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FAmSCo Report: February 2012
by Igor Pires Soares 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

Hello FAms! FYI FAmSCo February report is now available on our wiki: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_report_2012-02 Regards, -- Igor Pires Soares Fedora Ambassador (Brazil) - Member of FAmSCo Fedora I18N/L10N QA https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Igor

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[Event Report] RubyConf India, March 24-25, 2012, Pune, India
by Shakthi Kannan 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

Hi, I attended and also gave a lightning talk at RubyConf India 2012 [1] at the Hyatt Regency, Pune [2], Maharashtra, India between March 24-25, 2012. Day I The keynote was delivered by Charles Oliver Nutter [3] on JRuby, and Ruby virtual machines. This was followed by the recorded video keynote by Yukihiro Matsumoto [4] on Ruby, its history, and his focus on Ruby for embedded and scientific computing for the next couple of years. mruby for embedded systems will be an interesting project to look forward to this summer. I then attended the talk on "Using Ruby to Craft and Test Beautiful Command Line Applications" by Nikhil Mungel and Shishir Das, who gave useful examples on how to construct meaningful and helpful command line tools. Abhishek Parolkar [5], founder of BigData.sg, spoke on available Ruby tools, and architectures for processing large volumes of data in the "Ruby for the soul of Big Data nerds" talk. Post lunch, I attended the session on "Responsive Design: now 90% easier with SASS!" by Arpan CJ, who also designed the RubyConf India 2012 website. He explained how Sass [6] is useful in creating web sites that can be quickly made to fit different display dimensions and resolutions across phones, tablets, and PCs. Steven Deobald [7] presented on "Clojure is my favourite ruby". He gave wonderful programming construct examples for Ruby and Clojure, and why he enjoyed Clojure more than Ruby. For the last talk of the day, I attended Sandip Ransing and Shailesh Patil's talk on "VoIP on Rails in India" where they had developed a call centre Rails front-end application that uses Adhearsion [8]. They have an internal LAN setup for call centres: Rails application -> Adhearsion -> Asterisk -> PRI (Primary Rate Interface) -> PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network). There were quite a number of lightning talks at the end of the day. One from flipkart.com, where they mentioned that they use a service oriented architecture with JSON over HTTP, along with RabbitMQ, Padrino and JRuby. Day II The second day began with a keynote by Mikel Lindsaar [9] on "How to win", where he emphasized on defining a purpose/reason to do anything and everything. Chang Sau Sheong [10] presented on using Ruby and R tools for doing population simulation in his "Sex, Money and Evolution - Simulation and Data Analysis with Ruby and R" talk. Niranjan Prabhakar Sarade gave an overview of the internal data structures present in the Ruby MRI virtual machine source code in the "What lies beneath the beautiful code?" talk. After lunch, I attended the "Smells and patterns in test/spec code" talk by Sidu Ponnappa and Aninda Kundu where they discussed the different patterns and smells of test driven code, and their implications. Karunakar presented on "Large scale Ruby project, challenges and Pitfalls", sharing his experience on managing and maintaining large scale Ruby projects. For the last talk of the day, I attended Matthew Kirk's [11] talk on "'method_missing' Should be Missing" where he talked about the overuse of method_missing, "monkey patching", and eval from his experience. Lightning talks were scheduled for the second day as well, and I was happy to present "nursery_rhymes.rb" [12]. Few photos taken during the event are available in my /gallery: http://www.shakthimaan.com/Mambo/gallery/album78 SK [1] RubyConf India 2012. http://rubyconfindia.org/ [2] Hyatt Regency, Pune. http://pune.regency.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp?null [3] Charles Oliver Nutter. http://blog.headius.com/ [4] Yukihiro Matsumoto. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukihiro_Matsumoto [5] Abhishek Parolkar. http://parolkar.com/ [6] Sass. http://sass-lang.com/ [7] Steven Deobald. http://blog.deobald.ca/ [8] Adhearsion. http://adhearsion.com/ [9] Mikel Lindsaar. http://lindsaar.net/ [10] Chang Sau Sheong. http://blog.saush.com/ [11] Matthew Kirk. http://matthewkirk.com/ [12] nursery_rhymes.rb. http://shakthimaan.com/downloads.html#nursery-rhymes-rb -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com

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Organizing Fedora swag a bit better
by Tom Callaway 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

I'm passing this along for Máirín Duffy, she tried to send this, but it didn't make it to the list. Please be sure to CC her on replies. -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Máirín Duffy <duffy(a)fedoraproject.org> Hi Ambassadors, I think our swag design files are a bit all over the place; I thought it would be a good idea to organize them a bit better and provide some print-ready artwork so you don't have to worry about bleeds, CMYK colors, or font embedding when you want to send something to a vendor to get it produced. I put together a first-cut stab here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Duffy/brandstuff The idea is we could have a directory of basic designs, give them numbers, and for each design we could have different print-ready files you could send to a printer without modification for various applications (t-shirts, stickers, pens, buttons, etc). This would hopefully also make it possible so you don't have to wait on the design team to track down a file or create one new: we can make it so you can just pick a design and grab the files. What I am wondering is: - Am I missing any designs you've had produced here? If so, can you describe them to me, point me to tickets, point me to the files used so I can add them to the catalog? - Are there any designs that we don't have that we need? Do you have any great design ideas that you haven't gotten a chance to produce yet? - Are there any designs that need to be updated? Thanks, ~m

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REMINDER French Fedora Meeting Today #fedora-meeting
by Reminder 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

This mail is a reminder for today's meeting for the French speaking community. 2012-03-26 / 20:30 (hour of Paris) IRC: freenode #fedora-meeting Ce mail est un rappel pour la réunion de la communauté francophone, qui aura lieu ce lundi (26 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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Next FUDCon KL Planning Meeting & Funding Approval
by Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail 25 Mar '12

25 Mar '12

Hi All, This is an early reminder for the next fudcon kl planning meeting in #fudcon-planning as this also involve the funding approval. Meeting time: Thursday, 29th March 2012, 14:01UTC (date -d '2012-03-29 14:01:00 UTC') Meeting agenda: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:KualaLumpur_2012/Meeting:2012-03-29 The funding approval process will follow a similar format which we used in last approval meeting (or can someone can suggest a more efficient & fair format?) * we will go through all applicants, and each applicants will have to state his existing contributions, and what they wish to contribute + achieve in fudconkl and answer any questions which might arise (those who have done this in previous meeting are exempted, unless theres questions we need to ask) * decision will be done by the FPL and organizing team after we have gone through all applicants. Reminder: Funding requests is still open until 27th March 2012. So you still have chance to apply. -- Mohd Izhar Firdaus Bin Ismail / KageSenshi Inigo Consulting (FOSS/Plone Development, Training & Services) http://www.inigo-tech.com Fedora Malaysia Contributor & Ambassador http://blog.kagesenshi.org 92C2 B295 B40B B3DC 6866 5011 5BD2 584A 8A5D 7331

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[Brazil] what is your main portal?
by Kévin Raymond 24 Mar '12

24 Mar '12

Hi guys, I am refreshing the comminity list on fedoracommunity.org, and found two about Brazil. Is http://www.projetofedora.org/ the main one, or http://www.fedora.org.br/ ? Are you separated? -- Kévin Raymond (shaiton) GPG-Key: A5BCB3A2

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A friendly reminder, the next biweekly APAC meeting is on Saturday, March 17th, 2012 at 04:00 UTC. :)‏
by David Ramsey 24 Mar '12

24 Mar '12

Hello Everyone, A friendly reminder, the next biweekly APAC meeting is on Saturday, March 17th, 2012 at 04:00 UTC. :)‏ 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. :) I will not be able to chair this meeting but our APAC Team as always fully supports you. 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 strongly suggest. :) ======================================= Day : Saturday, March 17th, 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_2012-03-17#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 --------------------------------- 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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Re: [Ambassadors] Organizing Fedora swag a bit better
by Kévin Raymond 23 Mar '12

23 Mar '12

2012/3/21 Máirín Duffy <duffy(a)fedoraproject.org>: > (I hope this makes it to ambassadors list but it seems to not be > accepting my emails :( :( ) > > On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 16:10 +0100, Kévin Raymond wrote: >> On the "FOUR FOUNDATIONS MATERIALS ", we miss the banner featuring all >> foundations on the same one. >> I'll see on my side what we have in our archives. > > Cool, I really appreciate that! I do have an A3 sized poster of all > four, but I couldn't find the banner form factor for it :( To record the link just sent to irc, here are some svg: http://opossum1er.fedorapeople.org/Stand/sources/ There is one horizontal banner, and one vertical (with its French translation…) featuring all 4 F's. Cheers, -- Kévin Raymond (shaiton) GPG-Key: A5BCB3A2

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Fedora Ambassadors Welcome Week 12/2012
by Joerg Simon 22 Mar '12

22 Mar '12

Dear Ambassadors, let´s welcome our new sponsored Ambassador Group Member: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Aglaser from the USA mentored by Ben Williams 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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Need some one to take over the meetings tomorrow
by Christoph Wickert 22 Mar '12

22 Mar '12

My fellow ambassadors, I am currently on the road and will be for the rest of the week. I cannot promise I make it for the meetings but as I am supposed to host them I think it is better if somebody else can take them over. Please help us by taking over the * EMEA Ambassadors meeting at 20:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting * FAmSCo meeting at 22:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting If you do so, please let us know on the mailing list, ping people on IRC when the meeting starts and don't forget to send out the meeting minutes afterwards. Kind regards, Christoph

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