[Ambassadors] Ambassador NA meeting minutes

[Yaakov Nemoy]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Max Spevack <mspevack at redhat.com> wrote:
>> 20:01 < gregdek> We produced about 2500 CDs/DVDs for NA for Fedora 9.
>> 20:01 < gregdek> Is that a good number?  A bad number?  No idea.  We
>> pulled it right out of our ass with what budget we had left.
>> 20:02 < lxmaier_home> that cost us what? 3000?
>
> No, that's wrong.  We produced 3,000 Live CDs and 2,000 DVDs.  5,000 total
> media for $8,175.  It was not fantastic.  This company did a great job for
> F8, but their prices went up and their quality went down for F9, so that's
> that.
>
> Here's my problem -- in Q3, people in North America are going to want media
> again.  If we spend $8,000 on media for NA out of a total FAMSCo budget of
> $12-15k, then what the heck is the rest of the world going to do?  And how
> will we have money for subsidizing travel and actually getting people to
> shows?
>
> My take: no more mass production of media.  The artwork for each release
> needs to be on the wiki, and when an Ambassador gets $1,000 of budget for
> his event, he should be able to go to Karlie (or someone) and say "send me
> $400 worth of media".

Why not just push USB sticks more?  Perhaps we need to invest enough
money into a head fund of 200 USB sticks  for a couple of regions, and
give people the chance to buy USB sticks like we did in LinuxTag.
Then the funds from that can be used to set up a few more regions with
a pool of resellable USB sticks.

As for free distribution, polish Kobold up a bit, so we can start
doing more USB Fueling stations.  I think this might be more cost
effective in the long run.

-Yaakov