Ambassadors
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project[1].
Contributing Writer: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Welcome New Ambassadors
This week the Fedora Ambassadors Project had a couple of new members joining.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Renault from France mentored by Mathieu Bridon
Miles Kjeller from the United Kingdom mentored by Paul Mellors
Xavier from the USA mentored by Larry Cafiero
Arif from Indonesia mentored by Caius C. Chance
Francesco (zerodev) D'Aluisio from Italy mentored by Robert Scheck
Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list
David Ramsey informed [1] about Fedora pulling ahead of Ubuntu in rankings [2]. Christoph Wickert explained [3] that it was possible due to the Fedora 14 release within the timeframe of the past month. The thread [4] had some further conversations around the focus of Fedora and Ubuntu and the general perceptions.
Heherson Pagcaliwagan informed [5] about the meeting for Fedora Ambassadors in the APAC region on 2010-11-21 at 0300 UTC. The proposed agenda [6] was also posted
Marcus Moeller invited [7] all those who live nearby or, liked to travel to join the LinuxDay 2010 at Dornbirn, Austria
Christoph Wickert informed [8] the Ambassadors about the second FAmSCo Election IRC Townhall scheduled for 2010-11-19 at 1000 UTC. The logs to the first townhall were also referenced [9] Susmit Shannigrahi provided [10] the list of the questions asked in the first meeting to ensure that the candidates are asked similar questions. However, as Christoph was unable to moderate the meeting [11] as he would be traveling he called for volunteers and provided the scope of duties
Harish Pillay provided details [12] about Fedora 14 Launch in Singapore on 2010-11-29
Ryan Rix posted [13] minutes and logs of the FAmSCo Townhall meeting
Larry Cafiero posted a query [14] around an issue raised at the second FAmSCo Townhall pertaining to "upgrade ambassadors to superambassadors" The following thread [15] had clarifications from Caius 'kaio' Chance and others about the proposal and objective
Abdel G. Martínez L invited all [16] to be part of FUDCon Panama 2011 [17]
Buddhika Kurera proposed [18] a T-shirt design [19] for Ambassadors in APAC. Matthias Kranz pointed to the existing page on a similar issue [20] and Mathieu Bridon asked about the possibility of reusing the design that is used in EMEA [21] The thread [22] has more discussion about designs and other possibilities of "Ambassador wear"
Joerg Simon posted [23] Meeting Minutes [24] from FAD EMEA 2010 at Rheinfelden along with a few photographs [25]
Caius 'kaio' Chance asked [26] whether the Meetup at Beijing on 2010-11-14 [27] could be called a FAD
Robyn Bergeron posted [28] Voting Information about the Fedora Board, FESCo and FAmSCo elections
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016223.html
- ↑ http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=popularity
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016224.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/thread.html#16223
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016230.html
- ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings/2010-11-21
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016237.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016238.html
- ↑ http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2010-11-16/fedora-townhall.2010-11-16-16.47.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016239.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016242.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016241.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016243.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016252.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/thread.html#16252
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016258.html
- ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Panama_2011
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016262.html
- ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Bckurera/APAC-shirts
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/T-Shirt
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/PoloShirt
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/thread.html#16262
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016312.html
- ↑ http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-fad/2010-11-20/fedora_emea_fad_2010.2010-11-20-09.56.html
- ↑ http://jsimon.fedorapeople.org/events/2010/FAD_Rheinfelden/
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016324.html
- ↑ http://linuxtoy.org/archives/fedora-user-group-beijing-fest.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016325.html
Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list
Joerg Simon informed [1] that the FAmSCo meeting for 2010-11-22 was adjourned. There was some informal conversation