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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] First Fedora-day in The Netherlands
by Thijs Hulshof 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Hi, Last Saturday the first Fedora-meeting in The Netherlands took place, it was very nice. About 25 people came to the event, as expected. The biggest part of the visitors was just started with Fedora Core, or wanted to start. That was exactly the public were the event was meant for. I'll definitely organize a Linux / Fedora-event again in the future ! Next time I'll maybe place a small advertisement in the local newspaper to reach more interested people. - Thijs

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] [Fwd: [foss.in] Invitation to NITC FOSS Meet]
by Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A Fedora BoF being conducted by Kushal as in the mail below. /me would take the responsibility of supplying some Fedora T Shirts to Kushal (if he is willing to lug them there :) ) - -Sankarshan - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [foss.in] Invitation to NITC FOSS Meet Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 19:42:51 +0530 From: ??????? ? (Praveen A) <pravi.a(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: foss-in(a)yahoogroups.com To: foss-in(a)yahoogroups.com Hi, This is an invitation to join NITC FOSS Meet 2006. The latest version of this document is availbale in wiki form at http://fci.wikicities.com/wiki/Calicut/NIT/FOSS_Meet/06/Invitation Regards Praveen A [snip] - Arun M Foss - General Talk [FOSS in Society] Intellectual Property, Copyright, Licence issues - Gopal Vijayraghavan DotGNU / Mozilla Hack - Kalyan Varma Network Security - Philip Tellis Education/Creative Commons - Praveen and Dilip Debian Workshop - Premshree Pillai Ruby - Sharath Lakshman Live CD Workshop - Shreekumar Quake 3 - Fun and more - Shreyas Srinivasan GNOME Hack - Pradeepto K Bhattacharya KDE Development - Shyam Mani Gentoo Developer - Aanjhan R Embedded Linux - *Kushal Das Fedora BOF* [snip] - -- 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 iD8DBQFEAyNnXQZpNTcrCzMRAsOVAJ4/gs7CuoPFQ1j9ey4k9qK9CrZMiwCgnXwZ XvJX8LgD5q9qww7qmNPEOlc= =rJzE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] FOSDEM 2006 Report
by Thomas Canniot 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Hi everybody, FOSDEM is over, here is my report ! :) FOSDEM was held the 25 and 26th of February in Brussels (in Belgium). Even if it is a developper event, many users were there as well asking many questions about free software in general. We were four speaking for Fedora on the booth: Frederic Hornain (from Belgium), Andreas Kupfer (from Germany), Matthias Saou (from France, Canada and Spain), and myself Thomas Canniot (from France). We had no presentation in any auditorium. Many people came to talk about Fedora Core and asked some questions about it. We can retain that few questions were still about our relationship with Red Hat. Others asked whether Fedora Core was a new distro, because they haven't heard of it before. Maybe Frederic will add some comments on this discussion. I could also give the flyers we made this week but I didn't that FOSDEM visitors mostly speak English however, the flyers were in French (as Belgium is a French speaking Country). So I really need to translate them into English. For my part, I *only* came on Sunday, with my computer with FC5T3 on it. Most of users were very interested with the next release and I was proud to show them that FC5 is going to be a great one. We had only good feedbacks for Pirut and Pup. Some users were also very interested in the system-config-control package. Some of them asked questions about the new logo, and some of them disliked it. But, be relieved, a majority of people told that the new artwork was good stuff! I also took advantage of the booth to stick handouts everywhere written "Kadischi show every hour!" on them, as I was suggested to do so in the last thursday meeting. This worked fantasticaly! As kadischi is not very known yet, many users came and asked "What is Kadischi show?". As they had a good question, we had a good answer :) Many people wanted to *see* Kadischi running, i.e building the livecd, and I built about 6 livcds on the whole day (I arrived at 9.30am and left at 5pm - with lunchtime of an hour or so). They were also very interested in the customization it allows. Some features were asked as well about it and I will contact Chitlesh Goorah for it. Showing Kadischi there was more than successful. Photos of the booth and the event in general are available from: http://mrtomlinux.multiply.com/photos/album/5 Fedora Booth is shwon in the 9 first photos. More photos about FOSDEM 2006 (no Fedora booth in them): http://flickr.com/groups/fosdem Regards, Thomas Canniot

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Re: Red Hat offers Linux eye candy alternative
by Alex 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Sorry for cross-posting guys :) Thank you for forwarding the article Peter. However, the author got at least the names of the project and the distro all wrong--which indicates that he has no clear picture of the relationship between Fedora and Red Hat. Will someone from the Ambassadors maybe contact the author and correct him? a On 2/24/06, Peter Gordon <admin(a)ramshacklestudios.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 10:14 -0500, taharka wrote: > > Red Hat offers Linux eye candy alternative > > February 23, 2006 1:32 PM PST > > > > The next version of Red Hat's Fedora Linux will include software to give > > the operating system some of the eye candy of a rival Novell > > project--but it will use a less intrusive mechanism, advocates say > > > > Full story at; http://news.com.com/2061-10795_3-6042651.html > > > > taharka > > > > Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A. > > That's awesome. :D > > CC-ing to the Marketing List... > -- > Peter Gordon (codergeek42) > GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xDA3634D7 > Fingerprint: 0629 F604 3C14 937E F088 E5E9 B3CB 48EC DA36 34D7 > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQBD/8/1s8tI7No2NNcRApdHAJ0fRCebl8EtsEzIe4IdjCEFXetCXQCgkk2c > lrXe77D/s+YypTwT88fmSj0= > =NLEo > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > Fedora-marketing-list mailing list > Fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list > > -- Check out the new content on Fedora Project page! http://fedoraproject.org

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Presenting a LiveCD in public for the First time
by Chitlesh GOORAH 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

Hai there, Our ambassador ThomasCanniot will present for the first time in public a Fedora Live CD build by Kadischi. Any livecd made by Kadischi when boots does not show any with respect to Fedora. Ive created a page with my screenshots and texts which I propose to integrate in within the livecd. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kadischi/Development/boot have a look suggestions are welcome. RahulSundaram suggested https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182985 Ive already did the neccessary. if the text can be enhanced somehow, do post something to the list. by the way in a 800x600 resolution, we can not add much info per page. Why only 5 F-keys? I found it kewl to add only 5 F-keys. 5 F-keys 5 FC Versions. concerning a splash.lss, I failed to make a proper one. if you look at the right hand top corner of the first screenshot you will see a broken blue spot. This is my broken splash.lss if anyone wants to create one for Fedora, do send it to me. Ill add it. Of course if its related to the Fedora Core 5 theme. Maybe the FedoraArtwork department can help me with it. The last screenshot is a 1024x768 resolution (16 bit) screen. Chitlesh GOORAH -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Ambassadors meeting notes February 23, 22-23 UTC
by Alex 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

Meeting notes: Feb 23, 2006, 22:00 UTC Attending: lxmaier: AlexMaier tchung: ThomasChung MrTom: Thomas Canniot nman64: PatrickBarnes kushal: KushalDas gregdek: Greg DeKoenigsberg StillBob: BobJensen GeroldKa: GeroldKassube CraZy675: Nick Yeoman mspevack: Max Spevack lxmaier: okay, looks like we have enough people JoseTarazona: JoseTarazona ChitleshGoorah: ChitleshGoorah JorgeTorres: JorgeTorres agenda is available here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Schedule item 1 Review upcoming events 1.1 There was a discussion on the list about whether it makes sense to always discuss the events first events take up a lot of time ***lxmaier supports the idea that attending and organizing events in the main purpose of this group GeroldKa: maybe it's a good thing to be better prepared from the owners, to have the best effort for all and a speedy update of the event themselves as nobody present seemed to be in favour of moving the events to the end, the Schedule order will remain unchanged. 1.2 Feb 25, 2006 Fedora Day Hengelo (Gld), Netherlands - The first day in The Netherlands to promote Fedora and to support new users. Owner: ThijsHulshof http://www.fedora-linux.nl/bijeenkomst Fedora presentations and install fest Thijs'll send feedback to the list when the day is finished. 1.3 Feb 25-26, 2006 FOSDEM Brussels, Belgium - The sixth Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting in Brussel -Belgium- http://www.fosdem.org/2006 Owner: FredericHornain, ThomasCanniot Status: Reserved Fedora Stand, Thomas emailed FredericHornain and the booth is reserved, we have DVDs and tshirts Fred will bring his computer and Thomas will demo FC5T3 The owners are working with ChitleshGoorah for a handout to give with the DVDs A livecd might be also an option. StillBob: having F4 and FC5T3 side by side might be interesting to visitors lxmaier: you might want to find a microphone and an amp and talk to your demo. you schedule a live demo at say every even hour, and you make an on-the-booth presentation, so that people can gather at the scheduled times. usually this draws a considerable crowd. you might want to combine it with a short presentation from the slides available online 1.4 Mar 13-16, 2006 Jornada de Divulgación Científica y Tecnológica Bogota, Colombia - A whole day organized for an Recognized University in Colombia for conferences on subjects related to Open Source Software as well as telecommunications, medical artificial intelligence and computer science. It will have universities of the country and the world. http://www.sistemasunbosque.edu.co and http://www.equisl.org JoseTarazona My participation and Stand confirmed JoseTarazona has been talking with people to get two PCs for the stand Jose would like to have a live videoconference between 12:00 and 18:00 GMT – 5:00. A prerecorded video session could be useful, but the Q&A section will be missing this way. but it will be appreciated anyway. Jose also wants to know if there is any chance to receive some DVDs and some T-Shirts? lxmaier: we might be able to ship freshly-burned FC5 DVDs to JoseTarazona if we are EXTREMELY lucky 1.5 Apr 3-6, 2006 LinuxWorld Boston 2006 Boston, MA, USA - LinuxWorld US See LinuxWorld/LinuxWorldBoston2006. MatthewMiller JackAboutboul He will contact JesseKeating or local PC vendor about hardware needed for the booth. He will conatct JackAboutboul about registering for free booth. Apr 7, 2006 FUDCon Boston 2006 Boston, MA, USA - Sequel to the first FUDCon. See FUDCon/FUDConBoston2006. gregdek: LWCE: Looking to get a Fedora-branded install pavilion at the .org at LWCE, with the help of Pogo. LWCE: Booth squared away by Jack today. FUDCON: Space all set. FUDCON: RFP for sessions has been out a couple of weeks, closes tomorrow nite, he's got about a dozen possible sessions, plus sessions that will be given by RHATters from the Boston area. FUDCON: Pre-registration will open up next week. Space *may* be limited, so people who preregister will get stickers onsite and will have first preference. We'll have 1 1/2 tracks. :) One morning track, 2 afternoon tracks. 1.6 Apr 19-22, 2006 FISL 7.0 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil - 7th International Free Software Forum. This is the biggest conference for IT Infrastructure and Developers in Brazil. See FISL for more description. Owner: RodrigoPadula. 1.7 May 3-6, 2006 LinuxTag/FUDCon Wiesbaden 2006 Wiesbaden, Germany - LinuxTag Germany See FUDCon/FUDConWiesbaden2006 GeroldKassube FlorianBrand help wanted and needed! In the last meeting GeroldKa gave the wrong date for the decission from the organisation team; it's not the Feb. 20th. Decission will be informed on 24th and that's tomorrow ... So nothing more news till right now; we've to wait until tomorrow but I stay in contact with FlorianBrand and JensKuehnel for all things$$ GeroldKa: for me / us it's very important be be supported by all of you 1.8 May 15-16, 2006 LinuxWorld Italy 2006 Milan, Italy - LinuxWorld Italy AndreaMaurizioGnerre Andrea has contacted the organization of the event. They moved to a sponsorized event format. I have prices for that if anybody is interested. FrancescoUgolini: i don't know if i'm avaiable—i will find out in the first week of march item 2 FedoraLibraries Owner: ChitleshGoorah ChitleshGoorah: Each week, Im sending a reminder in the list to push things forwards. Personnaly the SC might force things forward, since FC5 is coming out soon. Let's integrate Fedora in the daily life of everyone. This might be a way to make them aware of fedora. FedoraLibraries needs a Fedora Live CD. ChitleshGoorah will talk with gredgek later to move things in that perspective. ChitleshGoorah is going to FUDCon Wiesbaden depending on his practical class schedule ChitleshGoorah: next week, Ill talk with the directory of my university if he can push things for me too lxmaier: okay, so ChitleshGoorah, what do we need to do to get ISBN and ISSN codes for the CDs and DVDs? kushal: If you wish to obtain an ISBN, you should contact the national or regional ISBN agency in your own country. Presently, more than 160 countries or territories are official ISBN members. greendisease: i can work on that. i think the filing fee is 250 USD. you get a lot of 20 codes, and then the issn numbers work for a series tchung: shoudn't Fedora Foundation file ISBN for Fedora DVD or CDs media *** lxmaier strongly agrees ***gregdek wonders if we should be considering Lulu for this... gregdek will ask Mr. Hogan from Lulu what he knows about ISBN numbers. ChitleshGoorah and greendesease will pursue the project further if gregdek hooked him up with Lulu people. item 3 Schwag pipeline Owner: AlexMaier / GregDeKoenigsberg 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. gregdek has cost estimates for the US store. this means that we can start the production soon, and request to replicate the stores in EMEA and APAC. then we will be able to give out "credits" to some ambassadors, like when they attend events, so they can stock up on schwag. We need to determine policy and procedure first, but we expect to have both kits and vouchers. item 4 Funding for attendance lxmaier: here we have a kind of unwritten policy: if an ambassador wants money to attend and/or run an event, they will write an email to one or all of FAMSCO (Fedora AMbassadors Steering COmmittee) members, who will then discuss and approve the expense ...or not. for the upcoming quarter (march-may 2006) we are still waiting for a budget approval from red hat. as soon as the budget is approved, gregdek will report to the list. tchung: can any ambassadors can write for famsco-list ? lxmaier: tchung: they can write, but i will have to approve for the message to go through item 5 Presentations for Ambassadors 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! ChitleshGoorah: as MrTom said, we are working on a one-page flyer in French. at the same time we will create an updated one for FC5 ChitleshGoorah is creating a OOo Impress document concerning Kadischi. Hence ambassadors can spread the word. gregdek: Have folks seen the presentation I uploaded from FUDCon Delhi? puneet_batura can tell you how it went... You can find it at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConDelhi2006 FrancescoUgolini: due to work prblem in the past week i could translate only two chapter of fedora install guide, now, i've translated 6 chapters, i think i will able to complete all, if i haven't any problem, in two weeks. greendisease: would like to perhaps set up an asterisk server, so we could do Ambassadors meeting that way. he will post to the list to introuduce the idea for discussion. nman64: We cannot preclude people that might not have adequate technologies. IRC is already a problem for a few people. lxmaier: i think asterisk is a good idea--to try at least once and see how it goes greendisease: yeah, it should be fairly straightforward and we can build on success if it works out Next meeting: 2006-03-02 1400 UTC -- Check out the new content on Fedora Project page! http://fedoraproject.org

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Self-Introduction: Pawel Sadowski
by Pawel Sadowski 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

Hi, My name is Pawel Sadowski (aka McGiwer) and I'm a Fedora Ambassador in Poland. I'm 18 years old and I'm studying at high school. I'm also translating Fedora Core Release Notes to Polish and I'm a moderator on www.fedora.pl (Polish site and support forum). My adventure with Linux has begun with Red Hat Linux 9, and then I heard about Fedora Core (that was FC2). Since then, I've used only Fedora Core and I just love this system :) pub 1024D/45B9C2B2 2006-02-12 [expires: 2008-02-12] Key fingerprint = CC75 1395 6DFA E265 30D0 C330 BC58 F517 45B9 C2B2 uid Pawel Sadowski (Fedora Project) <mcgiwer(a)gmail.com> uid Pawel Sadowski (Fedora Project) <mcgiwer(a)fedoraproject.org> sub 2048g/C0C072DF 2006-02-12 [expires: 2008-02-12] Regards, Pawel Sadowski

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] meeting for all Ambassadors
by Gerold 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

Hi all, in the meeting today I brought in the idea for an "only Fedora Ambassadors meeting" ... We are always doing presentations for Fedora, we're always "on the run" on presentations, in meetings everywhere ... But ... ... fromeach other we only know the name, sometimes a photo (somewhere seen in the web) but there is no time for us to have a meeting only for us; discussing all things which are laying on our tongue. Meetings in IRC are nice things but, there is not alway time to discuss really, no real life meeting can be replaced by IRC or mailing list. So let's plan an AMBASSADORS Meeting! What do you think about???? Somebody talked about money?! Why? I spend my money for traveling in Europe and for one or two nights in a hotel if I get the possibility to meet for example all EMEA Ambassadors somewhere on the continent EUROPE ... OK, I think, a Ambassadors meeting must be a continental plan. One Meeting in NA, one in APAC and one in EMEA ... tell me your ideas and let's have a look if it makes sense to speed up this idea! Regards -- 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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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] My introduction
by Kushal Das 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

Hi, I am Kushal Das, a new member of the ambassador project. I am the chief coordinator of linux user group of Durgapur, West Bengal, India. I started my journey in FOSS with Ankur Bangla project (http://www.bengalinux.org) I am also with FOSS.EDU & KDE.IN groups. My goal is to spread Linux as the major Desktop OS in education & common users' field. Fedora is always my favorite. Regards, Kushal

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