Ambassadors/Meetings/2007-07-19

= Fedora Ambassadors Meeting Minutes 2007-07-19 =

Meeting Time

 * 2007-07-19 22:00 UTC
 * #fedora-meeting on freenode

Participants
This week's Ambassadors Meeting will be lead by ThomasChung.


 * ThomasChung
 * JohnBabich
 * SaadaldineAlsaidi
 * LouSpironello
 * RodrigoPadula
 * AravindSeshadri

Meeting Protocol

 * Please follow Meeting Protocol

Agenda

 * 1) Report current status of upcoming Fedora Events. See   Fedora Events  page and LWN Calendar.
 * 2) Report current status of Ambassadors Materials. See   Tracker  page.
 * 3) Report current status of Ambassadors Membership. See   Verification  page.
 * 4) Report current status of Fedora Free Media Program. See   June  and   July  pages.

Transcript

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Summary
Jul 19 15:12:39 tchung	First agenda. Jul 19 15:12:44 tchung	Report current status of upcoming Fedora Events. Jul 19 15:13:08 tchung	Let's see. Let's take a look current Fedora Events page Jul 19 15:13:13 tchung	http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents Jul 19 15:13:43 tchung	Normally, we review Fedora Events for next 3 months. Jul 19 15:14:14 tchung	Is there anyone here to report current status of event you're working on?

Jul 19 15:15:07 jmbuser	I just posted to the fedora marketing and ambassador lists... Jul 19 15:15:43 jmbuser	and to my Fedora Planet syndicated blog concerning GITEX. Jul 19 15:16:23 jmbuser	I will be contacting Red Hat EMEA concerning sharing their booth. Jul 19 15:17:07 jmbuser	I am looking for volunteers to man the booth, produce and distribute Live CDs, etc. Jul 19 15:17:12 jmbuser	eof

Jul 19 15:17:48 tchung	If I remember correct, your company is going to pay for the trip to Dubai. Is this correct? Jul 19 15:18:19 jmbuser	Yes, but I will need accommodation - hoping to stay with a friend. Jul 19 15:19:06 tchung	How about media? Do you need any DVDs or LiveCDs? jmbuser Jul 19 15:20:22 jmbuser	Yes, I do. Jul 19 15:20:53 tchung	Ok, then, please make sure to submit your request via our Ambassadors Material request form. Jul 19 15:21:00 tchung	http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/GetStuff Jul 19 15:21:19 jmbuser	Will do...

Jul 19 15:23:03 RodrigoPadula	Here in Brazil, we will have 3 events in the next 3 months. Jul 19 15:23:23 RodrigoPadula	http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/IILINUXFESTIVAL Jul 19 15:23:36 RodrigoPadula	http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/IIENSL Jul 19 15:24:04 RodrigoPadula	and Latinoware Jul 19 15:25:44 RodrigoPadula	II LINUXFESTIVAL and II ENSL we wil have 2 lectures Jul 19 15:25:52 RodrigoPadula	and Fedora Booth Jul 19 15:26:16 RodrigoPadula	so... we will need some budget and fedora stuffs Jul 19 15:26:53 RodrigoPadula	eof

Jul 19 15:27:17 tchung	I assume you'll need lots of stuff for these 3 events? Jul 19 15:27:52 tchung	Let's contact Max for the budget. At the moment he's on vacation until July 31st. Jul 19 15:28:15 RodrigoPadula	oks Jul 19 15:28:24 tchung	Since those events are more than 2 months away, we have time. Jul 19 15:28:37 RodrigoPadula	thanks!

Jul 19 15:29:00 tchung	Agena #2 Jul 19 15:29:05 tchung	Report current status of Ambassadors Materials. Jul 19 15:29:39 tchung	Good news. we now have F7 DVDs and LiveCDs produced and ready to ship. Jul 19 15:30:02 tchung	Still, I can only ship up-to 100 media at a time. Jul 19 15:30:27 tchung	If you need more than 100 media, you'll need to either contact Max or produce them locally and ask for reimbursement.

Jul 19 15:32:33 RodrigoPadula	RH Brazil produced 2200 dvds to Brazilian Free Media Project Jul 19 15:32:42 RodrigoPadula	Here we have 26 states Jul 19 15:33:20 RodrigoPadula	i will recruit free media collaborators to spread fedora... burning and distributing this medias Jul 19 15:34:24 RodrigoPadula	the idea is to distribute fedora dvds to all braziliand states Jul 19 15:35:30 RodrigoPadula	supporting all Brazilian states 100% Jul 19 15:35:33 RodrigoPadula	eof

Jul 19 15:36:31 tchung	Ok. then. Agenda #3 Jul 19 15:36:36 tchung	Report current status of Ambassadors Membership Jul 19 15:36:54 tchung	As you can see from our Verification page. Jul 19 15:36:57 tchung	http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/MembershipService/Verification Jul 19 15:37:24 tchung	We now have more 230 "verified" members in our Fedora Ambassadors Project. Jul 19 15:37:57 tchung	However, we still have dozen members who still have not signed cla nor joined Ambassadors project. Jul 19 15:38:15 tchung	So, we need to contact them to encourage them to join. Jul 19 15:38:58 tchung	Do we any volunteer here to do such task? Jul 19 15:39:17 RodrigoPadula	i can do it!

Jul 19 15:41:03 tchung	Agenda #4 Jul 19 15:41:06 tchung	Report current status of Fedora Free Media Program. Jul 19 15:41:42 tchung	I'm happy to report we have completed Free Media Program fo the month June successfully. Jul 19 15:41:48 tchung	http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia/F7DVD/June Jul 19 15:42:23 tchung	As some of you know already, we received well over 450 request in one day for F7 requests in June. Jul 19 15:43:04 tchung	For the month of July, we set the capacity back to normal 100 and it only took 20 mins to reach the capacity. :) Jul 19 15:43:35 tchung	However, we still have many un-fulfilled requests waiting for July. Jul 19 15:43:42 tchung	http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia/F7DVD/July Jul 19 15:44:06 tchung	So, I ask you to accept at least 1 or 2 request per month.

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