Meeting:APAC Ambassadors 2011-11-12

Meeting Time

 * 2011-11-12 04:00 UTC Click here to convert to local time
 * #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net
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Participants
This week's APAC Ambassadors Meeting will be lead by Dramsey
 * Luke Martinez, asmartgoat
 * Heherson Pagcaliwagan, azneita
 * Buddhika Chandradeepa Kurera, bckurera
 * Engels Antonio, born2linux
 * Ankur Sinha, FranciscoD
 * Haowei Lee, Haowei
 * Harish Pillay, harishpillay
 * Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail, KageSenshi
 * Caius Chance, Kaio
 * Moniruzzaman Monir, kalpurush
 * Magie Antonio, magie
 * Mahay Alam Khan, maktrix
 * Sureshkumar Packiyarajah, Suresht
 * Abhishek Singh, aks
 * as well as other great ambassadors!!! :)

Meeting Protocol

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Agenda

 * Ambassador Pinging - Your name, Where your located, etc.


 * For example ".fas dramsey My name is dramsey, from Japan and I use Fedora 15 from a DVD and Fedora 16 from an .ISO."


 * News from FAmSCo
 * We will skip this topic if there is no news from FAmSCo or a FAmSCo representative


 * News & Ideas from Ambassadors Country wise
 * Interviewed by local newspapers and media...ect
 * Having any issues[ie:Does getting media or swag, cost tax for you?,budget issues for organizing event..]
 * Special needs.
 * How to spread Fedora Project and distributing fedora media to lack of ambassador counties?["there are few counties eg:Thailand..ect without fedora ambassadors"]


 * Review *ACTION* items from the last meeting


 * Report of past Events & current Status of upcoming events - Fedora Events
 * Please Note:Event reports should have evidence[ie:photos+blog post]


 * Other future APAC events.
 * Working on next APAC FUDCon 2012[likely it will happen['China' or 'Malayisia' or 'philippines']]
 * FAD/LCA/Meet Up/Fedora awareness/Release Party.


 * APAC plans for F16-verne
 * Fedora 16 Release Events! - Fedora 16 Release Events!
 * Talk about Media, Swag, Sticker and other needs as well as media distribution. ==> helps Harish and Kaio with Fedora 16 planning
 * Fedora 16 - Add your requests here at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/APAC/F16
 * Locally created media / swag as an option? ==> strongly suggests inquiry on funding your initiatives FAmSCo Trac
 * Use that Fedora "This is free media" form during sending of media between countries to avoid the tax problem.
 * What would be useful for you? Item and quantity!!!
 * Nice graphic at EMEA on F15 Shipping
 * Fedora 16 Ambassadors Team Tasks
 * Review and plan your Fedora 16 needs, for example media, swag and anything else.


 * APAC plans for 2012
 * There will be two fedora release(f17 and f18) so we have to schedule two major events for the particular release.
 * Year end Ambassadors report[draft i will work on it]
 * announcing open source computation among the university students level and select first place from every region and let them participate for next APAC FUDCon 2012[draft i will work on it]
 * Pinging inactive ambassadors.


 * Red Hat information training for Ambassadors
 * Developing our fellow Ambassadors not just APAC but all regions with Red Hat information training. ==> dramsey need support from FAmSCo
 * FYI Study Group URL from herlo at System Administration Study Guide
 * http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
 * http://mywiki.wooledge.org/
 * http://www.linuxcommand.org/
 * http://www.anyexample.com/linux_bsd/
 * http://home.roadrunner.com/~computertaijutsu/shellscripting.html
 * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Dramsey#Software_which_I_like_to_have_running_on_my_systems
 * Who is interested in getting certified? ==> dramsey strongly suggests doing so


 * Classroom
 * Discussion on the classroom initiative by bckurera https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Bckurera/The_FAms_Way ==> bckurera


 * Open Floor
 * Brainstorming
 * Any Ideas that you have in your mind?

Transcript

 * Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-11-12/apac.2011-11-12-04.02.log.html
 * Log (Text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-11-12/apac.2011-11-12-04.02.log.txt

Summary

 * Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-11-12/apac.2011-11-12-04.02.html
 * Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-11-12/apac.2011-11-12-04.02.txt

Next Meeting

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