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Fedora Ambassadors Meeting Minutes 2006-02-02
Next meeting
- Location: irc.freenode.net
- Channel: #fedora-mktg
- Date and Time: 2006-02-09, 22:00 UTC
Participants
- AlexMaier (
lxmaier
) - JeffreyTadlock
- SankarshanMukhopadhyay (
sankarshan
,sm|CPU
) - KarstenWade (
quaid
) - SatishMohan (
smohan
) - FrancescoUgolini
- BobJensen
- GregDeKoenigsberg (
gregdek
) - JonFautley (
[sasquatch]
) - JoseTarazona
- PrudhviKrishna (
Prudhvi
) - KevinVerma (
kevinverma
) - RahulSundaram (
mether
)
Summary
Review upcoming events
Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006 Solutions Linux 2006 Paris, France – Aurelien Bompard
- Aurelien is at the show and not here in the meeting;
- he has coordinated with one of the Fedora developers who will be at the Red Hat booth to help him distribute DVDs,
- so we have all three days covered as it looks
Feb 4-5, 2006 GNUify Pune, India
- http://gnunify.sicsr.ac.in/index.php – Rahul Sundaram
- mether: rejected at the last minute for unknown reasons! I am attending the meet anyway
Feb 8-10, 2006 LinuxAsia/FUDCon Delhi 2006 New Delhi India – Rahul
- Sundaram, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConDelhi2006
- Sankarshan: Things are under control
- Rahul: I have to prepare my presentations. that would happen in the weekend
- The DVDs have arrived, and the t-shirts too
Feb 11-12, 2006 SCALE 4X Los Angeles, California, USA – Thomas Chung
- tchung was not here to report
- UPDATE - we have received Exhibitor Package from SCALE
- added Exhibitor Information at the bottom of SCALE
Feb 14-17, 2006 LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Mexico Mexico City, Mexico
- has no owner
- BobJensen: Mexico City, I talked to a buddy in MC about it and he expressed interest.
- We are going to talk about him becoming an ambassador tomorrow night.
- I will have him email you and/or the list if he has any questions
Feb 14-16, 2006 Embedded World Nürnberg, Germany
- no owner
- Nürnberg is quite far from here, but RudolfKastl is in Munich. maybe he is interested.
- he registered as Amabassador some weeks ago. thl will ping him.
Feb 15-17, 2006 Open Source World Conference II Málaga, Spain
- we have no ambassador in spain so far.
- does anyone know someone in spain to recruit them as ambassadors?
- [sasquatch] will be pinging the Red Hat folks in Spain, then he will report to the list when he's heard back from the spanish red hatters.
Feb 24-26, 2006 PyCon 2006 Addison, TX, USA
- no owner
Feb 25, 2006 Fedora Day The first day in The Netherlands to promote
- Fedora and to support new users. Hengelo (GLD), The Netherlands
- ThijsHulshof
- Thijs not present
Feb 25-26, 2006 FOSDEM The sixth Free and Open source Software
- Developers' European Meeting in Brussel, Belgium
- http://www.fosdem.org/2006
- FredericHornain
- fred is not present
Mar 16-18, 2006 Free Desktop Event http://www.desktoplivre.org.br
- MauricioPretto (?)
- mauricio pretto is not present
Mar 28-30, 2006 LWCE Australia Sydney:
- http://www.linuxworldexpo.com.au/
- DavidBarzilay
- barz is not present as well
Apr 3-6, 2006 LWCE Boston Boston, MA, USA:
- http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A
- will be right before FUDCon Boston 2006
- MatthewMiller
- Matthew not present
Apr 7, 2006 FUDCon Boston 2006 Boston, MA, USA: Sequel to the first FUDCon
- FUDConBoston2006
- gregdek has a meeting with JackAboutboul today.
- Jack's working on a call for presentations and so forth.
- We've got space set aside at BU; that part is all set. So we're moving forward there.
Apr 19-22, 2006 FISL 7.0 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. 7th
- International Free Software Forum.
- RodrigoPadula MauricioPretto
- Rodrigo and Mauricio both not present
Prudhvi: Hi, we have a FOSS meeting here in Vijaywada in June
- the Date is Tentative and I will represent Fedora.
- Will post the event to the Events page
Linuxtag at Wiesbaden, Germany GeroldKassube
- neither chitlesh nor gerold are present
Schwag pipeline
- gregdek: Completed designs are due by tomorrow.
- The US coolstuff store will be no problem. Still working with EMEA and AP coolstuff stores.
- The Ambassador request form needs to be altered so they are requesting kits. Not a la carte items.
- What's in the kit: A few shirts, a bunch of hats, a bunch of stickers, pens, as much as $100 will buy.
- Posters aren't working out for this timeframe.
Funding for attendance
- lxmaier: FAMSCO is discussing the basic requirements for ambassadors to fulfill to be considered eligible for reimbursement.
- we have been talking about this on the famsco list and will post our draft to the ambassadors list when it's ready.
Standard Presentation for Fedora Ambassadors
- mether: I will own a standard presentation then. delivered in two weeks.
- I already spend hours on creating the GNUNify presentation which can work out as a standard one.
- Meeting Minutes summarized by AlexMaier
- Meeting Minutes posted by ThomasChung