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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.

Marios Isaakidis from Cyprus mentored by Paul Mellors

Henrik Nordström from Sweden mentored by Robert Scheck

Viji V Nair from India mentored by Shakthi Kannan

luke martinez from Australia mentored by Heherson Pagcaliwagan

Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list

Joerg Simon announced his decision [1] to withdraw his self-nomination in the upcoming FAmSCo elections

Neville A. Cross wrote on behalf of Alejandro Perez extending invitation [2] to FUDCon LATAM [3] to be held at Panama.

Heherson Pagcaliwagan posted an event report [4] for the F14 Release Party

Abdel G. Martínez L wrote about [5] the Fedora 14 Release Party [6]

Chris Tyler asked [7] about Town Halls arranged for the upcoming FAmSCo elections especially if there was an organizer for the Town Halls. Susmit Shannigrahi responded [8] about the work done so far

Buddhika Kurera asked for help [9] related to OpenSUSE for the FOSS User Magazine

Caius 'kaio' Chance announced [10] about his request to create a mailing list for Fedora Australia [11] with the objective of getting this working as a general and main mailing list for Fedora folks in Australia and NZ.

Arif Tri Waluyo wrote [12] about wanting to become an ambassador and requested someone to be a mentor. Bert Desment pointed out [13] the relevant page [14] . The thread [15] contains additional inputs from mentors on this issue including a proposal [16] from Caius 'kaio' Chance to be considered as a mentor

Dichi Al Faridi also wrote in [17] with a similar request about looking for a mentor

Caius 'kaio' Chance posted news [18] about a Fedora Meetup at Beijing [19]

Robert Scheck posted [20] an in-depth review of FSCONs 2010 at Gothenburg, Sweden and provided link to some photographs of the event [21]

Susmit Shannigrahi sent out a call for volunteers for the FAmSCo Townhalls [22] pointing out the need to have two meetings to accommodate all the candidates. Buddhika responded to the call informing about the preferred date [23].

Truong Anh. Tuan reported about a Fedora 14 Release Party at Ho Chi Minh City [24] which was also attended by Pierros Papadeas from Greece [25]

Gerard Braad talked [26] about the need for mentors to point out the mailing lists to new Ambassadors and encourage signing up and initiating discussions

Marios wrote [27] about the Fedora 14 Release party at Cyprus along with the 2 billion Firefox celebrations [28]

Neville A. Cross reported [29] about the Fedora 14 Release Event at Managua, Nicaragua. Event photographs [30] [31] were subsequently made available

Pascal Calarco followed up [32] on the initial Call for Participation on Fedora Insight by providing the details about participating those who have demonstrated interest.

David Ramsey informed [33] about new release events and, requested feedback about preferences on the APAC Ambassador meeting times

Xavier Naldo reported on the Laredo Linux Users Group Fedora 14 Release Party [34]

Susmit Shannigrahi posted the logs [35] from the FAmSCo Townhall Meeting 01

Konstantinos Antonakoglou reported [36] about the Athens Digital Week 2010 [37]

Max Spevack requested help [38] around getting Fedora resources to Kosovo for the Fedora 14 Release party. Collaboration with Gerold Kassube [39] was a step forward in ensuring that the resources reach in time for the event

Larry Cafiero reminded about FAmNA meeting on 2010-11-16 at 2100 Eastern [40] and subsequently posted the meeting logs [41]


  1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016088.html
  2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016094.html
  3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Panama_2011
  4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016106.html
  5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016113.html
  6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Party_F14_Panama
  7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016114.html
  8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016116.html
  9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016117.html
  10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016123.html
  11. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ambassadors
  12. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016125.html
  13. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016126.html
  14. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors_Join_choose_a_mentor
  15. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/thread.html#16125
  16. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016129.html
  17. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016127.html
  18. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016134.html
  19. http://bbs.fedora-zh.org/showthread.php?5530-Fedora-%E5%8C%97%E4%BA%AC%E8%81%9A%E4%BC%9A%E6%9C%89%E5%9B%BE%E6%9C%89%E7%9C%9F%E7%9B%B8%EF%BC%81
  20. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016139.html
  21. http://robert.fedorapeople.org/events/2010/fscons/
  22. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016140.html
  23. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/thread.html#16140
  24. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016146.html
  25. http://pierros.papadeas.gr/?p=186
  26. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016147.html
  27. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016152.html
  28. http://tinyurl.com/2wemgz5
  29. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016165.html
  30. http://picasaweb.google.com/camiloquintana89/LanzamientoDeFedora14
  31. http://www.flickr.com/photos/hask/sets/72157625401757652/with/5182300326/
  32. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016182.html
  33. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016173.html
  34. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016177.html
  35. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016184.html
  36. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016187.html
  37. http://antonakoglou.com/2010/11/16/adw-2010-recap/
  38. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016190.html
  39. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016194.html
  40. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016199.html
  41. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016205.html

Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list

Max Spevack asked for help [1] so that Fedora project contributors at Kosovo can receive monies for event [2]

Joerg Simon reminded [3] about the FAmSCo meeting on 2010-11-15 at 1800 UTC and added that he would not be able to attend