless to say, but I think it might be best to take a closer look at LFNW rather than rush to make SCaLE. I'll do the legwork on both and report back during the course of the week and have something for Tuesday's meeting. But those are my thoughts after reading the minutes and, naturally, I welcome input on the issue. Lots. Larry Cafiero

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Organize NA and EMEA IRC meeting
by Francesco Ugolini 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

Sometime ago, I was asked to help organizing a shared meeting with EMEA and NA to share ideas about initiatives and have a better look at each other. I want to ask all the interest to think about it, once again, maybe trying to find a time/date to make this important meeting happening. Regards Francesco Ugolini

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Fedora Talk
by Rafael Gomes 24 Feb '09

24 Feb '09

Hi Guys, I translated the website talk.fedoraproject for brazilian portuguese and I am interested to use this project in Brazil. Is there a documentation about configuration in twinkle or ekiga? Because for both case in website there is this information "(Coming Soon)" I configured twinkle and ekiga and it is very easy, I think. Can I do this documentation or already is there other one? Thanks, Rafael Gomes Consultor em TI Embaixador Fedora LPIC-1 (71) 8146-5772

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Fedora Freemedia processing is now automated. Testing required. (please read.)
by susmit shannigrahi 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '09

Hi, I am really elated to let you know that we have successfully automated the Fedora Freemedia handling process. So far the freemedia request handling has been manual. A form was filled, a mail sent to the mailing list, postal addresses copied from the mail and updated to the wiki. This was pretty complex, and time consuming too. Now the process will be as easy as this: 1. Now the requester will come here[1]. Fill in the data, and will continue to the next page. 2. On continuing the trac ticket will be already filled with the data, all the requester will have to do is to click the "Submit Ticket" button. 3. A ticket will be filed here[2]. 4. The freemedia contributor will accept the ticket he/she is willing to ship. 5. When shipped, he/she will close the ticket. If you have any comment/suggession, please let me know. Also PLEASE play around with the system, file tickets, close tickets, and do whatever you want and let me know any bugs that you may have noticed. Lastly, thanks to all, who helped doing this possible. Thanks and awaiting bug reports.. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/freemedia/FreeMedia-form.html [2] http://fedoraproject.org/freemedia/ -- Regards, Susmit. ============================================= ssh 0x86DD170A http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:susmit =============================================

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FOSDEM
by Max Spevack 05 Feb '09

05 Feb '09

Are there any remaining questions, or organizational topics that need to be addressed for FOSDEM? For those of you who are receiving some sort of sponsorship from the Community Architecture budget, please read over https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Reimbursements and be ready with your receipts as quickly after FOSDEM as possible. I need to get all of the FOSDEM-related expenses into the Red Hat system by the middle of February, so it won't leave much time. Thanks, Max

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FAmNA Meetings Revisited
by inode0 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

We have been having weekly meetings on Tuesday nights now for 6 months. A lot has been accomplished and perhaps it is time to reconsider the frequency and timing of our meetings again. Several of us feel that moving to twice a month meetings would be appropriate now to keep our initiatives moving forward without being overly burdensome on ambassadors who want to participate. Are folks ready to renegotiate this for the new year? Are there ambassadors out there who would like to join us for meetings but for whom Tuesday night just won't work? If so, please make suggestions now and we'll see if we can accommodate everyone's schedules. Thanks, John

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Re: Fedora 'ambassadors-kit'
by Joerg Simon 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

Am Sonntag, 18. Januar 2009 23:57:47 schrieb Bert Desmet: > Hi Joerg, > > I have heard in the #fedora-ambassadors channel on irc that there are > ambassadorKit's. > But the wiki about it says that it's only a proposel until now? Hi Bert, i post this in Ambassadors ML too, this is an important Topic! there are several started Projects, Kit´s, Boxes etc ... EventBox http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/EventBox Draft Ambassador Kit North America http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/NorthAmerica/Drafts/Tools FedoraKit Italia - one time? Project sponsored by bytecode http://blog.foppiano.org/2008/10/23/fedora-kit-landed-around-italy/ I would love to see the "AmbassadorKit" also as a mindset of ideas and best practices for organizing events and getting ressources ... what do you think about this? Regards Joerg -- Joerg (kital) Simon jsimon(a)fedoraproject.org http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JoergSimon http://kitall.blogspot.com Key Fingerprint: 3691 0989 2DCA 58A2 8D1F 2CAC C823 558E 5B5B 5688

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Fedora
by Joerg Simon 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

Dear Ambassadors, right now some so called FOSS events appear with a target audience which is more focused for government agencies and bussines. To have Speakers at that events could be a great chance for Fedora to attract them for sponsoring or contribution. Here are some points i have made already in a discussion with a small group of people before. Francesco suggested to invite all Ambassadors to participate in this discussion. There are several topics that we could place to attract government agencies and business, i am sure they will not know about that right now - and i hope that we find more here on that list - or like Francesco suggested collect in a WikiPage. - Company & Inhouse Builds! - a company who build software as FOSS or modify FOSS for their own Enterprise Servers can use the benefit of Fedora Processes and Infrastructure as well as the wide spreading of our Distribution with contributing to Fedora + EPEL - this is good for the company and for Fedora. This could be enhanced by a technical Track, to show them how they can package and spread their Software within own Fedora Spins ... - Community Consulting! - show them the brilliance of our technology with spacewalk, cobbler, func, puppet, FDS, KVM, FEL, our OLPC Success... Talk about the possibility that a Fedora Contributor teaches a company for a donation to the Fedora Project technicaly to see what the future will bring and to use that knowledge for their enterprise enviroments because this Enterprise Servers are build from our roots (or whatever) ... - Build a FOSS Career! - show the government why they should support using and teaching of FOSS in educational institutions Show them success stories we have learned from Kushal or Chitlesh or Rodrigo or Paul - show the bussines why they should hire FOSS Contributors (peer certification, ...) - show the bussines why they should sponsor local FOSS Communities ... - show them how to become a FOSS Contributor inside Fedora. Imagine a government which decides that kids in school get teached leading edge software without licencing cost and with the possibility to enhance and change that. Imagine a Fedora Artwork Contest in all Schools of your Country We can enrich Events with valuable content and give them real FOSS Partnership Spirit. CU Joerg -- Joerg (kital) Simon jsimon(a)fedoraproject.org http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JoergSimon http://kitall.blogspot.com Key Fingerprint: 3691 0989 2DCA 58A2 8D1F 2CAC C823 558E 5B5B 5688

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Fedora DVDs for Red Hat AUS
by Paul W. Frields 01 Feb '09

01 Feb '09

You guys will hopefully forgive me for being not quite up to date on the latest procedures! :-) What's the best way for me to get about 40 F10 DVDs sent to the Red Hat office in Sydney, Australia? -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug

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Freemedia + Unity Re-Spins, Thoughts?
by Frank Murphy 01 Feb '09

01 Feb '09

Looking for thoughts on this. What would the Freemedia\Ambassadors think, if we cannot include Unity-Respins as full Project sponsored spins. Could we try work on them as an upgrade option. John (inode) voiced something similar previously: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2009-January/msg001… Where requester is sent the Official Media, and the closest Unity-spin to the request date. It will cost ambassadors a bit extra on media\time\p+p. But it will save the requester time\money, and give them a fairly concurrent box. If feedback is positive, would others be willing to help me bring this forward, to the relevant groups\committees? Frank

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