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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.

Bogomil "Bogo" Shopov from Bulgaria mentored by Pierros Papadeas

Jyri Kochnev from Russia mentored by Robert Scheck

Cleiton Lima from Brazil mentored by Daniel Bruno

Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list

Scott Williams reported [1] on the need to make decisions about the Fedora Activity Day at SCaLE and provided some suggestions on the possible focus for the FAD

Larry Cafiero posted [2] the Meeting Minutes from the FAmNA meeting on 2010-12-08

Buddhika Kurera reminded [3] about providing details for the T-shirts while the funding is being considered for approval by FAmSCo

Vinzenz Vietzke informed [4] a Fedora Event at Augsburger Linux Infotag during 2011 [5]

Rahul Sundaram informed [6] about a Fedora Mini Conf at FOSS.IN [7] at Bangalore, India

Kévin Raymond asked for feedback [8] on whether creating a mailing list for EMEA would help coordinate decisions for the region. Within the thread [9] Caius Chance supported [10] the idea of copying important information to the local list. Another aspect that was discussed was the judicious and proper usage of tags to specify regions which would find the information interesting

Truong Anh Tuan reported [11] on the unavailability of the meeting logs after the APAC Ambassador meeting. David Ramsey provided [12] links to the logs

Pierros Papadeas posted [13] the Fedora 15 Ambassadors' Schedule Draft [14] urging the Ambassadors to collaborate towards completing the tasks

Maria Gracia Leandro Lombardo posted [15] a mail asking "What's really needed to be an Ambassador?" and added a few ideas which can help define this role. The resulting thread [16] included varied inputs and suggestions including one [17] by Larry Cafiero expressing support for the list of ideas proposed in the original mail

Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list

This week the Ambassadors list did not have any reports of events


Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list

Larry Cafiero informed [1] about an agenda item to postpone the FAmSCo meetings on Christmas Day and the New Year's Day. Neville A. Cross and others agreed with this move [2] with the notion that the FAmSCo members would be active and communicating during the holidays

Pierros Papadeas posted [3] Minutes of the Meeting from 2010-12-18 [4]

Joerg Simon copied [5] related to help required around FOSDEM

Igor Pires Soares asked [6] about continuing discussions around the "Regional IRC Sessions" agenda item in the Fedora Schedule which seemed a bit vague. The thread [7] has inputs from others about what could be a plan in the coming period about handling the IRC sessions productively.