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Fedora Ambassadors Welcome Week 25 / 2012
by Joerg Simon 18 Jun '12

18 Jun '12

Dear Ambassadors, let´s welcome our new sponsored Ambassador Group Members: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Yulytas from Peru mentored by Luis Bazán https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pcorrales from Panama mentored by Daniel Bruno https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Gonzalorush from Chile mentored by Daniel Bruno https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ludolfs 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 #fedora-meeting-1
by Reminder 18 Jun '12

18 Jun '12

This mail is a reminder for today's meeting for the French speaking community. 2012-06-18 / 20:30 (hour of Paris) IRC: freenode #fedora-meeting-1 Ce mail est un rappel pour la réunion de la communauté francophone, qui aura lieu ce lundi (18 juin) à 20h30 heure de Paris sur IRC (freenode) #fedora-meeting-1 . 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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APAC "next " meeting = Saturday, June 23rd, 2012 at 04:00 UTC. :)‏
by David Ramsey 18 Jun '12

18 Jun '12

Hello Everyone, FYI, a friendly reminder, the next weekly APAC meeting = Saturday, June 23rd, 2012 at 04:00 UTC. :)‏ * 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. :) * We are using a new agenda format "so" update the agenda with your relevant information. ;) ======================================= 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, June 23rd, 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=06&day… For any proposed changes to the agenda, then please update - * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:APAC_Ambassadors_2012-06-23#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 = 十人十色じゅうにんといろ 10 people 10 colors Different strokes for different folks = 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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FAmNA Meeting Announcement (19 June 2012
by inode0 18 Jun '12

18 Jun '12

Please join us for our weekly FAmNA meeting this Tuesday at 9:00pm Eastern in #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net. I'd like to remind everyone that it is important for us to get some work accomplished at these meetings and staying on the topic is important to that end. All comments are welcome from ambassadors during the meetings but please wait until the Open Floor to add any subject matter not included in the meeting agenda via a ticket. Feel free to add to the agenda. The easy way to add an agenda item is described at the bottom of this announcement. Especially if you have an event coming up that needs some attention. This week's current agenda is to finish planning for the Red Hat Summit. == Meeting Agenda == === Announcements === Time for brief announcements. === Tickets === Tickets scheduled for discussion at this meeting can be found at https://fedorahosted.org/famna/report/9 Please read through each ticket in advance so you can be prepared to discuss them at the meeting. === Open Floor === Unscheduled topics can be raised during the open floor if time permits. Discussion of any topic will generally be more productive if participants know about the topics in advance and have some time to think about them, so please add your topics to the meeting agenda in the ticket system when possible. If you would like to add a topic for discussion at our meetings please open a ticket at https://fedorahosted.org/famna/ and set its milestone to meeting. Thanks, John

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Re: [Ambassadors] [X-post]Join Fedora SIG
by Ankur Sinha 16 Jun '12

16 Jun '12

On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 14:45 +0800, Prima Yogi Loviniltra wrote: > Nice, I already join.. :) > I'll introduce this in my FAD later, I think a lot of folks > interesting to contribute.. :D Great!! :D -- Thanks, Warm regards, Ankur: "FranciscoD" Please only print if necessary. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha http://dodoincfedora.wordpress.com/

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[X-post]Join Fedora SIG
by Ankur Sinha 16 Jun '12

16 Jun '12

Hello folks! First, please forgive me for the X-post. The email concerns more than one team and I really didn't know what mailing list to send it to. I've therefore sent it to the 3 major lists that I hope would cover most of the community. ---- We've been recently looking to reduce the learning gradient that new folks need to hike up when they look to contribute to Fedora. Users looking to give back to the community is amazing. I feel we need to go out and give them as much help as we can. The importance here is that most of them will be new to the workflows, SIGS, teams and processes that Fedora community uses. Quite a few of them will be new to Linux even. For these novices, learning all that is required to become contributors is a daunting task. However, what is important is that all of them have the *potential* to make awesome contributors! At the moment, this is how folks go about it: 1. Look at the join-fedora page[1] 2. Select what they want to do, or randomly pick one that looks most familiar 3. Join the various mailing lists 4. Ask how they can help 5. Start working, and learn while they work, get sponsored etc. Even though this works, there are a few issues here IMO: 1. Quite a few folks aren't sure what they want to do. The join fedora page is confusing for them at times. They don't know first hand what each role is about, so they aren't sure if they should join up SIG A or SIG B. This doesn't make them "folks that can't contribute (they can't even figure out what SIG to join! heh!)". It makes them "folks who need to find where they fit in, what they're good at in the Fedora community" 2. The various mailing lists: devel, mktg, infra are work oriented. While we do guide newcomers that ask for help on the lists, these newcomers are usually scared to ask questions. They feel they'll make fools of themselves if they ask simple questions in front of established contributors. Basically, the working mailing lists aren't exactly the best environment for new comers. They are task oriented. They aren't dedicated to aiding new comers. We also don't want lots of introductions etc. on the work mailing lists either. We want them to be dedicated to *work*. I therefore suggest setting up communication channels dedicated to aid newcomers. I've already run into a "Welcome SIG"[2] initiative. The "welcome SIG" was intended to be more broad. It was intended for users too. If we set up "welcome SIG", I'm afraid it'll turn into another troubleshooting channel. We already have #fedora, the users mailing list[3], askfedora[3] for troubleshooting. I'd like to set up a channel dedicated to prospective contributors: something like a "Join Fedora SIG"(proposal on the wiki here[4]). Gnome already has something on these lines: the Gnome Love[5] project. It works. I'm on the mailing list. People ask for help, they get their guidance. Slowly, they turn into contributors. I'd like to again stress that the current mailing lists, while already present and open to the public are not *dedicated* to this purpose of guiding newbies. I suggest: 1. #fedora-join on Freenode 2. fedora-join mailing list The goals of these are: 1. Set up a communication channel between the existing contributors and prospective contributors. Speaking to current team members is always encouraging. We could even set up a system to send "easyfix" tasks to this mailing list giving folks a chance to work on them and learn in the process. 2. Guide/aid prospective contributors to turn into solid contributors. Rather than just pointing them to join.fp.o, talk to them, see what issues they face, help them decide where they want to get started. 3. Via these channels, form better mentor-mentee relationships. Here, I mean "mentor" in the real sense of the word. Rahul, for instance, brought me into Fedora almost 6 years back via a font packaging IRC work shop. He's still my mentor and I still email him when I get stuck in a situation. Such relationships improve the community, both work wise and fun wise. 4. Give prospective contributors a communication channel to converse amongst themselves. This is very important. Take the GSoC mailing list for instance. It is set up specifically so that the candidates can talk to each other. Since they're all in the same boat, they feel more comfortable discussing certain issues amongst themselves. They'll also be aware of what different people are up to which will give them a better idea of what they can do. I'm looking to set up this channel. Whatever I've written above is mostly what *my* neurons could think up. I initially thought that extending the classroom SIG to also function as the Join Fedora SIG would work, but Kevin suggested we keep them separate. (The function of the classroom SIG is for the community to teach each other). Basically, I'd like to look for potential, not polish. We can help them gain the polish that established contributors have. What are your views on this folks? Here, I'd request folks to follow "plussing": please criticize this as much as you want, find issues, but only if you have a "plus" to give as a solution. (I ran into it in a book I recently read. I think it's a great way to go. No harm giving it a try :-) ) Steps: 1. File ticket at infra to set up fedora-join mailing list 2. Set up IRC channel #fedora-join 3. File ticket with websites SIG to make tiny changes to join.fp.o to list Fedora-Join IRC and mailing list channels. 4. Ask infra if we can set up a system to send "easyfix" notifications to the channel/mailing list. 5. Get started! [1] http://fedoraproject.org/join-fedora [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Welcome_SIG [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Welcome_SIG [4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Join_SIG [5] https://live.gnome.org/GnomeLove -- Thanks, Warm regards, Ankur: "FranciscoD" Please only print if necessary. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha http://dodoincfedora.wordpress.com/

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Beefy Miracle Release Party in Malang Report
by Teguh DC 15 Jun '12

15 Jun '12

Hello Ambassadors, This is probably the first time in Malang there are Fedora Release Party Event, Fedora users in Malang are not as many as other distro users, so it was natural that not many events held by us. Sunday (10/6) at the Information Technology Laboratory, 5th Floor Gedung Kuliah Bersama (GKB) 3 at University of Muhammadiyah Malang (UMM), Fedora 17 "Beefy Miracle" Release Party was finally held. The event itself started a bit late, delayed about 50 minutes away from the original plan. Promptly at 9:50 AM the event started. That's not the committee fault anyway, because at 9 AM the committee is already prepared, only the participants who came rather late. How lucky, friends in KaliUMM (Linux Users Group in UMM) can simply improvise, to fill the silence they play several short films/video clips about Linux and open source. When the participants had arrived, the chairman of KaliUMM, Yudhi directly open the event. The first opportunity given to Zen Rooney, chairman of KOLAM, who stepped forward and introduced KOLAM (Linux Users Group in Malang). After that, it was my turn to bring material on Fedora, I regrouped into three topics: Fedora Project, Fedora 17 Features and Common Installation Tips. On the first topic, Fedora Project, I invited the participants to know more about the Fedora community, not just known fedora as a linux distribution (distro). How this community that supported by Red Hat has contributed greatly to the development of Linux in particular and the world of Open Source in general. I also explained about fedora's core value: freedom, friends, features, first. I emphasize how important collaboration and how the fedora developers are always trying to work as close as possible to the upstream project. That is not important for fedora to have unique application, rather than became exclusive application in a single distro, an application will be much more useful if it is available in many distro (can be used by many people) instead. I was slightly introduced on the terms "Remix" and "Spins" and what purpose and give them some examples. I did not forget to invite the participants to join the fedora project and I was informed about the Fedora Indonesia Community[1]. Because not many participants that are fedora users, when I talk on the topic of "Fedora 17 Features" I did not linger to discuss what's new in Fedora 17 but I would rather talk more about the other powerful features that have long existed in the fedora. Presto, SystemD, SELinux, PackageKit, Kickstart is a few of the many features that I think is interesting. And here, I was mention again how unselfish fedora developers is, they want to communicate and collaborate with developers of other distributions to developing PackageKit. And how fedora to be a pioneer distro that adopt SELinux, a kernel security feature developed by the NSA (National Security Agency). While in the last topic of "Common Installation Tips", I explain what steps should be done after we install fedora. I was again reminded why fedora by default do not support the mp3 format and do not include proprietary software like nvidia drivers, dropbox, skype, etc.. Indeed, we as end users feeling a bit "uncomfortable" because we should install many application from 3rd party repository. For simplicity, I suggest to install fedorautils, autoplus and gnome tweak tools. You can download my presentation slide from SlideShare[2] or Scribd[3] if you interested. Aris Setyono from KaliUMM start to demonstrating the internet radio using Icecast 2. Yudhi in the introduction was informed that this is one of the research activities that have been done by KaliUMM. These steps are demonstrated very easy to follow. Hopefully there are participants who are interested to participate in this internet radio implemented in their respective places. Last turn, Rachmad Tsalaatsa guide the Webserver Load Balancing workshop. The workshop begins with an explanation of what it is load balancing, the types, how it works, the algorithms used, etc.. Continued by the participants directly involved attempting to install and configure load balancing on each desktop that has been provided by the committee. This event was closed by party, taking picture, eating hotdog and drinking accompanied by the strains of house music. Thank you for KaliUMM, KOLAM and all the participants who have attended the event. See you again at the next events :) ps. Photo documentation can be downloaded from: - photos from Rachmad's camera [4] - photos from My camera [5] This event plan is already in fedora wiki [6] You can read this report at my blog in Bahasa Indonesia [7] [1] http://fedora.or.id [2] http://www.slideshare.net/dheche/f17-inside-13274207 [3] http://www.scribd.com/doc/96669563/f17-Inside [4] https://plus.google.com/photos/115416207082096539516/albums/575261275372868… [5] https://picasaweb.google.com/112635444238367820420/KOLAMKaliUMMBeefyMiracle… [6] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Party_F17_Malang [7] http://dheche.songolimo.net/wp/index.php/2012/06/14/beefy-miracle-release-p… -- [ dheche ]

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14 Jun '12

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Re: [Ambassadors] The Future of release names
by Jaroslav Reznik 13 Jun '12

13 Jun '12

Hi, seems like the discussion steered to the phase of no return to the reasonable output, also it stalled - so we (as a Board) would like to push it forward. I think the best idea for now is try to get interested people to meet together, to check if there's real demand for the change and if so, to start with the real proposals to create a new process. I created Doodle poll - the next two weeks, I can add more option, just it's not very user friendly. Feel free to vote and we will see ;-) http://www.doodle.com/2y43y5vxxizsqyef Thanks Jaroslav ----- Original Message ----- > At the last Board Meeting, the Board looked at the poll results > asking > whether people felt like continuing to name releases. The results > seemed > to show that many people do like having a name associated with Fedora > releases. However, the discussion before and after has shown there > is > a desire to improve upon the current method of selecting the names. > > The Board decided that it would be worthwhile to come up with a new > procedure for selecting the name for the Fedora 19 release and beyond > to > attempt to solve some of the issues that have been brought up. The > Board > is looking for volunteers who would like to do two things: > > (1) Answer the following questions: > > * What benefits does the Project get from the current release naming > process? > * What changes do people want to see in a revised process? > > (2) Come up with at least one proposal and analyze it according to > the > answers to the previous questions. > > If anyone is interested in coming to a weekly meeting to work on > this, > please feel free to contact me. If anyone would like to champion > this, > please contact me ASAP so I know whether there is someone else who's > going > to champion this or if I need to lead the effort. > > I've put up a wiki page that tries to summarize the answers to the > first two > questions that I've seen circulated on the advisory-board mailing > list and a > link to the only proposal I currently know of (mizmo's proposal to > use > a single theme for all of the new Fedora releases). > > Thanks, > -Toshio > > _______________________________________________ > advisory-board mailing list > advisory-board(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board

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Meetings today
by Christoph Wickert 13 Jun '12

13 Jun '12

My fellow ambassadors, there are two meetings scheduled for tomorrow: * the EMEA ambassadors meeting at 20:00 UTC * the FAmSCo meeting We are having problems with both. :( The ambassadors meeting conflicts with Germany vs. the Netherlands soccer match. I totally have to watch this, sorry. It would be awesome if somebody else can take over the meeting. Otherwise I suggest to delay the meeting by one week. After watching soccer with my friends I am either too euphoric or too disappointed - and too drunk either way - to run the FAmSCO meeting. ;) But this is not so much of a problem as there are no urgent tickets and we first need to find a new meeting time after the recent FAmSCo elections. For the record, here is what we currently have: http://whenisgood.net/famsco-meeting/results/4jyz2f Kind regards, Christoph

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