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Re: [Ambassadors] Links and Logs Fedora Ambassador NA meeting yesterday TEXAS update and my $0.02
by David Duncan 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 7:56 AM, scott mcbrien <smcbrien(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, wanted to provide the links to the meeting details from last night. <snip! > > 02:21:03 <cwtucker> Texas indeed > 02:21:03 <cwtucker> VileGent: yes, sorry internet issues for a min > 02:21:09 <inode0> oh, not on the events page > 02:21:17 <VileGent> exactly > 02:21:35 <StabbyMc> inode0: what is the purpose of a Fedora Ambassador Day? > 02:21:39 <inode0> I'm sure it just isn't there yet > 02:21:51 <xm4nfedoralinux> so we are still on the events before Texas > Linux Fest? > 02:22:03 <inode0> xm4nfedoralinux: yes, hold on > 02:22:15 <xm4nfedoralinux> ok. brb <snip!> > 02:25:01 <inode0> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Texas:LinuxFest_2010 > 02:25:08 <mock> makfinsky: the cake is a lie > 02:25:28 <inode0> We are going to have a nice presence at the 1st > Texas Linux Fest I hope > 02:25:54 <inode0> Anyone interested should sign up and chat with me or > David Duncan (davdunc) about helping Apologies for not making the meeting. I have a class that ends just after the meeting begins. > 02:26:10 <cwtucker> Definitely interested, and will be involved > 02:26:17 <inode0> CFP is in progress now so if you plan to go please > consider proposing a talk > 02:27:00 <inode0> I have set aside 400 pieces of F12 media to ship to > TLF pending talking to David about the appropriateness of that number > 02:28:08 <inode0> We need the ground troops to tell us what is needed > in terms of other swag and booth help I spoke with the coordinators just yesterday. They have two ticket prices and the higher price ticket comes with a goodie bag. They have requested that we contribute a flier for the bag if we can and possibly some stickers. They are expecting the ticket price with schwag to be affordable, probably around $45 for the whole thing. I did not find an updated flier at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_Fedora_flyer#Fedora_Marketing_-_Fl… perhaps there is somewhere else to look? > 02:28:14 <cwtucker> Expecting a fairly large turnout > 02:28:16 <inode0> We will definitely have a booth .org booth fee is $100.00. Standard booth fee is $500.00 I assume we are going to submit for the former? > 02:28:59 <VileGent> is a event box or banners needed > 02:29:12 <inode0> on a tangent to TLF I'd like to encourage people > there to nose around and make as many contacts as possible with a site > for a future FUDCon in mind :) will do. Matt Domsch has been really helpful to me and has offered a lot of personal support for organizing this. I suggest the same location where the Lone Star Ruby Conference has been held in the past, the Norris Conference Center. They have reasonable rates and a very helpful staff and catering. > 02:29:22 <cwtucker> I will get with David and see where/what he needs > me to do to help him Thanks cwtucker. I believe that our responsiblities will lie in booth setup and participation on the floor. The conference really needs paper submissions. 45 and 25 minute presentations are ideal. If anyone would like to present, that would be super. > 02:30:00 <inode0> Austin always comes up as a place for FUDCon and the > one thing that seems to hold it back is not having a suitable site for > the event itself > 02:30:51 <inode0> shall we move on? > 02:36:31 <threethirty> inode0: good point, South By would be a good > place to show off what we (royal we) do > 02:36:53 <inode0> it is a bunch of events and one of the big ones is > the interactive part > 02:36:58 <threethirty> StabbyMc: its expanded to many other things but > yes its *that* sxsw > 02:37:09 <inode0> http://sxsw.com/interactive > 02:37:30 <inode0> this would be interesting to designers, right mizmo? > 02:37:53 <mizmo> inode0: absolutely <snip!> > 02:38:05 <inode0> anthro-diana: ping if you are available just chime in here > 02:38:22 <mizmo> it would be a good opportunity to present a case for > free software to the design community > 02:38:28 <mizmo> which we have not done much of > 02:38:28 <anthro-diana> There is a very large design faction and even > a bit of a design tract at the conference > 02:38:50 <ke4qqq> so we could potentially garner talented capable > design contributors?? > 02:38:56 <anthro-diana> I as a designer have attended for the last 2 years > 02:38:58 <anthro-diana> Yes > 02:39:01 <inode0> so this isn't the normal event for us, but it would > promote Fedora, it would benefit Fedora contributors, and it would > reach an audience that is likely sympathetic to us but perhaps not > aware of us I see a lot of big interactive projects hosted on Red Hat and CentOS. I have not seen any on Fedora. Linux is gaining ground in ontology hosting. I think that Fedora is important to them. Is anyone doing something like an OWASP spin or using Fedora-Commons on Fedora? It would be great to see something semantic or security related in our booth. > 02:39:14 <anthro-diana> There is also a large open source contingent there > 02:39:26 <ke4qqq> who is that contingent? > 02:39:36 <anthro-diana> it differs from year to year > 02:39:42 <anthro-diana> not necessary sponsored by any company > 02:39:50 <VileGent> we are to spread fedora even to places that we > might not be the most comfortable > 02:40:05 <threethirty> like macworld :) > 02:40:15 <anthro-diana> There are the usual players as well > 02:40:27 <inode0> actually I think SXSW would be very comfortable with Fedora > 02:40:29 <anthro-diana> but software is definitely a focus > 02:40:51 <inode0> it just isn't a place we normally show up > 02:41:21 <crossbytes> so has someone been to this SXSW it looks very > interesting? > 02:41:30 <xm4nfedoralinux> so who is attending TLF > 02:42:29 <inode0> crossbytes: anthro-diana just talked about attending > 02:42:38 <threethirty> crossbytes: i havent been their personally but > i have follwed it on the net and it looks like a cool event, ive been > wanting to go for years > 02:42:54 <anthro-diana> there is also the side event of Bar Camp Austin > 02:43:03 <inode0> ok, there is a second part of this story ... oops > 02:43:13 <anthro-diana> :) > 02:43:13 <makfinsky> Bar Camp? > 02:43:22 <makfinsky> As in making drinks? > 02:43:46 <inode0> so there is a barcamp we can have a normal presence at > 02:44:16 <inode0> Is everyone ok with spreading our event wings a bit > to try to reach some new audiences? The BarCamp is great here. The problem is that it usually forms and happens within a 2 to 3 week period and it is over in one weekend. Very little planning time from event announcement to start date historically. We need to be ready before they announce - if they do. > 02:44:22 <StabbyMc> bar camp, the concept: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_camp > 02:44:51 <inode0> http://barcamp.org/BarCampAustin <- last year's link > 02:44:51 <makfinsky> inode0: Agreed. > 02:45:07 <cwtucker> inode0: sounds good > 02:45:43 * inode0 asks mizmo and anthro-diana to come up with a plan :) < snip! > > 02:49:47 <anthro-diana> the barcamp is like the open source version of SXSW > 02:49:50 <StabbyMc> Any other event based items that were not on the agenda? > 02:50:02 <anthro-diana> SXSWi is generally cost prohibitive to many people > 02:50:07 <nullsys> I do have something small, but I dont know how much > it will affect US people. > 02:50:20 <anthro-diana> so a lot of people just go to Austin to attend > the BC that benefits from the overflow of SXSWi <snip! > > 02:50:52 <StabbyMc> anthro-diana: I can see that; travel to Austin > around the time of SxSW is also rather prohibitive. > 02:51:17 <anthro-diana> I've found roommates on Twitter just so that I > could attend :) > 02:51:51 <anthro-diana> My badge is comped this year, so I am already > going, I also have a suite already reserved in hopes to be able to > share it with roommates Travel to Austin around this time must be planned in advance - way in advance. I have had trouble flying to even Birmingham AL during SXSW. AMTrack is an easy ride down from Dallas, though. It has wireless internet all the way. <snip! to end> -- David Duncan Austin, TX RHCA #805007392628032

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Campus Ambassadors Organizational Meeting February 13 at 1800UTC
by inode0 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

I'd like to invite everyone interested in the Campus Ambassador program to an organizational meeting on February 13 at 1800UTC. The meeting will be held in #fedora-campusamb on freenode. Information about the vision of the Campus Ambassador program can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Campus_Ambassadors I'd like to discuss this vision with you and Fedora's commitment to the success of this program. The goal of the meeting will be to identify any deficiencies in this vision, any omissions that would hinder its success, and come up with a strategy to enable us to make this happen now. The price of admission is free, so please come and join us in making this program a success. John

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Fedora Ambassadors Welcome
by Joerg Simon 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

Dear Ambassadors, let´s welcome our new sponsored Ambassador Group Members: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Cattaneop from Argentina mentored by Maria Leandro 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 Town Hall is TODAY!
by María Leandro 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

Hello Ambassadors, FAmSCo Members would like to invite you to join our first FAmSCo Town Hall In this meeting we would like to listen/read about your countries and regions, ideas to make us a bigger/stronger community and reply to all those doubts you might have about Fedora Ambassadors project. Channel - #fedora-meeting-1 Date: - February 8, at 1800 UTC (TODAY!!!) More info at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_townhall The first monthly report for FAMSCo is ready and you can read it here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_report_2010-01 If you have any questions, ideas or doubts you want us to reply in this town hall, add it here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_TownHall_agenda Your presence is important: I hope to see you there! Regards Maria "tatica" Leandro -- 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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Event report: Shmoocon (Also tagged as Shnowcon)
by Ivan Makfinsky 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

This past weekend I attended Shmoocon in Washington, DC. It happened to coincide with a massive winter storm that dumped over two feet of snow on the area. The event is a security focused conference in it's seventh year with approximately 1500 attendees every year. In spite of the snow, almost everyone made it. Unfortunately, I was not sure I was going to be able to make it to the event, so no booth was organized. Most security folks seem to use either Ubuntu, Debian, Backtrack or (oddly) OSX. Many of the comments with regard to Fedora seemed to be of the effect, "I ran it back in the Fedora Core {2,3,4,5} days and it was too much work to get it to a usable state." Many folks were either happy to get a LiveCD or honest enough to let me know that they probably wouldn't even try it. Since most of the presentations were about vulnerabilities in this or that technology, I am not sure if I should be glad that Fedora wasn't mentioned or saddened that I didn't see anyone using Fedora other than, well, me. I did give out nearly all of the LiveCD's, half the install DVD's, buttons and case badges that I had. I did meet Bruce Potter and will follow up with him in next month about the logistics of having a Fedora booth, presentation or challenge type participation for next year. There were some fairly interesting presentations and I learned that most of today's wifi/bluetooth/cloud/web services/<you name it> technologies are fairly vulnerable to compromise. There were some great presentations with live demo's. Blog posts to follow. www.sparsebrain.com - Ivan -- Ivan Makfinsky Chief Systems Architect Endosys, Inc. ivan.makfinsky(a)endosys.com

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When you are at an event...
by Christoph Wickert 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

... please don't hack! For certain reasons (FOSDEM in this case) I'd like to remind you all of some rules you should follow when you are attending an event. 1. When you are at an event and you are doing service at the Fedora booth, please don't just sit behind the table staring at your laptop and chatting with each other. Instead, try to spend your time on the visitors. 2. Instead of sitting behind the desk, stand before it. If you are standing you can better talk to people cause you don't have look up all the time and if you are in front of the booth, it's easier to get in touch with people. I was surprised to see that some people did builds and updates this afternoon while they were at FOSDEM. Even worse: At least some of them already heard about the complainants of some visitors that the Fedora people were just sitting and hacking all the time. I have not been at the event so I cannot tell if these complainants were justified or not, but I think FOSDEM is definitely not the place to do package maintainance. It's is for meeting people! It's only two days each year, so when you are there, please do yourself a favor and ether spend the time on people or attend some of the excellent talks. Regards, Christoph

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Budget Support for Fedora Indonesia
by Alzea Alzea 07 Feb '10

07 Feb '10

Dear Fedora Ambassadors A few days ago we (Fedora Indonesia) had guests from Germany. Mr. Mario Behling of LXDE fundation. He called on us to attend and represent Fedora Indonesia in the event Gnome Asia Summit to be held in Vietnam in November 2010. Honestly we do not have the funds to transport and accommodation costs, we are pure free support community and do not get support funds from any others party. My question, could we get funding for transport and accommodation from Fedora, to attend the Gnome Asia Summit in Vietnam? honest we really wanted to attend the event. as Fedora Indoneisa. Thanks a lot. warm regards. N4is3N(a)Fedora.or.id

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APAC meeting in five minutes on #fedora-meeting.
by susmit shannigrahi 07 Feb '10

07 Feb '10

Join if you can. Thanks. -- Regards, Susmit. ============================================= http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:susmit =============================================

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First FAmSCo Town Hall Reminder
by María Leandro 07 Feb '10

07 Feb '10

Hello Ambassadors, FAmSCo Members would like to invite you to join our first FAmSCo Town Hall In this meeting we would like to listen/read about your countries and regions, ideas to make us a bigger/stronger community and reply to all those doubts you might have about Fedora Ambassadors project. Channel - #fedora-meeting-1 Date: - February 8, at 1800 UTC More info at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_townhall The first monthly report for FAMSCo is almost ready and almost up to the list, but it is important to us make all of you part of FAmSCo and get your feedback. If you have any questions, ideas or doubts you want us to reply, add it here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_TownHall_agenda Your presence is important: I hope to see you there! Regards Maria "tatica" Leandro -- 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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SCALE 8x planning meeting 01 [2010-02-05]
by Karsten Wade 06 Feb '10

06 Feb '10

We had an impromptu planning meeting for SCALE 8x yesterday in #fedora-ambassadors. Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-ambassadors/2010-02-06/fedora-ambas… Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-ambassadors/2010-02-06/fedora-ambas… Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-ambassadors/2010-02-06/fedora-ambas… About this exact time in two weeks I'll be getting ready to take the stage to give the Saturday morning (first day) keynote. Eeek! - Karsten -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://quaid.fedorapeople.org gpg: AD0E0C41

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