====================================================== #fedora-meeting-2: FAD EMEA Ambassadors 2014 Rheinland ====================================================== Meeting started by jreznik at 08:28:20 UTC. The full logs are available at http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-2/2014-12-06/fad-emea-ambassadors-2014-rheinland.2014-12-06-08.28.log.html . Meeting summary --------------- * Welcome by Felix (jreznik, 08:29:45) * Felix welcomed us in Leverkusen and a beautiful seminar hotel (jreznik, 08:30:19) * Miro shared last night his limited beer with all of us; thanks to Miro (GeroldKa, 08:31:20) * country reports - Germany (jreznik, 08:35:29) * 29 ambassadors in germany, half of them active, growing very slowly (jreznik, 08:36:03) * small number of core ambassadors (typical suspects here) (jreznik, 08:36:23) * 7 events german guys do attend regurarly (+more events), 1-2 release parties per year (jreznik, 08:37:18) * 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) * 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) * German ambassadors active also in non-german events (jreznik, 08:41:57) * budget went up (jreznik, 08:43:15) * budget is under control of sesivany (jreznik, 08:43:47) * websites reported in slides (jreznik, 08:44:49) * reviving fedoraforum and fedorausers/other websites under fpo but question about policies (jreznik, 08:48:09) * country reports - Czech Republic (jreznik, 09:02:29) * 5 ambassadors officially but Francesco moved to Germany, Marek Mahut is not active for years (jreznik, 09:02:58) * we will have one more contributor, former Ubuntu guy (jreznik, 09:03:44) * we don't want many ambassadors but commitment is more important (jreznik, 09:04:07) * but there are many non official contributors helping with booths, events etc. (jreznik, 09:05:16) * two big conferences LinuxDays in Prague and OpenAlt in Brno (jreznik, 09:05:36) * sesivany as part of his job goes to universities (5-6 hundred of students) (jreznik, 09:06:16) * fedora.cz websites, it's active, articles in weekly basis, calendar of events (jreznik, 09:08:13) * forum is communication thing, solving less issues -> ask fpo (with language support) (jreznik, 09:09:11) * devconf is bigger than the other too, it's not local event (jreznik, 09:15:56) * fedora day - 3rd day of devconf (jreznik, 09:16:14) * country reports - Netherlands (Mexico;-) (jreznik, 09:20:30) * two active ambassadors, ruben and patrick (jreznik, 09:23:10) * main events discussed on slides (jreznik, 09:23:56) * goals - recruit one more ambassador, include flanders outside Netherlands, approach younger folks (jreznik, 09:26:05) * country reports - Italy (jreznik, 09:29:25) * robyduck speaking (jreznik, 09:31:00) * 17 ambassadors, 3 very active, 6 active (jreznik, 09:31:29) * for robyduck's status, please see titanpad... (jreznik, 09:36:57) * websites it.fedoracommunity.org (jreznik, 09:37:48) * country reports - Switzerland (jreznik, 09:43:16) * 5 ambassadors, 0 events, 0 effort (jreznik, 09:59:34) * country reports - Greece (jreznik, 10:03:47) * 12 ambassadors, 6 active (jreznik, 10:05:05) * events - fosscomm (greek foss communities meetup) (jreznik, 10:07:00) * events - workshop in universities (jreznik, 10:07:12) * greek ambassadors active outside Greece (jreznik, 10:10:44) * Fedora.Next means a lot opportunities - to approrach new people etc (jreznik, 10:12:34) * country reports - Hungary (remotely) (jreznik, 10:18:09) * 6 ambassadors, only 1 inactive (jreznik, 10:19:53) * Zoltan is mentoring ambassadors in Africa (jreznik, 10:20:08) * Levex organized his first big event OSOL Szeged (jreznik, 10:23:25) * RGeri77 - idea for swag: Fedora soap (jreznik, 10:25:48) * country report - Russia (jreznik, 10:26:00) * core group of 10 people, jabber conference and websites (jreznik, 10:26:47) * separate translators community (jreznik, 10:26:59) * biggest task RFRemix and russianfedora-repos (jreznik, 10:27:27) * events - russian open source summit, linux vacation eastern europe (jreznik, 10:29:46) * other events - release parties, systemd meetup, PyCon Russia (jreznik, 10:32:44) * country reports - Burkina Faso (jreznik, 10:33:50) * one active contributor - Constantin (jreznik, 10:34:02) * events - SFD 2014, Install party (Fedora 20) (jreznik, 10:34:21) * plans for 17 december - national internet day, teaching children to use Fedora (jreznik, 10:34:56) * discussion of country reports (jreznik, 10:37:06) * Discussion about new Fedora products (sesivany, 10:59:35) * Budget (jreznik, 11:01:42) * sesivany talks about budget (jreznik, 11:04:33) * we got $12215, we spent $4738 but cwickert still have some expenses to file (jreznik, 11:05:15) * no media production in Q2 (F21 was postponed) (jreznik, 11:10:26) * Q3 is not yet finished (as for expenses side) (jreznik, 11:11:06) * Q3 swag - new Fedora stickers, badges in production (jreznik, 11:14:04) * Q4 has just started (FSF-OSSC, FOSDEM) (jreznik, 11:14:30) * F21 media production (jreznik, 11:15:49) * Events planning (jreznik, 11:26:38) * more details in the etherpad (jreznik, 11:28:04) * New target audiences for ambassadors (jreznik, 13:38:04) * cwickert is giving his presentation - watch the stream (jreznik, 13:45:17) * LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:Fedora_photo_scan.jpg (biker, 16:18:06) * LINK: 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. 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