ambassadors December 2009

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Unagendized topic for NA meeting
by Larry Cafiero 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

Hey, all (at least those in NA) -- I didn't agendize this because I will be late for the meeting, but during the open floor discussion I'd like to discuss a couple of topics relating to the the Campus Ambassador program. Thanks in advance, and hope to make it on-channel before the half-hour. Larry Cafiero

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NA meeting tonight
by Darcy Hodgson 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

Hello Everyone in the NA, I apologize for missing the meeting last night. I had a action item to get pricing for replenishing the t-shirt stock. I have quotes from both RC Silk, and Screen Printed Products. The prices are about the same from both companies for a white t-shirt if purchasing over 2000 RCSILK - Small - XL - $2.37 each - XXL - XXXXL - $3.84 each Screen Printed Products - All sizes - $2.65 each Both of these quotes include the 3 colour Fedora logo on the front. Darcy

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REMINDER: EMEA Ambassador Meeting today!
by Pierros Papadeas 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

Ladies and gentlemen, Don't you remember there is an EMEA Ambassador meeting today (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa) on #fedora-meeting ? Day : Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 Time : 20:00 UTC (check [1] to know your own time depending on your country) Channel : #fedora-meeting Meeting agenda (add your topic before the meeting please) [2] Following Max' request we will be having mainly a FOSDEM specific discussion given that the event owners will so up. So update your agendas, and don't forget to join us :) Kind regards, Pierros [1] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=16&month=12&year=2… [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Ambassadors_2009-12-16 -- Pierros Papadeas PGP key: 0x6130DBF8 http://pierros.papadeas.gr pierros(a)papadeas.gr liknus @ GRnet , Freenode

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FOSDEM status/planning meeting on IRC
by Max Spevack 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

Hi all, As you all know, Frederic has been doing an INCREDIBLE job of getting FOSDEM organized for 2010. I think it would be very useful if we all get together on IRC to make sure that the questions of different attendees or potential attendees are being answered. I'd like to propose that we use a big chunk of this week's EMEA Ambassadors meeting to discuss FOSDEM. Frederic, can you come to this week's EMEA Ambassadors meeting, so that you and I can lead a discussion? If Frederic can make it, then I'd encourage anyone who is interested in FOSDEM to also attend this week's EMEA Ambassadors meeting. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Ambassadors_2009-12-16 --Max

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mspevack's updates for NA and EMEA meetings
by Max Spevack 15 Dec '09

15 Dec '09

Hey Ambassadors, I'm not sure if I'll be able to attend the NA ambassadors meeting tonight, so here's my general update on various TODOs that are/were mine. * (WHOLE WORLD) I consolidated the various pages where we had swag vendors listed into one page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Swag_vendors * (EMEA) CDs will be shipped out shortly -- we're getting together the final list of addresses, and from there Ambassadors will be able to further distribute. * (WHOLE WORLD) Due to requests to run another Ambassadors training classroom, I've scheduled one for January 7th. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Classroom#Upcoming_Classes * (WHOLE WORLD) Case badge order will be placed before Christmas vacation. We know that basically the whole world is interested. I'll dig through my records to get the name of the company, make sure it is on the Swag vendors page, and then call them. Hopefully they remember us and still have the design, so that they can just print a new batch without us having to do any submission of designs again. * (NA) Media status pending making contact with the production company. Sent them mail, need to followup with a phone call. Goal is to have CDs in hands of folks before Christmas. * (EMEA) Hoping to use tomorrow's EMEA ambassadors meeting to discuss FOSDEM in detail. --Max

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Problem Web Site Peru
by Henry Anchante 15 Dec '09

15 Dec '09

Greetings fedorianos in Perù fedora have more than 3 months with the problem of the website, we have proposed solutions latam ambassadors have written and without any viable solution, we have also talked with the staff of Telefonica del Peru and the filter by them follows. Perù Fedora calls on all representatives of Fedora, support us to intervene in the matter, with a new host and space to handle the responsibility of Fedora in Peru. What we want is we put our resources for Fedora host and domain and thus continue to recruit more users in Peru and have support and fluids with Fedora, a topic that we have lost all this time. pending a viable response to the progress of Fedora I say goodbye -- HACATAKA Fedora Ambassador for Peru hacataka(a)fedoraproject.org http://bitacorahelpdesk.blogspot.com/ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Hacataka

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Fedora Ambassadors Welcome
by Joerg Simon 15 Dec '09

15 Dec '09

Dear Ambassadors, let´s welcome our new sponsored Ambassador Group Member: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mamasun from the Russian Federatiion mentored by Robert Scheck 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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REMINDER: Fedora Ambassadors NA meeting tonight 9:00p Eastern
by Scott McBrien 15 Dec '09

15 Dec '09

Hello all, just wanted to remind the North America Ambassadors that tonight is our bi-montly meeting. Best Regards, Scott

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Fedora Board, FESCo & FAmSCo Elections - Voting Information
by Nigel Jones 14 Dec '09

14 Dec '09

Hi Everyone, The elections for the Fedora Board, Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) and the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee have been created and are due to start at 0000 UTC on 5th December 2009 and are scheduled to run until 2359 UTC on 15th December 2009. All groups have chosen to use the Range Voting method (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_voting). Ballots may be cast on the Fedora Elections System at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting. If this is the first time you've used the voting system, please refer to the Fedora Elections Guide, currently located at http://nigelj.fedorapeople.org/feg/. **** Please Note **** There will be a Fedora Infrastructure outage during the voting period that may effect the voting application, as a result we have brought the voting start date forward to the 5th December instead of the 8th December. As announced by Paul Frields in the event of extended outage, we will as appropriate extend the voting period. We have also implemented a new feature in our voting software, so users can verify their votes. Vote verification can be done at: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/verify You will be prompted for your Fedora Account System username and password and a list of elections where votes have been recorded will be listed. For more information please refer to: Fedora Infrastructure Outage Information: * https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-December/msg00000… * https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1845 Contingency plans in case of extended outage: * https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2009-December/msg0001… ********************* Fedora Board Election: ---------------------- This election, the Fedora Board is electing two candidates and will appoint another two members. Vacating the seats on the board this election are elected representatives Matt Domsch & Bill Nottingham, and appointed representatives Christoher Aillon and Dimitris Glezos (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/History). The candidates for this election, in alphabetical order are: Chris Tyler (ctyler) Colin Walters (walters) Matt Domsch (mdomsch) Steven M. Parrish (SMParrish) To vote, you must have a signed Contributor License Agreement (CLA). Vote Here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/boardf13 Town Hall Logs: * http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2009-12-01/fedora-board-to… * http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2009-12-02/fedora-townhall… Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Election: ----------------------------------------------- For this election, FESCo will be electing four candidates to sit on the committee. Vacating the seats on FESCo this election are Jon Stanley, Dan Horák, Jarod Wilson, and David Woodhouse. The candidates for this election, in alphabetical order are: Adam Jackson (ajax) Christoph Wickert (cwickert) Justin M. Forbes (jforbes) Matthew Garrett (mjg59) Peter Jones (pjones) Richard June (rjune) Robert Scheck (rsc) To vote, you must have a signed Contributor License Agreement (CLA) and be a member of another Fedora group. Vote Here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/fescof13 Town Hall Logs: * http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2009-12-01/fesco-town-hall… * http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2009-12-03/fesco-town-hall… Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee Election: ----------------------------------------------- This election FAmSCo will be electing all 7 seats on the committee. These seats were previously held by Max Spevack, Joerg Simon, Francesco Ugolini, Thomas Canniot, Rodrigo Padula, David Nalley and Susmit Shannigrahi. The candidates for this election, in no particular order are: David Nalley Jean-Francois Saucier Joerg Simon Luca Foppiano Maria Gracia Leandro Max Spevack Robert Scheck Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira Sandro Mathys Scott Seiersen Shakthi Kannan Susmit Shannigrahi To vote, you must be a member of the ambassadors group in the Fedora Account System. Vote Here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/famscof13 Townhall Log: * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meetings:Town_Hall_FAmSCo_2009-11-28_1800 * http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2009-11-30/famsco-townhall… *** I'd also like to point out the following from Paul Frields' announcement for the June 2008 Board Election: "I'd like everyone voting to remember that this isn't a popularity contest, or a reward system. Think about how you'd like to Board to look when you vote, the same way you think about how you'd like any government body to look when you cast votes for their elections. We have a lot of worthy candidates on this list, and you should pick the ones that you feel will best represent you in advancing the Fedora Project. This is one of numerous ways in which our community makes decisions about the leadership of Fedora. Your vote counts, and I hope you take advantage of it." *** This advice is still valid, not just for the Fedora Board election but for all three elections. Thanks also go to John Rose and other volunteers who have helped with organising and running Town Hall meetings for these elections. Regards, Nigel Jones Fedora Election Admin

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[Event report] Fedora 12 release Party in Paris (aka Rencontres Fedora 12)
by Mathieu Bridon 14 Dec '09

14 Dec '09

Hi fellow ambassadors, This week-end, we had our Fedora 12 release party in Paris (Fedora 12 on the 12/12 :) at the Cité des Sciences, a french establishment for promoting everything about science and technical stuff, and making it accessible to everyone. The event ran over 2 days, with several conferences and workshops. Here is the agenda : == Saturday == === Conferences === 14:00 - The Fedora Project, by Thomas Canniot (Fedora ambassador, member of FAmSCo and treasurer of the Fedora-Fr NPO) 15:00 - Cobbler and Puppet, by William Hoffmann (Red Hat engineer and trainer) 16:00 - Sugar, by Sean Daly (marketing coordinator of the Sugar Labs) 17:00 - The Mozilla community and the web, by Grégoire Coustenoble (Mozilla contributor) === Workshops === 14:30 - Linux administration, by Michael Scherer (Mandriva contributor) and me 15:30 - Discover Fedora, by Tom Dubin (Fedora ambassador) and Alexandre Frandemiche (Fedora-Fr contributor, leader of the french version of Fedora package of the day) 16:30 - A bit of both the first workshops, depending on visitors questions == Sunday == === Conferences === 14:00 - OpenMoko, by Michael Scherer (Mandriva contributor) 15:00 - Translating Fedora, by Thomas Canniot (Fedora ambassador, member of FAmSCo and treasurer of the Fedora-Fr NPO) and Pablo Martin-Gomez (Fedora ambassadors, leader of the fr Fedora translation team) => this session lasted longer than planned because attendees had a lot of question, so Michale Scherer decided to let it run and cancel his next conference 16:00 - Fight Internet censorship with Tor, by Michael Scherer (Mandriva contributor) => Michael decided to cancel his talk as the public was interacting very well with Thomas about the previous session === Workshops === 14:30 - Discover Fedora, by Tom Dubin (Fedora ambassador) and Alexandre Frandemiche (Fedora-Fr contributor, leader of the french version of Fedora package of the day) 15:30 - Linux administration, by me Also, members of the JeuxLinux.fr team (a french LUG dedicated to video games on Linux) was present for both days, and were doing some kind of a permanent "come and play with us" session. All the conferences were filmed, and we hope to be able to distribute the videos (in french unfortunately for most of you on this list) shortly and obviously under a free content license. ---------- All in all, the event ran pretty well (even if very tiring :). We had around 100 visitors (I honestly didn't count, but that should be an accurate estimation), and we helped several people install Fedora or solve the problems they were having. We distributed lots of the Fedora 12 CDs we had made, sold t-shirts and live USBs (Fedora branded USB sticks). We also printed a translated version of the one page release notes that visitors seemed to appreciate pretty much. Cédric, a member of the Fedora-Fr community that we had never heard of before stepped up to join us and be our reporter to cover the event as a film report with hand-held camera. He interviewed people, moved around the event and filmed backstage. We hope to have the finished movie pretty soon. This was a very nice surprise to us, and we hope he will continue to participate in Fedora (at least we want to encourage him :). Of course, the event wouldn't have been such a success without the participation of all the attendees that I didn't already mention above: - Armel Kermorvant (Fedora ambassador and president of the Fedora-Fr NPO) - Pierre-Yves Chibon (Fedora ambassador and packager, Fedora-Fr.org administrator and vice-president of the Fedora-Fr NPO) - Carlos Vassalo (Fedora ambassador, vice-treasurer of the Fedora-Fr NPO and human front-end to the LiveUSB-Creator tool :) - Nicolas Chauvet (Fedora ambassador, rock-star packager and board member of the Fedora-Fr NPO) - Maxime Carron (Fedora ambassador and secretary of the Fedora-Fr NPO) - Xavier Lamien (member of the Fedora Packaging Committee and the Fedora Infrastructure team) - Mohamed El Morabity (Fedora ambassador and Fedora-Fr.org ubiquitous user support) - Emmanuel Seyman, Paul Marques-Mota and Sabine Herbin (board members of the Parisian LUG) - Olivier Fraysse (board member of the Ubuntu-Fr NPO) who really helped us rounding the edges related to the logistics with the Cité des Sciences - and all the others who I inevitably forgot as my memory left me along with my mental sanity somewhere around 4:00 am on Sunday :) We're already eagerly looking forward to organizing the next one. Best regards, ---------- Mathieu Bridon (bochecha)

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