ambassadors September 2008

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Greetings from new member
by Andrey Padiy 07 Sep '08

07 Sep '08

Hi, My name is Andriy. I started using Linux a few years ago and played with different distros eventually falling in love with Fedora. I work as an IT support officer and have some programming background. Currently based in London, UK but was born in Ukraine (Chernihiv). I would like to represent Linux in region of Ukraine where I come from and get Involved in translation. I set up a group (http://vkontakte.ru/club4453181) in Russian facebook (used by former USSR countries ) http://vkontakte.ru and translated http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/TalkingPoints page in to Ukrainian. Also I have created a simple how to in Ukrainian to help those that wish to try Fedora. Internet is growing fast in Ukraine and I believe its the right time to make people aware of Fedora. I ve started inviting local students and young people to join the group. Also I will start getting involved in Localization project from next week. If anyone needs help please do not hesitate to contact me. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Hyperbole -- Best Regards

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Re: [Ambassadors] Submit your request for Free Fedora DVD
by Samavedam Vijayasaradhi 06 Sep '08

06 Sep '08

we can create a repository or something where ever the fedora ambassadors are available and from where the media requests are coming the most....also not many ppl will be able to give media on their own so it would be better if there are two repositories one where ppl can afford to give media and another where the dvd's have to be brought to the ambassadors for collecting fedora

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Submit your request for Free Fedora DVD
by ElectroMech 06 Sep '08

06 Sep '08

We request you all to submit the request for Free DVD of Fedora 9 to following website. This is just for our record. So we can submit monthly report to fedora How many DVD requested and supplied. http://www.vglug.info/get-fedora-dvd Give your feed back. -- -- Nilesh Vaghela ElectroMech Redhat Channel Partner and Training Partner 16, Sun Rise complex, Nr. Mansi cross Road, Satellite Rd, Ahmedabad 25, The Emperor, Fatehgunj, Baroda. www.electromech.info

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Re: [Ambassadors] Submit your request for Free Fedora DVD
by ankur sinha 05 Sep '08

05 Sep '08

--- On Fri, 5/9/08, ankur sinha <sanjay_ankur(a)yahoo.co.in> wrote: From: ankur sinha <sanjay_ankur(a)yahoo.co.in> Subject: Re: [Ambassadors] Submit your request for Free Fedora DVD To: "nehal dattani" <nehal.dattani(a)gmail.com> Date: Friday, 5 September, 2008, 10:54 PM >>--- On Fri, 5/9/08, nehal dattani <nehal.dattani(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>From: nehal dattani <nehal.dattani(a)gmail.com> >>Subject: Re: [Ambassadors] Submit your request for Free Fedora DVD >>To: sanjay_ankur(a)yahoo.co.in >>Date: Friday, 5 September, 2008, 7:33 PM >>On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 12:54 PM, ankur sinha <sanjay_ankur(a)yahoo.co.in> wrote: >>hi,we already have a free media and a local contacts tracking page.. I know that we already >>have a free medai and a local tracking page. >>Have you received personal media requests?Yes i have received many requests for >>personal media and distributed it. >>please refer >>fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/ FreeMedia/India/LocalContactsfedoraproject.org/wiki/>>Distribution/FreeMedia/India >>Why dont you join these programmes?? There are only 5 of us according to the page.. :( >>This is the official fedora programme.. You can first fill up the free-media requests and also >>answer personal requests? >>Now its my time to say you that you pls refer >>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia/India/LocalContacts >>My name is very first in that list >>Regards, >>Nehal Dattani hi, i dont understand the "Now its my time to say you that you pls refer .." bit.. Itll be better if all concerned sign up for the one already present freemedia program (apart local contacts) rather than having more indivisual ones..Lets us keep a record of things.. Also if you send media in the local contacts page please put it up on the tracker page.. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia/India/LocalContacts/L… regards, Ankur Get an email ID as yourname(a)ymail.com or yourname(a)rocketmail.com. Click here. Unlimited freedom, unlimited storage. Get it now, on http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html/

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Greetings from Sherbrooke, Québec
by Oisin Feeley 05 Sep '08

05 Sep '08

Hello Ambassadors, I'd like to introduce myself to the Ambassadors group. I'm Oisín Feeley and am writing from Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada. I've been involved with GNU/Linux since 1995 with the majority of that experience devoted to Red Hat and latterly Fedora. I started experimenting with GNU/Linux when I was a student programming in C using Borland's IDE for Windows and also using Solaris-2.4(SunOS-5.4). On the recommendation of a colleague tried Emacs, gcc and gdb on Red Hat Linux 2.0. It was a revelation both in terms of the workflow and the amount of knowledge freely shared (especially in contrast to the clunky, expensive knowledgebase I had to subscribe to in order to find out about Microsoft Foundation Classes and the impact of the price of Sun's compiler on the laboratory budget). Soon I was sucked in to the excitement of trying different Linux distributions and after some fun with Debian and Slackware settled back on Red Hat Linux. Although I experimented actively with other distributions and had work requirements to support Debian I remained impressed with the commitment of the Red Hat to hire the best developers producing Free Software (for example with the acquisition of Cygnus) and ended up taking the RHCT and RHCE. The foundation of the Fedora Project and its support by Red Hat continues this trend of a successful enterprise carefully nurturing the base of Free Software in which it thrives. Currently I work supporting Fedora, CentOS and Debian for some small businesses. I'm also involved in developing modules for Drupal (using JavaScript and PHP) for an education-sector company. Within the Fedora Project my contributions centre on writing the Development Beat for Fedora Weekly News. I also participate as part of the editorial team of FWN. I would like to raise the profile of Fedora where I live. Currently most Linux activity seems to be centred on Ubuntu and there are misconceptions and misunderstandings about what Fedora can offer. This area of Canada is predominantly francophone which adds an extra challenge to my task as I'm originally an English-speaker (from Ireland), mais je suis étudiant en français! Best wishes, -- Oisin Feeley http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OisinFeeley

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Help needed regarding establishing wifi internet connection in F9
by Sarbartha Sengupta 05 Sep '08

05 Sep '08

Can someone help me setup a wifi internet connection in F9? My laptop can detect the wifi network and tries to connect. After a while, it asks for the WEP key. After I provide it, it tries to reconnect and then asks for the key again. I am unable to resolve this problem. Please help me. Yours sincerely, Sarbartha Sengupta

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by sujan sunil pilli 05 Sep '08

05 Sep '08

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How to Organise Fedora Event in my Region
by Rishikesh Sharma 05 Sep '08

05 Sep '08

Hi All, I want to organise Fedora Event, maybe Fedora 10 release or media distribution in my region for the very first time. I am also the only fedora ambassador in my region. So, i would like to organise fedora event for the first time in my region. Please help and support me to organise such event in my region for the first time. Rishikesh Sharma Fedora Ambassador Imphal, Manipur, India.

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A greeting from Tunisia
by Wael Ammar 05 Sep '08

05 Sep '08

Hello everybody, My name is Wael Ammar, I have 22 year old and I'm studing computer science, I use Fedora since 3 year now and I'm glad to represent Fedora in my country => Tunisia, as an Ambassador. I did many manifestation in my institute and I'm the vice president of a free sofware club and one of the four founding member of Fedora Tunisia Team. <http://www.fedora-tunisia.org/> I plan to contribute at Fedora in two project : translation and packaging. I hope that I will find a good help. -- Wael Ammar (TheCyberXP) Tunisian Fedora Ambassador Vice President Club FreeWays My WebBlog : http://thecyberxp.tuxfamily.org/

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Fedora Ambassador
by Eugene Jansen van Rensburg 05 Sep '08

05 Sep '08

Good day all, My name is Eugene I live in Polokwane, South Africa. I am sort of new to this game but I'm already in love with it... I can't get enough. At the moment I am contracted to the Department of Health and Social Development as a SysAdmin. I support 86 RHEL 4 servers and have the RHCE certification. --For the "Ambassadors" Project-- I am planing to start a LUG over here. I already have a sponsor for the domain and for hosting. I have 4 other friend that is also very keen to get into it with me. Fedora is my distro of choice so obliviously I'll be promoting that lots and lots on the new LUG site. There is a big "Open Source" trend going on around here and every body wants to know about it. It's almost the same as when they first introduced "Brought Band Internet Access" in South Africa. I government circles this is even bigger. They do not have a clue what open source is but they want to implement it. So supplying information and about Fedora and Open source will be my main focus for now. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Eugenejvr https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/CountryList#SouthernAfrica Regards, Eugene

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