FAmSCo report 2011-11

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 November and the last meeting of this term in December. Attendance was as follows:

• 3 out of 3 -- Caius, Gerard, Igor
• 2 out of 3 -- Neville
• 1 out of 3 -- Rahul
• 0 out of 3 -- Pierros

This term FAmSCo has held 36 meetings. Overall attendance was:

• 34 out of 36 -- Gerard
• 33 out of 36 -- Igor
• 31 out of 36 -- Caius
• 29 out of 36 -- Neville
• 19 out of 36 -- Pierros
• 8 out of 36 -- Larry, Rahul

Regional meetings

7 regional meetings were held and logged in November.

FAmSCo mailing list

FAmSco's mailing list received 2 messages this month, about FAmSCo public meeting and election town hall.

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.

• No significant update.

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
2011-11-06	Akihabara Fedora 15 Distribution	Tokyo, Japan	David Ramsey	see Akihabara "Electric City"	+100	-
2011-11-12	Release Party F16 Philippines	Mandaluyong City, Philippines	Magie Antonio	-	-	-
2011-11-20	Release Party F16 Tokyo	Tokyo, Japan	David Ramsey	see Akihabara "Electric City"	+100	-

Meetings

Date	Minutes	Log
2011-11-12	Minutes	Log
2011-11-26	Minutes	Log

EMEA

News

• No significant update.

Events

Date	Event	Location	Owner	Description	Estimated Attendance	Report Link
2011-11-05 - 2011-11-06	LinuxAlt 2011	Brno, Czech Republic	Jiri Eischmann	The biggest annual Linux conference in the Czech Republic. Focused on normal users and enthusiasts.	500	-
2011-11-10	GULLP Night	Lonate Pozzolo, Italy	Alessandro Lorenzi	An evening to talk about the importance of the use of Free Software for (and with) PA and Associations, organized by the newborn GULLP	100	-
2011-11-11	Arcade + F16 Release Party	Limassol, Cyprus	Marios Isaakidis	Arcade party with 8-bit music, game tournaments and F16 swag sharing	+50	-
2011-11-11 - 2011-11-13	FSCONS	Gothenburg, Sweden	Robert Scheck and Henirk Nordström	The Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit is a cross-cultural meeting place where grass root organisations, companies, academics, cultural workers and hackers come together in a united effort to discuss and liberate all aspects of digital culture. See FSCONS 2011 for details.	300	-
2011-11-12	FSF-OSSC	Budapest, Hungary	Zoltan Hoppar and Gergely Rakosi	This is the continue of the old FSF conference tradition, what is an one day event where we could meet lots of local users, and companies. They have leaved out the earlier year, but now they will do it again, with long, high quality talks. See FSF-OSSC 2011 for details.	+300	-
2011-11-12 - 2011-11-13	OpenRheinRuhr 2011	Oberhausen, Germany	Christoph Wickert	OpenRheinRuhr is a new free software trade show with conference and exhibition in the Rhine-Ruhr region. See http://openrheinruhr.de/ for details.	-	-
2011-11-17 - 2011-11-19	JDLL	Lyon, France	Haikel Guemar	talks, booth	+250	Report
2011-11-25 - 2011-11-26	JM2L	Sofia Antipolis, France	Charles-Antoine Couret	Release Party F16, talks, booth	100	Report
2011-11-26	LinuxDay 2011	Dornbirn, Austria	Matthias Summer	LinuxDay is a small event in Austria near the Swiss, German, and Lichtenstein border. See LinuxDay Dornbirn 2011.	300	-
2011-11-26	SFD Algeria 2011	Médéa, Algeria	Djelloul BOUIDA	The first Software Freedom Day in Algeria. See The Software Freedom Day 2011..	+200	-

Meetings

Date	Minutes	Log
2011-11-02	Minutes	Log
2011-11-16	Minutes	Log
2011-11-30	Minutes	Log

LATAM

News

• No significant update.

Events

Date	Event	Location	Owner	Description	Estimated Attendance	Report Links
2011-11-17 - 2011-11-19	1er Encuentro de Software Libre 2011 Duoc Pza. Oeste	Santiago, Chile	Larry Letelier	1er Encuentro de Software Libre 2011 Duoc Pza. Oeste	+400	IT 2011
2011-11-18	Fedora 16 Release Party San Jose	San Jose, Costa Rica	Katherine Alfaro	Informal gatherig, media distribution	+40	Report
2011-11-19	Ciclo de Charlas de Software Libre 2011	Buenos Aires, Lujan, Argentina	Rino Rondan	Ciclo de Charlas de Software Libre 2011 2011	+100	CDCSOL 2011
2011-11-25	Charla en Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá	Panama	Abdel Martinez	Fedora Speech	+20	-
2011-11-26	Fedora 16 Release Party Panama	Panama	Abdel Martinez	Release party	+30	Details and report
2011-11-29	Fedora 16 Release Party Managua	Managua, Nicaragua	Neville A. Cross	Release party	+30	Details and report

Meetings

Date	Minutes	Log
2011-11-02	Minutes	Log
2011-11-16	Minutes	Log

NA

News

• No significant update.

Events

Date	Event	Location	Owner	Description	Estimated Attendance	Report Link
2011-11-09 - 2011-11-12	Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing	Portland, OR	Andy Grover	Fedora presence in Open Source Booth	+3000	-
2011-11-19 - 2011-11-22	NYSCATE [1]	Rochester, New York	Charles Profitt	see NYSCATE	1000 booth cost	-
2011-11-27	College Park Fedora 16 Distribution	College Park, Maryland	David Ramsey	see College Park	?	-

Meetings

• No meetings held in November

Release parties

F16 release events