Ambassadors/SteeringCommittee/Election/2008Nominations

Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee Election 2008: Nominations

Candidates may be any member of the Ambassadors group in the Fedora Accounts System. This helps ensure FAmSCo members have some experience with the processes of Fedora Ambassadors but still allows relatively new contributors to sit on FAmSCo and bring fresh ideas to the table.

Nominations are open from 28 October through 3 December, 2008. The elections will take place 7 December through 20 December, 2008.

You may self-nominate. If you wish to nominate someone else, please consult with that person ahead of time. Wiki nomination pages carry additional details about the nominee which the nominee is expected to write.

Sandro Mathys (red_alert)

• Candidate statement
  • Currently Ambassador in Switzerland, working together with lots of EMEA Ambassadors particularly those from Germany.

• Contributor profile
  • Linux user since 1999 (Red Hat Linux)
  • Fedora user since 2003
  • Fedora ambassador since 2007
  • Actively participated in many events since then.
  • For the marketing project, I wrote the press release for LinuxTag 2008/FUDCon Berlin 2008/F9. To have this distributed, Joerg Simon and I were in touch with Red Hat EMEA's marketing division.
  • I organized the FAD EMEA 2008 in Basel.

• Future plans
  • Be a reference point to all ambassadors, particularly those from EMEA.
  • Help the striving NA ambassadors to maintain and extend their recent successes.
  • Help the highly motivated EMEA ambassadors to maintain and extend their long-time successes.
  • Support all ambassadors in their activities and ideas.
  • Make FUDCon EMEA even more successful.
  • Continue to promote Fedora by participating and organizing events (all over Europe).
  • Increase the number of contributors all over the world, particularly EMEA (hopefully also outside Europe).
  • Start to build up ambassador teams in parts of the world, where no such exist yet.
  • Create a public Fedora merchandising store for Europe (already started).
  • Help the NA ambassadors to create a public Fedora merchandising store for NA.
  • Increase communication/cooperation with Red Hat in EMEA.
  • Motivate all ambassadors to share their knowledge/experience in terms of how to organize/run a event/booth.
  • Continue the recent FAmSCo projects.
  • Create a (FrOSCon or FOSDEM like) event in Basel, Switzerland

Rodrigo Padula (RodrigoPadula)

• Candidate statement
  • Currently member of FAmSCo , running for re-election.

• Contributor profile
  • Gnu/Linux user since 1996.
  • Fedora contributor since 2005.

• I participate in the following projects:
  • Fedora Ambassadors
  • Fedora Marketing
  • Fedora Translation
  • Documentation
  • Fedora Free Media
  • FAMSCO - Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee
  • I started Proyecto Fedora Latinamerica (Now with 8 countries, 3 coming soon) - [1]

• Events in 2008

Latinoware 2008 - 2st Fedora Latin America Ambassadors and Users Conference 
Itaipú Technology Park - Foz do Iguaçu - PR 
Theme: Projeto Fedora América Latina - Projet Fedora Brasil 
Theme: XO / Sugar - Laptops Educacionais  

Technology Week of the UNESA 2008 
Estácio de Sá University - Cabo Frio - RJ 
Theme: Sugar  A constructivist educational environment  

ATUALTEC 2008 
Convention Center - Boa Vista - RR 
Theme: Fedora GNU/Linux 
Theme: XO / Sugar  Educational Laptops  

Freedom Day - Vianna Jr. College 
Vianna Jr. College - Juiz de Fora - MG 
Theme: XO / Sugar  Educational Laptops 
  
CESOL 2008  Ceará Free Software Conference 
Ceará Federal University - Fortaleza - CE 
Theme: Fedora  Spread it!  
Theme: XO / Sugar - Laptops Educacionais  

ENSOL II  Paraíba Free Software Meeting 
Cultural Center - João Pessoa - PB 
Theme: Fedora Gnu/Linux 
Theme: Fedora  Free Desktop Potentials 

FISL 9.0  International Free Software Forum 
PUCGS - Porto Alegre - RS 
Theme: XO - It's green, cute and runs Fedora! 
Theme: 3rd Fedora Project Brasil Community Meeting 

• Organized events
  • 2nd Fedora Latin American Ambassadors and Users Conference , Fóz do Iguaçu - PR , Brazil
  • 1st Fedora Latin American Ambassadors and Users Conference , Fóz do Iguaçu - PR , Brazil
• Future plans
  • Increase the LATAM community.
  • Work to increase the Packaging group and the Fedora time support (Fedora LTS ;-) )
  • Contribute with the organization of local Fedora Projects (Mainly in Latin America and another in development Countries).
  • Strengthen the participation of Latin American contributors in Fedora Project.
  • Spread Fedora in events, with media distribution, lectures and booths.
  • Be the voice of the community and ambassadors in the FAMSCO and Fedora Project.
  • Support the local projects with all that they needs.
  • Create and organize the III Latin American Conference and the I FUDCON Latin American

Joerg Simon (kital)

Nominated by ChitleshGoorah (1)

• Candidate statement

One of my main goals as a FAmSCo member is to help all Fedora Ambassadors achieve their best contributions and build up Fedora's presence in many underrepresented Regions.

• Contributor profile

After a history as Linux user/enthusiast/contributor since 1995, i started in 2006 to support the Fedora Community actively as a Fedora Ambassador. I dedicated and will still dedicate a large part of my time to the Ambassador Membership Service, where i guide new Contributors as a sponsor and mentor into the Fedora Project and the other day-to-day Job is to maintain the ambassador-mailing-list as Administrator.
To increase the Quality of the Ambassador Membership Process, i have developed and helped FAmSCo to establish the new approval process.
On my way as Ambassador, i initiated a few things which today are essential parts within Fedora Ambassadors, like the AmbassadorPolo or the well known generic Posterdesigns from MairinDuffy.
Promoting Fedora on Events is another major part of a Ambassador and so i work as organizer, driver, helper, slogger, promoter on a lot Events every year.
There are a few more things what i do, like trying new MarketingMaterials producing SWAG for us - or work as PressOfficer for the Fedora EMEA e.V.or help as one of the few Fedora in Library Activists.

• Future plans
  • Enhance Fedora´s presence in underrepresented Regions - this means in a short timeframe: support the ReleaseEvent in Kyrgyzstan as a trailblazer (T-Shirts, Money...) - organize Fedora´s Presence on a Event in Hungary in Spring 2009. On a longterm, turn more and more of the white spaces on the worldmap into blue.
  • Improve the MembershipProcess to make it easier and faster to contribute and work together with higher quality
  • Establish real mentoring within regional requirements
  • Establish measurability for our Work
  • Establish liasons to other subprojects
  • Invent new ways to encourage people to contribute to the Fedora Project

Max Spevack (spevack)

• STATEMENT: My primary duty within FAmSCo is to manage the budget, and to make sure that each region of the world is getting the financial support that it needs in its community building work. I also try to provide general leadership help and advice to FAmSCo.
• PROFILE: I manage the Community Architecture team, which works closely with Fedora. Additionally, I am accountable for the Red Hat and Fedora communities in EMEA, though that job is made easier thanks to our wonderful community leaders throughout the region. I am a previous Fedora Project Leader.
• FUTURE PLANS: Continue to translate our presence at events into new contributors, and encourage more Fedora Ambassadors and developers to speak at events. Someone related to Fedora should be giving a talk at every event that we attend. I will also continue to be the main budget point of contact for Ambassadors and Fedora Marketing.

Larry Cafiero (lcafiero)

Nominated by Karsten Wade (1)

• Candidate statement

I am currently a Fedora Ambassador from Scotts Valley (Santa Cruz County), California, U.S.A. As an ambassador, I strive to spread the word about Fedora in as many different venues, and at as many digital and non-digital events, as possible. As a FAmSCo member, my primary goal would be to assist other ambassadors in promoting Fedora by giving them the tools necessary to perform the tasks at hand.

• Contributor profile

My biographical information can be seen in my profile here. I have been a Linux user since 2006, and a Fedora user since Fedora 7. I became a Fedora ambassador in the summer of 2008, after organizing a Fedora 9 event that May at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California.

I am one of the founders and organizers of Lindependence, a Linux promotional project which introduces a variety of distributions, including Fedora, to new users at meetings across the country.

In addition to my profession as a newspaper editor, I also run Felton Linuxworks and HeliOS Solutions West in Felton, California; the former a retailer selling refurbished computers and other hardware, and the latter a Linux conversion and networking services for home users and those in the Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) setting.

My involvement on behalf of Fedora includes, but is not limited to:

• Fedora ambassador;
• Participation in the Fedora Marketing Project;
• Participation in the Fedora Mini SIG on behalf of Oregon State University's Computer Science Platform for Learning, or "Fuzzy Walrus" [2];”
• Speaker, promoting Fedora to LUGs and college classes in both California and Oregon;
• Administrator of the Facebook group "Fedora – Linux;"
• Blogger: "Larry the Fedora Guy"[3] and "Larry the Free Software Guy."[4]

• Future plans

My future plans include continuing to contribute to the projects mentioned above, as well as others that I may take on in the future. One issue I hope to expand on as a FAmSCo member is to encourage more evangelism around Fedora in particular, and Free/Open Source Software in general; this evangelism starts with seeking more speaking opportunities for myself and others, as well as developing more ambassadors as spokespeople in their immediate locations on behalf of Fedora at digital and non-digital events.

Thank you for the opportunity to present my credentials for your consideration.

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• Candidate statement
• Contributor profile
• Future plans