ambassadors March 2011

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Fedora Ambassadors Welcome
by Joerg Simon 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

Dear Ambassadors, let´s welcome our new sponsored Ambassador Group Member: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Byone from Bazil mentored by Daniel Bruno 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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TXLF Crunch Time
by Adam Miller 22 Mar '11

22 Mar '11

To begin with I would like to offer my most sincere apology for missing our last FAmNA meeting in which I was supposed to cover most of this, the oversight was my own and there is simply no excuse. Now on with business, the situation is sadly that I just last Thursday got all of the information from different entities I needed in order to actually put together my proper budget proposal. I have updated the wiki page with my findings and with the proposal. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Texas:LinuxFest_2011 I would like Fedora to have a strong presence at TXLF and I know we can and will even though it has been somewhat of a wild ride thus far. I have potentially all the media I need, I have the event box, and I have the vertical banners but would like the "UPDATE ME" items on the wiki page section "swag" to be visited. If we have the materials available, I would like to request them. Also, I wanted to bring up the discussion of 32-bit vs 64-bit media. I know that the majority of new computers are 64-bit (even the latest Intel Atom is 64-bit) and I'm sure conference go-ers would like to see 64-bit media but I have a lot of 32-bit media that Spot left with me after SXSW that I think would be sufficient in volume of media but leaves the question of "do we need 64-bit media?" and if so, is there some sitting in reserves somewhere? I don't know that 64-bit is 100% necessary, but it was something I wanted to bring up for discussion anyways. Budget: I want to allow for 2-4 Fedora Ambassadors to be sponsored from out of town (but still Texas local for travel costs). I have outlined in the wiki page my proposal for hotel costs and travel reimbursement for fuel. Please let me know what thoughts are on those topics. It is proposed that we sponsor the TXLF as Silver sponsors which will cost $1000 but if that is outside the confines of the budget I would at minimum like to have a Bronze sponsorship status. If there are any questions or concerns please feel free to ask! -AdamM

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REMINDER: EMEA ambassadors meeting tomorrow 2011-03-23
by Christoph Wickert 22 Mar '11

22 Mar '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, March 23th, 2011 * Time: 20:00 UTC (check [1] for your local time) * Location: #fedora-meeting Meeting agenda: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:EMEA_Ambassadors_2011-03-23 Please add your topic before the meeting and join us tomorrow! Regards, Christoph [1] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=23&month=03&year=2…

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Printed Souvenirs
by twohot 22 Mar '11

22 Mar '11

Hello Ambassadors, Just wondering if we have a booklet covering the basics of Fedora (in print). That will make a good 'hand-out' in Events. Something the size of A5 looks okay. -- OR -- an A3 colour printed material that folds down to A5 will also be cool. Do we have something like that? Where and how do I get some?

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Join us at LinuxTag 2011 in Berlin!
by Christoph Wickert 22 Mar '11

22 Mar '11

Hi fellow ambassador, it's a pleasure for me to announce that the Fedora booth at LinuxTag 2011 has been confirmed. LinuxTag is one of the biggest events for Free and Open Source Software in Europe. It will take place in Berlin from 11th to 14th May, 2011. For more info about this event visit http://www.linuxtag.org/ If you would like to attend LinuxTag, please add yourself on the wiki page at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxTag_2011 IMPORTANT NOTE: We have limited the number of contributors to 10. Only the first 10 persons who enter their names in the wiki will get funding for travel and hotel from Fedora. Of course you are still welcome to join us if you are not one of the first 10 people and we are happy to help you with the hotel rooms and all that. You can even apply for funding through the usual channels [1], but we cannot guarantee you get it because LinuxTag tends to be an expensive event for Fedora. Whoever receives founding needs to help out at the Fedora booth. If you are planning to attend, you should try to arrive the day before LinuxTag starts. We need to build up our booth and would like do a small Fedora activity day (FAD) in preparation of the event in the afternoon and/or evening. More details are to come. If you have any questions, please ask here on this mailing list or direct them to Fedora's LinuxTag organization team [2]. Regards, Christoph [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Reimbursements [2] The team consists of Jens Kühnel (jens), Thomas Wörner (twoerner) and Christoph Wickert (cwickert)

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Event report: CLT 2011
by Christoph Wickert 21 Mar '11

21 Mar '11

Hi fellow ambassadors, I'm just trying to write a report about Chemnitzer Linuxtage, one of the biggest community events here in Germany. But to be honest I don't really know what to write except: It was like every year. This doesn't mean that the event was bad, by far NOT. It was just as great as every year. You really can rely on the CLT people, they have a fantastic group of volunteers to help out at the event. They take care of everything, no matter what it is. The catering was extraordinary once again, especially on the social event on Saturday evening. I would have liked to party harder, but I had to give my Kolab talk on Sunday morning, so I went back to the hotel early. Why do I always get the slots on the morning after the social event? Happened to me at FOSDEM and OpenRheinRuhr already. :( As every year I met quite a lot of people at Chemnitz. The Fedora team consisted of Jörg Simon, Robert Scheck, Fabian Affolter, Sven Lankes, Jens Kühnel and me (obviously). With Michael Spahn and Dominik Hopf two more Fedora contributors were helping at the Xfce booth but unfortunately our Czech friends from Red Hat Brno could not join us. Then of course I met the typical suspects from other projects, way too many to name them all. I managed to get rid of a lot of media. I had 7 boxes with me, roughly 700 pieces. One box was picked up by Vinzenz for Augsburger Linux Info days next week and two are for Gerold for the Linux Days Graz in April. Fabian was so kind as to take them with him and drop them off at Gerold's on his way home to Switzerland. The other 4 boxes were mostly distributed at CLT and the rest was given to somebody for another event. I like really this distribution method: Fast, effective and inexpensive. On the negative side we have the "Battle of the distributions" on Saturday. It was not really a battle because the different distros (Debian, Fedora, Mandriva, OpenSUSE, Pardus and Ubuntu were not fighting but rather showing how to manage a particular task with their latest release. The first exercise was how to view YouTube. As we all know YouTube doesn't run with gnash, so this means installing the Adobe Flash plugin. :( I have to admit that it's a typical problem beginners are facing, so it is a valid exercise, but it's not really a good example to compare the quality of the distributions and if the first thing on a free software event is to install unfree software, something is wrong. The winner was Ubuntu here, they have patched the Firefox plugin finder to not only find the flash plugin but also to install it through apt. On the other hand Ubuntu had some problems later when somebody asked how to revoke the sudo privileges of the first user (only possible on the console). Fedora also didn't do that bad: I had to go to the Adobe homepage, but at least they offer a yum repository, so we could do a completely graphic click-through install and will get updates later. Unfortunately this was not only the first but also the only exercise but also the last one because things got a little chaotic afterwards. The Pardus guy managed to completely screw up his machine before the competition started, so he had to reinstall it while we were already showing doing the Flash exercise. We skipped him and when we all were finished, it was his time. He still hadn't finished his install, but he had all the time in the world to show their first-run wizard and configure icons, wallpapers and some more stuff, before the wizard crashed. So he went through it again and when he was done, there was nothing left to do because Pardus delivers all kinds of questionable proprietary software out of the box. They even package Windows Binaries for wine! To me Pardus was clearly the looser, their X crashed every time when it was switched to the big screen, but the Pardus guy managed to turn failure into a win: The more problems he had, the more time he had for telling how great Pardus is. The presenter was to kind to interrupt him, so it became a Pardus show. Fedora at least got some extra attention when I was to tell something in SELinux and I was told that my presentations were pretty convincing, but other great distributions like Debian only had 5 minutes to show their work. Apart from this Chemnitz was really great again - but you don't expect something different. Regards, Christoph

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Mirror availability in Tunisia
by Zied Fakhfakh 21 Mar '11

21 Mar '11

Hi, I'm glad to announce the availability of our first Tunisian Mirror for Fedora and EPEL. http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist ----> fedora.mirror.tn It's kindly hosted by ATI: www.ati.tn kind regards, Zied. -- Zied FAKHFAKH Dot TN - CTO @: fzied(a)dottn.com t: +216 71 82 89 58 f: +216 71 82 89 58 w: http://www.dottn.com a: Centre Molka, Esc E, Bur 17 - Manar 2 - 2092 - Tunis - Tunisia skype: dot_tn GPG Key : gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys D2F4EE8C

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REMINDER French Fedora Meeting Today 1830UTC #fedora-meeting
by Mathieu Bridon 21 Mar '11

21 Mar '11

This mail is a reminder for today's meeting for the French speaking community. 2011-03-21 / 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 mars) 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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[EMEA] Talks for FOSDEM 2011
by Pierros Papadeas 19 Mar '11

19 Mar '11

Hi all! Our next big event in EMEA is FOSDEM 2011 :) As you have seen on this list we are already organizing our presence [1]. (Add yourself if you are coming!) Please note that we need to step up and register some talks on the Distribution MiniConf (a Conference on Distributions within FOSDEM). We are 20 fedorians already coming to FOSDEM and I am sure we have a lot to share with other communities (community, technical etc) In order to participate in the discussion please join the dist2011 mailing list to state your talk proposal or reply here and I can relay that :) Also note that we need to keep our wiki updated for that [3] and that you can have a talk in the Main Track (Our FPL will!) or a lighting talk! ~π ps. for questions please reply here or ping biertie (our event owner) or me on IRC [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FOSDEM_2011 [2] http://lists.fosdem.org/mailman/listinfo/dist2011 [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FOSDEM_2011_Talk_Propositions -- Pierros Papadeas PGP key: 0x6130DBF8 http://pierros.papadeas.gr pierros(a)papadeas.gr liknus @ GRnet , Freenode

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FAmSCo Meeting minutes 2011-03-19
by Igor Pires Soares 19 Mar '11

19 Mar '11

Hello ambassadors! Here are the log and minutes of today's FAmSCo meeting: Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-03-19/famsco.2011-03-1… Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-03-19/famsco.2011-03-1… Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-03-19/famsco.2011-03-1… I also would like to remind all ambassadors to stay tuned on our Ambassadors schedule: http://rbergero.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-15/f-15-ambassadors-tasks.html Regards, -- Igor Pires Soares Fedora Ambassador (Brazil) - Member of FAmSCo Fedora I18N/L10N QA https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Igor

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