FAmSCo report 2010-04

FAmSCo meetings
FAmSCo held 4 meetings in April. Attendance was as follows:
 * 4 out of 4 -- Joerg, Susmit, Maria
 * 3 out of 4 -- Rodrigo, David, Luca
 * 2 out of 4 -- Max

So far this year, FAmSCo has held 14 meetings. Overall attendance has been:


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

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 April had been logged.


 * NA -- 1 meeting, attended by David and Max.
 * EMEA -- 2 meetings, both attended by Joerg.
 * APAC -- 2 meeting, both attended by Susmit.
 * LATAM -- 1 meeting, no FAmSCo members in attendance..

FAmSCo mailing list
FAmSco's mailing list received 32 messages this month, which was a pretty light month. We need to have more discussion on the mailing list.


 * Joerg -- 13
 * Max -- 5
 * Susmit -- 5
 * David -- 5
 * Rodrigo -- 2
 * Maria -- 1
 * Luca -- 1

General accomplishments or decisions

 * finalized the "Ambassador dispute resolution"
 * announced the "Call for Fedora 13 Release Parties"
 * Subsequent to Davids research about Campus Ambassadors we have no actionable items for FAmSCo, and consider it outside our purview.

FY11 Q1 (March 2010 - May 2010)
EMEA -- $5,550
 * $1,360 -- 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 -- $2,900
 * $1,230 -- Texas LinuxFest 2010
 * $730 -- Stickers
 * $615 -- Shipping
 * $325 -- Canada event box

India/APAC -- $2,880
 * $2,400 -- Support for swag creation by Harish
 * $480 -- Support for BASIS

LATAM -- $2,705
 * $2,510 -- Support for FLISOL
 * $195 -- Swag for Mexico

Events
[ Spanish link]

News

 * FLISoL was held in mora than 35 cities the same day, where our local teams spread fedora to +10000 people in one single day
 * Several cities receive FAmSCo help (some info must be sent)
 * Venezuela is getting ready for a 3 months conference tour in all the country
 * Argentina, El Salvador, Colombia, Nicaragua and Panamá have new ambassadors
 * El Salvador had an online conference about design using fedora, and we are thinking on convert this casual talk into a regular spread fest online.

News

 * Started a new initiative to improve the fedora expansion in Africa with first kick off meeting, by Sascha Thomas Spreitzer