ambassadors June 2016

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Friends. Features. Freedom. First. Forever.
by Remy DeCausemaker 29 Jun '16

29 Jun '16

Fedorans, When I packed up my entire life and moved to fair Rollywood this past January to be closer to Red Hat Tower and dive head-first into this role as the first ever Fedora Community Action and Impact Lead, it was an absolute dream for me. Every day, I'm working with some of the most talented, motivated, brilliant hackers, designers, and volunteers that build and ship the operating system at the core of my digital existence--not to mention much of the enterprises and infrastructure around the world. The scale of problems, and the speed at which we are solving them, is still absolutely mind-blowing to me. I love my job. I love my team. I love the Fedora Community. I love Red Hat. Wholeheartedly. Thank you, all of you. Never did I imagine there would ever be another opportunity that could sway me from this path, which I flipped my life upside down to pursue... but then I got the call... Things are moving quickly, and I don't have all the details yet, but it looks like I'm going to be the first ever Open Source Campaign Manager for the next President of the United States, Hillary Clinton. I have to be at campaign HQ in Brooklyn NY ready to hit the ground running on Monday. I will be spending my last 24 hours as a Red Hatter flipping my entire life upside down, again, and I wanted to give the community one last window to ping me with any outstanding business or questions, and direct you to the appropriate channels thereafter. After tomorrow, I'm going to be packing up and moving to Brooklyn to work 8 days a week until roughly Thanksgiving ;) In my absence, here is a list of points of contact for FCL business (cc'd above,) until my replacement arrives. For all things related to: - Fedora Council, Matthew Miller: mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org - Fedora Budget, Events, and ambassadors, Joe Brockmeier: jzb(a)redhat.com - Fedora Engineering/Infrastructure, Paul Frields: pfrields(a)fedoraproject.org - Community Operations/CommBlog/Mktg/Misc, the Community Operations Team: commops(a)lists.fedoraproject.org I know the timing is less than ideal, with Red Hat Summit next week, and Flock in August, but, I believe this position will bring the most visibility to the work and principles that Red Hat, Fedora, and the FOSS community stand for. I find strength, purpose, and peace in these words of George Bernard Shaw: "...I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. ...Life is no "brief candle" for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." This is one of those "once in a lifetime" moments in our history, and if the Free and Open Source Software Movement can be part of that, then I'm willing to answer the call. Happy Hacking, --RemyD.

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anyone available to speak in London on June 29th?
by Matthew Miller 28 Jun '16

28 Jun '16

Jennifer Madriaga (who does event stuff for Red Hat, including helping with Fedora; I've CC'd her) got a request via Twitter for someone to speak about Fedora at a Linux meetup on the 29th — see http://www.meetup.com/Linuxing-In-London/events/231497954/. Is anyone interested and available? -- Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader

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WWFS'2016 + Fedora Women's Day, Kolkata (Please Share)
by A. Mani 28 Jun '16

28 Jun '16

Hello, The aim of WWFS'2016 is to encourage the participation of women in free software (FLOSS) projects in various capacities, to empower them, to deliberate on related gender issues and introduce cutting edge free software. Fedora Women's Day celebrations will be part of the workshop on the first day of the workshop. You can find posters (printable/e-posters) of the event at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/WWFS-FWD'2016 Date: 15th, 16th July'2016 Place: NSEC, Kolkata How to Participate: Interested women may please send their details (name, address, affiliation, occupation, FOSS experience, age ) in a email with subject "WWFS Participation" to wwfs.fwd(a)gmail.com . Seats are limited, so please hurry! Certificates will be given to all participants. Registration Fee: Rs.300/= only Lunch and High Tea will be provided _________________________________ PS Response to call for speakers was good Best A. Mani Prof(Miss) A. Mani CU, ASL, AMS, ISRS, CLC, CMS HomePage: http://www.logicamani.in Blog: http://logicamani.blogspot.in/ http://about.me/logicamani sip:girlprofessor@ekiga.net

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Re: Need your help in organizing a Fedora Women Day event at Pune
by Amita 28 Jun '16

28 Jun '16

On 06/16/2016 09:00 AM, Kushal Das wrote: > On 15/06/16, Priyanka Nag wrote: >> Hey all, >> >> I am not sure if you are aware of the initiative taken by Fedora Women team >> to help raise awareness and thank the women contributors across the Fedora >> Project by celebrating the 3rd weekend of July as the Fedora Women Day[1]. >> >> Amita and I were planning to host a local version of this event here at >> Pune. The entire planning process is at a very initial phase and we need >> your help and input to go ahead with it. Since none of us have ever >> organized a Fedora event before, we are both pretty unaware of the >> processes around it. >> >> I was reaching out to you all, to request for a quick meeting sometime >> early next week, to plan further on this. Let me know a suitable time and I >> can send out meeting invitations accordingly. >> >> Since I am not a part of the Fedora community yet, I might have missed out >> on adding someone in this thread. Please feel free to go ahead and add more >> people who you think can help us with the event. > This discussion should really happen on the Fedora India mailing list if > we are interested to have any community event. I have mentioned about > public discussion in the actual budget request ticket on Fedora APAC trac [1]. yeah, good point, CCing mailing list and forwarding rest of the conversation also on the list. > > I am also CCing site (Rupali) here as I heard that the initial request for the > event was only for an internal event to RH. Rupali can confirm more > about this. > > As Amit pointed out in another email in this thread, we should make sure > that we showcase people's actual achievements in upstream contributions > in Fedora land. Other than that it will not be that much of a Fedora > event. Sure, Please feel free to edit wiki page (draft) [1] to add your name/names as speakers, whoever wants to talk more on actual upstream contribution. This is the link of the main event - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Women_Day_2016 Indeed, it is a fedora event. I appreciate your guidance and help. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWD_Pune Thanks & Regards, Amita > > [1] https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-apac/ticket/237 > > Kushal

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Re: [fedora-india] Re: Re: Need your help in organizing a Fedora Women Day event at Pune
by pravin.d.s＠gmail.com 28 Jun '16

28 Jun '16

On 28 June 2016 at 16:02, Priyanka Nag <priynag(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > I understand that speaking on any topic just by reading it up on a wiki > page is never enough and should be avoided. But here we have a small > chicken and egg problem. Since we don't have too many female Fedora > contributors at Pune, we can't find speakers who could talk on different > ways one could contribute to Fedora and since we never talk on these > contribution pathways and how to get started, we can't manage to find more > contributors. So, the idea was to get a few enthusiastic participants, who > were willing to find out about these different contribution pathways and > how to get started and give a presentation to the rest of our audience. > > That is why i feel this event should happen and you all are almost there. :) All suggestions are here is to get event successful and get more community next time. As suggested in other emails, combination of Fedora Contributors from Red Hat, Some hangout sessions with community contributors and few with new enthusiastic participants (college/company) can make it truly successful. Best Regards, Pravin Satpute

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Re: [fedora-india] Re: Re: Need your help in organizing a Fedora Women Day event at Pune
by Siddhesh Poyarekar 28 Jun '16

28 Jun '16

On 28 June 2016 at 16:02, Priyanka Nag <priynag(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I am not much involved with the Fedora community, so not even sure if I > should comment on this thread..but since I have been involved in the > planning of the FWD Pune event and am also a speaker for the FWD Kolkata > event, I wanted to share my thoughts around this discussion as well. Please don't hesitate to share your thoughts even if you're not sure about them, that's how we move things forward. > I understand that speaking on any topic just by reading it up on a wiki page > is never enough and should be avoided. But here we have a small chicken and > egg problem. Since we don't have too many female Fedora contributors at > Pune, we can't find speakers who could talk on different ways one could > contribute to Fedora and since we never talk on these contribution pathways > and how to get started, we can't manage to find more contributors. So, the > idea was to get a few enthusiastic participants, who were willing to find > out about these different contribution pathways and how to get started and > give a presentation to the rest of our audience. I personally don't doubt the intent of any organizers and I know such oversight is not uncommon especially due to the fragmented nature of communities. I also acknowledge the chicken and egg problem. I only disagree with the solution, which was to take the easy way out and go with almost an all-Red Hat lineup without making an attempt to make a call for participation in a wider and more relevant audience like fedora-india, GLUG, PLUG, etc. You could even invite speakers to talk over a video chat, there are a number of ideas that you could come up with along these lines before thinking of the compromise. Also, it is not that we never talk about pathways to contribution, in fact my personal beef is that "Contributing to Fedora" is almost all we talk about all the time and I'd really like us to move forward from that :) > Other than this, whether this can be called a Fedora event or not...well, I > don't think I am eligible to comment on that. Whereas I always love events > to be community events and not individual or an organizational > initiative...but I am not sure what is best here with respect to the Fedora > community. Contrary to what my response seems to indicate, I would really like this to be a Fedora event. For it to qualify to be a Fedora event however, it needs to be much more transparent than it currently is. Siddhesh -- http://siddhesh.in

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Fwd: Re: Need your help in organizing a Fedora Women Day event at Pune
by Amita 27 Jun '16

27 Jun '16

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: Need your help in organizing a Fedora Women Day event at Pune Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 19:03:18 +0530 From: Amit Shah <amit.shah(a)redhat.com> To: Priyanka Nag <pnag(a)redhat.com> CC: Kushal Das <kdas(a)redhat.com>, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala <huzaifas(a)redhat.com>, Pravin Satpute <psatpute(a)redhat.com>, Parag Nemade <pnemade(a)redhat.com>, Amita Sharma <amsharma(a)redhat.com> On (Wed) 15 Jun 2016 [18:45:36], Priyanka Nag wrote: > Thank you so much for your feedback Amit. @Amita, could you start a thread > on the ambassador's list as Amit has suggested? And about the plan or > agenda, we don't have much to share as such...this is all we have as of now > - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWD_Pune. My suggestions: - Have people come up and speak on opportunities for women in the Fedora Project (and open source in general) - Showcase contributions by women in Fedora - Talk about this new Diversity group and how it'll help - Try to get college people (women profs, women students) attend the event - Collectively, I think we have contacts at MIT Pune, SICSR, COEP, Indira Instt of Tech -- there should be more that I forget / don't know of. - Similarly, talk to other women in our circles working close by in Magarpatta to check if they can come attend / talk if they have open source experience. It'll be great if proceedings are recorded in some way - video or text transcriptions, so that the message reaches a much wider audience than the one that's participating physically. Also, I expect most presenters to be male; will this send out a confusing message? Or, are there women members who can step up to the challenge and prepare material before the sessions? It's always better to have people who have done stuff talk about it rather than just highlighting someone else's achievements -- so hopefully this serves as a good launchpad for local women to actually start doing something so the next year's event is much better. > Waiting for more feedback from others on the thread :) BTW the Ambassadors won't be able to come up with budget, so if you need any, it'll be better to get the site team involved. Amit

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Re: Ambassadors in Africa/Gambia?
by Beth Lynn Eicher 27 Jun '16

27 Jun '16

Jukka, This is awesome. Thanks for doing this. I was involved in a similar deployment 4 years ago in Ghana. You are asking the right questions as suitable places with electicity, four walls, and a roof are not simple to find. Have you discussed this with the Free Open Source Software Foundation of Africa (FOSSFA)? They will be happy to help put you in touch with local NGOs that can plan out good places for an Information Communication Technology (ICT) Centre. You may also find assistance through a university as they tend to care about the educational needs of the children nearby. Lastly, find out what international church is prevails in the area. In Ghana it was the Presbyterians. Even if you are not religious, these churches are not to be overlooked as they are well established in the community, with their own schools, colleges, football leagues, and camps. One last piece of advice. Make sure your shipper is solid. Even though it is a donation, once your goods arrive, they could try to get you to pay for tarrif monies for the entire crate. You may contact me off list to discuss. All of the Best, Beth Lynn Eicher On Jun 27, 2016 6:01 AM, "Jukka Palander, IT Development Spain" < jukka(a)devspain.com> wrote: Hello all. I think we do not have an Ambassador in Gambia? I have an opportunity to donate 6-7 Dell computers (second hand, but cleaned and verified) with monitors and pre-installed Fedora24 on them and maybe I am also able to find a transport from Spain to Gambia. Donation will be made for schools, libraries or any place where local people can have an Internet access and computers can be used by multiple peolpe. As said, all computers are ready to use and installed and all computers has the F24/64Live installation extra DVD inside so they can spread it to others as a Freemedia. Question is: do someone know anyone over there to be able to seek right donation places? I have a friend who has Gambian husbend and he will help if nobody else is found but a local help would be a great addition. -- Jukka -- ambassadors mailing list ambassadors(a)lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/ambassadors@lists.fedoraproject…

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Ambassadors in Africa/Gambia?
by Jukka Palander, IT Development Spain 27 Jun '16

27 Jun '16

Hello all. I think we do not have an Ambassador in Gambia? I have an opportunity to donate 6-7 Dell computers (second hand, but cleaned and verified) with monitors and pre-installed Fedora24 on them and maybe I am also able to find a transport from Spain to Gambia. Donation will be made for schools, libraries or any place where local people can have an Internet access and computers can be used by multiple peolpe. As said, all computers are ready to use and installed and all computers has the F24/64Live installation extra DVD inside so they can spread it to others as a Freemedia. Question is: do someone know anyone over there to be able to seek right donation places? I have a friend who has Gambian husbend and he will help if nobody else is found but a local help would be a great addition. -- Jukka

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Re: [fedora-india] Re: [Fedocal] Reminder meeting : Fedora meetup, Bangalore
by Sayan Chowdhury 27 Jun '16

27 Jun '16

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 3:16 PM, Rejy M Cyriac <rcyriac(a)redhat.com> wrote: > On 06/24/2016 11:30 PM, rtnpro(a)fedoraproject.org wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> You are kindly invited to the meeting: >> Fedora meetup, Bangalore on 2016-06-25 from 18:00:00 to 20:00:00 Asia/Kolkata >> At Bangalore >> >> The meeting will be about: >> # Monthly Fedora meetup, Bangalore >> >> A monthly get together of Fedora enthusiasts in Bangalore to discuss about the latest things happening in the Fedora ecosystem and contribute back to the community. The meetup usually takes place at: >> Starbucks Coffee >> Samrat No.2013, 100 Ft Road, HAL 2nd Stage, Indiranagar >> Bangalore, Karnataka - 560008 >> > > I am surprised that the Monthly Fedora meet-up at Bangalore is now quite > regularly being held at a Starbucks Coffee outlet. Fedora activities at > college campuses I can understand, and should be encouraged, but why > Starbucks ?! > > We used to have the Monthly Fedora meet-up much earlier being held at > the Red Hat Bangalore office, with free coffee/tea, free snacks, and > free WiFi always available. I think we could have the meet-up at the Red > Hat Bangalore office at least once in two months. > > Red Hat being the sponsor of Fedora, it would be good to utilize the > facilities of Red Hat for Fedora activities, especially when there is no > good reason to have it done elsewhere. > The meetups should not be centralized to a single location like Red Hat as there are people coming from various parts of the city. It's good to move the meetup around the city. As the crowd was low and the mainly concentrated in Koramangala and Indiranagar, we chose meetup location in either of these two places and not only Starbucks. I remember doing it in Hasgeek and HackerEarth office couple of times. One of reason of choosing Starbucks was to keep the meetups informal. -- Sayan Chowdhury <https://sayanchowdhury.dgplug.org/> Engineer, Fedora Engineering - Emerging Platform GPG Fingerprint : 0F16 E841 E517 225C 7D13 AB3C B023 9931 9CD0 5C8B Proud to work at The Open Organization!

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