Meeting:APAC Ambassadors 2011-11-12

Meeting Time

• 2011-11-12 04:00 UTC Click here to convert to local time
• #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net
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Participants

This week's APAC Ambassadors Meeting will be lead by Dramsey

• Luke Martinez, asmartgoat
• Heherson Pagcaliwagan, azneita
• Buddhika Chandradeepa Kurera, bckurera
• Engels Antonio, born2linux
• Ankur Sinha, FranciscoD
• Haowei Lee, Haowei
• Harish Pillay, harishpillay
• Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail, KageSenshi
• Caius Chance, Kaio
• Moniruzzaman Monir, kalpurush
• Magie Antonio, magie
• Mahay Alam Khan, maktrix
• Sureshkumar Packiyarajah, Suresht
• Abhishek Singh, aks
• as well as other great ambassadors!!!  :)

Meeting Protocol

• Please follow IRC Meeting Protocol and guidelines
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Agenda

• Ambassador Pinging - Your name, Where your located, etc.

• • For example ".fas dramsey My name is dramsey, from Japan and I use Fedora 15 from a DVD and Fedora 16 from an .ISO."

• News from FAmSCo
  • We will skip this topic if there is no news from FAmSCo or a FAmSCo representative

• News & Ideas from Ambassadors Country wise
  • Interviewed by local newspapers and media...ect
  • Having any issues[ie:Does getting media or swag, cost tax for you?,budget issues for organizing event..]
  • Special needs.
  • How to spread Fedora Project and distributing fedora media to lack of ambassador counties?["there are few counties eg:Thailand..ect without fedora ambassadors"]

• Review *ACTION* items from the last meeting [1]

• Report of past Events & current Status of upcoming events - Fedora Events
  • Please Note:Event reports should have evidence[ie:photos+blog post]

• • Other future APAC events.
  • Working on next APAC FUDCon 2012[likely it will happen['China' or 'Malayisia' or 'philippines']]
  • FAD/LCA/Meet Up/Fedora awareness/Release Party.

• APAC plans for F16-verne
  • Fedora 16 Release Events! - Fedora 16 Release Events!
  • Talk about Media, Swag, Sticker and other needs as well as media distribution. ==> helps Harish and Kaio with Fedora 16 planning
    • Fedora 16 - Add your requests here at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/APAC/F16
    1. Locally created media / swag as an option? ==> strongly suggests inquiry on funding your initiatives FAmSCo Trac
    • Use that Fedora "This is free media" form during sending of media between countries to avoid the tax problem.
    • What would be useful for you? Item and quantity!!!
    • Nice graphic at EMEA on F15 Shipping
    1. Fedora 16 Ambassadors Team Tasks
    2. Review and plan your Fedora 16 needs, for example media, swag and anything else.

• APAC plans for 2012
  • There will be two fedora release(f17 and f18) so we have to schedule two major events for the particular release.
  • Year end Ambassadors report[draft i will work on it]
  • announcing open source computation among the university students level and select first place from every region and let them participate for next APAC FUDCon 2012[draft i will work on it]
  • Pinging inactive ambassadors.

• Red Hat information training for Ambassadors
  • Developing our fellow Ambassadors not just APAC but all regions with Red Hat information training. ==> dramsey need support from FAmSCo
  • FYI Study Group URL from herlo at System Administration Study Guide
    1. http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
    2. http://mywiki.wooledge.org/
    3. http://www.linuxcommand.org/
    4. http://www.anyexample.com/linux_bsd/
    5. http://home.roadrunner.com/~computertaijutsu/shellscripting.html
    6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Dramsey#Software_which_I_like_to_have_running_on_my_systems
  • Who is interested in getting certified? ==> dramsey strongly suggests doing so

• Classroom
  1. Discussion on the classroom initiative by bckurera https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Bckurera/The_FAms_Way ==> bckurera

• Open Floor
  1. Brainstorming
  2. Any Ideas that you have in your mind?

Transcript

• Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-11-12/apac.2011-11-12-04.02.log.html
• Log (Text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-11-12/apac.2011-11-12-04.02.log.txt

Summary

• Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-11-12/apac.2011-11-12-04.02.html
• Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-11-12/apac.2011-11-12-04.02.txt

Next Meeting

• See APAC Meeting Minutes for the next meeting date and time.