[Fedora-ambassadors-list] meeting notes fedora ambassadors feb 16, 14:00 UTC

[Alex Maier]

Fedora Ambassadors weekly meeting: 2006-02-16 1400 UTC

Next meeting: 2006-02-23 2200 UTC

Attending:
lxmaier AlexMaier
die-Sel JoeEarly
tchung ThomasChung
maikaru MikaelJacobsson
MrTom ThomasCanniot
thl ThorstenLeemhuis
GeroldKa GeroldKassube
puneet_batura PuneetBatura
barz DavidBarzilay
JoseTarazona JoseTarazona
ChitleshGoorah ChitleshGoorah
FrancescoUgolini FrancescoUgolini
mattdm MatthewMiller
gja TejasDinkar
iWolf JeffreyTadlock
PabloBarrera PabloBarrera
cds CliarShaw
Thijs_H ThijsHulshof
abhisheksingh AbhishekSingh

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Schedule

1 Review upcoming events

1.1
Feb 25, 2006   Fedora Day    The first day in The Netherlands to
promote Fedora and to support new users. Hengelo (GLD), The
Netherlands   ThijsHulshof    http://www.fedora-linux.nl/bijeenkomst
Thijs will organise a small event for people interested in Fedora /
Linux, Fedora presentations and install fest. Thijs_H is advertising
on his website. +/-30 subscribtions

1.2
Feb 25-26, 2006   FOSDEM    The sixth Free and Open source Software
Developers' European Meeting in Brussel -Belgium- 
http://www.fosdem.org/2006   FredericHornain   Reserved Fedora Stand
Fred not in meeting -- will report on the list

1.3
Mar 13-16, 2006   Jornada de Divulgación Científica y Tecnológica   A
whole day organized for an Recognized University in Colombia for
conferences on subjects related to Open Source Software as well as
telecommunications, medical artificial intelligence and computer
science. It will have universities of the country and the world. 
http://www.sistemasunbosque.edu.co  and  http://www.equisl.org  
JoseTarazona
JoseTarazona has a confirmation for a stand there and also time for a conference
JoseTarazona wants to know if there is any chance for someone to give
a videoconference too.
right now he will be on the stand and at night I will give the
conference about Fedora. that will help to show students the
commitment of Fedora members and help us to recruit some developers
and many enthusiasts.
tchung: no, I don't think so we discuss the event via IRC and List
puneet_batura: i fully agree with jose in this. but if video
conferencing is not available then let us look ofr other alternatives
to it.

1.4
Mar 16-18, 2006   Free Desktop Event    Its the first year of this
event, the focus its about companys using desktops with Linux/Open
Source.  http://www.desktoplivre.org.br    MauricioPretto  (?)     ?
barz is chasing Mauricio, but also know he's going for a long trip.
Will double-check if he still can make it. BTW, Brazilian Ambassadors
have been focusing on local website and a big local event, FISL, where
other sth american representatives will be present
Mauricio is not present. Will report on the list.

1.5
Apr 3-6, 2006   LinuxWorld Boston 2006   Boston, MA, USA  See
LinuxWorld/LinuxWorldBoston2006.   JackAboutboul MatthewMiller   He's
confirmed :)     Apr 7, 2006   FUDCon Boston 2006   Boston, MA, USA:
Sequel to the first FUDCon.
See FUDCon/FUDConBoston2006.   MatthewMiller JackAboutboul   help
wanted. Greg and Alex will support wherever they can.
Jack will be there.
mattdm is not going to go to any sessions at the conference itself, so
he can hang out at the booth pretty much all the time, in fact
mattdm is not attending the conference proper. (It's expensive!) Can
RH get him a free exhibit floor pass?
mattdm can do short presentations. What sort of resources are there
likely to be at the booth?
tchung wants to know: Is there any possibility for reimbersement if I
use my own budget to attend FUDCon Boston?
lxmaier: tchung: i guess there is some chance for that, especially if
you volunteer to talk at the FUDCon

1.6
Apr 19-22, 2006    FISL 7.0   Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
7th International Free Software Forum.
This is the biggest conference for IT Infrastructure and Developers
inBrazil. Lot of developers communities in this meetings and
manylectures, in 6 auditoriums. In 2005, FISL 6.0 had 4,414 attendees
from11 countries and almost every Brazilian state.
barz got it
barz: FISL, on behalf of Rodrigo: all events - presentation and
community event proposals - have been approved! working on
presentation, free pass 4 speakers, DVDs request sent to FAMSCO,
producing banner, thinking of other collateral for event and writing
comprehensive proposal 2 make sure we don't miss any detail. we wanna
talk on FC generally, bring FC5 improvements, explain community devel,
call for contributions and try to link that all with the digital
divide, serious issue in Brazil.

1.7
May 3-6, 2006   LinuxTag/FUDCon Wiesbaden 2006   Wiesbaden, Germany - 
LinuxTag 2006
See FUDCon/FUDConWiesbaden2006    GeroldKassube
FlorianBrand   help wanted and needed. afaik there should be the next
FUDCon similiar to the second FUDCon we ever had FUDCon/FUDCon2
GeroldKa: we've got the mail from the organisator that our booth
request will be decided till February 20th, so we've to wait what's
the decision. we (FlorianBrand, JensKuehnel and me) are preparing a
contest. ChitleshGoorah will also hold a talk for KADISCHI. so imho,
at the moment it's all in the right way.
ChitleshGoorah: Ill be present too with GeroldKa. I'll burn free some
fedora based live cds as stated in the wiki
GeroldKa: a few days ago I received the mail from a friend of mine;
developer at debian. Debian will not participate the Linuxtag in
Wiesbaden. so it's more important for us to get an absolutely great
show and event

1.8
June 23-25, 2006    Journée du Libre 4    Strasbourg, France. This
event is intended for the promotion of open source softwares and
linux. There will also be conferences about various open source topics
  ChitleshGoorah   First It coincides with my trip to Mauritius. It is
possible to sell Fedora goodies (T-shirts for example) for fund
raising. Alone it will be difficult for me to handle.  Booth Reserved
http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/jl4/stands-assoc
ChitleshGoorah: the booth is reserved. Ive postponed my trip to
Mauritius. I'll be present! I'M CALLING FOR SOMEONE WHO WANTS TO MAKE
A CONFERENCE ON FEDORA, because ill be at the booth,
and there must be someelse with the conference
GeroldKa: I'll try to attend then, but I don't speak french


2
FedoraLibraries - Inform about this project. Bring up with some ideas.
What do we lack for this project
ChitleshGoorah Fedora Libraries : Ill write more about it soon on
Fedoranews in order to promote it


3
Presentations for Ambassadors - We need to provide Ambassadors with
some slide decks for various presentations.
ChitleshGoorah Presentation on Kadischi is in Progress here
barz tchung: we r still preparing ooimpress 4 FISL, but will take us
some more time
puneet_batura ok guys catch up with u later... :)
ChitleshGoorah a french flyer is under developpement with MrTom too
tchung I saw 3-fold hand out from LinuxAsia/FUDCon. This will be great
for any Linux Event


4
Standard Ambassadors kit
We need a standard "kit" for all Ambassadors; DVDs, promotional
materials, and schwag.
tchung: As far as I know Greg is putting together a kit for
Ambassadors as much as $100 worth

5
Misc
Unidentified Ambassador: does anybody know where can i get the red or
blue hat in fedora style from? That'd be helpful in promoting Fedora
;)
lxmaier: this is URGENT:
we do not EVER use fedora hats to promote Fedora
Fedora =! fedora hat
not red, not blue, not at all
:)
Inidentified Ambassador: lxmaier  i know, but it's related to Fedora's
history :>
lxmaier: no discussion of fedora hats will change this
lxmaier: i am sorry, but it is our brand guideline Number One: No fedora hats
tchung: this is a specific request from Red Hat not to use Fedora Hat
in our project
lxmaier: it is a matter of highest priority that all ambassadors be
aware and follow the brand guidelines
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