Fwd: [Ambassadors] Summary of decision at today's FAmSCo meeting: Inactive Ambassadors
by susmit shannigrahi
As you'll see in the forthcoming meeting minutes, FAmSCo voted on
dealing with inactive Ambassadors in this weeks meeting. There were
other discussions that occurred at the FAmSCo meeting, but not
decision was made, this summary is limited to how FAmSCo voted to
handle inactive Ambassadors.
You may recall that over the years that this discussion has regularly
popped up on the Fedora list. One of the problems that was
consistently faced, in those discussions was a means of determining
whether an Ambassador was active or not. It was often hard to tell
what was going on in the regional or local space, and the large
variety of ways of being active within the scope of the Ambassadors
subproject.. An arbitrary standard that could be applied to all fairly
was a missing piece. There have also been attempts in multiple regions
to confirm whether an Ambassador is active by sending them an email
and asking them to respond, these met with what can at best be
described as marginal success. For better or worse, that has left us
with no good way to regularly maintain membership like other
subprojects such as Art and Package Maintainers have in place.
Recently however Fedora's Infrastructure team forced a password reset
to mitigate a security vulnerability. This involved sending out
numerous emails notifiying and reminding people of the fact that this
password reset was mandatory and failure to act would result in their
Fedora account being marked inactive and thus unusable unless a
password reset occurred. This effectively meant that all Fedora
services (Talk, wiki edits, cvs, fedorahosted, etc) were unavailable
to people who chose to ignore the repeated directions.
This provided us with an ideal arbitrary, test that was easy to apply
to everyone, and provides something far more manageable than "I'm
here" messages.
To give you an idea of the scope of the problem, we asked
Infrastructure to tell us how many Ambassador accounts were marked
inactive. Out of 772 Ambassadors 300 of them were marked inactive. I
was honestly shocked it was that high, but really given that we are 3
years into this project it doesn't surprise me that this is the case.
It is natural in any project for people to leave or become
disinterested.
FAmSCo voted on the following proposal in its regularly scheduled
meeting this week:
That FAmSCo direct the Ambassador Membership Service to request from
Infrastructure a list of all users who are Ambassadors and whose
account has remained inactive for a period of greater than 30 days
after a password reset, and further that FAmSCo direct the Membership
Service to purge said users from the Ambassadors list
At the time 5 members of FAmSCo were present, and 5 +1's were
recorded, and thus the proposal passed.
FAmSCo realizes this is a topic that has and will likely continue to
cause much consternation. So I'll note a few points. This in no way
stops a person from re-applying to the Ambassadors should they find
themselves purged under this policy. I fully expect that no one who
reads this will be hindered by this policy as it is still possible to
reset your password and thus change your account to an active state.
(go here to do that: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/login)
In all honesty there was discussion that we should wait on
Infrastructure and let them do the purging. (Infrastructure has
indicated to FAmSCo that in the coming months they will be removing
all groups from a Fedora Account that is inactive in order to truly
mitigate the security risk.) As easy as that would have been to do,
global policy for the Ambassadors project is the responsibility of
FAmSCo and we won't shirk that duty.
I am sure there will be a flurry of questions and comments about this
policy. I encourage you to post to this thread or another on the
mailing list. That said please feel free to contact me or any member
of FAmSCo directly via email or find us on IRC.
David Nalley
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Spin Help
by A. Mani
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I have put up two kick start files at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Spins_Custom/DF-Spin
Gnome can be added (if there is enough space). The version with
locales will be used.
I need some help for the %post section .... how is that done with
revisor? examples?
Do check it with Revisor.
Best
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Please test our new calendering solutions.
by susmit shannigrahi
Hi,
I am very happy to let you know that finally, fedora is going to have
their much awaited calendering system. This is in response to
infrastructure ticket #1197 opened a month ago.
For testing purpose, I have tried out many solutions, but the two most
suitable contenders are
1.Zikula
2.Citadel
They are already on publictest15.
Please refer to this[1] page,check them out, and put up your valuable comments.
The links of the test instances along with username/passwd is on that page.
With your help and feedbacks, we can move to production pretty soon.
Thanks.
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Test/Calendering_Solution
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And now there's a wiki page [was:Re: [fedora-india] How many ...]
by sankarshan
<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RegionalTeams/India/Notes> for lack of
a better place-holder.
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Sri Ramadoss M <shriramadhas(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
> <foss.mailinglists(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> I was wondering, somewhat idly I must admit, about the numbers amongst us:
>>
>> - who are now on Rawhide
>
> I am unable to understand what you intend here..
Just asking how many of the subscribers to the fedora-india mailing
list use Rawhide on either their production boxes or, development
boxes.
The specific intention is to figure out whether the lots of mails that
I read on various mailing lists about usage of various EOL-ed Fedora
releases also reflect on the list.
On Rawhide, an user would be faced with a number of issues and, since
I don't see much of the issues discussed, figuring out who uses
Rawhide also provides a pointer to the person I can get folks to
contact if they have Rawhide related questions on IRC ie.
#fedora-india.
>> - who use the local language desktop
>
> on Ubuntu - Yes, and when I use fedora I do occasionally.
>
> buggy :-)
Interesting. I haven't seen much discussion around this on the list. I
assume you use ta_IN as the language.
>> - who, during install fests and the like mention and demonstrate the
>> local language desktop
>
> +1
>
>> - who know about Transifex and related pieces of the Fedora L10n
>> infrastructure to talk about it
>
> Transifex - isn't it yet rosetta jam?
I wouldn't really know about Rosetta jam, but, I'd like to point out a
tweet <http://twitter.com/OgMaciel/status/1392026216> and, thereon
<http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/325311/a36782368782bd86/>
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Re: [Ambassadors] Please take care of freemedia requests for the Month of March, 2009.
by susmit shannigrahi
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:37 PM, David Ramsey
<diamond_ramsey(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Susmit,
>
> Greetings. :)
>
> Thank you for your e-mails. :)
>
> I was reviewing a user "Devendra Vaja for an i386 DVD" at this URL -
>
> https://fedorahosted.org/freemedia/ticket/285
>
> Now, I am receiving this error -
>
> =====================================
>
> Forbidden
>
> TICKET_VIEW privileges are required to perform this operation
You need two things....
1. You must be a member of the Freemedia group in the FAS.
2. You need to login with your FAS account.
We had some complain from some people over privacy of their personal data.
So we implemented a two step authorization.
Please login using the "login" at the top of the page.
Thanks.
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Fwd: [Ambassadors] FAmSCo regional meetings schedule
by susmit shannigrahi
Everyone interested is invited.
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From: Francesco Ugolini <fugolini(a)fedoraproject.org>
Date: Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:51 AM
Subject: [Ambassadors] FAmSCo regional meetings schedule
To: Fedora Ambassadors List <fedora-ambassadors-list(a)redhat.com>
Hi,
during the last FAmSCo meeting [1] we planned a series of FAmSCo
regional meetings to have in-depth discussion with the most active
ambassadors in each region. This will give you and us the possibility
to understand what it could be done to improve the ambassadors
experience.
This is the proposed schedule for such meetings (dd/MM/yy):
02/04/2009 - NA
16/04/2009 - EMEA
30/04/2009 - India/APJ
07/05/2009 - LATAM
I invite all the interested to add the topics you want to discuss
(about your region) directly in this thread.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2009-March/msg004...
Regards
Francesco Ugolini
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Fwd: fossmeet@NITC report
by susmit shannigrahi
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From: Amit <amitshruti123(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:50 AM
Subject: fossmeet@NITC report
To: Susmit <susmit.shannigrahi(a)gmail.com>
Hi, Susmit
students were busy with their second mid-term so they
delayed in sending the report, here i am forwarding the report
prepared by them. in case something is missed please let me know. Dr.
K.P. Mohandas was the faculty incharge for the fossmeet.
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Fifth edition of FOSSMEET@NITC begins
A three-day technical workshop on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)
titled `FOSS Meet @NITC' was inaugurated today at The National
Institute of Technology, Calicut (NIT-C). The fifth edition of
FOSSMEET will be conducted from Feb 27th to Mar 1st. The event is
jointly organised by IEEE Student Branch, NIT-C, FOSS Cell, NITC,
Computer Society of India (CSI), Calicut Chapter, and Computer
Science and Engineering Association (CSEA), NIT-C.
The Chief guest for the evening was Mr. Sanjeev Saini, Project
Engineer, NRCFOSS, Chennai. In the inaugural address he spoke about
the increasing trends of open software usage in India and on the
opportunities it offers. Dr. K.P. Mohandas, Professor, NITC in his
address spoke on the growth of the FOSS community and its activities
in NITC over the last 5 years. Mr. Rajagopalan, Professor NITC, Mr.
Deepak R, Lecturer NITC and Mr.Rakesh, Student Co-ordinator,
The inaugural session was followed by a talk on FOSS philosophy.
Day 2 of the FOSSMeet started with a talk on coding in Python and
emerging web technologies. A session dedicated to implementation of
FOSS in schools was held for high-school children, visiting from the
nearby schools. A session on FOSS in Business was conducted by Lepeesh
Parat, a successful founder and CEO of Z-Beanz Technologies. The
session was followed by an amazing demonstration on Graphics Design by
Niyam Bhushan. A talk on OpenOffice and Linux Lab was conducted by
Rajesh Sola. A workshop on Font Editing and Design was held by Hiran.
A video conference of Paul Frields, leader of the Fedora Project was
hosted, and was followed by an eye-opening talk on blogging by Hari
Shanker, a student of Barton Hill Engineering College,Trivandrum.
Day 3 kicked off with a session on Free and Open source mobile phones,
OpenMoko - a recent innovation and emerging technology in the world of
mobile phones, by Rakshat Hooja of the IDA Systems. An interesting
session on Camera Hacking was conducted by Sujith. It was followed by
a workshop on 'Qt - a toolkit' by Pradeepto and his team. The day
ended with a session on Video Editing by Niyam Bhushan and an AVR
workshop by Deepak, a final year student of NITC. The FOSSMeet was
then concluded with the message of open source being imparted to the
delegates.
A series of talks and workshops by around 20 speakers from across
India was held during the FOSSMeet 09. The talks covered all areas
including graphic design, business, mobile and blogging. The proceeds
of the meet looks forward to developers to join in and contribute to
the FOSS movement.
For more details visit, www.nitc.fossmeet.in
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For any clarifications contact:
Dr. K P Mohandas
Ph: 09744655408
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Event Box for India
by Dipanjan Chakraborty
For quite a few days we have been contemplating on setting up an Event Box
for India. One that can be shipped around at various events held in India
and will contain all the necessary items for an event.
We were stuck at the container issue when we last discussed this. I had
talked to dealers of Pelican cases in India and have received some
responses.
Inviting everyone's feedback in this context,
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