Ambassadors/Meetings/2006-06-22

Fedora Ambassadors Meeting Minutes 2006-06-22

Meeting Time

• 2006-06-22 14:00 UTC
• #fedora-mktg on freenode

Participants

• lxmaier: AlexMaier
• bpepple: BrianPepple
• kital: JoergSimon
• StrikeForce: MarcWiriadisastra
• tchung: ThomasChung
• glezos: DimitrisGlezos
• kOoL: NicolaLosito
• mspevack: MaxSpevack
• hanafiah: HanafiahMuhamad
• quaid: KarstenWade

Transcript

• File:Ambassadors Meetings 2006(2d)06(2d)22 fedora-ambassadors-2006-06-22.txt

Summary

• See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Schedule and http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents
• FAMSco Update
• lxmaier: I have no Famsco reports this week
• mspevack: I am in conversations with our finance guys here, working to do a full audit of our budget. I'm not sure when that will be complete, but it's in process of happening.
• tchung: As of 2006-06-19, we have 89 approved members. See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/MembershipService/Approved
• tchung: we have 6 more new members since last report. See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/WeeklyReports/2006-06-12
• Project Reports
• FreeMedia - ThomasChung
• tchung: We're doing really good this month.
• tchung: For the month of June, we fulfilled 86 requests out of 102 so far.
• tchung: For the month of May, we fulfilled 100 % out of 176!! Thanks to KarlieRobinson. :)
• lxmaier: a special kudos to Karlie!
• OpenVideo Contest - AlexMaier
• lxmaier: Creative Commons and Fedora, sponsored by Red Hat, have launched a VideoContest this week
• lxmaier: the main prize is a SONY DVD camcorder
• lxmaier: and the first 150 submissions will receive a pair of flip-flops
• lxmaier: please spread the word: http://creativecommons.org/video/openvideocontest/
• tchung: The official announcement for this contest is available at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenVideo/Announcement
• tchung: I've submitted the announcement to most popular news sites already. See "Press Release". :)
• kOoL: news was submitted to fedoraitalia.org portal and i'll take care it will be published on another italian "big" oss news site
• Fedora Events
• June 23-30, 2006 Fedora, Friends and Fun Virginia Beach, VA USA - BobJensen
• BobJensen not present
• lxmaier: anyone know anything about this event?
• tchung: I'll contact Bob after the meeting. action item
• 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
• BobJensen is a point of contact from FAMSCO
• lxmaier: i guess we need some more info--please prod Bob, tchung
• tchung: Once again, I'll contact Bob after the meeting for status. action item
• Aug, 5, 2006 My First Mauritian LUG Meeting Port-Louis, Mauritius - ChitleshGoorah
• ChitleshGoorah not present
• lxmaier: anyone knows anything?
• kOoL: just read his mail ... he got the auth model to "export" DVD and has confirmed his efforts
• Aug, 14-17, 2006 LinuxWorld San Francisco 2006 San Francisco, CA, USA - LinuxWorld USA
• No owner yet
• lxmaier: mspevack: i had an impression KarstenWade (quaid) was interested
• mspevack: ok, we have a booth and a BoF, according to JackAboutboul, but beyond that, if Jack and quaid want to figure out who owns it, that's fine with me. I'd like there to be a single owner
• mspevack: keep in mind that Red Hat itself will not be at LWSF, it will just be Fedora.
• lxmaier: mspevack: since you seem to be the only one who knows anything about this event, do you mind making sure we DO have a single owner?
• mspevack: lxmaier: sure :-)
• lxmaier: and also, mspevack, maybe add a quick status update to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxWorld/LinuxWorldSanFrancisco2006 in the meanwhile?
• tchung: I'll contact JackAboutboul and KarstenWade after the meeting about LWSF. action item
• Aug 18, 2006 FUDCon San Francsico 2006 San Francisco, CA, USA (still in discussion)
• No owner yet
• mspevack: this is an out of date item. The decision that was made, honestly I don't remember where, it was on famsco-list I think, was that it didn't make sense to do a FUDCon SF
• quaid: aye, I think it was private email with a good group
• mspevack: we prefer to do a FUDCon in Silicon Valley area, but sometime after the school year starts, and we can do it at a college (Standford?)
• mspevack: I am in charge of that but I will be delegating :-)
• quaid: and I'm your Sgt. on the ground :)
• mspevack: There's 2 separate things -- 1) LWSF in August, 2) FUDCon NoCal in Oct/Nov
• mspevack: IMHO jack owns LWSF and I own FUDCon with quaid likely to help a lot
• Aug 24-26, 2006 III Festival Software Livre da Bahia Lauro de Freitas, BA, Brazil - HugoCisneiros and OthonBatista
• Both HugoCisneiros and OthonBatista not present
• Need to contact RodrigoMenezes for more info action item
• Sept, 2006 Linux Day - PawelSadowski
• PawelSadowski not present
• lxmaier: i have just received this update from pawel
• See http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2006-June/msg00102.html
• Schwag pipeline and a Standard Ambassadors Survival Kit
• lxmaier: mspevack: have any news on this?
• mspevack: lxmaier: JackAboutboul is doing all of the work on the event kit, he was supposed to send a note to ambassadors list
• lxmaier: however, if jack is doing work for the ambassadors project, it would be very helpful if he also communicated his work to the ambassadors from time to time
• mspevack: we'd like feedback on-list about that
• lxmaier: mspevack: he sent a very long message outlining what will happen--and this was the first the group has heard from him
• lxmaier: i meant to say that he needs to communicate regularly
• lxmaier: and also to take into account the input he might receive from the group
• mspevack: lxmaier: I will encourage him to do so -- Jack, you listeninig?  :-)
• mspevack: lxmaier: he is *absolutely* going to take into account input
• mspevack: and i'll talk to him and make sure the work continues to be transparent
• Misc
• hanafiah: i'm currently build module (Fedora Core 5) for linux training in malay language for malaysian.
• hanafiah: it would be great if any one can donate their module to me so that i can translate and enchance the module.
• StrikeForce: Does anyone have any feedback regarding http://linux.org.au/conf/
• StrikeForce: In Australia they hold an annual event in either Australia or New Zealand does anyone know whether Red Hat is a part of this?
• lxmaier: StrikeForce: i do not know whether Red Hat is going there
• tchung: StrikeForce, when is the next event?
• StrikeForce: Generally in January it is held so the next one would be Jan' 07
• StrikeForce: Ok I'll do a bit more research on the situation and try and post back either to the list or at the next meeting that I attend what more information I can gather
• lxmaier: and add your event to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents
• lxmaier: we usually review the events for the upcoming 3 months so we have plenty of time before january ;)
• glezos: Is there a page on the wiki that has hands-on instructions for ambassadors to do stuff?
• lxmaier: this is for FUDCon, but you can adapt them for your purposes and post them under http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/Organization
• lxmaier: Also, see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/HowTo, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/HelpWanted
• glezos: lxmaier: OK, I'll study it and form the idea better in my mind and probably send an email to the list.
• lxmaier: on HelpWanted, you will find all sorts of things where people are asking for immediate help

Next Meeting

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

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