ambassadors February 2011

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REMINDER French Fedora Meeting Today 1830UTC #fedora-meeting
by Mathieu Bridon 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

This mail is a reminder for today's meeting for the French speaking community. 2011-02-28 / 18:30 UTC IRC: freenode #fedora-meeting Ce mail est un rappel pour la réunion de la communauté francophone, qui aura lieu ce lundi (28 février) 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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FYI on a couple of really cool Fedora 15 Test Days this week! :)
by David Ramsey 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

Hello Everyone, FYI on a couple of really cool Fedora 15 Test Days this week! :) ========================== I was at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Fedora_15_Test_Days and looks like this week is for the Internationalization Testing. :D * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-01_L10n_i18n_Installation * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-03_I18n_Desktop ========================== This is another excellent opportunity to help try out Fedora 15's new software and to learn something during the process. :) Sending positive Fedora 14 and 15 energy to your computer now. :v) Please have a great day and/or evening! :~) Thank You Sincerely =-=-=-=-= - David - =-=-=-=-= David Ramsey --------------------------------- 猿も木から落ちるさるもきからおちる Even monkeys fall from trees. Even experts make mistakes. = Fedora Project's Japan & Maryland Ambassador dramsey(a)fedoraproject.org http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Dramsey * Three (3) dual core systems with 8.0 GB of RAM running the Fedora 14 (Laughlin) kernel - 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.x86_64 * One (1) dual core system with 8.0 GB of RAM running the Fedora 15 (Lovelock) kernel - 2.6.38-0.rc6.git6.1.fc15.x86_64 * One (1) dual core system with 8.0 GB of RAM running the Fedora 16 (TBD) kernel - 2.6.38-0.rc6.git0.1.fc16.x86_64 * Two (2) dual core systems with 3.0 GB of RAM running the Fedora 14 (Laughlin) kernel - 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686.PAE * One (1) dual core system with 3.0 GB of RAM running the Fedora 15 (Lovelock) kernel - 2.6.38-0.rc6.git6.1.fc15.i686 * One (1) dual core system with 3.0 GB of RAM running the Fedora 16 (TBD) kernel - 2.6.38-0.rc6.git0.1.fc16.i686 * One (1) dual core system with 3.0 GB of RAM running the Red Hat 6 (Beta) kernel - 2.6.32-19.el6.i686 With sixteen (16) x86_64 computing cores, 80 GB of RAM and eight SATA Seagate 7200.12 - 500 GB harddisks. =

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Fedora-fr NPO annual report
by Pierre-Yves Chibon 27 Feb '11

27 Feb '11

Dear all, The French speaking Fedora NPO: Fedora-Fr, translated its annual report for 2010 on the wiki. This report is available at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora-Fr_annual_report_2010 Last year's report is at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora-Fr_annual_report_2009 Thanks to all the actors involved in the different events of 2010. Regards, Pierre

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[LATAM] Reminder: meeting today 2011-02-24
by Igor Pires Soares 24 Feb '11

24 Feb '11

Hello! Today the Latin American ambassadors will get together for our bi-weekly meeting. Date: 2011-02-24 Time: 20:00 UTC Channel: #fedora-latam @ freenode Agenda: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:LATAM_Ambassadors Regards, -- Igor Pires Soares Fedora Ambassador (Brazil) - Member of FAmSCo Fedora I18N/L10N QA https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Igor

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Fedora Activity Day at SCaLE 9x: Sysadmin Study Group
by Clint Savage 24 Feb '11

24 Feb '11

[hopefully, this isn't too much crossposting] I believe it’s a very common desire to improve your skillset as a tech geek. I believe there are many people out there who just want to learn how to do a few things so they can get their job done. I also believe that many people would like to make more money at their job, either as a System Administrator or to become a sysadmin. The question is, how do you gain the skills to become a better sysadmin? In my opinion, one of the best ways to gain experience quickly, is to participate in training classes, such as the amazing classes run by Red Hat. But sometimes, those cost a ton of money, and the current company doesn’t want to foot the bill. Of course, you are trying to save your pennies to get to there, but that can take time. However, there are cheaper alternatives. I believe the community is the best way overall to gain this knowledge. While it takes a bit more time to get there, over time, you can learn a major portion of what it takes to become a skilled sysadmin. Local User Groups I suggest attending a Local User Group that specializes in Linux administration. These groups take one topic per month and can educate you (usually) for free. I really enjoy my LUGs and have gained tons of knowledge over the years. Conference Events Many conferences, like SCaLE, offer space to communities to run day long activities. The Fedora Activity Day at SCaLE is a good example of where you can quickly gain skills as a system administrator for a very low cost. If you are looking to improve your system administration skillset, I highly recommend attending the FAD at SCaLE this year. Sysadmin Study Group at SCaLE 9x When: Friday, February 25, 9am to 5pm Where: Los Angeles Airport Hilton, Century B The study group is about helping you become a better system administrator and there will be experts on hand to help you study. We will also be providing an installation server with Fedora 14, which will be used to build your virtual or physical machine and give you real hands on experience with the sysadmin tasks. Machine Requirements KVM capable system with approximately 20GB of disk space free or Physical Laptop with ethernet and PXE (preferred), USB or CD/DVD booting capability Register Today I look forward to seeing you all come and improve your skills on Friday, and the entire cost is just what it takes to get into SCaLE, $70. Register now! Cheers, Clint

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Ambassadors Standard Operating Procedures
by Pierros Papadeas 23 Feb '11

23 Feb '11

Hello Ambassadors! During the past month FAmSCo has pushed forward the creation of the Ambassadors SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) An SOP is essentially a How-To to guide you through a process of doing something within the Ambassadors Project. They act as reference and training material for the newcomers too. The also document processes that few people do and must be documented to make sure someone may continue their tasks. As expected we used our beloved wiki, and with a little help from our Infrastructure team (they already have many SOPs) we kickstarted ours. You may find our landing page for the SOPs here : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors_SOPs and some sample SOPs here : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Hosting_an_IRC_meeting_SOP https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Leaving_Ambassadors_SOP We even have an SOP on creating an SOP :) So make sure you read it before helping: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Creating_a_Ambassadors_SOP Our goal is to transfer all the How-to knowledge throughout the wiki pages of Ambassadors and consolidate it as our SOPs. Thus they can be easily referenced, maintained and modified. Some SOP titles that we will work from now on are: "Requesting Swag SOP" "Setting up a booth SOP" "Creating material SOP" We hope you like the idea, and will help us with edits and comments :) Please feel free to step up and create yours, and do not forget to announce it on our mailing list so other can join you on creating it! Warm regards, Pierros Papadeas Chair of FAmSCo -- Pierros Papadeas PGP key: 0x6130DBF8 http://pierros.papadeas.gr pierros(a)papadeas.gr liknus @ GRnet , Freenode

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[EMEA] Reminder Meeting today 2011-02-23
by Pierros Papadeas 23 Feb '11

23 Feb '11

REMINDER: EMEA Ambassador Meeting this Wednesday ! Ladies and gentlemen, Don't you remember there is an EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa) Ambassador meeting today on #fedora-meeting ? Day : Wednesday, February 23th, 2011 Time : 20:00 UTC (check [1] to know your own time depending on your countries) Channel : #fedora-meeting Meeting agenda (add your topic before the meeting please) : [2] Update your agendas, and don't forget to join us :) Kind regards, Pierros [1] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=23&month=02&year=2… [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:EMEA_Ambassadors_2011-02-23 -- Pierros Papadeas PGP key: 0x6130DBF8 http://pierros.papadeas.gr pierros(a)papadeas.gr liknus @ GRnet , Freenode

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Broadening how we empower community action - opening a dialog for change
by inode0 22 Feb '11

22 Feb '11

Fellow ambassadors, As one of a large group of ambassadors and non-ambassadors who is committed to empowering Fedora contributors to achieve their goals and who has been working to make budget available to them to help them in their endeavors I think it is time to rethink how we are trying to accomplish this. During the time I've been involved what might be thought of as discretionary Fedora budget has been the province of the Red Hat Community Architecture team and FAmSCo as portions of those funds have been delegated in the past. There has been a consistent and I think very positive direction of pushing budget decisions closer and closer to those who need the funds throughout my years with the project. There are still issues involving paying for things (who can, what is needed, getting reimbursed, etc.) and those issues are being worked on currently. I want to be clear those aren't the issues I am now concerned about. After much discussion with new and old friends from around the world at FUDCon Tempe I've concluded that FAmSCo probably isn't going to be the best place for non-ambassador budget decisions to happen as we expand our efforts at increasing funding of various new events (FADs with explicit work product to be achieved for example) as well as non-event funding of efforts as they might arise. While FAmSCo has done a superb job with budget issues and I expect will continue to do so, as more budget decisions move from the Red Hat Community Architecture team into the Fedora Project proper, to many people it just feels wrong for it to flow through an ambassador group to the rest of the community. As an example, for a packager who isn't engaged with the ambassador community but who wants to organize a FAD asking FAmSCo makes no more sense than asking the Documentation team or QA. Some people are quite offended by this and while I don't think they should be the reality is that they are, it just doesn't feel right to them. There was a subtle suggestion at FADNA last year that we consider a new organization. I was resistant to this, I thought FAmSCo has stuff in place and has experience dealing with budgets, etc. Now after talking to more people, especially non-ambassadors, I think I was wrong to be resistant. Now I think that if we can modify our structure a bit to encourage more engagement from more contributors and have those contributors be comfortable asking for funds we should do it. There are lots of ways this could be done, I'm going to suggest one possibility here. We could create a budget or finance specific group but I think we might want to consider one with a broader community mission. I'm tempted to suggest a Fedora Community Architecture group, but I'm not sure that really captures what I want. I don't want another elected body and would like to see this group grow in a way similar to the packaging committee (if my understanding of that one is correct). Perhaps the Red Hat Community Architecture team (who will necessarily be working with whoever is making budget decisions) could seed the team with one or two people from wherever in the project. Those folks could expand the team to include representatives from various areas within the project. They or a subgroup they designate can be tasked with helping solve funding issues for the Fedora community at large (I think of this as non-ambassador event/swag/media sorts of things). The benefits I see of doing this are that it helps the Red Hat Community Architecture folks continue to move more funding decisions into the Fedora Project proper. It gives contributors a place to go to get funding for their events or other needs that isn't tied to a specific group within the project, having a neutral nature by its composition. If and when we get to the point that hard decisions need to be made about whether to fund FAD X or FAD Y, I hope this body as constructed will have diverse enough understanding of the issues related to the work proposed to make informed decisions for the benefit of us all. Projects grow, sometimes that natural growth leads to problems no one intended. It just happens. I think this is an opportunity to fix one problem by taking a small step back and empowering others. Flame away :) John

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Fwd: Re: FUDCon EMEA Bidding now open
by Joerg Simon 22 Feb '11

22 Feb '11

a short reminder to us EMEA Ambassadors from the FUDCon Planning Group, i saw that Francesco Crippa added his name as owner for Milan in February 2011 to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_and_FAD_locations is this the actual page for collecting the bids for EMEA? cu Joerg -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: FUDCon EMEA Bidding now open Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:12:45 -0600 From: Dennis Gilmore <dennis(a)ausil.us> Reply-To: FUDCon/FAD planning group <fudcon-planning(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> To: FUDCon/FAD planning group <fudcon-planning(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> On Friday, February 04, 2011 07:49:31 am Jared K. Smith wrote: > Now that FUDCon Tempe has successfully finished, it's time to open the > bidding process for FUDCon EMEA 2011. > > The bidding process is described at > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_bid_process. Any interested > parties are invited to submit their bids. Once you have prepared a > bid, please send an email to the fudcon-planning list. Bids will be > accepted up until the end of the day on March 15th, 2011. > > We look forward to seeing your proposals! Just curious what cities will be submitting proposals, ive not yet heard of any. and march 15 is getting really close now. Dennis

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Event report: SK: EFY Expo 2011, New Delhi, India
by Shakthi Kannan 22 Feb '11

22 Feb '11

Hi, I had participated in the panel discussion on "Free/Open Source Hardware - What it means to Design Engineers" at the Electronics For You Expo [1] 2011, Pragati Maidan [2], New Delhi on Satuday, February 19, 2011 representing Fedora and Fedora Electronic Lab. Massimo Banzi (Arduino) chaired the session. The presentation is available at: http://shakthimaan.com/downloads.html#free-open-source-hardware-what-it-mea… It was good to meet up with Massimo Banzi, Marcus Erlandsson (OpenCores.org) and Kyle Wiens (iFixit). I was also able to catch up with few Arduino hackers from Delhi. We had a good discussion about open hardware, licensing, community development, hardware hacking, and of course Fedora Electronic Lab. Special thanks to Electronics For You for sponsoring the travel, and for the logistics. Few photos taken during the expo are available at: http://www.shakthimaan.com/Mambo/gallery/album66 Regards, SK [1] EFY Expo 2011. http://www.efyexpo.com/. [2] Pragati Maidan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragati_Maidan -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com

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