#fedora-meeting-2: FAD EMEA Ambassadors 2014 Rheinland

Meeting started by jreznik at 08:28:20 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

  1. Welcome by Felix (jreznik, 08:29:45)
    1. Felix welcomed us in Leverkusen and a beautiful seminar hotel (jreznik, 08:30:19)
    2. Miro shared last night his limited beer with all of us; thanks to Miro (GeroldKa, 08:31:20)

  2. country reports - Germany (jreznik, 08:35:29)
    1. 29 ambassadors in germany, half of them active, growing very slowly (jreznik, 08:36:03)
    2. small number of core ambassadors (typical suspects here) (jreznik, 08:36:23)
    3. 7 events german guys do attend regurarly (+more events), 1-2 release parties per year (jreznik, 08:37:18)
    4. linuxtag is smaller now, not many people interested in it anymore, it moved and they are trying something new (together with two other events) (jreznik, 08:38:13)
    5. cwickert would like to attract new audience (aka devassistant with android support), go to focus events and say why Fedora is great distro for them (jreznik, 08:40:34)
    6. German ambassadors active also in non-german events (jreznik, 08:41:57)
    7. budget went up (jreznik, 08:43:15)
    8. budget is under control of sesivany (jreznik, 08:43:47)
    9. websites reported in slides (jreznik, 08:44:49)
    10. reviving fedoraforum and fedorausers/other websites under fpo but question about policies (jreznik, 08:48:09)

  3. country reports - Czech Republic (jreznik, 09:02:29)
    1. 5 ambassadors officially but Francesco moved to Germany, Marek Mahut is not active for years (jreznik, 09:02:58)
    2. we will have one more contributor, former Ubuntu guy (jreznik, 09:03:44)
    3. we don't want many ambassadors but commitment is more important (jreznik, 09:04:07)
    4. but there are many non official contributors helping with booths, events etc. (jreznik, 09:05:16)
    5. two big conferences LinuxDays in Prague and OpenAlt in Brno (jreznik, 09:05:36)
    6. sesivany as part of his job goes to universities (5-6 hundred of students) (jreznik, 09:06:16)
    7. fedora.cz websites, it's active, articles in weekly basis, calendar of events (jreznik, 09:08:13)
    8. forum is communication thing, solving less issues -> ask fpo (with language support) (jreznik, 09:09:11)
    9. devconf is bigger than the other too, it's not local event (jreznik, 09:15:56)
    10. fedora day - 3rd day of devconf (jreznik, 09:16:14)

  4. country reports - Netherlands (Mexico;-) (jreznik, 09:20:30)
    1. two active ambassadors, ruben and patrick (jreznik, 09:23:10)
    2. main events discussed on slides (jreznik, 09:23:56)
    3. goals - recruit one more ambassador, include flanders outside Netherlands, approach younger folks (jreznik, 09:26:05)

  5. country reports - Italy (jreznik, 09:29:25)
    1. robyduck speaking (jreznik, 09:31:00)
    2. 17 ambassadors, 3 very active, 6 active (jreznik, 09:31:29)
    3. for robyduck's status, please see titanpad... (jreznik, 09:36:57)
    4. websites it.fedoracommunity.org (jreznik, 09:37:48)

  6. country reports - Switzerland (jreznik, 09:43:16)
    1. 5 ambassadors, 0 events, 0 effort (jreznik, 09:59:34)

  7. country reports - Greece (jreznik, 10:03:47)
    1. 12 ambassadors, 6 active (jreznik, 10:05:05)
    2. events - fosscomm (greek foss communities meetup) (jreznik, 10:07:00)
    3. events - workshop in universities (jreznik, 10:07:12)
    4. greek ambassadors active outside Greece (jreznik, 10:10:44)
    5. Fedora.Next means a lot opportunities - to approrach new people etc (jreznik, 10:12:34)

  8. country reports - Hungary (remotely) (jreznik, 10:18:09)
    1. 6 ambassadors, only 1 inactive (jreznik, 10:19:53)
    2. Zoltan is mentoring ambassadors in Africa (jreznik, 10:20:08)
    3. Levex organized his first big event OSOL Szeged (jreznik, 10:23:25)
    4. RGeri77 - idea for swag: Fedora soap (jreznik, 10:25:48)

  9. country report - Russia (jreznik, 10:26:00)
    1. core group of 10 people, jabber conference and websites (jreznik, 10:26:47)
    2. separate translators community (jreznik, 10:26:59)
    3. biggest task RFRemix and russianfedora-repos (jreznik, 10:27:27)
    4. events - russian open source summit, linux vacation eastern europe (jreznik, 10:29:46)
    5. other events - release parties, systemd meetup, PyCon Russia (jreznik, 10:32:44)

  10. country reports - Burkina Faso (jreznik, 10:33:50)
    1. one active contributor - Constantin (jreznik, 10:34:02)
    2. events - SFD 2014, Install party (Fedora 20) (jreznik, 10:34:21)
    3. plans for 17 december - national internet day, teaching children to use Fedora (jreznik, 10:34:56)

  11. discussion of country reports (jreznik, 10:37:06)
  12. Discussion about new Fedora products (sesivany, 10:59:35)
  13. Budget (jreznik, 11:01:42)
  14. sesivany talks about budget (jreznik, 11:04:33)
    1. we got $12215, we spent $4738 but cwickert still have some expenses to file (jreznik, 11:05:15)
    2. no media production in Q2 (F21 was postponed) (jreznik, 11:10:26)
    3. Q3 is not yet finished (as for expenses side) (jreznik, 11:11:06)
    4. Q3 swag - new Fedora stickers, badges in production (jreznik, 11:14:04)
    5. Q4 has just started (FSF-OSSC, FOSDEM) (jreznik, 11:14:30)
    6. F21 media production (jreznik, 11:15:49)

  15. Events planning (jreznik, 11:26:38)
    1. more details in the etherpad (jreznik, 11:28:04)
    2. New target audiences for ambassadors (jreznik, 13:38:04)
    3. cwickert is giving his presentation - watch the stream (jreznik, 13:45:17)
    4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:Fedora_photo_scan.jpg (biker, 16:18:06)
    5. http://www.saalfrank.de/Themen-Aktionen/Sparsets/Spielzeug-Sparsets/Werbe-Set-Enten-121-tlg.html (GeroldKa, 16:38:43)


Meeting ended at 17:18:28 UTC (full logs).

Action items

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