ambassadors January 2012

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Re: [Ambassadors] CD / DVD stickers needed
by Vali Cobelea 17 Nov '15

17 Nov '15

Hi, Thank you for this info, I'm planning several short presentations about Fedora Project at the University of Galati, Romania, and I did not know from where / how to get Fedora 11 CDs / DVDs. Valente

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Upcoming changes in FAmNA meetings
by inode0 05 Feb '12

05 Feb '12

Just a quick announcement that beginning in February the North American Ambassadors will return to having weekly meetings again at the usual time and place (9:00pm Eastern on Tuesday evenings in #fedora-meeting on freenode). A group of us decided to go back to weekly meetings during discussions at FUDCon Blacksburg. We hope that this will make it easier for new ambassadors to become involved in our efforts, will help those already involved be more engaged and stay on top of things that need attention (like upcoming events that need some help getting in shape), and will give us an opportunity to have time to drive some new initiatives as well as tend to routine business. In addition to this change in meeting frequency we will have a new trac instance for North American Ambassadors to use in a variety of ways including adding items to the next meeting agenda, raising new issues to be addressed, and tracking progress of tasks being worked on. More on this when it is ready to go later this week but for now I would like to thank Nick for all his help getting this started. Come join us on February 7 for our resumption of weekly meetings! John

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Teaching fedora through videos
by María Leandro 05 Feb '12

05 Feb '12

Hello! Everyday new users come asking for help and learn about FOSS, and our way to help them is through Fedora. We know that there are a LOT of tutorial on internet, but most of them are on *text* format and yet, people love to see things on *video*. (even more if they are multilanguage) Probably, there is a huge list of videos already on internet, but they aren't organized, so our new contributor Nitesh Narayan Lal [1] from India would like to come up with some web-based site where people can easily find them (or at least where we can recomend a list of videos that might be useful for new contributors) Talking with Mark Terranova at FUDCon Blacksburg, we got this idea of make a simple *video join page* where we will have a small list of videos where people can easily understand and complete the different steps that must be followed to be part of Fedora, or any specific group. Is easier for a contributor to record a tutorial, lets say, 10min, instead spend 30min writing it. Nitesh has started with some easy tutorials (some that he has done and some collected) and we would love that, if any of you are interested on this idea, please, join us next thursday Feb-02 at 1530UTC [2] on #Fedora-Design , so we can work on this idea and bring even more knowledge to our users/contributors. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Niteshnarayan [2] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2012&month=02&day… -- tatica Maria Gracia Leandro http://www.tatica.org http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:tatica LinuxUser= 440285 GPG Public Key: E1CDCC56

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duplicate entries in Free media report 9
by Jatin khatri 31 Jan '12

31 Jan '12

Dear all is there any problem with report 9 [1] , or really everyone wants 2 DVDs :-) [1] https://fedorahosted.org/freemedia/report/9 Warm Regards -- */ Jatin Khatri RHCSA RHCE CCNA www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Jatin <http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Jatin> Phone (+91) 98250 20393 Save Paper, Save Environment.** /*(Plant at least one tree in your life and nurture it !!!)*/

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Grace Hopper WAS conference request
by Beth Lynn Eicher 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

Dear Mario and Mark, I have always been fascinated by the Grace Hopper conference but I have never attended. Please count me as interested. Just in case others are interested, I have cross-posted. In 2010, Stormy Peters somehow procured a table for Free Software at-large. She then sent out an email blast which included women(a)lists.fedoraproject.org I don't know if anything came of it. Does anybody know? I believe that Fedora is a great fit for Grace Hopper conference. The audience demographic tends to be academic. Free Software is great for doing research. Too much valuable time is wasted applying for grants to gratis proprietary software and monitoring the quantity of seats consumed. Why bother when Fedora is the freshest software out there? Thanks for getting this started. I plus one the idea of Fedora at Grace Hopper 2012! Thanks, Beth Lynn Eicher On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 6:59 PM, mario juliano grande balletta <mario.balletta(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Cool beans thx Mark! You rock cuz! > > I can call you like in the afternoon, when I leave work. I will be > working 2 all nighters in a row, starting Tuesday and Wednesday, so if > we don't hook up on Monday, I probably won't catch you until Friday. > I'm involved in moving a data center this week. Sorry about that! > > FUDcon was awesome! I can't wait to come to more events! I'm wicked > stoked! :-) > > Adios and thanks the help! > > 2012/1/29 Mark Terranova <Markdude(a)fedoraproject.org>: >> Mario this falls to me. LEt's do a phonecall tomorrow and see what we can >> do. >> >> Great meeting you in person at FUDCon, >> >> -Mark >> >> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 4:38 PM, mario juliano grande balletta >> <mario.balletta(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Thx John! >>> >>> I did add the events to the wiki earlier in the week. I will check on >>> the links to add the requests for banners and other materials. Thx a >>> million for the help! >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 4:54 PM, inode0 <inode0(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 3:46 PM, mario juliano grande balletta >>> > <mario.balletta(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> >> I never heard any feedback about this conference. Should I assume >>> >> we're not interested? >>> > >>> > Please don't assume we aren't interested. We have to some degree >>> > supported this conference in the past. I am happy to support it but I >>> > won't be attending it and those who are need to do the planning. Just >>> > keep at it. >>> > >>> >> Also, I am requesting some help with getting banners and table covers >>> >> and other booth/conferencing supplies for the linux fest in March. >>> >> >>> >> Does anyone know how I can request these items? I will pay if >>> >> necessary, and for shipping both ways. >>> > >>> > You should put your events on the wiki page for Fedora events. >>> > >>> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events >>> > >>> > You will notice columns there to request banners and event boxes. >>> > After doing this you should join us at the following FAmNA meeting to >>> > discuss your plans and get help with any questions you have. >>> > >>> > John >>> > -- >>> > ambassadors mailing list >>> > ambassadors(a)lists.fedoraproject.org >>> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ambassadors >>> -- >>> ambassadors mailing list >>> ambassadors(a)lists.fedoraproject.org >>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ambassadors >> >> >> >> -- >> ambassadors mailing list >> ambassadors(a)lists.fedoraproject.org >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ambassadors > -- > ambassadors mailing list > ambassadors(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ambassadors -- Thanks, Beth Lynn Eicher

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FAmNA: Multitouch Event Booth System
by inode0 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

We are beginning to investigate getting one large display multitouch system for use at booths in North America. So far I've been looking at the following possibilities: * Dell Inspiron One 2320 * Lenovo IdeaCentre B520 * Samsung Series 7 Based purely on specs the Lenovo seems to be worth the bit extra it costs to me but since I don't have any personal experience with any of these I am looking for feedback from others who likely know more about it than I do. Anyone have experience with any of these? Or suggestions that we look at something else? Thanks, John

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Fedora Ambassadors Welcome Week 05/2012
by Joerg Simon 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

Dear Ambassadors, let´s welcome our new sponsored Ambassador Group Members: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cicku from China mentored by Caius 'kaio' Chance https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Minemonics 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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REMINDER French Fedora Meeting Today 1830UTC #fedora-meeting
by Reminder 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

This mail is a reminder for today's meeting for the French speaking community. 2012-01-30 / 18:30 UTC IRC: freenode #fedora-meeting Ce mail est un rappel pour la réunion de la communauté francophone, qui aura lieu ce lundi (30 janvier) 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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A friendly reminder, the next biweekly APAC meeting is on Saturday, February 04th, 2012 at 04:00 UTC. :)‏
by David Ramsey 29 Jan '12

29 Jan '12

Hello Everyone, A friendly reminder, the next biweekly APAC meeting is on Saturday, February 04th, 2012 at 04:00 UTC. :)‏ ======================================= Day : Saturday, February 04th, 2012 Time : 04:00 UTC See the following URL to check and verify your own timing based on your location - http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2012&month=02&day… For any proposed changes to the agenda, then please update - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:APAC_Ambassadors_2012-02-04#Agenda If you are not able to join us, then please update the agenda, in order to show your updates. :) ======================================== On Freenode IRC Channel : #fedora-meeting Help on IRC - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/IRCHowTo ======================================== We hope that you may be able to attend and join us. :) Sending positive Fedora 15 & 16 energy your computer now. :v) Please have a Great Fedora day and/or evening! :~) Thank You Sincerely =-=-=-=-= - David - =-=-=-=-= David Ramsey --------------------------------- 一石二鳥いっせきにちょう One stone; two birds. To kill 2 birds with 1 stone. --------------------------------- 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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conference request
by mario juliano grande balletta 29 Jan '12

29 Jan '12

Greetings All! Thank you for the wonderful time and hospitality at the FUDcon in Balcksburg! It was a great way to start 2012! I wanted to ask the group for some advice and also for some help. The largest technology conference tailored for women in our field is the Grace Hopper Conference, sponsored by the Anita Borg foundation. This year, the event is in Baltimore, Maryland. The dates are from October 03-06, 2012 at the Baltimore Conference Center. I would like some of the experienced female members of Fedora Project to join me at this conference. I have requested sponsorship. My theme leading into the event focuses on the parallels between the growth of Linux, despite obstacles and outright opposition, historically along side the progress of women in technology. I would like some ideas and also support for attending this event. It is strongly supported by major executives, and corporate sponsors. One day is dedicated entirely to Open Source and women involved with Open Source. I believe Fedora benefits in the following ways: 1) this event is designed to support an often overlooked/disenfranchised segment of technology, which we can embrace and shoulder future support 2) female executives from major companies, also decision makers attend this event, it is widely known to female professionals 3) the exposure opportunity is tremendous, the list of companies in attendance is large; http://gracehopper.org/2011/sponsorship/current-sponsors/ 4) this conference has been in operation and growing since 1994! http://gracehopper.org/2011/about/history-of-the-conference/ 5) typical attendance hovers between 1500-2500, with attendees from over 20 countries and each year over 300 scholarships are donated to select female students 6) one example of name dropping: Barbara Liskov, Institute Professor Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT; she is a regular attendee! 7) a dedicated day devoted to Open Source: http://gracehopper.org/2010/conference/open-source-track/ (our chance for the Fedora Women to shine!) 8) check out the sponsorship levels: http://gracehopper.org/2011/sponsorship/logistics-for-sponsors/ ( we can tailor our exposure ) In conclusion, it is an opportunity to draw more attention from a community desiring interaction, acceptance and inclusion into the industry mainstream, at a much larger level than just exceptional executives, but as a group, which is how the Fedora foundations of friends, freedom and our strong community can really make an impact and lasting impression so that Fedora and its' community are seen as a resource, a viable option, a choice, that offers open doors and arms to everyone! I am positive we will not only recruit talented volunteers, but also make important contacts leading to investigation and adoption of Open Source, namely Fedora. Please give this some serious consideration. Obviously, I will help financially as much as possible to make the event successful. We have lots of time to prepare in advance! Thank you in advance!

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