Ambassadors
In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project[1].
Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero
Release event in Vancouver, Washington
Kevin Higgins reports that the Fedora 11 release event in Vancouver, Washington, was the first Fedora event of any kind there, and the first Linux event in Clark County since June 4th, 2005. Matt McKenzie also reports from the event as well
For more on the event, visit http://crossbytes.wordpress.com/ and http://linuxknight.net/
Release event in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
Izhar Firdaus reports that on 4th July 2009, the Fedora Malaysia Team, in collaboration with Saito College held a Fedora 11 Release Event on campus in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. Izhar says that they had more than 90 people attend.
For more on the event, visit http://blog.kagesenshi.org/2009/07/eventreport-fedora-11-release-party-at.html
Release event in Pune, India
Nilesh Govande reports that July 5 was a celebration day at Red Hat’s Pune Marigold office — courtesy of the Fedora 11 release. The event was totally informal where the developers and college students had a chance to interact with each other. Attendees asked questions and the answers came from actual contributors of distribution.
For more on the event, visit http://www.linuxforu.com/news/its-party-time-at-the-launch-of-fedora-11/
Get on the map
Want to find the nearest ambassador? How about one in Romania? Now you can.
Susmit Shannigrahi reports that finding out the nearest ambassadors, which was once a tedious task, is now as simple as viewing a map. The map is at https://fedoraproject.org/membership-map and instructions on how to place yourself on the map can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_ambassadors_map
Get the word out about your F11 event
Fedora 11 was released on Tuesday, June 9, and with it a variety of activities around the release will be forthcoming. As such, with the upcoming release of Fedora 11, this is a reminder that posting your event on Fedora Weekly News can help get the word out. Contact FWN Ambassador correspondent Larry Cafiero at lcafiero-AT-fedoraproject-DOT-org with announcements of upcoming events -- and don't forget to e-mail reports after the events as well.