Ambassadors/Meetings/2006-02-02

= Fedora Ambassadors Meeting Minutes 2006-02-02 =

Next meeting

 * Location: irc.freenode.net
 * Channel: #fedora-mktg
 * Date and Time: 2006-02-09, 22:00 UTC

Participants

 * AlexMaier
 * JeffreyTadlock
 * SankarshanMukhopadhyay
 * KarstenWade
 * SatishMohan
 * FrancescoUgolini
 * BobJensen
 * GregDeKoenigsberg
 * JonFautley
 * JoseTarazona
 * PrudhviKrishna
 * KevinVerma
 * RahulSundaram

Review upcoming events

 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents

Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006 Solutions Linux 2006 Paris, France – Aurelien Bompard

 * Aurelien is at the show and not here in the meeting;
 * he has coordinated with one of the Fedora developers who will be at the Red Hat booth to help him distribute DVDs,
 * so we have all three days covered as it looks

Feb 4-5, 2006 GNUify Pune, India

 * http://gnunify.sicsr.ac.in/index.php – Rahul Sundaram
 * mether: rejected at the last minute for unknown reasons! I am attending the meet anyway

Feb 8-10, 2006 LinuxAsia/FUDCon Delhi 2006 New Delhi India – Rahul

 * Sundaram, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConDelhi2006
 * Sankarshan: Things are under control
 * Rahul: I have to prepare my presentations. that would happen in the weekend
 * The DVDs have arrived, and the t-shirts too

Feb 11-12, 2006 SCALE 4X Los Angeles, California, USA – Thomas Chung

 * tchung was not here to report
 * UPDATE - we have received Exhibitor Package from SCALE
 * added Exhibitor Information at the bottom of  SCALE

Feb 14-17, 2006 LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Mexico Mexico City, Mexico

 * has no owner
 * BobJensen: Mexico City, I talked to a buddy in MC about it and he expressed interest.
 * We are going to talk about him becoming an ambassador tomorrow night.
 * I will have him email you and/or the list if he has any questions

Feb 14-16, 2006 Embedded World Nürnberg, Germany

 * no owner
 * Nürnberg is quite far from here, but RudolfKastl is in Munich. maybe he is interested.
 * he registered as Amabassador some weeks ago. thl will ping him.

Feb 15-17, 2006 Open Source World Conference II Málaga, Spain

 * we have no ambassador in spain so far.
 * does anyone know someone in spain to recruit them as ambassadors?
 * [sasquatch] will be pinging the Red Hat folks in Spain, then he will report to the list when he's heard back from the spanish red hatters.

Feb 24-26, 2006 PyCon 2006 Addison, TX, USA

 * no owner

Feb 25, 2006 Fedora Day The first day in The Netherlands to promote

 * Fedora and to support new users. Hengelo (GLD), The Netherlands
 * ThijsHulshof
 * Thijs not present

Feb 25-26, 2006 FOSDEM The sixth Free and Open source Software

 * Developers' European Meeting in Brussel, Belgium
 * http://www.fosdem.org/2006
 * FredericHornain
 * fred is not present

Mar 16-18, 2006 Free Desktop Event http://www.desktoplivre.org.br

 * MauricioPretto (?)
 * mauricio pretto is not present

Mar 28-30, 2006 LWCE Australia Sydney:

 * http://www.linuxworldexpo.com.au/
 * DavidBarzilay
 * barz is not present as well

Apr 3-6, 2006 LWCE Boston Boston, MA, USA:

 * http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A
 * will be right before FUDCon Boston 2006
 * MatthewMiller
 * Matthew not present

Apr 7, 2006 FUDCon Boston 2006 Boston, MA, USA: Sequel to the first FUDCon

 * FUDConBoston2006
 * gregdek has a meeting with JackAboutboul today.
 * Jack's working on a call for presentations and so forth.
 * We've got space set aside at BU; that part is all set. So we're moving forward there.

Apr 19-22, 2006 FISL 7.0 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. 7th

 * International Free Software Forum.
 * RodrigoPadula MauricioPretto
 * Rodrigo and Mauricio both not present

Prudhvi: Hi, we have a FOSS meeting here in Vijaywada in June

 * the Date is Tentative and I will represent Fedora.
 * Will post the event to the Events page

Linuxtag at Wiesbaden, Germany GeroldKassube

 * neither chitlesh nor gerold are present

Schwag pipeline

 * gregdek: Completed designs are due by tomorrow.
 * The US coolstuff store will be no problem. Still working with EMEA and AP coolstuff stores.
 * The Ambassador request form needs to be altered so they are requesting kits. Not a la carte items.
 * What's in the kit: A few shirts, a bunch of hats, a bunch of stickers, pens, as much as $100 will buy.
 * Posters aren't working out for this timeframe.

Funding for attendance

 * lxmaier: FAMSCO is discussing the basic requirements for ambassadors to fulfill to be considered eligible for reimbursement.
 * we have been talking about this on the famsco list and will post our draft to the ambassadors list when it's ready.

Standard Presentation for Fedora Ambassadors

 * mether: I will own a standard presentation then. delivered in two weeks.
 * I already spend hours on creating the GNUNify presentation which can work out as a standard one.


 * Meeting Minutes summarized by AlexMaier
 * Meeting Minutes posted by ThomasChung