ambassadors March 2016

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FAmSCo Meeting 9 March Concerns
by Jona Azizaj 15 Mar '16

15 Mar '16

Hi there, Jona here, Fedora Ambassador from Albania. I saw it fit to write to the mailing list after being looped in one of the meetings FAmSCo had yesterday on 9th March. I try to regularly check the logs of the meetings which feel important to me, so the last FAmSCo meeting was no exception here. Somewhere down the line in the meeting, around 15:43 in the log [1] a discussion around the definition of "community" in Albania and Greece sparked, specifically initiated by Robert Scheck, which on behalf of the community I represent, we find troubling: - "Sorry, but you can not treat Albania as a real community so far. We had the same "community" in Greece some years ago - and after 2 years, most of them went away...to Mozilla." - "a community is something that exists for really a lot of years and is healthy" Although initially a surprising statement, I went on to read further clarification, however there was no resolution found, with the suggestion coming up that this should be taken to the mailing list, which I am doing so hereby. So, since there has been a discussion taking place where Albania's contributions (and so also my contributions) have been mentioned without me being present, I would hate to keep silent about this. As someone who led grassroots efforts to start up the Fedora community in Albania, dedicating more time to the Fedora project than anything else in my free time, seeing comments like these from a fellow Fedora Ambassador (let alone mentor) is insulting to the hundreds of hours of work put in by fellow community members in Albania, including myself. Seeing myself in this position, I also doubt that any contributor from Greece feels comfortable in a similar fashion with these comments. I didn't want this topic to sink in the meeting logs, so I brought it up here in the mailing list to gather your general feedback and thoughts on this matter (and to avoid this in the future ideally). I am deeply concerned with comments like this out of nowhere, and think that there are others sharing my concerns. On behalf of the Albanian Fedora community. Jona Azizaj [1] https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-2/2016-03-09/famsco.2016-0…

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Fedora 24 Alpha Release Readiness Meeting, Thursday, March 17 @ 19:00 UTC
by Jan Kurik 15 Mar '16

15 Mar '16

Join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting for the Fedora 24 Alpha Release Readiness Meeting meeting. The meeting is going to be held on Thursday, March 17, 2016 19:00 UTC. Please check the [FedoCal] link for your time zone. We will meet to make sure we are coordinated and ready for the Alpha release of Fedora 24 on Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016. Please note that this meeting is going to be held even if the release is delayed at the Go/No-Go meeting on the same day two hours earlier. You may received this message several times, but I was asked to open this meeting to the teams and I'll also hope this will raise awareness and more team representatives will come to this meeting. This meeting works best when we have representatives from all of the teams. [FedoCal] https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/meeting/3336/ Thank you for your support and Regards, Jan More information available at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Readiness_Meetings -- Jan Kuřík Platform & Fedora Program Manager Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic

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REMINDER: EMEA Ambassadors Meeting 2016-03-16
by Giannis Konstantinidis 15 Mar '16

15 Mar '16

Hey EMEA Ambassadors, we're going to have our regular meeting tomorrow. See below for more info: * Date: Wednesday, March 16th, 2016 * Time: 21:00 UTC * Location: #fedora-meeting @ freenode * Meeting Agenda: - Roll Call - Announcements - Requests - Ambassadors Schedule - Events - Action items from previous meetings - Open Floor If you have any requests that need to be discussed during the meeting, make sure to file a ticket on trac. See you all there. :) -Giannis -- Giannis Konstantinidis giannis(a)konstantinidis.cc http://konstantinidis.cc giannisk on irc.freenode.net

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Fedora on Stage at nullcon Goa 2016
by Joerg Simon 15 Mar '16

15 Mar '16

For those who have missed it Seems that the Fedora Security and OSSTMM Teachings we gave to universities and at conferences in india now turn out to pay back ;) Community Star - Black Shield Award Nullcon Goa 2016 for Fedora http://kitall.blogspot.in/2016/03/black-shield-award-nullcon-goa-2016.html http://nullcon.net/website/nullcon-2016/nullcon-blackshield-awards.php wish you a happy evening Joerg -- Joerg (kital) Simon jsimon(a)fedoraproject.org https://about.me/joerg.simon Key Fingerprint: 3691 0989 2DCA 58A2 8D1F 2CAC C823 558E 5B5B 5688 Call trans opt: received. 2-19-98 13:24:18 REC:Loc Trace program: running wake up, Neo... the matrix has you follow the white rabbit. knock, knock, Neo. (`. ,-, ` `. ,;' / `. ,'/ .' `. X /.' .-;--''--.._` ` ( .' / ` , ` ' Q ' , , `._ \ ,.| ' `-.;_' : . ` ; ` ` --,.._; ' ` , ) .' `._ , ' /_ ; ,''-,;' ``- ``-..__``--`

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OSCON 16
by Matthew Miller 15 Mar '16

15 Mar '16

Yeesh, this is expensive. The booth cost alone is ... well, it's like airfare for three or four contributors from the west coast US or LATAM to Flock, or twice that many from the east coast or APAC. I know this is a big, high-profile conference, but... is it worth it? What do we get out of it? Since it's _already_ an open source conference, how does our presence advance the Fedora mission? -- Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader

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[Fedocal] Reminder meeting : APAC Ambassadors
by Truong Anh Tuan 10 Mar '16

10 Mar '16

Dear all, You are kindly invited to the meeting: APAC Ambassadors on 2016-03-12 from 04:00:00 to 05:00:00 UTC At fedora-meeting(a)irc.freenode.net The meeting will be about: Bi-weekly meeting to discuss issues and planning for the Fedora Ambassadors in APAC. Please kindly check out meeting agenda at: [https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-apac/report/9] (https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-apac/report/9) and add your owned topic by openning a new Trac ticket with "meeting" keyword. More information available at: [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/APAC] (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/APAC) Source: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/meeting/328/

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FAmNA meeting minutes 3/10/2016
by Andrew Ward 10 Mar '16

10 Mar '16

All, Please review our meeting minutes from 3-10-2016 Minutes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-03-11/famna.2016-03-1… Minutes (text): https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-03-11/famna.2016-03-1… Log: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-03-11/famna.2016-03-1… -- V/R Andrew Ward award3535(a)fedoraproject.org award3535(a)tds.net award3535(a)gmail.com

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Re: [commops] Re: Pre and Post FOSDEM Activity of FOSDEM participants
by Justin W. Flory 10 Mar '16

10 Mar '16

On 03/08/2016 04:59 PM, Bhagyashree Uday wrote: > Hi , > > So I am pretty late with this since I have been stuck with my mid > semester exams for the past week and more but here is the FOSDEM report > finally : > https://networksfordata.wordpress.com/2016/03/08/fedora-at-fosdem/ > > Do tell me what you think and suggestions/any more metrics to include, > if any. > > Also, jflory we can surely work on Brickhacks report next :) > > Cheers, > Bee Pretty sure we discussed this pretty heavily in IRC and in the CommOps meeting, but this is seriously *awesome* data that tells a fantastic story of Fedora's impact at FOSDEM over the past three years. I think your report is something everyone in the Project should at least look over to see the kind of stories that can be told with our existing infrastructure, like Badges and fedmsg (looking forward to taking a look at BrickHack next)! I'm CCing a few extra lists for this reply: * Ambassadors: Great read to see how we can measure impact at events and justify an event from a budget perspective by finding a way to turn the "people interactions" into quantifiable data * Social Media / Marketing: This would be a great thing to highlight on the official Fedora feeds. I'm going to post it to /r/Fedora on Reddit and the Telegram announcement group momentarily. Getting this on Facebook / Twitter / Google+ would be a great thing to do! If anyone from these other lists has feedback on the actual article or wants to discuss it further, please make sure you reply to the CommOps list to prevent cross-posting across the lists. Thanks everyone! -- Cheers, Justin W. Flory jflory7(a)gmail.com

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Re: [Campus Ambassadors] Proposed wiki rewrite
by Justin W. Flory 10 Mar '16

10 Mar '16

On 03/08/2016 01:32 PM, Neville A. Cross wrote: > I think that one thing that may be useful to set as part of the goals > to try to inspire teachers and staff on campus to become part of > ambassadors and campus ambassadors. > > The rationale to include this is that a student may spend from 3 to 5 > years in the university depending on the studying program, but a > teacher or staff may stay at the university longer. > > If the student didn't inspire other students about fedora, fedora's > presence will end when the student graduates. Besides a teacher or > staff may have greater audience than a student. > > It may happen that the teacher or staff may be tempted to use fedora > resources to make their classes or labs more appealing, this may be a > gray area. Like: "I will teach an extra class with free pizza which > will be using fedora". I will trust that most of us are for the > freedom. > > In other hand it may be difficult for some countries this level of > sponsoring. Most of the reimbursement process is made by paypal. In > some countries you can not get funds by paypal. Some of the countries > that you can get the funds you can only used as a electronic wallet and > you can not cash that money. For some people electronic money is > useful, but not for all. So we have to be careful to not create > unrealistic expectations regarding sponsoring. > > Just my two cents on this topic. Hey Neville, Thanks for chiming in on this topic. I definitely agree that getting teachers and academic faculty involved as Campus Ambassadors is a crucial and important dynamic. Like you noted, there is a much larger window for how long the faculty member can impact youth and introduce a new generation to Linux and Fedora. I'm trying to think of a way to frame this within the current draft on the wiki, but I'm thinking maybe it becomes a two-pronged rewrite. There could be a section for students and another section for teachers / faculty to get involved as Campus Ambassadors. My concerns are whether it would be confusing to keep the students in the same mailing list / agenda planning as faculty members. Both students and faculty may need resources unique from one another in terms of guidance or strategical planning for events. What do you all think about adding the faculty dynamic to the Campus Ambassadors rewrite? -- Cheers, Justin W. Flory jflory7(a)gmail.com

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Diversity Meeting Minutes
by Amita 10 Mar '16

10 Mar '16

Hi All, Our first diversity meeting held today 12:30UTC. It has been very productive with the great ideas input and discussion. Don't miss the logs. HINT :: A survey is coming up in your way :) Regular meeting time :: Every wed/12:30UTC For full discussion, please check logs. https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-diversity/2016-03-10/diversity.201… Thanks & Regards, Amita

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