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.
Elad Alfassa from Israel mentored by Bert Desmet
Richard de Bruin from the Netherlands mentored by Bert Desmet
Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list
Larry Cafiero reminded [1] about FAmNA meeting for 2011-05-03 [2]
Christoph Wickert reminded [3] about EMEA Ambassadors meeting on 2011-05-04 [4] and later posted [5] the Meeting Minutes [6]
David Ramsey mentioned [7] that the special APAC meetings for weekly Wednesdays would be at 1000 UTC [8]
Haowei Lee provided updated information [9] about the Fedora 15 China Online Event
Truong Anh. Tua posted [10] meeting notes from the APAC Ambassadors meeting on 2011-05-04 [11]
Rejaul Islam updated [12] information about Fedora 15 Release Parties being organized at Bangladesh
Jiri Eischmaan reported [13] about plans to organize a Fedora 15 Release Party at the Brno office of Red Hat [14]
David Ramsey reminded [15] about the APAC Ambassadors Meeting to be held on 2011-05-07 at 0400 UTC [16] and later posted [17] the Meeting Minutes [18]
Buddhika Kurera initiated a thread [19] about FUDCon preparation for APAC. Further along the thread [20] there was a request to have more ideas in addition to the one from Fedora Ambassadors in Malaysia [21]
Max Spevack relayed feedback [22] received at the Red Hat Summit about the Fedora Business Cards [23]. Arturo Fernandez reminded [24] about the business card generation not working properly with UTF-8 encoding and mentioned that a patch was available to fix it. David Nalley followed it [25] with a request to remove the Fedora Talk line from the card as the service was deprecated.
David Ramsey reminded [26] about special APAC meeting for weekly Wednesday on 2011-05-11 [27] Buddhika Kurera posted [28] the meeting logs [29]
David Ramsey informed [30] about the availability of the Fedora 15 RC1 for testing
David Ramsey also posted [31] information around the upcoming Board and FESCo elections
Felix Kaechele requested an owner [32] for the FrOSCon 2011 [33] at Germany [34]
Igor Pires Soares posted [35] Meeting Minutes for FAmSCo meeting for 2011-05-14 [36] The resulting thread [37] had discussions among Ambassadors with suggestions about how to handle the current situation of empty seats at FAmSCo
Neville A. Cross begun the process [38] to draw up a schedule for the FAmSCo Town Halls
Tom Callaway posted [39] about the Change in requirements for Board, FESCo and FAmSCo candidates in that "specifically, candidates must not be a citizen of an export-restricted country " [40]
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017439.html
- ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:NA_Ambassadors_2011-05-03
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017440.html
- ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:EMEA_Ambassadors_2011-05-04
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017449.html
- ↑ http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-05-04/fedora-meeting.2011-05-04-20.01.txt
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017441.html
- ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:APAC_Ambassadors_2011-05-04
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017442.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017444.html
- ↑ http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-05-04/fedora-meeting.2011-05-04-09.58.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017445.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017446.html
- ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F15_Release_Party_Brno
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017451.html
- ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:APAC_Ambassadors_2011-05-07#Agenda
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017457.html
- ↑ http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-05-07/apac.2011-05-07-04.18.log.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017454.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/thread.html#17454
- ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/MalaysianTeam/FUDConAPACDraft
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017459.html
- ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Business_cards
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017460.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017461.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017471.html
- ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:APAC_Ambassadors_2011-05-11#Agenda
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017472.html
- ↑ http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-05-11/apac.2011-05-11-09.59.txt
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017473.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017478.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017479.html
- ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FrOSCon_2011
- ↑ https://callforprojects.froscon.org/
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017481.html
- ↑ http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-05-14/fedora-meeting.2011-05-14-14.31.txt
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/thread.html#17481
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017488.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017506.html
- ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/Export#Embargoed_Destinations%7CLegal/Export#Embargoed_Destinations
Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list
Antonio Salles posted [1] photographs from the Flisol event [2] Eduardo Zamorano also posted some photographs [3]
Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list
Neville A. Cross informed [1] about being unable due to working on the arrangements for the LibreBus event.
Igor Pires Soares called for discussion [2] around the proposal for a FAD at the 12th Free Software International Forum for which there already exists a plan and budget estimate [3] Neville A. Cross wondered [4] if the Budget discussion was a FAmSCo or, a Community Architecture team issue. Igor Pires Soares mentioned [5] a prior mail to Max Spevack which was awaiting a response and updated that the tasks with the local team are now completed. Pierros Papadeas indicated [6] that it was justifiable to allocate a budget of ~1000 USD for a FAD and suggested the creation of a wiki page. Igor Pires Soares followed up [7] with details about the tickets on the trac [8] [9] And, further that the FAmSCo meeting [10] approved to fund lodging for those paying airfare and, lodging+airfare for those requests who live near the city of the event hosting.
Igor Pires Soares informed [11] about the draft of the FAmSCo April report was available on the wiki [12] for editing.
Gerard Braad notified [13] about the discussion around resignation [14] of Larry Cafiero from The Fedora Project and indicated that roles and responsibilities within the FAmSCo needed to be re-assigned. Neville A. Cross indicated [15] about a possible set of steps including moving a proposal to remove Rahul Sundaram and vote on that.
Neville A. Cross informed [16] about the state of readiness of the FAmSCo survey built using the Lime Survey service [17] which now needs to be activated and sent to participants. Gerard Braad corrected [18] a few typographical errors in the document and signed it off. Neville A. Cross also provided information [19] [20] around the charges/expenses involved for running the survey.
Gerard Braad responded [21] to Buddhika Kurera's comments on the FAmSCo meeting minutes of 2011-05-14
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000775.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000776.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/fudcon-planning/2011-May/002174.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000777.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000779.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000781.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000782.html
- ↑ https://fedorahosted.org/famsco/ticket/161
- ↑ https://fedorahosted.org/famsco/ticket/178
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000783.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000780.html
- ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_report_2011-04
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000785.html
- ↑ http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-05-14/fedora-meeting.2011-05-14-14.31.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000787.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000788.html
- ↑ http://yn1v.fedorapeople.org/Documents/limesurvey_draf.pdf
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000790.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000793.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000792.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000789.html
Summary of traffic on Campus Ambassadors mailing list
The mailing list did not have any traffic this week.