[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Ambassadors meeting notes January 26, 22 UTC
Greg DeKoenigsberg
gdk at redhat.com
Tue Jan 31 14:56:04 UTC 2006
Robert,
Hope you're feeling better. Take whatever time you need.
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On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Robert Whetsel wrote:
> ALCON,
>
> Sorry for not making the meeting; I had surgery this week and was a bit
> preoccupied. I will be back to work on Monday the 30th, and back into the swing
> of things next week with my action items for Fedora.
>
> Quoting Alex Maier <lxmaier at gmail.com>:
>
> > Next Meeting: Feb 02, 2006, 14:00 UTC
> >
> > Ambassador Meeting Notes January 26, 2006, 22:00 UTC
> >
> > Attending:
> > GregDeKoenigsberg (gregdek)
> > GeroldKassube (GeroldKa)
> > Niklot (Guest)
> > ChitleshGoorah
> > AurelienBompard (abompard)
> > DavidBarzilay (barz)
> > JoseTarazona
> > Xenion (Guest)
> > AlexMaier (lxmaier)
> > RahulSundaram (mether)
> > FrancescoUgolini
> > KarstenWade (quaid)
> > BobJensen (MicroBob)
> > MikeKnox (monkey|wrk)
> > MikaelJacobsson (maikaru)
> >
> >
> > GeroldKa has invited Niklot and Xenion to participate the meeting
> > later on, because they may be interested in becoming Ambassadors
> >
> > Upcoming Events
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents
> >
> > Solutions Linux (Paris, abompard)
> > abompard received stuff for Soultions Linux
> > it was still in one piece, but not far from torn apart
> > abompard will be able to attend 2 days out of 3
> > abompard is translating Fred's slides to french right now
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Slides
> >
> > GNUify (Pune, mether)
> > the original slides - about 50 or so are in:
> > http://people.redhat.com/sundaram/
> > mether is cutting down and reorganising them based on a new idea
> > otherwise nothing else to report on
> >
> > FUDCon @ LinuxAsia (New Delhi, mether)
> > Planning for this is going well; schedule is almost finished; schwag
> > is delivered; we're just about ready to go.
> > mether is rewriting the slides and will upload it when its done to the
> > common pool
> > all the arrangements are mostly done by now
> >
> > SCALE 4x (tchung)
> > tchung received 70 t-shirts and 150 DVDs.
> > planning to burn 50 more DVDs himself.
> > tchung will take a lot of pictures at the event to record it and
> > report about it.
> > tchung is not sure about a blog but there will be plenty of pictures
> > and a special coverage in FWN. :)
> > quaid tchung: sorry I'm not going to make it SCALE, I'm cutting back
> > on travel it seems
> >
> > Banners:
> > tchung ok. I suppose I could cook something up in local stationey store. :)
> > JoseTarazona Banner for shows (I'm working on two events for
> > Universities, dates still pending.) and one for a website for my
> > country
> > gregdek lxmaier: I'm starting to think it makes more sense to
> > manufacture centrally and ship.
> > lxmaier i could supervise the manufacturing in Germany and/or UK
> > lxmaier and we could have [sasquatch] ship them out to other locations
> > within europe
> > gregdek will have an update on schwag coming up this week, which will
> > include banners etc.
> >
> > FOSDEM (Fred)
> > gregdek OK, no Fred. We'll discuss FOSDEM later
> >
> > barz lwce in sydney is targeting businesses and .org booths are way 2
> > expensive. we decided dropping this one, not suitable 4 FC's audience
> > or budget.
> > It will be removed from the wiki
> >
> > ChitleshGoorah has secured a booth for Fedora for the Strasbourg
> > event. He posted it lately on the M.list
> > ChitleshGoorah Sure if someone is interested can join me
> > ChitleshGoorah If not Ill be with my gf and maybe a fedora user too
> > ChitleshGoorah our lug is looking for hotels which can provide us
> > cheap prices for the event :)
> > JoseTarazona I'm interested, count with me
> >
> > monkey|wrk I might be able to attend the linuxworldexpo in Sydney
> > barz they do have .org, but same prices
> > LWCE Sydney will be removed from events list
> >
> > richard Tuttle has added OSCON to the event list, which is
> > outstanding. We will need an update from him.
> >
> > nman64 Unfortunately, we can't provide a bunch of money for everyone
> > to get to every event (we'd love to if we could), so we have to
> > consider each event and decide where the money should go. The same
> > budget is also used for producing merchandise. The Steering Committee
> > is working on policies and procedures to get everything moving
> > smoothly. If ever you have an event near you that you would like to
> > try to get to, come up with a budget and let us know what you need.
> > We'll do the best we can.
> > Part of being an ambassador is acting as the regional contact for the
> > team. We can add links to the ambassador pages from that page. If a
> > local user wants us to attend or wants our support, they should
> > contact their local Ambassador.
> >
> > maikaru ok... those events in stockholm are the expensive ones and
> > those in gothenburg are the not so expensive... i know ppl there that
> > i can sleep at if needed... i plan to contact the biggest
> > computermagazine in sweden so swedish ppl will know about me soon ;)
> >
> > Fedora Libraries (Chitlesh)
> > launched FedoraLibraries in the list. ambassadors need to move ASAP
> > for this project. the discussion to continue on the list.
> >
> > FUDCon / LinuxTag at Wiesbaden.
> > lxmaier and gregdek had a conversation with Florian Brand from RH
> > Germany today. GeroldKa and Florian will be co-owners.
> >
> > Schwag pipeline.
> > gregdek We've got a plan that I'll be publicising to ambassadors-list
> > later today. Goal: to have the schwag pipeline up, funded and working
> > by March 15th. Right now, we've got a lot of requests, but not a lot
> > of resources. Yet. But "help is on the way".
> > BUT: we will NOT be sending single T-shirts or anything like that. We
> > will be sending KITS to ambassadors. Too expensive to drop-ship single
> > Ts and hats and such.
> > Kits, as of right now, will consist of:
> > * Hats;
> > * Pens;
> > * Stickers;
> > * Posters.
> > However many we can fit into about $100 worth of stuff.
> >
> > Note: this does NOT include t-shirts. Why?
> > Because T-shirts are:
> > * expensive for what you get;
> > * always in the wrong size;
> > * bulkier to ship.
> >
> > Note: there WILL be a place to ORDER shirts, but they will NOT be part
> > of the kits.
> > nman64 In the future, we should be able to work with a service like
> > CafePress or Spreadshirt to offer T-shirts and other merchandise as a
> > fundraising tool, but not yet.
> >
> > BUSINESS CARDS
> > We have four proposed designs.
> > Let's pick the best one or two and move!
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/BusinessCards
> > you'll need Avery stock# 8871
> > it's official policy: Use tchung's template at
> > http://fedoranews.org/tchung/biz
> > please read readme.txt
> >
> > FrancescoUgolini I have only to say that i'm working on the fedora
> > installation guide in italian, i've done the beginning and the first
> > chapter, and i think in a week or two i've finished to traduce. So see
> > ya the next week and good night
> >
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> >
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>
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>
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