Basic FAmSCo activity
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 2 meetings in August. Attendance was as follows:
- 2 out of 2 -- Joerg, Maria, David
- 1 out of 2 -- Max, Susmit
- 0 out of 2 -- Luca
So far this year, FAmSCo has held 24 meetings. Overall attendance has been:
- 24 out of 24 -- Joerg
- 23 out of 24 -- Susmit
- 20 out of 24 -- David, Maria
- 17 out of 24 -- Max
- 13 out of 24 -- Luca
Regional meetings
One of FAmSCo's goals this year is to make sure that at least one FAmSCo member is at each regional meeting that is held.
As of the time this report was prepared, 3 regional meetings held in August had been logged, all count with at least 1 FAmSCo member.
FAmSCo mailing list
FAmSco's mailing list received 25 messages this month, coordinating on some swag-related questions, and filling in conversation when we didn't have a meeting.
General accomplishments or decisions
This section discusses the non-regional achievements within either FAmSCo or the larger Ambassadors project from this month.
- FAmSCo Trac Instance - After quite a long period and a bit of effort on a number of members of FAmSCo, we have come to the realization that exposing the trac instance to public view is essentially not possible. Each solution we arrived at placed us further away from transparency that the situation now is. The reasons for this are:
- A significant amount of information that contains personal data is contained in the tickets that currently exist. Those include addresses, bank account numbers, credit card numbers, etc.
- Moving forward, additional tickets will be created that of a necessity will require submission of personal data for reimbursement. (FAmSCo considered having Max be emailed directly via an encrypted email, having encrypted data be submitted to the trac instance, and a number of other 'solutions' that proved in FAmSCo's opinion to be unworkable.)
- Fedorahosted.org's trac instance only allows for all tickets to be set as private or public.
- Fedora 13 Release Events Winners announced
Budget
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
Total budget: $100,000
Total spend (through August): $0
We are currently on pace to finish under budget. An on-target pace would be a total spend of about $0 at the end of August.
Regional support
NA -- $13,395
- $4,145 -- Fedora 13 media
- $1,800 -- Shipping
- $1,770 -- Shirts
- $1,350 -- Pens
- $1,230 -- Texas LinuxFest 2010
- $1,000 -- Support for SELF
- $860 -- SCALE leftovers
- $730 -- Stickers
- $325 -- Canada event box
- $185 -- LinuxFest Northwest (LFNW) 2010
EMEA -- $10,685
- $3,780 -- Fedora 13 media
- $2,030 -- Support for IDLELO 2010
- $1,225 -- Linuxwochen Wien 2010
- $1,030 -- Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2010
- $930 -- USB keys
- $680 -- Open Source Days
- $510 -- OpenExpo 2010 Berne
- $500 -- Support for Libre Graphics Meeting
LATAM -- $5,735
- $2,510 -- Support for FLISOL
- $1,675 -- FPL to FISL
- $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 |
| 50 | 31 | 7 | 22 | July 2010 --Jsimon 19:35, 10 August 2010 (UTC) |
| 54 | 20 | 13 | 58 | June 2010 --Jsimon 22:23, 9 July 2010 (UTC) |
| 68 | 48 | 6 | 69 | May 2010 --Jsimon 12:41, 7 June 2010 (UTC) |
| 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) |
Mentoring Survey
To improve the Ambassadors Mentoring Initiative we made a Survey among all Mentors and we will work with the input to improve the Process.
The expectations most Mentors had, were to:
- give guidance and help
- teach people on our tools
- improve the quality performance of new Ambassadors
- find and encourage the future leaders
these expectations met mostly for all - some were not so happy because the Candidate did not match the expectations and valuable time was invested on non-responsive candidates. Overall the Mentoring brought quality improvement to the Ambassador Group.
With the Tracking Instance - FAmA provides enough feedback on the accountability and transparency for the Process and there is no need for more tools to support the Process and the Process itself is clear enough!
Some Mentors have a wish for more common requirements - some other love to have the freedom to judge by human contact and instinct if the Candidate can become good Contributor to our Group or not.
Higher Barriers - like CLA+1 - as a requirement for the group - brought up some pro and con and a also the idea that a better workflow can help to pre-filter unresponsive Candidates.
The Process might be improved by a more streamlined workflow and a extended "find a mentor" period from 14 days to 21 days.
There was a range of answers what criteria should be considered for a new Mentor:
- no, only trust and judgement is needed
- no, because knowledged and experienced is stated already and therefore the requirement
- minimum time requirement in the group should be a "must"
- events experience is a "must"
NA and EMEA are Regions who are well covered with mentors - but APAC and LATAM need improvement!
Mentors meeting once a month was considered a good idea from most Mentors!
Regional reports
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 |
| CLS | lcafiero | Community Leadership Summit | Max Spevack Ian Weller Mel Chua Karsten Wade | |
| OSCON | lcafiero et al | OSCON | Karsten Wade Tom Callaway Kevin Higgins Kevin Higgins | |
News
Swag production is ramping up. Orders for tshirts have been placed. Research underway on balloons and lanyards.
LATAM
Events
| Name | Owner | Link | Event report(s) | Comments |
| FUDcon Santiago 2010 | user:RodrigoPadula | FUDCON Santiago | ||
| FISL | user:RodrigoPadula |
News
- 4 meetings where held this month with Brazilian Ambassadors, Argentina, Peru and a general LATAM users/Ambassadors/Contributors
- Fedora-LATAM Magazine is almost done for its first release
- Revista Fedora-BR change his leader, who is now a new ambassador (Rafael Conrado)
- Nicaragua has set a 5 sunday workshops. Planing Stage
- #fedora-ve and #fedora-pa make a foward to their IRC channels linking #fedora-latam. Other countries may follow this iniciative
- FAD Argentina 2010 and FUDexp Peru 2010 start their organization.
- FISL and FUDCON Santiago where held this month
EMEA
Events
| Name | Owner | Link | Event report(s) | Comments |
| OssConf 2010 | MarekMahut | 1. - 4. July 2010 | Conference about Open Source in Industry, Education and Government in Slovak Republic | |
| Rencontres_Mondiales_du_Logiciel_Libre_2010 | Bertrand Juglas | 6th to 11th of July | International meetings about Free Software, with conferences and workshops Bordeaux, France |
News
- EMEA meetings on hiatus during August
- Distribution among all EMEA Countries is organized and distributed [1]
- Contributors from EMEA feel free to request F13 Media with a ticket to the EMEA SWAG Tracking
India/APAC
Events
| Name | Owner | Link | Event report(s) | Comments |
| MOSC 2010 | User:Wariola, User:Izhar | MOSC 2010 | ||
| Linux InstallFest | User:Suchakra | InstallFest@COEP | Event Report |
News
- Shakthi Kannan is now a mentor for India.