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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"

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!

Merry Christmas! by Kelvin Servigon, on Flickr

The subject says it all! Happy holiday season all! Enjoy Christmas and the new year!

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!

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

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

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!