Comments(0) In just under 3 hours, I’ll be giving my presentation on SELinux Basics. There are many other great presentations today as well. The schedule is available at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/IRC/Classroom
Come by #fedora-classroom irc channel (on irc.freenode.net) today at 20:00 UTC (3:00pm EST for the timezone challenged)
Cheers,
Herlo
Comments(4) Want to learn a new tool within Fedora? Interested in getting a better hold on your skillset? Want to share with others something you’ve learned? Let us know at the newly formed Fedora Classroom.
As part of the marketing team meeting this week, Kevin Fenzi brought up the Fedora-Classroom. While #fedora serves a good purpose of troubleshooting, there’s more people can learn with some IRC tutorials.
I will be doing the first session on SELinux Basics, and there are other topics to fit those from beginner to advanced Fedora user.
From the email to the fedora-list:
I’m happy to announce that next weekend we will be opening up the #fedora-classroom irc channel (on irc.freenode.net) for some classroom sessions.
These sessions are intended to be short (30min to an hour) sessions on the IRC network where you can learn about a specific Fedora related topic.
Please see: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/IRC/Classroom to look at what topics will offered next week, what times they will be offered, suggest topics or sign up to teach a session yourself!
Hope to see lots of folks there.
Cheers,
Herlo
Comments(1) If you haven’t heard, Fedora now has a VOIP (Voice Over IP) server called Fedora Talk. Information about it can be found at talk.fedoraproject.org.
Essentially, the goal of Fedora Talk is to make it easier for use Fedorans to talk with one another, hold conference calls and accommodate impromptu conversations that need to happen over voice. A few of the features is that it’s tied into FAS (the Fedora Account System) and authentication uses a password different than your FAS password, which is very nice.
So tonight, I was interested in getting this working because recently I was given a VOIP phone from the Fedora Project and wanted to use it soon. However, I’m currently in Denver, and the phone was in Salt Lake. That means it will have to wait for this weekend at least.
But all is NOT lost!!!
I decided to spend a bit of time helping get this great idea off the ground by creating a screencast to configure your machine to use Fedora Talk with Twinkle. It took me only about 20 minutes to create and only two takes. It’s fairly easy to set up as my screencast shows.
There are some restrictions I wish to share, mainly because didn’t mention them in the video.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy the screencast and join the Fedora Project.
Cheers,
Herlo
Comments(1) Well, after staying up until around 4am hacking (2am with David and Cade), I finally finished my presentations slides and went to sleep for a measly 3hrs 45mins. But that was enough to get me through the rest of the day. And what a day it was!
When I arrived downstairs just after 8am, people were setting up for FAD NA. Jeffrey Tadlock had arrived and was loading the food in from the car. Bagels, donuts, fruit, coffee and orange juice. Nice array of foodstuffs for the morning.
My presentation went pretty well, we had fun with it and I really enjoyed the gag about the Ambassador Class Starship. Unfortunately, I forgot to grab the vga cable for my projector so we couldn’t use it but I did have pdfs of the slides online.
I brought up a lot of thoughts about how we should be ambassadors, how we should act and especially how important it is that we represent ourselves well to the community. I talked a bit about the message we should spread and ways we can represent Fedora to the community. I think it was well received by the ambassadors and I hope it made a good impression.
The rest of the day was very well focused, we made some serious progress in areas I wanted to see the progress as well as things I hadn’t even considered. Pascal was gracious enough to take notes and place them online already. I learned a ton about how FAmSCo works and what we need to do as ambassadors to make sure they will provide us with the tools we need to spread the word about Fedora.
After a good long day, we cleaned up (most of us anyway) around 2pm and started heading out, though my flight wasn’t until almost 8pm. Brian Pepple, Jon Stanley and I headed to a coffee shop after dropping John Rose off at the airport and me shipping my projector and phone home. It was a nice relaxing conversation.
UPDATE: Pictures are being uploaded as we speak to my flickr account
Comments(0) Well, the incrementing continues and we’re closing in on the end of our time in Ohio. I’ve really enjoyed the conference so far and the Fedora Ambassadors are awesome! 13 of us showed up to the booth (pictures coming later) and we interacted with hundreds upon hundreds of interested folks.
As usual, the biggest hit was the One Laptop per Child (OLPC). The kids would show up (and many adults) and play for some time. I really enjoyed showing the kids the cool activities and items on these awesome computers. I’m really looking forward to the updates coming out in the next update! The kids loved the camera and voice wave activities and the adults really liked the idea of kids learning to program and do amazing things.
A good friend of mine John Weis, who lives in Columbus was at OLF too and so we met up and hung out a bit at the conference. Still working on converting him over to Fedora, but at least he’s using Linux.
As for others, we had a run on shirts around noon, I think I gave out about 15 in a span of 10 minutes. The rule was that they had to put them on right then so people could see the fedora on their person! It was great fun and we have some fun pictures, which I’ll post with tomorrow’s updates.
At the end of the day, I had attended 3 presentations. The teenage girl who uses open source, one on alsa, and the closing keynote by Jono Bacon. I, unfortunately, missed Zonker’s presentation, I hear it was just like the one at UTOSC :) Good stuff!
We headed out to dinner at this greek restaurant where I was able to enjoy some ‘Flaming Cheese!’ Quite a good restaurant. Grape leaves are good as well, and I got to mock John Weis with some draft NewCastle ale (since he’s only 20) which was also quite good.
After dinner, we returned to the convention center for the after party. We had a good time and I did the moonwalk to represent Fedora during the dance competition. I’m pretty reserved though compared to the other distro dance representatives who shook their butts and removed clothing! After the first round, I bowed out, but it was funny…
Apparently, there as an after after and an after after after party as well. I heard rumors of bottles being broken and a fight that almost happened. Hopefully nothing came out of it as it was great conference and I really enjoyed myself. Fedora was well represented as well and I look forward to seeing another OLF in the future.
Tomorrow is FAD NA and I need to rewrite my slides again (now that I’ve the thoughts more organized in my head), and I’m really looking forward to working with these guys on some really cool projects coming up.
Cheers,
Herlo
Comments(1) In last night’s FAmNA meeting, we discussed the fact that nobody had remembered to register to help at the Fedora booth at OLF. David brought it up and within a few minutes we had most of the spots filled.
As an event organizer, I understand the importance of having a booth manned at all times. If you have a moment, head on over to the OLF Planning page on the wiki and add your name to a slot. We could use at least 2-3 people in every spot.
There will be a ‘USB Creation Station’ there run by my little 7″ ASUS EEE PC as well as some XO laptops and other cool swag like stickers, t-shirts and buttons (thanks John).
Thanks to Jeffrey Tadlock for heading up the organization and it will be great to see him at FADNA on Sunday as well. It will be great to meet all the gang and put faces to names. Don’t forget to bring your camera!!
Cheers,
Herlo
Comments(0) Get your name on the list for the Fedora Ambassador Day - North America, October 10-12, 2008. It’s coming in just 2-1/2 weeks in Columbus, Ohio while we’re enjoying the Ohio LinuxFest. The agenda is being formed, we’re planning a FADPub (maybe), and might even have some FAD - NA shirts to give away.
If you are coming to FADNA, please take a moment and sign up on the wiki page. OLF doesn’t have any more rooms at the Drury, where some Ambassadors are staying, so many of us are staying a short while out of town at the Holiday Inn Express in Grove City. If you haven’t reserved a room, they have pretty good rates, even cheaper than the Drury.
In addition, if you haven’t taken a moment to sign up to help at the Fedora booth, we would like to make a good impression there as well.
Many of us will be carpooling in each day and we’re working to reserve a room at the Holiday Inn Express for Sunday’s Meeting.
See you all at FADNA. I am very excited to meet many of the North American Ambassadors at OLF.
Cheers,
Herlo
I'm Going to FAD-NA
Comments(0) Hi all,
Just another quick reminder that if you are an Ambassador in North America and are wanting to get your input in on what will happen at FAD - NA, come to the meeting tonight. It will be at 20:00 EDT in #fedora-ambassadors on irc.freenode.net.
Previously, I stated that this was for North American Regional Ambassadors. I was corrected recently that it could be for any Ambassador with interest, so please feel free to put your $.02.
Sorry for the confusion.
Cheers,
Herlo
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