FAmSCo report 2010-05

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

So far this year, FAmSCo has held 17 meetings. Overall attendance has been:


 * 17 out of 17 -- Joerg, Susmit
 * 15 out of 17 -- David
 * 14 out of 17 -- Maria
 * 12 out of 17 -- Max
 * 11 out of 17 -- Luca
 * 10 out of 17 -- Rodrigo

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 May had been logged.


 * NA -- 2 meetings, both attended by David and 1 attended by Max.
 * EMEA -- 2 meetings, 1 attended by Joerg.
 * APAC -- 2 meetings, but no FAmSCo members in attendance.
 * LATAM -- 0 meetings listed on the page.

FAmSCo mailing list
FAmSco's mailing list received 29 messages this month, which is not good. We need to pick up the pace of the mailing list discussion.


 * Joerg -- 15
 * Susmit -- 6
 * Max -- 3
 * David -- 3
 * Rodrigo -- 1
 * Luca -- 1

General accomplishments or decisions

 * Call for Action F13 Release Events
 * AGREED: to have team-lunch as prize for every F13 Release Event Team with an detailed Event Report
 * famsco members collect regional input for special Ambassador topics for future Release Schedules

FY11
Total budget: $100,000

Total spend (as of June 2): $24,335

Regional support
EMEA -- $10,000
 * $3,780 -- Fedora 13 media
 * $2,030 -- Support for IDLELO 2010
 * $1,030 -- Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2010
 * $930 -- USB keys
 * $775 -- Linuxwochen Wien 2010
 * $680 -- Open Source Days
 * $500 -- Support for Libre Graphics Meeting
 * $275 -- OpenExpo 2010 Berne

NA -- $7,370
 * $4,145 -- Fedora 13 media
 * $1,230 -- Texas LinuxFest 2010
 * $755 -- Shipping
 * $730 -- Stickers
 * $325 -- Canada event box
 * $185 -- LinuxFest Northwest (LFNW) 2010

LATAM -- $4,060
 * $2,510 -- Support for FLISOL
 * $1,355 -- Fedora 13 media
 * $195 -- Swag for Mexico

India/APAC -- $2,905
 * $2,400 -- Support for swag creation by Harish
 * $480 -- Support for BASIS
 * $25 -- Fedora 13 release party

Mentoring

 * by a impulse from FAD-NA - work has started to make the "joining/mentoring Process" more a step-by-step expirience for the Candidates, therefore Ambassadors_Join_start has been set up - main lead Clint Savage

News

 * Juan Carlos Lin and Lorsy Julio Joins the Ambassadors group
 * FUDCon Santiago de Chile keeps planning.
 * Fedora CentralAmerica Tour start.
 * RPMDEV had their mensual meeting
 * RPMDEV team activate our local test repo with some packages build locally, this will be an incubator to test and sponsor some of this new apps.
 * Translations, artwork and marketing for F13 was made by latam ambassadors team, to show F13 in our local language.

News

 * Status F13 Media Order EMEA ,

Release parties
Note: There are a few more release events in SriLanka, KualaLumpur and Dhaka but we are unable to find event reports for them. All the listed events are F13_release_events.

News

 * APAC is thinking about a Fosdem like event in APAC.
 * http://FOSSuser.com the first Sri Lankan magazine for FOSS related activites.