Ambassadors/Meetings/2006-06-08

= Fedora Ambassadors Meeting Minutes 2006-06-08 =

Meeting Time

 * 2006-06-08 14:00 UTC
 * #fedora-mktg on freenode

Participants

 * : AlexMaier
 * : ThomasChung
 * : PuneetBatura
 * : RussellJohn
 * : DavidNalley
 * : GuillermoGomez
 * : BrianPepple
 * : LeeJoseph
 * : GregDeKoenigsberg

Transcript

 * [[Image:Ambassadors_Meetings_2006%282d%2906%282d%2908_fedora-ambassadors-2006-06-08.txt]]

Summary

 * See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Schedule and http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents
 * Famsco Update
 * lxmaier: famsco met this tuesday
 * lxmaier: summary is posted on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/SteeringCommittee/Meetings/2006-06-05
 * lxmaier: highlights
 * lxmaier: BobJensen will spearhead the creation of the fedora chroniclers group to make sure we have a group of people responsible for summarizing our activities
 * lxmaier: RahulSundaram is in charge of creation of a set of policies for famsco elections and terms.
 * lxmaier: this is not urgent, but very important. we will hopefully have a set of rules by September.
 * Project Reports
 * FreeMedia : ThomasChung
 * For the month of June, we received 78 free media requests so far and we fulfilled 46 as of today.
 * Beginning this month, we will accept only 100 free media requests per month.
 * For more information, see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia
 * VideoContest : AlexMaier
 * we have the pages in QA and will hopefully be able to launch the contest by June 15 or so
 * we have all prizes ready, and the main prize as well.
 * we'll launch as soon as we have finished the pages.
 * most of the content is to be found on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/VideoContest
 * Presentations : RahulSundaram
 * not present
 * Kadischi report : ChitleshGoorah
 * not present
 * tchung: Perhaps I should contact him aftet the meeting. action item
 * Fedora Events
 * June 9-10, 2006   CarolinaCon     Raleigh NC   LeeJoseph
 * CyberSpy: CarolinaCon begin tomorrow evening, I have FC5 is's and a presentation prepared, everything is ready, I have no shwag however
 * lxmaier: did you get to talk with greg about schwag CyberSpy?
 * CyberSpy: lxmaier: I sent an email and have recieved no response as of yet.
 * CyberSpy: lxmaier: I will follow up after this meeting
 * lxmaier: CyberSpy: i will ping mspevack and gregdek as well action item
 * June 15, 2006   Migrating to Linux  North South Univeristy, Dhaka, Bangladesh     RussellJohn
 * Ekushey: it's a workshop, intended for the students of nsu
 * Ekushey: we're hoping 150+ students will participate
 * Ekushey: it'll be a day long event
 * Ekushey: i'll add more information on the wiki page, soon
 * June 17-20   NELS   Bethel, Maine   WarrenTogami
 * WarrenTogami not present
 * tchung: I believe Max's been working with him. I see the event in Famsco Budget table.
 * June 23-30, 2006  Fedora, Friends and Fun Virginia Beach, VA USA  BobJensen
 * BobJensen not present
 * lxmaier: anyone know anything?
 * puneet_batura: http://www.math.vt.edu/people/jbwillia/FFF3.html
 * Southern_Gentlem: we will be doing some presentations at the event but mainly it is a way for member and families to get to know eachother
 * tchung: I received email from him.
 * tchung: "I may not make it to the Ambassadors meeting, my father is having eye surgery to correct his eyes crossing in his old (80 in August) age."
 * July 22-23, 2006 LUGRadio Live! 2006 Wolverhampton, UK  JonFautley
 * JonFautley not present
 * July 24-28, 2006   OSCON 2006   Portland, OR, USA.  RichardTuttle
 * RichardTuttle not present
 * tchung: According to BobJensen's email,
 * tchung: "I talked to Jack about OSCON and I know he has talked to Max. He said he would be at the meeting tomorrow/today to give an update."
 * Aug 14-17, 2006  LinuxWorld San Francisco 2006 San Francisco, CA, USA
 * Aug   18, 2006   FUDCon San Francsico 2006 San Francisco, CA, USA
 * No Ambassador assigned
 * lxmaier: do we yet have an owner for this event?
 * tchung: I sent out an email way back but nobody replied.
 * tchung: I guess it's time to discuss LinuxWorld/FUDCon in San Francisco. action item
 * tchung: Let's ping Jack again.
 * Aug 24-26, 2006    III Festival Software Livre da Bahia     Lauro de Freitas, BA, Brazil     HugoCisneiros, OthonBatista
 * Both HugoCisneiros and OthonBatista not present
 * Sept, 23, 2006    Cincinnati LUG DemoFest Cincinnati, OH, USA  PatrickMcKelvey
 * PatrickMcKelvey not present
 * Fedora Schwag Update
 * lxmaier: i am hearing that the fedora schwag is now available on http://redhat.brandfuelstores.com from greg
 * tchung: Wow! I see it at http://redhat.brandfuelstores.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=37_50
 * gregdek_gone: We've also got stickers and DVD packs coming to the external store, but apparently I need to complain more about that.
 * Miscellaneous
 * lxmaier: gregdek: any chance you have a few item to spare for CyberSpy?
 * lxmaier: his event is tomorrow, and he had no chance to order
 * tchung: The event is located in Raleigh NC
 * tchung: Perhaps he can pick them up in person? :)
 * CyberSpy: I can do that if it's okay
 * lxmaier: okay, CyberSpy, connect with gregdek offline, maybe we got some stuff you can use
 * lxmaier: i have no idea though whether we have any schwag there for you to pick up
 * lxmaier: puneet_batura: you wanted to make an announcement?
 * puneet_batura: yes my techical paper got selected in a NASA conference
 * tchung: do you have any website where we can read about?
 * puneet_batura: http://klabs.org/mapld06/abstracts/144_batura_a.html
 * lxmaier: congratulations puneet_batura!
 * tchung: puneet_batura, Is this conference in Washington, D.C. during September 26-28, 2006 ?
 * puneet_batura: yes
 * tchung: I see and I wish you best of luck!
 * puneet_batura: thank you all for your warm wishes

Next Meeting

 * See  Ambassadors Meetings  for the next meeting date and time.