ambassadors December 2015

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REMINDER: EMEA Ambassadors Meeting 2015-12-09
by Giannis Konstantinidis 08 Dec '15

08 Dec '15

Hey EMEA Ambassadors, we're going to have our regular meeting tomorrow. See below for more info: * Date: Wednesday, December 9th, 2015 * Time: 21:00 UTC * Location: #fedora-meeting@freenode * Meeting Agenda: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:EMEA_Ambassadors_2015-12-09#Agenda If you have any requests that need to be discussed during the meeting, make sure to file a ticket on trac. See you all there :) -Giannis -- Giannis Konstantinidis giannis(a)konstantinidis.cc http://konstantinidis.cc giannisk on irc.freenode.net

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Budget, Objectives, Ambassadors, Events, Swag, and Media
by Matthew Miller 08 Dec '15

08 Dec '15

Okay, I promised to take this to the list, so here it is. The budget for this year (FY16) is the same it was last year. The budget request to our sponsor for next year (FY17, which goes from March '16 to February '17) was the same again, but we need to plan for the fact that it's likely to come back lower — even though Flock is likely to be more expensive and we'd _like_ to do more things. (We probably won't know until January or February. ¹) I'd _really_ like to ask for increasing amounts as Fedora grows and as we invest to grow Fedora. This goes for fundraising beyond Red Hat as well (for sponsorships for things like Flock, but need not be limited to that). Remy and I have been working hard to do what we can, but we need your help. I really _want_ and support the idea of making many decisions at the regional and even local levels. You know what works on the ground. At the same time, those decisions _need_ to connect up to broader project goals, and they _should_ connect across and coordinate with other parts of the project, for efficiency and for consistant message. If you haven't seen the blog post I wrote about objectives, please see: * http://fedoramagazine.org/lets-talk-about-fedora-project-objectives/ If you have something you're interested in that you feel benefits Fedora, _awesome_, do it. As long as it fits within our Foundations, you don't need anyone's permission and there won't be any "veto". ² But, if you want to use Fedora resources — money, other people's time, but also including speaking for the project as a representative — please, please, be mindful of these connections. If you can draw a line from what you're doing directly up to the Objectives the Council is working on, that's _very_ powerful, and helps _me_ and Remy, and the rest of Fedora leadership in lending our weight to supporting you. If the things you're interested in don't really connect to the collective project strategy, again, see above: there's room in Fedora for all kinds of different ideas and directions. But, we have limited resources. To put this in concrete terms, if the overall strategy calls for growing Fedora beyond traditional Linuxfests and appealing directly to developers and to sysadmins in new ways, but Ambassadors want to spend the bulk of effort on those traditional things, we need to put the money elsewhere. That might sound like a threat, and it kind of is, but not necessarily the way it sounds. It's not a threat to stop doing what you're interested in. It's a threat to _get involved in connecting this up_, and the consequence for not doing it isn't arbitrary punishment. The consequence is that Fedora gets less attention and resources because we're not making an impact with what we have. The super-awesome thing about Fedora is that these objectives and strategy aren't dictated to us from corporate overlords. Of course, when it comes to budget, Red Hat is our primary sponsor, and we certainly need to take those needs into account as stakeholder. But there's no secret agenda there: in fact, it's public: * http://www.slideshare.net/mattdm-fedora/flock-2015-what-does-red-hat-want * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb3zTQMJggo Most importantly, keeping the sponsor happy isn't the only goal. *You* are a stakeholder too, and I am too independent of my employment. ³ In our new governance model, the Council's *primary* role is "to identify the short, medium, and long term goals of the Fedora community and to organize and enable the project to best achieve them". That's the "Objectives" I mentioned above. ⁴ If there's something which you believe can be demonstrated to measurably advance Fedora which we're _not_ convering but should, we have room for that! Write up a proposal, rally some people behind it, convince the Council that it will work — and then make it work, with the full weight of _everything_ behind you. ---- 1. See this page Remy is working on for refinements and improvements to the budget process: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Budget.next 2. Since it came up in IRC, please note that the "FPL veto" is no longer part of the governance model. See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Council#Historical_Note 3. Red Hat has an awesome clause in our employment contracts, by the way: when working on an open source project, we're instructed to make decisions in the interest of the project even if they differ from Red Hat's interests. 4. More at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Council#Responsibilities and http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Council#Objective_Leads -- Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader

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Re: REMINDER French Fedora Meeting Today #fedora-meeting-1
by Alexandre Moine 07 Dec '15

07 Dec '15

Bonjour à tous, Je ne pourrai pas assister à la réunion de ce soir. En bref, les rencontres Fedora 23 avaient lieu samedi dernier. Tout c'est bien passé, il y avait pas mal de personne (malgré un emplacement au deuxième sous sol avec assez peu d'indications...) J'ai pu donné une mini conférence de présentation de Fedora et Jean Baptiste a ensuite donné une conférence vraiment intéressante sur la traduction, qui a intéressé un petit groupe de personnes (4/5). Je compte rédiger un petit contre rendu pour le wiki dès que j'ai un peu de temps. Alexandre Le 7 déc. 2015 8:30 AM, "Reminder" <reminder(a)fedora-fr.org> a écrit : > > This mail is a reminder for today's meeting for the French speaking community. > > 2015-12-07 / 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 ( 7 décembre) 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. > -- > ambassadors mailing list > ambassadors(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/ambassadors@lists.fedoraproject.…

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[APAC] F 24 Ambassadors' tasks
by P J P 05 Dec '15

05 Dec '15

Please see: -> https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-24/f-24-ambassadors-tasks.html --- -P J P http://feedmug.com

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Fedora-Latam Minutes 2015-12-05
by Alex Irmel Oviedo Solis 05 Dec '15

05 Dec '15

<@zodbot> Meeting ended Sun Dec 6 00:33:16 2015 UTC. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot . <@zodbot> Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-2/2015-12-06/fedora-latam_m… <@zodbot> Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-2/2015-12-06/fedora-latam_m… <@zodbot> Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-2/2015-12-06/fedora-latam_m…

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Accommodation issue during FAD Singapore 2015
by Danishka Navin 05 Dec '15

05 Dec '15

Hi Tuan, This is to inform you that, I was not responsible for accommodation issue of Prima Yogi and Sirko. 01. We had a deadline for accommodation booking on 23rd of November 2015. But Prima's traveling was not confirmed at the time we booked accommodation. 02. As Izhar is the one who holding the credit card, he agreed to book accommodation for those who confimed with their travel. 03. Some how Izhar could not manage the booking due to authorization issue. see the irc chat in #fedora-fad ------------------------- <KageSenshi> processing <hanthana> thanks <KageSenshi> ugh .. "unable to authorize payment" <hanthana> eh <KageSenshi> that includes paypal * harish has quit (Quit: Leaving) <hanthana> credit cards should work <KageSenshi> hanthana, i've been facing trouble to do online transaction using the card <KageSenshi> it seems like having some region lock of some sort <hanthana> KageSenshi, do the accept pay pal? <KageSenshi> hanthana, i tried paypal just now, rejected <KageSenshi> both card and paypal rejected <hanthana> KageSenshi, I can book but not interested in waiting so long to settle accounts :) <KageSenshi> hanthana, book and immediately reimburse lor <hanthana> haha <hanthana> sure I can ---------------------------------- 04. I did updated the wiki for all the people those who got accommodation booked by myself [1] 05. I sent one last mail (with a link to the ticket I have opned [2]) before I was flying back to Sri Lanka and I clearly mentioned only 7 people had the accommodation. 06. On 24th November 2015, you have initiated a mail with the subject of "Tickets for Yogi and Izhar", where you can see there was no such confirmaton. 07. I wonder why Prima did not check his accommodation status in the wiki [1] before start flying. May be he so, exited to only travel but not other things. :) 08. As we did the booking over AirBnB, I could not book accommodation for someone not confimed his travel. But you (Tuan as one of organizer), Prima himself could book his accommodation directly though the AirBnB on same hostel. 09. It was not nice to use Sirko's booking for Prima instead of booking accommodation for Prima. What if that hostel houseful at the time last person rich? So, please do not try to pass the ball on to myside. Moreover, you suggest to invite David and we stuck with his slow response. I would like to remind you that under what policy you make invite David? Because he was not active last few years but you were not happy with Kalpa (from Sri Lanka). As the FAMSCO representative for APAC you should have equal interest on all counties. You must understand that you are here to help and take care of all the Ambassador in our regional issues but not just entertain your friends. As you are one of the candidate for current election, I wonder how you gonna make APAC contribution, communication and culture better than before. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Singapore_2015#Planning_Prerequisites [2] https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/ticket/657 Thanks, -- Danishka Navin http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/danishkanavin http://www.flickr.com/photos/danishkanavin/

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Fedora t-shirts for users
by Jiri Eischmann 04 Dec '15

04 Dec '15

Hi, as I said at Flock, I'd like to make t-shirts who would not only be for contributors, but also for users. At events such as FOSDEM, we meet a lot of loyal, long-term users who beg us for t-shirts. We cannot sell them, but we give them away in limited numbers (say <= per one large event). I've asked Masha of the design team to make some design for us. And here are some mockups: https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/406 I'd like to hear from others how they like them or if they have different suggestions. Jiri

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[Fedocal] Reminder meeting : APAC Ambassadors
by Truong Anh Tuan 03 Dec '15

03 Dec '15

Dear all, You are kindly invited to the meeting: APAC Ambassadors on 2015-12-05 from 04:00:00 to 05:00:00 UTC At fedora-meeting(a)irc.freenode.net The meeting will be about: Bi-weekly meeting to discuss issues and planning for the Fedora Ambassadors in APAC. Please kindly check out meeting agenda at: [https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-apac/report/9] (https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-apac/report/9) and add your owned topic by openning a new Trac ticket with "meeting" keyword. More information available at: [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/APAC] (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/APAC) Source: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/meeting/328/

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FAMNA Meeting minutes 12-3-2015
by Andrew Ward 03 Dec '15

03 Dec '15

All, Please review our meeting from 3 Dec 2015 Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2015-12-04/famna.2015-12-04… Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2015-12-04/famna.2015-12-04… Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2015-12-04/famna.2015-12-04… -- V/R Andrew Ward award3535(a)fedoraproject.org award3535(a)tds.net award3535(a)gmail.com

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[APAC] Listing events/activities from each country
by Truong Anh Tuan 01 Dec '15

01 Dec '15

Dear all FAD APAC Singapore 2015 participants, Thank you all for your participating to FAD APAC Singapore 2015. As you know, one of the main purposes [1] of this FAD is to make budget planning for all events and activities in APAC next FY2017. FAD is coming. We have just a week left to it. So please take a while to discuss with your fellows to list events and activities in each your APAC country to Events page [2]. You should consider previous events/activities, especially ones in the last FY2016 [3] to make your list. Another thing should be considered is the strategy to improve the community activities. As it is also the other main purposes of this FAD I suggest you write those ideas down then bring them to discuss about a better strategy/plan for APAC for growing up the community. Any more ideas, comments are welcome. There are only two days for us to complete these two big purposes so we should try our best to do it before. See you all next weekend. Rgds, Tuan [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Singapore_2015#Purpose [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Singapore_2015/Events [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/APAC/Budget:2016

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