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VIM Classroom for beginners repeat for APAC
Hi there!
As promised, I’m going to repeat the VIM class for beginners tomorrow at
2100 IST (1530 UTC) to suit APAC. I’m going to cover more or less the
same points I covered in the initial class. Please try and make it 
The venue of course, is #fedora-classroom on Freenode.
To convert this time to your local time:
> date -d "Wed Jan 18 15:30:00 UTC 2012"
An informal get together @forum food court, Koramangla on Saturday, 11am
The title (and the image) says it all. Some of us fedora volunteers from Bangalore are getting together this Saturday (14th January, 2012) at the Forum food court around 1100 am. It’s going to be a very informal session. We’ll just hack around and have some fun.
You can use this opportunity to get your fedora related issues solved. You can also come collect Fedora ISOs from us!
We’d love to have you there! Cya Saturday!
Happy holidays!
Merry Christmas! by Kelvin Servigon, on Flickr
The subject says it all! Happy holiday season all! Enjoy Christmas and the new year!
Logs for the Fedora classroom on VIM
We had a longer than expected lesson! Almost two hours! Here are the logs for the session:
03:38 <@zodbot> Meeting ended Tue Dec 13 22:08:38 2011 UTC. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot .
03:38 <@zodbot> Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-classroom/2011-12-13/fedora-classroom_session_on_vim.2011-12-13-20.06.html
03:38 <@zodbot> Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-classroom/2011-12-13/fedora-classroom_session_on_vim.2011-12-13-20.06.txt
03:38 <@zodbot> Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-classroom/2011-12-13/fedora-classroom_session_on_vim.2011-12-13-20.06.log.html
I’ll try and hold a follow up class so we can look at more advanced features asap! Good night!
A Fedora Classroom on VIM.
I intend to hold a classroom session on VIM on Tuesday, December 13 at 2000 UTC. Please mark your calendars.
To convert it into local time, you can run the following command in your terminal:
date -d '2011-12-13 2000 UTC'
The session will be at #fedora-classroom on Freenode. It will concentrate on teaching people how to use VIM correctly, not the way most people do -> in insert mode 
. It’s a beginners’ session, so we’ll start from scratch. We’ll try to keep in within an hour.
** Prerequisite: please install vim, vim-X11, vim-outliner
su -c 'yum install vim vim-X11 vim-vimoutliner'
For more information on Fedora Classroom sessions, please refer to:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Classroom
Edit: corrected date!
Edit: Corrected package name
Freemedia vs LocalContacts: what is the difference?
In my recent attempt to revive the LocalContacts program, and with the responses I’ve received, I’ve noticed that a lot of people are unsure of the distinctions between the Freemedia and LocalContact programs. This blog post is an attempt at clarifying the two.
The Fedora Freemedia Program.
If you sign up to volunteer for this program, you get added to the “freemedia” group in the FAS and have access to the freemedia trac. The trac is the infra that Susmit and the other freemedia leads set up to make it easier for contributors to handle the vast number of tickets that come in every month.
In the freemedia program, when you accept a ticket, you burn the media, buy the envelop, send it, all out of your own pocket.
LocalContacts
The LocalContacts is also aimed at making fedora media more easily available to people. There may be people in the same city, or even the same apartment as an ambassador’s (lets call him Angus), who’d like to use fedora (lets say David wants media). It isn’t practical for someone from the other side of the country (lets call him Stephen ) to post these people media under the freemedia program, when the David can meet Angus and get media burnt. There are quite a few advantages of this scheme over the freemedia program:
- Promotes interaction between David and Angus. In the freemedia program, you send media out, and it ends there. You don’t meet physically, there is no feedback, nothing.
- More cost effective. It costs Stephen almost 50INR per ticket serviced at the freemedia program. When the David gets media from Angus in person, David incurs the cost of media. Also note that here, there is a total of INR $price_of_DVD spent in the Local Contacts program. In the freemedia program, the INR spent would be ($price_of_DVD + $price_of_envelope + $price_of_postage).
It was my understanding that a Fedora Ambassador is by default a LocalContact. Therefore, a separate scheme was not required. However, over the last few weeks, this understanding has changed.
David, Angus and Stephen:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Coverdale
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Young
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Pearcy
Fedora Ambassadors’ survey
I’ve made a small survey I request everyone to fill up. It has 3 questions, of which one asks your name 
It is intended to collect data on what people have been doing and what difficulties they’re facing while carrying out ambassador activities. Once we have the data, we will have a better chance of finding efficient solutions to these issues.
The survey:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFN3emtQdEhVMGdKTXNWX0lWdkVXUmc6MQ
The results (publicly viewable):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Al73WBsvtlGodFN3emtQdEhVMGdKTXNWX0lWdkVXUmc
Please do fill it up! Thanks!
