Ambassadors/Meetings/2006-08-10

= Fedora Ambassadors Meeting Minutes 2006-08-10 =

Meeting Time

 * 2006-08-10 22:00 UTC
 * #fedora-mktg on freenode

Participants

 * : AlexMaier
 * : GeroldKassube
 * : DamienDurand
 * : JackAboutboul
 * : ThomasCanniot
 * : JorgeTorres
 * : BobJensen
 * : Hernan (from Peru)

Transcript

 * [[Image:Ambassadors_Meetings_2006]](2d)08(2d)10_fedora-ambassadors-2006-08-10.txt

Summary
(18:02:09) lxmaier: 1. JeffreyTadlock 's request has been approved for 700 DVDs and 20 T-shirts. Jeffrey can produce shirts locally and sell to get the money back in. DavidBarzilay will be Jeffrey's point person at Famsco, for all assistance necessary. (18:02:25) lxmaier: 2. PawelSadowski has requested us to help him produce some Fedora T-Shirts he will distribute at the events he attends. Quote has been supplied and approved. (18:03:12) lxmaier: 3. You will find the most recent snapshot of the Fedora finances here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Accounting (18:03:32) lxmaier: The latest one has been posted on 2006-07-31 (18:08:07) lxmaier: their request form is closed for this month, but I know that SponsoredMedia is using the DVDs Famsco has donated to fulfill the requests. (18:08:44) lxmaier: SponsoredMedia vendor Karlie Robinson is using the donated money to cover postage only, which means she can send out more DVDs. (18:09:14) lxmaier: Next project: VideoContest (18:09:43) lxmaier: We have several submissions there, but the contest is still running (until August 20), so there is no winner yet (18:10:13) lxmaier: you can see the videos here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenVideo/Submissions (18:17:58) greendisease: all the meat is done (18:18:02) greendisease: it's been done for a while (18:18:07) greendisease: we even created the wiki page this week (18:18:26) greendisease: we are waiting for the artists to lay it out on the stationary (18:18:37) greendisease: they've been inundated with work the last few weeks (18:19:20) greendisease: with the whole echo redesign, other duties (18:19:43) greendisease: i would like to put it on the agenda for next week to discuss, although i might not be able to make the meeting due to another meeting
 * See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Schedule
 * Famsco update
 * Project Reports
 * Ambassador Event Kit

(18:24:10) lxmaier: the first event we'll discuss today is Aug, 14-17, 2006  LinuxWorld San Francisco 2006 (18:24:16) lxmaier: greendisease: you are in charge (18:24:19) greendisease: yay! (18:24:24) greendisease: okay, we are all set to go (18:24:37) greendisease: staff, schwag, a bof, a booth (18:24:53) greendisease: i sent out an announcement to announce-list this week with all the details (18:26:20) lxmaier: greendisease: do you think you could update your even page on the wiki? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxWorld/LinuxWorldSanFrancisco2006 (18:27:19) greendisease: sure (18:27:25) greendisease: will do it ntonight (18:28:19) lxmaier: Aug 24-26, 2006    III Festival Software Livre da Bahia     Lauro de Freitas, BA, Brazil     HugoCisneiros (18:28:19) lxmaier: OthonBatista (18:28:33) lxmaier: anyone here who knows the status of this event? (18:29:19) lxmaier: Sept, 2006  Linux Day   Ilza, Poland - It will be a presentation generally about Fedora, Open Source etc. It will take place at my high school. PawelSadowski (18:29:25) lxmaier: McGiwer: are you here? (18:29:58) lxmaier: McGiwer seems to be away from keyboard... in any case (18:30:17) lxmaier: he has requested funds to produce some t-shirt and we have approved the expense (18:31:10) lxmaier: Next: Sept, 28-30, 2006      1er Campamento Playero Fedora Linux Venezuela : Chichiriviche 2006     Chichiriviche, Edo.Falcón, Venezuela - This event is intended for the promotion of open source software and specially dedicated to Fedora. It will also be the first time for gathering all fedora-ve people. It's a beach camp in a very small town with activities related with local schools and authorities. GuillermoGomez (18:31:22) lxmaier: Is Guillermo here? (18:31:47) lxmaier: Sept 30, 2006     Ohio LinuxFest 2006 Columbus, OH, USA     JeffreyTadlock (18:31:54) lxmaier: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/OhioLinuxFest (18:32:05) lxmaier: JeffreyTadlock 's request has been approved for 700 DVDs and 20 T-shirts. Jeffrey can produce shirts locally and sell to get the money back in. (18:32:05) lxmaier: DavidBarzilay will be Jeffrey's point person at Famsco, for all assistance necessary. (18:32:31) lxmaier: Oct, 25-26, 2006  LinuxWorld UK 2006   London, UK -  LinuxWorld UK     JoeEarly (18:32:31) lxmaier: JonFautley (18:32:45) lxmaier: either Joe or Jon here?
 * Fedora Events - See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents
 * LinuxWorld SF - San Francisco, USA
 * Brazil
 * Poland
 * Venezuela
 * Ohio LinuxFest 2006 - Columbus, OH, USA
 * LinuxWorld UK 2006 - London, UK

General Discussion
(18:34:47) EvilBob: The Documentation project is looking for some translation help, if any one is interested please contact KarstenWade (quaid) in #Fedora-Docs (18:35:12) EvilBob: I know we need a pt_PT translator to help with one party already (18:35:39) EvilBob: We don't expect one person to do all the work so we like to have a couple for each language (18:35:54) EvilBob: Thank You to any one that might be able to help (18:39:56) hpachas-PE: aqui en Peru .. se realizara un evento en octubre.. creen q puedan ayudarme (18:40:22) lxmaier: hpachas-PE: be sure to add your event to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents (18:40:39) lxmaier: hpachas-PE: if you need help, ask famsco (18:42:54) hpachas-PE: the event is "open source Day". Maddog (linux International) and Rich would estaran Bowen (Foundation Apache) (18:42:58) lxmaier: hpachas-PE: do you want to represent Fedora at the event? Do you want a booth there? (18:43:30) lxmaier: we can help you with some money, to pay for the booth at the event
 * BobJensen
 * Hernan (from Peru)

Next Meeting

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