ambassadors February 2009

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A new community group
by CODE BRE＠KER 27 Feb '09

27 Feb '09

Hi to all my fellow ambassadors , i have just made a new group at facebook, the reason behind is that i want to activate the promotion and acknowledging activities in Pakistan. which are not been updated , so i want all of you to be suppportive and do participate in it, and especially all ambassadors from Pakistan should join it and have a regular updating session here. so that we all should be contacted and the combine efforts we could do, should be planned..And all other ambassadors are to be invited , to join so they can guide us, in this regard.. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=64723013320 Best Regards to all -- C0DE BRE@KER

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NA: OLPC 4th grade math development list.
by David Nalley 27 Feb '09

27 Feb '09

Hey guys, For those of you in NA working to put XOs in developers hands - there is a list you need to point them to: http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/fourthgrademath Let's make sure that we get the previous recipients subscribed to that list as well.

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Active or Inactive
by Satyajit Ranjeev 26 Feb '09

26 Feb '09

Hi all, I have been an ambassador for Fedora for the past one year. During this time I have promoted fedora by conducting seminars and talking to people about fedora. I have also provided many of them with fedora live discs and installed it on their usbs. Now I have not been active on the irc or the mailing list. Yet I am very passionate about fedora and have been using it since fedora core 4. Does my stand make me an inactive ambassador or an active one? Satyajit

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BarCamp Mobile (Alabama, US)
by Paul W. Frields 26 Feb '09

26 Feb '09

A press notice was received by our press(a)fp.o email address to tell us about this event: http://barcampmobile.org/BarCamp_Mobile/Welcome.html BarCamp Mobile (Alabama, USA), March 20-21, 2009 If you're a US ambassador interested in attending, free registration is available through the event site. If you'd like to bring some Fedora media, I'm sure that can be arranged through the normal NA Ambassador channels. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug

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Fedora Pecha Kucha Hour
by inode0 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

This may be an off the wall idea but bear with me (flame me later if you want). I recently ran across the pecha kucha[1][2] style of presentation and began thinking about different aspects of it that I find appealing. The short description of this style is that each presentation consists of exactly 20 slides and each slide is displayed for exactly 20 seconds as the speaker talks. The entire presentation is 6 minutes and 40 seconds long. Period. So similar in length to a lightning talk but visually more structured. So what do I find appealing about this? (1) Strict time limit - make an interesting point and sit down. (2) With the 20 second per slide rule the role of the slides has to change from traditional slide deck presentations. This I think lends itself to encouraging the presenter to focus more on using slides for visual support of his talk rather than for conveying written information. (3) Resulting from the strict timing the presenter needs to really work on timing his talk to stay in sync with the slides. This forces a focus on preparation that I think might also help focus the talk. (4) Imagining myself in the audience I think I would find this highly entertaining especially if done well. If not done well, it only last 6 minutes and 40 seconds. As you think more about this style one can see it being more amenable to certain sorts of subject matter but with imagination and cleverness I think even quite technical material could be presented in this format. Where am I going with this? Well, in about 1 hour you could have probably 6 or 7 of these talks. Are any of you uninhibited enough to consider trying a Fedora themed pecha kucha hour at the Summit? I'm thinking of a lead-off talk about Fedora which would briefly introduce our four foundations followed by a talk about each of those four foundations. John [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecha_Kucha [2] http://www.pecha-kucha.org/

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Fwd: [FedoraPH] TIP ITE Roadshow
by Heherson Pagcaliwagan 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

Forwarding here Engel's report on the TIP ITE Roadshow held last week. I wasn't able to attend this one personally but Engels and company look like they had fun. :D ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Engels Antonio <fedora(a)bluepoint.com.ph> Date: Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 5:44 PM Subject: Re: [FedoraPH] TIP ITE Roadshow To: Heherson Pagcaliwagan <azneita(a)fedoraproject.org> In case you're interested, the TIP ITE Roadshow pictures are online here: http://fedora.bluepoint.com.ph/index.php?entry=20090218191420&show=album Sorry I forgot to announce it last week. :( Thanks to Allan and Mark for manning the Fedora booth with me. :) Please visit the following URL for the full thread: http://fedora.bluepoint.com.ph//index.php?entry=20090218191420&show=comments -- Fedora Philippines http://fedora.bluepoint.com.ph/ -- Heherson Pagcaliwagan http://project.azneita.org

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Location of a FA !
by Hisham Abdel-Magid 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

hello all ^_^ i have a Q... when i signed to join FA i used to live and work in my home country (Sudan), and i am the only FA there ... now i work in a different country (Qatar), in which it appears that there is no ambassador yet. ... so, my Q is: I do promote and assist about Fedora wherever i go and work, but where shall I count my self? Sudan or Qatar? .. am i a FA in both? .. if "Yes" i would be the "only" FA in either! .. if "No" then do i need to re-submit for FAS account with the other country?! ... i think i'm a bit confused :| ... (besides, i think those r more than one Q ^_^) ... any sort of advise would be really appreciated regards -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HishamAbdelMagid Fedora Ambassador in Sudan,

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Organize NA and EMEA IRC meeting
by Francesco Ugolini 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

Sometime ago, I was asked to help organizing a shared meeting with EMEA and NA to share ideas about initiatives and have a better look at each other. I want to ask all the interest to think about it, once again, maybe trying to find a time/date to make this important meeting happening. Regards Francesco Ugolini

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Re: Ed Tech Day Ithaca College in NY
by Karlie Robinson 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

Samuel Klein wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Greg Dekoenigsberg <gdk(a)redhat.com> wrote: > >> Get people to think about the following problem: what if, instead of >> Addison-Wesley producing dozens of 4th grade math textbooks, a community of >> educators could get together to produce one single electronic 4th grade >> textbook? Solving this problem unlocks a whole world. Encourage people to >> think *deeply* about the ramifications of this. >> > > without seeing it, I'll second that. > > SJ > > Ok, so if you don't mind me borrowing this what about the presentation being titled - One Laptop Per Child - What if...? Synopsis - What if a community of educators could get together to produce one single electronic 4th grade textbook? Of course I'll cover history and mission of OLPC, but I'd like the talk to focus on the NA Ambassadors work on the 4th grade math curriculum. By then I also hope to have RIT on board and helping so I can show that it's not just a hypothetical.

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Fedora Ambassadors Welcome
by Joerg Simon 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

Dear Ambassadors, let´s welcome our new sponsored Ambassador Group Members: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jrobertomercadog from Mexico https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Theamoeba from SouthAfrica 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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