FAmSCo report 2011-10

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 2 meetings in October. Attendance was as follows:

• 2 out of 2 -- Gerard, Igor, Neville
• 1 out of 2 -- Caius
• 0 out of 2 -- Pierros, Rahul

So far this term, FAmSCo has held 33 meetings. Overall attendance has been:

• 31 out of 33 -- Gerard
• 30 out of 33 -- Igor
• 28 out of 33 -- Caius
• 27 out of 33 -- Neville
• 19 out of 33 -- Pierros
• 8 out of 33 -- Larry
• 7 out of 33 -- Rahul

Regional meetings

7 regional meetings were held and logged in October.

FAmSCo mailing list

FAmSco's mailing list received 20 messages this month, specially about Latinoware, FAD China 2011 and FUDCon LATAM 2012 recommendation.

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 recommended Venezuela as a location for FUDCon LATAM 2012.

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 October 27): $54,190

Regional support

NA -- $23,505

• $7,000 -- PO for Fedora 15 media
• $6,435 -- SXSW 2011
• $1,730 -- Linux Fest Northwest
• $1,705 -- SCALE
• $1,465 -- Shipping
• $1,180 -- Texas Linux Fest
• $1,015 -- 5k case badges
• $1,000 -- Northeast Linux Fest
• $985 -- Indiana Linux Fest
• $690 -- SELF 2011
• $300 -- Camp KDE

EMEA -- $16,270

• $5,000 -- PO for Fedora 15 media
• $3,600 -- LinuxTag 2011
• $1,575 -- FOSDEM 2011
• $1,015 -- 5k case badges
• $920 -- Fedora 14 media made by the Tunisia community
• $695 -- Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2011
• $660 -- Linuxwochen Graz 2011
• $560 -- Cheat cubes
• $485 -- LGM 2011
• $465 -- Linuxwochen Wien 2011
• $370 -- Shipping
• $360 -- Swag and materials for Eastern Europe Fedora release parties
• $325 -- Button machine
• $185 -- Italy release party
• $35 -- Miscellaneous costs for Open Source Days 2011
• $20 -- Miscellaneous costs for Africa Open Days

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
51	112	10	9	October 2011 --Jsimon 15:34, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
27	-	9	72	September 2011 --Jsimon 15:34, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
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
2011-10-02	Akihabara Fedora 15 Distribution	Tokyo, Japan	David Ramsey	see Akihabara "Electric City"	+100	-
2011-10-08	Fedora Activity Day II 2011	College of Engineering, Pune, India	FUDCon Pune 2011 team	http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Pune_2011	+100	Report
2011-10-16	Akihabara Fedora 15 Distribution	Tokyo, Japan	David Ramsey	see Akihabara "Electric City"	+100	-
2011-10-27	Fedora 16 cool features	IT Faculty,Moratuwa University, Sri lanka	Wmmalith63	see [1]	+50	-
2011-10-30	Akihabara Fedora 15 Distribution	Tokyo, Japan	David Ramsey	see Akihabara "Electric City"	+100	-

Meetings

Date	Minutes	Log
2011-10-08	Minutes	Log
2011-10-15	Minutes	Log
2011-10-22	Minutes	Log
2011-10-29	Minutes	Log

EMEA

News

• No significant update.

Events

Date	Event	Location	Owner	Description	Estimated Attendance	Report Link
2011-10-21	Free/Open Source Software Workshop 2011 (reloaded!)	Limassol, Cyprus	Marios Isaakidis	Workshop about Linux and FOSS	+70	-
2011-10-22	Linux Day 2011	Italy (100+ cities)	Gianluca Sforna	Most prominent Linux event in Italy; local LUGs organize various events to promote Linux and Open culture	Hundreds	-
2011-10-26 - 2011-10-28	LinuxCon Europe 2011	Prague, Czech Republic	Jiri Eischmann	European-wide conference organize by the Linux Foundation	900	Report
2011-10-29	Linuxinfotag Landau	Landau, Germany	Henrik Heigl	Conference. see(site still under construction.will be updated once complete]	+100	-

Meetings

Date	Minutes	Log
2011-10-05	Minutes	Log
2011-10-19	Minutes	Log

LATAM

News

• No significant update.

Events

Date	Event	Location	Owner	Description	Estimated Attendance	Report Links
2011-10-19 - 2011-10-21	Latinoware 2011	Foz do Iguaçu, Brasil	Igor Soares	8th Latin American Free Software Conference – Latinoware 2011 - Details here	+4200	Report

Meetings

Date	Minutes	Log
2011-10-05	Minutes	Log

NA

News

• No significant update.

Events

Date	Event	Location	Owner	Description	Estimated Attendance	Report Link
2011-10-23	College Park Fedora 15 Distribution	College Park, Maryland	David Ramsey	see College Park	?	-

Meetings

• No meetings held in October