FAmSCo report 2010-03

FAmSCo meetings
FAmSCo held 4 meetings in March. Attendance was as follows:
 * 4 out of 4 -- Joerg, Susmit, David
 * 3 out of 4 -- Max
 * 2 out of 4 -- Luca, Rodrigo
 * 1 out of 4 -- Maria

So far this year, FAmSCo has held 10 meetings. Overall attendance has been:
 * 10 out of 10 -- Joerg, Susmit
 * 9 out of 10 -- David
 * 8 out of 10 -- Max
 * 7 out of 10 -- Rodrigo, Maria, Luca

Special Meetings

 * Ambassador Mentors Meeting
 * India Regional Townhall

Regional meetings
One of FAmSCo's goals this year is to make sure that at least one FAmSCo member is at each regional meeting that is held.

As of the time this report was prepared, 6 regional meetings held in March had been logged.


 * NA -- 2 meetings, 1 attended by Max.
 * EMEA -- 3 meetings, with Joerg and Max each attending 2.
 * APAC -- 1 meeting, with no FAmSCo members in attendance but was followed up.
 * LATAM -- Nothing logged on the Ambassadors meetings page.

FAmSCo mailing list
FAmSco's mailing list received 55 messages this month:
 * Joerg -- 19
 * Rodrigo -- 9
 * Susmit -- 8
 * Max -- 7
 * David -- 6
 * Luca -- 3
 * Maria -- 2
 * Sankarshan -- 1

General accomplishments or decisions

 * Fallback Dispute Policy for Mentors - published
 * Ambassadors Project Structure - published

FY11 Q1 budget
Based on the Community Architecture expenses, FAmSCo has about $25,000 USD to spend across the world for regional Fedora support from March 2010 - May 2010.

EMEA -- target amount is $7k USD.
 * $930 -- USB keys
 * $815 -- Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2010
 * $680 -- Open Source Days
 * $500 -- Support for Libre Graphics Meeting
 * $65 -- Christoph Wickert reimbursement

NA -- target amount is $7k USD.
 * $730 -- Stickers
 * $500 -- Texas LinuxFest 2010 sponsorship
 * $325 -- Canada event box
 * $125 -- Shipping

LATAM -- target amount is $6k USD.
 * $1,305 -- Support for FLISOL
 * $195 -- Swag for Mexico

India/APAC -- target amount is $5k USD.
 * $480 -- Support for BASIS

Mentoring

 * Ambassadors Statistic
 * FAMA is continually working on membership tasks. We now have 66 ambassadors from "unknown" countries instead of 92 a couple of weeks back.

News

 * Marketing FAD occurred in March - A number of action items came from this which directly affect the Ambassadors project.

News

 * FUDCon EMEA 2010 in Zurich announced https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Zurich_2010
 * Future EMEA Media Production - Budget and Process will be handled by the EMEA Community through their own Media Wrangler

News

 * Fedora-India will be present in Mukt.in, April 23-24, Jaipur.
 * FAD Pune is in planning. Tentative date is 29-30 May.
 * In APAC, we have identified 51 countries which have no fedora-presence. We will consider it as a priority case if anyone from these countries steps forward.