Ambassadors/Meetings/2006-03-23

Fedora Ambassadors Meeting Minutes 2006-03-23

Participants

• lxmaier: AlexMaier
• cds: ClairShaw
• puneet_batura: PuneetBatura
• CyberSpy: LeeJoseph
• gregdek: GregDeKoenigsberg
• MrTom: ThomasCanniot
• ke4qqq: DavidNalley
• JohnAlvero: JohnAlvero
• mjbrej: MartinBrej
• rwhetsel: RobertWhetsel
• abompard: AurelienBompard
• mariogamboa: MarioGamboa
• GeroldKa: GeroldKassube
• greendisease: JackAboutboul
• JorgeTorres: JorgeTorres
• FrancescoUgolini: FrancescoUgolini
• josetarazona: JoseTarazona
• tchung: ThomasChung

Regrets

• SankarshanMukhopadhyay
• ChitleshGoorah

Transcript

• File:Ambassadors Meetings 2006(2d)03(2d)23_fedora-ambassadors-2006-03-23.txt

Before the Meeting

Protocol

• AlexMaier reports
• no private conversations in the chat
• please keep your hellos to the times outside meeting
• simply watch what others are doing and do not interrupt
• if you want to ask someting type "?" and wait
• mjbrej: fedora unity project has a good set of groundrules on their page...
• lxmaier: famsco is considering a set of rules
• lxmaier: we will publish when we're done

Priority 1 - Item 1: FAMSCO Updates

Budget

• AlexMaier reports
• we have a budget
• Total Fedora Marketing budget for 6 months: 46 K
• DVD production: 15K
• Schwag production: 7K
• Video contest: 5K
• Ambassadors budget: 20K
• Large events: 5K
• Small events/local initiatives: 5K
• Travel/incidentals: 5K
• Reusable kits: 5K
• Famsco will be responsible for the Ambassadors part of the money
• e.g. 20 K (Ambassadors budget)
• famsco is working out guidelines for spending money
• we will publish once we're done
• the budget group anticipates to publish the guidelines next week
• we will have a set of rules for requesting money
• and for getting reimbursed
• all amounts are in USD

DVD

• AlexMaier reports
• we have decided to go with binary-only, single-sided DVDs
• greendisease: what was the decision behind binary only dvd?
• lxmaier: there was a discussion on the list
• lxmaier: and it appeared to be the best solution for the limited money we have
• gregdek: Basically:
• gregdek: Time ran out to figure out the BEST answer for source...so no source for FC5 DVDs.
• gregdek: Instead...we'll having single-sided FC5 DVDs with binary only.
• gregdek: We have 10k burned.(Or will soon.)
• gregdek: 3k will be at FUDCon Boston...and the other 7k will be warehoused and shipped to events worldwide on demand.

Priority 1 - Item 2: Review upcoming events

• Review the FedoraEvents for upcoming 3 months.
• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents
• Mar 25, 2006 FLISOL 2006 DF, Brazil - HugoCisneiros
• HugoCisneiros not present need to follow up
• Mar 25, 2006 CLUG Installfest Cincinnati, Ohio - PatrickMcKelvey
• PatrickMcKelvey not present need to follow up
• Apr 3-6, 2006 LinuxWorld Boston 2006 Boston, MA, USA - MatthewMiller, JackAboutboul
• JackAboutboul reports
• okay everything is all finalized for linuxworld
• we will have 2 booths
• the fedora booth in the .org pavilion
• and then the install pavilion sponsored by us and pogo linux
• basically a big install fest
• we also have a fedora BOF session on april 5 at 5:30 i believe
• BOF (birds of a feather) session: its basically when anyone interested in a
• topic gets together in a room and hangs out and talks
• we usually provide donuts and soda, in true geek food fare fashion
• Apr 7, 2006 FUDCon Boston 2006 Boston, MA, USA - MatthewMiller, JackAboutboul
• JackAboutboul reports
• okay, so everything is set for the conference
• we have all the speakers set
• and we are updating the schedule though
• check the page for anything you need
• transport updates
• we are also working on the streaming video
• hopefully we will have good quality video and be able to produce a dvd afterward
• i would like to find out if other ambassadors are planning on coming
• Apr 11, 2006 Local LUG, Campux Lille, France - ThomasCanniot
• ThomasCanniot - nothing to add since last time
• April 12, 2006 Fedora Talk Uttar Pradesh - PuneetBatura
• PuneetBatura reports
• talking basically on FOss at my school
• a presentation on FC 5
• with how user friendly now it is
• and one to one interaction with the students
• on their respective queries since its my school
• so auditorium is ready for the presentation
• Apr 19-22, 2006 FISL 7.0 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil - RodrigoPadula
• RodrigoPadula not present need to followup
• gregdek: I don't know anything about the event...
• gregdek: ...but I'm concerned about the prospect of losing schwag in customs...
• lxmaier: gregdek: you are right, we had this problem before
• gregdek: ...and I'm wondering if it makes sense to try to get DVDs burned locally and reimburse.
• lxmaier: would you mind contacting RodrigoPadula about it gregdek?
• gregdek: Will do.
• June 23-25, 2006 Journe du Libre 4 Strasbourg, France - ChitleshGoorah
• ChitleshGoorah not present

Priority 1 - Item 3: Promotional material for Kadischi

• DavidNalley reports
• ke4qqq: Videos were reworked for FC5, and posted, nothing further

Priority 1 - Item 4: FC5 Tours

• RahulSundaram, FrancescoUgolini not present

Priority 2 - Item 1: Video contest

• AlexMaier reports
• will run an Open Video contest to promote open format media
• support in Fedora, and we asked CC for some help on this.
• Here is a brief description of what we plan to do:
• We want to run the contest and we have about 5K USD to run it.
• We want to give small prizes to all submissions, and have one big prize for the winner.
• Small prizes will most likely be blue/white flip-flops
• with a tagline "Runs on Fedora" or "I run Fedora" or "I run on Fedora" or something similar.
• The big prize has not yet been decided upon yet.
• We could use a good idea from CC (Creative Commons)
• All submissions shall be:
• 1. in OGG format
• 2. about Freedom, Openness, Collaboration
• 3. CC-licensed
• 4. not necessarily advertisements
• We have the bandwidth to host the contest and the archive once the contest is over.
• tchung: I just want to point out it's not "Fedora Video Contest" but "Open Video Contest" now
• cds: Maybe a fedora server/computer for video production would be a good prize?
• tchung and lxmaier invite everyone to help out
• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/VideoContest
• greendisease: you can have nike sneakers custom made with text on them for like 150 bucks
• lxmaier: i will introduce the discussion about the prizes on the list

Misc

• ruimoreira: upcoming events here in portugal ... 5 seminars on linux and OSS
• ruimoreira: and a few hands on labs on linux
• lxmaier: post them on FedoraEvents - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents

Priority 2 - Item 2: Schwag pipeline and a Standard Ambassadors Survival Kit

• GregDeKoenigsberg reports
• Re: Ambassadors survival kit...
• ...it's in production now, but will come out after DVDs, since they're highest priority.
• Looking at mid-April store availability. (CoolStuff Store)

Priority 2 - Item 3: Presentations for Ambassadors

• RahulSundaram not present
• gregdek: I propose OPL w/o restrictions for slide decks.
• gregdek: Just like wiki and docs.
• tchung: +1
• lxmaier: +1

Priority 2 - Item 4: FedoraLibraries

• ChitleshGoorah not present
• ke4qqq: did we ever get the ISBN number for the dvd?
• lxmaier: not that i am aware of...
• lxmaier: ke4qqq: want to raise this issue on the list to revive it?
• ke4qqq: I will

Priority 3 - Item 1: Fedora Community Free Media Project

• ThomasChung reports
• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia
• Basically it's a a volunteer initiative by local Fedora Ambassadors or Fedora Contributors
• who's willing to burn DVDs and ship them with their own expenses.
• we already received over 100 Free media requests which is well over our limit at this point
• so I had to close the request form for now.
• CyberSpy: I have a standalone duplication system and cases of blank media, I want to work very closely with that project
• tchung: great. talk to me after the meeting
• ke4qqq: any chance of moving this to sending out the pressed media once it becomes available, in the official jacket?
• lxmaier: ke4qqq: i doubt we have enough money to do this...
• lxmaier: but we might ask the individual ambassadors to send out the DVDs once we send DVDs to them in bulk
• gregdek: The cost of sending out individual DVDs may be pretty high.
• gregdek: The plan now is to send them in lots of 50
• cds: Nice idea, about sending out the pressed CDs, but our supply & budget is low,
• cds: and is pretty much why not just "anyone" can get Swag.
• gregdek: I'm *really* happy to hear *any* creative ideas on this topic, for what it's worth.  :)
• tchung: our list for this topic is https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-freemedia-list

Misc

• lxmaier: if you want to add items to the schedule, feel free to do so BEFORE the meeting
• lxmaier: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Schedule

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