RODRIGO PADULA

Knowledge Sharing!

Earlier today I had a dull discussion at #fedora-ambassadors channel, I noticed that some people don’t know who I am and also don`t know what we have been doing by Fedora in Brazil and Latam since 2005.

Find below a presentation which is self-explanatory, showing some results reached since then.

• Fedora Latam Presentation

Initially I thought to not run again for FAMSCO Elections, but with some important guys lefting the committee like Francesco Ugolini and several emails received requesting for my nomination, I will try again to be part of the FAMSCO, occupying one of the 7 seats available .

I believe I can contribute a little more with the Ambassadors Program, now focusing not only in LATAM, but the overall project, sharing successful experiences that I applied in Brazil and Latin America, creating a stronger project throughout the world.

Below are the details of my nomination, available at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/SteeringCommittee/Election/2009Nominations#Rodrigo_Padula_de_Oliveira_.28RodrigoPadula.29

• Candidate statement
  • Currently member of FAmSCo , running for re-election.
  • I’m a FAMSCO’s member, since the first election, working to improve the ambassadors program and to spread Fedora around the world
• Contributor profile
  • Gnu/Linux user since 1996.
  • Fedora contributor since 2005.
  • Founder of the Brazilian Fedora Project
  • Founder of the Latin American Fedora Project ( providing infra for all latam communities)
• Past plans – Added in the 2008 Famsco Nomination
  • [DONE Increase the LATAM community (We were 8 countries with 25 ambassadors, now we are 14 countries with ~130 ambassadors)
  • [IN PROGRESS] Work to increase the Packaging group and the Fedora time support (We have ~12 packagers from Latam but we have a lot of work to do)
  • [DONE] Contribute with the organization of local Fedora Projects.
  • [IN PROGRESS] Strengthen the participation of Latin American contributors in Fedora Project (We are a great team but we can do more!).
  • [DONE] Spread Fedora in events, with media distribution, lectures and booths (~48 events in all Latam with ~60.000 attendees ).
  • [IN PROGRESS] Be the voice of the community and ambassadors in the FAMSCO / Fedora Project / Red Hat.
  • [DONE] Support the local projects with all that they needs ( With the limited resources we did a great job).
  • [DONE] Create and organize the III Latin American Conference and the I FUDCON Latin American (Some pictures [[4]])
  • [DONE] Increase the free media program (~14.000 Medias produced and distributed)
• Future plans
  • Keep doing what I’m doing now.
  • Help FAMSCO to improve the ambassadors program.
  • Recruit new members to keep Fedora as main Free Software technology developer/contributor.
  • Share experiences (Try to apply in other countries/regions all great things that we realized in Latam and Brasil specially).
  • Increase the FLOSS contribution in Latin America.
  • Help to create a link between Fedora and Universities opening doors for RHA/OSU program and POSSE.
  • Increase the number of packagers from our community to help with the LTS dream.
  • Convert fedora users and ambassadors(potential contributors) in real contributors.