Meeting:APAC Ambassadors 2011-11-26

Meeting Time

 * 2011-11-26 04:00 UTC Click here to convert to local time
 * #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net
 * Meetings go for just over one hour, but sometimes go longer.

For Help on IRC

Participants
This week's APAC Ambassadors Meeting will be lead by Dramsey and co-lead by  Buddhika Chandradeepa Kurera, bckurera and  Truong Anh Tuan, tuanta.


 * Luke Martinez, asmartgoat
 * Heherson Pagcaliwagan, azneita
 * 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
 * Uditha Bandara Wijerathna, udinnet
 * Abhishek Singh, aks
 * Shakthi Kannan, mbuf
 * as well as other great ambassadors!!! :)

Meeting Protocol

 * Please follow IRC Meeting Protocol and guidelines
 * Try using the MeetBot commands and more MeetBot commands

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

APAC events
Fedora Events Please Note: It is best to have evidence in your event report.[ie:photos+blog post]
 * Next APAC FUDCon 2012[likely it will happen['China' or 'Malayisia' or 'Philippines']]
 * FAD/LCA/Meet Up/Fedora awareness
 * Report of past Events & current Status of upcoming events

Status of F16 Release Parties

 * 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
 * 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
 * Fedora 16 Ambassadors Team Tasks
 * Review and plan your Fedora 16 needs, for example media, swag and anything else.

APAC plans for 2012 (Suresh)

 * 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.
 * 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.
 * Pinging inactive ambassadors.

Red Hat information training for Ambassadors (dramsey)

 * 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
 * http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
 * http://mywiki.wooledge.org/
 * http://www.linuxcommand.org/
 * http://www.anyexample.com/linux_bsd/
 * http://home.roadrunner.com/~computertaijutsu/shellscripting.html
 * 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 (bckurera)
This topic will be marked active as soon as there is a progress. *# Discussion on the classroom initiative by bckurera https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Bckurera/The_FAms_Way ==> bckurera

APAC Events and Meeting tracker(bckurera)

 * An initiative to have more events and effective meetings with more participation in APAC region.

Open Floor

 * Brainstorming
 * Any Ideas that you have in your mind?



Transcript

 * Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-11-26/apac.2011-11-26-03.58.log.html
 * Log (Text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-11-26/apac.2011-11-26-03.58.log.txt

Summary

 * Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-11-26/apac.2011-11-26-03.58.html
 * Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-11-26/apac.2011-11-26-03.58.txt

Next Meeting

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