ambassadors September 2012

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Budget Planning and Fund Request Guidelines in EMEA
by Jiri Eischmann 07 Sep '12

07 Sep '12

Hi, because we approved the last ticket of the "budget reform" at FAmSCo yesterday, I decided to create drafts of two wiki pages that will reflect the changes. Fund Request/Reimbursement Guidelines for EMEA: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/EMEA/Reimbursement It's based on Buddhike Kurera's draft for APAC with minor changes for EMEA. Please comment it on the Discussion page. Main changes: - each region will be given a budget and we'll be responsible for its spending up to certain limits. - all expenses up to $1999 will be approved within the region, there is also a peer review up to $499. Those limits can be set lower if we decide so. - there is a new role - treasurer (or budget wrangler if you will) who handles the regional budget, maintains and submits records, ensures the allocated budget is properly used, and makes sure that approved and spent requests are quickly reimbursed. I've been appointed by FAmSCo as a treasurer for EMEA for now. Budget Planning: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/EMEA/Budget Because EMEA will have to handle its own budget, we need to start budget planning, so that we can tell Robyn Bergeron and OSAS how much money we are going to spend. This quarter is transitional, it's already started, so it's a bit too late to do planning, but we have to get the drill. So I'd like everyone to add expenses he/she expects to have in this quarter (and let's start with the next one too, shall we?), no matter if they have already been approved or not. Remember: we won't have much money for unexpected expenses in the budget, so if you don't participate in the planning we'll have a smaller chance to get your expenses approved! I also expect your comments on the form of budget planning (write them on the Discussion page). We will certainly discuss the topic at the next regional meeting. Thank you for your cooperation, Jiri

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Fedora Ambassadors Welcome Week 36/2012
by Joerg Simon 05 Sep '12

05 Sep '12

Dear Ambassadors, let´s welcome our new sponsored Ambassador Group Members: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rugebiker from Mexico mentored by Juan Rodriguez Moreno (nushio) https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rodolfoarce from Paraguay mentored by Daniel Bruno Regards Joerg p.s. Please do not send private "Welcome" Messages to Ambassador List -- Joerg (kital) Simon jsimon(a)fedoraproject.org http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JoergSimon http://kitall.blogspot.com Key Fingerprint: 3691 0989 2DCA 58A2 8D1F 2CAC C823 558E 5B5B 5688

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Fedora Video Contest Starts
by Nitesh Narayan 05 Sep '12

05 Sep '12

Hi, Want to win a cool Fedora Tshirt and other swags , participate in Fedora Video Contest . The contest is starting today (5th September 2012) and will remain open for 1 month (5th October 2012). The contest is really simple: we want you to make us a video. Rather, we want you to make a intro/outro template that we can use for the Fedora Videos project. How To Participate ? Make a intro + outro template that a video can be prefixed/suffixed with Shine it up, real nice. Add some barbecue sauce maybe? Put it up somewhere: dropbox/archive.org/... Email us and let us know! Wait.. wait.. wait.. to find out if you won yourself goodies and Fedora tshirt! Now, since we're going to use your template for quite a few videos, all of the fedora videos project actually, we request you to license your material accordingly: please use CC by SA. What is Fedora Videos Project, We have lots of community videos strewn around the interwebs. Some on Youtube,others on Vimeo, others are just hosted some place. They aren't really well organized, and so, it's difficult to find them when you need them.What we're trying to do is to take all these, add proper titles,subtitles, translations, licenses and place them at one location(archive.org) so that everyone can find and use them. That's where the contest comes in. We want a good intro/outro template that we can easily modify and use for the videos that we put up. Makes sense now, doesn't it?. If you want to eat some hot dogs with us while making community videos, come right in (link to mailing list mktg)! For other details regarding the Fedora Video Contest visit the wiki page [1] . If you still have questions feel free to ask any of the video team members [2] . So let the game begin , and lets give a hard time to our judges by lots of awesome participation . [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Videos/FedoraVideos_Contest_Intro/Outro [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Videos#Fedora_Videos_Team Print only if its necessary Regards Nitesh Narayan Lal https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Niteshnarayan

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FAmSCo meeting 2012-09-03 minutes
by alejandro perez 04 Sep '12

04 Sep '12

Hi All, FAmSCo meeting log Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-2/2012-09-03/fedora-meeting… Minutes (text):http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-2/2012-09-03/fedora-m… Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-2/2012-09-03/fedora-meeting… #fedora-meeting-2 Famsco Meeting Meeting started by aeperezt at 17:05:24 UTC (full logs). Meeting summary 1. announcements (aeperezt, 17:06:04) a. aeperezt will be a treasurer (how handles the regional budget) for LATAM (sesivany, 17:09:15) 2. ticket #281 (aeperezt, 17:10:31) 3. Ticket #281 (sesivany, 17:12:38) a. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/APAC/Reimbursement (bckurera, 17:16:42) b. ACTION: all regions will figure out how to deal with budget requests in the regions and make a regional budgets for this quarter. (sesivany, 17:27:05) c. latam will use latam trac to manage budget request (aeperezt, 17:29:28) d. all budget requests over $2000 need to be approved by FAmSCo and get a PO in Red Hat. (sesivany, 17:43:22) e. AGREED: Repetitive expense requests need to get approval just once if the amount is about the same. (sesivany, 17:50:41) f. AGREED: The ticket #281 is approved with additional adjustments FAmSCo agreed on today. (sesivany, 17:55:26) Meeting ended at 18:01:30 UTC (full logs). Action items 1. all regions will figure out how to deal with budget requests in the regions and make a regional budgets for this quarter. People present (lines said) 1. sesivany (52) 2. herlo (33) 3. aeperezt (29) 4. bckurera (19) 5. zodbot (4) 6. danielbruno (0)

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FAmNA Meeting Minutes (4 September 2012)
by Jon 04 Sep '12

04 Sep '12

====================== #fedora-meeting: FAmNA ====================== Meeting started by masta at 01:00:48 UTC. The full logs are available at http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2012-09-05/famna.2012-09-05… . Meeting summary --------------- * Roll Call (masta, 01:01:09) * Announcements? (masta, 01:04:46) * Masta is guest host tonight (masta, 01:04:54) * FUDCon Lawrence Pre-registration is open (inode0, 01:05:05) * LINK: http://fudconlawrence-ianweller.rhcloud.com/ (inode0, 01:05:12) * FamNa meeting topics (masta, 01:10:56) * Dallas Software Freedom Day - Dallas Maker space (masta, 01:11:19) * LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/famna/ticket/40 (masta, 01:11:29) * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SFD-DFW_2012 (masta, 01:11:38) * ACTION: nb to ship swag famnarequest #300 (masta, 01:14:13) * Ohio LinuxFest 2012 (masta, 01:16:11) * ACTION: track down the Beefy Miracle and make sure he gets to OLF (graphite6, 01:19:12) * Norfolk, VA Maker Fair (masta, 01:22:21) * Open Floor (masta, 01:43:18) * LINK: http://www.cesweb.org/For-Exhibitors.aspx (dan408, 01:45:09) Meeting ended at 02:00:27 UTC. Action Items ------------ * nb to ship swag famnarequest #300 * track down the Beefy Miracle and make sure he gets to OLF Action Items, by person ----------------------- * nb * nb to ship swag famnarequest #300 * **UNASSIGNED** * track down the Beefy Miracle and make sure he gets to OLF People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * masta (89) * dan408 (70) * inode0 (59) * graphite6 (16) * chanchito (14) * jduncan (14) * zodbot (13) * kk4ewt (11) * nb (10) * ianweller (8) * farmerrob (4) * wrnash (2) * rbergeron (0) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot

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FAmNA Meeting Announcement (04 September 2012)
by inode0 03 Sep '12

03 Sep '12

Please join us for our weekly FAmNA meeting this Tuesday at 9:00pm Eastern in #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net. I'd like to remind everyone that it is important for us to get some work accomplished at these meetings and staying on the topic is important to that end. All comments are welcome from ambassadors during the meetings but please wait until the Open Floor to add any subject matter not included in the meeting agenda via a ticket. Feel free to add to the agenda. The easy way to add an agenda item is described at the bottom of this announcement. Especially if you have an event coming up that needs some attention. == Meeting Agenda == === Announcements === Time for brief announcements. === Orientation Topics === After giving this some thought I have concluded there is way too much material for one meeting so we'll add one or two topics each week until we have everything covered. Please add topics or suggest future topics for us to cover. * ??? === Tickets === Tickets scheduled for discussion at this meeting can be found at https://fedorahosted.org/famna/report/9 Please read through each ticket in advance so you can be prepared to discuss them at the meeting. === Open Floor === Unscheduled topics can be raised during the open floor if time permits. Discussion of any topic will generally be more productive if participants know about the topics in advance and have some time to think about them, so please add your topics to the meeting agenda in the ticket system when possible. If you would like to add a topic for discussion at our meetings please open a ticket at https://fedorahosted.org/famna/ and set its milestone to meeting. Thanks, John

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New Trojan Threatens Mac OS X, Linux Machines
by Danishka Navin 03 Sep '12

03 Sep '12

Is this true? (for Linux) http://news.efytimes.com/e1/89929/New-Trojan-Threatens-Mac-OS-X-Linux-Machi… Btw, I could not find any source other than this. Thanks, -- Danishka Navin http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/danishkanavin http://www.flickr.com/photos/danishkanavin/

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REMINDER French Fedora Meeting Today #fedora-meeting-1
by Reminder 03 Sep '12

03 Sep '12

This mail is a reminder for today's meeting for the French speaking community. 2012-09-03 / 20:30 (hour of Paris) IRC: freenode #fedora-meeting-1 Ce mail est un rappel pour la réunion de la communauté francophone, qui aura lieu ce lundi ( 3 septembre) à 20h30 heure de Paris sur IRC (freenode) #fedora-meeting-1 . L'ordre du jour est disponible depuis cette page : http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Réunions_hebdomadaires_de_la_French_team N'hésitez pas à le modifier pour rajouter des sujets qui vous semblent intéressants. Merci de répondre à ce message en cas d'indisponibilité.

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APAC Guideline for Fund Requests/ Reimbursements
by Buddhike Kurera 02 Sep '12

02 Sep '12

Hello FAms, As per the discussion we had at the last FAmSCo meeting, I have drafted a guideline for Fund requests/ Reimbursement Process in APAC. Please do visit the following link and add your suggestions to the discussion/talk page in the wiki. I am planning to make the page live and effective from September 7th if there is no major concerns. Please do add your suggestions before the above mentioned date. In summary there is no huge changes for the process we have, but limits, advanced payments and a position, "Budget Wrangler" were introduced. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/APAC/Reimbursement Further Readings: https://fedorahosted.org/famsco/ticket/281 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Herlo/Reimbursement_Process -- Regards, Buddhike Chandradeepa Kurera (bckurera) Email: bckurera(a)fedoraproject.org | IRC: bckurera | User: Bckurera

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APAC Bi-Weekly meeting Minutes, Saturday, September 1st, 2012 at 04:00 UTC
by ekoikhyar 02 Sep '12

02 Sep '12

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