Fwd: [Ambassadors] remember the mission
by sankarshan
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From: Max Spevack <mspevack(a)redhat.com>
Date: Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:13 PM
Subject: [Ambassadors] remember the mission
To: fedora-ambassadors-list(a)redhat.com
When you put your Ambassadors hat on (as opposed to any of your other
roles in Fedora), remember:
(1) You give a face and a name to Fedora. You are a person, friendly
and approachable. Fedora is big and scary, but you are going to help
make sure that *one person* finds their way through all the confusion
into the place where they can contribute.
(2) You are the glue. You help connect different people in different
parts of the Project, because you are always dealing with people whose
interests are different. You should be eager and happy to work with
other parts of Fedora to solve problems.
(3) People are the key. Everything that we do -- events, budgets,
swag, membership verifications, blogging -- it's all done as an
attempt to make personal connections with folks who either want to use
or contribute to Fedora. Places where Ambassadors get together are
one of the few times that Fedora contributors have an opportunity to
meet face to face (other than FUDCons and FADs).
(4) You are the expert in your region. You understand the culture,
the needs, and the best ways to communicate about Fedora and FOSS in
your region. FAmSCo and other "leaders" in Fedora *work for you*, and
need to listen to what you are saying makes sense. We can't ignore
the global picture, but we need to be flexible in adapting to local
needs.
These are things I have been thinking about while reading
ambassadors-list recently.
--Max
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15 years, 2 months
Re: [fedora-india] Help reequired for install fest in Kalyani Govt. Engineering College, West Bengal
by Rangeen Basu
>
> Also, I shall be handing over 50 DVDs and some stickers for this event.
> If more needed, Dipanjan, please take care from your quota, I shall
> give it to you.
I shall get in touch with Dipanjan and Sarbatha for further action.
>
>
> But I have rarely seen any install fest of that size.
> If it happens it will be great.
Well that's the number the organizers gave me. Lets see if we can see this
through.
>
>
> Rangeen, after event, I shall be needing all the details to whom media
> was distributed. i.e Name, address, email, designation of all the
> participants as soft copy, in addition to the customary event report.
> Dipanjan, Sarbartha can guide you.
>
> Also, if any media is in excess, please return those.
>
> Thanks.
>
Once the event is done, I shall give a complete update of the event and also
mail you the list of people to whom the media has been distribute. I shall
return any excess dvd to you or to Dipanjan. If possible let me know if
anyone else is coming to the event and where and when I can collect the
media provided Dipanjan or Sabatha are not coming.
--
Rangeen Basu Roy Chowdhury
sherry151(a)gmail.com
!!!Windows is "micro"-soft[ware]..I like bigger things!!!
15 years, 2 months
Help reequired for install fest in Kalyani Govt. Engineering College, West Bengal
by Rangeen Basu
The Linux Users of Kalyani Govt. Engineering College(KGEC) are willing to
organize an install fest. They need support like free media and expertise. I
am willing to help them but I don't have DVDs neither can I arrange for them
right now. If anybody can provide free media then it will be of great help.
Please contact me if anybody has any DVDs or live cds with him. This
saturday is a probable date for the install fest, so need to act fast.
--
Rangeen Basu Roy Chowdhury
sherry151(a)gmail.com
!!!Windows is "micro"-soft[ware]..I like bigger things!!!
15 years, 2 months
Malayalam not supported in Fedora 11 Alpha (Leonidas)
by Manilal K M
Hello all,
I have just now tried the Live CD version of Fedora 11 Alpha and
surprised to see that it doesn't have Malayalam support. The
language is listed in the System->Administration->Language, but it's
not listed in the login screen. Most of the other Indic languages such
as Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, etc.. are included.
It seems the Malayalam font packages are not included for the LiveCD.
The ibus package has all the four supported Malayalam input methods
and the locale files are also present.
regards
--
Manilal K M : മണിലാല് കെ എം.
http://libregeek.blogspot.com
15 years, 2 months