On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 11:37 -0400, Christopher Blizzard wrote: > I just met a couple of ambassadors down here who are manning a small > fedora booth. I think they were both named Rodruigez? I'm _terrible_ > with names. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/CountryList http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CategoryAmbassadorsBrazil?highlight=% 28CategoryAmbassadors%29 Possibly Rodrigo Menezes and Rodrigo Padula. > > I guess they are going to be doing events in a number of cities around > the country to do talks/shows. The pointed out a few things that they > are doing: > > o I walked away with an installation CD. One CD. It's based on Fedora, > so they are doing that work. Any chance they might be willing to push this work back into Fedora? > > o They are actively working on a LiveCD project. They really want to > have one and said they would have an alpha some time in the next month > or so. It is based on Kadischi? > > o They are setting up a huge mount of local infrastructure to do CD > distribution inside of the country. They have a form set up so you can > request a CD and the person that's closest to you puts it in the mail. > The local mail here is apparently slow at times. > > http://www.projetofedora.org/ > > There's a lot of that here. > > o They seem to know Greg and Alex well. Nice job, guys! > o They have no idea what's going on with the board or how Fedora relates > to Red Hat. For example, there's rumor going around that we're dropping > KDE completely. Which is of course not true. I explained some of that > "wanting to get KDE maintained by the KDE community" but I don't think I > was telling the right people. Not sure if they understood all of that; > the language barrier was large. This is pretty much the same wherever I go. > > In any case, I didn't even know that they had a little stand set up > here. It's nice to see the Fedora symbol up and around. But they > clearly need more support if we can get them. We already are sponsoring events and providing other help in many places as part of the Ambassadors project. Rahul
