Meeting:APAC Ambassadors 2012-01-21

Meeting Time

• 2012-01-21 04:00 UTC Click here to convert to local time
• #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net
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Participants

This week's APAC Ambassadors Meeting will be lead by Dramsey and co-lead by Buddhika Chandradeepa Kurera, bckurera and Truong Anh Tuan, tuanta.

• Luke Martinez, asmartgoat
• Heherson Pagcaliwagan, azneita
• Engels Antonio, born2linux
• Ankur Sinha, FranciscoD
• Haowei Lee, Haowei
• Harish Pillay, harishpillay
• Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail, KageSenshi
• Caius Chance, Kaio
• Moniruzzaman Monir, kalpurush
• Magie Antonio, magie
• Mahay Alam Khan, maktrix
• Sureshkumar Packiyarajah, Suresht
• Uditha Bandara Wijerathna, udinnet
• Abhishek Singh, aks
• Shakthi Kannan, mbuf
• as well as other great ambassadors!!!  :)

Meeting Protocol

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Agenda

Please feel free to add your topic under the agenda section. Long agendas are hard to manage therefore keep it simple and add relevant details under the topic in short form. Please mention your name with the topic as well, then it is easy to identify who owns the topic. eg: APAC Plans for 2012 (Suresh)

Ambassador Pinging

Your name, Where your located, etc.

• For example ".fas dramsey My name is dramsey, from Japan and I use Fedora 15 from a DVD and Fedora 16 from an .ISO."

News from FAmSCo

• We will skip this topic if there is no news from FAmSCo or a FAmSCo representative

Review *ACTION* items from the last meeting

Last Meeting Log

APAC Trac for regional support

• Ticket #12 - reporter - Abhishek Singh, Nepal
• Ticket #13 - reporter - Izhar, MY

APAC events

• Next APAC FUDCon 2012[likely it will happen['China' or 'Malayisia' or 'Philippines']]
  • Further discussion of this topic at the end of the meeting at the pros and cons of the various FUDCon APAC bids topic
• FAD/LCA/Meet Up/Fedora awareness
• Report of past Events & current Status of upcoming events

Fedora Events Please Note: It is best to have evidence in your event report.[ie:photos+blog post]

Status of F16 Release Parties

• Fedora 16 Release Events! - Fedora 16 Release Events!
  • Talk about Media, Swag, Sticker and other needs as well as media distribution. ==> helps Harish and Kaio with Fedora 16 planning
    • Fedora 16 - Add your requests here at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/APAC/F16
    1. Locally created media / swag as an option? ==> strongly suggests inquiry on funding your initiatives FAmSCo Trac
    • Use that Fedora "This is free media" form during sending of media between countries to avoid the tax problem.
    • What would be useful for you? Item and quantity!!!
    • Nice graphic at EMEA on F15 Shipping
    1. Fedora 16 Ambassadors Team Tasks
    2. Review and plan your Fedora 16 needs, for example media, swag and anything else.

Status of F17 Release Parties

• Fedora 17 Release Events! - Fedora 17 Release Events!
  • Fedora 17 Ambassadors Team Tasks
  1. Review and plan your Fedora 17 needs, for example media, swag and anything else.
  2. FAmSCo and Regional teams call for Preparation of Media/SWAG by Thu 2012-03-08
  3. Hold Release Events and Publish Event Reports Tue 2012-05-08

APAC plans for 2012(Suresh)[1]

• Great event for Beefy Miracle[F17] and F18.
  • Prize for best Event photo.
  • Announcing open source computation among the university students.
  • Year end Ambassadors report.

Fedora and Red Hat System Administration Study Group for Ambassadors (dramsey)

• Developing our fellow Ambassadors not just APAC but all regions with Red Hat information training. ==> dramsey need support from FAmSCo
• Continuing communications with Fedora Ambassadors' on EC
  • FYI Study Group URL from herlo at System Administration Study Guide
    1. http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
    2. http://mywiki.wooledge.org/
    3. http://www.linuxcommand.org/
    4. http://www.anyexample.com/linux_bsd/
    5. http://home.roadrunner.com/~computertaijutsu/shellscripting.html
    6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Dramsey#Software_which_I_like_to_have_running_on_my_systems
    7. Fedora 16 System Administrator's Guide** Sysadmin Study Group
• Who is interested in getting certified? ==> dramsey strongly suggests doing so
  • Your voiced needs!!!
    1. 04:43:49 tuanta interested
    2. 04:44:05 LMartinez is also interested
    3. 04:44:12 <Suresh> +1 from Suresh
    4. 04:44:21 <udinnet> I really like to get RHCSA crt. I worked in it few moths.
    5. 04:44:25 <maktrix> +1 from me too
    6. 04:44:37 <LMartinez> RHCSA would be the choice for me
    7. 04:45:08 <maktrix> RHCE is good for me to start with
• Survey http://lk.fedoracommunity.org/fam_rh_certification
• Results https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aplp6tv7mdWBdEVGRlJNY0dKQkp2bUJKbEJlVEtpOGc#gid=0
  • FUDCon Blacksburg: System Administrator Study Group http://sexysexypenguins.com/2011/12/26/fudcon-blacksburg-system-administrator-study-group/
  • An idea from azneita Heherson - http://www.khanacademy.org/

Ambassadors' survey followup(ankursinha)

• https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Al73WBsvtlGodFN3emtQdEhVMGdKTXNWX0lWdkVXUmc

• http://ankursinha.fedorapeople.org/survey-report.pdf

pros and cons of the various FUDCon APAC bids

1. Beijing Bid
2. Malaysia Bid
3. Philippines Bid

Open Floor

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

Summary

• Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2012-01-21/apac.2012-01-21-04.00.html
• Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2012-01-21/apac.2012-01-21-04.00.txt

Transcript

• Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2012-01-21/apac.2012-01-21-04.00.log.html
• Log (Text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2012-01-21/apac.2012-01-21-04.00.log.txt

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