Launched last week, Beyond FUDCon highlights the Fedora community and project. This week we look at the Fedora Ambassador Program through the eyes and experience of Fedora Ambassador, Larry Cafiero.

Matt Zimmerman, Canonical CTO, with help from Mary Gardiner, Valerie Aurora and Benjamin Mako Hill, leads the effort for Ubuntu to adopt a diversity statement.

"PyCon 2011 has broken all existing PyCon records for content submitted by the Python community." - PyCon Blog

"The polls are closed and the results are in. We had a record number of votes cast for the tenth straight year. Congratulations should go to each and every nominee. We once again had some extremely close races," says Jeremy Garcia today as he announces the 2010 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners.

For the 12th year, LinuxFest Northwest 2011 is happening April 30th and May 1st.

Red Hat announced today that nominations are open for its annual Red Hat Certified Professional of the Year awards and for the first time, the awards are open to include any individual holding a current Red Hat certification.

The speakers' program at CeBIT Open Source in hall2 in Hannover, Germany, from March 1 through 5, 2011 is finalized, with a gaggle of Linux and open source celebrities. The talks will be available as live online video stream.

Launched today, The Ada Initiative is a new non-profit organization dedicated to increasing participation of women in open technology and culture.