20:15:09 #startmeeting 20:15:09 Meeting started Wed Nov 4 20:15:09 2009 UTC. The chair is liknus. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 20:15:09 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 20:15:26 #meetingtopic EMEA Ambassadors Meeting 20:15:36 #topic Rollcall 20:15:50 Its on the topic guys :) RollCall! 20:15:59 .fas ppapadeas 20:16:00 liknus: ppapadeas 'Papadeas Pierros' 20:16:03 .fas ynemoy 20:16:04 loupgaroublond: ynemoy 'Yaakov Meir Nemoy' 20:16:19 JoergSimon 20:16:33 .fas cmpahar 20:16:33 cmpahar: cmpahar 'Christos Bacharakis' 20:17:23 .fas zoltanh721 20:17:24 zoltanh: zoltanh721 '' 20:18:09 Zoltanh721 'Zoltan Hoppar' 20:18:19 #topic FamSCo - Verification 20:18:35 kital anything particular from FamSCo? 20:18:50 yes 20:19:07 go ahead :) 20:19:45 we work on a summary of our work and on a roadmap for 2010 20:20:01 there will be a brainstorming session tomorrow 20:20:28 ideas and recommendations are welcome 20:20:35 #info Brainstorming session on FamSCo tomorrow on roadmap 20:20:44 time and channel kital ? 20:21:19 #info famsco roadmap 2010 brainstorming session 18:00 UTC #fedora-meeting 20:21:24 .fas dmaphy 20:21:25 dmaphy: dmaphy 'Dominic Hopf' 20:21:49 nice, we will join you :) 20:21:50 we also try to get some prices for f12 release parties 20:22:04 more will follow over the list 20:22:12 a notice to the mentors - 20:22:43 right now we have good opportunities for small starting contributions 20:23:18 by helping us with pictures for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_one_page_release_notes 20:23:45 so if you know someone who will start with contribution that is a way to give them a task 20:23:49 eof 20:24:09 #link https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_one_page_release_notes 20:24:15 Thanks kital 20:24:32 Lets move on to our upcoming events 20:24:37 #topic Events 20:25:25 Firstly lets thank rsc for his presence in Hungary and for a very successful event there together with our new Hungarian Ambassador 20:26:02 thanks rsc! ;) 20:26:12 So, our next event is Infosystem in Thessaloniki 20:26:13 zoltanh is here - thanks zoltanh 20:26:40 thanks 20:27:02 zoltanh, welcome in our community thanks for all the good vibes :) 20:27:15 but without Robert and Kital couldn't be a success 20:27:31 cmpahar, anything on Infosystem? 20:27:59 i am on a talk with companies which can produce fedora 12 live cds 20:28:05 liknus: thanks 20:28:14 we have swap from Athens digital week, so i think we are OK 20:28:21 *swag 20:29:14 #action cmpahar reprt quotes from CD companies 20:29:46 #action cmpahar write a full report about Infosystem 2009 and all the preparations 20:30:00 cmpahar, notice the strict schedule on our release till Infosystem 20:30:25 sorry for being late. while we are talking about livemedia, is it possible that this time we also do some Xfce and LXDE ones? 20:30:57 Hi cwickert 20:31:00 liknus, i have it in my mind, thanks for the notice 20:31:42 cwickert, we are talking for a minor production for Infosystem 20:31:51 ah, I see 20:32:25 Yet, it should be noted that in our next production in Germany more xfces and LXDE should be produced 20:32:49 Unfortunately Gerold is not here to hear that 20:32:50 and less KDEs 20:32:57 but, 20:32:59 please :) 20:33:09 last time they were made by redhat munich - i will take care 20:33:25 #action Pierros tell Gerold on greater variety on Live CDs 20:33:36 #undoitem 20:33:41 #undo 20:33:41 Removing item from minutes: 20:33:49 ok kital :) 20:33:53 ;) 20:34:25 liknus: "more" Xfce and LXDE ones? so far the number is zero, so it must be more 20:34:43 we should do 2 times as many then ;P 20:34:44 cwickert, well noted :) 20:35:22 #action kital take's care for greater variety on Live CDs 20:35:42 The next event is OpenSource Expo 20:36:09 kital, rsc is there anything to note? 20:36:22 all is settled ;) 20:36:43 is a new created event lets see 20:36:54 Nice, we are waiting for blogposts and photos :) 20:36:58 sure 20:36:59 ;) 20:37:01 eof 20:37:48 Next Event, OpenRheinRuhr2009 20:38:03 dmaphy, 20:38:15 yeah 20:38:32 OpenRheinRuhr will be coming weekend, on 7th and 8th of november 20:39:05 I can see you guys are pretty well organized via wiki :) 20:39:06 cwickert, loupgaroublond and some other fedora guys will also attend to support me at the booth 20:39:15 yes, indeed :) 20:39:35 Is it anything more you need? Swag etc? 20:39:45 think we have everything we need, even if a bit more swag would have been nice 20:39:46 anybody has some livemedia left over for OpenRheinRuhr? I gave mine to zoltanh 20:39:51 dmaphy, i'm bringing stickers and i'll bring the 4 freedoms banner just in case 20:40:12 but since rsc lost his suitcase, we won't get them 20:40:18 loupgaroublond, yeah, nice :) 20:40:55 Unfortunately I have many stickers but posting them from greece might be too expensive 20:40:59 dmaphy: maybe rsc will get his suitcase bac to tomorrow, so he can send me stuff and I bging it on Saturday 20:41:33 Plus we are out of time for delivering them from Greece 20:41:49 Lets hope for finding this suitcase 20:41:54 right 20:41:55 swag hopefully should be enough was the things loupgaroublond brings, but would be nice if that would be possible cwickert :) 20:42:25 liknus, yes, right 20:42:44 Anything else on OpenRheinRuhr2009? 20:42:48 media should also be enough, except some live media, shouldn't it? 20:42:56 cwickert? 20:43:06 It depends on event size 20:43:11 * loupgaroublond geeft biertie een aai over zijn bolletje 20:43:12 dmaphy: no, as I said, I gave mine to zoltanh 20:43:36 lol 20:43:36 * cwickert only has 31 livecds left over, this is not enough 20:43:52 ok, then maybe we will run out of media :S 20:44:19 cwickert, did jens kühnel already answer you? 20:44:26 Promote more the live-usb :) 20:44:29 yes, he only has 10 left 20:44:42 are we going to have a USB station? 20:44:47 guys just print a small banner which says that you can create some fedora live usb sticks.. 20:45:08 every laptop can be a USB station, we just need to make a poster 20:45:30 cmpahar, nice idea! 20:45:40 there aleady is a poster 20:45:49 * cwickert looks for it... 20:45:55 cwickert, not update though 20:46:03 *updated 20:46:04 people like very much the idea of fedora live usb stick.. dont forget to create an overlay space ;) 20:46:06 yeah, but then we have to make sure it's got images ahead of time and so on 20:46:23 * cwickert has all the images with him all the time 20:46:29 * loupgaroublond too 20:46:30 dmaphy, just add it on wiki 20:46:47 ok, i'll do so 20:46:52 cwickert, loupgaroublond, nice :) 20:46:54 #action dmaphy adds on wiki the USB Creation Stuff 20:47:34 Ok 20:47:35 ok, nothing else to add concerning ORR from my side then 20:47:51 Nice, thanks dmaphy :) 20:48:23 next event is 3 days from now in Cameroon :) 20:48:33 Anyone has any idea on that? 20:48:54 Owner does not have a wiki page... 20:49:11 .fas Ahandajf 20:49:11 liknus: ahandajf 'Jean-Francis AHANDA' 20:49:57 Shall I send him an email on any help ? (I should have noted it earlier though) 20:51:04 liknus, yeah, its a good idea.. just ping him 20:52:31 kital, you are his mentor. Did he contacted you about this event? 20:52:52 #action liknus ping Ahandajf about the Cameroon event 20:52:55 moment let me read 20:53:23 .fasinfo ahandajf 20:53:24 kital: User: ahandajf, Name: Jean-Francis AHANDA, email: jeanfrancisahanda@yahoo.fr, Creation: 2009-05-17, IRC Nick: ahandajf, Timezone: Africa/Douala, Locale: en, Extension: 5130369, GPG key ID: , Status: active 20:53:27 kital: Approved Groups: cla_done ambassadors freemedia cla_fedora 20:53:30 kital: Unapproved Groups: marketing 20:55:00 liknus https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ahandajf ? 20:55:44 Ah, sorry we had a broken link on event page 20:56:09 liknus: we mentor since Jun this year 20:57:18 Ill contact him to see if there is anything he needs :) 20:58:04 Anyways, with this event we are done with events till next meeting i think 20:58:40 Next meeting will be a day after GA of Fedora 12 so we shall work on release events 20:59:03 If any owner of release event wants to say something now is the right time 20:59:13 * liknus shall wait 1 minute 20:59:43 biertie, your turn 21:01:05 I don't think I still need something, everything is going well 21:01:16 -except for the other people that are supposed to help- 21:01:37 you did bring up an issue about getting funding for release events 21:01:49 do you need swag or anything? 21:02:02 I've posted my swag request on the track 21:02:06 ah ok 21:02:07 kital: knows of it 21:02:25 (next time don't complain i don't tell you about meetings ;) ) 21:02:45 biertie: right 21:02:48 hehe, next time I will have remembered the correct time ;-) 21:03:13 So the swag is taken care of 21:03:34 Anything else? 21:04:03 I would like to have some sponsoring, but I've sended that request to loupgaroublond 21:04:13 so I think I won't have any troubles anymore :) 21:04:14 Let me ask something, anyone can point me to the procedure for funding a release event? 21:04:30 loupgaroublond, we send mails to you ? ;) 21:04:40 last time, max just sent an email saying that he could allocate 100 USD or equivalent per release party 21:04:56 but max isn't anymore in the fedora ev 21:05:06 so I don't know if he still is the right person to ask? 21:05:07 this time it's going via me because i can send payments out of the fedora emea bank account 21:05:44 the only issue is that while we have the funds, we could temporarily go in the red if i don't get some confirmation on a couple of things from max and gerold 21:05:51 that reminds me loupgaroublond can you send me the papers, so I can pay for my membership ;-) 21:05:52 ok loupgaroublond but this should be noted in our wiki 21:06:05 also, i'm not in charge of the allocation of money, just distribution 21:06:34 #action loupgaroublond asks max and or gerold for the money allocation 21:06:40 loupgaroublond, is that ok? 21:06:42 unaction that, i did that this afternoon 21:06:51 #undo 21:06:51 Removing item from minutes: 21:06:55 ok :) 21:07:29 So what is the allocation? 21:07:54 i don't know 21:07:58 i'm waiting on them 21:08:11 ah ok :) 21:08:28 hehehe :) 21:08:41 #action loupgaroublond inform us on money allocation for release events on the next meeting 21:08:54 loupgaroublond, that's better ? :) 21:09:09 yup 21:09:30 (I eagerly want to allocate you an action :P ... just kidding) 21:09:43 hehe 21:09:56 OK. Anything else on Release Events? 21:09:58 yes loupgaroublond! do something! 21:10:05 not for me :) 21:10:46 hey biertie ! :) 21:10:49 #topic Open Floor 21:11:31 I have a quick plug/item. 21:11:31 Ok, this is the right time for anyone to step in and state anything he wants to discuss/request :) 21:11:44 nirik, go ahead... 21:11:54 * loupgaroublond has an item too, kital should be present for this 21:12:06 * kital is here 21:12:07 If any folks are interested in teaching an irc class, feel free to look at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Classroom and mail a class summary to the classroom list and then sign up on that page. ;) 21:12:27 I am going to teach one just before release. Could be nice to have more classes around release time. 21:12:46 thats all. ;) 21:12:52 see me later with any questions. 21:12:58 #info nirik inform us on the process of teaching an Irc class 21:13:18 thanks nim-nim for the notification, have a nice class ;) 21:13:27 Thanks nirik hope we have success on that :) 21:13:33 *nirik 21:13:35 ok 21:13:47 thanks. 21:13:54 so long overdue, i'm bringing up the shipping account 21:14:17 i'm trying to figure how much shipping we're going to manage ourselves, and how much is going to be done via the vendors we use for materials 21:15:08 it's the difference between asking for some fancy quote, or just opening an account 21:16:01 Is there a safe way to determine it before making it happen for demo? 21:16:31 does somebody know how redhat deals with that 21:16:43 we have rh offices in every country 21:16:47 spevack, ping 21:16:57 kital, not in every country 21:17:12 what do you mean? 21:17:17 not=? ;) 21:17:27 this is more of a question on how we want to do things 21:17:37 loupgaroublond, +1 21:17:54 i mentioned this before the meeting 21:18:05 have a shipping account at dhl is one way 21:18:17 the other could be the presales sticker we talked about 21:18:28 ok, let me explain, i'm not sure everyone knows what i'm talking about 21:18:34 say we order a banner 21:18:37 another way lets rh stgt ship it 21:18:53 we could order a banner for every country, but then those banners need to be shipped 21:19:01 most thing are here in stgt anyway at my place 21:19:16 we may want one banner for two countries and f or another country two banners 21:19:27 the printer has to ship those banners to said countries at least once 21:19:34 err just once 21:19:42 then we have to ship them around every so often 21:20:30 the banners we have are made by friends so we had to pay nothing for the simple ones 21:20:41 and lesser for the roll ups 21:21:00 they can do it but they will not ship it 21:21:23 we can do it at another company but we will pay a lot more 21:22:30 I don't think it would be so hard to ship those ourselves then? 21:23:50 I believe we need to differ 2 things... Our present condition and the optimal condition for shipping and transfering things 21:23:56 sorry guys i have to go - our heating system is broken - my wife requests my attention 21:24:42 Judging from our present needs we may not need any shipping account if we follow kital's suggestions 21:24:44 But! 21:25:56 yes? 21:26:01 If we want a system that will deliver swag and event stuff to every ambassador around EMEA then we surely are talking about a great quantity of transfers so loupgaroublond is right about that 21:26:33 I was thinking: how many big events are there in emea? 21:26:35 So IMHO we need to clear this up (not right no ofcourse) 21:26:42 3 maybe 4 21:26:46 for the small events the localized stuff would be enough 21:26:55 and for an event like fosdem of linuxtag, we could send some things 21:26:56 all Central European 21:27:16 but use kital his car (his gass is paid by his company) as a taxi =D 21:27:28 s/but/or 21:27:48 biertie, the point is that even the minor events in Europe countries require our attention on stuff 21:28:05 not to mention the crucial thing about expanding in Africa 21:28:11 yes, for that part we have the localized stuff 21:28:26 I think we need the shipping account more for big stuff 21:28:26 ? 21:28:36 quite right 21:29:01 It's something that FamSCo needs to discuss also 21:29:18 sorry folks, my internet glitced 21:29:23 np 21:29:33 hi GeroldKa :) 21:30:01 liknus, i'm thinking optimally, shipping everything that we should and could ship 21:30:15 loupgaroublond, thats my point too :) 21:30:32 but, i'm wondering how much of that is necessary 21:31:01 loupgaroublond, thats something up to every event owner to decide 21:31:02 but there's a difference between needing to ship things 10-20 times a year, 100 times a year, and 10.000 times a year 21:31:16 loupgaroublond: +1 21:31:31 we could easily hit 100 if we do media, tshirts, ambassador stuff, banners, a store, etc... 21:31:45 loupgaroublond, 20-50 times per year could suit as right even in the optimal condition 21:32:00 but if we arrange drop shipping with our vendors, we may only need shipping 10-20 times a year 21:32:14 +1 21:32:21 just so you know, i'm for drop shipping, though this puts us at a disadvantage 21:32:51 namely, if we controlled the shipping because it's cost effective, we could effectively swallow the costs of shipping things to africa and the middle east in bulk once or twice a year 21:33:18 we could also effectively do a sub account for intraafrica and intra ME shipments 21:33:30 loupgaroublond, in order to do so we need to assign a person or two for that job...it could be very time-consuming 21:33:38 but if we're drop shipping, we lose that advantage at the gain of most likely cheaper shipping 21:34:55 firstly we need to see how this policy is going to be decided 21:35:27 hi 21:35:28 :-( 21:35:29 but why should be do the same for CE as for africa / middle east? 21:36:05 because this is EMEA 21:36:11 Not the same but taking care of them both in terms of schedule and vendors 21:36:25 and despite what inode0 says, the M is not for marijuana 21:36:39 yes, this is EMEA, but that doesn't mean you can split certain things into regions I think 21:37:00 this is Europe too, this doesn't mean everything in belgium is the same as in the netherlands.. 21:37:43 true, no, but i'm trying to figure out which possibility works best for us 21:37:55 plus, i need to know how often things need to move inside the ME and africa as well 21:38:03 true 21:39:09 if there are no comments let's resume this later, i need to go shower still 21:39:30 Shall we set it as a theme meeting then? 21:39:30 I wonder, what smells here :-) 21:39:36 liknus: I have also begun to have translated/localized flyers for ambassadors, on the translators channel I have an huge yes about this, so they will shedule anything if we request after Fedora 12 release. 21:39:57 GeroldKa, check the dog, i'm a bit far away at the moment ;) 21:40:07 *gg* 21:40:19 but loupgaroublond you definitly understand, what I mean ... 21:40:25 so it must be u :-P 21:40:25 hehe, yup :) 21:40:35 Lets say 3 weeks from now a theme meeting on that? 21:40:54 liknus, sorry for beeing late (again and again) 21:40:57 zoltanh, nice :) 21:41:03 what's the topic? 21:41:07 GeroldKa, np :) 21:41:16 as far as I understand it was "shipment" 21:41:23 in EMEA?! 21:41:25 GeroldKa, right now we had 'shipment' 21:41:34 yep in EMEA 21:41:40 shipping account in emea vs other things 21:42:11 OK, I see 21:42:23 but it's rather a long discussion with someones that concern absent... so we shall arrange a theme-meeting on that 21:42:39 Any objections? 21:42:41 .check :) 21:42:42 fwiw, FAMNA has a shipping account with UPS that bills to spevack's credit card i think 21:42:49 not sure how that would work in EMEA doing something similar 21:43:22 #action liknus arrange a theme-meeting on 'shipping within EMEA' 21:43:52 nb, this is exactly what we're discussing, it's the scale we're interested in 21:43:58 nb max told us about that and we need to see how it would work here, thanks though :) 21:44:19 oh ok 21:44:32 btw. ... 21:44:36 where is Max? 21:44:38 loupgaroublond, are you ok with the theme-meeting thing? 21:45:19 ping spevack 21:45:22 GeroldKa, with 9 hours difference I guess he is taking a siesta 21:45:31 grml 21:45:50 liknus, i think so, i'll try to let you know if i cant make it for some reason 21:45:52 there are many tasks still open, thinking at the last FAD in Rheinfelden 21:46:03 where the $ACTION ist on Maxs side 21:47:24 GeroldKa, we had them semi-configured at the last meeting 21:48:11 But, if you think something we need to see, (or anyone else does) please go ahead :) 21:49:25 no liknus, there is nothing, which we can discuss without max 21:49:38 it's all OK, from my perspective at the moment 21:49:49 I get in touch directly with Max (in time) 21:49:54 you are easy going ;-) 21:50:07 Ok then , we shall wait another 5 minutes before calling it off :) 21:50:38 biertie, have you seen my mail regarding FOSDEM Devroom? 21:50:53 I'm sure you had it in the same time as me 21:51:18 yes, I already had it 21:51:32 I don't really like the concept :( 21:52:14 yeah I leave it up to you 21:52:24 and Frederic :-) 21:52:36 hehe, k, frederic does more the official work atm 21:52:47 and so he does for jboss.... 21:53:34 ok 21:53:49 OK my fellow Ambassadors :) Thank you all for joining us! See ya all in 2 weeks 21:53:52 are there any question to/for me; which I can answer? 21:54:16 no GeroldKa :) 21:54:39 wonderful :-) 21:54:41 #endmeeting