Ambassadors/Meetings/2006-02-09

= Fedora Ambassadors Meeting Minutes 2006-02-09 =

Next meeting

 * Location: irc.freenode.net
 * Channel: #fedora-mktg
 * Date and Time: 2006-02-16, 14:00 UTC

Note

 * AlexMaier is on vacation
 * GregDeKoenigsberg is in Asia for  FUDConDelhi2006

Participants

 * ThomasChung
 * AurelienBompard
 * DavidHackl
 * PatrickBarnes
 * FlorianBrand
 * GeroldKassube
 * ChitleshGoorah
 * WilliamHoffmann

Summary
Following list of agenda/schedule is based on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Schedule

Review upcoming events

 * solartrooper requests to add Linuxweeks in Austria to
 * We should move past events to  and we should combine   with
 * we can simply move content of Archive to  and remove Archive
 * Also I think we should move any events without owners to

SCALE 4X (Feb 11-12, 2006) Owner - ThomasChung

 * Well, good news folks, Warren Togami accepted as a speaker at the SCALE at the last minute. :)
 * tchung has added Talk Title in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/SCALE :)
 * we haven't received exact schedule yet but I'll post it there as soon as I hear from SCALE staff.
 * I believe Warren will provide his prenstation so they can post on their site and our site.

Fedora Day (Feb 25, 2006) Owner - ThijsHulshof

 * ThijsHulshof not here to report on Fedora Day

FOSDEM (Feb 25-26, 2006) Onwer - FredericHornain

 * FredericHornain not present

Jornada Software Libre y Aplicaciones (Mar 13-16, 2006) Owner - JoseTarazona

 * JoseTarazona not present
 * tchung received email from JoseTarazona via list
 * The Description needs to be updated in English
 * tchung will contact him off the list

Free Desktop Event (Mar 16-18, 2006) Owner - MauricioPretto

 * MauricioPretto not present

LWCE Boston 2006 (Apr 3-6, 2006) Owner - MatthewMiller

 * tchung spoke to MatthewMiller and he'll be joining us in the next meeting.
 * He'll give us update on FUDCon Boston 2006 (Apr 7, 2006) at the time as well

PyCon: In Addison, Texas

 * nman64: Oh, a quick note about PyCon: In Addison, Texas, it is a relatively small event, and does have a registration fee.
 * The total cost for me to get there and participate makes it, IMHO, not worth bothering with. (Addison is in the Dallas area, BTW.)

FISL 7.0 (Apr 19-22, 2006) Owner - RodrigoPadula

 * RodrigoPadula not present

German Linuxtag 2006 (May 3-6, 2006) Owner - GeroldKassube

 * ChitleshGoorah: I'll do my best to assist GeroldKa during linuxtag
 * GeroldKa: Yesterday I met Florian Brand aka BruderTux and we discussed a lot of things, also the FUDCon which will be organised from
 * BruderTux. Have a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConLinuxtag2006
 * We'll organise a lot of and we think we'll fill a 50 square meter stall

Linuxdays in Austria

 * solartrooper: Austria has a bit another concept of "Linuxdays"
 * we have the countrywide linuxweeks, which always begin about May and go until June.
 * date of the first dissertation isn't fixed right now, but will come soon
 * As soon as solartrooper has details, he'll add them to the FedoraEvents page.

FedoraLibraries

 * ChitleshGoorah: I really need support for the FedoraLibrary project.
 * I tried to launch discussions in the list. But nothing. I feel no one is interested to work it out
 * tchung thought the owner of Fedora Education Project is interested
 * William: ChitleshGoorah, i'm new here but I could help you in France ...
 * ChitleshGoorah has scheduled a meeting with the directory of his Uni to launch it here in Strasbourg
 * tchung: ChitleshGoorah, if you send me some introduction of your project, I'll post in my next FWN.

Schwag pipeline

 * We are happy to report our Steering Committe is making some progress in this issue
 * Alex will give us update in the next meeting

Funding for attendance

 * Alex will report at the next meeting

famsco

 * ChitleshGoorah: Does the Steering Commitee (famsco) discuss among themselves or on the list?
 * tchung: Yes, FAMSCO has a list called famsco-list@redhat.com.
 * It is private list. If you have any request or suggestion to FAMSCO, please email me and I'll forward to them. :)
 * nman64: Or, post to the Ambassador list, as all SC members watch it.

FreeMedia

 * tchung won't include ["Distribution/FreeMedia"] in the Schedule until he has a more sold idea and more participants

Fundraising

 * EVERYBODY: Note that we cannot perform any fundraising activities at this time and so we cannot sell anything at events!

Fedora Account System

 * Getting your own Fedora Project Email address is important for All Fedora Ambassadors
 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/AccountSystem
 * solartrooper: do I have to use GPG for getting an account?
 * nman64: Yes, you'll have to have a GPG key to get the account set up.

Presentations for Ambassadors

 * We need to provide Ambassadors with some slide decks for various presentations.
 * We should probably aggregate the ones we already have and make them available.
 * We should also figure out our policy for licensing these presentations!
 * tchung thought Rahul was working on *Official* or *Standard* slides for us
 * We'll need contributors to complete the CLA (as all Ambassadors should), and will probably be licensing them using the OPL without stipulations.

Standard Ambassadors kit

 * this is either already done or Greg is still working it :)
 * The content of the kits is just about finalized, but production and distribution will still take time.
 * Greg will be back to give us update on Standard Ambassadors kit in the next meeting
 * At present, it looks unlikely that shirts will be part of the standard kit, but will be available for < $10 USD to Ambassadors.
 * The *current* plan is to include reasonable quantities of install DVDs.
 * We're having to watch production costs, so that really isn't feasible right now.


 * Meeting Minutes summarized by AlexMaier
 * Meeting Minutes posted by ThomasChung