ambassadors May 2009

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Fedora Ambassadors Welcome
by Joerg Simon 27 May '09

27 May '09

Dear Ambassadors, let´s welcome our new sponsored Ambassador Group Members: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Gomesluiz from Brazil https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jensm from Germany 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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Re: [Ambassadors] Help me: Fedora vs. Ubuntu
by Truong Anh Tuan 27 May '09

27 May '09

----- "Christos Bacharakis" <cmpahar(a)gmail.com> wrote: > The first argument that I come up with is that many Ubuntu sub-projects are not upstream. For example if an Ubuntu translator, translate a gnome string, Launchpad will not upstream the string to Gnome translations so the other distributions won't have that string translated. > Could you tell me more about this. Also, any URL/articles? > An another thing is that Ubuntu uses many tools like Launchpad which are closed source. Hey, we are a FOSS community over here. > Also this. Could you tell me more and give me some URL/articles for more details. Kind regards, Tuan Vietnam Fedora Ambassador Email/SIP: tuanta(a)fedoraproject.org Email2: tatuan(a)gmail.com http://blog.iwayvietnam.com/tuanta/ GPG Key: EF8D50BF

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Re: [Ambassadors] Fedora 11 Release Parties
by Truong Anh Tuan 26 May '09

26 May '09

Hello Max, I am currently the only one Fedora ambassador in Vietnam but I believe that I can organize the Release Party with support from you (ideas, funding, etc.), other ambassadors (ideas), my colleagues (all my company use Fedora) and my local communities (organizing). I am currently member of HanoiLUG (http://www.hanoilug.org/). I am the most active contributor for Fedora in HanoiLUG, the sponsor/maintainer for Fedora mirror here: http://virror.hanoilug.org/#fedora We organized some similar parties for Ubuntu. Some friends ask me that why we do not have similar party for Fedora. And that's here. I think some ideas could be reused. I will make a schedule for this event and give you later. Please also tell me step by step to get funding. Kind regards, Tuan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Max Spevack" <mspevack(a)redhat.com> To: fedora-ambassadors-list(a)redhat.com Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 12:59:50 AM GMT +07:00 Bangkok, Hanoi, Jakarta Subject: [Ambassadors] Fedora 11 Release Parties Hi, If you're interested in a Fedora 11 release event, please add your information here, for tracking purposes. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Party As in the past, we'll make $100-$200 USD of budget available to help seed the events and give organizers some funding to use at their discretion. It will help tremendously if you are able to be reimbursed via PayPal. Possible ideas for Release Parties: (1) Having a LiveUSB installfest, and having local mirrors so that people can do local network installs. (2) Sponsoring food & drinks at a LUG meeting, and having the "keynote" talk of the night be about Fedora 11, what you do for Fedora, and how others can contribute. (3) If you are in an area with a number of Fedora contributors, get them all together and just have a little troubleshooting session for others, and do some random hacking on stuff, or just enjoy each other's company and revel in the success of a release. (4) Whatever you can imagine. Thanks, Max -- Fedora-ambassadors-list mailing list Fedora-ambassadors-list(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list

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eLiberatica 09 thank you all
by Joerg Simon 26 May '09

26 May '09

Hi, thanks to all who made eLiberatica 09 a success. You all made a great job to spread our Vision of Fedora in Countries where Fedora is not so well known. Lucian thanks for providing the opportunity to present our Project! Max and Gerold thanks for the budget! Special Thanks to Jeroen, who was our speaker at this event and to Nicu, who was the Organizer of our Presence and together with his fellows he made a perfect Ambassador Job - besides he did not want to become a Ambassador ;) Find some blog posts about this event: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/05/eliberatica-day-1.html http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/05/eliberatica-day-2.html http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/05/conclusions-to-eliberatica.html http://kanarip.livejournal.com/13683.html http://kanarip.livejournal.com/13985.html http://alexxed.com/2009/05/eliberated.html http://mapleoin.bluepink.ro/perma/eLiberatica-aftermath 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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[Ambassadors][Event Report] Flisol 2009, Mexico DF.
by Adrian Alonso 26 May '09

26 May '09

Hi, Last Saturday I participate in Latin America Install Fest by giving a workshop on installing Fedora and also by giving a talk about Fedora project. The event toke place at "Centro Universitario Grupo Sol<http://www.cugs.edu.mx/>" México DF, with a moderate number of participants, around 30. The presentation slides are available at: Slides<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Presentations#FLiSoL_2009_Mexico.2C_DF> post: http://aalonso.wordpress.com/ -- Saludos Adrian Alonso http://aalonso.wordpress.com Fedora Project Contributor https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Aalonso

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Re: [Ambassadors] Help me: Fedora vs. Ubuntu
by Truong Anh Tuan 26 May '09

26 May '09

----- "Larry Cafiero" <larry.cafiero(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Christos makes some good observations, but Juan's is a good suggestion and I think we should accent our positives. > > In my opinion -- and this may not be the prevailing one -- I don't believe that this should be treated as a football game where we congregate into fans waving banners and scarves -- "Go Fedora, Beat Ubuntu!" -- because I don't believe the FOSS mindset should be like that (and I hope it isn't). Nor should Ubuntu users think this way, of course, but they'll have to address that themselves. > Sure. I totally agree. That's why I am thinking about Fedora's advantages, NOT Ubuntu (or other distros)'s disadvantages. > Ubuntu brings a lot to the FOSS table -- just as OpenSUSE and Mandriva and others do -- and all should be recognized for their contributions. Improvements made by one distro uplifts everyone else. > > Many people start off with Ubuntu, including me. I still use Xubuntu on two machines in my computer lab in Felton. But I ended up with -- and my distro of choice is -- Fedora because of the quality and innovation, the camaraderie within those working on it (pointing to all of you), and the dedication of those of us involved are intangible qualities that make Fedora superior. > > [That and our record of getting project and improvements therein upstream . . . .] > > Just an observation here, but you know your audience best, Tuan. > > Larry Cafiero > Also, thank all of you for your suggestions and ideas. I will push and tell you back later. Kind regards, Tuan

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Discovering public mirrors
by Matt Domsch 25 May '09

25 May '09

With thanks to this openSUSE blog post: http://vavai.net/2009/05/21/launching-indonesian-opensuse-mirror-repository/ I found 4 additional public mirrors in Indonesia which also carry Fedora content. I added these to Fedora's MirrorManager this morning. I would ask all Ambassadors: if you are using a Fedora public mirror that is not listed in MirrorManager, please let me know. http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/ has the list. Thanks, Matt Fedora Mirror Wrangler

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Fedora 11 Release Parties
by Max Spevack 25 May '09

25 May '09

Hi, If you're interested in a Fedora 11 release event, please add your information here, for tracking purposes. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Party As in the past, we'll make $100-$200 USD of budget available to help seed the events and give organizers some funding to use at their discretion. It will help tremendously if you are able to be reimbursed via PayPal. Possible ideas for Release Parties: (1) Having a LiveUSB installfest, and having local mirrors so that people can do local network installs. (2) Sponsoring food & drinks at a LUG meeting, and having the "keynote" talk of the night be about Fedora 11, what you do for Fedora, and how others can contribute. (3) If you are in an area with a number of Fedora contributors, get them all together and just have a little troubleshooting session for others, and do some random hacking on stuff, or just enjoy each other's company and revel in the success of a release. (4) Whatever you can imagine. Thanks, Max

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Fedora Brasil Magazine - 5th Edition
by Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira 24 May '09

24 May '09

============== Fedora Brasil Magazine - 5th Edition =================== It’s an absolute pleasure for Projeto Fedora Brasil (Brazilian Fedora Project) to announce that the 5th edition of our magazine is available for download. In this number, we’ve made a special approach to Office Suite BrOffice.org and have been presented with a special editorial written by Gustavo Pacheco, charter member of BrOffice.org. We would also like to introduce the series BrOffice.org for advanced users. For those who want to know all its potential, it’s time to start your collection. As usual, we’ve chosen a very interesting game: Secret Maryo Chronicles is a pretty special remake of a classic game that everyone knows, it will certainly please even the most demanding players. Neither GNOME nor KDE, we invite you to know Enlightenment, which promises to turn your desktop into a work of art, and we also talked to Professor Gregory Kriehn, of the Engineering Department, at California State University – and the father of the repository of Enlightenment for Fedora. Igor Soares analyses, in a clarifying way, the complex situation of closed drivers in the Linux world, the lessons on Shell Script have finally moved from the introductory phase, and now the person in charge is Fabiano Caixeta Duarte. Is anything missing? How about our first comic strips? Download from: http://www.projetofedora.org/Revista Email Translator: Renata Ribeiro Guimarães -- Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira M.Sc. Student - COPPE/UFRJ Fedora Community Manager - Latin America Red Hat Community and Academy Relations http://www.proyectofedora.org http://twitter.com/rodrigopadula http://www.rodrigopadula.com

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[Event Report] FLISoL Caracas 2009
by María Leandro 24 May '09

24 May '09

Hello everyone. As many of you know, I was a main organizer of Flisol Caracas this year, and also worked with the local Fedora Team on their presentation. The Flisol had an estimated attendance of 1700 people, including 100 installers, 15 protocol and 15 sponsors. We had a hard day with 8 conferences and 12 workshops; as well as the first National tournament of UrbanTerror (a freeware game) and a gpg key sign fest. At the closing, we had the StarWars Club (Darth Vader and one StormTrooper) playing around with the guys. Fedora Venezuela installed a lot of machines and gave out 300 LiveDVDs, 50 bubble stickers and 50 vinyl stickers; and the users were really happy with this. Pablo Hernandez (paceh) gave a workshop about Fedora-USB installations and I gave a Conference about the Fedora Community in Venezuela, and found a lot of new users. I also want to say that we had two major interviews, one on national radio and another on national tv (globovision) and in both of them, Fedora was the centre of attention. This is really good... Next year I'll be the National Organizer and I hope to set up the first Fedora Venezuela General Meeting with all the fedora users in the country. In the mean time, we'll have some workshops at several universities, some stands at national conferences (3 stands) and a special "B-day" for our community. These are some of the photos... but I'm still waiting for more, and the video of the TV appearance. http://www.flickr.com/photos/tatadbb/sets/72157615817707690/ Bye!!! -- tatica Maria Gracia Leandro http://www.tatica.org http://www.iseit.net http://www.latinux.org http://www.latinux.com 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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