Fedora, Friends and FUDCon
The news is out and it is official. There is going to be a FUDCon at FOSS.IN and it is on the 28th of November, 2008. If you needed a reason to be there, this is that single reason. Just be there, jam...
View ArticleBecoming better by doing good
A mail. And, for a moment I was so happy that I voted during the FAMSCo elections. When good people have the helm, the ship will go to newer places. There will be the inevitable moaning and groaning....
View ArticleOf new folks and old
For those who keep track of the welcome mails on fedora-ambassadors list or, are subscribed to the fedora-india list, a pattern would have been obvious by now. We have a large number of fresh faces who...
View ArticleSome bytes about Fedora bits
During my trip to Kolkata last month, I’ve had a number of discussions around ‘making Fedora available to whosoever requests for it’. Ambitious as it may sound, we would have to end up doing it....
View Article“I want a Fedora DVD, don’t know what to do !”
Following up from what I had written sometime back on this, I would say that the time is good enough to do a rethink. When it comes to India, traditionally, we have been producing media specifically...
View ArticleA web-calendar for events – does that sound nice ?
For as long as I can remember I have found the LWN.net Community Calendar very useful. It would perhaps be nice to have a similar web-based calendar for Fedora events across the world. Currently, the...
View ArticleThoughts about the Fedora Community Working Group
A bit back I had posted a question to the advisory-board list – specifically asking whether there has been a process to understand how Steering Committees have made things better. While the thread...
View ArticleOf mentors and mentoring
While reading through the mailing list archives I chanced across a new Mentoring Proposal for Fedora Ambassadors. The list has seen some discussion going on around the topic of “How to be a mentor”...
View ArticleI wish the FAmSCo looked into these
I write the Ambassadors Beat for FWN. And, it requires me to read the mailing list traffic on the ambassadors and famsco list with attention to detail. I had mentioned some concerns earlier but this is...
View ArticleOn FAmSCo again
It seems that I keep writing about the FAmSCo I was reading Joerg Simon’s post on the Membership statistics and wondered if the FAmSCo has considered the following aspects: the load on each Ambassador...
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