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Ambassadors

In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors

Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero

North American Ambassadors Take Reins of XO Program

During the week following FUDcon, it was suggested that the Fedora Ambassadors in North America run the NA Developer XO program for an initial period of 6 months.

The reasons for Ambassadors taking the reins on this project are:

• Ambassadors can help the NA Developer XO program by seeking help, freeing up developers already involved to concentrate on their work.
• The Ambassadors are already in place, going to every major event and tons of minor events recruiting contributors to Fedora.
• Ambassadors have had some moderate success getting people involved with both Fedora and OLPC/Sugar.

OLPC decided to take the Ambassadors up on the offer and shipped 100 XOs to the FAmNA.

Guidelines have been set - subject to the guidance of the OLPC SIG -- and the wiki, which has just been started and is in the process of refining, can be found here:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_developers_XO_program

Essentially the bar that has been set is:

• Maintain a sugar-* package in Fedora and agree to maintain it for two releases. Alternately maintain a package that was in OLPC4 and has been merged.
• Develop a Sugar activity. To keep this in focus I have adopted Greg Dekoenigsberg's 'holy list of 4th grade math lessons' as acceptable activities:

http://sugarlabs.org/go/User:Gdk/4th_Grade_Maths

• QA (well not really): While FAmNA isn't actively looking for QA help, but if someone with extensive QA experience and lots of time presents itself we won't pass it up.

North America Polo Shirt Order

Pascal Calarco has initiated another round of ordering for Ambassador Polos for North American Ambassadors as announced on the Fedora Ambassador mailing list. There is also additional information here:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Ambassadors_North_America_(FAMNA)#Fedora_Ambassador_Polo_Shirts_for_FAMNA

FAD SCaLE coming up 2009-02-20

The Fedora Activity Day at the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) will be from 9am - 6pm on Friday, February 20th at the Westin Airport Los Angeles, in Los Angeles, California. There will be breaks and such, but the FAD will be treated much like a sprint. We're here to get something accomplished -- specifically font packaging and documentation -- so come on by and help us out for an hour or all day. We'd love to have you there!

Also, if you can make SCaLE from the Southern California area, stop by the Fedora booth.

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.