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Ambassadors

This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project.

Contributing Writer: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay

Welcome New Ambassadors

The Fedora Ambassadors Project saw a couple of new Ambassadors joining in after undergoing to mentoring process.

Dr. Tilmann Bubeck joined The Fedora Ambassadors Project from Germany mentored by Robert Scheck

Samuel Iglesias joined The Fedora Ambassadors Project from Spain mentored by Robert Scheck

Michele Bursi joined The Fedora Ambassadors Project from Italy mentored by Robert Scheck

Russell Golden joined The Fedora Ambassadors Project from the USA mentored by Ben Williams

Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list

Bert Desmet informed about the dates for Fosdem and hoped to see a large Fedora group again. Gerard Braad expressed hope that he may be able to arrange a trip for the event. Paul W Frields informed that the budget exists to enable The Fedora Project Leader to make the trip.

John wanted to know the status of Fedora Swag for Software Freedom Day celebrations in Dallas. David Duncan stated that since the wiki did not indicate an owner, he would go ahead and take ownership to do the necessary coordination.

Manuel Escudero shared news about an appliance for musicians and music production called Synthelos Linux . Frank Murphy provided the URL to the page about Audion Creation Spin Development . Kris Thomsen volunteered to help.

Manuel Escudero posted about a project called 'Hermes' which relates to the building of a feed parser customizable by the user that notifies when there is important news.

Paul W Frields replied to the discussion about Fedora in stores by pointing to the Trademark Guidelines

Daniel VanStone informed about an event in Arlington, Texas and requested those in or, near the area to join. David Duncan responded stating that he would be at the Python Convention in Waco with Fedora goodies.

Manuel Escudero posted about being unable to run the latest Skype release because if requires the "1:4.6" Qt libraries and asked whether that meant not having Skype in Fedora 14 KDE Spin. Scott Dowdle pointed out that Skype does work with Fedora 13 and KDE available from the official repositories. Mathieu Bridon responded that the issue was more appropriate for the Fedora users mailing list Ryan Rix explained the Skype issue in a bit more detail

Continuing on the fedoracommunity.org portal design, Gianluca Sforna compared about finding Regional Team resources via ubuntu.com and, the current Fedora infrastructure. Máirín Duffy joined the discussion asking as to whether there are more websites that would require linking to.

Max Spevack informed that the event organizers should check the availability of power for the Fedora table at the Ohio Linux Fest. Ben Williams confirmed about such a check and stated that the Red Hat and Fedora exhibits are side-by-side.

John Poelstra posted about upcoming Fedora 14 Schedule Tasks. Schedule retrospective page captures all the important details

Bert Desment wondered if, looking at past attendee trends, Fosdem could have a structure like FUDCon thus making it easier for people to request sponsorship.

Sascha Thomas Spreitzer announced the FUDCon Zurich media exchange which would enable attendees to carry media for event owners at other places

Nilesh Vaghela reported about Fedora 13 workshop at GLS, MCA Department, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Photographs have been uploaded as well

Gianluca Sforna posted an EMEA only notice about orders for Polo Shirts being collected

David Duncan reported about the participation at the PyTexas event

Joerg Simon posted FAmSCo Meeting Minutes for 2010-08-30

Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list

This week we take a break from reporting on FAmSCo meetings and instead, post a summary of the traffic on the mailing list.

Joerg Simon posted about FAmSCo meeting for 23-08-2010 being adjourned due to too few FAmSCo members being able to attend

Joerg Simon let the FAmSCo members know that he was a bit unhappy with the current process of dealing with reimbursements. He specifically pointed out the issue with Pierros's Africa Trip

María Leandro agreed with Joerg and wondered if this is indeed a good thing to happen.

Max Spevack admitted that there was room for improvement and promised to work on this and the other reimbursements

Susmit Shannigrahi mentioned that his relocation had caused him to miss previous meetings but now that he is settled in he would be attending the meetings at 0600 UTC

With reference to Andrew Overholt's mail last week , Max thanked Andrew for his continued commitment to Fedora hoped to see him during FUDCon in January 2011

Joerg Simon followed up with Mustafa Qasim related to copyrighted materials in blog post and best practices of an Ambassador.

Mustafa replied mentioned about his confusion and requesting guidance about procedures.

Paul W Frields suggested that the Planet be fed with a category/feed specific to Fedora thus allowing Mustafa to use his blog in the manner he is comfortable while at the same time not contravening, however, inadvertently, any guidelines of posting.

Joerg Simon posted a reminder about the FAmSCo meeting on 30-08-2010

Joerg Simon proposed that the Ambassador Mentors organize a meeting the first Monday every two months starting 06-09-2010 at 1900. An agenda has also been posted. This is a direct outcome of the Mentoring Survey.

Joerg Simon posted FAmSCo Meeting Minutes for 2010-08-30