Hi all,
The year 2007 is almost over and the ambassadors have done a lot of things to promote Fedora all over the world. Let me do a little review over the past 12 months.
Ambassador Membership
Today we have 283 ambassadors in 59 countries [1].
Africa : 16 America : 107 Asia : 97 Europe : 89 Oceania : 5
Unfortunately there are still a lot of potential ambassadors how have not sign the CLA yet [2]. Every month some new ambassadors joined us. That's great.
Events
We covered almost 60 events [3] during 2007. This means that Fedora Ambassadors were present ordinary every week at an event somewhere. I believe that we are going to cover the same amount of events in 2008 when we will go on with the same effort. Add your events to this page [4].
Freemedia
Thomas, Karlie, and many many others (sorry for not naming everyone) shipped in the name of the Freemedia Program over 1000 DVDs to people how wanted to have a Fedora Install Media and can't pay for it. Thank you guys for spending your time (and money) to fulfill all this requests.
Meetings
After a break with our weekly meetings at the end of October, we restarted with monthly meetings [5] in December. So far my feelings about the new meetings are mixed. There are still some annoyances we have to fix. I hope that the meetings will bring the ambassadors more together and that the exchange will improve our work as ambassadors in the future. The co-leadership issue is NOT solved right now and we are still looking for a contributor to lead the APAC area...please, if you are willing to support the meeting leader sign up as a co-leader or as a leader for APAC. Thanks in advance.
- Ambassadors Meeting EMEA - 2007-12-12 IRC log : https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2007-December/msg000... Summary : https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2007-December/msg000
FAD
The Fedora Ambassador Day was held twice in EMEA, one was at Berlin in front of LinuxTag [6], the other at Rheinfelden at the end of November [7]. Both events were a success. A lot of stuff were discussed in a friendly and constructive atmosphere. I can only suggest to have FADs all over the world because they are more effective and personal than communication with IRC or mailing list.
Some points we discussed at the latest FAD - Preparation of the the events in 2008 - NPO in Europe (easier for Sponsoring, legal stuff and taxes) - Fedora Membership/Fellowship - EventBox
The next FAD will be hold before LinuxTag 2008 [9] at Berlin.
European NPO
JeroenVanMeeuwen translated the initial version, GeroldKassube translated the "goals" from into German and sent the letter to the financial department to check out if the goals are good enough for the german law to be confirmed as "allgemeinnützig" which is related to pay taxes or not. Everybody will get the opportunity to see the statutes when they are ready.
The name will be Fedora EMEA (it has been agreed upon by MaxSpevack). It aligns with another NPO initiative JeroenVanMeeuwen is involved with in the USA, as well as with "Fedora Project" being the official project itself.
FAMSCo
The Steering Committee was not so loud this year [9]. After the release of Fedora 8 has tobe an election for the next 2 release cycle. The Nominations were: AlejandroMoncada, FrancescoUgolini, JeffreyTadlock, JohnBabich, PabloBarrera, RodrigoPadula, SandroMathys, MukulDharwadkar, and myself [10]. The voting period will start in January 2008 because first is the election of the Docs Steering Committee members.
By the way, FAMSCo Election 2007 Nomination is open until Dec 28th.
Kind regards, merry Christmas, and happy new year.
Fabian
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/CountryList [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/MembershipService/Verification [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents/2007 [4] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents [5] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings [6] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD/FADLinuxTag2007 [7] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD/FADEMEA2007 [8] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD/FADLinuxTag2008 [9] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/SteeringCommittee [10] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/SteeringCommittee/Election/2007Nom...
On 12/22/07, Fabian Affolter fab@fedoraproject.org wrote:
Hi all,
The year 2007 is almost over and the ambassadors have done a lot of things to promote Fedora all over the world. Let me do a little review over the past 12 months.
Thank you Fabian for The *Review* of Year 2007. :) Looking forward The Best of Year 2008. Happy Holidays!
Hi Fabian and Hi to all,
thanks for the summary, Fabian -
due to illness and my new job at the university of Basel I was a little inactive - Sorry for that and thank you for the great work on the project.
For all who don't know me in person a small introduction.
My Name is Andreas Rau and I am living at Karlsruhe (Germany) and work at Basel (Switzerland). I startet my work with Fedora as an Ambassador since about 2006. The past events I have been for Fedora are FAD EMEA 2006, FAD LinuxTag 2007, LinuxTag 2007, FUDCon LinuxTag 2007 and FAD EMEA 2007.
In the meantime I worked as System/Networkadministrator for an bigger erp software company. So I can say I know the difference between the different Distris in private and in business. At the moment I work mainly on Cisco doing networking at the University Basel. I hope I am a nice, peaceful and folksy (hope this fits) person. I esteem teamwork and know that big targets can only reached by acting in concert.
I think this is enought - acctually I only wanted to wish a nice christmas event and a happy new year to ALL of you
.. but I haven't send an introduction until now - sorry for being late now you know - I am existing in person ;)
Greetz/kind regards/el saludo Andreas Rau
Ambassador (Germany)
Skype: MacWarth Yahoo: bop80medic msn: don't know yet - long time ago
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Am Samstag, den 22.12.2007, 23:39 +0100 schrieb Fabian Affolter:
Hi all,
The year 2007 is almost over and the ambassadors have done a lot of things to promote Fedora all over the world. Let me do a little review over the past 12 months.
Ambassador Membership
Today we have 283 ambassadors in 59 countries [1].
Africa : 16 America : 107 Asia : 97 Europe : 89 Oceania : 5
Unfortunately there are still a lot of potential ambassadors how have not sign the CLA yet [2]. Every month some new ambassadors joined us. That's great.
Events
We covered almost 60 events [3] during 2007. This means that Fedora Ambassadors were present ordinary every week at an event somewhere. I believe that we are going to cover the same amount of events in 2008 when we will go on with the same effort. Add your events to this page [4].
Freemedia
Thomas, Karlie, and many many others (sorry for not naming everyone) shipped in the name of the Freemedia Program over 1000 DVDs to people how wanted to have a Fedora Install Media and can't pay for it. Thank you guys for spending your time (and money) to fulfill all this requests.
Meetings
After a break with our weekly meetings at the end of October, we restarted with monthly meetings [5] in December. So far my feelings about the new meetings are mixed. There are still some annoyances we have to fix. I hope that the meetings will bring the ambassadors more together and that the exchange will improve our work as ambassadors in the future. The co-leadership issue is NOT solved right now and we are still looking for a contributor to lead the APAC area...please, if you are willing to support the meeting leader sign up as a co-leader or as a leader for APAC. Thanks in advance.
- Ambassadors Meeting EMEA - 2007-12-12 IRC log :
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2007-December/msg000... Summary : https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2007-December/msg000
FAD
The Fedora Ambassador Day was held twice in EMEA, one was at Berlin in front of LinuxTag [6], the other at Rheinfelden at the end of November [7]. Both events were a success. A lot of stuff were discussed in a friendly and constructive atmosphere. I can only suggest to have FADs all over the world because they are more effective and personal than communication with IRC or mailing list.
Some points we discussed at the latest FAD
- Preparation of the the events in 2008
- NPO in Europe (easier for Sponsoring, legal stuff and taxes)
- Fedora Membership/Fellowship
- EventBox
The next FAD will be hold before LinuxTag 2008 [9] at Berlin.
European NPO
JeroenVanMeeuwen translated the initial version, GeroldKassube translated the "goals" from into German and sent the letter to the financial department to check out if the goals are good enough for the german law to be confirmed as "allgemeinnützig" which is related to pay taxes or not. Everybody will get the opportunity to see the statutes when they are ready.
The name will be Fedora EMEA (it has been agreed upon by MaxSpevack). It aligns with another NPO initiative JeroenVanMeeuwen is involved with in the USA, as well as with "Fedora Project" being the official project itself.
FAMSCo
The Steering Committee was not so loud this year [9]. After the release of Fedora 8 has tobe an election for the next 2 release cycle. The Nominations were: AlejandroMoncada, FrancescoUgolini, JeffreyTadlock, JohnBabich, PabloBarrera, RodrigoPadula, SandroMathys, MukulDharwadkar, and myself [10]. The voting period will start in January 2008 because first is the election of the Docs Steering Committee members.
By the way, FAMSCo Election 2007 Nomination is open until Dec 28th.
Kind regards, merry Christmas, and happy new year.
Fabian
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/CountryList [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/MembershipService/Verification [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents/2007 [4] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents [5] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings [6] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD/FADLinuxTag2007 [7] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD/FADEMEA2007 [8] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD/FADLinuxTag2008 [9] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/SteeringCommittee [10] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/SteeringCommittee/Election/2007Nom...
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