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 did not have any new members joining.
Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list
Hans 'hanx' Cruz Buchelli wrote [1] about being unable to give time to The Fedora Project due to family issues and hoped that the current situation would allow more time to the project. Hans also informed that it is almost certain that in 2011 the local municipality and schools will use Fedora
[Beat writer's note: I used available online translation tools to try and obtain a passable English translation for the actual mail]
Carlos Carreno posted [2] about an event - Fedora Party 2010 at the University Ricardo Palma and requested ideas for topics that could be interesting to the audience.
David Ramsey informed [3] about a Test Day for Systemd [4] on 2010-09-07
Danny Stieben ideated [5] about a site similar to OMG ! Ubuntu [6] with the notion that it would be of use to people who are not complete geeks. The subsequent thread had discussions on the hosting providers and need for designing the site etc
Truong Anh. Tuan informed [7] about a short presentation at Software Freedom Day [8] organized by the HanoiLUG
Ben Williams informed [9] ambassadors attending the Ohio Linuxfest to sign up for booth time [10]
Justin O'Brien initiated [11] a discussion about the #fedora IRC channel and registering the IRC nickname. Tristan Santore explained [12] that the registration process followed by Freenode is independent of the Fedora Project or, any other FOSS project using their IRC servers. And, suggested that a wiki page with screenshot might help new users find their way around the process.
Gerold Kassube posted a question [13] "Do you think, I'm a valuable, trustful Fedora Contributor / Ambassador; also as Founder, Memeber and President of the association Fedora EMEA e.V.?" The subsequent thread had inputs from a few Fedora Ambassadors and a few queries about the context of the question
Frank Murphy announced [14] the intention of leaving the Ambassadors Group and desired guidance on the correct method for doing so. Joerg Simon responded [15] with the appropriate URL [16] which outlines the steps
Gerold Kassube updated [17] the FUDCon 2010 / Switzerland page with details.
Paul W Frields asked [18] if any Ambassadors in the Los Angeles/Anaheim/CA area are considering attending 2010 Renesas DevCon conference [19]
David Ramsey reminded [20] about the meeting for APAC Ambassadors to be held on 2010-09-19 at 0300 UTC
John Poelstra posted [21] about upcoming tasks around Fedora 14 release
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015502.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015530.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015508.html
- ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-09-07_Systemd
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015509.html
- ↑ http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015517.html
- ↑ http://wiki.hanoilug.org/events:softwarefreedomday:2010:18sept2010
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015516.html
- ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ohio_Linux_Fest_2010#Saturday_Booth_Schedule
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015543.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015548.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015528.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015518.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015524.html
- ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/MembershipService#Removal_Process_for_Ambassador.27s_Membership
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015531.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015532.html
- ↑ http://renesasdevcon.com/
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015539.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015541.html
Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list
Joerg Simon informed [1] that he would be traveling and was not sure about the data connectivity. He pointed out that the report for August [2] needs to be completed, preferably by 2010-09-18 1800 UTC
María Leandro added [3] that the section for LATAM was complete
Max Spevack sent out a reminder [4] for a meeting on 2010-09-20 and asked if everyone was agreeing to that date.