ambassadors September 2010

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Re: [Ambassadors] CD / DVD stickers needed
by Vali Cobelea 17 Nov '15

17 Nov '15

Hi, Thank you for this info, I'm planning several short presentations about Fedora Project at the University of Galati, Romania, and I did not know from where / how to get Fedora 11 CDs / DVDs. Valente

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LinuxDay 2010, Dornbirn, Austria
by Fabian Affolter 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Hi all, One of the last events this year in Europe will be the LinuxDay [1] at Dornbirn, Austria. Some more details about the event: Date: 27. November 2010 (2010-11-27) Time: 09.00 till 18.00 Location: HTL Dornbirn, A-6851 Dornbirn (near the Swiss, the German, and the Austria border, right beside the Bodensee.) Deadline CfP: 26. September 2010 It's a small one-day event with a nice social event in the evening. The audience is mixed (from novice to pros) and often it's not very crowed (perhaps 200 visitors). There is a wiki page [2] available. Please take the ownership or add yourself as a booth person. Kind regards, Fabian [1] http://linuxday.at/ [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxDay_Dornbirn_2010

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Call for production of Media/Swag/Poster for F14.
by susmit shannigrahi 13 Oct '10

13 Oct '10

Hi All, This is a gentle reminder about swag / media production for F14. This is regions specific, but if your region is going to get swags or media done, please plan for it. According to the schedule, we also need to know who is Point of Contact for each region for doing this job and how much budget you need. Please open a ticket for the same with your regional TRAC or FAmSCo trac. Thanks. -- Regards, Susmit. ============================================= http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:susmit =============================================

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Re: [Ambassadors] FAmNA meetings going forward
by Scott Seiersen 13 Oct '10

13 Oct '10

I may be able to do the meetings for November. -Scott

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F13 x86_64 Live with Gnome, KDE, LXDE and XFCE on one disc
by Sascha Thomas Spreitzer 11 Oct '10

11 Oct '10

Hello everyone, please grab this torrent and test whether it is working for you or not: http://sspreitzer.fedorapeople.org/torrents/Fedora-13-x86_64-Live-multi.tor… I will chip in the i686 version later PS.: Maybe we can synergize future releases onto one DVD instead of 4 diffent CDs ? best wishes, Sascha -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / with kind regards, Sascha Thomas Spreitzer http://spreitzer.name/ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Sspreitzer Warum mache ich überhaupt dieses ganze OpenSource Zeugs? Lesen Sie hier, warum; http://de.windows7sins.org/

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EMEA media production for F14
by Christoph Wickert 29 Sep '10

29 Sep '10

Hi fellow ambassadors in the EMEA region, it's time to think about the media production for F14, in fact, we are already late. The deadline for telling the design team which sleeves to produce was on Monday. Some observations from the F13 cycle: * We produced more money than ever before (6000 in total) * We already distributed nearly all media. ATM all events in the wiki for Q3 already received the media they need. * We managed to ship (300 to Kenya, 200 to Nigeria, 300 to Benin, 100 to Mauritius) * We did spins (Xfce and LXDE) for the first time. We'll have to revisit if they were a success. * Shipping to anchor points in several countries for for further distribution seems efficient, but having more than one anchor seems inefficient: When we are running out of media, one has only GNOME while the other has KDE and the next has Install DVDs. Open questions: 1. How much money can we spend? I opened a ticket in FAMSCO's trac and they will discuss my request in the next meeting. For F13 we had 4600 US$ + 1000US$ for Africa = 5600 US$ in total, but I don't think we've spent it all. Sascha, what was the exact number? 2. Should we reserve a special amount of media for Africa again? (IMHO yes) 3. Given that we have the same budget as in the F13 cycle, should we go with the same numbers again? 4. Should we do LXDE and Xfce again? ATM we have a lot of Xfce left but only very little LXDE. Small batches are more expensive. 5. Should we revisit the media process again? For the future, we should start earlier, thus I suggest to align the process with the Alpha and Beta releases as already proposed in [1]. 6. How can we speed up the process in order to have media already for release events? 7. Can we optimize the media distribution? Although I like the concept of anchor points in different countries/regions, we IMHO need one (!) master distributor that has a large pool of media to make sure all different media are available. This person needs to be able to pay with one of the new Red Hat debit cards because his shipping costs will be to high. I would like to discuss these questions in the ambassadors meeting, 22:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting (less than an hour from now). Regards, Christoph [1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-March/013967.html at the bottom

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Media production idea
by Zoltan Hoppar 29 Sep '10

29 Sep '10

I have begun thinking about media production, and I would like to suggest something that wasn't in sight so far as I know. Maybe this isn't true, but if we could spare some money, then it could be worthy. I don't know there is a possibility to create multiboot discs - but this is something that really could be a hit. Why? How about to have an such discs where the media contains not only one desktop environment, else at least 4 of it... 4 LiveCD, the primary leading spins including with gnome based version with an common GRUB packed onto *one* bootable DVD. This could provide more wide spectrum to our users, with this (possibly) also reduced the amount of discs, and smaller natural footprint (less trash). Also could be an option to reduce this when we choose for storage 8 cm MiniDVD's, and smaller packaging. I know this is less storage for our packages - but 2.8 Gigs it's still enough for a bunch of spins, or alternates. If I continue this thoughts, this could result also an collectible version of Fedora where an 2 discs booklet contains at least 8 (yes eight) bootable and installable Fedora taste altogether. What do you think guys? PS: I know that we keep CD-s for the most biggest compatibility, but reducing the produced amount maybe gives back cash..... and DVD readers nowadays are also cheap.... Zoltan -- PGP: 06853DF7

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FAmSCo Meeting Minutes from 9/20
by David Nalley 29 Sep '10

29 Sep '10

My apologies for not getting these out earlier. Thanks to cwickert for reminding me. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-09-20/fedora-meeting… http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-09-20/fedora-meeting… http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-09-20/fedora-meeting… http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-09-20/fedora-meeting…

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Meeting Minutes for last FAmSCo meeting
by David Nalley 29 Sep '10

29 Sep '10

Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-09-27/fedora-meeting… Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-09-27/fedora-meeting… Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-09-27/fedora-meeting…

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Releases/14/FeatureList - FedoraProject
by irejaul . 29 Sep '10

29 Sep '10

These features have been accepted by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Engineering_Steering_Committee> for the Fedora 14 Release. <ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/FeatureList</ref> The beta release of Fedora 14 is available for download, Red Hat Release Engineer Dennis Gilmore<http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-September/0006…>said in an e-mail to the Fedora developer mailing list on Sept. 28. "Mark your calendars, and get ready to break out and have some fun: Fedora 14 will launch in early November," Gilmore wrote. The beta is the distribution's last development build before its official release The Fedora 14 "Laughlin" release features the SPICE<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Spice> (Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments) framework, a tool for creating virtual desktops. SPICE offers encryption, accelerates two-dimensional graphics, supports audio playback and recording, and detects video with MJPEG streaming within a virtual environment. The framework also comes with a library of X Windows, Windows XP, Windows Live and Windows 7 drivers. Fedora 14 is based on the Linux Kernel 2.6.35, which provides direct I/O support for btrfs (b-tree file system) graphic stacks improvements and the ability to spread incoming network loads across CPUs. Ubuntu's current beta, Maverick Maven, is also on the same kernel. The distribution has updates for several programming languages, including support for D, Python 2.7 and Perl 5.12. Rakudo Star,<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Rakudo_Star> an early implementation of the Perl 6 specification, is also included. System admins can look forward to extended utilities for remote or powered-off management of servers using the IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) protocol. The Fedora Engineering Steering Committee<http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-09-14/fesco.2010-09-14…> met on Sept. 14 and decided to remove the next-generation systemd session management as default from Fedora 14 "to give more time to fix small issues and docs and general polish." Instead, Fedora 14 will return to the Upstart and SystemV init defaults. Testing will continue with systemd, which offers faster startup and on-demand loading and unloading of services, to be included in Fedora 15, expected in April or May 2011. The beta includes a tech preview of systemd for administrators interested in checking out the tool. Laughlin includes KDE's Plasma Desktop 4.5 and GNOME Desktop 2.32, and offers alternative environments such as Sugar and MeeGo, <http://meego.com/> a visually rich netbook user interface from a project jointly sponsored by Intel and Nokia. Developers can expect enhanced and improved graphics handling, such as JPEG compression and decompression for faster loading and saving of images. During a Fedora Graphics Test Week, testers and beta users are encouraged to focus on video driver support. Sept. 28 testing will focus on the open-source Nouveau driver for Nvidia chips, Sept. 29 testing on Radeon hardware and Sept. 30 testing on Intel GPUs. There are 20 new features in Laughlin, which is about half the number of new features that were in Fedora 12 ("Constantine") and 13 ("Goddard"). Removing systemd contributed to the much smaller list of new features. The beta's features are mostly complete and only critical bug fixes will be pushed as updates before the general release. Fedora 14 is named after Nobel Laureate and physicist Robert Laughlin, professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University. The members of The Fedora Project, a worldwide community of more than 20,000 collaborators, selected the code name by popular vote. <ref> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Fedora-14-Beta-Available-for… </ref> These features have been accepted by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Engineering_Steering_Committee> for the Fedora 14 Release.<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_release_events <ref> * * * Thanks & Regards, * * Rejaul Islam rejaulislam(a)gmail.com +8801714118394 Fedora Ambassador Bangladesh https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rejaul *

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