ambassadors August 2016

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Let's equip our Communities in EMEA
by Giannis Konstantinidis 09 Nov '16

09 Nov '16

Hello everyone, during the last EMEA irc meeting, I proposed that we should make sure all active communities within our region are equipped with basic booth equipment such as roll-up banners and tableclothes. Currently, there is just one or two tableclothes for the whole region. Not every community has its own roll-up banners and while some do, these are not anymore in a proper working condition (e.g. colors have started fading out, stands are showing signs of heavy use). Spending budget on such an initiative can be considered a good investment, since the equipment produced will last for years and will enable our communities to look overall more professional when representing the project during events and conferences. We still have a significant amount of the current fiscal year's budget unspent and we can definitely use some of it. Does your community lack some booth equipment? Please visit the following wiki page and let us know: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/EMEA/Community_Equipment Ideas, thoughts, feedback? -Giannis -- Giannis Konstantinidis giannis(a)konstantinidis.cc http://konstantinidis.cc giannisk on irc.freenode.net

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About package maintainance complexities and new contributors
by P J P 26 Sep '16

26 Sep '16

Hello, While talking to one of the package maintainers, this feedback came up. === On Monday, 29 August 2016 11:40 PM, Mxxxx Cxxxx wrote: ... >I know the right solution should be to grow a community >that uses them, and eventually helps with the maintain... >But I fear that the skills necessary to mantain the packages >are too high and the overall system too complicated to attract >many new packagers. I asked many time for help and always >gratefully accepted every request for co-mantaining. I also >tried to teach to various people in my lab and in others how to >do that and they invariably got scared and back off. > === Just wanted to share here, as many here may have faced similar issues while grooming new contributors. It'll help if you could share anyways you've found to keep new contributors from being scared. Thank you. --- -P J P http://feedmug.com

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LinuxCon Europe in Berlin
by Jiri Eischmann 04 Sep '16

04 Sep '16

Hi, I'm organizing a Fedora booth at LinuxCon Europe that is held in Berlin on Oct 4-6. I managed to get a booth for free and I'm looking for 2 more volunteers to staff the booth with me. Anyone interested? If there are more candidates, I prefer local ambassadors and those who have more experience because LinuxCon Europe is attended by IT professionals and it requires certain knowledge and overview to promote Fedora there. Jiri

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Software Freedom Kosova 2016
by Ardian Haxha 01 Sep '16

01 Sep '16

Software Freedom Kosova Conference SFK'16 21-23 October 2016 Call for Speakers We are inviting all free and open source software and hardware hackers to submit their talks and workshops for the 7th edition of SFK to be held in Prishtina, Kosovo, on 21-23 October 2016. Priority topics this year: mobile, web and game development, IoT and artificial intelligence. Conference talks to be held on 22 October, a Saturday, should last no more than 25 minutes, including Q&A. Workshops will be held on 21 and 23 October and may last 1-2 hours. Conference talks should be in English. Workshops may be in Albanian, depending on the audience. For consideration please fill out http://goo.gl/forms/HnQrmxB1B4dafd492 We’ll let you know by 15 September. Send questions to info(a)flossk.org. If in doubt, you are encouraged to submit. Please share this Call for Speakers with your hacker friends. Faleminderit!

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FAMNA request for swag
by Paul W. Frields 01 Sep '16

01 Sep '16

I put a request into the Fedora Hosted Trac for famnarequests a week or so ago, seeking swag for a Software Freedom Day event now about 3 weeks out, but hadn't seen any response. Is this tracker/queue still monitored and cared for? -- Paul

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EMEA Ambassadors Meeting Minutes 2016-08-31
by Ardian Haxha 01 Sep '16

01 Sep '16

Hey Ambassadors, We had our regular EMEA meeting, it lasted about 85 minutes and 11 people attended. See below for more information regarding the meeting: Minutes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-08-31/emea_ambassador… Minutes (text): https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-08-31/emea_ambassador… Log: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-08-31/emea_ambassador…

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[EMEA] Q2 FY17 Budget report in pagure
by Zacharias Mitzelos 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

Hello everyone, I've created the quarterly EMEA budget report for the 2nd quarter of FY17, and created a pull request in pagure[1]. You can find the report here[2]. I also wrote a blog post about the outcomes of the report in my blog[3]. I’m pretty sure that this is the first time after a long period of time that all the expenses made during the quarter were *also* reimbursed during the same quarter. This is extremely convenient for everyone, the community credit card holder, me (keeping the books), and Red Hat. Many thanks to everyone that submitted their receipts on time and asked for reimbursement from the community credit card holder, and of course many thanks to jsimon for reimbursing everyone so promptly :) Finally I hope that this email will also serve as a kind reminder to the rest of the regional treasurers, and push the reports for their regions to pagure. Thanks, Zacharias [1] https://pagure.io/fedora-budget/pull-request/17 [2] http://ur1.ca/poelp [3] http://blog.mitzelos.com/budget-report-Q2-FY17/ -- Zacharias Mitzelos <mitzie at mitzelos dot com> mitzie on freenode http://zacharias.mitzelos.com GPG key ID: B345D18D

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REMINDER: EMEA Ambassadors Meeting 2016-08-31
by Ardian Haxha 30 Aug '16

30 Aug '16

Hey EMEA Ambassadors, we're going to have our regular meeting tomorrow. See below for more info: * Date: Wednesday, August 31st, 2016 * Time: 20:00 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. Meet you there! - Ardian

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REMINDER French Fedora Meeting Today #fedora-meeting-1
by Reminder 29 Aug '16

29 Aug '16

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Introducing Myself
by Rosnel Echevarria 27 Aug '16

27 Aug '16

Fellow Ambassadors, My Name is Rosnel (Ross) Echevarria and I would like to introduce myself as a new FAmNA Ambassador. I'm based out of Miami, FL. and currently work as Director of Information Technology for a medium-size retail company. I'm thrilled about the opportunity to work with a number of terrific individuals promoting an equally terrific distribution and community. My current interests are to not only spread the word about Fedora, but to also get more involved within the Fedora ecosystem and participate in QA and other development activities. I want to thank my sponsor, Andrew Ward, for all of his help and guidance during the past several months. It's great to be here. Ready to get things done and have some fun. Feel free to reach me any time. You can find my user page at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Reher Thank you, Ross

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