ambassadors December 2005

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Re: Meeting Between European Ambassadors (MBEA)
by Chitlesh GOORAH 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

Hai there, Im launching the first Meeting Between European Ambassadors (MBEA) next tuesday. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings/MBEA It is NOT intended to replace the global meeting on each thursday. But only to give the opportunity to European Ambassadors know each other and be aware of the upcoming events. Just like a team. It would be also an opportunity for some EU ambassadors (or any other amba) to catch up missed meetings on thursday. I personnally would suggest that the MBEA be held once a month or twice a month. Any EU ambassador can take the respondibility hold a meeting at any time. By default, ive chosen next tuesday http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=12&day=13&year=2… If any EU amba is not free or can't be present on the MBEAs, they can request changes. These changes will also depend on the availibility of other EU ambas. This first meeting would be like a small introduction and could last for one hour. Ive create a wiki page to get things moving in an orderly manner. Your participation (Especially EU ambas) can really launch this EU meeting successfully. Do modify the wiki to share maximum revelant information. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings/MBEA regards, Chitlesh GOORAH -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com > -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

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Fwd: [Fedora-ambassadors-list] Re: FEDORA DVDs
by Chitlesh GOORAH 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

> > W00T. And I thought ordering 40 DVDs was too much! Well, I know > what to do when FC5 is out! > Dont order too much if you wont use it in a proper way. -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Interview for upcoming Red Hat Magazine
by Greg DeKoenigsberg 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

Are any of our ambassadors interested in being interviewed via e-mail for an upcoming article in Red Hat Magazine? (I'm the writer, by the way.) --g _____________________ ____________________________________________ Greg DeKoenigsberg ] [ the future masters of technology will have Community Relations ] [ to be lighthearted and intelligent. the Red Hat ] [ machine easily masters the grim and the ] [ dumb. --mcluhan

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Re: [Fedora-ambassadors-list] Interview for upcoming Red Hat Magazine
by Chitlesh GOORAH 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

ok. -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Fundraising for Fedora -- research local regulations
by Alex 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

Gang, If we want to rais money, we will have to know what the laws are in each country for this. There were opinions that having a non-profit founded in the country where you want to raise funds might be helpful. It is a big administrative overhead to have a non-profit registered and run properly, but if your local law will make it our only option, we will consider this too. Please research the regulations carefully and post to this list. I will do some homework and post here too. Thannks, a -- New content on Fedora Project page! http://fedoraproject.org Fedora Ambassadors

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Ambassadors meeting notes December 1, 22-23:30 UTC
by Alex 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

Next meeting: Thursday December 8, 2005, 14:00 UTC (Thu 09:00 New York, Thu 15:00 Berlin, Fri 00:00 Brisbane, Thu 19:30 Mumbai) Attending: lxmaier, barz, GeroldKa, nman64, BobJensen, quaid, ChitleshGoorah, Sopwith, Riel, tchung Schedule: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Schedule Review upcoming events http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents We need to find people to go to all of the events we can find and to represent fedora there. At the moment this page lists all events, big and small. We can add more depth to these pages later, once we are covering enough events. We need to become disciplined about attending events first. If we cannot cover an event, but a new community contributor visits the website to find out about it. can't he suggest his participation there? As long as we have a name in the "ambassador" column on the FedoraEvents page, it does not make a difference whether the person responsible for running the event is an ambassador. We just need to make sure to coach them on messaging. FedoraEvents page the ambassadors should: 1) update the page 2) send out an alert to ambassadors-list 3) go there and find people to help out or 4) just find people to help out, if you can't go yourself You can add all events, no matter how small, to this list, as long as you actually GO there. The events that do not have an owner yet need to be removed from this page to HelpWanted/Events (nman64 will take care of that). They will remain on this page until they have an owner. -- nman64 February 14-17, 2006 LWCE Mexico City -- open http://expocomm.com/mexico/main-linuxworld.html will remain open BobJensen knows a couple fedora users in MC, and will encourage at least onc of them to join us. Will post any progress on the ambassadors list. March 28-30, 2006 LWCE Australia Sydney – barz (tentative) http://www.linuxworldexpo.com.au/ barz tentative owner, until spoken with jwulf April 3-6, 2006 LWCE Boston Boston, MA, USA – MatthewMiller (tentative) http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A will be right before FUDCon Boston 2006 gregdek and lxmaier will be helping whoever volunteers. MatthewMiller is tentatively assumed to be owner. tchung will contact Matthew if he's interested in being Fedora Ambassador or just being team lead for fudcon. April 19-22, 2006 FISL 7.0 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil -- Rodrigo Padula 7th International Free Software Forum This if the biggest conference for IT Infrastructure and Developers in Brazil. Lot of developers communities in this meetings and many lectures, in 6 auditoriums. In 2005, FISL 6.0 had 4,414 attendees from11 countries and almost every Brazilian state. We have 4 Amabassadors in Brazil. it's obvious this is one conference we really, really need to pay attention to. much more so than LWCE. Rodrigo Padula will go. Barz and Co are currently finalizing the proposal for the presentation. Not sure if any other ambassadors did this, but RP has already put his name as presenter. quaid: IMNSHO, Red Hat should fly in a prominent Fedora somebody, maybe one who speaks localeze? lxo or riel come to mind riel is sitting next to lxmaier and he says it's tempting. riel entered the room. riel: since you were talking about me ... ;) riel: for the record, I agree that FISL is an important conference. the last one I was at had about 6000 attendees. all going to the conference tracks. the trade show was absolutely minimal. Schwag pipeline – lxmaier Need to make sure that the schwag pipeline is functional. This is separate from the actual stuff we send; this is just making sure that the stuff we send actually gets to the places it needs to go. this one will need to stay with lxmaier for a while, because she is figuring out a fulfillment channel for us. lxmaier requested a quote and should have it in about a week. will keep ambassadors posted when something happens. Business cards -- lxmaier We need business cards for Fedora Ambassadors. That is our +1 need. Even though the logo is still with legal, we can begin thinking about this and prepare the layout so that we can print them right away we are working on these and will be ready to go soon. lxmaier will keep posted. Email addresses at fedoraproject.org -- Sopwith Seth and Elliot are working on a good way to streamline this process and make it part of the account system and/or the wiki, but we need to keep up with it here Make it like a business card--something that shows you belong. Someone needs to be accountable for creating criteria, process, and joining that with Sopwith's tools The changes needed are on Seth's end mainly, but coordinating that is important, too. *ALL* ambassadors should get official fedoraproject.org email address, along with other contributors. Email is cheap to provide, and does have a nice status, it -is- the calling card of the Web It just needs action by seth, which Sopwith continues to prod for, but don't expect to happen RSN. There's not much we can do without Seth - it's his computer system and nobody else has the access or knowledge necessary. quaid will sidebar the discussion with Sopwith about getting someone to help Seth. Standard Ambassadors kit -- BobJensen We need a standard "kit" for all Ambassadors; DVDs, promotional materials, and schwag. We need to figure out what the kit will contain and such. BobJensen is willing to help with this Presentations for Ambassadors -- BobJensen We need to provide Ambassadors with some slide decks for various presentations. We should probably aggregate the ones we already have and make them available. We should also figure out our policy for licensing these presentations! Presentations layout and Demos: ambassadors should have the graphical interface similar to the screenshots made by osdirs for fc while presenting publicly, just as with documentation. In the documentation project it is outlined what the desktop should look like. If you are presenting publicly, you might just create a user "demo" on your machine, make it look standard, and use this profile for all public demos and presentations. BobJensen will get some stuff pulled together from the Docs Project example before next week Funding for attendance – lxmaier We will continue to discuss fundraising options for shows. We have about 3000 for the coming quarter, so we will be able to spend some of this money on flying ppl around. We might not be always able to cover 100% of your cost, but we'll try and do our best. lxmaier is doing some reading up on the non-profit fundraising and will begin a thread on the ambassadors list. Everybody will research their local guidelines and post it to the list, so that we can be sure to be legal and not get the foundation in trouble. Please research local laws and post to the list. -- New content on Fedora Project page! http://fedoraproject.org Fedora Ambassadors

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Concentration of Ambassadors
by Patrick W. Barnes 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

We need to establish a clear policy now with regard to how many Ambassadors we want in each region. The original aim of the CMC program was to have one contact in each nation, with two in the larger nations. We now have more than this listed in some places. I have no objections to allowing Ambassadors to have assistants, but we need to, IMHO, keep the window between the Fedora Project and Ambassadors relatively narrow. What we need is a policy that states what kind of concentration we want for Ambassadors and how we handle pruning of inactive or deviant Ambassadors to make room for more active and reliable volunteers. If we want to establish a process to assist Ambassadors in enlisting helpers, I think that would be great. The very idea of an ambassador in other contexts is to provide a single, key point-of-contact between two entities. Ambassadors act as the diplomatic leads, providing the gateway between nations and mediating the relationship. They will always have people assisting them in their goals, but the ambassador themselves has no competing equivalent. I think that having two Ambassadors per nation would be wise, but not the four or more we already have listed for some nations. If we need to introduce some kind of 'embassy' to help Ambassadors coordinate between each other and with other help, we can do that, but we should avoid going crazy introducing new Ambassadors. Opinions? -- Patrick "The N-Man" Barnes nman64(a)n-man.com www.n-man.com --

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