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Ambassadors

This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project.

Contributing Writer: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay

Welcome New Ambassadors

This week the Fedora Ambassadors Project had a couple of new members joining.

Marios Isaakidis from Cyprus mentored by Paul Mellors

Henrik Nordström from Sweden mentored by Robert Scheck

Viji V Nair from India mentored by Shakthi Kannan

luke martinez from Australia mentored by Heherson Pagcaliwagan

Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list

Joerg Simon announced his decision to withdraw his self-nomination in the upcoming FAmSCo elections

Neville A. Cross wrote on behalf of Alejandro Perez extending invitation to FUDCon LATAM to be held at Panama.

Heherson Pagcaliwagan posted an event report for the F14 Release Party

Abdel G. Martínez L wrote about the Fedora 14 Release Party

Chris Tyler asked about Town Halls arranged for the upcoming FAmSCo elections especially if there was an organizer for the Town Halls. Susmit Shannigrahi responded about the work done so far

Buddhika Kurera asked for help related to OpenSUSE for the FOSS User Magazine

Caius 'kaio' Chance announced about his request to create a mailing list for Fedora Australia with the objective of getting this working as a general and main mailing list for Fedora folks in Australia and NZ.

Arif Tri Waluyo wrote about wanting to become an ambassador and requested someone to be a mentor. Bert Desment pointed out the relevant page . The thread contains additional inputs from mentors on this issue including a proposal from Caius 'kaio' Chance to be considered as a mentor

Dichi Al Faridi also wrote in with a similar request about looking for a mentor

Caius 'kaio' Chance posted news about a Fedora Meetup at Beijing

Robert Scheck posted an in-depth review of FSCONs 2010 at Gothenburg, Sweden and provided link to some photographs of the event

Susmit Shannigrahi sent out a call for volunteers for the FAmSCo Townhalls pointing out the need to have two meetings to accommodate all the candidates. Buddhika responded to the call informing about the preferred date .

Truong Anh. Tuan reported about a Fedora 14 Release Party at Ho Chi Minh City which was also attended by Pierros Papadeas from Greece

Gerard Braad talked about the need for mentors to point out the mailing lists to new Ambassadors and encourage signing up and initiating discussions

Marios wrote about the Fedora 14 Release party at Cyprus along with the 2 billion Firefox celebrations

Neville A. Cross reported about the Fedora 14 Release Event at Managua, Nicaragua. Event photographs were subsequently made available

Pascal Calarco followed up on the initial Call for Participation on Fedora Insight by providing the details about participating those who have demonstrated interest.

David Ramsey informed about new release events and, requested feedback about preferences on the APAC Ambassador meeting times

Xavier Naldo reported on the Laredo Linux Users Group Fedora 14 Release Party

Susmit Shannigrahi posted the logs from the FAmSCo Townhall Meeting 01

Konstantinos Antonakoglou reported about the Athens Digital Week 2010

Max Spevack requested help around getting Fedora resources to Kosovo for the Fedora 14 Release party. Collaboration with Gerold Kassube was a step forward in ensuring that the resources reach in time for the event

Larry Cafiero reminded about FAmNA meeting on 2010-11-16 at 2100 Eastern and subsequently posted the meeting logs

Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list

Max Spevack asked for help so that Fedora project contributors at Kosovo can receive monies for event

Joerg Simon reminded about the FAmSCo meeting on 2010-11-15 at 1800 UTC and added that he would not be able to attend