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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.

FAmSCo meetings

FAmSCo held 2 meetings in November and the last meeting of this term in December. Attendance was as follows:

  • 3 out of 3 -- Caius, Gerard, Igor
  • 2 out of 3 -- Neville
  • 1 out of 3 -- Rahul
  • 0 out of 3 -- Pierros

This term FAmSCo has held 36 meetings. Overall attendance was:

  • 34 out of 36 -- Gerard
  • 33 out of 36 -- Igor
  • 31 out of 36 -- Caius
  • 29 out of 36 -- Neville
  • 19 out of 36 -- Pierros
  • 8 out of 36 -- Larry, Rahul

Regional meetings

7 regional meetings were held and logged in November.

FAmSCo mailing list

FAmSco's mailing list received 2 messages this month, about FAmSCo public meeting and election town hall.

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.
  • No significant update.

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.

FY12

Total budget for regional support: $80,000

Total spend (through October 27): $54,190

Regional support

NA -- $23,505

EMEA -- $16,270

India/APAC -- $7,780

  • $2,035 -- Fedora 15 media
  • $1,590 -- Support for multiple swag, conferences, etc.
  • $1,485 -- LCA 2011
  • $860 -- FOSS.ASIA
  • $530 -- Support for Phillipines and Sri Lanka
  • $475 -- KDE conference
  • $320 -- Ambassador polo shirts
  • $320 -- Support for Bangladesh
  • $115 -- GNUify
  • $50 -- F14 release party

LATAM -- $6,635

  • $4,665 -- FISL 2011
  • $1,425 -- Reimbursements for multiple events in Venezuela, Brazil, and Nicaragua
  • $545 -- Ambassador polo shirts

Mentoring

New tickets Current Open Tickets Sponsored Rejected Month
51 112 10 9 October 2011 --Jsimon 15:34, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
27 - 9 72 September 2011 --Jsimon 15:34, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
3 55 8 1 August 2011 --Jsimon 19:38, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
38 103 3 0 July 2011 --Jsimon 15:41, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
41 78 9 35 June 2011 --Jsimon 10:07, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
51 50 10 0 May 2011 --Jsimon 19:07, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
41 51 4 30 April 2011 --Jsimon 20:41, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
33 39 3 42 March 2011 --Jsimon 07:07, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
26 25 4 20 February 2011 --Igor 15:32, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
33 21 5 25 January 2011 --Jsimon 18:39, 9 February 2011 (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.

APAC

News

  • No significant update.

Events

Date Event Location Owner Description Estimated Attendance Report Link
2011-11-06 Akihabara Fedora 15 Distribution Tokyo, Japan David Ramsey see Akihabara "Electric City" +100 -
2011-11-12 Release Party F16 Philippines Mandaluyong City, Philippines Magie Antonio - - -
2011-11-20 Release Party F16 Tokyo Tokyo, Japan David Ramsey see Akihabara "Electric City" +100 -

Meetings

Date Minutes Log
2011-11-12 Minutes Log
2011-11-26 Minutes Log

EMEA

News

  • No significant update.

Events

Date Event Location Owner Description Estimated Attendance Report Link
2011-11-05 - 2011-11-06 LinuxAlt 2011 Brno, Czech Republic Jiri Eischmann The biggest annual Linux conference in the Czech Republic. Focused on normal users and enthusiasts. 500 -
2011-11-10 GULLP Night Lonate Pozzolo, Italy Alessandro Lorenzi An evening to talk about the importance of the use of Free Software for (and with) PA and Associations, organized by the newborn GULLP 100 -
2011-11-11 Arcade + F16 Release Party Limassol, Cyprus Marios Isaakidis Arcade party with 8-bit music, game tournaments and F16 swag sharing +50 -
2011-11-11 - 2011-11-13 FSCONS Gothenburg, Sweden Robert Scheck and Henirk Nordström The Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit is a cross-cultural meeting place where grass root organisations, companies, academics, cultural workers and hackers come together in a united effort to discuss and liberate all aspects of digital culture. See FSCONS 2011 for details. 300 -
2011-11-12 FSF-OSSC Budapest, Hungary Zoltan Hoppar and Gergely Rakosi This is the continue of the old FSF conference tradition, what is an one day event where we could meet lots of local users, and companies. They have leaved

out the earlier year, but now they will do it again, with long, high quality talks. See FSF-OSSC 2011 for details.

+300 -
2011-11-12 - 2011-11-13 OpenRheinRuhr 2011 Oberhausen, Germany Christoph Wickert OpenRheinRuhr is a new free software trade show with conference and exhibition in the Rhine-Ruhr region. See http://openrheinruhr.de/ for details. - -
2011-11-17 - 2011-11-19 JDLL Lyon, France Haikel Guemar talks, booth +250 Report
2011-11-25 - 2011-11-26 JM2L Sofia Antipolis, France Charles-Antoine Couret Release Party F16, talks, booth 100 Report
2011-11-26 LinuxDay 2011 Dornbirn, Austria Matthias Summer LinuxDay is a small event in Austria near the Swiss, German, and Lichtenstein border. See LinuxDay Dornbirn 2011. 300 -
2011-11-26 SFD Algeria 2011 Médéa, Algeria Djelloul BOUIDA The first Software Freedom Day in Algeria. See The Software Freedom Day 2011.. +200 -

Meetings

Date Minutes Log
2011-11-02 Minutes Log
2011-11-16 Minutes Log
2011-11-30 Minutes Log

LATAM

News

  • No significant update.

Events

Date Event Location Owner Description Estimated Attendance Report Links
2011-11-17 - 2011-11-19 1er Encuentro de Software Libre 2011 Duoc Pza. Oeste Santiago, Chile Larry Letelier 1er Encuentro de Software Libre 2011 Duoc Pza. Oeste +400 IT 2011
2011-11-18 Fedora 16 Release Party San Jose San Jose, Costa Rica Katherine Alfaro Informal gatherig, media distribution +40 Report
2011-11-19 Ciclo de Charlas de Software Libre 2011 Buenos Aires, Lujan, Argentina Rino Rondan Ciclo de Charlas de Software Libre 2011 2011 +100 CDCSOL 2011
2011-11-25 Charla en Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá Panama Abdel Martinez Fedora Speech +20 -
2011-11-26 Fedora 16 Release Party Panama Panama Abdel Martinez Release party +30 Details and report
2011-11-29 Fedora 16 Release Party Managua Managua, Nicaragua Neville A. Cross Release party +30 Details and report

Meetings

Date Minutes Log
2011-11-02 Minutes Log
2011-11-16 Minutes Log

NA

News

  • No significant update.

Events

Date Event Location Owner Description Estimated Attendance Report Link
2011-11-09 - 2011-11-12 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Portland, OR Andy Grover Fedora presence in Open Source Booth +3000 -
2011-11-19 - 2011-11-22 NYSCATE [1] Rochester, New York Charles Profitt see NYSCATE 1000
booth cost
-
2011-11-27 College Park Fedora 16 Distribution College Park, Maryland David Ramsey see College Park ? -

Meetings

  • No meetings held in November

Release parties

F16 release events