FAD EMEA 2008

= Fedora Ambassador Day EMEA 2008 =

The FAD 2008 is an event intended to plan the ambassadors' activities in 2009 and to have some fun together.

Duration

 * Friday, 2008-11-14 to Sunday, 2008-11-16
 * Detailed schedule

Location

 * City: Basel, Switzerland
 * Airport: EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg (BSL)
 * Train station: Basel SBB or Basel Badischer Bahnhof (Basel Bad Bf)

Basel was chosen by MaxSpevack and SandroMathys after weighing various options, including travel distance and time for people all over Europe.

Accommodation
See Accommodation.

Ride Sharing / Car Pooling
People who drive to the FAD by car or get to the airport by car and have some free seats available are asked to help others to get to the FAD. Please add below how many seats you have available, where you start the journey and where you could possibly pick up folks. People who'd like to join one of the drivers above, please ask the driver if he's still got a free seat and where he could pick you up. If you both agree on the terms (e.g. time, location, cost sharing, etc.) add yourself to the list below in order for other people to see which driver still has free seats available.

Responsible Ambassadors

 * Sandro Mathys (Responsible for the FAD; Contact him for ALL questions, remarks and rants)
 * Andreas Rau (Responsible for Friday afternoon's get together in a bar)
 * MaxSpevack (Responsible for the budget)

Confirmed
Please fill in your details ASAP. Contact Sandro Mathys if you have questions.

Counts:
 * 20 ambassadors attend
 * 1 special VIP
 * 19 attendees need a bed

Buttons
For blogs, signatures and the like: buttons! Thanks Nicu Buculei for creating them.

Business
The list below is just the collection of items we will discuss about and does not say anything about the time or order they're discussed about. Which task is handled at what point during the FAD is shown in the work schedule.

Sideline

 * Keysigning (for this please do not forget your GnuPG Keys on paper-strip).
 * CAcert Assurances: Henrik Heigl will bring CAP-Forms. Everybody please bring some govermental ID (Passport, etc.) for this.
 * CAP form in english | PDF
 * CAP form in german | PDF

Fun
We'll organize two small (1-1.5h) fun events for everyone. Both will include fresh air, which we'll surely need after sitting in that work room nearly all weekend long.

We've been asked if there'll be room in the schedule for everyone to go to the city and do some sightseeing. Of course there will! Actually one fun event will include a tour through the city of Basel which should cover that wish. The tour will be guided and in English. It will take place regardless of the weather, so please bring appropriate clothing with you.

The other fun event is...a surprise! We're sure you'll like it. If you have clothing for the city tour, you'll be fine here.

Ideas provided (but mostly ignored) were:
 * Augusta Raurica (old Roman city) -- red
 * Feldschloesschen Brewery, which is inside a very nice castle -- red
 * Eat some local food speciality on Saturday for dinner -- GeroldKa / red
 * Visit of the St. Jakob-Park station -- fab
 * Make a Birsig tour -- fab
 * Make one of the city tours -- fab
 * Visit the Zoo or the Port of Basel -- fab
 * Make the official city tour with Basel Tourismus -- red

Workshops
Maybe it will be time to hold some short workshops. If there will be no time its an "pool of ideas" what can be made at future Events or meetings.
 * howto organize events --wonderer
 * package building --???

Where from

 * $2000 (CHF ~2'200.-) out of the Fedora Ambassadors budget. As we get closer to the end of FY08's Q3, this number may go up if other events didn't spend all their budget.
 * $1000 (CHF ~1'100.-) from the FUDCon budget that was not completely used.
 * Fedora EMEA e.V. indicated that they might help with several hundred EUR if needed and asked for.
 * Puzzle ITC has been asked for some financial sponsorship by Sandro and they decided to help us with generous CHF 500.-, isn't that great? Thank you guys!
 * Puzzle ITC, well known for their SourceForge-mirror, is a small Swiss company focused Java software development and Linux-based solutions for their customers. They are showing commitment to the open source philosophy over years already. They are member of the ODF Alliance, the Eclipse Foundation and the Swiss Open Systems User Group (/ch/open). In the past, they've organized an Ubuntu Release Party and a Linux Install Zone at the OpenExpo in Berne. They do too much for the open source community to list it all here!

Right now, we have CHF ~3'800 to spend for the FAD.

Where to
Budget will be used in the following order (as far as it reaches):
 * 1) Work room - The University of Basel provides us with a work room for FREE
 * 2) Accommodation (incl. city-tax) - CHF 2'461.60 ($2219.29) PAID
 * 3) Ticket for the public transport for the whole stay - The hotel offers us tickets (for the 19 attendees staying there) for FREE
 * 4) Coffee and water for the work room - CHF 50.- (tops)
 * 5) Dinner at Saturday evening (CHF 561.-) plus one beer or soft drink for everyone - CHF 700.- (tops)
 * 6) Fun events
 * 7) * City tour on Saturday afternoon - CHF 100.-
 * 8) * Surprise on Sunday morning - CHF 150.-

Totals to: CHF 3'461.60 (tops).

The tickets for the public transport will cover your travels from the airport or train station to the hotel and back as well as all travel we'll make during the FAD (we'll mostly walk the short distances, though).

Media
Here is a Place where anybody can place the media from the Event (Blogentrys, press texts, flickr Photostream, etc.). If your BlogEntry or Photo is missing here, please add it.


 * Henrik's BlogEntry | Day1, | Day2
 * Flickr Fotos found with FAD EMEA
 * Pictures by Francesco Crippa