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Basic FAmSCo activity

What is this section's purpose?
This section gives some quick health indicators about how much FAmSCo is communicating. Sometimes FAmSCo members can't make a meeting due to travel or conflicts with their $DAYJOB, but the combination of meeting attendance plus email is a nice metric.

FAmSCo meetings

FAmSCo held 1 meeting in August. Attendance was as follows:

  • 1 out of 1 -- Caius, Gerard, Igor, Neville
  • 0 out of 1 -- Pierros, Rahul

So far this term, FAmSCo has held 28 meetings. Overall attendance has been:

  • 26 out of 28 -- Gerard
  • 25 out of 28 -- Igor
  • 24 out of 28 -- Caius
  • 22 out of 28 -- Neville
  • 19 out of 28 -- Pierros
  • 8 out of 28 -- Larry
  • 7 out of 28 -- Rahul

Regional meetings

9 regional meetings were held and logged in August.

FAmSCo mailing list

FAmSco's mailing list received 15 messages this month, specially about meetings schedule.

General accomplishments or decisions

What is this section's purpose?
This section discusses the non-regional achievements within either FAmSCo or the larger Ambassadors project from this month.
  • FAmSCo meeting time moved to 13:00 UTC on Saturdays.

Budget

Where does FAmSCo's budget come from?
The FAmSCo budget rolls up into the larger Community Architecture expenses. On that page, FAmSCo's budget is represented by the "Regional support" line item.

FY12

Total budget for regional support: $80,000

Total spend (through July 26): $54,190

Regional support

NA -- $23,505

EMEA -- $16,270

India/APAC -- $7,780

  • $2,035 -- Fedora 15 media
  • $1,590 -- Support for multiple swag, conferences, etc.
  • $1,485 -- LCA 2011
  • $860 -- FOSS.ASIA
  • $530 -- Support for Phillipines and Sri Lanka
  • $475 -- KDE conference
  • $320 -- Ambassador polo shirts
  • $320 -- Support for Bangladesh
  • $115 -- GNUify
  • $50 -- F14 release party

LATAM -- $6,635

  • $4,665 -- FISL 2011
  • $1,425 -- Reimbursements for multiple events in Venezuela, Brazil, and Nicaragua
  • $545 -- Ambassador polo shirts

Mentoring

New tickets Current Open Tickets Sponsored Rejected Month
3 55 8 1 August 2011 --Jsimon 19:38, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
38 103 3 0 July 2011 --Jsimon 15:41, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
41 78 9 35 June 2011 --Jsimon 10:07, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
51 50 10 0 May 2011 --Jsimon 19:07, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
41 51 4 30 April 2011 --Jsimon 20:41, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
33 39 3 42 March 2011 --Jsimon 07:07, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
26 25 4 20 February 2011 --Igor 15:32, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
33 21 5 25 January 2011 --Jsimon 18:39, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Regional reports

What is this section's purpose?
This section lists the events that were on the global events page as happening in each region, during this month. This section examines the end-result of each of these events, and also reports any general news for the region.

APAC

News

  • No significant update

Events

Date Event Location Owner Description Estimated Attendance Report Link
2011-08-06 Python Training MIT, Pune, India Shakthi Kannan Introduction to Python +100 Report
2011-08-07 Akihabara Fedora 15 Distribution Tokyo, Japan David Ramsey see Akihabara "Electric City" +100 -
2011-08-20 TDD, BDD workshop PICT, Pune, India Shakthi Kannan TDD, BDD with Ruby, Rails, Cucumber, Diaspora +30 Report
2011-08-21 Akihabara Fedora 15 Distribution Tokyo, Japan David Ramsey see Akihabara "Electric City" +100 -
2011-08-23 Business Club Meeting Chilaw, Sri Lanka Buddhika Kurera Introduction to Fedora for Businessmen +150 -
2011-08-26 - 2011-08-28 ICE-FOSS 2011 FISAT, Kochi, India Shakthi Kannan GNU Make +200 Report
2011-08-27 Linux Day 2011 Manila, Philippines Magie Antonio see linuxday.org +200 -

Meetings

Date Minutes Log
2011-08-03 Minutes Log
2011-08-06 Minutes Log
2011-08-10 Minutes Log
2011-08-20 Minutes Log
2011-08-27 Minutes Log

EMEA

News

  • No significant update

Events

Date Event Location Owner Description Estimated Attendance Report Link
2011-08-12 August Penguin 2011 Ramat Gan, Israel Elad Alfassa August Penguin is a major FOSS event in Israel. +200 -
2011-08-20 - 2011-08-21 FrOSCon 2011 Sankt Augustin (near Bonn), Germany Christoph Wickert FrOSCon is Germany's third largest OSS Event. 1400 -
2011-08-27 Fedora Round Table Meeting at Hungary Budapest Zoltan Hoppar One of the first local meeting with key people 15-20 -

Meetings

Date Minutes Log
2011-08-10 Minutes Log
2011-08-24 Minutes Log

LATAM

News

Events

Date Event Location Owner Description Estimated Attendance Report Links
2011-08-27 Central Park Hotel & Spa, Panama Panama, Panama Luis Bazan "LoKoMurdoK" Linux Day here +50 Official Page

Meetings

No meetings held in August.

NA

News

  • No significant update.

Events

Date Event Location Owner Description Estimated Attendance Report Link
2011-08-17 - 2011-08-19 LinuxCon NA 2011 Vancouver, BC, Canada John Babich See Fedora planning details at LinuxCon NA 2011 hundreds -
2011-08-27 Fedora 15 Distribution and goodwill Sunnyvale, California Mark Terranova, Chris Whitehorn see Picn*x 20 - The Linux 20th Anniversary Picnic hundreds -

Meetings

Date Minutes Log
2011-08-02 Minutes Log
2011-08-16 Minutes Log