Meeting:APAC Ambassadors 2012-03-17

Meeting Time

• 2012-03-17 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 16 from a DVD and Fedora 17 from an .ISO. I like System Administration Topics as well as Kernels."

News from FAmSCo

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

• All FAms please have a look on this proposal and comment, Cwickert.

• FUDCon APAC 2012 winner is?!?!?!

Review *ACTION* items from the last meeting

• Last Meeting Log

APAC Trac for Regional Support

Ticket #14

• Ticket #14 ticket is closed, let us remove this entry from our agenda then.
  • We must find out what is the status on the above Ticket is in order to support Ankur Sinha. dramsey, 01/23/2012.
  • Rahul clarified. Should be done soon http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/india/2012-January/005150.html

Ticket #18

• Nitesh's event

APAC Events and Status of F17 Release Parties (dramsey)

FUDCon APAC 2012
Likely it will happen Malaysia

• FUDCon APAC 2012!!!
• By this week, the FUDCon APAC 2012 information will be made.
• We need to show our strongest APAC Team support to help promote the FUDCon APAC 2012, dramsey on 03/05/2012.
• I strongly suggest having "weekly" updates in order to support the FUDCon APAC 2012, dramsey on 03/05/2012.
• 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]

Fedora 17 Release Events!
dramsey suggests plan for your Fedora 17 Release Events!

• Everyone please update this wiki with your Fedora 17 Release Events! dramsey on 03/05/2012
• 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 from Tue 2012-05-08 until Fri 2012-06-08 dramsey on 03/05/2012
  • Locally created media / swag as an option? ==> strongly suggests inquiry on funding your initiatives FAmSCo Trac
  1. Use that Fedora "This is free media" form during sending of media between countries to avoid the tax problem.
  2. What would be useful for you? Item and quantity!!!
  • Talk about Media, Swag, Sticker and other needs as well as media distribution. ==> helps Harish and Kaio and FAmSCo with our Fedora 17 planning.

• FYI, there are F16 LiveCDs left with Mr. Harish. Contact Mr. Harish for the F16 LiveCDs. dramsey

Mr. Harish says, "I have some F16 LiveCDs left. Do mention that during the meeting."

APAC Plans for 2012 (Suresh)

• APAC Plans for 2012
• 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/
• herlo / sysadminSG herlo / sysadminSG

Teach fedora using Videos campaign (ankursinha)

• User:Niteshnarayan/video_tutorials#Fedora_Videos_Team

• User:Ankursinha/Video_locations_analysis

• Meeting logs for Feb 16th

Fedora Participation (dramsey as well as others who want to voice their ideas)

1. Do you participate via IRC at #fedora-ambassadors, #fedora-apac and/or #fedora IRC channels?
2. Do you have a HackerGotchi?
   • Hackergotchi
   • Artwork/HackergotchiService
3. Keep on doing that "Fedora" FAD here in APAC!!!  :)
4. I like the #fedora-classroom IRC initiatives! Do you think we need to suggest a Fedora 17 Release Party Strategy IRC or Ambassadors' FYI IRC?
5. What would help you?
6. How can we do to help APAC grow and develop?
7. Do you think we as APAC are getting enough "visibility?" If not then what should we do?

GSoC with Fedora (bckurera)

1. We need ideas, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_coding_ideas_for_2012

Open Floor

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

Summary

• Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2012-03-03/apac_bi-weekly.2012-03-03-03.59.html
• Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2012-03-03/apac_bi-weekly.2012-03-03-03.59.txt

Transcript

• Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2012-03-03/apac_bi-weekly.2012-03-03-03.59.log.html
• Log (Text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2012-03-03/apac_bi-weekly.2012-03-03-03.59.log.txt

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