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** Growing both the quantity as well as quality of ambassadors an ambassadors work. | ** Growing both the quantity as well as quality of ambassadors an ambassadors work. | ||
== [[User:Mribeirodantas|Marcel Ribeiro Dantas]] (mribeirodantas) == | |||
'''History with Fedora''' | |||
My first contact with Fedora happened many years ago, back in 2007 when as a speaker I met someone who used to promote Fedora. I have used Fedora on and off ever since but only at the beginning of 2012 I started officially as a contributor. At first, I became an ambassador which led me to organize four F19 Release Parties not only in my city but in other places too. I have been ever since an invited speaker at several events allowing me to have talks about Fedora in 13 events only in the second semester of 2012, in all sort of places in Brazil (plus outside Brazil, remotely). | |||
Apart from my contributions as an ambassador I have also done my best in the localization team, translating Yum and Fedora. Wherever I go, I always try to bring new contributors to Fedora and having watched closely several teams like L10n, Marketing, Ambassadors and Freemedia allowed me to have a good idea of where people may fit in better and contribute the best they can. | |||
'''Goals related to FAmSCo''' | |||
* Supporting the communication of ambassadors worldwide. | |||
LATAM meetings are excellent to make sure people will eventually have to handle with contributors from other countries in LATAM. However, not only language but other aspects limit some contributors from getting in touch with people outside their countries and outside LATAM. People everywhere have lots to learn and lots to teach. Therefore, I believe contributors have much to gain from the experience of meeting new contributors from other locations, sharing experiences and I want to support that not only in LATAM but everywhere. | |||
* Supporting the presence of Fedora in events/activities | |||
As ambassadors, we're the face of Fedora. Consequently, the presence of not only ambassadors but contributors in FOSS events are essential. Supporting this, I will try to assist contributors to make their budget so that the best can be done with the money, assuring Fedora is efficiently present in as much essential places as it is possible. | |||
* Fedora Join SIG | |||
New ways to attract contributors to Fedora should always be something to consider. Bringing new contributors is one of the main goals of an ambassador, thus we should always consider thinking of strategies that would make this task more efficient. | |||
* Support the organization of Fedora events | |||
I have more than 10 years of experience in the organization of national and international events. Release Parties are a great idea and I'd like to work with other ambassadors to create new small Fedora events (or to promote FADs) that would make clear the local presence of Fedora and work as another way to both introduce new people to Fedora and bring new contributors into the project. | |||
=== Questionnaire === | === Questionnaire === | ||
Revision as of 03:48, 11 January 2014
The nomination period is in progress! Please add your nomination before January 13, 23:59:59 UTC!
The following elections will take place in January 2014:
- Fedora Project Board (two seats)
- FESCo (Engineering) (four seats)
- FAmSCo (Ambassadors) (three seats)
All dates and times noted are UTC time.
FAmSCo elections January 2014
Current members of FamSCo are:
- Jiri Eischmann (sesivany)
- Christoph Wickert (cwickert)
- Luis Enrique Bazán De León (LoKoMurdoK)
- Robert Mayr (robyduck)
- Alejandro Perez (aeperezt)
- Buddhika Chandradeepa Kurera (bckurera)
- Truong Anh Tuan (tuanta)
As per the FAmSCo election rules, these members finish their term and their seats are up for re-election:
- Alejandro Perez (aeperezt)
- Buddhika Chandradeepa Kurera (bckurera)
- Truong Anh Tuan (tuanta)
For the last election, please see FAmSCo NominationsMayJune2013
Candidates must be a member of the Ambassadors group in the Fedora Accounts System. This helps ensure that 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.
Ambassadors will be following the Fedora election timeline.
You may self-nominate. If you wish to nominate someone else, please consult with that person ahead of time.
Candidate template
Introduction
- Please briefly describe your history with Fedora.
- What are your particular goals related to FAmSCo?
Questionnaire
Once the questionnaire period is over, the Elections Wrangler will collect the answers and post them at the same time. This attempts to make things more even and fair for candidates to be open with their answers and not copy from earlier responses.
- Question1?
Candidates
Neville A. Cross - YN1V
Nicaraguan, using fedora since FC4, contributor since 2008, power user, zero programming skills, major in business administration, Amateur Radio.
- History with Fedora: I am ambassador since 2008, inactive mentor for ambassadors, freemedia coordinator, Fedora Community Credit Card holder, member of FAmSCo twice in the past, organizing release party in Managua since Fedora 11
- Goals related to FAmSCo: I will like to promote a LATAM way of doing things. More small events to build skills to contribute. Nicaragua experience produced 8 new collaborators during 2013, I would like to share an improve that. I like to help bring some success measure in the use of our budget, beyond blog posts. Find collaborators that are not ambassadors who can share skills and sponsor them to foster grow in our community.
Truong Anh Tuan (tuanta)
Introduction
- History with Fedora:
- Fedora User since the first Fedora Core released (Red Hat Linux user, before that).
- Fedora Contributor since 2009.
- Current FAmSCo member, representative and budget wrangler for APAC.
- Current Fedora Server Working Group member.
- Current Community Working Group member.
- Initialized and maintained the first Fedora mirror in Vietnam: http://virror.hanoilug.org/#fedora since 2009.
- Organized a lot of Fedora Release Parties around the country since Fedora 11.
- Founded Fedora Vietnam community with dedicated community website and mailing list since 2010.
- Fedora package maintainer for three years.
- Representing Fedora at a lot of FOSS and Tech events.
- Particular goals related to FAmSCo?
- Connecting ambassadors among countries and regions and support them to make annual plan and budget more effective.
- Support local ambassadors to organize and attend Fedora and FOSS events/activities.
- Growing both the quantity as well as quality of ambassadors an ambassadors work.
Marcel Ribeiro Dantas (mribeirodantas)
History with Fedora
My first contact with Fedora happened many years ago, back in 2007 when as a speaker I met someone who used to promote Fedora. I have used Fedora on and off ever since but only at the beginning of 2012 I started officially as a contributor. At first, I became an ambassador which led me to organize four F19 Release Parties not only in my city but in other places too. I have been ever since an invited speaker at several events allowing me to have talks about Fedora in 13 events only in the second semester of 2012, in all sort of places in Brazil (plus outside Brazil, remotely).
Apart from my contributions as an ambassador I have also done my best in the localization team, translating Yum and Fedora. Wherever I go, I always try to bring new contributors to Fedora and having watched closely several teams like L10n, Marketing, Ambassadors and Freemedia allowed me to have a good idea of where people may fit in better and contribute the best they can.
Goals related to FAmSCo
- Supporting the communication of ambassadors worldwide.
LATAM meetings are excellent to make sure people will eventually have to handle with contributors from other countries in LATAM. However, not only language but other aspects limit some contributors from getting in touch with people outside their countries and outside LATAM. People everywhere have lots to learn and lots to teach. Therefore, I believe contributors have much to gain from the experience of meeting new contributors from other locations, sharing experiences and I want to support that not only in LATAM but everywhere.
- Supporting the presence of Fedora in events/activities
As ambassadors, we're the face of Fedora. Consequently, the presence of not only ambassadors but contributors in FOSS events are essential. Supporting this, I will try to assist contributors to make their budget so that the best can be done with the money, assuring Fedora is efficiently present in as much essential places as it is possible.
- Fedora Join SIG
New ways to attract contributors to Fedora should always be something to consider. Bringing new contributors is one of the main goals of an ambassador, thus we should always consider thinking of strategies that would make this task more efficient.
- Support the organization of Fedora events
I have more than 10 years of experience in the organization of national and international events. Release Parties are a great idea and I'd like to work with other ambassadors to create new small Fedora events (or to promote FADs) that would make clear the local presence of Fedora and work as another way to both introduce new people to Fedora and bring new contributors into the project.
Questionnaire
user 1 (user_1)
Introduction
- Please briefly describe your history with Fedora.
- What are your particular goals related to FAmSCo?
Questionnaire
- Question1?
- Answer1