Fedora Ambassadors Membership Stats September, October 2011

sorry for the delay, is my fault - FUDCon and disease kept me from doing the stats ;)

Fedora Ambassadors Welcome Week 46

we are happy to welcome our new sponsored Fedora Ambassadors

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Douglasbahr from Brazil
mentored by Daniel Bruno

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Dpaulo from Brazil
mentored by Daniel Bruno

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Firaskafri from Amman
mentored by Daniel Bruno

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Danthoma from the USA
mentored by Ben Williams

[ FUDCon Pune 2011] Travel und Event Pictures

[FUDCon Pune 2011] Day 3 Hackfest

Day 3 started with the pitches for the Hackfests -

 

Robert was surprised as a huge bunch of students showed up for Package Reviewing - so it turned in a Talk how to package

 

Later i went out with Sankarshan to buy a Indian type of clothing - which keeps you fresh because the air rotates when you walk.  It was a pleasure to meet Anuj´s Brother who is also a Computer Scienes Student and i hope i could do some ambassadorial work ;)

pretty fast after was back at the venue i felt dizzy and went back to the hotel where i tried to sleep till some hours ago - right now i am in the RedHat Office Pune and Coke is helping me coming back to consciuos.

[FUDCon Pune 2011] more from Day 2

it took me some hours to recover from a little sickness - so the post is a bit delayed
Later the second day i attended Roberts Zarafa Talk and MAPI is no longer an alien for me ;)

I also spend some time in the speakers lounge where some informal work already happened before the hackfests and where Fedora Contributors from APAC met the first time in a larger scale!

 

 Later the day the went to FUDPub - i never saw a FUDPub like this, it was on the top of a Hotel with a great sight and it was very fancy and they had music where people danced like in the Bollywood Movies - and it seems normal that one guy ask another for dance - btw. i could avoid dancing - i do not want to end up in the internet dancing ;)

 

later Kushal played with the options of my camera- he just know what he is doing

[FUDCon Pune 2011] Day2 Group-Photos

I am just back from FUDPub which was really awesome - Bollywood Movies are right - they can dance ... more details tomorrow because it is already late - just want to put up the two Group-Photos - Shreyank Gupta took one with my Camera here it is - including his Finger ;) - it was darken very fast, so i assume we have to wait for Kushal for the Pro-Version ;)

And another one during FUDPub - all the Volunteers

Fedora Ambassadors Welcome - Week 44

we are happy to welcome our new sponsored Fedora Ambassadors


https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kalfie from the Republic of Costa Rica mentored by Neville A. Cross

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ataliba from Brazil mentored by Daniel Bruno

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Grover from the USA mentored by Mark Terranova

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Csuarez from Chile mentored by Daniel Bruno


https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rretamales from Chile mentored by Daniel Bruno

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ramilton from Brazil mentored by Daniel Bruno

[FUDCon Pune 2011] My Slides

i was approached to provide my slides - here there are


http://jsimon.fedorapeople.org/fedora_osstmm_secspinv4.pdf (~9MByte)

FAmSCo Nominations 2011

Even if very late i want to have some words - i am happy to see the current nominations for the next FAmSCo - but not happy about the numbers. I hope NA will come up with a candidate as well - otherwise it would be a serious statement! I would have suggested

• 5 Neville A. Cross (yn1v)
• 6 Igor Soares (igorps)
• 7 Shakthi Kannan (mbuf)
• 8 Zoltan Hoppar (Zoltanh7211) 

anyway.

Christoph Wickert would get my vote as well - but i do not want to put more burden on his back - Christoph how does it look? I also want to to put some names in the Ring who should really self-nominate because they do great work and should run for  FAmSCo election - consider you nominated by me ;)

Onyeibo Oku
Kévin Raymond
Mathieu Bridon
Elad Alfassa
Isaac Sanni-Thomas
Jiri Eischmann
Pierre-YvesChibon
Sven Lankes


If we want to ensure that we further have healthy grow and evolve, FAmSCo has to take a more active Role in the future - if you want to take the responsibility for the future of the Ambassadors Group please self-nominate.

I want to say a big thank you to Igor Soares because he was my liason to the Ambassadors Membership Administration and Mentoring, did a great job with the monthly FAmSCo Reports and was always approachable - so i would be more than happy to see him elected again and becoming the new FAmSCo Chair - elected by the new FAmSCo.

[FUDCon Pune 2011] Day 2 started

Harish is giving the Keynote for this day - right now

[FUDCon Pune 2011] Day 1

Rahul, Kushal and the Team have done a great job with preparation this FUDCon, all is working perfectly and they are very strict to get things punctual started! They deserve a big thank you!!!

The Venue is old and the power has to be provided by a Emergency Diesel Generator - but it has history and charm and i think it is a good place for the event.

 

The Auditorium has enough space for 900 People and during the Introduction to the Event by Dr. Anil D. Sahasrabudhe the Director of COEP

and the Keynote by Jared the room looked not empty -

so i assume that there were around 300 people present during the Address of the Union.
 My talk about the progress in the Fedora Security Lab together with the OSSTMM was scheduled at 2pm in the Auditorium with Video streaming and recording - but was moved to 3pm in another room because the Auditorium was still used for a internal Meeting by the College Staff which had nothing todo with Fedora, so nobody can be blamed on the Fedora Side ;)
In the meantime i joined the others, where we could meet, share and talk.

 

While i moved between the buildings the guys from null.in.co approached me to tell me they are here only to see my talk!? - because Pete send it in the ISECOM ML - Wow! We will meet again tomorrow to discuss some things around the topic, lets see what we can make out of it.

The talk itself went pretty well, besides i messed up my timing and used much time in explaining details. The Audience was mixed up from member of the RH CERT - till student-freshman - which made it hard to let nobody behind or bored ;) But i think they got the most important message which may will motivate them to contribute to Open Source in the future.

After a crazy india ride back to the Hotel we found some imperative lecture

while waited for the cab to bring us out for buying some stuff and dinner

now i have to stop and sleep before i make more and more typos ... ;)

[FUDCon Pune 2011] Transfer to Pune

right now i am sitting in the Cab to Pune, together with Jared and Robert. That gives me a bit time to finish my slides and blog a bit about the second day in Mumbai. Yesterday we started at 10:00am to Elephanta Island which was awesome to visit.

but also a bit painfull, because of climbing up the hill in the heat with high humidity. But it was more than worth it!

 

On the way back Robert and Anuj had good conversation about ssh, ssl, gpg and some licencing stuff for Fedora and we had a great view at the Gate and Taj from the Sea Side.

We had a short visit to the Victoria Terminal after that, where we said a short goodbye to Anuj who will rejoin us next Sunday for the FUDCon Hackfests. 

arrived in Pune right now - lets find Internet Access to post ;)

[FUDCon Pune 2011 Travel] Stay in Mumbai

After arrival, in the hotel, first thing was to make sure to have power for our devices and that they are protected from power surge ;)





Next morning we made a short visit to the Gateway of India



and the - Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya Museum



which are near to our Hotel.

If Fedora Contributors meet face to face it is inspiring and motivating, sometimes new great ideas get born, relations get stronger and build paths to interconnect a worldwide project. Still 2 days till our transfer to Pune starts so we used the time to meet with one of the Mumbai Fedora Contributors - Anuj More - who is active in the Fedora Sound Group and is also a Fedora Ambassador. He showed us the place where the
Wellington fountain is



and to a nice place on the sea -



we discussed some cultural things, but of course also about our work at the Fedora Project and i hope i we can share more time tomorrow and on FUDCon Pune to learn more about each other.

Btw. i found the Fedora Ambassador Place in Mumbai ;) yeah i know ... not very funny