Re: [Ambassadors] CD / DVD stickers needed
by Vali Cobelea
Hi,
Thank you for this info, I'm planning several short presentations about
Fedora Project at the University of Galati, Romania, and I did not know from
where / how to get Fedora 11 CDs / DVDs.
Valente
7 years, 6 months
FAD EMEA 2014 in Leverkusen Announcement
by Felix Kaechele
Dear Ambassadors,
the year 2014 has brought many changes to the Fedora Project and, as the
year isn't over yet, there are still some more to come.
That's why it's important for us to find the time to get together and
discuss and plan our activities for the upcoming year 2015.
In EMEA we have our traditional, yearly Fedora Ambassadors Days (FAD) to
plan our budget and review which events we want to attend as well as
make plans as to what swag we want to produce.
In the last few years we came together at the very scenic Castle of
Beuggen which unfortunately wasn't an option for this year.
I would like to take the opportunity to thank Gerold who was the
organizer of these great FAD events in the past and did a magnificent
job at it.
This years FAD is going to take place in my hometown of Leverkusen,
Germany. Still on the river Rhein but in the western part of Germany
right between Cologne and Düsseldorf. Probably not as beautiful as the
Castle of Beuggen but I think I have found a place that enables us to
have a focussed and productive environment to meet.
The date is (as usual) the first weekend of December which is
December 5th to 7th, 2014
If you plan on attending please head over to our wiki page for this event at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Rheinland_2014
to register.
As always there will be a evening event on Saturday.
Hope to see many of you there!
Regards,
Felix
P.S.: Please make sure that when you register yourself for the event
that you are definitely able to come. If we book accommodation for you
we will need to pay for it even if you are not coming.
8 years, 6 months
Fedora Meetup @ Bangalore, India
by Ratnadeep Debnath
Hi all,
We are having a Fedora meetup on November 2, 2014 in Bangalore at
HackerEarth,
#509, IInd Floor, 6th Cross Rd, Koramangala 6 Block, Koramangala,
Bengaluru, Karnataka 560095
080 4155 4695
Fellow Fedora folks and any one interested are welcome to join the
event. The meetup will be focused on:
- Sharing knowledge
- Discussing and planing events around the upcoming Fedora 21 release
- Hacking and contributing
- Having fun :D
Regards,
rtnpro
--
Ratnadeep Debnath,
https://www.waartaa.com
GPG Fingerprint: 033C 8041 A0E9 CDBA 2E02 B785 2119 5486 F245 DFD6
8 years, 7 months
Re: [Ambassadors] Fedora Ambassadors in Singapore
by Danishka Navin
Roy,
Where is your classes?
Harish,
Can you find a slot in your calendar?
Friends,
What if we start around 4.30PM?
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 11:57 PM, Qi Yang Er <erqiyang(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm ok on 13. Let me know. I'll join.
>
> Regards,
> Qiyang
>
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 11:46 PM, Jason Benedict Low <
> jasonbenedict(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> Apologies for belated respond. 13 Nov is Thursday. On that week i am
>> running project in the west. However i may be able to try to make it.
>> Please let me know the exact Time and Place.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Jason
>>
>> *** Reclaim Your Freedom, use Free & Open Source Software - Be Open
>> Standard Compliance. ***
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Roy Ong <royong(a)fedoraproject.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> My apologies for the belated response. Can I check that's the suggested
>>> time/location for meet-up on 13 Nov? I have classes from 6.30pm.
>>>
>>> On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 22:31 +0800, Heherson Pagcaliwagan wrote:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Oct 28, 2014, at 9:28 PM, Danishka Navin <danishka(a)gmail.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > > Hi Qi,
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > Thanks for your prompt reply.
>>> > >
>>> > > It would be great if we can meet on 13th November (Thursday) before
>>> > > the APAC budget planning to be done during the same weekend.
>>> > >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > I can make the meeting on the 13th, just let me know the time and
>>> > place. Just for reference, I'll be coming from around boat quay.
>>> >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > Thanks,
>>> > > Danishka
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Qi Yang Er <erqiyang(a)gmail.com>
>>> > > wrote:
>>> > > Hi Dan,
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > Would be good to meet up. Unfortunately, next week is not a
>>> > > very good time for me. I'm out of town for about 2 weeks.
>>> > > Will be gone 1Nov until 12Nov.
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > Regards,
>>> > > Qiyang
>>> > >
>>> > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 9:12 PM, Danishka Navin
>>> > > <danishka(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > > Dear Er Qi, Jason, Roy,
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > I found your contacts from the Fedora Ambassadors
>>> > > wiki [1].
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > As per the Fedora project wiki we have four
>>> > > Ambassadors in Singapore.
>>> > > We have total of six Fedora Ambassadors based in
>>> > > Singapore if we count Heherson and myself who
>>> > > working in SG.
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > Shall we meet on next week and discuss what we can
>>> > > do in both near future and long run?
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > I hope we can host a Fedora 21 release event in
>>> > > Singapore.
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > [1]
>>> > >
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/MembershipService/Verification...
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > Thanks,
>>> > > --
>>> > > Danishka Navin
>>> > > http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com
>>> > > http://twitter.com/danishkanavin
>>> > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/danishkanavin/
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > --
>>> > > Regards,
>>> > > Qiyang
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > --
>>> > > Danishka Navin
>>> > > http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com
>>> > > http://twitter.com/danishkanavin
>>> > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/danishkanavin/
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Qiyang
>
--
Danishka Navin
http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com
http://twitter.com/danishkanavin
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danishkanavin/
8 years, 7 months
Ohio Linux fest Ambassadors report
by Andrew Ward
All,
Please note the below text form from my report on the latest event from
Ohio.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ohio Linux Festival, Columbus Ohio Oct 24-26, Greater Columbus
Convention Center Main Venue section D.
Fedora Ambassadors report for Andrew Ward (award3535) and Julie Ward
(jward78)
We arrived at the Drury Friday afternoon and got settled into the
room. We then checked on the event and got our registration stuff all
taken care off that afternoon. I checked out where we needed to set up.
We had the table right next to the Red Hat table. We were in a good
location at the end or the isle for easy access for everyone to get to.
This weekend the weather was good and there was not a cloud in the sky.
We were hoping for a busy day on Saturday.
We got down to the venue at 0730 to get started on setting up. We
were shortly joined by the Red Hat Folks and we were all set up by 815.
We noticed that while we were getting set up that there were already a
lot of people walking around waiting on the first talk session.
There were almost no one there yet except us, Red Hat, and the BSD
people. This proved to be a great advantage to get their attention.
We didn't have anything that flashed, nor did we have any big
presentation boards, we only had the product and a few simple items.
That was more than enough for us, between the presentation and questions
that got answered we did more than was was needed to
make some hard core Debian users at least try fedora. That was a 100
percent success to us. The first talk was scheduled for 9 a. m.
and we were all set and ready to go, and to say, we did. From 9 a. m.
until 4 p. m. The two of us were extremely busy. A special thanks
goes to Ricky Elrod (from the Dayton Ohio area) for helping out at the
booth with us, an unexpected positive surprise. I had not
checked the event wiki page a few days prior to the event. We left on
Thursday morning to head up to Ohio, and Ricky had updated
and volunteered. A great many thanks to him.
By 930 a. m. the Fedora booth was about 4 deep waiting to get a
look at our table. There was many questions posed to us about why
should I switch from my current O/S, Ubuntu and Debian seemed to be the
hard pressed distributions. Some individuals were very hard to
discuss anything concerning Fedora, but if I got through to even one of
them, I felt successful. What I found interesting was even though
those few individuals who were hard to convince to a change to Fedora,
they still picked up the free media anyway. There were other individuals
(some of them those hard pressed Debian individuals) were also asking
questions about Fedora were unaware of the other media available to them
as well.
The focus seemed to be on GNOME with the default was not what they
were looking for, I then explained that there are many others
available to them on the DVD or for down load that included KDE, LXDE,
and XFCE. That surely got their attention, so I presented that they
should try it before making a judgment call on Fedora. That was enough
to get those individuals to pick up the multimedia DVD. Again success
in getting the word out to others about the diversity of the product we
offer.
The morning was going by so fast, we both felt exhausted by 1030 a.
m. I had 300 multimedia DVDs that came with me and by 1030 a. m.
they were all gone. Lucky Nick Bebout had mailed to boxes to us that
arrived at 1145 a. m. In the mean time, the Linux Pro Magazine that
featured
Fedora to replace the old windows XP came in quite handy. The magazine
included an in-depth look at the Fedora, and a installation guide for
novice users.
This was a wonderful tool for us to use, made great advantage with
novice and mid range users, and which in turn we also handed out all of the
magazines that we had. I believe that we had over 400 of the magazines
and every one of them went. The last one left the table at 4 p. m. I
also had
approximately 40 USB Keys from the last two events, since I had no
multimedia DVDs at the time I handed those out also turn out to be a hit
at the table.
I would ask a question along the nature of what they were currently
using and why, I would then ask what would make it easier for them to at
least try
Fedora, I got a wide variety of answers but when they found that I would
hand them a USB key, their attitude changed quite quickly. Even though they
were happy with what they had, a simple USB Key turned things around.
One the resupply arrived, we went through another entire box that
approximately contained 150.
Some of the other vendors in attendance was Chef, HP, Linode, POGO,
the Local Ohio Python Group just to name a few.
Since the day began we were ready for anything that could be thrown
at us, I believe the attendance was approximately 2000 if not more.
Since before the booth opened we began to see a steady inflow of people.
I can only speculate but here is what we believe that was given out,
about 450 Multimedia DVD's, 60 pens, over 500 stickers, 300 case badges,
200 small Fedora pin on buttons, 40 USB Keys, 60 t shirts, all of the
LinuxPro Magazines (about 200 or so, maybe more)2 ball caps, 50
tattoos, and the last of the Beefy Miracles. For some reason our booth
again
seemed to be the most popular in-site. Julie noted that the more items
that were on your table for presentation or the more SWAG definitely
attracted
more people to the tables. In this case she kept a stocked table
ensuring that the attraction to the Fedora table continued.
Julie also noted that the facility did not provide enough trash
receptacles throughout the venue. To get to a trash can we either had to
leave the area or go to the other side where there was one trash can
which half was dedicated to recycling materials.
Some of the questions that were asked about Fedora were quite common
and some were not so obvious. For some people changing from
what they are already using is not an easy task, but for others
seamless. There were a few questions that concerned me but I believe
they were
answered. The most difficult question to answer came about the back
support of previous releases. They did not want to be tied to a 12 month
or so required upgrade. I pointed them out to our website and towards
fedup. The biggest concern was the moving of data back and forth to satisfy
new loads of the O/S. That seems to be the main concern of the faithful
users of Fedora I spoke with. They were for the most part unaware that they
did not need to keep moving data off the machine, but of course I
recommended a back up prior to executing just to be safe. There were
more than
the fair share of “why should I change from my current O/S
(Debian,Ubuntu) to Fedora”? We did our best to answer everyone of those
why should I
use Fedora questions, but even those hardcore other distribution people
still picked up one of our Multimedia Dvd's, funny how that works.
One person during this event stood out with a few questions. A man
from the western part of Kentucky wanted to know if we could give him a
few multimedia DVD's so that he could bring them home to his part of the
state. He was a local television broadcaster (media personality) with the
local TV station in his area. He also asked that if he contacted us
would we be willing to send him more of the DVD's. He proceeded to tell
me why.
This person was trying to get his community involved with some new ideas
in computing. There has been a lot of job loss in his area and a lot of
really down people trying to get out of and try some new ideas for jobs,
hobbies, and skills. I was more than happy to aide him in is request.
He also asked if there were to be an event scheduled in his area would
we as Fedora be willing to attend (invited). I let him know that we could
surely ask when the time came to make the invite for Fedora through the
website or get a hold of an Ambassador to get the request on the schedule.
This may turn into a good opportunity to distribute more and help others
learn about Linux.
We had a lot more than usual stop by and tell us how much they loved
Fedora. We kept getting compliments all day long about how Fedora has
been such a great Operating System for them. That was quite pleasing to
hear. This was a very successful event for Fedora. I am looking
forward to going again next year to Ohio Linux Fest.
--
Andrew Ward
award3535(a)fedoraproject.org
award3535(a)tds.net
award3535(a)gmail.com
8 years, 7 months
Re: [Ambassadors] Fedora Ambassadors in Singapore
by Jason Benedict Low
Hi,
Apologies for belated respond. 13 Nov is Thursday. On that week i am
running project in the west. However i may be able to try to make it.
Please let me know the exact Time and Place.
Best Regards,
Jason
*** Reclaim Your Freedom, use Free & Open Source Software - Be Open
Standard Compliance. ***
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Roy Ong <royong(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> My apologies for the belated response. Can I check that's the suggested
> time/location for meet-up on 13 Nov? I have classes from 6.30pm.
>
> On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 22:31 +0800, Heherson Pagcaliwagan wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Oct 28, 2014, at 9:28 PM, Danishka Navin <danishka(a)gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Hi Qi,
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks for your prompt reply.
> > >
> > > It would be great if we can meet on 13th November (Thursday) before
> > > the APAC budget planning to be done during the same weekend.
> > >
> >
> >
> > I can make the meeting on the 13th, just let me know the time and
> > place. Just for reference, I'll be coming from around boat quay.
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Danishka
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Qi Yang Er <erqiyang(a)gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > Hi Dan,
> > >
> > >
> > > Would be good to meet up. Unfortunately, next week is not a
> > > very good time for me. I'm out of town for about 2 weeks.
> > > Will be gone 1Nov until 12Nov.
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Qiyang
> > >
> > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 9:12 PM, Danishka Navin
> > > <danishka(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Dear Er Qi, Jason, Roy,
> > >
> > >
> > > I found your contacts from the Fedora Ambassadors
> > > wiki [1].
> > >
> > >
> > > As per the Fedora project wiki we have four
> > > Ambassadors in Singapore.
> > > We have total of six Fedora Ambassadors based in
> > > Singapore if we count Heherson and myself who
> > > working in SG.
> > >
> > >
> > > Shall we meet on next week and discuss what we can
> > > do in both near future and long run?
> > >
> > >
> > > I hope we can host a Fedora 21 release event in
> > > Singapore.
> > >
> > >
> > > [1]
> > >
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/MembershipService/Verification...
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > --
> > > Danishka Navin
> > > http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com
> > > http://twitter.com/danishkanavin
> > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/danishkanavin/
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Regards,
> > > Qiyang
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Danishka Navin
> > > http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com
> > > http://twitter.com/danishkanavin
> > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/danishkanavin/
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
>
8 years, 7 months
EMEA ambassadors meeting minutes 2014-10-29
by Jiri Eischmann
Hi,
we had another regional meeting today. 13 ambassadors attended and the meeting lasted 1 hour and 30 minutes. The meeting summary is:
Meeting summary
---------------
* Roll Call (sesivany_, 21:00:33)
* Announcements (sesivany_, 21:06:14)
* FAmSCo will probably be dissolved and replaced by Fedora Outreach
Steering Committee which will also oversee other outreach teams -
design, marketing,... (sesivany_, 21:09:39)
* Fedora 21 has slipped again, the release date is now Dec 9th.
(sesivany_, 21:11:30)
* Our most important planning event is getting closer. If you want to
come, please add yourself ASAP:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Rheinland_2014 (sesivany_,
21:19:16)
* If you're going to add youself for the EMEA FAD, please specify how
much you need for travel expenses. Note you can fly either to
Dusseldorf or Cologne, the place in between. (sesivany_, 21:23:43)
* Requests (sesivany_, 21:25:47)
* LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/emea-swag-tracking/report/1
(sesivany_, 21:26:54)
* Ticket #425 - jsimon going to nullcon in India (sesivany_,
21:29:50)
* LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/emea-swag-tracking/ticket/425
(sesivany_, 21:30:00)
* AGREED: Ticket #425 has been approved. (sesivany_, 21:32:38)
* Ticket #426 - Production of Fedora stickers (sesivany_, 21:33:49)
* LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/emea-swag-tracking/ticket/426
(sesivany_, 21:33:56)
* We will produce 1500 case badges with Fedora logo and 1500 ones with
Workstation branding. (sesivany_, 21:53:21)
* AGREED: We will produce 3500 Workstation stickers, 500 Server
stickers, and 500 Cloud stickers. (sesivany_, 21:57:45)
* Ticket #422 - F21 media production (sesivany_, 21:59:13)
* LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/emea-swag-tracking/ticket/422
(sesivany_, 21:59:23)
* Events (sesivany_, 22:18:55)
* LINK:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/For_Ambassadors/Fedora20
(FranciscoD, 22:19:07)
* Fedora will be at FSCONS on Friday till Sunday in Gothenburg,
Sweden. (sesivany_, 22:23:46)
You can find more here:
Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2014-10-29/emea_ambassado...
Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2014-10-29/emea_ambassado...
Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2014-10-29/emea_ambassado...
The next meeting will be on Nov 12th.
Jiri
8 years, 7 months
Announcing Fedora Outreach mailing list -- please subscribe if interested
by Matthew Miller
Because response to the Fedora Outreach Steering Committee proposal has
been overwhelmingly positive, I created a new mailing list, initially
to discuss the possible creation of such a group and to coordinate
actually doing it, and then eventually to be a discussion list _for_
the group.
If you are interested in this, please subscribe
at <https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/outreach>.
Thanks!
[This message is massively multi-posted — please don't reply. Instead,
discuss on the new list!]
--
Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader
8 years, 7 months
REMINDER: EMEA ambassadors meeting 2014-10-29
by Jiri Eischmann
Hi,
just a little reminder that we will have an EMEA regional meeting
tonight:
* Date: Wednesday, October 29th, 2014
* Time: 21:00 UTC
* Location: #fedora-meeting@freenode
* meeting agenda:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:EMEA_Ambassadors_2014-10-29
Note that the UTC time has been changed to reflect the switch to the
winter time. The local time should remain the same for most of us, this
is a warning for those who live in countries that don't have the time
change.
Meet you there ;)
Jiri
8 years, 7 months