ambassadors March 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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Fedora 17 Release Party - Dhaka, Bangladesh
by Mosheul Islam 20 Apr '12

20 Apr '12

Hi: Thank you so much of the Fedora Ambassador of Bangladesh for organize a Fedora 17 Release Party - Dhaka, Bangladesh. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Party_F17_Dhaka I wish attend this release party. Thanks & Regards Mosheul Islam Fedora Ambassador Bangladesh https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:Maruf

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FAmNA Meeting Special Topic: Trademark Guidelines Draft Consideration
by inode0 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

As stated in the last public Board IRC meeting where the second draft of the proposed new trademark guidelines were considered the Board is planning to revisit and possibly approve them at the next public Board IRC meeting which is next Wednesday. So if we want to provide feedback (we being NA ambassadors but all ambassadors are welcome to participate in a discussion here) to the Board we need to consider these carefully now. The current draft is here https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pchestek/TMGuidelinesDraft Please read it carefully with special attention to the sections covering our work making promotional items for distribution at events. Please feel free to ask questions and give your impressions here but we will largely focus on this subject at our meeting next Tuesday so we can present the Board with our feedback the following day. This is important business for ambassadors so please give it careful consideration. Thanks, John

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Fedora 17 Release Party - Surakarta, Indonesia
by Arif Tri Waluyo 02 Apr '12

02 Apr '12

Hi fellows, I plan to hold a Fedora 17 release party, this is actually my first time. I asked for help on a local linux group to do so. So I'm optimistic the party will go smoothly. I need funds for the event. I plan to make it locally, but if there is a suggestion. I would appreciate it. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Party_F17_Surakarta Thanks and Regards Arif Tri Waluyo https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Arifiauo

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EMEA F17 media production
by Christoph Wickert 02 Apr '12

02 Apr '12

Me fellow ambassadors, it is time to request the budget and a PO for the EMEA F17 media. Historical figures || Release || Media || PO || Used || Ticket || || F14 || 6000 || USD 5000 || || #91 || || F15 || 5000 || USD 5000 || 3876 EUR || #157 || || F16 || 4000 || 4000 EUR || 2448 EUR || #218 || Observations 1. We did less and less media throughout the last years 2. I think we have reached the minimum. Jiri only has very few media left and we still have some more events left in the F16 cycle. And we could have spent more media on some events. AT CLT we were out of Multi Desktop DVDs and at IDLELO we did not have enough either. 3. In the F14 cycle we had 1000 media reserved for Africa and I think we should do this again. 4. In the F15 we had 1000 media reserved for Red Hat Czech. I think they want to do this again. 5. We managed to dramatically cut the costs by producing in Czech and placing one big order together with Red Hat. Shipping from the RH office has also been extremely comfortable so I think we should go for the Czech vendor again. Open questions 1. How much media do we need? Go up to 5000 again? 2. Should we investigate the possibility to do the installer DVD as Dual Layer, too? We already have the tools, we just didn't do it because we wanted to have a backup for computers that cannot handle DL. AFAIC the NA ambassadors did it and received no complaints. We didn't for the Multi Desktop DVD, either. I have asked Jiri to request the following quotes: * 2000 Multi Desktop DL, 1000 Installer 32, 1000 Installer 64 (same as last year) * 3000 Multi Desktop DL, 1000 Installer 32, 1000 Installer 64 * 2000 Multi Desktop DL, 2000 Installer DL * 3000 Multi Desktop DL, 2000 Installer DL The 4th option looks good to me. Comments or questionsanybody? Ask here or at https://fedorahosted.org/famsco/ticket/280 Kind regards, Christoph

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Fedora 17 Release Party - Taichung City, Taiwan
by Cheng-Chia Tseng 02 Apr '12

02 Apr '12

Hi, everyone. I am planning a release party for F17 in Taichung City, Taiwan. This is my first time trying to hold a release party. Now the place and the budget has not decided yet, I will discuss with my friends. Hoping it will be a nice event! :) https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Party_F17_Taichung -- Sincerely, by Cheng-Chia Tseng

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Fedora 17 Release Events wiki and Media/Swag :)
by David Ramsey 31 Mar '12

31 Mar '12

Hello Everyone, ======================================= I have put a template Fedora 17 Release Events wiki at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F17_release_events I have a couple in the works, and I hope to see your support of Fedora! :) ======================================= To assist in our planning, please reference the "Fedora 17 Ambassadors Team Tasks" at http://rbergero.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-17/f-17-ambassadors-tasks.html ======================================= Sending positive Fedora 16 and 17 energy to your computers now. :v) Please have a Great Fedora evening and/or day! :~) 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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A friendly reminder, the next weekly APAC meeting is on Saturday, March 31st, 2012 at 04:00 UTC. :)‏
by David Ramsey 31 Mar '12

31 Mar '12

Hello Everyone, A friendly reminder, the next weekly APAC meeting is on Saturday, March 31st, 2012 at 04:00 UTC. :)‏ The main priority of this weekly meeting is to show our continued support of FUDCon APAC in Kuala Lumper. :) * Please be prompt and we will address priority issues first in order to save time. * Afterwards, we will review our APAC Plan for 2012 as well as what SWAG for example, such as F17 media and others that you need for the future. :) Our APAC Team as always fully supports you and I hope that your schedule permits attending our APAC meeting. :) If you are not able to attend the meeting, then please, update the meeting wiki and let the wiki "speak" of updates on your behalf. That is what I do and I strongly suggest this as an option for you. :) ======================================= Day : Saturday, March 31st, 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=03&day… For any proposed changes to the agenda, then please update - * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:APAC_Ambassadors_2012-03-31#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 16 & 17 energy to your computers 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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APAC - F16 media is available - make your order now
by Buddhike Kurera 31 Mar '12

31 Mar '12

Dear APAC FAms, Harish has some F16 media (64 bit - DVDs) and as we are reaching F17 it is required to empty those stocks. Therefore if you want any media for an event or to distribute please do not hesitate to ask some. How to order: Use the APAC trac[1] and open a ticket with details, * your need * how much you need * is there any consideration on shipping in your country (tax etc.) * anything related Please do not hesitate to ask if you want, it is better to distribute them rather keep them in stores. [1] https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-apac -- Regards, Buddhike Chandradeepa Kurera(bckurera) Fedora Ambassador - APAC region Event Liaison - Design Team Email: bckurera(a)fedoraproject.org | IRC: bckurera

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[Event Report] Document Freedom Workshop 2012, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, March 28-29, 2012
by Shakthi Kannan 30 Mar '12

30 Mar '12

Hi, I presented an introduction to Publican [1] at the Document Freedom Workshop 2012 [2] at the Computer and Statistical Service Centre (CSSC) [3], S N Bose Bhavan, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata [4], West Bengal, India held between March 28-29, 2012. Day I A Mani [5] started the day's proceedings with an introduction to Free/Libre/Open Source Software, and basic shell commands. We had a computer lab with Fedora installed where the participants used the terminal to try out the hands-on exercises. I then introduced Publican to the audience comprising mostly of students and faculty. Jared Smith [6] had presented Publican during FUDCon Pune 2011 [7], and, with his permission, I added more content and a lab section. The participants were able to use Publican to create and build documents with Bengali content! After lunch, Sourav Sen Gupta [8] gave an introduction to LaTeX [9] and Beamer [10] with his "'Golden Ratio' for Typesetting - A quick and random introduction to LaTeX and Beamer" presentation. He used the Kile [11] editor to demonstrate LaTeX markups and for generating PDF files. I helped the students with the lab session in writing, and troubleshooting warnings and errors when using Kile with pdflatex. I also met and spoke with two physicists, John Smolin [12] and Damian Markham [13], who had come to present at another workshop on "Information and Security in Quantum World" [14]. John Smolin is an avid Fedora user! Day II The first session on the second day was by Jit Ray Chowdhury [15] on Moodle [16] CMS. He started with the basics of installing Apache, MySQL and PHP on Fedora, followed by creating a simple HTML, and PHP page. Participants then learnt how to install Drupal, Moodle and configure the same. Prof. Nagarjuna [17] then started his session on why document freedom is essential, and gave an introduction to Emacs org-mode [18], with examples. I also met Krishnakant Mane but couldn't attend his (post-lunch) session on "LibreOffice and Screen Readers" as I had to leave early to catch a flight. Thanks to the organizing committee: Prof. Mandar Mitra [19], A Mani, Partha Pratim Kundu, Malay Bhattacharya [20], and Tanmay Basu for the wonderful hospitality, and to Red Hat for sponsoring my travel. The publican presentation is available at: http://shakthimaan.com/downloads.html#publican Few photos taken during the event are available in my /gallery: http://www.shakthimaan.com/Mambo/gallery/album79 SK [1] Publican. https://fedorahosted.org/publican/ [2] Document Freedom Workshop 2012. http://www.ilug-cal.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=185 [3] Computer and Statistical Service Centre. http://www.isical.ac.in/~cssc/ [4] Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. http://www.isical.ac.in/ [5] A Mani. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Amani [6] Jared Smith. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jsmith [7] FUDCon Pune 2011. http://fudcon.in/ [8] Sourav Sen Gupta. http://souravsengupta.com/ [9] LaTeX. http://www.latex-project.org/ [10] Beamer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamer_%28LaTeX%29 [11] Kile. http://kile.sourceforge.net/ [12] John Smolin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Smolin [13] Damian Markham. http://www.infres.enst.fr/~markham/ [14] "Information and Security in Quantum World" workshop. http://www.isical.ac.in/~coec/workshop/quant2012.html [15] Jit Ray Chowdhury. http://www.jitrc.com/ [16] Moodle. http://moodle.org/ [17] Prof. Nagarjuna. http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/people/academic/nagarjuna-g [18] Emacs org-mode. http://orgmode.org/ [19] Prof. Mandar Mitra. http://www.isical.ac.in/~mandar/ [20] Malay Bhattacharyya. http://www.isical.ac.in/~malay_r/ -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com

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