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Motivation is one factor that *can* encourage people to accept and fulfill challenges, even if they don’t think they can do it. Being part of a community like Fedora, where everyone is so different but everyone is working for towards common goal gives you an awesome opportunity to closely watch how motivation works for each one. However, keeping the motivation up is not always easy. As a community leader, it is important to identify what motivates the individuals that participates in a community – to identify what makes them tick – and work to not lose what makes that individual motivated to keep contributing to the group towards a common goal. When we expect everyone to be motivated by the  [ Read More ]

This is just a friendly reminder that we will have our weekly videoconference through Google+ this time, and our topic will be: How to be a Fedora Ambassador This will be a general talk about: How to join the Ambassadors program Steps to fullfill before open a trac tickets How to contact and interact with your mentor What to do once you are aproved What will Fedora expect from you once you’re an Ambassadors Tips to be the best ambassador When: Friday at click here to know your time Where: Google Hangout gplus.to/tatica Language: English (first 30min) / Spanish (second 30min)

Last night we had our first videoconference. Test started at 7:30pm and meeting ended at… 1:30AM! (and just because there was a blackout on my street). I didn’t expect this sucess, however, I embrace it. Maybe our community just need to use tools that aproach them and give them an oportunity to give faces to names and nicks. Last night was a clear example of this, where we had 21 people having an EXTRAORDINARY hangout like I had never seen… I can be completely honest and say that was as productive as a FUDcon (maybe someone can jump with an online FAD? :D ) I didn’t had a prepared conference for this time, since mostly I wanted to know how  [ Read More ]

Maybe it’s just me, but, I have found super interesting the fact that technology is taking us to a more P2P (literaly) where distance doesn’t matter. You already have heard that we are pushing the Fedora Video project. We want to help users to learn about tech stuff. We aim to provide some guidance on how to interact and part of our community. As well as the larger community of FOSS. I have become a VideoConferences addict, for many reasons (and to practice my english)! Talking is easier sometimes than writing, but problem is… where are logs? The best thing we can do is record them. Most of the time we plan to let as many people as want to  [ Read More ]

Am I a girl? yeah… is just that sometimes we spend so much time online that forget that we actually have a body, we need to eat and need to walk. If this is your case, welcome to the new group of people that set names to their gadgets instead to their cats. Today I had an interesting chat with a contributor that, I just found out, was a lady (after being helping her for about a month or so) we talk about, why are so few women in FOSS projects? I guess this is the question we all made to ourselves (as woman) and many guys do too. I start to point out things that I believe are the  [ Read More ]

Is really common that someone ask you about your Fedora Profile. Even if such thing doesn’t exist properly we have our Users Wiki pages that we are *supposed* to fill so people can contact us, know a bit more about what we do on fedora and any related comment we want to add (schedules, events, meetings, projects, etc). Even if I know is a really boring thing to do, let me encourage you to take some minutes to explain why you need to do it: If you want something, people need to know who the hell are you! If you’re interested on request media, swags, attend to events or anything… be sure that people will ask who are you? what  [ Read More ]

One of the things that I *had* to buy at USA was a power supply since my desktop computer was always shutting down when I plug anything (I couldn’t even use my DVD :/ ) Even if this wasn’t the one I was thinking on buy, was the best option. We went to so many stores that I was really driving crazy, however, worth it. I had saves for this since last year, because if you think on buy this kind of electronics in my country is completely insane (prices are +500%). Now I can say that I have a *monster* at home where I can start to render my blender videos again and do all the crazy stuff I  [ Read More ]

I think this 4 words can resume pretty much what’s FOSS about. A couple of months ago I had a small shutdown from linux communities since *real life* was going on, and with some friends help, I tried to figure out *why* we do what we do. Talking and giving a meaning to every action we take on this online world this 4 words got to resume everything. Why?: Learn: There is NO WAY you can be on ANY FOSS community or group if you are not willing to learn. Life itself is a learning journey that will take you to unknown places where you might get amazed. Some people join FOSS communities thinking that know everything, but soon they  [ Read More ]

Si eres de habla hispana, da click en este enlace para leer la versión en español I will try to make a weekly post about how is FUDcon planning going on. This will be the first time I organize an event where people from different countries and that’s pretty cool. For those of you who don’t know what is FUDcon, is the Fedora Users and Developers Conference, a major free software event held in various regions around the world, usually annually per region. FUDCon is a combination of sessions, talks, workshops, and hackfests in which contributors work on specific initiatives. Topics include infrastructure, feature development, community building, general management and governance, marketing, testing and QA, packaging, etc. FUDCon is always  [ Read More ]