[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Ambassadors meeting notes January 26, 22 UTC

Sun Jan 29 15:43:21 UTC 2006

Dear Alex, Greg, Rahul, all

As I was not able to be present at the Ambassador meeting - sorry for that -,
I want just to let you know I am doing some work on my part.

I can divide it in five little pragraphs.

EVENTS 
	- FOSDEM Brussels (Belgium) -
	  > FOSDEM (Fred)
	  > gregdek	OK, no Fred.  We'll discuss FOSDEM later

	  Well, I have received some information from the FOSDEM team about how it will go on there and so on.
	  Anyway, as I written previously on the mailling list I am going to take pictures of this event.
        BTW, I think I would write as soon as I would have time a wiki draft about my experience to be behind the fedora 
	  stand at a Open Source Event.     

        I have well received the Fedora Event Pack which is composed of 75 and several FC4 Dvds. Thanks a lot !
	  Just a little remark about that. It could be interesting for the next time to have more Tee-Shirt 
        with a smaller size cause not a lot of people is wearing XXXL, XXL.  
        Anyway, I understand perfectly Alex and Greg are doing there best to provide us the best support they 
        can offer to us. Thanks again. 
        Now, I do not want to hurt someone here. It is just a remark.  

	  Greg, Alex if you have any questions or remarks feel free to send me an email.  

      - HP IT.Exec Meeting Enterprise UNIX to LINUX migration Brussels Belgium

        I have talk with the HP Linux team here in Belgium and it was really intersting. 
	  Indeed, more and more big companies are going to do projects on Linux principaly on RH. 
        When I said projects, it is not only samba, bind and other respectables open softwares I talking about. 
        For instance, all systems at an european aircraft control has recently migrated on linux. Great, isn't it ?  
	  Then, the "UNIX to LINUX migration" presentation was instructive. 
        I am going to adapt the "UNIX to LINUX migration" slide for the fedora project 
	  cause I think it could be intersting for us. 
	  BTW, I have asked the agreement from the Belgian HP Linux Team and I have got it. 
	  Now, I have just taken contact with them. 

SLIDES
	> 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
	I will create new slides -see above -

BUISINESS CARDS
	Thanks for your work Thomas !

ADVERTISING BOARDS
	For the FOSDEM and as I have not got any advertising boards, banners and so on, I am doing some ones.
	I am going to upload them on the fedora project wiki web site asap.

EDUCATION
	Rahul, 
	For your information, Ok I did not find time to add some information in this section about 
      my experience in Schools. I am going to do that asap.
	For the moment, it is frozen cause students are overbooked till end of february.
      Anyway, the next event is planned at the end of the next month.

If you have any questions or remarks feel free to send me an email.

Best Regards
Fred

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26,22 UTC

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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