[Ambassadors] FAmNA Meeting Summary from 2008-10-29

[Pascal Calarco]

Thanks so much for the summary, Jeffrey!  I am sorry I wasn't able to 
participate last night as you folks had a good meeting.

Tentatively, I can help Matt and others with a FADNA or FUDCon event 
colocated at the Ottawa Linux Symposium to be held next July in 
Montreal.  I did my graduate school at McGill and lived in Montreal for 
two years and still have good contacts at the University which might 
help with organizing a Fedora event there.  I'd love a reason to go back 
and have wanted to attend the Ottawa Symposium for some time now.  I can 
get travel funding for this internally.

Also, I'll chime in and step up to be willing to help find space and 
organize if there is an interest for Indianapolis for a FUDCon next 
summer.  I have contacts at both Indiana University-Purdue University 
Indanapolis, which is right downtown, and also the IU School of Medicine 
in Indianapolis and I am sure we could find space at either, perhaps by 
leveraging the one of the IU LUGs as a co-sponsor of the FUDCon.

I probably would only have funding to attend either the Linux Symposium 
or the Con at Clemson but not both, so if FUDCon ends up being at 
Clemson, I'd probably opt for Montreal, myself (no offense, David! :).

I should be able to make next week's FAMNA IRC.

  - pascal

inode0 wrote:
> inode0 was roped into leading the meeting.
>
> * Conference Planning
>
>   There was extensive discussion concerning the Linux Symposium in
>   Montreal next summer and the possibility of organizing a Fedora
>   conference in conjunction with it, possibly the F12 FUDcon. We will
>   contact our Canadian ambassadors to see if they can take ownership
>   of this event. Brian Powell will if they are unable to.
>
>   We then discussed planning for a site for the F12 FUDcon more generally.
>   Some sites that have been mentioned include Indianapolis, Chicago, Salt
>   Lake City, Austin or Dallas, and Clemson. Paul Frields joined us to lay
>   a foundation so we better understand the FUDcon planning process and its
>   expectations. This was immensely helpful. Thanks Paul. We will continue
>   to develop potential sites and keep Paul and Max Spevack informed.
>
>   Additionally we discussed making sure there was a good Fedora presence
>   at the inaugural Southeast LinuxFest (SELF) next summer. This could be
>   a potential FUDcon site or possibly a site for FADNA or something else.
>   We are going to begin thinking about how and where to hold future FADNA
>   events now.
>
> * Task List Items
>
>   Event Box Update from Clint Savage. We have received tremendously
>   positive feedback about the first Event Box and Clint has done some
>   major updates to the wiki about the Event Boxes. A log book was suggested
>   to be included or perhaps on the wiki for reporting about the adventures
>   of each box. Clint also updated us on the development of a transfer
>   policy to help these boxes travel smoothly from event to event.
>
>   Q3 funding and media acquisition was touched on. We will follow up on
>   these with the relevant parties to get this all straight in the next
>   week or two.
>
> * Open Floor
>
>   Clint raised the question of how to more effectively process requests
>   from ambassadors for various sorts of swag. Some discussion followed
>   and Clint will work on setting up something on the wiki we can refer
>   folks to for more information.
>
>   Clint also pointed out the new columns on Fedora Events page which will
>   support requesting and reporting about the event boxes in the future.
>
>   David Nalley raised the issue of further dividing the US so that the
>   workload/responsibilities can be spread out more. Some discussion of this
>   followed and we will revisit this subject at a future meeting.
>
> I would again like to thank all the participants, especially the new
> ambassadors joining us for the first time tonight.
>
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