ambassadors June 2006

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Ambassadors Recognition Award--Nominations please
by Alex 19 Jul '06

19 Jul '06

It has been over 3 months since our last round of Fedora Ambassadors Recognition Awards. The time has come again to recognize the leaders in our midst with a little present and a big round of applause. Please send your nominations to famsco-list(a)redhat.com. To see our previous winners, please visit: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Awards Thanks, Alex -- Check out the new content on Fedora Project page! http://fedoraproject.org

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Fedora Event Kit
by Jack Aboutboul 17 Jul '06

17 Jul '06

Hey Everyone, As some of you already know, I have been working with Max for the past few weeks on the foundations of some initiatives which we hope will help us refine some of the processes and functions which Ambassadors currently carry out. I want to to use this email to introduce one of these initiatives in hopes of eliciting some good feedback to further refine these ideas. Let me start out by saying that currently, the main goal of these propositions is to facilitate more efficient, grass roots, and most importantly, independent participation by ambassadors. That is, we hope to use these changes as the building blocks of many more improvements, and we have decided to start here. The initiative I would first like to introduce is the Fedora Ambassadors Event Kit. As we all have learned by now, the cornerstone of the Ambassadors project has to do with events, and events are the single most effective vehicles for publicity and community gathering. The main problem with running events, however, is that thus far, most of the events we have carried out have been top down, rather than bottom up. By that I mean that the efforts, in large part, have come together with much oversight and involvement with Red Hat and that has caused some problems. Foremost, many ambassadors have complained about not being able to run an event independently and have waited for funds and other merchandise for days on end. Therefore, we have decided to streamline the event and merchandise acquisition process, and that's good news in more than one way. It means more control for ambassadors. The Fedora Ambassadors Event Kit consists of five sections, each of which is aimed at tackling one angle of event planning. The following is a description of each of the sections with a brief breakdown: Part 1. Welcome - This section is used to welcome both new and current ambassadors alike and thank them for choosing to run an event. This section briefly outlines some common foundation work which must be done before any event can take place, and how to go about building quality relationships, both within and without the community, which will serve many purposes in both present and future endeavors. Part 2. Optical Media Guide - The purpose of this section is one of the most significant changes in protocol for Ambassadors. This section outlines a new method for obtaining media, by which we empower and encourage Ambassadors to establish a relationship with local vendors. Local vendors are a better outlet for obtaining media since the overall cost is lower and the relationships established with these vendors will help us gain sponsorship for important initiatives, such as Free Media. Ambassadors will then be able to collect monetary donations in exchange for media at the event which will help recover costs and sponsor more free media. Part 3. Merchandise Guide - This section builds on the previous section and lays out guidelines similar to those in the optical media guide. Once again Ambassadors will be able to produce hats, shirts, mugs, etc. locally without much oversight. Many may complain about this new process, but there are reasons for this. Mainly, we would like to see ambassadors come up with localized designs for merchandise. Fedora is a global project and as such, it should be represented in precisely that way. Ambassadors again will be allowed to ask a donation in exchange for a merchandise so as to recover their costs. Part 4. Custom Design Approval - So you do want to come up with a localized design for a creative t-shirt, that's great!! All we ask is that you kindly submit your design for review, before we give you the go ahead. We have much trust in the Ambassadors, and doubt that anyone would come up with something in poor taste, however, from a legal perspective we must approve designs. (You obviously know someone is going to come up with a Fedora Kills OpenSuSe shirt, and that could be an issue.) Part 5. Accounting - Yes, it sucks, but we want to make this part of the process as easy as possible. The Ambassadors project wants to make sure that we do not leave anyone hanging with regarding to costs related to running an event. Therefore, we will include a simple grid sheet which will allow Ambassadors to fill in what costs were involved in running the event, how much money was recovered and what balance remains, if any. This will also allow us to isolate what elements of running the event are the costliest and how we can further help bring the costs down in those areas. Part 6. Extra Stuff - So what happens to the extra 20 shirts you have left? Rest assured that we are working non stop to finally put together a Fedora Stuff store which we will all be able to use. Until then, we will have some guidelines in this sections which can be followed, until a more formal decision is made. That's basically it right there. The Event Kit will be available both as a pdf downloadable from the wiki and as wiki pages themselves which will allow for editing. We would much appreciate as much feedback as possible. Does something here sound unbearable? Did you happen to fall in love with one of these ideas? Would you like to see something changed or improved? Time is wasting and we would like to have the event kit up within a few days at the latest, so now is your time to suggest or complain. You are an ambassador, let your voice be heard!!

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Fedora Ambassadors Meetings on 4th of July Holidays
by Thomas Chung 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

To observe 4th of July, Independence Day, which is a Holiday in US, famsco meeting [1] on July 4th and ambassadors meeting[2] on July 6th have been cancelled. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/SteeringCommittee/Meetings [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings Have a nice Holidays everyone! -- Thomas Chung http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung

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Language -- formal or informal?
by Pawel Sadowski 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

Hi, Sometimes I am confused when I am writing to the list. Now I have a thinking - should the language we use on the Ambassadors list be informal or rather formal? Sometimes, it is quite inconvienient when I write the posts without any abbreviations etc. And here is the question, and the idea thereby -- maybe let's start using informal language and feel free to use any abbreviations, slang etc. I think it would make communication on the list much easier and make us closer ;) What do you think about that? Regards, Pawel Sadowski

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Fedora Ambassadors Meeting Minutes 2006-06-29
by Thomas Chung 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

Fedora Ambassadors Meeting Minutes 2006-06-29 has been posted. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings/2006-06-29 As a reminder, if you have an up-coming event for yourself, please post the event at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents and attend our regular meeting to report or send out an email report to fedora-ambassadors-list. Our next meeting will be held on 2006-07-06 14:00 UTC (Not confirmed yet) http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings/ Regards, -- Thomas Chung http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung

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Weekly Reminder for Fedora Ambassadors
by Thomas Chung 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

This is your Weekly Reminder for Fedora Ambassadors. Fedora Ambassadors Meeting will be held on 2006-06-29 22:00 UTC http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings Also everyone in Fedora Ambassadors Program should sign CLA and join 'ambassadors' group in your Fedora Account System. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/AccountSystemHowTo Regards, -- Thomas Chung http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung

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Cd whith Fedor 5
by Merlin 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

I have question I won't to talk some thing about Linux and Fedora in small private schooll. School Say they can burn a Cd with a fedora core 5 but a chidren must pey for blank cddo you thing it's a good idea to give every one a Fedora 5??

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FAMSCO Meeting Minutes 2006-06-26
by Thomas Chung 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

All, FAMSCO Meeting Minutes 2006-06-26 has been posted at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/SteeringCommittee/Meetings/2006-0… Regards, -- Thomas Chung http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung

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FAMSCO Meeting Minutes 2006-06-26
by Thomas Chung 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] For all non Fedora Ambassadors but Fedora Project Members
by Frederic Hornain 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Dear all, Today again, I have met someone who are working for one of Fedora Projects. We talked about what he does on his project and if knew other people woking on Fedora. I said yes of course and even in our area. He was really surprized when I told him that other nice guys were also woking on Fedora close to him. Then he complain me also that no Physical Fedora Structure exists till now in my area. Ok I have to admit. However it is going to change. Unfortunatly, they are a lot of contributors who are doing something in their corner and nobody is knowing that this one or that one is also working on Fedora on different project close to us. It will be more funny if we could create local community in order to share experience, knowledge, etc... So I think in addition of our ambassador role we should be the point of contact for these guys in our country. I have started to do a kind of list but I would have need to have specific wiki page for this goal in order readable by everybody. You see what I mean. Something like "Ambassador by country" for all people working on Fedora and not exclusivly for Ambassador. Even if the wiki page "Ambassador by country" have his importance. Like, this for each country you will have a maintenor which help Fedora guys to know each others, permit to do the link with Red Hat, be the point of contact for a specific area. Tell me what you are thinking about that. And why not ? If you know somthing similar? Have a nice evening. Best Regards Fred ----------------------------------------------------- Fedora-ambassadors-list mailing list Fedora-ambassadors-list(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list

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