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Ambassadors

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

Contributing Writer: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay

Welcome New Ambassadors

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

Jason Wickard joined the Ambassador Project [1] from the USA, mentored by Ben Williams

José Eduardo Rodríguez Esquivel joined the Ambassador Project [2] from Costa Rica mentored by Neville A. Cross

Joshua Livesay joined the Ambassador Project [3] from the USA mentored by Larry Cafiero

Robert Beatty joined the Ambassador Project [4] from the USA mentored by Larry Cafiero

Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list

The FAmNA members enthusiastically agreed with the idea of Fedora balloons[1] For reference purposes, see the link to the beginning of the discussion thread[2].

Nilesh Vaghela posted a summary[3] of a Fedora Talk/Seminar at GLS College in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The link to the photographs have been provided as well[4]. Fedora 13 features were demonstrated at the workshop.

Zoltan Hoppar requested guidance[5] in getting the domain hu.fedoraproject.org registered as it is part of the Hungarian community's efforts to become official.

Gerold and Paul Frields had a mail exchange[6] [7] around the need for the Fedora EMEA e.V. NPO to rename and, the way forward on that.

Gerold Kassube posted [8] a job offer in Berlin and requested to be contacted privately off-list if anyone was interested in taking it up.

Robyn Bergeron requested help in selecting the Release Slogan for Fedora 14 [9]. The themes for the release slogan has a wiki page[10] The Release Slogan SOP[11] is recommended reading. The new slogan ideas are to be provided at the specific wiki page[12] The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, August 17, at 21:00 UTC.

Fabian Affolter posted[13] a call for an owner for LinuxDay at Dornbirn, Austria which has a wiki page[14] available.

Gerold added[15] to Joerg Simon 's call for owner for Software Freedom Day, Berlin[16] by pointing out that FUDCon Zuerich begins on the same day.

Joe O'Dell wrote[17] explaining that an upcoming set of study plans would not allow full focus on the duties of an Ambassador.

Gerold reminded[18] Ambassadors that online registration for FUDCon2010/Switzerland was now open and, provided a link[19] for those interested in sight-seeing.

Joerg Simon announced that the FAmSCo meeting for 2010-08-16 was cancelled[20] since most of the members were unable to attend.

  1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015298.html
  2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015238.html
  3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015295.html
  4. http://www.electromech.info/component/option,com_phocagallery/Itemid,66/id,4/view,category/
  5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015287.html
  6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015297.html
  7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015299.html
  8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015303.html
  9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015304.html
  10. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_release_slogan#Themes
  11. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_slogan_SOP
  12. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_release_slogan#New_slogan_ideas
  13. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015305.html
  14. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxDay_Dornbirn_2010
  15. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015307.html
  16. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015306.html
  17. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015308.html
  18. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015312.html
  19. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Sightseeing_at_CERN
  20. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015311.html

Summary of FAmSCo meetings

Susmit Shannigrahi emailed Mustafa [1] about copyrighted material being posted on his blog and best practices of an Ambassador

Joerg Simon posted [2] the meeting minutes [3] for the FAmSCo meeting on Mon Aug 9 19:15:05 2010 UTC The meeting led to creation of action items for developing the Ambassador Conduct content

Joerg Simon announced that the FAmSCo Report for July 2010 was ready for release [4]. The report included a section [5] about the results of the survey sent out to the mentors