FAmSCo report 2010-05

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.

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.

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.

FY11

EMEA -- $10,000

• $3,780 -- Fedora 13 media
• $2,030 -- Support for IDLELO 2010
• $1,030 -- Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2010
• $930 -- USB keys
• $775 -- Linuxwochen Wien 2010
• $680 -- Open Source Days
• $500 -- Support for Libre Graphics Meeting
• $275 -- OpenExpo 2010 Berne

NA -- $7,370

• $4,145 -- Fedora 13 media
• $1,230 -- Texas LinuxFest 2010
• $755 -- Shipping
• $730 -- Stickers
• $325 -- Canada event box
• $185 -- LinuxFest Northwest (LFNW) 2010

LATAM -- $4,060

• $2,510 -- Support for FLISOL
• $1,355 -- Fedora 13 media
• $195 -- Swag for Mexico

India/APAC -- $2,905

• $2,400 -- Support for swag creation by Harish
• $480 -- Support for BASIS
• $25 -- Fedora 13 release party

Mentoring

New tickets	Still under mentoring	Sponsored	Rejected	Month
80	48	11	54	April 2010 --Jsimon 20:50, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
75	32	7	84	March 2010 --Jsimon 10:00, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
66	10	10	75	February 2010 --Jsimon 14:32, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
50	28	9	57	January 2010 -- Joerg 15:45, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
63	5	10	56	December 2009 -- Joerg 11:35, 30 January 2010 (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.

NA

Events

Name	Owner	Link	Event report(s)	Comments
Texas Linux Fest	David Duncan	Texas LinuxFest 2010	David Duncan Adam Miller
POSScon	David Nalley, Greg DeKoenigsberg		http://www.nalley.me/david/?p=239
LFNW	Kevin Higgins, Larry Cafiero	LinuxFest Northwest (LFNW) 2010

LATAM

Events

Name	Owner	Link	Event report(s)	Comments
CNSL Caracas	Maria "tatica" Leandro	http://cnsl.org.ve	Spanish link	14 cities = 500 people + 2 new contributors + 4 installs
FLISoL Venezuela	Maria "tatica" Leandro	http://flisol.org.ve	Spanish link	14 cities = 5000 people + 60 instals + 7 new contributors
FLISoL Argentina		http://flisol.net/FLISOL2010/Argentina		4 cities
FLISoL Bolivia		http://flisol.net/FLISOL2010/bolivia		4 cities
FLISoL Brazil	Daniel Bruno	http://flisol.net/FLISOL2010/Brasil	Portuguese Link	Manaus (700 people + 2 new contributors)
FLISoL Brazil	Wolnei Cândido Tomazelli Junior	http://flisol.net/FLISOL2010/Brasil	Portuguese Link	Florianópolis (50 people + 2 installs)
FLISoL Brazil	Dyemes Cartegyano - Túlio Macedo	http://flisol.net/FLISOL2010/Brasil	Portuguese Link	Brasília (1000 people + 2 installs + 75 medias distributed + invitation for a debate on May, 21st at 9p.m., local time)
FLISoL chile		http://flisol.net/FLISOL2010/Chile		1 City
FLISoL Colombia		http://flisol.net/FLISOL2010/Colombia	Spanish link	3 Cities
FLISoL Ecuador		http://flisol.net/FLISOL2010/Ecuador		6 Cities
FLISoL El Salvador		http://flisol.net/FLISOL2010/ElSalvador	Spanish link	1 city
FLISoL Guatemala		http://flisol.net/FLISOL2010/Guatemala		2 Cities
FLISoL Mexico		http://flisol.net/FLISOL2010/Mexico	Behind Scenes Spanish link Monterrey	2 Cities
FLISoL Nicaragua	Joel Yader Neville	http://flisol.net/FLISOL2010/Nicaragua	Estelí Managua	3 cities: Managua (95 people), Granada (85 people) and Estelí (n/a)
FLISoL Panama	Alejandro Potty Jcsniper Joselo Pcorrales	http://flisol.net/FLISOL2010/Panama	Spanish link	3 Cities: Panama(120 people), Santiago (250 people) and David (25)
FLISoL Panama		http://flisol.net/FLISOL2010/Panama	Spanish Link
FLISoL Uruguay		http://flisol.net/FLISOL2010/Uruguay	Spanish link	1 city

[ Spanish link]

News

• FLISoL was held in mora than 35 cities the same day, where our local teams spread fedora to +10000 people in one single day
• Several cities receive FAmSCo help (some info must be sent)
• Venezuela is getting ready for a 3 months conference tour in all the country
• Argentina, El Salvador, Colombia, Nicaragua and Panamá have new ambassadors
• El Salvador had an online conference about design using fedora, and we are thinking on convert this casual talk into a regular spread fest online.

EMEA

Events

Name	Owner	Link	Event report(s)	Comments
Linux Open Aadministration Days	Bert Desmet	[1]	[2]
FOSSCOMM 2010	Christos Bacharakis	[3]	[4] (Gr)
Fedora Presentation @ Neapoli	Giannis Konstantinidis

News

• Started a new initiative to improve the fedora expansion in Africa [5] with first kick off meeting [6], by Sascha Thomas Spreitzer

India/APAC

Events

Name	Owner	Link	Event report(s)	Comments