Welcome to the Fedora Ambassadors North America (FAMNA) page. We're working hard to make this page our central point for all North American Ambassadors. If you are interested in further participating in the Fedora project as an ambassador, we'd love to have you on board.
About FAmNA
FAmNA - The Fedora Ambassadors of North America is a collection of folks who want to share the Fedora message with others in their area, at events and in general.
FIXME - We need the Four Foundations links and the Fedora Talking points here
What you should know about Fedora
- Four Foundations; Freedom, Friends, Features and First.
- Please read up on these foundations and how they integrate into our culture, community and values.
- Understanding each foundation can help when you share this with others you encounter when representing Fedora
- Fedora Talking Points
- Very useful discussion points when folks ask "what is" in Fedora
- Fedora's largest sponsor is Red Hat.
- Most community members are not employees of Red Hat, however.
- Fedora is the upstream of Red Hat and isn't Red Hat beta or anything of the kind
Upcoming FAmNA events
The Fedora Events page has a full listing of events where all regions list their upcoming events. This goes for FAmNA members too. If you are an ambassador and would like to hold an event, big or small (greater than 5 people), it must go on the Events page. The benefit of this is that we can track how many events each region has and how to plan for the same Quarters in upcoming years.
Get SWAG
FAmNA will happily provide you, the ambassador with resources to share Fedora with people in your area. You do have to make a request though, so that we can make sure all the requirements are met. FAmNA provides several items that can be handed out, these include:
- Live/Install Media
- T-shirts
- Stickers, Buttons, Tattoos, etc.
Generally, when an ambassadors is doing ad-hoc events, it is best to get an Ambassador Kit
FAMNA Meetings
North American ambassadors meet on irc.freenode.net, #fedora-meeting, on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday at 9pm Eastern US time. See previous/upcoming Meetings.
FAMNA Growth Plan
We also have a Ambassador Growth Plan (we call it the world domination plan) with quantifiable goals. Feel free to peruse this as well. Currently, we're building a list of regional North American ambassadors. If you interested in helping us, feel free to add your name.