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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]

  1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017439.html
  2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:NA_Ambassadors_2011-05-03
  3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017440.html
  4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:EMEA_Ambassadors_2011-05-04
  5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017449.html
  6. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-05-04/fedora-meeting.2011-05-04-20.01.txt
  7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017441.html
  8. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:APAC_Ambassadors_2011-05-04
  9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017442.html
  10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017444.html
  11. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-05-04/fedora-meeting.2011-05-04-09.58.html
  12. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017445.html
  13. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017446.html
  14. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F15_Release_Party_Brno
  15. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017451.html
  16. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:APAC_Ambassadors_2011-05-07#Agenda
  17. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017457.html
  18. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-05-07/apac.2011-05-07-04.18.log.html
  19. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017454.html
  20. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/thread.html#17454
  21. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/MalaysianTeam/FUDConAPACDraft
  22. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017459.html
  23. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Business_cards
  24. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017460.html
  25. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017461.html
  26. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017471.html
  27. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:APAC_Ambassadors_2011-05-11#Agenda
  28. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017472.html
  29. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-05-11/apac.2011-05-11-09.59.txt
  30. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017473.html
  31. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017478.html
  32. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017479.html
  33. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FrOSCon_2011
  34. https://callforprojects.froscon.org/
  35. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017481.html
  36. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-05-14/fedora-meeting.2011-05-14-14.31.txt
  37. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/thread.html#17481
  38. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017488.html
  39. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017506.html
  40. 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

Summary of traffic on Campus Ambassadors mailing list

The mailing list did not have any traffic this week.