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.
Everton Cardoso from Brazil mentored by Daniel Bruno
Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list
Christoph Wickert raised [1] some questions regarding the budget [2] Max Spevack provided [3] actual figures from the expenses. David Nalley mentioned [4] that some of the issues raised in the mail were also part of the Board IRC meeting and, discussions were ongoing as the same was an agenda item in the upcoming Board meeting.
Onyeibo Oku asked [5] if there was an existing print-ready, A5 sized booklet covering the basics of Fedora for handing out at events. Zoltan Hopper responded [6] about a scratch document available at the Marketing Page. There was further discussion around the difference between a Quick-Start and a Handbook [7] and the possibility of building a Quick Start Guide [8] based upon the SXSW Materials [9]
Christoph Wickert posted [10] Minutes of EMEA Ambassadors Meeting [11] The thread [12] had additional discussion around allocation of funds under budget line items and, expense planning based on projected needs. The decision making process within FAmSCo was also discussed.
David Ramsey posted [13] meeting notes [14] from the APAC Ambassadors meeting on 2011-03-19
David Ramsey informed [15] about an upcoming Power Management Test Day [16] and subsequently posted [17] about the Printing and ABRT Retrace Server Test Days
Máirín Duffy asked [18] if there was a group photograph from a recent event with the aim of updating the FUDCon Zurich group phot that is on fedoraproject.org page
Christoph Wickert posted [19] a 'Last Call for Orders" for F14 media for any event at EMEA and added a link to the Inventory [20] for helping to search for the nearest anchor point
Pierros Papadeas posted [21] Meeting Minutes for FAmSCo meeting of 2011-03-26
Buddhika Kurera requested help [22] in finding a co-speaker for CLT2011
Paul Mellors posted [23] about an idea for a documentary [24] similar to "Revolution OS"
Adam Miller put out a last call for funding for Texas Linux Fest 2011 [25]
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017242.html
- ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_report_2011-02
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017245.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017317.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017252.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017253.html
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Sankarshan/FedoraHandbook
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017261.html
- ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design/SXSW_Materials
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017264.html
- ↑ http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-03-23/emea_ambassadors.2011-03-23-20.02.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/thread.html#17264
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017265.html
- ↑ http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-03-19/apac.2011-03-19-04.09.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017267.html
- ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-24
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017312.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017282.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017293.html
- ↑ https://fedorahosted.org/emea-swag-tracking/wiki/Inventory
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017296.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017299.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017314.html
- ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Documentary
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017310.html
Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list
Christoph Wickert reported [1] on the Chemnitzer Linuxtage event with more details about undertaking similar tasks using different distributions.
Fabian Affolter summarized [2] all the CLT2011 reports
Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list
Pierros Papadeas posted [1] the Agenda for the FAmSCo meeting of 2011-03-26 [2]
Joerg Simon, as the Fedora Ambassador Membership Administrator, informed FAmSCo [3] about existing continuous violations of Fedora Ambassador Conduct [4] Follow-up discussions happened on the ticket and the thread [5]
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-March/000736.html
- ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_agenda#2011-3-26_agenda
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-March/000737.html
- ↑ https://fedorahosted.org/famsco/ticket/156
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-March/thread.html#737