Ambassadors/Meetings/2006-06-15

Fedora Ambassadors Meeting Minutes 2006-06-15

Meeting Time

• 2006-06-15 22:00 UTC
• #fedora-mktg on freenode

Participants

• tchung: ThomasChung
• GeroldKa: GeroldKassube
• MrTomLapy: ThomasCanniot
• glezos: DimitrisGlezos
• fabian_a: FabianAffolter
• Ekushey: RussellJohn
• CincyPat: PatrickMcKelvey
• FrancescoUgolini: FrancescoUgolini
• jcgordon: JimGordon
• TitaX: ThierryDelmonte
• mattfrye: MattFrye
• kOoLiNuS: NicolaLosito
• mspevack: MaxSpevack

Transcript

• File:Ambassadors Meetings 2006(2d)06(2d)15_fedora-ambassadors-2006-06-15.txt

Summary

• See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Schedule and http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents
• Famsco Update
• tchung: Well, we didn't meeting last Monday/Tuesday so there is no update from FAMSco this time.
• Project Reports
• FreeMedia: ThomasChung
• tchung: For the Month of June, we received 102 free media requests and we fulfilled 77 so far
• tchung: The good news is we're still fullfilling requests from May
• tchung: For the Month of May, we received 176 free media requests and we fullfilled 167 requests so far. Thanks to KarlieRobinson.
• VideoContest : AlexMaier
• AlexMaier not present
• tchung: We're very close to finishing up rules and desciption for the contest.
• tchung: and it will be officially announced sometime next week.
• tchung: So you'll see major announcement on this project everywhere in news sites. :)
• Presentations : RahulSundaram
• RahulSundaram not present
• Kadischi report : ChitleshGoorah
• ChitleshGoorah not present
• Fedora Events
• June 17-20 NELS Bethel, Maine WarrenTogami
• WarrenTogami not present
• June 20 HP Linux Roadshow Brussel, Belgium FredericHornain
• FredericHornain not present
• June 23-30, 2006 Fedora, Friends and Fun Virginia Beach, VA USA BobJensen
• BobJensen not present
• July 22-23, 2006 LUGRadio Live! 2006 Wolverhampton, UK JonFautley
• JonFautley not present
• July 24-28, 2006 OSCON 2006 Portland, OR, USA. RichardTuttle
• RichardTuttle not present
• We'll skip ChitleshGoorah's events
• Let's discuss LinuxWorld SF and FUDCon SF.
• Red Hat won't be at the LinuxWorld SF this year
• Just Fedora Project booth will be there.
• We are still discussing the location for FUDCon SF
• So far we are leaning toward Stanford University due to Max's connection.
• Aug 24-26, 2006 III Festival Software Livre da Bahia Lauro de Freitas, BA, Brazil HugoCisneiros or OthonBatista
• Both HugoCisneiros and OthonBatista not present
• Sept, 23, 2006 Cincinnati LUG DemoFest Cincinnati, OH, USA PatrickMcKelvey
• CincyPat: Still working on the location. The local LUG is running it and is just getting started at this. I will need some swag to passout. Primarily a new user event.
• tchung: Make sure submit an official request via the form and email famsco-list.
• Sept,30, 2006 Ohio LinuxFest 2006 Columbus, OH, USA PatrickMcKelvey
• CincyPat: Need to change the attendence to 1250. Would Fedora or Redhat send speakers?
• tchung: Well, you'll need to ask for guests to famsco-list
• tchung: If you need guests from Red Hat or Fedora Project, I would suggest to send out an invitation letter to fedora-ambassadors-list, (correction) famso-list
• Schwag pipeline GregDeKoenigsberg
• GregDeKoenigsberg not present
• tchung: As you know we now have some Fedora Stuff available from Red Hat Cool Stuff Store
• tchung: http://redhat.brandfuelstores.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=37
• tchung: Please note according to Max and Patrick, this store is primarily targeted for US Ambassadors and US users.
• tchung: we are working on more similiar stores for other countries/regions as well.
• tchung: At this point, we recommend Ambassadors to produce Fedora Stuff locally then request for reimbersement via famsco-list.
• mspevack: nothing more than I added on the list -- localized coolstuff and swag is a problem we're working on
• mspevack: no one should have to pay that much money on shipping
• tchung: is there anyway we can contact Brandfuel regarding international shipping cost issue?
• mspevack: sure, one of us can give them a call. tchung, put that down with my name next to it. action item
• MISC
• CincyPat: Where can the famsco-list be found?
• tchung: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/SteeringCommittee

Next Meeting

• See Ambassadors Meetings for the next meeting date and time.

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