Meeting:APAC Ambassadors 2012-02-04

Meeting Time

 * 2012-02-04 04:00 UTC Click here to convert to local time
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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 16 from a DVD and Fedora 17 from an .ISO." 

News from FAmSCo

 * We will skip this topic if there is no news from FAmSCo or a FAmSCo representative

News Items


 * All FAms please have a look on this proposal and comment, Cwickert.

Review *ACTION* items from the last meeting
Last Meeting Log

APAC Trac for Regional Support

 * Ticket #14
 * We must find out what is the status on the above Ticket is in order to support Ankur Sinha. DBR, 01/23/2012.
 * Rahul clarified. Should be done soon http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/india/2012-January/005150.html

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']]
 * Further discussion of this topic at the end of the meeting at the pros and cons of the various FUDCon APAC bids topic
 * FAD/LCA/Meet Up/Fedora awareness
 * Report of past Events & current Status of upcoming events

Status of F17 Release Parties

 * Fedora 17 Release Events! - Fedora 17 Release Events!
 * Fedora 17 Ambassadors Team Tasks
 * Review and plan your Fedora 17 needs, for example media, swag and anything else.
 * FAmSCo and Regional teams call for Preparation of Media/SWAG by Thu 2012-03-08
 * Hold Release Events and Publish Event Reports Tue 2012-05-08
 * 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!!!
 * Talk about Media, Swag, Sticker and other needs as well as media distribution. ==> helps Harish and Kaio and FAmSCo with our Fedora 17 planning.

Harish i will be on the road and might not be able to be on the chat. Harish i have some F16 liveCDs left. Do mention that during the meeting.

APAC Plans for 2012 (Suresh)

 * APAC Plans for 2012
 * Great event for Beefy Miracle[F17] and F18.
 * Prize for best Event photo.
 * Announcing open source computation among the university students.
 * Year end Ambassadors report.

Fedora and Red Hat System Administration Study Group for Ambassadors (dramsey)

 * Developing our fellow Ambassadors not just APAC but all regions with Red Hat information training. ==> dramsey need support from FAmSCo
 * Continuing communications with Fedora Ambassadors' on EC
 * 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
 * Fedora 16 System Administrator's Guide** Sysadmin Study Group
 * Who is interested in getting certified? ==> dramsey strongly suggests doing so
 * Your voiced needs!!!
 * 04:43:49 tuanta interested
 * 04:44:05 LMartinez is also interested
 * 04:44:12  +1 from Suresh
 * 04:44:21 I really like to get RHCSA crt. I worked in it few moths.
 * 04:44:25 +1 from me too
 * 04:44:37  RHCSA would be the choice for me
 * 04:45:08 RHCE is good for me to start with
 * Survey http://lk.fedoracommunity.org/fam_rh_certification
 * Results https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aplp6tv7mdWBdEVGRlJNY0dKQkp2bUJKbEJlVEtpOGc#gid=0
 * FUDCon Blacksburg: System Administrator Study Group http://sexysexypenguins.com/2011/12/26/fudcon-blacksburg-system-administrator-study-group/
 * An idea from azneita Heherson - http://www.khanacademy.org/
 * herlo / sysadminSG herlo / sysadminSG

Teach fedora using Videos campaign (ankursinha)
User:Niteshnarayan/video_tutorials

User:Ankursinha/Video_locations_analysis

Fedora Participation

 * 1) Do you participate via IRC at #fedora-ambassadors, #fedora-apac and/or #fedora IRC channels?
 * 2) I like the #fedora-classroom IRC initiatives!  Do you think we need to suggest a Fedora 17 Release Party Strategy IRC or Ambassadors' FYI IRC?
 * 3) What would help you?
 * 4) How can we as APAC grow and develop?
 * 5) Do you think we as APAC are getting enough "visibility?"  If not then what should we do?

Open Floor

 * 1) Brainstorming
 * 2) Any Ideas that you have in your mind?



Summary

 * Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2012-02-04/apac_biweekly.2012-02-04-03.59.html
 * Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2012-02-04/apac_biweekly.2012-02-04-03.59.txt

Transcript

 * Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2012-02-04/apac_biweekly.2012-02-04-03.59.log.html
 * Log (Text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2012-02-04/apac_biweekly.2012-02-04-03.59.log.txt

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