Ambassadors/Meetings/2006-06-08

Fedora Ambassadors Meeting Minutes 2006-06-08

Meeting Time

• 2006-06-08 14:00 UTC
• #fedora-mktg on freenode

Participants

• lxmaier: AlexMaier
• tchung: ThomasChung
• puneet_batura: PuneetBatura
• Ekushey: RussellJohn
• ke4qqq: DavidNalley
• gomix: GuillermoGomez
• bpepple: BrianPepple
• CyberSpy: LeeJoseph
• gregdek_gone: GregDeKoenigsberg

Transcript

• File:Ambassadors Meetings 2006(2d)06(2d)08 fedora-ambassadors-2006-06-08.txt

Summary

• See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Schedule and http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents
• Famsco Update
• lxmaier: famsco met this tuesday
• lxmaier: summary is posted on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/SteeringCommittee/Meetings/2006-06-05
• lxmaier: highlights
• lxmaier: BobJensen will spearhead the creation of the fedora chroniclers group to make sure we have a group of people responsible for summarizing our activities
• lxmaier: RahulSundaram is in charge of creation of a set of policies for famsco elections and terms.
• lxmaier: this is not urgent, but very important. we will hopefully have a set of rules by September.
• Project Reports
• FreeMedia : ThomasChung
• For the month of June, we received 78 free media requests so far and we fulfilled 46 as of today.
• Beginning this month, we will accept only 100 free media requests per month.
• For more information, see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia
• VideoContest : AlexMaier
• we have the pages in QA and will hopefully be able to launch the contest by June 15 or so
• we have all prizes ready, and the main prize as well.
• we'll launch as soon as we have finished the pages.
• most of the content is to be found on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/VideoContest
• Presentations : RahulSundaram
• not present
• Kadischi report : ChitleshGoorah
• not present
• tchung: Perhaps I should contact him aftet the meeting. action item
• Fedora Events
• June 9-10, 2006 CarolinaCon Raleigh NC LeeJoseph
• CyberSpy: CarolinaCon begin tomorrow evening, I have FC5 is's and a presentation prepared, everything is ready, I have no shwag however
• lxmaier: did you get to talk with greg about schwag CyberSpy?
• CyberSpy: lxmaier: I sent an email and have recieved no response as of yet.
• CyberSpy: lxmaier: I will follow up after this meeting
• lxmaier: CyberSpy: i will ping mspevack and gregdek as well action item
• June 15, 2006 Migrating to Linux North South Univeristy, Dhaka, Bangladesh RussellJohn
• Ekushey: it's a workshop, intended for the students of nsu
• Ekushey: we're hoping 150+ students will participate
• Ekushey: it'll be a day long event
• Ekushey: i'll add more information on the wiki page, soon
• June 17-20 NELS Bethel, Maine WarrenTogami
• WarrenTogami not present
• tchung: I believe Max's been working with him. I see the event in Famsco Budget table.
• June 23-30, 2006 Fedora, Friends and Fun Virginia Beach, VA USA BobJensen
• BobJensen not present
• lxmaier: anyone know anything?
• puneet_batura: http://www.math.vt.edu/people/jbwillia/FFF3.html
• Southern_Gentlem: we will be doing some presentations at the event but mainly it is a way for member and families to get to know eachother
• tchung: I received email from him.
• tchung: "I may not make it to the Ambassadors meeting, my father is having eye surgery to correct his eyes crossing in his old (80 in August) age."
• July 22-23, 2006 LUGRadio Live! 2006 Wolverhampton, UK JonFautley
• JonFautley not present
• July 24-28, 2006 OSCON 2006 Portland, OR, USA. RichardTuttle
• RichardTuttle not present
• tchung: According to BobJensen's email,
• tchung: "I talked to Jack about OSCON and I know he has talked to Max. He said he would be at the meeting tomorrow/today to give an update."
• Aug 14-17, 2006 LinuxWorld San Francisco 2006 San Francisco, CA, USA
• Aug 18, 2006 FUDCon San Francsico 2006 San Francisco, CA, USA
• No Ambassador assigned
• lxmaier: do we yet have an owner for this event?
• tchung: I sent out an email way back but nobody replied.
• tchung: I guess it's time to discuss LinuxWorld/FUDCon in San Francisco. action item
• tchung: Let's ping Jack again.
• Aug 24-26, 2006 III Festival Software Livre da Bahia Lauro de Freitas, BA, Brazil HugoCisneiros, OthonBatista
• Both HugoCisneiros and OthonBatista not present
• Sept, 23, 2006 Cincinnati LUG DemoFest Cincinnati, OH, USA PatrickMcKelvey
• PatrickMcKelvey not present
• Fedora Schwag Update
• lxmaier: i am hearing that the fedora schwag is now available on http://redhat.brandfuelstores.com from greg
• tchung: Wow! I see it at http://redhat.brandfuelstores.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=37_50
• gregdek_gone: We've also got stickers and DVD packs coming to the external store, but apparently I need to complain more about that.
• Miscellaneous
• lxmaier: gregdek: any chance you have a few item to spare for CyberSpy?
• lxmaier: his event is tomorrow, and he had no chance to order
• tchung: The event is located in Raleigh NC
• tchung: Perhaps he can pick them up in person? :)
• CyberSpy: I can do that if it's okay
• lxmaier: okay, CyberSpy, connect with gregdek offline, maybe we got some stuff you can use
• lxmaier: i have no idea though whether we have any schwag there for you to pick up
• lxmaier: puneet_batura: you wanted to make an announcement?
• puneet_batura: yes my techical paper got selected in a NASA conference
• tchung: do you have any website where we can read about?
• puneet_batura: http://klabs.org/mapld06/abstracts/144_batura_a.html
• lxmaier: congratulations puneet_batura!
• tchung: puneet_batura, Is this conference in Washington, D.C. during September 26-28, 2006 ?
• puneet_batura: yes
• tchung: I see and I wish you best of luck!
• puneet_batura: thank you all for your warm wishes

Next Meeting

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

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