03:57:00 #startmeeting 03:57:00 Meeting started Sun Nov 16 03:57:00 2014 UTC. The chair is tuanta. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 03:57:00 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 03:57:26 #topic FUDCon 03:58:35 #idea (gnokii) it is best to have the location of the next FUDCon to announce at the current FUDCon 03:59:14 #info this topic would be back later 03:59:40 #topic Events and Activities in FY2016 04:00:43 #info Release Parties and some other events added, so the total planned now is $25,500 04:00:49 we will talk about topics such as swag, premium goodies(t-shirts), paypal transaction fee. 04:00:57 zsun: do we miss anything? 04:01:08 I can not find my log yesterday 04:01:27 alick, which logs? 04:01:41 this one? http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-fad/2014-11-15/fedora-fad.2014-11-15-02.26.html 04:02:41 tuanta: oh yeah, thx you :) 04:02:47 alick: sorry that I am doing sth else just now 04:04:03 you'd better offer tuanta and other offline guys chair so that they can help you 04:04:07 alick: ^^ 04:04:17 #chair zsun alick 04:04:17 Current chairs: alick tuanta zsun 04:04:44 #chair gnokii siddhesh somvannda_ botreynisa banas KageSenshi hanthana amitshah_ 04:04:45 Current chairs: KageSenshi alick amitshah_ banas botreynisa gnokii hanthana siddhesh somvannda_ tuanta zsun 04:06:10 the event table is now updated with budget amounts 04:06:35 #topic Swags 04:06:54 we had two additional late entries, one for an open source developer event in vietname ($200) and Fedora release parties ($2000) 04:07:07 so the total is now at $25,500 04:09:59 staring with the simpler swag 04:10:15 I suggest we raise more ideas on swag 04:10:45 gnokii showing some swag emea produced this year: stickers, case badges, pens, pins and badges 04:11:09 In China before, we usually send out DVDs and stickers, but they are less popular and DVD is a little bit expensive 04:11:18 great. 04:12:22 ( gnokii ) DVDs are a bit complex, so skip it now 04:12:43 (gnokii) t-shirts are expensive, so we may not have budget for it 04:12:50 oh 04:13:16 coins is a great idea if possible 04:13:22 I'll find the ticket for that 04:13:38 zsun, how much do they cost? 04:13:48 not sure 04:13:59 I just find that from design team wiki 04:14:04 s/wiki/tickets 04:14:33 https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/171 04:19:54 https://www.piratepad.ca/p/FADPhnomPenh2014 04:20:16 here is the photo of the keychain we produced this year for SFD https://zsun.fedorapeople.org/pub/photos/SFD2014-photo-of-keychain-and-dvd.JPG 04:24:55 * zsun afk for a while 04:26:11 zsun_afk: ? 04:26:38 ? 04:26:50 alick: just ready to leave 04:27:02 zsun_afk: how much is one keychain you made? 04:27:16 about CNY 2 04:27:29 but postage is not covered since it is heavy 04:27:44 CNY 2 = 1/3 USD 04:27:57 yes 04:28:30 ( gnokii ) suggests focusing on swags like pins, buttons, case stickers. 04:28:38 +1 04:28:59 #info keychain produced at CNY 2 ~ US $0.33 04:29:37 I'll find other affordable swag within China during the following events in China 04:35:25 #idea produce swags in Red Hat Singapore for easier shipping it to other countries (similar to what EMEA doing) 04:42:01 it would be cheaper to produce all swag in one place and ship everywhere, subject to customs 04:42:30 * zsun_mob on mobile 04:42:49 we should consider the postage if so 04:43:54 and what can/can't be posted by customs 04:45:05 #action all ambassadors to come up with the cheapest quote for swag 04:45:06 Shipping DVDs is a problem in Vietnam since customs need to check if there is any bad information inside 04:45:15 such as, dvd is not allowed to be posted into and outof China 04:45:32 zsun_afk: yes? 04:45:34 zsun_mob, there same here 04:45:43 zsun_afk: then how ubuntu free media works in the past? 04:46:02 zsun_mob: then how ubuntu free media works in the past? 04:46:19 very few 04:46:32 especially after2010 04:46:53 before 04:46:55 OK 04:46:58 got the idea 04:47:13 before 2009it works well for cn 04:47:14 actually DVDs are losing popularity anyway 04:47:23 yes 04:47:41 and not cheap (4cny at least) 04:54:45 talking about event boxes 04:56:08 yeah 04:56:17 i like that idea 04:57:13 gnokii is against the idea since it does not work in Europe 04:58:18 and 've been thinking build my own one for events for a long time 04:58:34 ooops 04:59:55 alick I personally thinks it is a good idea. but I think it should be kept in one place that always holding events, just like we gather event resources into your lab. 05:02:45 business cards for ambassadors: 05:03:00 they can pay for it themselves if they feel the need for business cards 05:03:11 not covered by the fedora budget 05:03:31 I pay for my own since it is not expensive and not reasonable to ask for budget 05:08:09 in Phnom Penh the business card cost only 7$-8$ for hundreds 05:08:46 me too, i paid my own 05:08:46 about usd $4-8 for about 500 pcs 05:08:55 that's cheap 05:10:55 making actions about collecting price info about swags 05:11:02 ok 05:11:08 setting the deadline to Jan 1st 2015 05:11:15 ok, sounds good 05:11:21 enough time for me to dive in 05:16:01 it will be lunch time soon 05:16:09 ok. 05:16:23 you can end the call or keep it as-is. 05:16:43 somvannda_ suggesting reserving budget for unplanned event 05:16:51 good idea 05:16:54 gnokii is against the idea. 05:16:59 o? 05:17:31 if we've planned everything, it's ok 05:27:53 im afraid that we will miss some importance opportunities 05:32:24 I'm late, but on the DVD issue: most new laptops / desktops don't come with optical drives; let's just keep a few blank DVDs and burn them ourselves if there's need for someone? These days, downloading 1G of isos isn't a huge deal, too. 05:32:39 saves on production cost 05:46:37 * alick lunch time 05:47:17 ok 06:43:51 ... and we're back from lunch 06:44:01 we'll soon start talking about transaction fees 06:44:11 #topic transaction fees for reimbursements 06:47:33 #info estimated swag cost is about $9,500 and media cost is about $8,500 then the total now is $43,500 06:48:02 #idea we should cut it down to a half by setting the priority for each item 06:48:45 transaction fees are too high currently. 4.4% + $0.3 06:48:52 ooops 06:48:56 such high 06:50:00 action talk to FPL to get a letter that we are a non-profit, which paypal will accept to waive the transaction fees 06:50:07 siddhesh: use #action 06:50:15 #action talk to FPL to get a letter that we are a non-profit, which paypal will accept to waive the transaction fees 06:50:15 #action talk to FPL to get a letter that we are a non-profit, which paypal will accept to waive the transaction fees 06:50:21 #undo 06:50:21 Removing item from minutes: ACTION by tuanta at 06:50:15 : talk to FPL to get a letter that we are a non-profit, which paypal will accept to waive the transaction fees 06:55:36 ( gnokii ) some countries like cambodia simply do not accept paypal 06:59:32 withdraw from Paypal to CN bank account will take USD $35 + bank fee I think. (fees caused by USD--CNY not included) 07:02:33 zsun, but what you do not want to be included is the biggest one, I think :) 07:04:34 I just not familiar with transaction since most of the times Alick handle it before. Now I just keep money in paypal so that I do not lose any 07:06:02 tuanta: yes. What I do not want is $35 07:23:51 #action talk with FPL if we can get a US western union account that is attached to KageSenshi's credit card .. need a US phone number to register one 07:24:43 #idea opening another PayPal account for Izhar using his community card but an US account which includes the feature to cover transaction fees by sender 07:25:26 alick and others, firefox hello dropped so I can just attend by IRC now 07:25:27 tuanta, that might trigger security alert in paypal -> 2 account with same card number 07:25:45 KageSenshi, no. I did that normally 07:26:01 tuanta, 2 account with same credit card? 07:26:07 #idea other idea is we can collect all PayPal transaction fee receipts then get that difference reimbursed once per year 07:26:12 KageSenshi, yes 07:26:25 hurm ok 07:26:50 KageSenshi, or you can close the old (MY) PayPal account before open a new one (US) 07:27:04 tuanta, same email? 07:27:17 I don't think so 07:27:36 it is not difficult to get another email address 07:28:11 it could be apac-cc@f.o or something 07:29:05 we even can have more people to share the same responsibility to make reimbursement 07:29:26 by sharing that PayPal account 07:29:59 but in that way we should consider account security. 07:30:39 yes, zsun. but it is the same (high) level as giving cc to someone 07:31:05 that should be trusted people 07:31:44 I do not mean people. I consider mostly the network and software env 07:32:09 ok, let discuss as we have only one person 07:32:29 since we can control who knows the account. But it'll be harder to make sure that their network is safe enough 07:32:36 it is exactly the same as the current situation 07:32:41 ok 07:33:05 we still need to use PayPal 07:38:47 #topic materials 07:39:16 find out who has what materials 07:41:02 Materials Inventory Link: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD:PhnomPenh_2014/Materials 07:41:11 #action ambassadors to coordinate addition of materials they have to the inventory list ^^ 07:41:45 #undo 07:41:45 Removing item from minutes: ACTION by siddhesh at 07:41:11 : ambassadors to coordinate addition of materials they have to the inventory list ^^ 07:41:59 #action ambassadors to coordinate addition of materials they have to the inventory list: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD:PhnomPenh_2014/Materials 07:42:41 add pictures of the materials too 07:46:33 #action tuanta to bring up branding for smaller contributor/developer related events. (siddhesh): Call them Fedora Contributor Meetup or Fedora User Meetup? 07:46:44 #undo 07:46:44 Removing item from minutes: ACTION by siddhesh at 07:46:33 : tuanta to bring up branding for smaller contributor/developer related events. (siddhesh): Call them Fedora Contributor Meetup or Fedora User Meetup? 07:47:03 #action tuanta to bring up branding for smaller contributor/developer related events at the FAMSCo meeting. (siddhesh): Call them Fedora Contributor Meetup or Fedora User Meetup? 07:47:16 zsun: do you have a ticket waiting for approval? 07:47:22 yes 07:47:39 https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-apac/ticket/162 07:47:49 #action tuanta to bring up branding for smaller contributor/developer related events at the FAMSCo meeting. (siddhesh): Call them Fedora Contributor Meetup or Fedora User Meetup? 07:49:08 alick: it joint event as I told you. 07:50:56 ( gnokii ) suggest apac tickets are not suitable topic for this FAD 07:51:10 ok 07:51:21 so I'll have to wait 07:51:26 ( gnokii ) tuanta or KageSenshi should be able approve it directly if it is not too much 07:51:50 say, less than $300 07:51:59 #link https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/APAC/Reimbursement 07:52:56 zsun: you do not need to specify so many digits in USD. that does not make sense. 07:53:07 like 16.269USD ... 07:53:09 oops. Ok. 07:53:23 I will avoid this the next time 07:53:37 zsun: when is the event? 07:53:48 * tuanta will do right now, zsun :) 07:53:50 Nov 29th, 07:54:45 29th, if there is no issue with the hall. We'll announce it as soon as we find the proper place 07:54:50 zsun, can you put up a wiki page, or some website / link with details of the event? (or something that'll assure me that it is a real event) 07:55:32 ok. And I'll do this later (maybe later today or tomorrow) since now I have difficulties in accessing websites 07:55:36 29th nov.. thats really near, you have time to announce the event? 07:56:56 KageSenshi: We've been preparing for this for about two weeks. And we already start to communicating with LUGs already 07:57:43 so I think we have enough to do so. 08:00:33 I think the current topic is free discussion ;) 08:00:43 thanks 08:23:06 amitshah_: I think you mentioned OpenShift yesterday. If available, I'd like to know what's your idea of having Fedora more direct involving in OpenShift 08:28:03 +1 08:30:56 zsun, possibly for .my and certain markets .. where devs are more interested with stack & apps rather than platform .. we need to figure out a way where we can get contributors in this new landscape 08:33:42 KageSenshi: as you may know, OpenShift is on Amazon AWS, which is not working well within mainland China. And I just wonder if OpenShift is really an active community and if they really treat Fedora related bugs in consideration enough. As I know, most Fedora related bugs for OpenShift are Low/Low 08:34:25 zsun, openshift 'community' right now is primarily RH employees i think .. 08:34:55 openshift origin -> you can run on your own private platform 08:35:25 KageSenshi: Yes, I think so. I seldom see active push from community 08:36:13 in place like .MY .. where people doesnt care about OS anymore ... i dont see much to recruit besides getting ppl to use OpenShift 08:36:32 devs here mostly dont manage their own infra anymore 08:36:45 everything is either on AWS or Heroku 08:36:48 or some cloud service 08:37:12 fedora (and bunch of distro) communities are becoming irrelevant in current market 08:37:17 at least here 08:37:24 i mean .. at least in .MY 08:37:37 OS is less popular here in .CN too. 08:38:05 people now cares about tools, stacks and apps 08:38:17 OS is just a platform to run these tools, stacks and apps 08:38:52 i want to see if theres ways we can use openshift to keep ourselves relevant 08:39:27 KageSenshi: so maybe it's a good idea to document how we can use OpenShift in Fedora well? 08:39:57 using openshift or running openshift? XD 08:40:15 Running, of course XD 08:40:18 using openshift in fedora -> the docs on the rhc command in openshift.com is good enough 08:40:19 XD 08:40:31 the rest is just -> devs focus on developing apps .. 08:40:39 git push .. openshift handle the rest 08:40:40 XD 08:41:04 also .. openshift origin is built for CentOS mainly XD 08:41:42 fedora is too fast of a moving target for development of enterprise cloud platform .. 08:42:08 (which, from conversation with harish .. is one of the reason RH now sponsoring CentOS) 08:42:10 Yes I know that well. Before Red Hat announce to sponsor CentOS, they build OpenShift Origin on Fedora 19 08:42:23 I think so, and so do oVirt 08:42:47 RH need a stable platform for driving the development of enterprise add-ons to RHEL .. 08:42:58 openstack, ovirt, openshift etc 08:44:03 I'll meet an OpenShift Dev next month. Hope I can get more info from him 08:44:24 yeah ... this existential issue is bugging me in .MY 08:44:33 i run Python event -> lots of attendees 08:44:39 i run Fedora event -> 5 ppl 08:44:43 -_-" 08:45:24 it kills the motivation .. and i'm somewhat holding the fort of fedora.my 08:45:53 as everyone else moves on to the stacks/apps startup communities 08:46:51 it's not an openshift event next month. Just a personal meetup. So I can have free talk with him. And it is the same in most events in .CN . Most guys for OS related meetings are Sys Admins rather than Dev 08:47:38 while SysAdmin focus more on CentOS/RHEL rather than Fedora. It's horrible for local community 08:47:43 yeah 08:48:26 zsun, if you get useful input from that dev .. do tell me 08:48:36 I will 08:49:01 at the moment, i see openshift (and to some extend, bigdata) is the only way for us to remain relevant 08:51:12 cloud and big data is the trend these days, while we are not sure how to keep it up with Linux communities. I hope if the Cloud SIG or Bigdata SIG do have some idea 08:52:14 http://hortonworks.com/blog/openshift-v3-kubernetes-docker-hadoop-yarn/ 08:52:22 openshift v3 is going to run on hadoop XD 08:52:59 the challenge of cloud/bigdata brought to the OS communities like us is that it turns OS transparent to the users 08:58:48 it's not a bad thing for users, but not a good news for communities. community members in .CN I think mostly are users rather than sys admin or dev. So it's even worse 08:59:41 yeah 09:04:06 #topic Distributing Ambassador Polo Shirts 09:04:55 Now we will distribute them as noted in the wiki 09:05:00 #link https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD:PhnomPenh_2014/shirts 09:05:30 #idea ( siddhesh ) with some reserved ones for new ambassadors (in each country) 09:06:33 #idea ( gnokii ) EMEA send a new polo shirt for a new ambassador. He/she needs open a Trac ticket to request 09:07:25 #idea ( gnokii ) and in EMEA, ambassadors get a new one after each three years (because the old one is too old) 09:12:33 #idea ( siddhesh ) kick butt of vietnamese ambassadors 09:12:42 #action kicking butts of vietnamese ambassadors ;) 01:48:11 #endmeeting