Ambassadors/Meetings/2006-06-22

= Fedora Ambassadors Meeting Minutes 2006-06-22 =

Meeting Time

 * 2006-06-22 14:00 UTC
 * #fedora-mktg on freenode

Participants

 * : AlexMaier
 * : BrianPepple
 * : JoergSimon
 * : MarcWiriadisastra
 * : ThomasChung
 * : DimitrisGlezos
 * : NicolaLosito
 * : MaxSpevack
 * : HanafiahMuhamad
 * : KarstenWade

Transcript

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Summary

 * See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Schedule and http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents
 * FAMSco Update
 * lxmaier: I have no Famsco reports this week
 * mspevack: I am in conversations with our finance guys here, working to do a full audit of our budget. I'm not sure when that will be complete, but it's in process of happening.
 * tchung: As of 2006-06-19, we have 89 approved members. See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/MembershipService/Approved
 * tchung: we have 6 more new members since last report. See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/WeeklyReports/2006-06-12
 * Project Reports
 * FreeMedia - ThomasChung
 * tchung: We're doing really good this month.
 * tchung: For the month of June, we fulfilled 86 requests out of 102 so far.
 * tchung: For the month of May, we fulfilled 100 % out of 176!! Thanks to KarlieRobinson. :)
 * lxmaier: a special kudos to Karlie!
 * OpenVideo Contest - AlexMaier
 * lxmaier: Creative Commons and Fedora, sponsored by Red Hat, have launched a VideoContest this week
 * lxmaier: the main prize is a SONY DVD camcorder
 * lxmaier: and the first 150 submissions will receive a pair of flip-flops
 * lxmaier: please spread the word: http://creativecommons.org/video/openvideocontest/
 * tchung: The official announcement for this contest is available at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenVideo/Announcement
 * tchung: I've submitted the announcement to most popular news sites already. See "Press Release". :)
 * kOoL: news was submitted to fedoraitalia.org portal and i'll take care it will be published on another italian "big" oss news site
 * Fedora Events
 * June 23-30, 2006  Fedora, Friends and Fun Virginia Beach, VA USA  - BobJensen
 * BobJensen not present
 * lxmaier: anyone know anything about this event?
 * tchung: I'll contact Bob after the meeting. action item
 * July 22-23, 2006   LUGRadio Live! 2006 Wolverhampton, UK  - JonFautley
 * JonFautley not present
 * July 24-28, 2006   OSCON 2006   Portland, OR, USA - RichardTuttle
 * RichardTuttle not present
 * BobJensen is a point of contact from FAMSCO
 * lxmaier: i guess we need some more info--please prod Bob, tchung
 * tchung: Once again, I'll contact Bob after the meeting for status. action item
 * Aug, 5, 2006   My First Mauritian LUG Meeting  Port-Louis, Mauritius - ChitleshGoorah
 * ChitleshGoorah not present
 * lxmaier: anyone knows anything?
 * kOoL: just read his mail ... he got the auth model to "export" DVD and has confirmed his efforts
 * Aug, 14-17, 2006  LinuxWorld San Francisco 2006 San Francisco, CA, USA -  LinuxWorld USA
 * No owner yet
 * lxmaier: mspevack: i had an impression KarstenWade (quaid) was interested
 * mspevack: ok, we have a booth and a BoF, according to JackAboutboul, but beyond that, if Jack and quaid want to figure out who owns it, that's fine with me. I'd like there to be a single owner
 * mspevack: keep in mind that Red Hat itself will not be at LWSF, it will just be Fedora.
 * lxmaier: mspevack: since you seem to be the only one who knows anything about this event, do you mind making sure we DO have a single owner?
 * mspevack: lxmaier: sure :-)
 * lxmaier: and also, mspevack, maybe add a quick status update to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxWorld/LinuxWorldSanFrancisco2006 in the meanwhile?
 * tchung: I'll contact JackAboutboul and KarstenWade after the meeting about LWSF. action item
 * Aug 18, 2006    FUDCon San Francsico 2006     San Francisco, CA, USA  (still in discussion)
 * No owner yet
 * mspevack: this is an out of date item. The decision that was made, honestly I don't remember where, it was on famsco-list I think, was that it didn't make sense to do a FUDCon SF
 * quaid: aye, I think it was private email with a good group
 * mspevack: we prefer to do a FUDCon in Silicon Valley area, but sometime after the school year starts, and we can do it at a college (Standford?)
 * mspevack: I am in charge of that but I will be delegating :-)
 * quaid: and I'm your Sgt. on the ground :)
 * mspevack: There's 2 separate things -- 1) LWSF in August, 2) FUDCon NoCal in Oct/Nov
 * mspevack: IMHO jack owns LWSF and I own FUDCon with quaid likely to help a lot
 * Aug 24-26, 2006    III Festival Software Livre da Bahia     Lauro de Freitas, BA, Brazil   - HugoCisneiros and OthonBatista
 * Both HugoCisneiros and OthonBatista not present
 * Need to contact RodrigoMenezes for more info action item
 * Sept, 2006  Linux Day  - PawelSadowski
 * PawelSadowski not present
 * lxmaier: i have just received this update from pawel
 * See http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2006-June/msg00102.html
 * Schwag pipeline and a Standard Ambassadors Survival Kit
 * lxmaier: mspevack: have any news on this?
 * mspevack: lxmaier: JackAboutboul is doing all of the work on the event kit, he was supposed to send a note to ambassadors list
 * lxmaier: however, if jack is doing work for the ambassadors project, it would be very helpful if he also communicated his work to the ambassadors from time to time
 * mspevack: we'd like feedback on-list about that
 * lxmaier: mspevack: he sent a very long message outlining what will happen--and this was the first the group has heard from him
 * lxmaier: i meant to say that he needs to communicate regularly
 * lxmaier: and also to take into account the input he might receive from the group
 * mspevack: lxmaier: I will encourage him to do so -- Jack, you listeninig? :-)
 * mspevack: lxmaier: he is *absolutely* going to take into account input
 * mspevack: and i'll talk to him and make sure the work continues to be transparent
 * Misc
 * hanafiah: i'm currently build module (Fedora Core 5) for linux training in malay language for malaysian.
 * hanafiah: it would be great if any one can donate their module to me so that i can translate and enchance the module.
 * StrikeForce: Does anyone have any feedback regarding http://linux.org.au/conf/
 * StrikeForce: In Australia they hold an annual event in either Australia or New Zealand does anyone know whether Red Hat is a part of this?
 * lxmaier: StrikeForce: i do not know whether Red Hat is going there
 * tchung: StrikeForce, when is the next event?
 * StrikeForce: Generally in January it is held so the next one would be Jan' 07
 * StrikeForce: Ok I'll do a bit more research on the situation and try and post back either to the list or at the next meeting that I attend what more information I can gather
 * lxmaier: and add your event to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents
 * lxmaier: we usually review the events for the upcoming 3 months so we have plenty of time before january ;)
 * glezos: Is there a page on the wiki that has hands-on instructions for ambassadors to do stuff?
 * lxmaier: this is for FUDCon, but you can adapt them for your purposes and post them under http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/Organization
 * lxmaier: Also, see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/HowTo, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/HelpWanted
 * glezos: lxmaier: OK, I'll study it and form the idea better in my mind and probably send an email to the list.
 * lxmaier: on HelpWanted, you will find all sorts of things where people are asking for immediate help

Next Meeting

 * See  Ambassadors Meetings  for the next meeting date and time.