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.
Bogomil "Bogo" Shopov from Bulgaria mentored by Pierros Papadeas
Jyri Kochnev from Russia mentored by Robert Scheck
Cleiton Lima from Brazil mentored by Daniel Bruno
Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list
Scott Williams reported [1] on the need to make decisions about the Fedora Activity Day at SCaLE and provided some suggestions on the possible focus for the FAD
Larry Cafiero posted [2] the Meeting Minutes from the FAmNA meeting on 2010-12-08
Buddhika Kurera reminded [3] about providing details for the T-shirts while the funding is being considered for approval by FAmSCo
Vinzenz Vietzke informed [4] a Fedora Event at Augsburger Linux Infotag during 2011 [5]
Rahul Sundaram informed [6] about a Fedora Mini Conf at FOSS.IN [7] at Bangalore, India
Kévin Raymond asked for feedback [8] on whether creating a mailing list for EMEA would help coordinate decisions for the region. Within the thread [9] Caius Chance supported [10] the idea of copying important information to the local list. Another aspect that was discussed was the judicious and proper usage of tags to specify regions which would find the information interesting
Truong Anh Tuan reported [11] on the unavailability of the meeting logs after the APAC Ambassador meeting. David Ramsey provided [12] links to the logs
Pierros Papadeas posted [13] the Fedora 15 Ambassadors' Schedule Draft [14] urging the Ambassadors to collaborate towards completing the tasks
Maria Gracia Leandro Lombardo posted [15] a mail asking "What's really needed to be an Ambassador?" and added a few ideas which can help define this role. The resulting thread [16] included varied inputs and suggestions including one [17] by Larry Cafiero expressing support for the list of ideas proposed in the original mail
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016488.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016491.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016492.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016499.html
- ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Vinz/Events
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016525.html
- ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FOSSin_2010
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016526.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/thread.html#16526
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016528.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016527.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016535.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016552.html
- ↑ http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-15/f-15-ambassadors-tasks.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016554.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/thread.html#16554
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016557.html
Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list
Kévin Raymond reported [1] on the Fedora 14 lunch in Paris organized on 04-12-2010. A French Radio channel also conducted an interview of Open Source, GNU/Linux and Fedora during the event.
Rene Jr Purcell reported [2] on the S2LQ, Quebec City event [3]
Mahay Alam Khan reported [4] on the Fedora 14 Talk and Media Distribution at Old Dhaka, Bangladesh [5]
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016595.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016596.html
- ↑ http://arsenicks.wordpress.com/2010/12/13/s2lq-fedora-presence-report/
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016646.html
- ↑ http://maktrix.wordpress.com/2010/12/22/fedora-14-talk-and-media-distribution/
Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list
Larry Cafiero informed [1] about an agenda item to postpone the FAmSCo meetings on Christmas Day and the New Year's Day. Neville A. Cross and others agreed with this move [2] with the notion that the FAmSCo members would be active and communicating during the holidays
Pierros Papadeas posted [3] Minutes of the Meeting from 2010-12-18 [4]
Joerg Simon copied [5] related to help required around FOSDEM
Igor Pires Soares asked [6] about continuing discussions around the "Regional IRC Sessions" agenda item in the Fedora Schedule which seemed a bit vague. The thread [7] has inputs from others about what could be a plan in the coming period about handling the IRC sessions productively.
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-December/000535.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-December/000536.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-December/000540.html
- ↑ http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-12-18/famsco-2010-12-18.2010-12-18-13.12.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-December/000541.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-December/000542.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-December/thread.html#542