ambassadors December 2009

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LATAM: What is done, and the real problems that nobody tells
by María Leandro 11 Dec '09

11 Dec '09

Hello to all. I'll like to translate to all of you a mail that I have just send to our local list. Hope my english let you understand what's happening: ------------------------------------------------------------------ Greetings to all I think the best way that I will have to answer this is to address the core issues of this mail. 1 .- "We are fighting internally without necessity." (Rodrigo Padula mail) Rodrigo: The only discussion that was held at the freenode channel #fedora-ambassadors and the topics were "why LATAM budget (+20.000us ) represents a problem to help countries other than Brazil and recently Chile and Argentina. " This topic was discussed with Mr. John Rose, not me. 2 .- On the licensing of the wiki: Rodrigo: This is an issue that is being solved in other thread, and is not bad to have some protection. Again, I see no problems in the discussions because things take patiently are solved. 3 .- His discussions with me and FAmSCo: (Rodrigo Padula mail) Rodrigo: I remind you that you didn't do 2 of the 3 steps to FAmSCo. you didn't sent the questionnaire with the ambassadors questions and did not attend to any of the Town Hall (sessions for ambassadors to know you better). All I said was that I worried about this situation... But apparently you don't want me to join you in FAmSCo. 4 .- For the discussion on Channel ... honesty: (Rodrigo Padula mail) Rodrigo: I apologized for accusing you of that (which really was only one line of dialogue that said "I go to these channels since I started with Fedora, you joined them since FAmSCo elections"). Now ... I wish all my colleagues know that I answered that way because Mr. Rodrigo told me directly "immature" and "because you act like your President Chavez" (plus other things a little more offensive) I believe, were worse. I do not like taking the gossip Rodrigo ... but if you want, I have no problems. 5 .- On the personal relations: (Rodrigo Padula mail) I think the only one with which I may have a misunderstood is with Mr. Rodrigo. About the big things that you "talk" that wants to achieve in LATAM I already have 4 months "working" on those. That I can show to alll ... Now, that is not enough or that you will look bad, is another thing... list a few of the things I'm working personally: * Magazine Latam (we have 15 contributors now) * Artwork regionalized IN SPANISH (no pt): we have 6 contributors * Education: we have 5 contributors, starting with the efforts in Argentina. * Medicine: 2 contributors (Venezuela is a pioneer in this field by developing medical systems based on fedora) * Translation: Several videos, guides and tutorials. * Fedora Mobile: 4 contributors, are developing a distro for mobiles * Fedora beginners: start developing an app for basic users You see, deeds not words We need to STOP, BREATHE, carefully read and write more calm!(Rodrigo Padula mail) + 1 Long live peace! (Rodrigo Padula mail) As a reflection Gentlemen It's easy to put a +1 where we believe that another person has a good idea, but how many of you are working on these big ideas? It is time to act, because I have my conscience clean... all of you too? (those who are working to ignore this) ------------------------------------------------------------ I'm really tired of this behavier. People acting like contributors should do things measurable just for one of us and not for all of us. This was something I was talking with Mel Chua (and now I think you understand now why I said some things related to this issues) and I, María Gracia Leandro, I'm not perfect, I don't have 10 years helping fedora, but I do know something... I'm here because I want to help, and I'm doing it (sometimes slowly, yes... but I never stop) and I'm tired of being stop. If this is happening to me, how many times has happened to some other contributors? are we loosing people because "we don't do what _someone_ think is right?" Like I said in my FAmSCo statement... I'm a fighter, and I'm here to help people who really need someone to speck things that never are said. Someone has to... Sorry for bring this up, but I really think this was necessary -- tatica Maria Gracia Leandro http://www.tatica.org http://www.fedora-ve.org http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MariaLeandro LinuxUser= 440285 GPG Public Key: E1CDCC56 "Be yourself... Don't be anyone else"

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Planning? White Hat Security Day in Rochester NY
by Karlie Robinson 10 Dec '09

10 Dec '09

A couple guys from LUGOR did White Hat Security Day last June and I've already had a call about sponsorship (from On-Disk.com) and possible presentations for 2010. Anyone at Fedora/Red Hat feel like giving a talk? Running a booth? etc? As I understand, last year was the first year with a specific Linux talk on the schedule and the impression I'm getting is that the crowd is hungry for more. Let me know if you think this is something we should go after. I'm not qualified to give a talk to security professionals, but I can help with leg work and such. ~Karlie

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Speaker@FOSDEM'10
by Frederic Hornain 10 Dec '09

10 Dec '09

Dear *, As you already probably know, no devroom is assigned to distribution any more at FOSDEM. Now, FOSDEM TEAM invite us to have debate, brainstorm or do presentations for and with other distributions. Ref : http://www.fosdem.org/2010/distrominiconf What I think is good for everybody. Actually, I do not really know how really to manage that on the Fedora side cause it still no clear for me. I have already contacts with CentOS and Mandriva on that subject but we are still nowhere. And FOSDEM is in 57 days. Fortunately, I am not alone in that case ;) (I mean other distributions) Well, all I thing I need are speakers, stakeholders, developers and so on for the Fedora part on the following subjects in order to participate to the FOSDEM Distrominiconf. - Packaging - Localization - Community Infrastructure - Test and QA - Governance - Working with upstream Thanks for your proposals. Best Regards Frederic -- ----------------------------------------------------- Fedora-ambassadors-list mailing list Fedora-ambassadors-list(a)redhat.com Olpc mailing list olpc-open(a)laptop.org

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IEEE International Conference in Tunisia
by Chitlesh GOORAH 10 Dec '09

10 Dec '09

Hello there, The 16th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems, ICECS 2009 [1], will be held in Tunisia on the 13th to 16th December 2009. The wiki page [2] says we have 7 ambassadors in Tunisia. Can anyone of you represent FEL at that conference ? Tasks include: - writing and sending a paper (will be done by me) - prepare local ambassadors with the talking points (will be done by me) - attend the conference and distribute your Fedora business cards (eat good food too :) ) - if our paper is selected by the chair, the ambassador will give a brief introduction about Fedora&FEL You may find other publications, screenshots and presentations on [3]. I believe that FEL should be sending papers to technical conferences around the world. These papers will describe our opensource EDA solutions and Fedora's key features eventually. If you are aware of such conferences in your locality, please let me know :) [1]: http://www.icecs2009.org/ [2]: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/CountryList#Africa [3]: http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL Kind regards, Chitlesh http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

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Infrastructure outage notification. You may be affected this weekend.
by susmit shannigrahi 10 Dec '09

10 Dec '09

Hi, "A reminder for those who don't read the link, we'll be having a massive outage of many Fedora services this weekend while we are moving our servers to a new location." Services that will be down * Buildsystem * CVS * Wiki * MirrorManager * translate.fedoraproject.org * Mail lists * Primary mirrors at download.fedora.redhat.com Read more at: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1845 Contact Information: #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net -- Regards, Susmit. ============================================= http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:susmit =============================================

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Red Hat Virtual Experience report
by Max Spevack 09 Dec '09

09 Dec '09

Hi all, Here's my "trip report" from the Red Hat Virtual Experience. Some interesting conversations, and frequently-asked-questions that lots of Ambassadors will get. http://spevack.livejournal.com/95091.html --Max

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Cafe con Linux
by Leonardo Menezes Vaz 09 Dec '09

09 Dec '09

Hey, Great ideas like the link bellow can make the expression "Act locally, think globally" have a real meaning... ;) http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cafe_con_Linux Congratulations Fabio and welcome aboard! Leo -- Leonardo Menezes Vaz ++55 51 91568225 Sent from Meridiani Planum, Mars.

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Fedora case badges for the WHOLE WORLD
by Max Spevack 09 Dec '09

09 Dec '09

Hi all, In the Fedora Ambassadors NA meeting tonight, we were talking about producing more case badges, which look like this: http://myweb.cableone.net/dthomas/fedora/fcasebadges.jpg They are beautiful (IMHO) and the picture doesn't do it justice. What looks gray in the picture is really silver, and quite shiny. Due to the price points around producing these, it would make the most sense to produce a HUGE amount of badges (5,000 or more even) and shipping them to key folks around the world. >From a budget point of view, we'd simply share the cost across regions, when we do the Q4 budget calculations. An example of the budget calculations in previous quarters: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Community_Architecture_expenses So, I guess the question is -- do folks in EMEA, LATAM, India, and Asia have use for some of these? Should we go ahead with this plan? Thanks, Max

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Fedora Ambassadors Welcome
by Joerg Simon 09 Dec '09

09 Dec '09

Dear Ambassadors, let´s welcome our new sponsored Ambassador Group Member: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ganesai from India mentored by Heherson Pagcaliwagan 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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Fedora Ambassadors Welcome
by Joerg Simon 09 Dec '09

09 Dec '09

Dear Ambassadors, let´s welcome our new sponsored Ambassador Group Member: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Willwill from Thailand 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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