FAmSCo report 2011-06

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 4 meetings in June. Attendance was as follows:

• 4 out of 4 -- Igor, Neville
• 3 out of 4 -- Gerard, Pierros, Rahul
• 2 out of 4 -- Caius

So far this term, FAmSCo has held 24 meetings. Overall attendance has been:

• 22 out of 24 -- Gerard
• 21 out of 24 -- Caius, Igor
• 18 out of 24 -- Neville
• 17 out of 24 -- Pierros
• 8 out of 24 -- Larry
• 5 out of 24 -- Rahul

Regional meetings

7 regional meetings were held and logged in June.

FAmSCo mailing list

FAmSco's mailing list received 30 messages this month, specially about the FAmSCo survey, reimbursements and Town Halls.

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.

• Mark Terranova assigned as a new mentor for NA.

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 9): $50,730

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 Philippines and Sri Lanka
• $475 -- KDE conference
• $320 -- Ambassador polo shirts
• $320 -- Support for Bangladesh
• $115 -- GNUnify
• $50 -- F14 release party

LATAM -- $3,175

• $1,425 -- Reimbursements for multiple events in Venezuela, Brazil, and Nicaragua
• $1,205 -- FISL 2011
• $545 -- Ambassador polo shirts

Mentoring

New tickets	Open Tickets	Sponsored	Rejected	Month
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
2011-06-05	Release Party F15 Tokyo	Tokyo, Japan	David Ramsey	see Akihabara "Electric City"	+100	June 05, 2011's Fedora 15 Tokyo Report!
2011-06-11	Lovelock Event @ Canton Chinese Edition	Guangzhou (Canton), China	Liang Suilong	Fedora 15 Launch Event in Guangzhou (Canton)	+100	-
2011-06-12	Fedora 15 Talk in Tokyo	Tokyo, Japan	David Ramsey	see Red Hat Ebisu Office	+10	June 12, 2011's Fedora Tokyo Report!
2011-06-19	Akihabara Fedora 15 Distribution	Tokyo, Japan	David Ramsey	see Akihabara "Electric City"	+100	-

• Fedora 15 Release Parties

Meetings

Date	Minutes	Log
2011-06-01	Minutes	Log
2011-06-04	Minutes	Log
2011-06-08	Minutes	Log
2011-06-18	Minutes	Log
2011-06-29	Minutes	Log

EMEA

News

• No significant update

Events

Date	Event	Location	Owner	Description	Estimated Attendance	Report Link
2011-06-04	BarcampBenin (first edition)	Cotonou, Benin	Mathias HOUNGBO	Conferences. see [1]	+200	-
2011-06-20 - 2011-06-26	EuroPython 2011	Florence, Italy	Gianluca Sforna	EuroPython is the official European conference about the Python programming language.	500	-

• Fedora 15 Release Parties

Meetings

• No meetings held in June

LATAM

News

• New ambassador Nicolás Nieszawski from Panama
• New ambassador Walter Danilo Vargas from Nicaragua
• New ambassadors David Nunes and Leandro Almeida from Brazil

Events

Date	Event	Location	Owner	Description	Estimated Attendance	Report Links
2011-06-24 - 2011-06-26	Encuentro Nacional de Ingeniería 2011	Chichiriviche, Venezuela	Pablo Hernández Borges	National Meeting of Engineering Students - Details here	1000	-
2011-06-25	7CNSL Lara	Lara, Venezuela	Maria "tatica" Leandro	Event details here	+250	Official Page
2011-06-29 - 2011-07-02	Fórum Internacional de Software Livre	Porto Alegre, Brazil	Daniel Bruno, Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira	Free Software International Forum	+7,000	Report
2011-06-30 - 2011-07-01	7mo. Congreso de Ingeniería Electrónica	Caracas, Venezuela	Pablo Hernández Borges	Electronic Engineering Conference	500	-

• Fedora 15 Release Parties

Meetings

Date	Minutes	Log
2011-06-23	Minutes	Log

NA

News

• New ambassador John H. Dulaney from USA

Events

Date	Event	Location	Owner	Description	Estimated Attendance	Report Link
2011-06-10 - 2011-06-12	Southeast Linuxfest	Spartanburg, SC	-	Fedora@SELF2011	1000	-
2011-06-26	College Park Fedora 15 Distribution	College Park, Maryland	David Ramsey	see College Park	-	-

• Fedora 15 Release Parties

Meetings

Date	Minutes	Log
2011-06-07	Minutes	Log