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Ambassadors

This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project^[1].

Contributing Writer: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay

↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors

Welcome New Ambassadors

The Fedora Ambassadors Project saw a couple of new Ambassadors joining in after undergoing to mentoring process.

Aurelie Chreng joined ^[1] The Fedora Ambassadors Project from the United Kingdom mentored by Mathieu Bridon

Ahmed Abdo Mohamed joined ^[2] The Fedora Ambassadors Project from the United Kingdom mentored by Robert Scheck

Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list

Bert Desmet informed ^[1] about the dates for Fosdem ^[2] and hoped to see a large Fedora group again. Gerard Braad expressed hope ^[3] that he may be able to arrange a trip for the event. Paul W Frields informed ^[4] that the budget exists to enable The Fedora Project Leader to make the trip.

John wanted to know ^[5] the status of Fedora Swag for Software Freedom Day celebrations in Dallas. David Duncan stated ^[6] that since the wiki did not indicate an owner, he would go ahead and take ownership to do the necessary coordination.

Manuel Escudero shared news ^[7] about an appliance for musicians and music production called Synthelos Linux ^[8]. Frank Murphy provided the URL to the page about Audion Creation Spin Development ^[9]. Kris Thomsen volunteered ^[10] to help.

Manuel Escudero posted ^[11] about a project called 'Hermes' ^[12] which relates to the building of a feed parser customizable by the user that notifies when there is important news.

Paul W Frields replied ^[13] to the discussion about Fedora in stores ^[14] by pointing to the Trademark Guidelines ^[15]

Daniel VanStone informed ^[16] about an event ^[17] in Arlington, Texas and requested ^[18] those in or, near the area to join. David Duncan responded ^[19] stating that he would be at the Python Convention in Waco with Fedora goodies.

Manuel Escudero posted ^[20] about being unable to run the latest Skype release because if requires the "1:4.6" Qt libraries and asked whether that meant not having Skype in Fedora 14 KDE Spin. Scott Dowdle pointed out ^[21] that Skype does work with Fedora 13 and KDE available from the official repositories. Mathieu Bridon responded ^[22] that the issue was more appropriate for the Fedora users mailing list ^[23] Ryan Rix explained ^[24] the Skype issue in a bit more detail

Continuing on the fedoracommunity.org portal design, Gianluca Sforna compared ^[25] about finding Regional Team resources via ubuntu.com and, the current Fedora infrastructure. Máirín Duffy joined ^[26] the discussion asking as to whether there are more websites that would require linking to.

Max Spevack informed ^[27] that the event organizers should check the availability of power for the Fedora table at the Ohio Linux Fest. Ben Williams confirmed ^[28] about such a check and stated that the Red Hat and Fedora exhibits are side-by-side.

John Poelstra posted ^[29] about upcoming Fedora 14 Schedule Tasks. Schedule retrospective page captures all the important details ^[30]

Bert Desment wondered ^[31] if, looking at past attendee trends, Fosdem could have a structure like FUDCon thus making it easier for people to request sponsorship.

Sascha Thomas Spreitzer announced ^[32] the FUDCon Zurich media exchange which would enable attendees to carry media ^[33] for event owners at other places

Nilesh Vaghela reported ^[34] about Fedora 13 workshop at GLS, MCA Department, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Photographs have been uploaded ^[35] as well

Gianluca Sforna posted ^[36] an EMEA only notice about orders ^[37] for Polo Shirts ^[38] being collected

David Duncan reported ^[39] ^[40] about the participation at the PyTexas event

Joerg Simon posted ^[41] FAmSCo Meeting Minutes for 2010-08-30

Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list

Sankarshan posted ^[1] to the list asking whether FAmSCo and other Steering Committees introspect and discuss about the positive changes that they bring about.

David Nalley responded ^[2] with his view on the question. He also copied the Ambassadors list as the discussion would be of interes

Joerg Simon mentioned ^[3] that he had responded ^[4] on the advisory board list

Joerg Simon posted ^[5] about a violation of the Ambassadors Conduct by Luke Slater with specific mention of the content of the blog post.

Luke apologized ^[6] about his post which he said that he had removed from the blog.

Joerg Simon informed ^[7] that FAmSCo meeting 2010-09-06 was adjourned due to holidays in the US

Joerg Simon posted ^[8] the minutes from the Fedora Ambassadors Mentors Meeting held on 2010-09-06

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Ambassadors

Welcome New Ambassadors

Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list

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