Fedora Ambassadors

[Debayan Banerjee]

It would be an honor and a privilege for our college if someone from us becomes a Fedora Ambassador in 2009. Here are some points taken from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors.

Who are they?

Fedora Ambassadors are people like you and me, who go to places where other Linux users and potential converts gather and tell them about Fedora — the project and the distribution.

Where are they?

Fedora Ambassadors are located all over the world. Take a look at the following pages to see where they are.

Fedora Ambassadors Country List

Fedora Ambassadors Count by Country

Fedora Ambassadors Membership Verification

More details about specific areas: EMEA or North America

Fedora Ambassadors Goals

• Represent Fedora Project to the wider public
• Help spread the word about Fedora, Linux, and Open Source
• Be a point of contact for local community members and channel the feedback to Fedora Project
• Help recruit project contributors
• Think of creative ways for promoting Fedora in your region

Joining the Fedora Ambassadors Project

Following steps are Minimal Requirements to join Ambassadors project:

1. Participate in regular meetings for your region on irc.freenode.org in the channel #fedora-meeting (the time of the next meeting is usually posted in the topic of the chat and on the mailing list). See Fedora Ambassadors Meeting Minutes to catch up.
2. Join the Fedora Ambassadors' group in the Fedora Account System to make your participation official. This system is used to track Ambassadors' information and to manage access to various Fedora tools.
3. Have your name on Ambassadors Country List so the people can find and contact you. If you need the account in the Fedora Account System to edit wiki pages. See the WikiEditing page for help.
4. Have your Ambassador profile on your personal wiki page so everybody knows who they are dealing with and what your interests are. As an Ambassador, you represent Fedora to the world, and presenting yourself on the wiki is a good start. Don't forget to include your valid email address!
5. Subscribe to the fedora-announce-list , fedora-ambassadors-list and fedora-marketing-list mailing lists to join the discussions of the Ambassador world. Don't forget to introduce yourself !

For the first 30 days, the status of a newbie Ambassador will be "on probation", during which time they have a chance to prove themselves to the group by contributing to the project (see Ideas below).

During the time on probation, the new Ambassador would not normally be able to request money or materials from the project. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary cases.

If a person already actively contributing to another project with Fedora joins the Ambassadors team, they may skip the "probation" status.

If you have any question on your Fedora Ambassadors Membership, please contact FabianAffolter, JoergSimon or RodrigoPadula for Membership Service.

How to be an Ambassador: Ideas

Here are just a few ideas of what you can do as an Ambassador and how the Fedora Project can help you do it.

If you are unsure of messaging, Fedora Talking Points is always a good source

• Be a speaker at an event. Clubs, Linux User Groups (LUGs), school/college/university groups can all benefit from hearing the good word about Fedora. Talk to people. Casually, in a suit, it doesn't matter.
  If you were asked to talk at an event, don't panic-—browse fedoraproject.org wiki and you will find some material to get you started. FUDCon pages might be a good place to start, as most of the talks that were given at past conferences are available there for download.
• Collect press articles about Fedora and post them to the Press Archive
• Collect feedback from community members and submit it to the Fedora Marketing List or talk about it with any Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee member.
  Consider posting Fedora success stories on Fedora User Testimonials page .
• Promote Fedora events. We organize a FUDCon, about once every three months - use contact base to gain speakers, attendees, gophers, et al.
  If you want to help out organizing a FUDCon or other Fedora event, visit FUDCon/Organization to see what tasks are there to be taken care of.
• Distribute Press Releases to local press, translating them into a local language, when required.
  Need a press release? Here is the Press Release Repository .
• Support and coordinate offline Fedora and Open Source activities, like Software Freedom Day, handing out flyers, the distribution on DVD, and so forth.
  Watch this list of upcoming offline FedoraEvents
• Sign up Fedora Project for regional events-—it need not be a computer-related event to be relevant. Go to a music trade show to talk about free culture and open music formats, go to a university event to talk about Fedora to students and faculty, go to a local Linux event and get some space for a booth in the .ORG pavilion...
  Once you have secured participation in an event, please add it to the FedoraEvents list!
• Just make sure to coordinate with Fedora Marketing so you get support in form of money for travel, space, booth signage, trade show infrastructure, giveaways, etc.
  Event Organizers' Resources page is a good place to start.
• Communicate eloquently. Fedora Ambassadors should be the conduct leaders for the community. Make sure you dont trash talk or be rude to anyone while wearing a 'Fedora' or even in general to the community. See CommunityConduct page for general guidelines and Ambassadors conduct for specific information.
• Become an expert at Fedora (both the project and the distribution). This way you're a constant resource to your local userbase, which will make new users more welcome to the project/distribution. When in doubt however, ask.
• Keep Up with Current Issues - Fedora Ambassadors should keep up with Current Issues by tracking and reading various news resources such as Fedora News Project , Red Hat Magazine and even Planet Fedora .

Need Stuff?

If you need stuff/money for an event make sure that this event is listed at Event page before the deadline passed for the period where the event is in. If you miss the deadline for the budget it would become more complicate to get the money or even impossible. Because you have to ask other event owner if they can pass you some money.

Any questions? Ask FAmSCo

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[Debayan Banerjee]

2008/12/24 Debayan Banerjee <deba...@gmail.com>

It would be an honor and a privilege for our college if someone from us becomes a Fedora Ambassador in 2009. Here are some points taken from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors.

Who are they?

Fedora Ambassadors are people like you and me, who go to places where other Linux users and potential converts gather and tell them about Fedora — the project and the distribution.

1st and 2nd years, kindly take note.