ambassadors February 2009

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Revisiting FADNA (was: Re: [Ambassadors] FAmNA Meeting Summary from 2008-12-17)
by Larry Cafiero 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

An observation while cursing the bad timing of my final exams (and not being able to address this issue last night): On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:57 PM, inode0 <inode0(a)gmail.com> wrote: > * FADNA > > - Larry Cafiero sent mail to f-a-l indicating willingness to take > ownership of hosting FADNA at SCaLE in February. > > - Discussion about several possible alternate sites and timing. > > - Agreed to let Larry run with this, need to discuss it in more > detail during the coming week and sign off officially at next > week's meeting if all goes well. > > - Not likely to be very much in our Q4 budget for this so we need > to try to proceed prudently. > > * Q4 Budget [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/NA/Budget] Until last night, I don't believe Linuxfest Northwest in April was brought up as an option for FADNA. Until now, my impression, wrongly it appears, was that we were locked into either SCaLE or SELF, the latter of which was deemed to be too close to FUDcon. If LFNW is an option, we should look at it closely, not only because of the time factor involved -- both in organizational terms as well as financial terms (this falls in Q1, right?) -- but also in the fact that this is an historical year for LFNW, it's 10th anniversary. I'll retain ownership of this, needless to say, but I think it might be best to take a closer look at LFNW rather than rush to make SCaLE. I'll do the legwork on both and report back during the course of the week and have something for Tuesday's meeting. But those are my thoughts after reading the minutes and, naturally, I welcome input on the issue. Lots. Larry Cafiero

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[Fwd: Linuxwochen Wien 2009]
by Oliver Falk 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

Hi! Anyone interessted? Feel free to forward it to others who might be interessted. At the moment I'm quite sure, that I'll not be in Vienna at this time. Best, Oliver

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Fedora marketing needs you!
by Steven Moix 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

Hello dear Fedora Ambassadors, During the last couple of weeks, the Fedora Marketing [1] group has done some serious internal reorganization, most of which you probably don't care about very much right now ;) One important thing to notice is the apparition of something called the "News Distribution Network" [2]. This is where we need you, the Ambassadors! The News Distribution Network is a joint effort between the marketing group and the ambassador group to effectively push Fedora news to the media. As you can see on [2], we are currently searching 2-3 people for each of the following languages: * English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi and Italian Your role will be to help us spread news. If you read the whole page [2], it should be pretty clear what we expect from you :) If you are interested, feel free to contact me so we can discuss your candidature during the next IRC marketing meeting next Tuesday. 1: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing 2: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_news_distribution_network Have a nice day Steven Moix - Fedora marketing group

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inactive ambassadors, a proposed solution
by Max Spevack 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

The purpose of this email is to try to lay out a roadmap for solving, once and for all, the question of inactive Fedora Ambassadors. GOALS OF IDENTIFYING INACTIVE AMBASSADORS: (1) Housekeeping. All projects need to have their membership rosters pruned from time to time. In Ambassadors, this is particularly important because non-Fedora people might get in touch with Ambassadors, and if they don't receive a response, it looks like Fedora is ignorning them. Other sub-projects for which identifying inactive ambassadors are crucial is packaging. If someone drops off the face of the earth, their packages need to be given to a new owner. Pages that need to a "refresh" policy: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/CountryList <-- I argue that CountryList is the wrong name for this page, and it should be called Directory. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/MembershipService/Verification https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Count <-- why do we even need this page? Doesn't the CountryList page serve the same purpose? How often are these pages currently updated? Is the process manual or automated, or a mixture of both? (2) Give a more prominent location to the "list of ambassadors per country". That page should be the most visited page in all of Fedora Ambassadors. People who are trying to find out about Fedora should be visiting it, and Ambassadors who are looking for other Fedora folks near them should be visiting it. We should have something on fedoraproject.org that says "are you interested in Fedora? Find a Fedora Ambassador near you to give you some information" and you type in your location, and it spits back a list of Ambassadors near you. (3) In order for any of (2) to be successful, we need to make sure that the people who are listed as Ambassadors are actually paying attention to the Ambassadors part of Fedora. If someone is not, it doesn't mean that they are a bad person -- it just means that they don't want to have to deal with organizing events or asking questions from newbies to the project. I wouldn't be offended if someone removed me from the Fedora Infrastructure group in FAS, because *I DON'T DO ANYTHING WITH FEDORA INFRASTRUCTURE*. It doesn't mean I'm a bad person or not a Fedora contributor, it just means that I don't participate in that part of Fedora. HOW DO WE IDENTIFY ACTIVE AMBASSADORS? We come up with a policy that is simple, and fair. An active ambassador is someone who: 1) Has joined the group in FAS. 2) Reads and/or posts on fedora-ambassadors-list. 3) Has a useful, up-to-date personal page on the Fedora wiki. And does one or more of: * Attends or organizes an event once in a release cycle. * Maintains a blog on Planet Fedora, with about one post per month. * Participates on fedora-list or fedoraforum.org to help people w/ questions. * Indicates their willingness to mentor and guide new contributors or new users. WHAT DO WE DO WITH INACTIVE AMBASSADORS? If someone is inactive, we *DO NOT* kick them out of the ambassadors group in FAS, and we *DO NOT* remove them from fedora-ambassadors list. But we should remove them from the "directory of Ambassadors sorted by country", which I argue again needs to be much more visible and useful, so that those inactive Ambassadors aren't being asked to do public-facing things. When someone re-surfaces or has more time for Ambassadors, we put them back on the directory. ================== Flame me. --Max

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Equivalent document for Fedora
by Harish Pillay 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Ambassadors - Hi. The following is from Linux Format and the document covers the use of Ubuntu all the way. Can we find a way to get Linux Format to perhaps update their Starter Pack with Fedora this time? http://www.tuxradar.com/linuxstarterpack Thanks. -- Harish Pillay 9v1hp hpillay(a)redhat.com +65.9636.9253 gpg id: 746809E3 gpg fingerprint: F7F5 5CCD 25B9 FC25 303E 3DA2 0F80 27DB 7468 09E3

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02 26 2009 FAmSCo Meeting report
by Thomas Canniot 01 Mar '09

01 Mar '09

Hello and welcome to this sixth FAMSCO weekly meeting summary. The latest meeting was hold on February 26th 2009 on #fedora-meeting Attendees: Susmit Shannigrahi Francesco Fugolini Max Spevack Joerg Simon Regreted attendees: ThomasCanniot David Nalley Rodrigo Padula Francesco starts by announcing the meeting agenda : 1) Current Tasks Review 2) Inactive Ambassadors 3) Budget 4) Defining a SOP for FreeMedia program 1) Current Tasks Review 1.5 Moving from Joerg application to TRAC to verify membership. The task has not been started yet, as the process needs to be explained by Joerg very deeply to Susmit. From Susmit POV, all FAmSCo related task should go to FAmSCo. 1.6 Ambassadors Membership Administration Joerg will use FAS as the basis for country list sorting to locate Ambassadors. Max pointed out that some people may not be sharing their country. He also adds that it is a good opportunity to ask people to keep their FAS information up to date and to remind them about our privacy options. 1.7 FAD FAD at SCALe was a good event from Max's POV. There were also good reports from Indian Ambassadors. 4 of them are now in various Fedora Project and active contributors. 1.8 Release Parties Francsco is waiting from all the release workflow to stabilize and look at what both Artwork and Marketing teams are doing to get the release ready. 1.13 Ambassadors Mentoring Max will do another Fedora Classroom session about how to be a good ambassador. 3) Budget Max informed FAmSCo that Q4 spending is 95% finalized. He also started Q1 planning with the NA ambassadors regional leaders. The LATAM budget is also going to be determined very soon with Rodrigo and his boss. Fugolini suggested it would be nice to invite regional leaders to join FAmSCo meeting and discuss directly with them. The idea was welcomed by FAmSCo. Susmit also added it would require budget to achieve some Fedora plan he has in his school. 4) Defining a SOP for FreeMedia program Susmit recall how the FreeMedia program was managed by Thomas Chung. Now thanks to the new infrastructure we are moving to, we have to clearly define a Standard Operating procedure: when to open the request form and when to close it. Susmit suggested to open it on the 2st of each month and close it few days afters. At the end of the months, it suggests to close all the pending requests. The meeting is adjourned.

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Fedora Ambassadors Welcome
by Joerg Simon 28 Feb '09

28 Feb '09

Dear Ambassadors, let´s welcome our new sponsored Ambassador Group Members: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Minemonics from Porto Alegre, RS - Brazil https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jainbasil from India https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Yevlempy from Durgapur, India https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:E1luca from Romania Regards Joerg p.s. Please do not send private "Welcome" Messages to Ambassador List -- Joerg (kital) Simon jsimon(a)fedoraproject.org http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JoergSimon http://kitall.blogspot.com Key Fingerprint: 3691 0989 2DCA 58A2 8D1F 2CAC C823 558E 5B5B 5688

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2009 Red Hat Summit Call for Papers
by inode0 28 Feb '09

28 Feb '09

As we work to organize a strong Fedora presence at the Red Hat Summit this September one thing I would like everyone to do now is submit a paper for consideration. The call for papers closes on March 9th. Details are available here: http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2009/ There are several tracks where talks about open source and Fedora in particular fit well into the conference program. If you are planning on attending please also take a minute to sign-up at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Summit_2009 so we can work together to make this a great event for the Fedora community. Thanks, John

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02 19 2009 FAmSCo Meeting report
by Thomas Canniot 28 Feb '09

28 Feb '09

Hello and welcome to this fifthe FAMSCO weekly meeting summary. I sincerely apologize for being late on FAmSCo reporting. The latest meeting was hold on February 19th 2009 on #fedora-meeting Attendees: Rodrigo Padula Susmit Shannigrahi Francesco Fugolini Max Spevack Regreted attendees: ThomasCanniot Joerg Simon David Nalley Francesco starts by announcing the meeting agenda : 1) Current Tasks Review 2) Ambassadors template 3) Inactive Ambassadors 4) Budget 1) Current Tasks Review 1.9 LATAM Events Rodirogo Padula is leading a global LATAM effort to organize FLISOL in many countries. FLISOL is supported by big companies like Oracle. Rodrigo is also negociating about having a FUDConS during this big event. Mentorship meeting A meeting took place and the log of the meeting can be read there: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mentors_Meeting_Minutes_2009-02-15 Rodrigo volunteered himself to attend next Mentoring meeting. 2) Ambassadors template No update, then the task is skipped by owner. 3) Inactive Ambassadors Max wrote a email giving a clear and concrete proposal to have a better management of members. In this mail, he defines what an « active ambassador » is. However Rodrigo pointed out that Max does not mention removing Ambassadors. Francsco sums up Max's proposal: to have an active ambassadors contact list page, which would make the inactive ambassdors remain hidden. Rodrigo disagrees with this proposal, as from his POV, some people don't help the Fedora Project at all, but keep the same rights. Max intervened to explain his POV: make ambassadors management as simple as possible, and let the inactive/dead account remain as they are. He also add that people would never agree on a unique definition of active/inactive definition for ambassadors. What remains important is that we have to find a way to be sure someone who emails an ambassador will have an answer very quickly. The meeting is adjourned.

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A new community group
by Ali R 27 Feb '09

27 Feb '09

count me in guys..just let us know when and in which channel are you hosting it On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:00 PM, < fedora-ambassadors-list-request(a)redhat.com> wrote: > A new community group -- Ali Raza President Computer Cell Fedora Ambassador Department of Computer Science & Information Technology NWFP UET msn: dejavu87(a)gmail.com yahoo: r3b3l_87 skype: ali.uet cell# +92321-986-2931 http://dejavu87.blogspot.com

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ambassadors February 2009