ambassadors January 2006

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Event: Strasbourg (date partly finalised)
by Chitlesh GOORAH 11 May '06

11 May '06

Hai there, I have good news and maybe bad news. Its Still fresh. First as long awaited here in Strasbourg, France there will be an "open source" day http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/jl4/index on the 23-25 June 2006. This event will be intended as I mentioned in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents to promote open source softwares and linux. If somebody is motivated to make a conference about fedora, do inform me. Hence you will become the guest of our lug. We ( the lug members ) are looking forward to invite lecturers and to pay their journey and hotel too. This needs to be confirmed. The money required to host the lecturers will be from either paid entrance or companies paying for the booth. to rent a booth for fedora, we have to pay. Price will be communicated later. There are also talks about free booth for associations. But nothing yet confirmed. Its possible to sell Fedora t-shirts or other goodies for fund raising. But in this case, we must rent a booth for Fedora. Now comes the "maybe" bad news: this scheduled date for the event interfere badly with two of MY private life things: 1. I have already booked two tickets (my gf and I) to Mauritius. 2. my contract with the hostel ends in the beginning of June and somebody will be occupying my actual room. so meanwhile send your comments, queries or any other proposals :) regards, Chitlesh GOORAH -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Idea: Fedora in Library
by Chitlesh GOORAH 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

Hello everyone, I think im going to write a lot lol. Ok an Ubuntu marketing agent told me about their idea of having Ubuntu in Libraries. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuInLibraries No, its not about installing Ubuntu in the computers but to lend Open source cds to their subscribed users. Actually they copied it from Openoffice. http://www.openoffice.org/nonav/issues/showattachment.cgi/11838/Open%20Sour… Personally its a wonderful idea because having CDS in libraries will affect the complete newbies mind set of fear towards linux. Considering the fact that librairies is a body of trust. This is mostly an activity done by the lug. Of course if we ambassadors provide enough materials/translation to. Im eager to do it right away in Strasbourg. But comparing to another distros like ubuntu,suse,etc they already have enough materials in their pocket. Example, live cds. I prefer to wait for Fedora to catch up with materials. Let's take for example, Fedora. If a lug happens to realise this project. Among other distros we will only have handouts and Fedora DVDs. Meanwhile students or anyone will prefer to give a try to live cds, leaving Fedora behind. Saying that this particular live distro is based on Fedora isn't enough for the complete newbies. It would rather be useless. If someone tried the "official" fedora LIVE cd if he/she likes it he/she can easily get the install DVD for free for their local lug or lug ambassador or from the library directly. Some testimonials: http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/04/04/16/1923248.shtml?tid=137&tid=185&… http://slashdot.org/articles/03/12/15/193231.shtml?tid=146&tid=149&tid=99 Since in the last 3 meetings (see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Schedule ) we didn't really progress in Emails, funds, Schwag because we are waiting for additional info. I suggest we talk and plan about this idea. I know ambassadors from India or Brazil will have alot to say :)) I know we (majority)ambassadors we only popped in during meetings hours, talk and talk. This sounds like acting. Its time to move A55 :) for REAL action. Chitlesh GOORAH -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] suggestions for an ambassador newbie.
by Michael J. Knox 12 Feb '06

12 Feb '06

Hi everyone. I have been kind of idle, reading all the emails and taking in what others are doing/suggesting. I would like to ask for some advice. I live in New Zealand, in a town called Hamilton (or the Waikato). In general, New Zealand has very few trade shows or events that one would normally have a stall at etc. I do have a local LUG which I am a member of, however, I doubt they would appreciate a Fedora talk every month (considering the huge number of debian dev's that reside in the LUG). So, my question is, what can someone, in a small area, with little IT related shows/events etc do as an ambassador? At the moment, I try to post to the LUG's mailing list when Fedora related news is made, things like Fedora reloaded podcasts etc etc. I am all ears and keen for suggestions. Thanks! Michael

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Introductory handouts/flyers for Fedora newbies at LinuxAsia - ideas anyone ?
by Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I think that we will have a number of Fedora newbies (or newbies to Fedora) at LinuxAsia 2006. Is there a handout/flyer ready that sort of talks of the following: o What is Fedora o What are the projects within Fedora o Where to get Fedora o Where to get in touch o Mailing Lists (relevant ones aimed at newbies) o IRC channels o Found a Bug ? Why don't you tell us about it... o Want to get involved ? Just here's how... Regards Sankarshan - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Red Hat - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD1J2QXQZpNTcrCzMRAm2FAKDAHYS5G4IpglMKsNFPxCWTyNmsgACfQ93T /gfhCnqJj/GGgoUqK+bV5AU= =uCps -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Schwag plan currently
by Greg DeKoenigsberg 31 Jan '06

31 Jan '06

As of right now, here's the simplified plan: We're working to get ambassador kits produced in 3 geos: North America, Europe, and Asia. The kits will contain: * A few shirts. Probably four shirts -- 1 M, 2 L, 1 XL. * A few caps. * Pens and stickers. No poster, because we didn't have time to design a good one. In the first go-round, all of the graphics will be *very* simple -- probably just the logo and/or wordmark. Why? Because we don't have much time, and coordinating translation and the like will take too long for this go-round. We're still on track to be able to take kit requests by March 15th. Note: this is INDEPENDENT of the DVD production plan, which we're still working on. --g --------------------------------------------------------------- Greg DeKoenigsberg || Fedora Foundation || fedoraproject.org Be an Ambassador || http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors ---------------------------------------------------------------

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RE: [Fedora-ambassadors-list] Schwag plan currently
by Hornain Frederic 31 Jan '06

31 Jan '06

Dear Greg²K, dear * You wrote the following : > No poster, because we didn't have time to design a good one. In the first > go-round, all of the graphics will be *very* simple -- probably just the > logo and/or wordmark. Why? Because we don't have much time, and > coordinating translation and the like will take too long for this > go-round. Well, as I have to be prepared for the FOSDEM I have done some hoarding - see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Hoarding - Ok, these ones are quites basic. Nonetheless, I will do few ones more developped. BTW, if you have suggestions or remarks feel free to contact me. Best Regards Fred

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Funding for LinuxAsia2006 / FUDCon Delhi 2006
by Tejas Dinkar 31 Jan '06

31 Jan '06

Dear *, I had earlier thought that I would not be able to attend LinuxAsia / FUDCon Delhi 2006 due to examinations. However, due to recent events, I will be able to attend LinuxAsia on the 9th and 10th of February. The event is scheduled for the 8th, 9th, and 10th of February, with FUDCon scheduled on the 9th. I will be able to fly out from Bangalore on the Afternoon of the 8th, and attend FUDCon, as well as the final day. I would like to help out at the Fedora Stall wherever possible, as well as attend the various talks at the FUDCon. I do not need funding for my stay, as I can stay with a relative in Delhi. However, I would like to request for sponsorship for the travel expenses. The flight to Delhi and back should cost roughly $200. I will be able to pay this amount now, but I would request for a reimbursement of the same amount after the event. I would be able to provide a copy of the flight tickets / receipt to a member of the Steering Committee if required. As this event if fairly close, I would request you to please reply quickly. Thank You Tejas Dinkar Fedora Ambassador : Bangalore/India IRC Nick : gja

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] [Fwd: fisl7.0: sua proposta de palestra (141)]
by Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira 31 Jan '06

31 Jan '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 :-) - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: fisl7.0: sua proposta de palestra (141) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:43:54 -0200 (BRST) From: temario(a)softwarelivre.org To: rodrigopadula(a)projetofedora.org (English version below) Olá Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira, Temos o prazer de informá-lo(a) de que a sua proposta de palestra para o fisl7.0, "PROJETO FEDORA BRASIL", foi aceita para apresentação no evento. É necessário que você confirme a sua participação *até o próximo dia 06 de fevereiro*, através do "Canto dos palestrantes": https://fisl.softwarelivre.org/7.0/papers/speaker/ Lá você pode também conferir as avaliações da(s) suas propostas e comentários dos avaliadores, que podem contribuir para melhorar sua apresentação, resumo, ou apenas te dar um retorno dos avaliadores com relação ao seu trabalho. Os critérios utilizados para a avaliação podem ser encontrados em: http://twiki.softwarelivre.org/bin/view/Fisl7/Classifica%e7%e3oDasPropostas. Os membros da comissão avaliadora estão listados em: http://twiki.softwarelivre.org/bin/view/Fisl7/Comiss%e3oDeAvaliadores Adotamos uma política de evitar mais de uma palestra da mesma pessoa, de forma a dar oportunidade a mais palestrantes. Assim, se você submeteu mais de uma proposta, é possível que alguma delas tenha sido recusada mesmo tendo argumento de classificação maior que o mínimo para aprovação na trilha correspondente. Entraremos em contato daqui a mais alguns dias com informaçõe úteis aos palestrantes. Saudações, - -- Comitê de Programa 7º Fórum Internacional Software Livre 19, 20, 21 e 22 de Abril de 2006 Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/7.0/ - ------------------------------------------- English version - ------------------------------------------- Hi Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira, We're pleased to inform you that your lecture proposal for fisl7.0, with title "PROJETO FEDORA BRASIL", was accepted for presentation in the event. It's necessary that you confirm your attendance *until next February 6th*, through the "Speakers' corner": https://fisl.softwarelivre.org/7.0/papers/speaker/ There you can also check your proposals' reviews and comments from reviewers, which can help you to improve the presentation, abstract, or just give you a feedback from reviewers about your work. The criteria used for the review can be found at: http://twiki.softwarelivre.org/bin/view/Fisl7/Classifica%e7%e3oDasPropostas. (sorry, for now it's Portuguese only, so if you have any doubt please get in touch). Members of the reviews comission are listed at: http://twiki.softwarelivre.org/bin/view/Fisl7/Comiss%e3oDeAvaliadores We've adopted a policy of avoiding more than a lecture per person, trying to give opportunity to more people. This way, if you have submitted more than one lecture proposal, it's possible that one or more of them have been rejected even with a classification argument greater than the minimum needed to be accpted in its corresponding track. We'll get in touch in a few days with useful information for speakers. Best wishes, - -- Program Comitee 7th Internacional Free Software Forum 19th to 22nd, April 2006 Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/7.0/ - -- +================================================+ RODRIGO PADULA DE OLIVEIRA (o- BACHAREL EM SISTEMAS DE INFORMAÇÃO //\ FACULDADE METODISTA GRANBERY - FMG V_/_ PostgreSQL - PHP - Java - Fedora +================================================+ Embaixador do Fedora no Brasil http://www.projetofedora.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD33sOPg3HAC1vlg4RAkUgAKCooFWPKQPUh3LmWOovWbCjRrHnIQCaA/BN qZ1CJap+hz/IpAisZGlkkqI= =3tYh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Ambassadors meeting notes January 26, 22 UTC
by Alex 31 Jan '06

31 Jan '06

Next Meeting: Feb 02, 2006, 14:00 UTC Ambassador Meeting Notes January 26, 2006, 22:00 UTC Attending: GregDeKoenigsberg (gregdek) GeroldKassube (GeroldKa) Niklot (Guest) ChitleshGoorah AurelienBompard (abompard) DavidBarzilay (barz) JoseTarazona Xenion (Guest) AlexMaier (lxmaier) RahulSundaram (mether) FrancescoUgolini KarstenWade (quaid) BobJensen (MicroBob) MikeKnox (monkey|wrk) MikaelJacobsson (maikaru) GeroldKa has invited Niklot and Xenion to participate the meeting later on, because they may be interested in becoming Ambassadors Upcoming Events http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents Solutions Linux (Paris, abompard) abompard received stuff for Soultions Linux it was still in one piece, but not far from torn apart abompard will be able to attend 2 days out of 3 abompard is translating Fred's slides to french right now http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Slides GNUify (Pune, mether) the original slides - about 50 or so are in: http://people.redhat.com/sundaram/ mether is cutting down and reorganising them based on a new idea otherwise nothing else to report on FUDCon @ LinuxAsia (New Delhi, mether) Planning for this is going well; schedule is almost finished; schwag is delivered; we're just about ready to go. mether is rewriting the slides and will upload it when its done to the common pool all the arrangements are mostly done by now SCALE 4x (tchung) tchung received 70 t-shirts and 150 DVDs. planning to burn 50 more DVDs himself. tchung will take a lot of pictures at the event to record it and report about it. tchung is not sure about a blog but there will be plenty of pictures and a special coverage in FWN. :) quaid tchung: sorry I'm not going to make it SCALE, I'm cutting back on travel it seems Banners: tchung ok. I suppose I could cook something up in local stationey store. :) JoseTarazona Banner for shows (I'm working on two events for Universities, dates still pending.) and one for a website for my country gregdek lxmaier: I'm starting to think it makes more sense to manufacture centrally and ship. lxmaier i could supervise the manufacturing in Germany and/or UK lxmaier and we could have [sasquatch] ship them out to other locations within europe gregdek will have an update on schwag coming up this week, which will include banners etc. FOSDEM (Fred) gregdek OK, no Fred. We'll discuss FOSDEM later barz lwce in sydney is targeting businesses and .org booths are way 2 expensive. we decided dropping this one, not suitable 4 FC's audience or budget. It will be removed from the wiki ChitleshGoorah has secured a booth for Fedora for the Strasbourg event. He posted it lately on the M.list ChitleshGoorah Sure if someone is interested can join me ChitleshGoorah If not Ill be with my gf and maybe a fedora user too ChitleshGoorah our lug is looking for hotels which can provide us cheap prices for the event :) JoseTarazona I'm interested, count with me monkey|wrk I might be able to attend the linuxworldexpo in Sydney barz they do have .org, but same prices LWCE Sydney will be removed from events list richard Tuttle has added OSCON to the event list, which is outstanding. We will need an update from him. nman64 Unfortunately, we can't provide a bunch of money for everyone to get to every event (we'd love to if we could), so we have to consider each event and decide where the money should go. The same budget is also used for producing merchandise. The Steering Committee is working on policies and procedures to get everything moving smoothly. If ever you have an event near you that you would like to try to get to, come up with a budget and let us know what you need. We'll do the best we can. Part of being an ambassador is acting as the regional contact for the team. We can add links to the ambassador pages from that page. If a local user wants us to attend or wants our support, they should contact their local Ambassador. maikaru ok... those events in stockholm are the expensive ones and those in gothenburg are the not so expensive... i know ppl there that i can sleep at if needed... i plan to contact the biggest computermagazine in sweden so swedish ppl will know about me soon ;) Fedora Libraries (Chitlesh) launched FedoraLibraries in the list. ambassadors need to move ASAP for this project. the discussion to continue on the list. FUDCon / LinuxTag at Wiesbaden. lxmaier and gregdek had a conversation with Florian Brand from RH Germany today. GeroldKa and Florian will be co-owners. Schwag pipeline. gregdek We've got a plan that I'll be publicising to ambassadors-list later today. Goal: to have the schwag pipeline up, funded and working by March 15th. Right now, we've got a lot of requests, but not a lot of resources. Yet. But "help is on the way". BUT: we will NOT be sending single T-shirts or anything like that. We will be sending KITS to ambassadors. Too expensive to drop-ship single Ts and hats and such. Kits, as of right now, will consist of: * Hats; * Pens; * Stickers; * Posters. However many we can fit into about $100 worth of stuff. Note: this does NOT include t-shirts. Why? Because T-shirts are: * expensive for what you get; * always in the wrong size; * bulkier to ship. Note: there WILL be a place to ORDER shirts, but they will NOT be part of the kits. nman64 In the future, we should be able to work with a service like CafePress or Spreadshirt to offer T-shirts and other merchandise as a fundraising tool, but not yet. BUSINESS CARDS We have four proposed designs. Let's pick the best one or two and move! http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/BusinessCards you'll need Avery stock# 8871 it's official policy: Use tchung's template at http://fedoranews.org/tchung/biz please read readme.txt FrancescoUgolini I have only to say that i'm working on the fedora installation guide in italian, i've done the beginning and the first chapter, and i think in a week or two i've finished to traduce. So see ya the next week and good night -- Check out the new content on Fedora Project page! http://fedoraproject.org

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Description for Linuxtag Germany
by Gerold 31 Jan '06

31 Jan '06

Team, Thorsten Lemhuis (thl) helps me a lot of preparing the German Linuxtag. He creates the following descriptions in German and english. Can please anybody review these words?! We have to fullfinish our login till next week! short description Englisch: Develops together with Red Hat the Linux-Distribution Fedora Core and the LDAP-Server Fedora Directory Server plus packages a lot of software suitable for Fedora Core in the community project Fedora Extras. Description Englisch: The Fedora Project was started as a development project by Red Hat around the Linux. Its goal is to create a complete and general-to-use Operating-System that is based only on Open-Source-Software. The most wide know part of the Project is the quite well known and often used Linux distribution Fedora Core, that uses Open-Source Software only. Its developers closely work together with the programmers that create the software and often include the latest versions of these applications in the distribution. Fedora Core publishes about two versions a year and round about every third one is used as a base for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Besides Fedora Core there are several related sub-projects: The community-driven Fedora Extras for example packages additional Software for Fedora Core in RPM-Pages that can easily be installed from the Distribution. Fedora Legacy provides security-updates for older releases of Fedora Core. The Project Fedora Directory Server is driven by both the community and Red Hat to further enhance the sourcecode from the Netscape LDAP-Server, that Red Hat bought and published as Open-Source last year. Kurzbeschreibung Deutsch: Entwickelt zusammen mit Red Hat die Linux-Distribution Fedora Core und den LDAP-Server Fedora Directory Server sowie stellt über das Community-Projekt Fedora Extras ein großes Portfolio an Zusatzsoftware für die Distribution bereit. Beschreibung Deutsch: Das Fedora Project ist ein von Red Hat gestartetes offenes Entwicklungs-Projekt rund um Linux-Software. Das Ziel des Projektes ist, mit der Linux-Community zusammen zu arbeiten, um ein komplettes, universelles Betriebssystem ausschließlich auf der Basis von Open-Source-Software zu entwickeln. Der wohl bekannteste Teil des Projekts dürfte die ausschließlich auf Open-Source-Software bestehende Linux-Distribution Fedora Core sein, das weltweit zu einer der am häufigsten eingesetzten Linuxe zählt. die Fedora-Entwickler arbeitet eng mit den Programmieren der enthaltenen Software zusammen und integrieren meist aktuelle Versionen der Anwendungen in die Distribution. Zirka jede dritte der normalerweise im halbjahresrhythmus erscheinenden Versionen von Fedora Core bildet die Basis für des kommerziellen Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Rund um Fedora Core drehen sich einige andere Projekte: Das weitgehend von der Community geführte Fedora Extras stellt zusätzliche Software in Form einfach zu installierender RPM-Pakete bereit. Das ebenfalls von interessierten Anwendern gepflegte Fedora Legacy stellt Sicherheitsupdates für ältere Fedora-Versionen bereit. Beim Fedora Directory Server entwickelt Red Hat zusammen mit der Open-Source-Community an der Weiterentwicklung des von Netscape übernommenen und unter eine Open-Source-Lizenz gestellten LDAP-Servers. -- Regards Gerold Kassube Fedora Ambassador Deutschland / Germany Email: GeroldKa(a)fedoraproject.org 1024D/F33128B9 4ABC A903 F1F4 D9CC C422 AACA EDF1 DF42 F331 28B9

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