[Ambassadors] Re: Doing a Fedora Project Day at foss.in

[jose manimala]

Hello again,
                Date for the project day can be on 4th Dec. How is
that??? Is there anyone else who wants any changes to the dates....?

regards

On 8/23/07, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <sankarshan.mukhopadhyay at gmail.com> wrote:
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> jose manimala wrote:
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> >                 Well I am here for that. I will take charge of the
> > event proposal. But we need to draw up something solid to build the
> > proposal on. you have been helpful in bringing forth very good topics,
> > but they need to be structured and an indepth discussion into the
> > topics need to happen.
>
> So, here's what I jotted down sometime today. Guess it can be taken as a
> starting point.
>
> We need to fix on the following though:
>
> + Date of the proposed day
> + Proposer for the Project Day proposal
>
> :Sankarshan
>
> FEDORA PROJECT DAY at foss.in
>
> Pre-requisites to participate:
>
> Interest in getting involved and contributing to the Fedora Project. The
> project day is proposed to achieve the getting together of existing
> Indian contributors (particularly perhaps the GSoC participants) in
> order to allow them to discuss their work. Base level understanding of
> Fedora roadmap and familiarity with some of the various Fedora
> subprojects eg. Translation and i18n, documentation, LiveCD, packaging
> would be good to have.
>
> Audience:  application developers, extension developers, open-source
> evangelists & enthusiasts, localizers, security experts
>
> Theme of the day: Increasing the quantum of contributions to the Fedora
> Project from India
>
> So, here's what I thought could be useful:
>
> + Opening remarks by a Fedora Ambassador (I am assuming that the Fedora
> Project Lead or others are not in a position to travel to foss.in, I'd
> be happy to be told otherwise) setting the theme of the Project Day
> + Short overview of the different Fedora SIGs (and perhaps EPEL)
> + GSoC time (GSoC participants get blitz face time to show-n-tell)
> + Become a contributor to Fedora (lightning talks with show-n-tell)
>         - how to contribute
>         - packaging
>         - bug triaging
>         - documentation
>         - i18n
>         - l10n (if it is so required, an l10n review sprint for Indic languages)
> + Fedora and a11y (can we get this going ?)
> + Spin your own Fedora - how, why, what, when
>         - LiveCD
>         - FedoraOnUSB
>
>
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> But I dream things that never were;
> and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw
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