ambassadors August 2011

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Fedora User Group - Cergy, France in Festival of Cergy's associations
by Kaesar ALNIJRES 29 Aug '11

29 Aug '11

*English* IIPT association (Informatique et Internet Pour Tous), which i chair (president) is launching a fedora local group, Fedora User Group – Cergy, France, in the Festival of Cergy's associations, this year. This group will try to gather all Fedora's users in the region and introduces Fedora to new users ;-) Come and see us in our booth, if you want to join this group, or even if you only want to say hello and shake hands with a Fedora Ambassador. Free Fedora 15 DVDs are available. Happy birthday Linux, Happy birthday Fedora too :-) Saturday, September 3, 2011, from 10h00 to 18h00, Parc de la Prefecture - Cergy, France Booth # 119 Light Blue Balloon Thanks a Kévin Raymond <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Shaiton>For Fedora 15 DVDs Festival of Cergy's associations <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Festival_of_Cergy%27s_associations_2011> <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Festival_of_Cergy%27s_associations_2011>* Français* L'association IIPT (Informatique et Internet Pour Tous), dont je suis le président, profite de la Fête des Associations à Cergy, France pour lancer un groupe d'utilisateurs Fedora pour Cergy et ses environs, Fedora User Group - Cergy. Notre stand vous attend si vous voulez rejoindre le groupe , ou même si vous voulez juste passer me dire bonjour et discuter avec un Ambassadeur Fedora. Samedi 3 septembre 2011, de 10h00 à 18h00, Parc de la Préfecture – Cergy, France Stand N° 119 Ballon Bleu clair *DVD Fedora 15 gratuit * A l'occasion de 20 ans de Linux, Fedora et Linux seront à l'honneur dans notre stand cette année. Venez retirer votre DVD gratuit et discutez si vous le souhaitez avec un Ambassadeur Fedora Un grand merci à Kévin Raymond <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Shaiton>Pour les dvds de Fedora 15 Festival of Cergy's associations <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Festival_of_Cergy%27s_associations_2011> Kaesar ALNIJRES <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kaesar> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kaesar *Sites:* http://www.informatique-cergy.org/ http://formations.informatique-cergy.org/ http://formations.informatique-cergy.org/2011/08/fedora-user-group-cergy.ht…

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REMINDER French Fedora Meeting Today 1830UTC #fedora-meeting
by Mathieu Bridon 29 Aug '11

29 Aug '11

This mail is a reminder for today's meeting for the French speaking community. 2011-08-29 / 18:30 UTC IRC: freenode #fedora-meeting Ce mail est un rappel pour la réunion de la communauté francophone, qui aura lieu ce lundi (29 août) 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] GNU Make: FISAT, Angamaly, Kerala, India
by Shakthi Kannan 29 Aug '11

29 Aug '11

Hi, I had presented an introduction to GNU Make, "Dum Ka Biryani, Make for each other" [1] at "ICE-FOSS 2011" [2], August 26-27, 2011 at Federal Institute of Science and Technology [3], Angamaly, Kerala, India. The conference had talks, hands-on workshops, and project demos. There were interesting projects displayed at the stalls by the students varying from Arduino-based hardware projects, to Python mobile application development to games, and applications developed using opencv. Pamphlets were made for each project, and given to the visitors at the stall. I reviewed the projects that were demoed and gave them feedback. The Institute is in the process of migrating their servers, so we should (hopefully) see the sources made available online. I also had a chance to meet Anvar K Sadath, Executive Director at the IT@School [4] project. They have trained nearly 2 lakh teachers on F/OSS over the years. Their new initiative is animation training [5] using free/open source software. The Institute does have a cluster setup called "Dakshina" [6] which is used by students, and the faculty. They also do allow other nearby colleges to use the facility on request. I would like to thank the Management of FISAT, for sponsoring my travel and for the wonderful hospitality. Photos taken during the trip are available at my /gallery [7]. SK [1] Dum Ka Biryani, Make for each other. http://shakthimaan.com/downloads.html#dum-ka-biryani-make-for-each-other [2] ICE-FOSS, 2011. http://icefoss.fisat.ac.in/ [3] Federal Institute of Science and Technology. http://www.fisat.ac.in/ [4] IT@School. https://www.itschool.gov.in/index.php [5] Animation training. https://www.itschool.gov.in/animation/ [6] "Dakshina" cluster. http://www.shakthimaan.com/Mambo/gallery/album69/17_dakshina_cluster [7] Photos. http://www.shakthimaan.com/Mambo/gallery/album69 -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com

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Fedora 16 Release Events wiki and Media & Swag Planning. ; )
by David Ramsey 29 Aug '11

29 Aug '11

Hello Everyone, ======================================= I have put a template Fedora 16 Release Events wiki at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F16_release_events I put my two dates in late November and early December and hope that you may join us in planning your Fedora 16 Release Events. :) ======================================= Most importantly, we are thinking as well as reviewing our plan for future Fedora 16 needs, for example media, swag and anything else. For APAC folks, we would like to get your ideas and "quantities" by Saturday, 03 September 2011, so we may provide to our fellow FAmSCo folks. :) ======================================= To assist in our planning, please reference the "Fedora 16 Ambassadors Team Tasks" at http://rbergero.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-16/f-16-ambassadors-tasks.html ======================================= Sending positive Fedora 15 and 16 energy to your computers now. :v) Please have a Great Fedora evening and/or day! :~) 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 With sixteen (16) x86_64 computing cores, 80 GB of RAM and eight SATA Seagate 7200.12 - 500 GB harddisks. The system definitions are at the following URL: * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Dramsey#Using_embedded_code_have_update… ---------------------------------

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The FAms Way; classroom session
by Buddhike Kurera 28 Aug '11

28 Aug '11

Hello, The first session of the The FAms Way initiative of Fedora Classroom has taken place, Thanks for the all the supports and if anyone misses the classroom please try to refer the logs. See you at the next classroom on 10th September 2011. For all information please refer the wiki page https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Bckurera/The_FAms_Way Classroom logs can be found at the wiki page. thanks again for the support. -- Regards, *Buddhike Chandradeepa Kurera* Fedora Ambassador Sri Lanka Event Liaison - Design Team

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Fedora Ambassadors Welcome - Week 35
by Joerg Simon 28 Aug '11

28 Aug '11

Dear Ambassadors, let´s welcome our new sponsored Ambassador Group Members: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Christianabryant from the USA mentored by Scott Williams https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adirsms from Israel mentored by Robert Scheck https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pmjunior from Brazil 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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Event report: FrOSCon 2011
by Christoph Wickert 28 Aug '11

28 Aug '11

Hi fellow ambassadors, last weekend the 6th FrOSCon took place in St Augustin. Once again it was a nice event, but this time we tried something new: A Fedora Activity Day (FAD) as part of the conference. I arrived at St Augustin on Friday around 7 p.m.. A lot of people were already there and it was nice to meet a lot of friends and many of the typical suspects again. Unfortunately we could not yet build up the booth as Robert, who had the event box and the banners with him, was stuck in heavy traffic jam. When he finally arrived at half past 8 we quickly prepared the booth before we left for dinner with our friends from Xfce. We decided to go to Bonn because Christian lives there and he recommended an Ethiopian Restaurant. Of course we were a little skeptic and made bad jokes (“Ethiopian? We’ll go home hungry!” and alike) but Roha Café has completely proven us wrong: Nice atmosphere, friendly people and awesome food that is eaten just with the hands by wrapping it in bread. We were nine people and ordered 3 different plates for 3 people each but we didn’t manage to finish them because we were completely filled up. Each of us had 2 drinks, some also had a delicious Ethiopian coffee after dinner and in the end the bill was ridiculously cheap (less than 14 EUR per person). So if you ever happen to be in Bonn, go to Roha Café. Some of us wanted to go wild afterwards and decided to go for more drinks, but as FrOSCon opens doors at 8:15 a.m. on Saturday, most of us decided to go back to the hotel. I went to Cologne with Enrico because I stayed at a friend and commuted to St Augustin. On Saturday we had a German Translation team leaders of GNOME, Xfce and LXDE. We had Hendrik Richter and Christian Kirbach from GNOME, Fabian Nowak and me from Xfce and me again for LXDE. Even though the meeting was a little short I consider it very successful. Our goal is to have consistent translations throughout the different desktops and it was nice to see we agree on so many things, even on tiny details. There is still a lot of work to do but harmonizing our translation guidelines is a first step in the right direction. Saturday was the better of the two days: The number of visitors was lower than last year (somebody even said it was all time negative record) and Sunday was even worse than Saturday. I don’t think it was that bad, we had visitors at the Fedora booth most of the time, but Sunday definitely could have been better. Not only the exhibition, but also our FAD. The FAD began at 10:00. Benedikt gave a talk about his “Fedora Home Server”. The title mimics the “Windows Home Server” and so does the feature set of the server. Of course you can add more services and the audience came up with interesting ideas. After that Robert delivered a talk about SELinux. It seems SELinux still causes people a lot of headache and thus a lot of people came to Robert’s presentation. Next up was Anreas with a talk about Func, the Fedora Unified Network Controller. It was perhaps the most entertaining talk because Andreas made a dry topic a lot of fun, especially when he started showing stuff on not on a demo machine but a real production environment. After a short lunch break I gave two more talks, one about remixing Fedora and the other about RPM packaging. I hardly had the latter prepared, I just used the slides from one of my many previous talks about packaging and we made it more like a workshop. People liked this a lot: It definitely makes a difference if you just go through some slides or if you have a RPM package or a live CD ready at the end of the workshop. The audience was very experienced, most of them already were Fedora users or had at least used it, so we could even address advanced topics. Having a FAD or a FUDCon as part pf another event is always a difficult decision. On the one hand a lot of people there, both contributors as well as visitors. The contributors don’t need to pay for travel again and you reach an audience that you would not reach with a Fedora-only event. On the other hand people get distracted by the main event. There are many other talks and so much to see. Because all contributors want to attend either the Fedora event or one of the other talks, it’s difficult to have enough booth personnel all the time. So if you you are hacking on something special and you just want to get things done ™ it is maybe better to meet somewhere in the middle of nowhere to not be disturbed. Nevertheless I think this FAD was worth it: It was not a hack fest but more like a one day mini-FUDCon full of talks and as such it makes perfectly sense to have it at FrOSCon: FrOSCon is famous for it’s talks while the exhibition is secondary. We managed to address a new audience and raised awareness for Fedora. I’d like to thank all Fedora contributors who helped us to make FrOSCon 2011 a successful event, namely (and in no particular order) * Benedikt for his 1st Fedora talk * Raphael for doing booth service * Dominic for his dry humor and for delivering Fedora swag to Hamburg for Software Freedom Day * Christian who also is part of the FrOSCon team and helped us a lot with the organization * Sven for doing endless hours of booth service while we held our FAD * Jens for showing up and helping out even though his spare time is very rare * Sirko for the FAD posters and the Inkscape workshops * Gerd for showing up so I finally had the chance to finally meet my sponsoree in person after 2 years * Andreas for his brilliant and entertaining talk about Func * Robert for bringing all the booth material to St Augustin and delivering his SELinux talk * Sandro and Marcus for showing up although they were not officially part of the Fedora team this year * Zoltan for sending us flyers and Cheat Cubes Regards, Christoph

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APAC meeting on this Saturday - Friendly Reminder
by Buddhike Kurera 27 Aug '11

27 Aug '11

Hello Dear FAms, As you have already aware we have moved the FAD Special meeting series which focus only on spreading Fedora via public interaction. The meeting details as follows: Date : 2011 August 27 Time: 0400 UTC Channel : #fedora-meeting on freenode.net Agenda : http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:APAC_Ambassadors_2011-08-27 IMPORTANT: this is not a APAC bi-weekly meeting though it allocate on the same date and time. Hope to see all the great FAms and thanks for your time. PS - If you are an Ambassador candidate who are in mentoring process at them moment please do not hesitate to join with us. I am sure the exposure will give you mire knowledge and understanding. PS - If you feel the allocated new time slot is not fits to you, please share your possible time slots with us so that we can investigate the best time slot and move this meeting. -- Regards, *Buddhike Chandradeepa Kurera* Fedora Ambassador Sri Lanka Event Liaison - Design Team

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Travel planning for FUDCon Milan
by Jared K. Smith 27 Aug '11

27 Aug '11

I've had several people ask me about the status of the hotel and other travel logistics for FUDCon Milan, so here's a quick status update for those who are attending. The hotel we've selected is the UNA Hotel Mediterraneo in Milan. Don't feel like you have to stay at that hotel -- that's simply the hotel that we're selected for people who have been granted travel subsidies. From what I understand, it's about a ten or fifteen minute walk from the University where we are having FUDCon. The hotel has offered us a special price of 86 Euros per night for a double-occupancy room. If you'd like to stay at the same hotel, feel free to contact them directly and tell them you're part of the Fedora group. More information about the hotel can be found at http://www.unahotels.it/en/una_maison_milano/hotel_milan_centre.htm. If you're receiving a travel subsidy to attend FUDCon Milan, your hotel room has already been reserved for three nights (30 September - 03 October). If you need a copy of your reservation in order to obtain a travel visa, please let me know as soon as possible so that I can get this for you from the hotel. -- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader

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Linux is 20 Years Old TODAY!
by Jukka Palander, IT Development Spain 26 Aug '11

26 Aug '11

Hello all dear Ambassadors and Linux users! We are in the edge of many significant birthdays! First of all. IBM already had its 100 year anniversary earlier this year. Secondly PC (IBM PC) had its 30 years anniversary. AND last but not the least LINUX is having its 20 years birthday TODAY 26.8. !!!! HIP-HIP-HOOOORAY! This is the date when Finnish guy called Linus Torwalds first ever told about Linux OS to the world. He started actually by creating the "better version" of Minix... and the VERY FIRST v.0.01 Linux was done "ready" at September 1992 and v.0.02 was the first Open Source version! I personally remember when Linus was studying at Helsinki University. Never really spoke to him at all, but he was there... -- Jukka https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Devspain

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