ambassadors September 2008

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Software Freedom Day 2008 (Philippines)
by Heherson Pagcaliwagan 22 Sep '08

22 Sep '08

Seems like *(a)fedoraproject.org was out so i'm resending my report... typos and all :D I was waiting for Ma'am Magie to post the pics of our recently concluded SFD celebration but since she's still probably recuperating from the event, let me, in her stead, report what happened last Saturday at the National Computer Center here in Quezon City. Official registration was supposed to start 8:30 AM but when I passed by the venue around 7:30AM on my way to my office, students were already milling around the complex and a provincial bus was already parked beside the venue. Talk about being early! When I returned around 8:45AM, the place was already packed and Ma'am Magie was already going on circles :) I was designated as the booth man by virtue of seniority :D *(Truth be told, Ma'am Magie was busy organizing the whole event while Sir Engels was giving speeches)*. The Fedora booth consisted of a tarpaulin, flyers, two LiveUSB Station posters and my office laptop featuring Fedora 9. I originally planned to bring my Asus eee loaded with eeedora to the event but I was locked out of our office with no keys -- stupid me. A friend later took pity on me and sent for his two laptops *(both of which are Windows)* and together we burned away those USB sticks. Apart from burning LiveUSBs, I gave away flyers, cajoled SFD-goers to try Fedora 9 using my laptop, gave impromptu talks about the merit of Fedora and its difference with other Linux distributions (most of the time - Ubuntu), met students, teachers and other professionals and had a blast the whole time. Talking particularly with the kids made me feel like a rock star :) The major drawer of our booth was certainly the LiveUSB creation. It would have been FreeMedia but early on, we have decided to do away with the distribution of DVDs and LiveCDs because that would entail spending money we don't really have much of. What meager funds we have scrapped together were funneled into the whole event. I think our FreeMedia program could expect a lot more requests coming from the Philippines - I just gave away its URL. Either way, we had registered around 50 individuals who wanted to hear more about the Fedora Project and possibly contribute themselves. These included teachers who want their students contribute as ambassadors and/or developers, students who wanted to make a case study in the use of Fedora and professionals who are interested in holding seminars/trainings in deploying Fedora in their line of work. I'm now helping these guys get onboard the project. This is just first event so future events would certainly be better. ~ Herson

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Bounces on Ambassador List
by Joerg Simon 22 Sep '08

22 Sep '08

Hi List, as some of you have noticed, we had trouble with bounces from @fedoraproject.org aliases. It seems there was a outage on one of the Mailservers. <quote> ... while talking to int-mx1.corp.redhat.com.: >>> DATA <<< 500 5.5.1 Command unrecognized: "XXXX" 554 5.0.0 Service unavailable </quote> I have put a ticket to the Infrastructure Team - https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/859 and i hope for investigation and a solution - we had similar trouble with List in the last weeks https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2008-August/msg0011… thanks for patience Joerg -- 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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Re: [Ambassadors] first time Fedora user: The Linux Girlfriend Test
by Scott Thistle 22 Sep '08

22 Sep '08

My girlfriend is a recent linux convert and is now going to work on her RHCE, so when I saw this, I thought of reading it :) ----- Original message ----- > -- > Fedora-ambassadors-list mailing list > Fedora-ambassadors-list(a)redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list

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first time Fedora user: The Linux Girlfriend Test
by Scott Thistle 22 Sep '08

22 Sep '08

I found this very interesting read. I have run into a lot of the things that this person did when trying to set up someone new on Fedora or any other distro. I thought I would share this as it does mention a lot about this new users experience with Fedora. http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/the-linux-girlfrie… -- Scott Thistle scott(a)tekkie.org sthistle(a)fedoraproject.org https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Sthistle

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New Fedora Ambassador Group Members
by Joerg Simon 22 Sep '08

22 Sep '08

Hi, as you know we have changed the Ambassador Membership Policy to reduce the overhead of Introduction and Welcome Messages. If you want welcome a new Ambassador, because of regional or other aspects, please do this in a private message. I will Introduce and welcome new Ambassadors to this List once a week. There are some of "pre-policy" Ambassadors who have not subscribed the ML yet - they will send Intros as usual. So, here they are: Welcome to Fedora Ambassadors, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Setkeh https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Dp67 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pengjiayou Health and Happiness Joerg -- 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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EventBox becomes reality
by Clint Savage 20 Sep '08

20 Sep '08

So I've been working pretty much to get this EventBox[1] idea off the ground. It looks like things are going now. I've loaded some stuff into it and just need to make sure I've not missed anything and I'll be sending it off to Jeffrey this coming week or so. I've uploaded some pictures of the new Pelican 1610 series box (not too shabby) which should hold all of the items on the list quite nicely. Enjoy the pictures. Cheers, Clint 1 - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/EventBox

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Event Report:: Benedict College
by David Nalley 20 Sep '08

20 Sep '08

Another person that I met at the Palmetto Open Source Conference this year was <a href="http://with-robot.blogspot.com/">Dr. Hong Jiang</a> a professor at <a href="http://benedict.edu">Benedict College</a>. She invited me to come speak to computer science and other students. I was told around 40-100 would show up, but when everything was said and done I think the number was closer to 120-150. The lecture room was standing room only. Apparently there are about 40 people in the class that I was talking to, but the event had been well publicized ahead of time, and lots of students attended, including the Vice President of the college, the Assistant Dean of the School of Science Technology, Engineering and Mathematics as well as 3-4 professors. I talked a bit about Fedora and more directly about the benefits of using Open Source as an educational tool. I talked about some of the opportunities that existed to get involved with Fedora and OLPC - and of course the XO that I brought along received lots of attention. In addition I passed out over 100 Fedora 9 LiveCDs.There were a number of questions - to the point that we had to limit them due to schedule constraints on the room. After the presentation I received a short tour of the campus, was introduced to the campus <a href="http://www.benedict.edu/divisions/stdnta/campus_safety/staff/bc-campus_safe…">Police Chief</a>, as well as several other faculty and staff members, and enjoyed a wonderful lunch. The group was very receptive - and I have a number of follow ups to make already.

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introduction
by Oscar Rombo 19 Sep '08

19 Sep '08

Hi, I am new to fedora ambassadors and consequently fedora ambassadors list.I am currently working as a telecommunications engineer and an active fedora user both at hoem and at work.My personal info is as follows First name: Oscar Lastname: Rombo D.O.B: 7.11.1982 Location: Nairobi, Kenya MSN: oska_rombo AT hotmail DOT com Yahoo:ootiende AT yahoo DOT com Mobile: +254723270017 <http://fedoracoreprojekat.blogspot.com/> *e-mail: jajuok AT fedoraproject DOT org I am currently a member of Fedora desktop Fedora Marketing. I plan to spread fedora to the Student/tech/home user community in Nairobi Kenya and the whole east african region.I am active in tech mailing lists e.g skunkworks who organise yearly barcamps in Nairobi Kenya. I also plan to attend gatherings to recruit fedora users and increase the current number in the east african region by using social networks,blogs,dailies and other opportunity available.I look forward to working with the whole ambassadors team. -- Regards, Otiende Oscar Rombo www.oscarrombo.com http://blog.oscarrombo.com

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introduction
by Ferenc Pravda 19 Sep '08

19 Sep '08

Hello, I am novice in Fedora Ambassadors, and glad to become a member of Fedora Ambassadors Group. Just recently subscribed to the Ambassadors mailing list. Personal info: First name: Ferenc Lastname: Pravda Born: 29.04.1982. Location: Serbia, Vrsac IRC (Freenode) Nick: pravda013 MSN: pravda013 AT hotmail DOT com Yahoo:ferenc_pr AT yahoo DOT com Mobile: +381 64 2677942 *Blog: http://fedoracoreprojekat.blogspot.com/ *e-mail: pravda013 AT fedoraproject DOT org *gpg key: 9A3FB4B6 *key fingerprint: 8A76 A556 EC86 7222 0EF0 B9E8 76AF BB74 9A3F B4B6 *Public SSH Key: ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1y.... Registered Linux user: 477917 Started in: Fedora Ambassador in Serbia. Member of Serbian Translation Team. Coordinator of FreeMedia in Serbia - FreeMedia Serbia Member of Fedora Marketing Group. My plans: I wish to become active in Ambassadors, because of that i join to the Ambassadors Group with large plans for Fedora Project in Serbia (Fedora Freemedia, Events, user support...etc) in appetite. In Serbia is a little number of Fedora users under 200 users, my plan is to enlarge Fedora community in Serbia soon trought FreeMedia, Local Marketing, Serbian Forums, Blogs...etc Therefore i wish to recruit additional users and trainee to enlarge community. I have plan to join an Fedora Event (OpenExpo 2008 Zurich, but it is impossible to me. For the time being, i will be present at Fedora Events in Serbia. Maybe i will organize some Event in my city, and some othere city with your support. (introduction in Fedora 10, or else)?! Glad to become a par of Fedora project and communiti. Best regards, Ferenc Pravda pravda013(a)fedoraproject.org Key Fingerprint: 8A76 A556 EC86 7222 0EF0 B9E8 76AF BB74 9A3F B4B6 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Pravda013_ENGLISH http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/pravda013 (Serbian)

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Fedora Project in Hungary - University of Szeged
by Joerg Simon 19 Sep '08

19 Sep '08

Dear members of The Open Source Laboratory [1], Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Joerg Simon. I am an active community contributor at the Fedora Project. The Fedora Project is a Free Open Source Linux Development Platform, where the community strives for the best and latest software technologies to the Open Source community. As a Fedora Ambassador, my major task involves in working with volunteers all over the world, who contribute with respect to their expertise to Fedora. [2] Personally i love your country since my early youth, i value the People from Hungary very much and i know that many smart Hungarians have the potential to contribute to the Fedora Project in many ways. [3] We have some Hungarians who help us with localization (like many other contributors around the world). We have valuable contributors in your neighbour countries but as you may have noticed, we have no representatives in your Country [4] who can help us find the best Event in order to present the Fedora Project and get in touch with the local educational institutions to show them the benefits of contributing to the Fedora Project. In November 2008, the "Fedora Ambassador Day EMEA" will take place. [5] One goal will be to extend our work in Hungary and it would be great, if you can help us to enhance our presence at a local Event (booth,speech,...) in Hungary in 2009. [6] With our recent legal status Fedora EMEA, we have the means to help you promote Fedora. Let us know if you are interested about those means. We also had community contributors excelled in various key leading positions, such as Fedora Electronic Lab architect, Fedora Spins maintainer, Fedora Marketing Manager,.... We would appreciate if you can forward this email to those who might be interested in contributing for the Fedora Project as a community member. Thank you for your cooperation in the Open Source ECO system. Regards Joerg Simon [1] http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/opensource/members.php [2] https://fedoraproject.org/hu/ [3] https://fedoraproject.org/hu/join-fedora [4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/CountryList [5] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD/FADEMEA2008 [6] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events -- 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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