ambassadors November 2011

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REMINDER French Fedora Meeting Today 1830UTC #fedora-meeting
by Reminder 21 Nov '11

21 Nov '11

This mail is a reminder for today's meeting for the French speaking community. 2011-11-21 / 18:30 UTC IRC: freenode #fedora-meeting Ce mail est un rappel pour la réunion de la communauté francophone, qui aura lieu ce lundi (21 novembre) à 20h30 heure de Paris sur IRC (freenode) #fedora-meeting . L'ordre du jour est disponible depuis cette page : http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Réunions_hebdomadaires_de_la_French_team N'hésitez pas à le modifier pour rajouter des sujets qui vous semblent intéressants. Merci de répondre à ce message en cas d'indisponibilité.

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Review about the FUDCon Pune 2011 in India
by Robert Scheck 20 Nov '11

20 Nov '11

Hello all, I know that FUDCon Pune 2011 in India is now over since about 14 days and I am also safely and healthy back since nearly 14 days, but after filling up my lack of sleep, I attended the next event. Now that both events are over, I've taken the time to translate what I've written until now in German onto www.linuxnetz.de, my somehow-micro-blog that I don't want to call blog. I travelled together with Joerg Simon to Mumbai, so our trip started closed to our hometowns at the airport in Stuttgart at 6:00 am. When we went there to the baggage drop of Lufthansa, I cross-checked our flight at the display panel and recognized, that our national flight from Stuttgart to Munich was cancelled. At the ticket counter the lady explained us that Munich has shut down their services because of heavy fog. So she rebooked us then via Swiss International Air Lines from Stuttgart via Zurich to Mumbai. Our planned time to change the planes in Zurich (Switzerland) was calculated to 20 min. which should not be a problem because they recently advertised their short change times at the aiport. However we unfortunately took off with a delay of 20 minutes in Stuttgart, but arrived with 5-10 minutes delay in Zurich. Nevertheless we made our own experience with advertisement vs. reality at the aiport...fast walking, taking a train inside the airport to get to the other terminal, fast walking, another extended security check and further walking - all with our cabin baggage of course. In the end, we walked about 1 km in total and reached the gate at the time when we normally should have already started, fortunately they waited for us. We entered the plane and fall into our seats, totally sweated. Some time afterwards, I recognized that I've seen nearly all movies in the board entertainment, however they had some TV episodes which helped to kill the 8 hours flight... ;-) I got my first "culture shock" in Mumbai in the taxi at the way from the airport to the hotel - so much indescribable different new fascinating and frightening impressions at the same time...just wow! Aside that they are driving on the wrong side of the road, they are driving very...different. Joerg and I travelled together with Jared Smith by taxi from Mumbai to Pune and on the way we saw shanty towns but also impressive landscapes until we reached about 4.5 hours later our hotel in Magarpatta City, a business city within Pune. After check-in, I met Kushal Das the second time and for the very first time, I met Rahul Sundaram, too. Of course I also met further more people the first time, but in fact I only was very less in touch with the others till that point. After a delicious lunch in an Indian restaurant at the destination center, we went together to the Red Hat office within the socalled Cybercity of Magarpatta. Arrived there, we got a tiny office tour, used the good internet connectivity and chatted with eachother. On the next morning, the first day of FUDCon began with an organized bus ride from the hotel to the College of Engineering Pune (COEP), the second oldest college in whole Asia. There, the opening ceremony was held by Dr. Anil Dattatraya Sahasrabudhe, director and professor of the college. After that Jared Smith started with his "traditional" keynote "My Vision for Fedora" about the successes and problems of the past year but also about the planned goals. A lot of people attended the opening talks, more than I expected. The lunch in the speakers room had the first challenge, sandwiches with tomatoes and salad: As a non-Indian, it is recommented to avoid everything uncooked, especially fruits and vegetables because they are e.g. cleaned with water that can contain germs which non-Indians are not used to, making them maybe seriously sick as result. However we were told that it is safe for us to eat them - and hey, I survived! :) Later Joerg's talk "Fedora Security Lab and the OSSTMM" should have taken place at the auditorium, but it still was used for some college purposes, so his talk was delayed and moved to another room, but nevertheless there were many attendees listening and he hopefully was able to catch them for security interests. I never attended his talk before and I think he gave a great session and was able to transport the content he wanted to transfer. In the evening after FUDCon we went to Pune downtown in a smaller group to buy some (or some more) souvenirs at the Bombay Store. After that we had dinner at the "Blue Nile" restaurant - again different, but delicate, too. Our second day of FUDCon Pune was started with the keynote by Harish Pillay with "Thoughts About Community". It was very interesting to see what "Red Hat CommArch" is and how many people are involved - I never thought that. I also attended the talks "Security in the Open Source world!" by Huzaifa Sidhpurwala and Eugene Teo as well as "GlusterFS: Hacking-Howto" by Amar Tumballi. Both talks were very interesting, but I figured out that I do not have any usecase for GlusterFS or even GlusterFS hacking so far nor in the near future. After lunch, I gave my talk "Zarafa in Fedora", an introduction into MAPI and how Zarafa works, about its architecture and structure, its features, some future plans and how users and developers can contribute to it. I did not expect it, but there were something like 30 attendees. One day before my talk, the CEO of Zarafa wrote me even an e-mail and let me know that if somebody from India is interested in Zarafa WebAccess or WebApp development (its successor), Zarafa has a division in Vadodara in India and is hiring. Just send me a private e-mail, if you would like to get in touch. Questions ranged from the (missing) integration of Zarafa into Evolution via MAPI, over flexibility of the LDAP schema to a failover scenario with the Zarafa Spooler and the MTA. Scalability and the maximum users at a single Zarafa server were of course also a topic. Some questions regarding the in the past existing Zarafa instance within the infrastructure of the Fedora Project were raised, too. That instance no longer exists, because it was a try to find a solution for the Fedora Calendar Project, but they are still lacking requirements what they are looking for... ;-) Later on, I attended "Virtualization with Libvirt" by Kashyap Chamarthy as well as "Writing Technical Documentation with DocBook and Publican" by Jared Smith and finally "RHQ - An open source system management suite" by Venkat Krishna. During Jared's talk, I figured out that DocBook is helpful for even generating man pages, however the man pages are claimed to be not sane according to rpmlint. So I started rewriting them on my own, without any DocBook involvement for my ongoing project. After the official end of the second FUDCon day, buses transported all the volunteers and speakers to the FUDPub taking place at the "Palm Court" on the top of the Hotel Parcestique. Unfortunately Jared didn't feel well and decided to rest a bit, so he missed some parts of the FUDPub. Before dinner they had music where people danced like in Hindi cinema ("Bollywood" is not a friendly word, I heard)...well they dance simply different than we know it in Europe or the US. But: Best FUDPub ever, even I didn't attend all of them! The last day of each FUDCon is usually dedicated to hackfest, so we started with pitching. And it was a real surprise to me that about 30 people mostly girls attended to my hackfest "Package Reviewing". Normally, if you do such a hackfest, only a few less people show up and main work is reviewing. But in this case, I figured out that most of the attendees never packaged ever before, so I looked up my older slides from a packaging talk this year and gave an introduction into RPM packaging to provide at least some basics. Together with Anuj More, I worked afterwards on packaging otcl and tclcl as RPM packages, unfortunately both libraries are a bit strange and not the best starting example for beginners. We got something compiling being RPMs, but they are far from being compliant with the Packaging Guidelines, thus I will try to have a look to them in the next time. In the afternoon, Joerg didn't feel well, so we took a cab from the college to the hotel, Joerg rested a bit and I walked around in Magarpatta City and took some pictures - at least where it was allowed. Jared felt well again on Sunday by the way. In the evening, we had dinner with other Fedora and Red Hat people in the hotel and it was awesome (as always in India) and I learned again new cuisines. We ended the evening in a more tiny group in Jareds hotel room by talking about the FUDCon, issues, nice happenings and future plans as well as common Fedora Project related issues and things. At our last day in India, Joerg and I went to the Red Hat office after we checked out at the hotel, talked with others there and used the chance for a good internet connectivity again. At this time, the official number of FUDCon attendees was more than 400 people, but Satya will walk through all the papers again to figure out the exact number. Closed to 4:00 pm it was time to leave the office and also time to say good-bye to the last of the newly met people in India before a cab brought us back to the hotel where Jared, Joerg, Heherson Pagcaliwagan and I switched to another taxi. And that brought us with a about 5 hours ride to Mumbai airport. Fortunately, the airport security allowed us to enter the air-conditioned building even we were too early for the check-in. And also Lufthansa accepted our baggage at the wrong check-in counter hours before the right one opened. While waiting for our flights, we also ate some fried chicken at a well known US-american fast food company, but the chicken was made the Indian way (it really tasted different than in Europe). Then Jared left for his flight and Joerg and I went to the waiting area for our flight. At this time he unfortunately still felt not well again. After boarding and some waiting time for the regular maintainance work at the only runway our 8 hours flight homewards started - but with no sleep for me. Like at Swiss, I already saw nearly all the movies before, but the TV episodes helped again. In the morning we reached Frankfurt airport ("fraport") with 5 °C instead of usual 35 °C in Mumbai. After the formal entry into Germany we grabbed our baggage at the AIRail station and left Frankfurt by train to Stuttgart central station where we arrived at 10:15 am. Arrived at home and after some food, I decided to catch some sleep after being about 30 hours awake - and then slept nearly 24 hours with nearly no interruption. Wednesday noon - time to prepare myself for the next event (FSCONS) at the weekend in Gothenburg and to satisfy Christoph Wickert's request for some banners and the table cloth for OpenRheinRuhr. FSCONS will be another event report in the next time ;-) India and the FUDCon were really amazing and it's still impossible for me to somehow describe what I've seen there, some pictures are at my gallery: http://robert.fedorapeople.org/events/2011/fudcon-pune/ Finally, I would like to say "thank you" to all the people who took care of Joerg and me in India. I know it's unfair to name now some people, but I really would like to thank Rahul Sundaram, Kushal Das and Satya Komaragiri here, they also throught about the tiny little invisible details like e.g. the taxi management or closed bottles of mineral water at the restaurant! Greetings, Robert

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Reminder of upcoming FAmSCo town hall meeting
by Jared K. Smith 19 Nov '11

19 Nov '11

I want to remind everyone of the upcoming FAmSCo town hall meeting on Saturday, November 19th at 11:00 UTC. For more details, see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections#IRC_Town_Halls. If you have questions you'd like to ask the candidates but can't attend the meeting, please email them to me directly with "Town Hall" in the subject, and I will try to ask your questions during the town hall meeting. -- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader

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Re: [Ambassadors] Mozilla AsiaCamp : Who are coming over?
by Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail 18 Nov '11

18 Nov '11

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 5:45 PM, mak <mahayalamkhan(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail > here's a tweet from mozcamp > > We can't wait for #mozcamp! Rain won't spoil this party! Welcome event will > be held in the Junior Ballroom (2nd Floor) @ 6:30pm > so, now you know about the dinner. hope to meet you there. oh .. is that an open event or closed? .. anyway that would be too early for me .. as i'm quite a distance away and now is peak traffic. Fazli said he'll be there so probably you can meet him up during that dinner :). is mcdonalds 9pm ok ? , another local ambassador, wariola, might be joining us too. -- Mohd Izhar Firdaus Bin Ismail / KageSenshi Inigo Consulting (FOSS/Plone Development, Training & Services) http://www.inigo-tech.com Fedora Malaysia Contributor & Ambassador http://blog.kagesenshi.org 92C2 B295 B40B B3DC 6866 5011 5BD2 584A 8A5D 7331

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Re: [Ambassadors] Mozilla AsiaCamp : Who are coming over?
by Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail 18 Nov '11

18 Nov '11

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 5:09 PM, mak <mahayalamkhan(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I've collected a DiGi Cell prepaid SIM, but don't know my own number :) > > can you give me your cell phone number. Hi Mahay, my number is +60172792765. I can drop by for a while tonight but could not stay long as I'll be travelling north early morning tomorrow. I'll check out if anybody else around. Btw, if i'm not mistaken theres a pre event hangout planned somewhere in klcc, MozCafe or something , not sure whether it actually going to happen, not much info I can google on. -- Mohd Izhar Firdaus Bin Ismail / KageSenshi Inigo Consulting (FOSS/Plone Development, Training & Services) http://www.inigo-tech.com Fedora Malaysia Contributor & Ambassador http://blog.kagesenshi.org 92C2 B295 B40B B3DC 6866 5011 5BD2 584A 8A5D 7331

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Re: [Ambassadors] Mozilla AsiaCamp : Who are coming over?
by Suresh Packiyarajah 18 Nov '11

18 Nov '11

Hi kagesenshi, Ok we've decided on the place. > > Considering the event is at Intercontinental Hotel KL, which is near > the KLCC Twin Towers, we'll be having a meetup at a coffee shop called > Old Town Kopitiam in KLCC. > > Date: Sunday, 20th Nov > Time: 20:00 hrs (8:00 pm) MYT > > Are you guys ok with that? > +1 Good news! See you soon! :) > > I could not do it on saturday due to I'll be some 300km north of KL > helping out campuscamp.org > > On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail > <kagesenshi.87(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Cool, > > > > seems like at the very least we have 4 ppl coming :D > > > > - Mahay Alam Khan > > - Tuanta > > - Pierros > > - Suresh > > - Danishka > > > > I'll relay this news to the local guys and will decide on time/place > > to meetup .. > > Best Regards, Suresh Fedora Ambassador -Srilanka gpg-0x50A53FF2 Key fingerprint = 7033 AC77 523A 07B1 141D 9E2A 6E26 845C 50A5 3FF2 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Suresht

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Fedora Ambassadors Welcome Week 46
by Joerg Simon 17 Nov '11

17 Nov '11

Dear Ambassadors, let´s welcome our new sponsored Ambassador Group Members: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Douglasbahr from Brazil mentored by Daniel Bruno https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Dpaulo from Brazil mentored by Daniel Bruno https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Firaskafri from Amman mentored by Daniel Bruno https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Danthoma from the USA mentored by Ben Williams 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] Mozilla AsiaCamp : Who are coming over?
by Suresh Packiyarajah 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

Dear kagesenshi, Count me too. Hope to meet you all during #MozAsia Camp2011. Best Regards, Suresh Fedora Ambassador -Srilanka gpg-0x50A53FF2<http://pgp.surfnet.nl:11371/pks/lookup?op=index&search=0x50A53FF2> Key fingerprint = 7033 AC77 523A 07B1 141D 9E2A 6E26 845C 50A5 3FF2 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Suresht Anybody coming over to Mozilla Asia Camp? .. > https://wiki.mozilla.org/AsiaCamp2011 > > I know at least 2 are coming. If theres a number probably I can work > out a small FAD/Meetup sometime before/between/after the event. > > Regards > > -- > Mohd Izhar Firdaus Bin Ismail / KageSenshi > Inigo Consulting (FOSS/Plone Development, Training & Services) > http://www.inigo-tech.com > Fedora Malaysia Contributor & Ambassador > http://blog.kagesenshi.org > 92C2 B295 B40B B3DC 6866 5011 5BD2 584A 8A5D 7331 > >

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REMINDER: EMEA ambassadors meeting tomorrow 2011-11-16
by Christoph Wickert 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Just a quick heads-up for you to not forget the Fedora EMEA ambassadors meeting for all ambassadors in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. * Date: Wednesday, November 16th, 2011 * Time: 20:00 UTC (check [1] for your local time) * Location: #fedora-meeting Meeting agenda: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:EMEA_Ambassadors_2011-11-16 Please add your topic before the meeting and join us tomorrow! Regards, Christoph [1] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=16&month=11&year=2…

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by Malith Hirantha 14 Nov '11

14 Nov '11

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