ambassadors November 2009

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Fedora 12 hits the printed newpapers at Nicaragua
by Neville A. Cross 22 Nov '09

22 Nov '09

Hello, I want to share that I wrote a few days ago to a technology columnist from El Nuevo Diario. In the mail I included the link to http://proyectofedora.org/wiki/Conoce_Fedora_12 This page is an effort to translate for latam the one page release note for Fedora 12. This effort was lead by Tatica, and I was honored to collaborate. Today, I was looking at the sunday newspaper, and I saw that my mail have a good response: (spanish) http://impreso.elnuevodiario.com.ni/2009/11/22/informatica/114077 I am looking to include this hit in the press archive. As Nicaraguan Launch party is due to December 3rd, I am hoping to have more press hits. Best regards -- Neville https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Yn1v Linux User # 473217

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SWAG needed ASAP on Rochester NY
by Karlie Robinson 22 Nov '09

22 Nov '09

Hello everyone. I was wondering if everyone could help me out. Here's what's going on.... > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: NYSCATE this Sunday, need swag and volunteers > Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:21:06 -0500 > From: Stephen Jacobs <snip> > To: <snip> > > > > I have successfully negotiated a free booth at the nyscate [1] > conference downtown in the convention center at the last minute. This > will be an opportunity to show off RIT programs in general and the > OLPC stuff in specific. The audience of this conference is hundreds, > if not thousands of NYS teachers and guidance counselors > > <snip> > I will be presenting with Gerald Ardito on Sugar Sunday at noon and > can do booth set-up before or after. > <snip> > > Will need as much Sugar, OLPC, Red Hat, Fedora swag for giveaways as I > can get. <Snip> > Need to hear from y'all soon as time is of the essence > > SJ For those of you who don't know, Steve's class at RIT was born out of the Fedora-OLPC SIG and it will be a joint venture to promote RIT, Fedora, SugarLabs.org, OLPC and TeachingOpenSource.org (that last one is on my personal agenda). Though if you have SWAG from other FOSS Projects I'd be happy to proselytize on your behalf. I'm also stoked to be invited because at a much smaller conference in the spring[2], we gave away 300 Open Source Software discs in 1.5 hours. Plus it's an opportunity to talk to folks who may not know Fedora, or even open source. I have a formal Fedora FAmNa Request ticket open [3] if you can help out. If needed, I can also email a PDF with USPS Domestic US postage/mailing label. The flat rate envelopes and boxes are a dream since I'll only need to know what size/service you're using. Thanks in advance for your help, Karlie [1] New York State Association for Computers and Technology in Education http://www.nyscate.org/ [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Webpath/EdTech [3] https://fedorahosted.org/famnarequests/ticket/71

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Meeting minutes [Fedora India at #fedora-india on the 22nd of Nov 2009]
by Ankur Sinha 22 Nov '09

22 Nov '09

hey, To start with, links : http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-india/2009-11-22/fedora-india.2009-… http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-india/2009-11-22/fedora-india.2009-… http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-india/2009-11-22/fedora-india.2009-… People present (lines said) 1. franciscod (208) 2. mbuf (141) 3. jdk2588 (37) 4. skbohra (37) 5. Pradipta (31) 6. rakesh (29) 7. kushal (17) 8. sm|CPU (8) 9. sankarshan (7) 10. Acedip (5) 11. kishan_ (3) 12. kishan (2) 13. zodbot (2) 14. kedars_ (1) 15. rajeshr (1) 16. rtnpro (1) 17. yevlempy (1) ================================================================== There were two topics on the agenda as posted on the mailing list: - F12 release events - Tamil team - During the course of the meeting, we decided to discuss the issue of "people becoming Fedora Ambassadors and not carrying out their duties as required" also. Minutes - Release events: - Planned at MIT Manipal, early January (Ankur Sinha) - Release party, install fests at Bikaner (Jaideep) - Plans to migrate 100 desktops of Coal India to fedora12 (Pradipta) Tamil team discussion: Postponed (next meeting?) Discussion over fedora ambassadorship - Making sure that blogs of *every* Ambassador is on planet.fedoraproject.org - some sort of system to prevent people from signing up (because its ultra cool) and then not working. - make a nice proposal and send it for discussion and whatever be the result send it to FEMSco for approval - ideas, such as an Ambassador should be participating in at least one Fedora subgroup (ie docs/packaging/design/websites...) - Mentoring to make sure newbies holding release fests know what to say ie - *correct content* (since they're short on experience, we don't want them saying stuff that is different from the community's working etc.) - Setting up a wiki page and supplying people with updated slides and material to be used at release fests. - collecting feedback after a Fedora event from the audience (ideas needed on how to go about doing this). - regular IRC meets : fortnightly *at least* - good install fests never turning into sustained activities : why?? ========================================================================== These are only ideas in short. Please go through the meeting logs provided above. There's quite a lot of work to be done. - I'm in-charge of rounding up all "FAs from India"'s blogs and making sure they're on the planet. - Slides etc? (any hands ??) There are also agendas that still need more discussion. Future meets or discussions on the mailing list are needed. Thank you all for attending :) Have a nice evening regards, Ankur PS Also forwarding the the ambassadors list.

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REMINDER French Fedora Meeting Today 1830UTC #fedora-meeting
by Thomas Canniot 22 Nov '09

22 Nov '09

This mail is a reminder for today´s meeting for French ambassadors and _every_ interested people. 2009-11-22 / 18:30 UTC IRC: freenode #fedora-meeting Ce mail est un rappel pour la réunion des ambassadeurs francophones, qui aura lieu ce dimanche (22 nov.) à 20h30 heure de Paris sur IRC (freenode) #fedora-meeting . L'ordre du jour est disponible depuis cette page : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/FrenchTeam/Reunions N'hésitez pas à le modifier pour rajouter des sujets qui vous semblent intéressants. Merci de répondre à ce message en cas d'indisponibilité. Thomas Canniot

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Report for Fedora 12 Release Party in Valencia (Spain)
by Juan J. Martínez 21 Nov '09

21 Nov '09

Hello, Everything went fine. Despite the local Linux user groups are somehow inactive, 5 former members attended the party. In the last moment, another Fedora user arrived :) There's a short chronicle here: http://rambleon.usebox.net/post/251779521/fedora-12-release-party-valencia-… I can't say it was a big success (seven people), but I wouldn't call it a fail because the local situation of Valencia (and to some extent Spain) regarding LUGs it's far from good. This kind of little events may help people to meet each other and may be we can improve the situation. Regards, Juanjo -- jjm's home: http://www.usebox.net/jjm/ blackshell: http://blackshell.usebox.net/ ramble on: http://rambleon.usebox.net/

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Reminder : Fedora India Meet tomorrow
by Ankur Sinha 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

hey, A friendly reminder to the Meet we have planned tomorrow, Sunday the 22nd of Nov, 2009 at 1130 AM IST. Agenda : - Release parties, plans and requirements etc. - discussion on starting a new Tamil team[1] (Sri Ramadoss M) This will be followed by an open floor where you can discuss your queries. See you there ! Have a great day! regards, Ankur [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-india/2009-November/msg00097.html

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REMINDER: EMEA Ambassador Meeting Today!
by Pierros Papadeas 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

Ladies and gentlemen, Don't you remember there is an EMEA Ambassador meeting (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa) today on #fedora-meeting ? Day : Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 Time : 20:00 UTC (check http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=18&month=11&year=2… to know your own time depending on your countries) Channel : #fedora-meeting Meeting agenda (add your topic before the meeting please) : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Ambassadors_2009-11-18 Update your agendas, and don't forget to join us. Kind regards, Pierros Papadeas -- Pierros Papadeas PGP key: 0x6130DBF8 http://pierros.papadeas.gr pierros(a)papadeas.gr liknus @ GRnet , Freenode

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Report for RKM FOSS Workshop on 7th November, 2009
by Subrata Dey 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

Dear All, Here is the report for the said Fedora event. I am extremely sorry for the delay in publishing the report. It took a long time to get the photos. Venue: Ramakrishna Mission Shilpamandira Computer Centre, Belur, Howrah, West Bengal, India. Desc. of Event. 1. A discussion about FOSS & Fedora. 2. A discussion about MONO & Wine. 3. A quize contest (conducted by Institute faculty members and participated by students). 4. Distribution of Fedora 10, 32 bit DVDs and Fedora 11 Live media among the students. Total time spent: 3 hrs. Event stat: The event was extremely successful, and the institute promised to use Fedora in their servers. The photos of the event can be found in the following link. http://picasaweb.google.com/sdey.in/RKMFOSSWorkshop?feat=directlink Thanks to all for their co-operation. A lot of thanks to Mr. Susmit Shanigrahi for providing me with the Fedora medias for making the event successful. Subrata Dey. +91 9038071117

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[Fwd: Request for Ambassador Kit]
by Paul W. Frields 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Hi Ambassadors, I received the following through our press contact address. Does this fellow have a mentor in the Ambassador program who can follow up with him? ----- Forwarded message from "R. Kopka" <> ----- Greetings Fedora Team, I am a long time Fedora user, using Fedora 12 KDE right now. (started with FC3) A few weeks ago I joined the Ambassador program, and have yet to hear anything about it in email, or otherwise. It is my wish to spread the good news of Fedora Linux, and educate everyone on how secure and stable Linux really is. I keep both the i386 and the 86_64 versions available on my hard drive for those who ask me for a copy, in the past three years or so I must have burned off 20 copies for people, at my own expense. I am a computer repairman, I work from my home to supplement my meager social security income. One of these kits would go a long way toward supplying people with genuine Fedora media, and the written materials would help me immensely is spreading the word. Rest assured that each and everything I get will be used, or given to those who will use them. You know, I have been seeing those new MAC commercials, and I said to my son, also a Fedora user, wouldn't it be great if Fedora had a TV commercial? Two thing I can do well is talk about Linux, and write about Linux. I offer to you my service, in whatever capacity I can help with, and ask for a kit of my own, and possibly some kind of card? Sincerely, Robin Kopka ----- End forwarded message ----- -- 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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Fedora Maithili (mai-IN) News in Outlook magazine
by Rajesh Ranjan 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Hi Hindi Outlook has published a news on the release of Fedora with Maithili language support. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QxCnGsOcsrM/SvuXMdn21CI/AAAAAAAAAeE/tLRGTlTFpmQ/s… -- Regards, Rajesh Ranjan www.kramashah.blogspot.com

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