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Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero
Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero


=== RIT Pitches in on OLPC Project ===
=== Fedora on the move in Italy  ===


''(This item corrects a report on this topic filed in FWN Number 166)''
Luca Foppiano's recent blog item<ref>http://blog.foppiano.org/2009/03/15/moving-fedora-it-on-rails/</ref> outlines developments in Italy.
 
The Fedora OLPC project seems to have found a friend at Rochester Institute of Technology<ref>http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Rochester,_NY</ref>. Fedora Ambassador Karlie Robinson met RIT professor Stephen Jacobs at an OLPC Grassroots meeting on January 22 and learned of Jacobs' interest in doing a class around the XO.
 
Days later, David Nalley announced the Fedora Ambassador Developers Project and Karlie brought Professor Jacobs up to speed on what Fedora is doing around the XO,<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-olpc-list/2009-February/msg00033.html</ref> where Fedora is providing XOs to those who will do development work. The deal revolved around getting XOs for Jacobs classroom in exchange for the RIT students working on [[User:Gdk|Greg DeKoenigsberg's]] 4th Grade Math project[http://sugarlabs.org/go/User:Gdk/4th_Grade_Maths].


While Luca mentions that Italy has not yet reached the numbers of the French and German communities, the Italian community is growing. With around 7 ambassadors and 10 to 15 regular IRC participants, the community has put down firm roots in the country.


For 2009, Luca reports that some activities are in the works, like:
* One meeting each month, to keep in touch regularly, have brainstorming, discussions and involving all interested people.
* Pages on fedora wiki to keep and track internal information like events and inventory.


"I think we are on the right way," Luca writes. "Stay tuned"
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Ambassadors

In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors

Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero

Fedora on the move in Italy

Luca Foppiano's recent blog item[1] outlines developments in Italy.

While Luca mentions that Italy has not yet reached the numbers of the French and German communities, the Italian community is growing. With around 7 ambassadors and 10 to 15 regular IRC participants, the community has put down firm roots in the country.

For 2009, Luca reports that some activities are in the works, like:

  • One meeting each month, to keep in touch regularly, have brainstorming, discussions and involving all interested people.
  • Pages on fedora wiki to keep and track internal information like events and inventory.

"I think we are on the right way," Luca writes. "Stay tuned"

Got Ambassador News?

Any Ambassador news tips from around the Fedora community can be submitted to me by e-mailing lcafiero-AT-fedoraproject-DOT-org and I'd be glad to put it in this weekly report.