ambassadors December 2011

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Election Results: Fedora Board, FAmSCo, and FESCo
by Jared K. Smith 06 Dec '11

06 Dec '11

The latest round of Fedora Elections has concluded, and I am pleased to announce the results for elected seats on the Fedora Board and FESCo and FAmSCo. The results are as follows: Fedora Board ------------------- There were two open seats on the Fedora Board this election cycle. A total of 224 ballots were cast. Due to the system of range voting that we use in Fedora elections, this means that each of the four candidates could receive up to 896 votes (224 ballots multiplied by four candidates). Votes | Candidate ---------------------- 638 | Jaroslav Reznik 557 | Christoph Wickert ------------ 334 | Larry Cafiero 228 | Robert 'Bob' Jensen The two candidates receiving the most votes were Jaroslav and Christoph. I'd like to welcome Christoph to the Fedora Board, and welcome Jaroslav back for a second term. Both Jaroslav and Christoph will server for a one-year term. * * * * * * * * * FAmSCo -------- All seven seats on FAmSCo were up for re-election this cycle. There were a total of 104 ballots cast in the FAmSCo election. Each of the eleven candidates could receive up to 1144 votes (104 ballots multiplied by eleven candidates). Votes | Candidate ---------------------- 615 | Christoph Wickert 591 | Neville A. Cross 534 | Igor Soares 439 | Clint Savage 377 | Zoltan Hoppar 348 | Gerard Braad 339 | Caius Chance ---------------------- 287 | Truong Anh Tuan 243 | Shakthi Kannan 236 | Buddhika Chandradeepa Kurera 132 | Rejaul Islam Let me be the first to welcome Christoph, Neville, Igor, Clint, Zoltan, Geraard, and Caius to the new Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee. * * * * * * * * * FESCo -------- There were four FESCo seats up for election this cycle. A total of 225 ballots were cast in the FESCo election. Each of the six candidates could receive up to 1350 votes (225 ballots multiplied by six candidates). Votes | Candidate ---------------------- 778 | Marcela Mašláňová 773 | Miloslav Trmač 642 | Matthew Garrett 526 | Jon Ciesla -------------------- 454 | Justin M. Forbes 358 | John Dulaney The top four candidates were Marcela, Miroslav, Matthew, and Jon. Each will server a full two-term position on the Fedora Engineering Steering committee. * * * * * * * * * I would also like to take this opportunity to thank all those who have previously served on the Fedora Board or FAmSCo or FESCo for their hard work and perseverance. I'd also like to thank all the candidates and volunteers who participated in this round of elections. I look forward to working with each of these people as we strive to make Fedora better over the months and years ahead. -- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader

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Fedora Ambassadors Welcome Week 49
by Joerg Simon 05 Dec '11

05 Dec '11

Dear Ambassadors, let´s welcome our new sponsored Ambassador Group Members: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Udinnet from Sri Lanka mentored by Heherson Pagcaliwagan https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Lorddrachenblut from the USA mentored by Mark Terranova https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Aesptux from Spain mentored by Fabian Affolter and welcome back https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Makfinsky from the USA mentored by Clint Savage 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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Review about the FSCONS 2011 in Gothenburg, Sweden
by Robert Scheck 05 Dec '11

05 Dec '11

Hello all, as more or less promised in my last e-mail about FUDCon Pune 2011 in India, here is now my review and some thoughts about FSCONS in Gothenburg, Sweden. The event took place from 2011-11-11 to 2011-11-13 at the IT university in Gothenburg and in case you had the chance to follow my somehow-micro-blog in German at www.linuxnetz.de, you will read here less new, but in English language ;-) The 11th November started again early, thus at 6:00 am at the airport in Stuttgart and took me via Munich to Gothenburg. On the flight, they served Muesli (with yoghurt), I never got that as a snack before in an airplane. After check-in at the hotel, I had to notice that the wireless network in the hotel operated by "The Cloud" doesn't assign me any IP address. However the technical support hotline was not helpful. Instead of focussing to the real problem, they kept me at 1st level support and only verified my proxy settings in the Internet Explorer. If somebody of them ever reads this: If your customer is a network engineer, believe him and verify please if your DHCP server is really working, if he doesn't get any IP address; especially if he's telling you that the problem is even operating system independent. In the end, I went to a local shopping centre and bought a pre-paid 3G SIM card which didn't work the fscking GNOME 3 Network Manager stuff, however it did with the good old wvdial. In the evening, the opening social event of FSCONS took place, where I met two Swedish Fedora Ambassadors, Henrik Nordström (again) and Roger Sinel for the first time ever. We chatted about various topics and I think, I should get to nothern Sweden in summer some time in the future. We also talked about technical topics, Fedora stuff and how to contribute and how to get involved into Open Source projects at all; mostly with other FSCONS people. The first "real" conference day of FSCONS 2011 started with building up the Fedora booth, different stickers, pins and installation and live media with Fedora 15 (because Fedora 16 was released at the beginning of the week) as well as USB flash drives with Fedora 16 for attendees. The LED beamer from the Fedora EMEA event box was used for the first time, too. We run e.g. the promotion video of Fedora 16 and some different FUDCon clips. During afternoon, the keynote took place as a moderated dialog with Richard Stallman (founder of the GNU project) including a gnu soft toy auction for the benefit of the Free Software Foundation. Erik Josefsson showed up later at the Fedora Project booth and invited a Fedora ambassador for an evening at the European Parliament Free Software User Group (EPFSUG). As this event will take place in Brussels/Belgium, I of course redirected his invitation to our ambassadors mailing list. About 1.5 hours later he was honored with the Nordic Free Software Award for his work - also outside of Scandinavia. I also requested some nice Fedora animations/clips for running during whole event days on beamers or big flatscreens at the design team, because (even the currently existing video clips are nice) we don't have good material to run on a beamer all the time. Links to previously mentioned happenings: - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-November/018441.h… - https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/207 The second day of FSCONS started with my talk "Community-based Development at Fedora" as part of the track "Development in Free Software Communities". It went well, was recorded (and will sometime be online available) and had around 30 attendees which asked different "normal" questions at the end. I started a bit late, because I was asked to wait because the organisation team of FSCONS was waiting for a bus with attendees, but the beamer didn't want to work with me in the beginning, too. A "usual" presentation for me in the meantime ;-) By a Fedora interested FSCONS volunteer, we got told that public libraries in Sweden are tended to keep Linux media and borrow or give them away. Now Henrik Nordström and the FSCONS volunteer will try that for the Fedora 16 release cycle. Maybe we got a new Fedora contributor or ambassador? Our Swedish Fedora Ambassadors Henrik Nordström, Lars Delhage, Roger Sinel and I answered different questions around Fedora and handed over media and swag during the rest of the day. Some of the FSCONS attendees treated me as Swede because - as they told me - my somehow Swedish accent when speaking English. Nevertheless, I don't speak any Swedish, but German and Swedish languages are not that far from each other, because both are derived from the Indo-European languages. During the closing social event the FSCONS Tithe Award was handed over to the GNU project and Dan Engström read and performed (in English) together with "Boatsman & the Breakers" from his Creative Commons licensed book for children, "Båtsman Brännings Piratpensionat". Some of the points where you really recognize, that FSCONS is also focussed to free society, not only to free software :) While having beers, Henrik Nordström spent a lot of time to get a Fedora 16 and Ubuntu dual boot with GRUB 2 set up and running - of course not on his own laptop, but at a FSCONS attendee. Unfortunately, he got interrupted by the fire alarm which also ended the FSCONS event premature and abrupt. When we stood in front of the building and waiting for the security people, the real social event without computers started...well, but only nearly without computers. Finally, we were not allowed to enter the building again, even there was no fire but the fire alarm control station just stated a general fire alarm. Not the nicest end of FSCONS, but happens :-S On the day after FSCONS, I walked through the city of Gothenburg, did some sightseeing - until I received an SMS in the afternoon, that my flight from Gothenburg to Munich has been canceled. In the phone call with the hotline I got informed that the airport in Munich has (once more) heavy fog. So can you remember to my event review about FUDCon Pune? ;-) Finally, they switched my flight bookings via Copenhagen (Denmark) using SAS flights. And in difference to Swiss Airlines, the Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) seems to know what short change times at the aiport mean - without stressing the passengers to run accross the whole airport. Caused through the rebooking, I was forced to carry a bunch of paper stuff with me, but fortunately every service personnel was looking for a specific sheet, thus I arrived in Stuttgart without any paperwork. Comparing this FSCONS with the previous one from the Fedora perspective, I would say we improved our presence and we had more communication with the people there, which is of course good. You can get some impressions, if you have a look to the pictures at my gallery: http://robert.fedorapeople.org/events/2011/fscons/ Finally, thanks to Henrik Nordström, Lars Delhage and Roger Sinel. It was a great event and it was really good to have you there. Hope to see you on another event in the future! Greetings, Robert

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REMINDER French Fedora Meeting Today 1830UTC #fedora-meeting
by Reminder 05 Dec '11

05 Dec '11

This mail is a reminder for today's meeting for the French speaking community. 2011-12-05 / 18:30 UTC IRC: freenode #fedora-meeting Ce mail est un rappel pour la réunion de la communauté francophone, qui aura lieu ce lundi ( 5 décembre) 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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[Event Report] Foresight Institute, Pune, December 3, 2011, India
by Shakthi Kannan 04 Dec '11

04 Dec '11

Hi, I had conducted a one-day introductory workshop [1] on Fedora at Foresight Institute of Management and Research [2] [3], affiliated to University of Pune, Maharashtra, India on Saturday, December 3, 2011. I started the day's proceedings with an introduction to free/open source software. Most of the students who participated were studying towards their bachelor's programme in computer applications (BCA), and were familiar with C, C++ and Java development. I gave a demo of the Fedora desktop, and also showed them the plethora of software that they can use. I also introduced them to revision control with examples on using git. I also addressed the various communication tools that we use, the basic communication guidelines, and the Fedora sub-projects that they can participate in. During the post-lunch session, I explained to them about copyright, trademarks, and licensing, and how to use them. I explained the basic concepts in installation, and gave them a demo of installation of Fedora. I have given them CD/DVD images of both Fedora 15 and 16. Thanks to Antriksh Shah for working with me for a month in organizing this workshop. SK [1] Audience. http://shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/2011/foresight-2011/1-audience.JPG [2] Foresight Institute of Management and Research. http://shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/2011/foresight-2011/2-foresight.JPG [3] Foresight Institute. http://www.foresightedu.com/ -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com

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FAmSCo meeting minutes - 2011-12-03
by Igor Pires Soares 03 Dec '11

03 Dec '11

Hello Fams! Here are the minutes and logs from the last meeting of the current FAmSCo term. Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-12-03/fedora-meeting.2… Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-12-03/fedora-meeting.2… Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-12-03/fedora-meeting.2… Best regards, -- Igor Pires Soares Fedora Ambassador (Brazil) - Member of FAmSCo Fedora I18N/L10N QA https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Igor

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