EVENT: Indiana Linux Fest, budget finalized
by Pascal Calarco
Folks,
We haven't had a compelling affirmation for a Fedora Insight FAD on the list, proposed to take place at ILF in three weeks, so in the interest of time and allowing people to get reasonable airfare, I would like to suggest that we not have a Fedora Insight FAD at ILF, and that we go with the budget that we've articulated thus far. In this past week's FAmNA meeting, Ben Williams also expressed interest in attending, and so I added airfare for him.
Our itemized budget request is outlined at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/ILF_2011
The total request, with some buffer, is $2200 for six Ambassadors to attend; some of us will also like take part in the DrupalCon which follows the main conference day, on Sunday, March 27.
Could I ask FAmSCo to please consider this budget request and let us know ASAP? Many thanks!
- pascal
13 years, 2 months
Fwd: Concerning your LOAD talk proposal
by Bertrand Juglas
Hello,
Please find below the confirmation of my workshop proposal about
virtualization which was refused at FOSDEM.
I plan to show Fedora can host KVM guests running Debian hosting LXC containers.
It was first to inform you.
Have a good weekend.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: <info(a)loadays.org>
Date: 2011/3/17
Subject: Concerning your LOAD talk proposal
To: bertux(a)fedoraproject.org
Dear Bertrand,
We are happy to inform you that your presentation proposal " lxc
containers" has been accepted by the Loadays organization committee.
We would like you to confirm that you will actually be able to give your
presentation by replying to this mail . After confirmation we will list
your presentation on our website and include it in our schedule.
If you would like to change the title of your talk, modify the abstract or
change your biography, please let us know. Pictures , Twitter id's and
other links are also welcome. If you have any preferences regarding the
schedule, or need any specific tools during your presentation, or other
help in accommodation, please let us know so we can try to help you out as
soon as possible ! Please also let us know your T-Shirt size.
Loadays offers up to 2 day of hotel accommodation to it's international
speakers. Please confirm us, if you would like us to make room
reservations for the event, and for which days. Any additional nights can
be arranged at the same conditions we have, please email.
We are hosting a speaker dinner on the Friday evening before the event,
please let us know if you would join us that evening and if you have any
specific food requirements.
On both Saturday and Sunday there will be Breakfast available at the
conference site for the speakers and the Loadays crew. We will also
provide you with drinks and a sandwich lunch and you are welcome to join
us for the pizza party on Saturday evening.
You may expect a more detailed mail with exact details on the dinner and
accommodation as we get closer to the event !
However please verify your talk details as soon as possible and confirm
your requirements for the speaker dinner and hotel nights as soon as
possible as we are busy making the necessary arrangements.
Best regards,
LOADAYS team
13 years, 2 months
SxSW photobooth awesomeness and its future
by Clint Savage
(crosspost: I hope everyone here isn't too upset to possibly get this
three times)
Hi all,
As you probably know, I've been hanging around Fedora for a few years
now. I helped improve the events that Fedora attends by creating the
Fedora EventBox. It's been going really well, but this week, I saw a
big improvement because of just a few people at SxSW. I would like to
thank Mo, Emily, Spot, Jared and anyone else who helped make the booth
there awesome!
If you haven't seen the booth, that's okay, but here's a few pictures
of what is going on:
http://ping.fm/roiOI - (Guy Kawasaki and Tux)
http://fedorapeople.org/groups/photobooth/sxsw-86ada905-3085-4f4c-8bc9-6d...
(another attendee with Tux)
All of these and others can be found at
http://fedorapeople.org/groups/photobooth/
In our Fedora Ambassadors North America (FAmNA) meeting tonight, I
followed-up a short email by Max, asking about what thoughts others
had and improvements could be made to make this a regular thing at our
events throughout Fedora. I came up with a few things about how we
could improve it and make it feasible for North America. I'm sure
there are ideas for other regions as well, so feel free to join in the
discussion.
Now, the reason I figured marketing and design should be involved is
that they have a large say in how things are designed and how we tell
people why Fedora's important. I think there's an opportunity here
for better collaboration too, so please, please, please, feel free to
improve upon the ideas I'm going to propose.
First off, the photobooth idea is amazing. I'd like to say that we
should be doing something similar at every event, encouraging people
to get their pic taken at our booth. But making someone where a
costume for 2-3 days could be challenging. So I propose we build a
portable photo board[1] to include in Event Boxen. Probably of
something more goofy, I actually thought the Beefy Miracle[2] would be
a good choice, since it's easy to come up with.
In addition, one would need a web cam and a dedicated laptop to take
the pictures and upload them. This should be an easy to-do. Having a
web cam could prove invaluable for other things as well, like doing
mini tutorials.
Logistically, this could be a bit challenging when you have only an
8'x8' space, but this can be handled pretty easily. One way is to
move the table and chairs to one side and stand in the booth, or sit
behind (tightly) the table and work from there. The other half of the
booth could easily be used to take pictures and show off our cool
stuff!
But there's more we can do with this, and that's where I think the
value lies. For one, it is cool that each participant get's a nice
little card printed right there with a QR code so they can go retrieve
it. But it would also be nice to let them share their photos on
social networking sites like Facebook, identi.ca, foursquare, twitter,
etc. I can also see gaining contributors from this concept, in that
they are now 'part' of Fedora's legacy. Maybe having them show up on
the FedoraProject front page when an event is happening? I seriously
think that this is stuff that everyone in Fedora would love.
Anyway, I'm sure I have more ideas, but I hope some of you can help
with more great ideas that I know I won't. Please help us build a
better booth and better Fedora presence at events all over the world!
Cheers,
Clint
PS - Vote for beefy miracle as the F16 code name. That's my pitch, and
I'm sticking to it!
1 - http://familyfun.go.com/crafts/photo-board-667243/
2 - http://beefymiracle.org/
13 years, 2 months
Re: [Ambassadors] NA Ambassadors meeting tonight 9 p.m. EDT (fwd)
by Max Spevack
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011, Larry Cafiero wrote:
> My bad: Tonight is the North American ambassadors' meeting in
> #fedora-meeting at 9 p.m. Eastern time. (0200 UTC 3/16).
>
> Agenda is here:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Ambassadors_2011-03-15
I'd be interested to hear the thoughts of folks on the SXSW
presentation, and how we can leverage some of the superb
design/marketing/booth setup/swag that they unveiled at SXSW for the
future.
Pictures on Mo's blog show tons of stuff that has never before been at a
Fedora booth, and it all looks really good and it looks like SXSW
becomes the new bar for Superb Fedora Presence at Top Tier Event.
I can't say enough nice things about how the Fedora presence there
looks, and the whole SXSW team deserves a ton of credit.
--Max
13 years, 2 months
Fedora people in Japan
by María Leandro
Hola!!
I will like to extend this short words to express our support to all our
people living in Japan, and also to those Japaneses living in other
countries, our prays are with all of you. Fedora is not only a group of
people working and enjoying foss technologies, but also is a big family that
supports each other in every moment.
A huge hug to everyone and hope everyone is ok in this difficult moment.
(})
--
tatica
Maria Gracia Leandro
http://www.tatica.org
http://www.fedora-ve.org
http://proyectofedora.org
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MariaLeandro
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"Be yourself... Don't be anyone else"
13 years, 2 months
