ambassadors December 2009

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Fedora Ambassadors Welcome
by Joerg Simon 22 Dec '09

22 Dec '09

Dear Ambassadors, let´s welcome our new sponsored Ambassador Group Members: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Giannisk from Greece mentored by Robert Scheck https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:N4is3n from Indonesia mentored by Yuan Yijun Regards Joerg p.s. Please do not send private "Welcome" Messages to Ambassador List -- 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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FAmSCo election results December 2009
by Paul W. Frields 21 Dec '09

21 Dec '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Election Results for FAmSCo - Fedora 13 Cycle Voting Period: 05 December 2009 00:00:00 UTC to 16 December 2009 23:59:59 UTC Nominations: * David Nalley (ke4qqq) * Jean-Francois Saucier (djf_jeff) * Joerg Simon (kital) * Luca Foppiano (lfoppiano) * Maria Gracia Leandro (tatica) * Max Spevack (spevack) * Robert Scheck (rsc) * Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira (RodrigoPadula) * Sandro Mathys (red_alert) * Scott Seiersen (sseiersen) * Shakthi Kannan (mbuf) * Susmit Shannigrahi (susmit) Outcomes: As defined in the election text, the seven (7) candidate(s) with the greatest number of votes will be elected for full 2 release term. Information: At close of voting there were: 130 valid ballots Using the Fedora Range Voting method, each candidate could attain a maximum of 1560 votes (12*130). Results: 1. Joerg Simon (kital) 1167 2. Max Spevack (spevack) 1133 3. Maria Gracia Leandro (tatica) 771 4. David Nalley (ke4qqq) 708 5. Susmit Shannigrahi (susmit) 691 6. Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira (RodrigoPadula) 636 7. Luca Foppiano (lfoppiano) 609 * * * * * 8. Robert Scheck (rsc) 533 9. Jean-Francois Saucier (djf_jeff) 507 10. Sandro Mathys (red_alert) 495 11. Shakthi Kannan (mbuf) 373 12. Scott Seiersen (sseiersen) 328 As such, Joerg Simon, Max Spevack, Maria Gracia Leandro, David Nalley, Susmit Shannigrahi, Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira, and Luca Foppiano are elected to FAmSCo for a full 2 release term. - -- 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFLK7lprNvJN70RNxcRAomTAKCTK4uf5f8F/dALZRHbE2wCBA4kPgCcC68E V2rfSgpzxq9c32Gs9kWc6Xc= =VXxT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Thank you
by Francesco Ugolini 20 Dec '09

20 Dec '09

Hi fellow Ambassadors, It’s time for me to let other people inject new and fresh ideas into FAmSCo! I had the honor to serve as FAmSCo member for the past three years, two of them as Chair. I worked with marvelous people, ready to give the right advices at the right time. I had the opportunity to coordinate the work done by Ambassadors all over the world, and manage the transition from a centralized model to a regional one. I have been seeing the project growing fast, from 60 Ambassadors, in the early 2006, to 700, up to now. I have met great people, whoever they were Ambassadors or community members. We have faced many challenges and, all together, we have been able to transform them in a success for the whole project. I could spend hours talking about what was done in the past. Today, however, I want to write about the future. >From a personal side, I'll be an Ambassador. I'll organize or join events, working with the other EMEA Ambassadors to spread Fedora in all the European, African and Middle East countries. As former FAmSCo member, if the upcoming FAmSCo accept it, I will be pleased to share my experience. >From a project perspective, my advice to the new FAmSCo is: stay in touch with Ambassadors, focus on simple but effective things and be a point of reference for everyone. When it's needed, fly high. The past experience has demonstrated that great ideas could become a success. Even if we come from a region, keep in mind that being a FAmSCo member means being the representative of all Ambassadors, from the nearest to the furthest one. To all Ambassadors: i can only suggest you to keep doing what you are doing. Stay in touch with people, be as simple as smart when you join or organize events. Remember: you represent Fedora and its community, from packagers to translators. Be yourself and people will like you and, consequently, Fedora. This is my last act as FAmSCo chair. I wanted to be brief, but I hope my words could give what I learned, and what it really matters to me. Tomorrow, as an Ambassador, I promise I'll do my best to keep high the name of Ambassadors. Thanks Joerg, Susmit, Max, David, Thomas and Rodrigo for your great work as FAmSCo members and, surely, for being loyal friends. Thanks to all the former FAmSCo member who served with me in the past, and all the Ambassadors who I have been in touch with, and have supported me. Good luck to the new members, the newbie and the confirmed ones. I’m sure you’ll do an excellent job. Thank you. Today I'm really proud to be a Fedora Ambassador! Francesco Ugolini

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REMINDER French Fedora Meeting Today 1830UTC #fedora-meeting
by Thomas Canniot 20 Dec '09

20 Dec '09

This mail is a reminder for today´s meeting for French ambassadors and _every_ interested people. 2009-12-20 / 18:30 UTC IRC: freenode #fedora-meeting Ce mail est un rappel pour la réunion des ambassadeurs francophones, qui aura lieu ce dimanche (20 dec.) 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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[FOSDEM'10] Distribution Miniconf update
by Frederic Hornain 18 Dec '09

18 Dec '09

Dear *, Following the few information I gave you yesterday night on IRC on Fedora Ambassadors EMEA meeting. Sorry in advance to not be well structured but as it is quite new things are still moving and changing. So, in order to explain you the concept a little bit more deeply : - We have designed a coordinator which is Wouter from Debian. - He is in charge to regroup all talks from different distributions. - We have got three weeks to make proposal. - He has created a wiki page for this on http://distributions.freedesktop.org/wiki/Fosdem2010. You can notice that is not on the Debian wiki. it was done to be fair between each of us. - A list of SPOC have been published on the wiki for all distribution which would like to participate to such event. - I have seen yesteday some of you were ready to do talks and were not afraid to do it in collaboration wiith other distribution. So, if you are still interested to do it or want to do feel free to contact me and I will do the rest to make you in contact with other speakers. Please tell me it quickly in order to let me time to organize myself. Thanks for reading and in advance for your help. BR Fred -- ----------------------------------------------------- Fedora-ambassadors-list mailing list Fedora-ambassadors-list(a)redhat.com Olpc mailing list olpc-open(a)laptop.org

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RE: [Ambassadors] The 4f-problematic of Fedora.
by David Anderson 18 Dec '09

18 Dec '09

>Hi all, > >I have some problems with the definitions of the 4f's. > >friends - this is a clear thing , we are all friends, the world is >pink and there are no conflicts (until proven otherwise) > >features - is a clear thing to, fedora is a distribution huge amount >of features (perhaps not enough features ;-) we need more). > >first - there is my first problem. This is like a racing duel with >other distributions. We can not win on all sectors. This is more a >destination, our goal.... We WANT to be the first, but we are not >always the first. > Look at it this way: there's really no difference between Fedora, openSUSE, Ubuntu, & Mandriva. Maybe, circa 2006 it was a little different, but today not so much. Only differentiators would be things like YaST, MCC, Ubuntu Software Center, etc. Other than that? What Fedora/RH has is a lot of the features that all these distro(s) share whether used as a desktop or server were originally either written by RH/Fedora dev (NetworkManager, etc) or first implemented in Fedora (PulseAudio). It's not bragging rights, it's just the way it is. Should 'First' have been used in the creedo, I dunno'? > >freedom - This one is my biggest problem. What's the definition of freedom? >The definition of freedom, which was definied by the FSF, formed the >understanding of freedom in the whole world. And the FSF (Richard >Stallman himself) said, that fedora is not free. So what's the current >understanding of freedom in the fedoraproject? >I haven't found arguments to discuss with someone about it. > Not to sound pragmatic, but the whole 'freedom' thing has gone out the window. 'Free' as in beer, 'free' as in no cost, 'freedom' as in no closed binaries or other odd-licensed modules, etc, etc. Thanks to companies like IBM, Intel, ATI, AMD, (note: who have contributed to the linux kernel) and the like have changed it where GNU/Linux is now a viable, supportable, extensible, dependable OS that can scale from calculators, to set-top TV boxes, to large big-iron mainframes. As things go, thanks to the GPL at least the GNU/Linux as an OS concept (not so much the delivered product) is pretty much as close to free as anything. I really don't think the 4 F's were meant or intended to create some political kind of movement, all things considered I think it is as close to a good jist or marketing slogan for new user(s) as you can get. Not to mention, 'Linux for human beings' was already taken. hehe. >-- >Josephine "Fine" Tannhäuser >2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.PAE > >-- >Fedora-ambassadors-list mailing list >Fedora-ambassadors-list(a)redhat.com >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list

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shipping for F12 media in EMEA
by Max Spevack 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

Hi all, The company in Munich is ready to ship out the F12 media, and we need to give them a few addresses. We have 1,500 Desktop Spin Live CDs (32 bit) and 1500 DVDs (32 bit). ***IMPORTANT*** -- I only want to give them 3 or 4 addresses, and break the shipment up to those folks. Then for individual small events, Fedora contributors can re-send a few CDs to Ambassadors and save their receipts either for FAMSCo or for the Fedora EMEA non-profit to reimburse them. I'm thinking of having CDs/DVDs sent to: (1) Frederic Hornian -- who can bring them to FOSDEM (2) Joerg Simon -- who can have some for Chemnitz, and also maybe re-send them to other folks. (3) Italy -- who would want to be the person who hangs on to the media? (4) ????? Is there anyone else who either already knows that they need a bunch of CDs, or who is willing to be a holder of CDs and send them to other folks in EMEA who do need them? I filled that role some of the time last year when I was in Amsterdam, but now that I'm back in Raleigh, I can't mail CDs around Europe anymore :) ***REMEMBER*** -- don't write your address on a public mailing list that is archived forever. Let's just figure out how we're going to break up the shipments, and then collect addresses off-list. Thanks, Max

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I'm back on...
by Kam Salisbury 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

After a short period away from the project... I am back on the list. Thank you for everyon'e patience, especially in the North America and Mid Atlantic United States areas. I am looking forwaard to 2010 and further promotion of the current release and the upcoming release as well. -- Kam Salisbury http://kamsalisbury.com

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Election results for FAmSCo, FESCo coming shortly
by Paul W. Frields 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Our election coordinator, Nigel Jones, was too swamped today to process all of the election results, but will be doing so later today (UTC time). Thanks for your patience, and thanks to Nigel for all his work coordinating the voting system and results. - -- 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFLKkm/rNvJN70RNxcRAjY9AKCoRs/EplwBz3kXCbYJlW9heW19TQCgtHmx wmnUs+PWljamrXBKBi1jq/c= =8gZv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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TechEd Conference Opportunities - New York State
by Indigo196 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

Hello all: I added the following events to the Fedora Events wiki and wanted to make the list aware of them as well. March 25th, 2010 EdTech Day @ Ithaca College http://www.ithaca.edu/edtechday/ I will be working with the show organizers in the next 30 days to establish the details, but my hope is to have a booth next to the Ithaca Free Software Foundation and give a few presentations. I am not sure if the vertical banners will work for this show, but I will know in the next 30-45 days after working with the organizer. Last year, thanks to Karlie Robinson and on-disk.com, we gave out over 300 CDs in 2 hours. I hope to get more media than that for this show. The audience for this show is K-12 and College/University educators, and college students. I do not have solid estimates on attendees, but I would say between 500-750. ---- November 20 - 23 NYSCATE Annual Conference @ Rochester, NY http://www.nyscate.org/conferences.cfm?subpage=361 The RFP will not be for quite a while, but after giving a presentation on FOSS this past year I began formulating a plan for 2010 based on feedback from educators. I am hoping to hold a hands-on full day FOSS lab to expose educators to several FOSS applications as well as Fedora. In addition to the full day lab I will want to have a booth on the vendor floor (Monday and Tuesday only) and give two or three presentations as well. I will be looking to use the Vertical Banners for this show. The audience for this show is K-12 educators and there were over 1000 attendees this past year. If anyone has suggestions or can offer support please contact me. Thanks, Charles Profitt

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