1. FAD 2007 – LinuxTag Berlin 29.05.2007 Fedora Ambassador Day No. 2

2. Agenda ● Intro ● Ambassadors Project ● Project overview ● Country overviews ● Fedora European Infrastructure (FEI) ● Briefing LinuxTag

3. Intro ● Welcome ● Self-Introduction of the present people

4. Ambassadors Project 210 Ambassadors have been verified Asia Africa Europe North america South america Australia 59 10 64 46 27 4

5. Ambassadors Project - Allocation

6. 16 1 3 1 17/9 3/13/1 3 1 0 3 5 2/12/1 1 1 2/22/2 2 3/13/1 3 1 4 2 1 1 1

7. Ambassadors Project - Meeting

8. Country Overview - Germany - Italy - Switzerland - Netherlands - Bulgaria - India - Mozambique

9. Overview - Germany how many Ambassadors  17 communication LOCAL Ambassadors  neither IRC nore phone, sometimes smaller meetings in local area communication INTERNATIONAL Ambassadors  no neither IRC nore phone, mostly done by international events (like FOSDEM)

10. Overview - Germany how many events / major events per year  3-4 big and approx. 5-6 smaller which event is covered once/twice everytime  LinuxTag (biggest with 10.000 visitors)  Chemnitzer Linux Tage since 2006 also FrosCon  smaller events are CCC-Events, local area "Install-Party" and/or with LUGs

11. Overview - Germany which event has to be covered in future  we have to try to send German Ambassadors to Events in the neighboured Countrys like Switzerland, France, and the East... how much money you think, you'll need  Germany / Europe is expensive; 5k - 10k for all events and for accommodation / helping with local problems  no legal entity to "make" money for helping out and pay for

12. Overview - Germany  contact between international Ambassadors must be better  most Ambassadors are private driven (means have own job, family and time...) local benefits  large qualitative Group  concentration in the south (area Stuttgart/Karlsruhe/Basel)  Communication skills also with Austria and Switzerland (same mother tongue)

13. Overview - Italy how many Ambassadors  5 communication LOCAL Ambassadors  E-Mail and we are discussing to meet together the next year to discuss face to face regarding our future plans, guidance etc... communication INTERNATIONAL Ambassadors  Mailing Lists discussions  European events (FAD Basel, FOSDEM, LinuxTag...)

14. Overview - Italy how many events / major events per year  Currently we haven't big events which event is covered once/twice everytime  LinuxDay  Local presentations which event has to be covered in future  LinuxWorld 2008: we will be in the.org pavilion (if it will be available)

15. Overview - Italy how much money you think, you'll need  Money for Swags (500 DVDs for LinuxDay, some t-shirts) local problems  lack of big events  big country, few ambassadors (we have to start a recruitment campaign)

16. Overview - Italy local benefits  ambassadors are truly motivated to help Fedora Project and Open Source  in Italy Linux communities are growing fast  local and national institutions are helping Open Source's initiatives

17. Overview - Switerland how many Ambassadors  3, maybe soon 4 communication LOCAL Ambassadors  we live in a small world and the german ambassadors are our local fellows :-)  the usual technologies (phone, IRC, e-mail) communication INTERNATIONAL Ambassadors  main communication with the german ambassadors  sometimes with the french and the italian

18. Overview - Switzerland how many events / major events per year  2 which event is covered once/twice everytime  0 which event has to be covered in future  OpenExpo (http://openexpo.ch/), September 19-20, 2007  Orbit-IEX (http://www.orbit-iex.ch) commercial, unknown status of support for opensource projects May 22-25, 2007

19. Overview - Switzerland how much money you think, you'll need  CHF 0.- to 100.- depends on the numbers of events. Money for swag is needed. local problems  4 official languages (french, german, italian (and romansh))  most linux users are using Debian (-> Ubuntu) and SuSE  No real big open source events

20. Overview - Switzerland local benefits  we have the most beautiful mountains to show the world :-)  lowest goods and services tax (aka MwSt or VAT) in Europe  We are able to help at events in the neighboured Countrys

21. Overview - Netherlands how many Ambassadors  2 communication LOCAL Ambassadors  the communication is pretty bad communication INTERNATIONAL Ambassadors  Meetings  Mailing list

22. Overview - Netherlands how many events / major events per year  3 (NLUUG Conferences, HCC Dagen, What-the-hack) which event is covered once/twice everytime  2 which event has to be covered in future  NLUUG Conferences  HCC Dagen (Dutch Hobby Computer Club, pretty large, 3-day event with appr. 80.000 visitors).

23. Overview - Netherlands how much money you think, you'll need  No money needed local problems  Most Dutch Fedora users just want the Ubuntu experience and are not really concerned with whether stuff is proprietary or free in every sense of the word.  The strongest difference Fedora and their alternative is the usability -from an end-user perspective.

24. Overview - Bulgaria how many Ambassadors  2 communication LOCAL Ambassadors  n/a communication INTERNATIONAL Ambassadors  Meetings  Mailing list

25. Overview - Bulgaria how many events / major events per year  2 (WebTech and OpenFest)  5-6 smallest events which event is covered once/twice everytime  2 which event has to be covered in future  WebTech  OpenFest

26. Overview - Bulgaria how much money you think, you'll need  No money needed (local sponsors)  advertisements in the near future local problems  Not at all. We are trying to spread the country about Fedora. local benefits  Most of business start to realize that moving to GNU/Linux will give them great benefit.

27. Overview - India how many Ambassadors  34 communication LOCAL Ambassadors  Infrequent and mostly IRC driven communication INTERNATIONAL Ambassadors  Primarily on Mailing List and IRC

28. Overview - India how many events / major events per year  4 (foss.in, LinuxAsia, FreeD(el) and Calicut) which event is covered once/twice everytime  All of them are covered which event has to be covered in future  SJCE  PESIT  TIFR-HBCS

29. Overview - India how much money you think, you'll need  Money is needed for generating schwag locally and at the current rate of 1USD=40INR one would require around 5500 USD on an annual basis. Need to figure how we can raise a large bit of it from within. local problems  Too many local events, Not much PR in the form of structured PR, Lack of local mirrors, Schwag, No preloading by assemblers of hardware

30. Overview - India local benefits  Good brand recollection, Preferred OS at server end slowly on desktop, Strong L10n focus helping usage

31. Overview - Mozambique how many Ambassadors  1 communication LOCAL Ambassadors  n/a communication INTERNATIONAL Ambassadors  IRC Meeting  Telephone  Email

32. Overview - Mozambique how many events / major events per year  ? which event is covered once/twice everytime  n/a which event has to be covered in future  I am planning to start one day workshops in universities/colleges.

33. Overview - Mozambique how much money you think, you'll need  I am not sure, here a lot of work has to be done, but currently i will finance all expenditure, i will need help in printed material e.g. CD covers, Banners, etc. local problems  As i am alone here and i have just moved to this country so i have a lot of hurdles in term of organizing any event, but still struggling to take a start.

34. Overview - Mozambique local benefits  As Mozambique is an African country so people prefer to have Free software, but due to unawareness they are unable to find right direction.

35. Fedora European Infrastructure ● Legal entity ● Proposal for a european Shop ● Anything else?

36. Briefing LinuxTag Dresscode  no sandals -> shoes  no shorts -> pants  no random t-shirts -> Polo-Shirt (Ambassador Polo-Shirt :-) )  Do NOT wear clothes with any affinity to Red Hat General Behavior  be well-mannered, polite, respectful, friendly and cooperative  You are a representative of the Fedora Project

37. Briefing LinuxTag Behavior at the booth  Do NOT sleep at the booth  Do NOT eat lunch at the booth  Be active  Show that it is fun to be at the Fedora booth Behavior in the hotel  We are not alone there!

38. Briefing LinuxTag Remember the most importent points  OPEN the entire Fedora Process is now completely in the community  PLATFORM we provide a huge number of RPMs and a "suggested" ISO. But people can expand and build on what we provide however they want  INNOVATION Fedora is where we always push to do new things, and include the newest free software technology

39. The rest Breakfest at the hostel 06.30 pm !!!!!!!! Lunch at LinuxTag / Dinner together Work schedule / Time table Skill list / Contact details Booth pass Name plates Distribution of Polo-Shirts & „I am Fedora“-Shirts Destruction of the booth

40. Let's rock the party... http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD/FADLinuxTag2007http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD/FADLinuxTag2007 FabianAffolter 27.05.2007