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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.

Thiago Peixoto from Brazil mentored by María Leandro

Gent Thaçi Kosovo mentored by Bert Desmet supported by Robert Scheck

Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list

A Mani posted [1] about a magazine [2] and suggested that the milestones of Fedora Print Magazine [3] be an online edition first and a print edition later.

Neville A Cross posted [4] about the Fedora 14 Countdown banner for blogs and requested all to spread the word

Jon Stanley informed [5] that CPOSC [6] and he would be manning the booth

John Poelstra posted [7] about upcoming Fedora 14 tasks pertaining to Release Parties and Regional IRC sessions

Gerold Kassube posted [8] about the FAD at Rheinfelden and followed it up [9] with a link for registration [10]

Max Spevack posted [11] his round-up of budget updates and, planning for rest-of-2010

Sascha Thomas Spreitzer posted [12] on the outcome of checking the feasibility of putting more than one live-cd on one disc and provided a proof of concept [13] The resulting thread [14] has extensive discussions about doing the media production at EMEA

Robert Scheck posted [15] a review of the Szabad Szoftver Konferencia 2010 in Szeged, Hungary

Pascal Calarco put out [16] a Call for Participation on Fedora Insight by calling upon those who have intermediate to advanced Drupal 6 skills and some time at hand.

Ahmed M Araby wrote about [17] Software Freedom Day [18] at Menoufya University, Egypt

David Ramsey posted [19] meeting notes for APAC meeting on 2010-10-17

Gent Thaçi asked [20] about existing communities for the Balkans. The thread [21] has inputs from others on the need to form such communities

Christoph Wickert asked [22] about legal requirements for the Multi-Desktop Live media which is being proposed to be produced by ambassadors at EMEA. Later, Christoph also followed up [23] with the Board meeting recap, 2010-10-18 which had the disc-of-spins as an agenda item. Máirín Duffy had a few additional questions and suggestion [24] on the disc-of-spins item

Gent Thaçi posted [25] about an article on The Fedora Project in PCWorld Albanian

Carlos Carreno informed [26] about Fedora Party 2010 at Lima, Peru to be held on 2010-11-06 at Ricardo Palma University

  1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015667.html
  2. http://pclosmag.com/
  3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_print_magazine
  4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015677.html
  5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015680.html
  6. http://cposc.org/
  7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015681.html
  8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015691.html
  9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015763.html
  10. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_EMEA_2010
  11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015695.html
  12. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015701.html
  13. http://sspreitzer.fedorapeople.org/torrents/
  14. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/thread.html#15701
  15. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015717.html
  16. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015734.html
  17. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015737.html
  18. http://sfd.mufix.org/site/
  19. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015741.html
  20. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015746.html
  21. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/thread.html#15746
  22. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015748.html
  23. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015751.html
  24. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015754.html
  25. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015762.html
  26. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015764.html

Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list

Christoph Wickert posted [1] the FAmSCo Meeting Minutes [2] of 2010-09-27 and asked [3] the the FAmSCo meeting for 2010-10-04 was indeed adjourned

Christoph Wickert also pointed out [4] the need to discuss the EMEA media production budget [5] Sascha Thomas Spreitzer mentioned [6] that the cost/budget for F14 would remain the same as F13 [7] Max Spevack responded [8] to Christoph's mail stating that it was "very easily within budget"

Joerg Simon posted [9] FAmSCo Meeting Minutes 2010-10-11 [10]

Joerg Simon informed [11] that he would not be able to attend the FAmSCo Meeting on 2010-10-18 and requested that the FAmSCo Report [12] be completed