Meeting:APAC Ambassadors 2011-05-18

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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
• Ankur Sinha, FranciscoD
• Haowei Lee, Haowei
• Harish Pillay, harishpillay
• Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail, KageSenshi
• Moniruzzaman Monir, kalpurush
• Mahay Alam Khan, maktrix
• Sureshkumar Packiyarajah, Suresht
• Truong Anh Tuan, tuanta
• as well as other great ambassadors!!!  :)

• as well as other great ambassadors!!!  :)

Meeting Protocol

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Agenda

• Ambassador Pinging - Your name, Where your located, etc.
  • For example ".fas asmartgoat My name is Luke, from Australia and I use Fedora 14 from a DVD."

• News from FAmSCo
  • We will skip this topic if there is no news from FAmSCo or a FAmSCo representative
  • Please place news here.

• Report current Status of upcoming events - Fedora Events
  1. FAD SL 2011 ==> bckurera and Suresht
  2. Request people to attend Remote_Mini_Wiki_Editing_FAD2_2011 ==> FranciscoD
  3. Major Lugs, LCA2012 ==> asmartgoat
  4. Other future APAC events.

• APAC plans
  • Fedora 15 Release Events! - 15 Release Events!
  • Media, Swag and other needs.
    1. Does getting media or swag, cost tax for you?
    2. Does getting media or swag, have no penalty for you?
    3. Locally created media / swag as an option? ==> strongly suggests tell Harish and Kaio for planning
    4. For locally created media / swag ==> strongly suggests inquiry on funding your initiatives
  • Talk about the media distribution. ==> helps Harish and Kaio with Fedora 15 planning
    1. Fedora 14
    2. Fedora 15
  • Reimbursements Blank Media as well as Fedora13/14/15 Release Party dinners??? ==> dramsey
  • XOs delivered tuanta and the not so famous battery? ==> tuanta

• Red Hat Exams for Ambassadors
  • Developing our fellow Ambassadors not just APAC but all regions with Red Hat Exams/Training. ==> dramsey need support from FAmSCo

• Ambassador Wear ==> bckurera
  • Order status?

• Fedora APAC Magazine ==> bckurera
  • Name Suggestions - Name will be fixed in the meeting
    • Fedora APAC Magazine
    • Tutorial Fedora
    • Voice of APAC

• APAC Committee - Plan 2011/12 ==> bckurera
  • Updated status?

• FUDcon APAC Committee
  1. Draft for FUDCon APAC from Malaysian Ambassadors
  2. New initiative [working committe FUDCon] bckurera
  3. FUDcon APAC ==> bckurera with lots of help from everyone!!!
  4. #fedora-fudcon IRC channel participation in order to get support for your FUDcon ==> dramsey strongly suggests

• Online event for Fedora 15 in China. Need help for Media Distribution and Fedora swag ==> Haowei.Lee
  • Posted URL to list?

• LCA 2012
• And so it begins. ==> Luke Martinez
  1. Budget
  2. Interest in attendance?
  3. Sponsorship?

• APAC Library
  1. Better idea than APAC Box? ==> Luke Martinez
  2. APACK Box ==> Luke Martinez

• Classrooms for APAC
  • Experienced/knowledgeable folks can take small classroom sessions to help other ambassadors. Discuss this? ==> FranciscoD

• Open Floor
  1. Brainstorming
  2. Any Ideas that you have in your mind?

Transcript

   * Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-05-04/fedora-meeting.2011-05-04-09.58.log.html
   * Log (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-05-04/fedora-meeting.2011-05-04-09.58.log.txt

Summary

   * Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-05-04/fedora-meeting.2011-05-04-09.58.html
   * Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-05-04/fedora-meeting.2011-05-04-09.58.txt

Next Meeting

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