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Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee Election 2008: Nominations

Candidates may be any member of the Ambassadors group in the Fedora Accounts System. This helps ensure FAmSCo members have some experience with the processes of Fedora Ambassadors but still allows relatively new contributors to sit on FAmSCo and bring fresh ideas to the table.

Nominations are open from 28 October through 3 December, 2008. The elections will take place 7 December through 20 December, 2008.

You may self-nominate. If you wish to nominate someone else, please consult with that person ahead of time. Wiki nomination pages carry additional details about the nominee which the nominee is expected to write.

Sandro Mathys (red_alert)

Rodrigo Padula (RodrigoPadula) 

Latinoware 2008 - 2st Fedora Latin America Ambassadors and Users Conference 
Itaipú Technology Park - Foz do Iguaçu - PR 
Theme: Projeto Fedora América Latina - Projet Fedora Brasil 
Theme: XO / Sugar - Laptops Educacionais  

Technology Week of the UNESA 2008 
Estácio de Sá University - Cabo Frio - RJ 
Theme: Sugar  A constructivist educational environment  

ATUALTEC 2008 
Convention Center - Boa Vista - RR 
Theme: Fedora GNU/Linux 
Theme: XO / Sugar  Educational Laptops  

Freedom Day - Vianna Jr. College 
Vianna Jr. College - Juiz de Fora - MG 
Theme: XO / Sugar  Educational Laptops 
  
CESOL 2008  Ceará Free Software Conference 
Ceará Federal University - Fortaleza - CE 
Theme: Fedora  Spread it!  
Theme: XO / Sugar - Laptops Educacionais  

ENSOL II  Paraíba Free Software Meeting 
Cultural Center - João Pessoa - PB 
Theme: Fedora Gnu/Linux 
Theme: Fedora  Free Desktop Potentials 

FISL 9.0  International Free Software Forum 
PUCGS - Porto Alegre - RS 
Theme: XO - It's green, cute and runs Fedora! 
Theme: 3rd Fedora Project Brasil Community Meeting

Joerg Simon (kital)

Nominated by ChitleshGoorah (1)

One of my main goals as a FAmSCo member is to help all Fedora Ambassadors achieve their best contributions and build up Fedora's presence in many underrepresented Regions.

After a history as Linux user/enthusiast/contributor since 1995, i started in 2006 to support the Fedora Community actively as a Fedora Ambassador. I dedicated and will still dedicate a large part of my time to the Ambassador Membership Service (AMA), where i guide new Contributors as a sponsor and mentor into the Fedora Project. And my other "everyday" Job is to maintain the ambassador-mailing-list as Administrator.
To increase the Quality of the Ambassador Membership Process, i have developed and helped FAmSCo to establish the new approval process.
On my way as Ambassador, i initiated a few things which today are essential parts within Fedora Ambassadors, like the AmbassadorPolo or the well known generic Posterdesigns from MairinDuffy.
Promoting Fedora on Events is another major part of a Ambassador and so i work as organizer, driver, helper, slogger, promoter on a lot Events every year.
There are a few more things what i do, like trying new MarketingMaterials producing SWAG for us - or work as PressOfficer for the Fedora EMEA e.V.or help as one of the few Fedora in Library Activists.

Max Spevack (spevack)

My primary duty within FAmSCo is to manage the budget, and to make sure that each region of the world is getting the financial support that it needs in its community building work. I also try to provide general leadership help and advice to FAmSCo.

I manage the Community Architecture team, which works closely with Fedora. Additionally, I am accountable for the Red Hat and Fedora communities in EMEA, though that job is made easier thanks to our wonderful community leaders throughout the region. I am a previous Fedora Project Leader.

Continue to translate our presence at events into new contributors, and encourage more Fedora Ambassadors and developers to speak at events. Someone related to Fedora should be giving a talk at every event that we attend. I will also continue to be the main budget point of contact for Ambassadors and Fedora Marketing.

Larry Cafiero (lcafiero)

Nominated by Karsten Wade (quaid) (1)

I am currently a Fedora Ambassador from Scotts Valley (Santa Cruz County), California, U.S.A. As an ambassador, I strive to spread the word about Fedora in as many different venues, and at as many digital and non-digital events, as possible. As a FAmSCo member, my primary goal would be to assist other ambassadors in promoting Fedora by giving them the tools necessary to perform the tasks at hand.

My biographical information can be seen in my profile here. I have been a Linux user since 2006, and a Fedora user since Fedora 7. I became a Fedora ambassador in the summer of 2008, after organizing a Fedora 9 event that May at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California.

I am one of the founders and organizers of Lindependence, a Linux promotional project which introduces a variety of distributions, including Fedora, to new users at meetings across the country.

In addition to my profession as a newspaper editor, I also run Felton Linuxworks and HeliOS Solutions West in Felton, California; the former a retailer selling refurbished computers and other hardware, and the latter a Linux conversion and networking services for home users and those in the Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) setting.

My involvement on behalf of Fedora includes, but is not limited to:

My future plans include continuing to contribute to the projects mentioned above, as well as others that I may take on in the future. One issue I hope to expand on as a FAmSCo member is to encourage more evangelism around Fedora in particular, and Free/Open Source Software in general; this evangelism starts with seeking more speaking opportunities for myself and others, as well as developing more ambassadors as spokespeople in their immediate locations on behalf of Fedora at digital and non-digital events.

Thank you for the opportunity to present my credentials for your consideration.

Hector Gonzalez (hagr182)

Fedora is a very complete and stable linux distribution, I will do everything in my power to give people the gift of Fedora, I will also do everything I can to get more contributors to the project.

My name is Hector Gonzalez, I´m a 19 year old Mexican IT student, I´ve been contributing to the Fedora community since last march, as an ambassador and in the future also in marketing; as an ambassador I´ve been dedicating my time to distributing Fedora to the students and general public. In terms of support I can give assistance to multiple regions as I speak english, spanish, german and a little french.

Susmit Shannigrahi (susmit)

Nominated by Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay 1

Francesco Ugolini (fugolini)

Currently I'm FAmSCo chair. My principal activities and goals are coordinating this one and improving Ambassadors experience (from event coordination to ambassadors support). I think people came first and be a FAmSCo member means, first of all, working for ambassadors, starting from their necessities and helping them in their "ambassadorial" life.

  1. Keep FAmSCo up to date on Local groups activities/problems/improvements;
  2. Take care of Ambassadors feedbacks about resources distribution;
  3. Help Ambassadors with events organization, firstly working on a strong Budget plan.

David Nalley (ke4qqq)

I am currently a Fedora Ambassador from South Carolina, USA, and one of the NA Regional Ambassador Coordinators.

I've often expressed my observation that the environment for Ambassadors and FAmSCo has been changing, and I'd argue has dramatically changed within the past 12 months. I believe that to a degree the role of Ambassadors has changed. Even more so has been the change that I think is necessary for FAmSCo. In 2006 when I first became an Ambassador there were few around the world. Currently there are more than 10 times the number of Ambassadors. Over that time we have seen the purpose and mechanism of Ambassadors change pretty significantly. The largest of these issues has been the growth of regional leadership. To that end I see the purpose of FAmSCo evolving. This is not to say that the current FAmSCo hasn't been evolving, they've taken great strides in so doing, but that evolution will need to continue as the environment continues changing. To that end I see the priorities of FAmSCo as:

Thomas Canniot (MrTom)

After being a Fedora user for several years until Fedora Core 5 came out, I decided to involve myself into the Project and do my best to improve it. I started by translation, as the French team seemed to have given up the job. At the same time, the webmaster of the French community website of Fedora gave up this task as well and asked me to take this task over. I decided to build a small team of motivated people, and we re-launched Fedora-fr from scratch, with a strong community statement and a call to active participation. The Fedora-fr.org contains the most complete Fedora documentation over the world, with more than 1200 pages of documentation. Starting to buzz about the project in France, we decided to create a non-profit organization in order to give us the key to promote fedora without thinking about the money problem. The organization is soon to be 2 years old already, and encourages lots of people to become Ambassadors and contributors on several domains on the Fedora Project. The organization is now running pretty well, capable to order live cds, stickers and lots of schwag (pens, pins...) and has its own Fedora Online Store. In its second coming term, the organization steering committee will have to take up the challenge to strenghten links and relationship with the worldwide French community and see how the French org can sustain to their local needs of organization and promoting Fedora.


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