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== Ambassadors ==
== Ambassadors ==


In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors</ref>.
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project<ref> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors </ref>.


Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero
Contributing Writer: [[User:Bckurera| Buddhika Kurera]] and [[User:Richardvj11|Richard A Vijay]] <br/> For period of days starting from '''21 December 2011 to 31 December 2011''' (10hrs GMT+5:30)
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http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/
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=== Fedora Ambassadors Regional Meeting Minutes===
Fedora Ambassadors Regional meeting Page<ref>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings
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*APAC
Meeting minutes for 2011-12-24 <ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:APAC_Ambassadors_2011-12-24</ref>
*EMEA
Meeting minutes for 2011-12-28 <ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:EMEA_Ambassadors_2011-12-28</ref>
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=== Fedora at Idlelo 4 in Ghana ===
===Beat this week===
 
Headlines from mailing lists
 
* Fedora Linux Google+ page - Admin access by Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail
* Fedora Ambassadors Welcome Week 51 by Joerg Simon
* FAmSCo meeting log for 2011-12-21 by Neville
* APAC Bi-weekly meeting logs 2011-12-24 by Buddhika Kurera
* About Fedora release dinners after release parties by Truong Anh. Tuan
* Applying to be a mentor by Truong Anh. Tuan
* We did some sheer awesomeness for 2011. by David Ramsey
* REMINDER French Fedora Meeting Today 183UTC #fedora-meeting by Reminder
* FAmSCo Report: November 2011 by Igor Pires Soares
* REMINDER: EMEA ambassadors meeting tomorrow 2011-12-28 by Christoph Wickert
* Fedora 16 Release Party / Tokat Report by Onuralp SEZER
* Tux workshop, MindSpark 2011, CoEP, Pune, India by Shakthi Kannan
* Some words about FOSDEM (was: fosdem 2012) by Bert Desmet
* Survey: Red Hat Certifications/Training for FAms by Uditha Bandara Wijerathna
* EMEA ambassadors meeting 2011-12-28 minutes by Christoph Wickert
* FAmSco meeting 2011-12-28 minutes by Christoph Wickert
* talks for clt by S.Kemter
* A friendly reminder, the next biweekly APAC meeting is on Saturday, January 07th, 2012 at 04:00 UTC by David Ramsey
 
=== Welcome New Ambassadors ===
 
On behalf of all our Fedora Community and Ambassadors, We  are pleased to Welcome our newly sponsored Ambassador group members:
 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Chanchito from the USA
mentored by Mark Terranova
 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Hlima from Brazil
mentored by Daniel Bruno
 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Erheiner from Guatemala
mentored by Neville A. Cross
 
We Congratulate them on their success with mentoring program and wish them all success in their endeavour to help Fedora.
 
Congrats and Wishes to all New members from Fedora Team.
 
=== Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list ===
 
* Fedora Linux Google+ page - Admin access by Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail
<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018709.html</ref>
 
* Fedora Ambassadors Welcome Week 51 by Joerg Simon
<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018709.html</ref>
 
* FAmSCo meeting log for 2011-12-21 by Neville<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018716.html</ref>
 
* APAC Bi-weekly meeting logs 2011-12-24 by Buddhika Kurera<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018734.html</ref>


Isaac Sanni-Thomas reports on the recent IDLELO 4 event in Ghana and Fedora's participation in that African expo.  
* About Fedora release dinners after release parties by Truong Anh. Tuan<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018735.html</ref>


Issac reports:
* Applying to be a mentor by Truong Anh. Tuan
<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018736.html</ref>


* Idlelo reported over 100 participants from around the world. Among  them was Ben Konrath from GNOME project with whom we had a joint Exhibition booth. We also had John 'Maddog' Hall with us who proudly shared Live Fedora 12 CD's. We can proudly say that our booth had the largest visitors. At a point we had to share responsibilities in order to be able to handle the crowd that our booth had.
* We did some sheer awesomeness for 2011. by David Ramsey
<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018743.html</ref>


* Since this was Fedora's first major event in Ghana/West Africa we had lots of interest as more people wanted to know what Fedora was coming to offer Ghanaians as well as what Fedora was all about. We also had some visitors from Ivory Coast who said they did not have an ambassador and hence didn't know much about Fedora.
* REMINDER French Fedora Meeting Today 183UTC #fedora-meeting by Reminder
<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018745.html</ref>


* The general question that seem to hit us at almost every second was "What is the difference between Fedora and Ubuntu?". This was coupled with people wanting to know features we had in Fedora that Ubuntu did not have.
* FAmSCo Report: November 2011 by Igor Pires Soares
<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018746.html</ref>


* We received a lot suggestions about how to make our presence felt in Africa. The most recurrent one was about Free Media. All our visitors emphasized the fact that the reason why they are used to Ubuntu and know more about Ubuntu is because of the Free CD program Ubuntu has. Ubuntu hasnt held any event in Ghana but the Free CD program alone has won the hearts of over 90 percent of Linux users in Ghana.
* REMINDER: EMEA ambassadors meeting tomorrow 2011-12-28 by Christoph Wickert
<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018750.html</ref>


* We were privileged to have Ben Konrath from GNOME using Fedora mainly and people were happy to see GNOME 3 in action on his laptop.
* Fedora 16 Release Party / Tokat Report by Onuralp SEZER
<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018752.html</ref>


* Fedora had a translation session which was held by Pierros teaching how people can contribute to translating Fedora to the Akan language. There was also a panel discussion led by Pierros to discuss the organizational structure of Fedora.
* Tux workshop, MindSpark 2011, CoEP, Pune, India by Shakthi Kannan
<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018754.html</ref>


* We gave away lots of live CDs and helped some people to format their laptops to start using Fedora. We gave away some t-shirts and badges. The most popular swag was the badges and the Live CD's. We were so happy to see lots of people wear the badges around the Conference. It showed how involved they want to be in Fedora.
* Some words about FOSDEM (was: fosdem 2012) by Bert Desmet
<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018757.html</ref>


* Lots of people were interested in the OLPC as Pierros demonstrated how its run on Fedora.
* Survey: Red Hat Certifications/Training for FAms by Uditha Bandara Wijerathna
<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018758.html</ref>


* We are happy to introduce a new incoming member who was with another distro by name Kennedy Kasina. He was glad to receive some swag from us as that also motivated him a lot. He is being mentored by Pierros in translation of Fedora to Swahili for Kenya and East African countries speaking Swahili.
* EMEA ambassadors meeting 2011-12-28 minutes by Christoph Wickert
<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018761.html</ref>


* Fedora was the only distro that showed up and made a lot of presence and impact during the event. A lot of thanks goes to Maddog who took sharing of the Fedora 12 media upon himself during his talks. Since the CD was coming from Maddog, a lot of people felt inspired to start using Fedora immediately.
* FAmSco meeting 2011-12-28 minutes by Christoph Wickert
<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018761.html</ref>


Isaac said, "In all we had a pretty successful event. Currently we have some action points for Ghana for the next few months and especially next year when we will have expanded our user base."
* talks for clt by S.Kemter
<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018770.html</ref>


=== Fedora 13 release party in Guatemala ===
* A friendly reminder, the next biweekly APAC meeting is on Saturday, January 07th, 2012 at 04:00 UTC by David Ramsey
<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018775.html</ref>


Neville Cross reports on a Fedora 13 release party in Guatemala on his blog [http://www.taygon.com/?p=403 here]. The Spanish version is on top and the English is below. Neville addressed around 80 attendees on Fedora's behalf and established a Fedora presence in Guatemala.


=== Fedora Activity Day in Pune, India ===
===FAmSCo Meeting===


Rahul Sundaram reports on the recent Fedora Activity Day in the Red Hat office in Pune, India. It was a two day event. You might have seen the blog posts on that over this week in Planet Fedora and we have a roundup [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Pune_2010#Reports here].
* FAmSCo meeting log for 2011-12-21 by Neville
<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018716.html</ref>


Rahul reports that there was a variety of projects and tasks that was tackled during the event. Here is a quick summary:
* FAmSCo Report: November 2011 by Igor Pires Soares
<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018746.html</ref>


* OLPC/Sugar: Sayamindu who works for OLPC joined hands with Kushal Das to package up a accessibility tool of interest to OLPC and a Sugar activity called Pathagar which is a book server. Sayamindu also gave a talk on life as downstream of Fedora.
* FAmSco meeting 2011-12-28 minutes by Christoph Wickert
<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018761.html</ref>


* Fedora Tour: A clutter based app with whiz bang effects that aims to provide a friendly welcome screen for new users on first login. Ankur Sinha is leading this effort. Ankur has also helped out in packaging reviews and submitted a few new review requests.  The latest being a dependency of Shotwell.
=== Events reported on Ambassadors mailing list ===


* Fedora Medical Spin: Susmit is a leading an effort to create a medical spin for the next release. Many of us are helping out. Harsh Varma participated in some packaging tasks and is helping with this spin as well.
* Fedora 16 Release Party / Tokat Report by Onuralp SEZER
<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018752.html</ref>


* Systemd, WebM support etc:  I reviewed a few packages, approved one and worked on packaging up systemd, updating webkitgtk in Fedora 12 for WebM support, fixing a E-V-R issue that broke Deluge, qbittorrent etc., for users upgrading to Fedora 13 from Fedora 12.
* Tux workshop, MindSpark 2011, CoEP, Pune, India by Shakthi Kannan
<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018754.html</ref>


* Package Reviews: A number of us including Rangeen Basu, Ankur Sinha, Kushal Das and me participated in doing package reviews.
* Some words about FOSDEM (was: fosdem 2012) by Bert Desmet
<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018757.html</ref>


* Autootools workshop: Siddesh who works for GSS gave a introductory workshop on autotoolizing a project.
* talks for clt by S.Kemter
<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018770.html</ref>


* Repository wide fixes: Rakesh Pandit working on fixing several security bugs and Imran who couldn't make it to the event due to some last minute disruption came up on IRC and filed patches that fixed all of the pending E-V-R issues between Fedora 12 and Fedora 13. Rakesh will be committing and doing the builds to resolve them today. We hope to be tackling source url issues, desktop file fixes, FTBFS and other similar issues via a online FAD sometime later.
=== Regional Meeting Minutes ===


* gFotoStat: Kishan and Meejan worked on a tool for statistics of photos for professionals. This tool can run against a set of pics and provide all sorts of interesting info based on the metadata. They fixed a number of bugs and added some new features in a new release.
* APAC Bi-weekly meeting logs 2011-12-24 by Buddhika Kurera
<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018734.html</ref>


* wordGroupz: Ratnadeep worked on a new project which is a vocabulary builder and he also took on some packaging tasks.
* EMEA ambassadors meeting 2011-12-28 minutes by Christoph Wickert
<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018761.html</ref>


* Shreyank Gupta worked on packaging Sup, a popular gmailish mail client written in Ruby and several of the Ruby module dependencies. He has just been sponsored yesterday.
=== Meeting Reminders ===


* Salim Ansari hacked on Anjuta including a symbol browser and some new search capabilities and Satya continued her work on Beacon, a web based docbook xml editor
* REMINDER French Fedora Meeting Today 183UTC #fedora-meeting by Reminder
<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018745.html</ref>


* Runa ported the help in the new mallard format from Tomboy to Gnote for GNOME 3 readiness.
* REMINDER: EMEA ambassadors meeting tomorrow 2011-12-28 by Christoph Wickert
<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018750.html</ref>


Rahul says, "At the end of the event, we had a discussion about what went well and what we could improve and about organizing a FUDCon next year in India."
* A friendly reminder, the next biweekly APAC meeting is on Saturday, January 07th, 2012 at 04:00 UTC by David Ramsey
<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018775.html</ref>


=== Let us know about your Fedora 13 activities ===
=== Campus Ambassadors mailing list-Summary of traffic ===


Fedora 13 has now launched and Ambassadors are encouraged to hold release events. If you are planning to hold an event, let Fedora Weekly News know. Drop a line to lcafiero=at=fedoraproject-dot-org with the details and we'll get it in FWN.
No news.


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Latest revision as of 16:19, 13 January 2012

Ambassadors

This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project[1].

Contributing Writer: Buddhika Kurera and Richard A Vijay
For period of days starting from 21 December 2011 to 31 December 2011 (10hrs GMT+5:30) [2]

  1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/


Fedora Ambassadors Regional Meeting Minutes

Fedora Ambassadors Regional meeting Page[1]

  • APAC

Meeting minutes for 2011-12-24 [2]

  • EMEA

Meeting minutes for 2011-12-28 [3]

  1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings
  2. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:APAC_Ambassadors_2011-12-24
  3. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:EMEA_Ambassadors_2011-12-28

Beat this week

Headlines from mailing lists

  • Fedora Linux Google+ page - Admin access by Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail
  • Fedora Ambassadors Welcome Week 51 by Joerg Simon
  • FAmSCo meeting log for 2011-12-21 by Neville
  • APAC Bi-weekly meeting logs 2011-12-24 by Buddhika Kurera
  • About Fedora release dinners after release parties by Truong Anh. Tuan
  • Applying to be a mentor by Truong Anh. Tuan
  • We did some sheer awesomeness for 2011. by David Ramsey
  • REMINDER French Fedora Meeting Today 183UTC #fedora-meeting by Reminder
  • FAmSCo Report: November 2011 by Igor Pires Soares
  • REMINDER: EMEA ambassadors meeting tomorrow 2011-12-28 by Christoph Wickert
  • Fedora 16 Release Party / Tokat Report by Onuralp SEZER
  • Tux workshop, MindSpark 2011, CoEP, Pune, India by Shakthi Kannan
  • Some words about FOSDEM (was: fosdem 2012) by Bert Desmet
  • Survey: Red Hat Certifications/Training for FAms by Uditha Bandara Wijerathna
  • EMEA ambassadors meeting 2011-12-28 minutes by Christoph Wickert
  • FAmSco meeting 2011-12-28 minutes by Christoph Wickert
  • talks for clt by S.Kemter
  • A friendly reminder, the next biweekly APAC meeting is on Saturday, January 07th, 2012 at 04:00 UTC by David Ramsey

Welcome New Ambassadors

On behalf of all our Fedora Community and Ambassadors, We are pleased to Welcome our newly sponsored Ambassador group members:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Chanchito from the USA mentored by Mark Terranova

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Hlima from Brazil mentored by Daniel Bruno

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Erheiner from Guatemala mentored by Neville A. Cross

We Congratulate them on their success with mentoring program and wish them all success in their endeavour to help Fedora.

Congrats and Wishes to all New members from Fedora Team.

Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list

  • Fedora Linux Google+ page - Admin access by Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail

[1]

  • Fedora Ambassadors Welcome Week 51 by Joerg Simon

[2]

  • FAmSCo meeting log for 2011-12-21 by Neville[3]
  • APAC Bi-weekly meeting logs 2011-12-24 by Buddhika Kurera[4]
  • About Fedora release dinners after release parties by Truong Anh. Tuan[5]
  • Applying to be a mentor by Truong Anh. Tuan

[6]

  • We did some sheer awesomeness for 2011. by David Ramsey

[7]

  • REMINDER French Fedora Meeting Today 183UTC #fedora-meeting by Reminder

[8]

  • FAmSCo Report: November 2011 by Igor Pires Soares

[9]

  • REMINDER: EMEA ambassadors meeting tomorrow 2011-12-28 by Christoph Wickert

[10]

  • Fedora 16 Release Party / Tokat Report by Onuralp SEZER

[11]

  • Tux workshop, MindSpark 2011, CoEP, Pune, India by Shakthi Kannan

[12]

  • Some words about FOSDEM (was: fosdem 2012) by Bert Desmet

[13]

  • Survey: Red Hat Certifications/Training for FAms by Uditha Bandara Wijerathna

[14]

  • EMEA ambassadors meeting 2011-12-28 minutes by Christoph Wickert

[15]

  • FAmSco meeting 2011-12-28 minutes by Christoph Wickert

[16]

  • talks for clt by S.Kemter

[17]

  • A friendly reminder, the next biweekly APAC meeting is on Saturday, January 07th, 2012 at 04:00 UTC by David Ramsey

[18]


FAmSCo Meeting

  • FAmSCo meeting log for 2011-12-21 by Neville

[19]

  • FAmSCo Report: November 2011 by Igor Pires Soares

[20]

  • FAmSco meeting 2011-12-28 minutes by Christoph Wickert

[21]

Events reported on Ambassadors mailing list

  • Fedora 16 Release Party / Tokat Report by Onuralp SEZER

[22]

  • Tux workshop, MindSpark 2011, CoEP, Pune, India by Shakthi Kannan

[23]

  • Some words about FOSDEM (was: fosdem 2012) by Bert Desmet

[24]

  • talks for clt by S.Kemter

[25]

Regional Meeting Minutes

  • APAC Bi-weekly meeting logs 2011-12-24 by Buddhika Kurera

[26]

  • EMEA ambassadors meeting 2011-12-28 minutes by Christoph Wickert

[27]

Meeting Reminders

  • REMINDER French Fedora Meeting Today 183UTC #fedora-meeting by Reminder

[28]

  • REMINDER: EMEA ambassadors meeting tomorrow 2011-12-28 by Christoph Wickert

[29]

  • A friendly reminder, the next biweekly APAC meeting is on Saturday, January 07th, 2012 at 04:00 UTC by David Ramsey

[30]

Campus Ambassadors mailing list-Summary of traffic

No news.

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018709.html
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018709.html
  3. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018716.html
  4. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018734.html
  5. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018735.html
  6. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018736.html
  7. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018743.html
  8. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018745.html
  9. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018746.html
  10. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018750.html
  11. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018752.html
  12. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018754.html
  13. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018757.html
  14. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018758.html
  15. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018761.html
  16. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018761.html
  17. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018770.html
  18. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018775.html
  19. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018716.html
  20. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018746.html
  21. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018761.html
  22. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018752.html
  23. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018754.html
  24. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018757.html
  25. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018770.html
  26. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018734.html
  27. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018761.html
  28. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018745.html
  29. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018750.html
  30. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018775.html
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