22:00:20 #startmeeting FAmSCo 2012-04-25 22:00:21 Meeting started Wed Apr 25 22:00:20 2012 UTC. The chair is cwickert. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 22:00:21 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 22:00:27 #meetingname famsco 22:00:28 The meeting name has been set to 'famsco' 22:00:43 #topic roll call 22:00:48 .fas cwickert 22:00:52 cwickert: cwickert 'Christoph Wickert' 22:01:03 .fas yn1v 22:01:04 yn1v: yn1v 'Neville A. Cross' 22:01:42 #info Zoltan sent regrets, he cannot attend as he is working night shift 22:02:09 * herlo is here 22:03:18 #info kaio is on transit to pet store for food of his my cats and only connected through his mobile but not really available 22:03:28 hello folks 22:04:05 #chair cwickert herlo igorps yn1v kaio 22:04:05 Current chairs: cwickert herlo igorps kaio yn1v 22:04:23 first question: who is going to host the meeting? 22:04:31 you 22:04:37 ok 22:04:53 we can vote in a new chair but it would seem the former chair should do the duty 22:05:00 this brings us to the second question: who is going to be the next famsco chair? 22:05:08 herlo, +1 22:05:24 * herlo hides 22:05:25 :P 22:05:36 do we have a quorum for voting? 22:05:40 yes 22:05:44 good 22:05:59 I would like to have cwickert as chair again 22:06:26 I see no problems with that 22:06:27 hi 22:06:38 * herlo wonders if cwickert really wants to be chair again 22:06:53 it depends on 2 things: 22:07:08 1. if you want me to be chair again (obvious, isn't it?) 22:07:19 2. if you will support me 22:07:43 cwickert: did we fail to support you before? I believe you are the best candidate for the job. 22:07:52 what does "support" include now? :) 22:08:08 I feel like last week I did not receive any substantial support from the other FAmSCo members until herlo stood up 22:08:11 I think cwickert has the biggest passion 22:08:53 kaio: make sure to take care of the road, we cannot risk loosing another FAmSCo member ;) 22:09:08 cwickert, I believe we all want you to be chair again, what does not mean that we will agree on everything 22:09:20 igorps: that's not what I mean 22:09:28 but you have my support 22:09:40 but if somebody asks the board to dissolve FAmSCo, this affects all of us 22:09:42 hehe I am still home with 3 cats staring at me with meaning "go get food". 22:09:43 * yn1v will enable -v option on his support to cwickert 22:09:53 cwickert, sure. 22:10:07 ok, who wants me to be chair again? 22:10:23 +1 22:10:26 +1 22:10:42 +1 22:10:43 I didn't understand why you stepping down and why not be chair again. 22:10:44 +1 22:11:15 #agreed cwickert will be FAmSCo chair (again) 22:11:16 all our previous discussions were just positive in order to get the best results 22:11:51 kaio, I share the same feeling 22:11:53 lets not get into the things that happened last week too deep now, we have more important work to do 22:11:56 and I dont think you have to step down when every petition comes up 22:12:15 sure lets move on 22:12:20 too bad 22:12:27 fedorahosted is still down 22:12:36 oh noes! 22:12:41 * nirik would like to appologise again about that. 22:12:54 this limits our ability to do the day to day business 22:13:05 ok, then lets try something else 22:13:07 I hope it's finished soon... if you really like I can cancel and reschedule the migration... 22:13:33 #topic FUDCon 2013 bids 22:13:36 nirik: I don't see that as a good idea 22:13:38 * ianweller is here 22:13:47 nirik: migrations are important 22:14:07 cwickert: are we talking NA? 22:14:18 * nirik nods, but so is the work you all do. Anyhow, I will let you all know as soon as it's back. 22:14:43 thanks 22:14:45 .famsco 288 22:14:45 https://fedorahosted.org/famsco/ticket/288 22:14:58 the link won't work, just for the minutes 22:15:05 we have a bid for NA 22:15:09 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Bid_for_Lawrence_2013 22:15:16 it's the only bid we have 22:15:31 and I think we just need to rubber-stamp it 22:15:38 ianweller: anything from your side? 22:15:46 only if you guys have any questions 22:15:49 * cwickert looks at the wiki page 22:16:03 the event space isn't completely set in stone yet, i have a meeting next week wednesday on that. 22:16:04 with some folks here at KU 22:16:35 ianweller, are you one of the event owners? 22:16:40 but everyone here seems excited to do it. it's just a matter of pushing through the bureaucracy 22:16:43 igorps: i am 22:16:44 ianweller: is this in the middle of nowhere? 22:16:47 cwickert: yes 22:16:56 :) 22:17:11 :( 22:17:12 cwickert: well, no, it's on the edge of nowhere 22:17:18 western kansas is truly the middle of nowhere 22:17:19 fair enough 22:17:30 but we're in eastern kansas ;) 22:17:33 ok, any questions for ianweller? 22:17:52 cwickert: you can fly into Kansas City, drive about 45 minutes and you are there. No worse than Blacksburg in that regard. 22:17:55 how many attendant expecting? 22:18:01 quote: "Lawrence named one of the best places to retire" 22:18:19 cwickert: hehe 22:18:22 ianweller: I think we are supposed to get shit done and not retire 22:18:23 it seems a nice place 22:18:38 cwickert: i think that was something rikki added to help me just get the bid done on time 22:18:44 "While Kansas is a heavily Republican state, Lawrence is reliably Democratic." 22:18:54 the "extra info you don't need" section 22:18:55 haha, you really focus on the important stuff 22:19:09 kaio: no clue, probabyl somewhere between 140-180, given previous years 22:19:22 temperature seems to be a deciding factor for most people, tempe had ~200 22:19:26 * cwickert looks for flights 22:19:37 ianweller: not bad 22:19:56 i expect we will hit the 140 mark, which has traditionally been the magic "we stop giving people free food/shirts" mark 22:20:08 al right, hang on a second, need to restart my browser 22:20:13 s/al/all 22:20:20 although at blacksburg i think everyone ended up with free food usually 22:20:24 also the engineering building uses only fedora for their linux machines 22:20:32 nice 22:20:35 so a lot of people in the EECS department know what fedora is and have used it 22:20:47 good 22:20:58 so i expect we'll get some student involvement, possibly more so than previous years in NA 22:21:17 otoh we are doing it the weekend before classes start, so that we have space inside the buildings and whatnot 22:21:23 so we'll see 22:21:54 ok, flighs from Germany are fine 22:22:00 not worse than Blacksburg 22:22:18 even cheaper and it takes just as long 22:22:25 no objections from my side 22:22:29 :) 22:22:36 any more questions, any objections? 22:22:48 assuming no other objections i'll talk to rbergeron about getting the announcement sent out soonish. 22:22:51 (speak up or be quiet for ever) 22:22:59 * nb throws rubber stamps at ianweller 22:23:11 I support. +1 22:23:14 nb: i'm hit! 22:23:15 +1 22:23:45 +1 22:23:52 +1 22:23:56 #agreed FAmSCo supports the FUDCon 2012 Bid for Lawrence 22:24:05 s/2012/2013/ 22:24:16 #undo 22:24:16 Removing item from minutes: 22:24:23 #agreed FAmSCo supports the FUDCon 2013 Bid for Lawrence 22:24:25 thanks ianweller 22:24:30 thanks all 22:24:31 +1 22:25:05 ok, as we have no trac at the moment, lets get back to our evergreen 22:25:17 #topic New FAmSCo election guidelines 22:25:26 we all agreed on the guideliens 22:25:30 lines* 22:25:38 but the transition is still unclear 22:25:49 we can either have an election now or for F19 22:25:59 if we have one now, we should elect all seats 22:26:18 who volunteered to step down so far? 22:26:27 I am. 22:26:27 * cwickert did 22:26:35 * herlo 22:26:36 so did I 22:26:43 I did 22:26:59 does anybody know something about Zoltan? 22:27:45 ? 22:27:49 I think he also did, from what I recall from the ticket 22:27:58 igorps: ah, right in the ticket 22:28:04 he was like above my comment 22:28:08 ok, so here is the deal 22:28:24 I don't want to force any of you to run for re-election 22:28:33 in fact I feel I have been pushing too hard 22:29:00 I have spent some time reading the guidelines 22:29:21 and I was wrong to say we cannot switch to the new guidelines without F18 elections 22:29:39 we can do the switch and wait until F19 for the next regular elections 22:30:18 I still would like F18 elections because more people are allowed to vote 22:30:18 I prefer that approach 22:30:23 but it's not mandatory 22:30:47 for me it is important that we a) make the switch and b) everybody is fine with it 22:31:21 again, I don't want to put pressure on anybody and make them agree to F18 elections 22:31:27 so, F18 or F19? 22:31:37 I think the sooner the better 22:32:22 inode0: would it cause you additional headache to have FAmSCo elections with F18? 22:32:26 I already have stated my concerns about changing the rules during the game, but if guys are willing to do it for F18 let's go for it 22:32:46 igorps: yes, noted and I share them 22:32:54 only slight, I don't object 22:33:34 herlo, kaio: F18 or F19? 22:33:41 I am happy to either. 22:33:45 * herlo is happy either way 22:33:49 F18 is good. 22:33:51 haha 22:33:58 So all seats would be open for F18 elections and then again for F19, right? 22:34:01 I mentioned before, I would step down *only* if the elections were in F18 22:34:11 igorps: no 22:34:22 igorps: only 3 seats would be up in f19 22:34:29 but the terms would always be two releases from tha tpoint 22:34:30 herlo, ok 22:34:42 whatever the cut off point is. 22:35:06 it would alternate 3 then 4 then 3. and so on 22:35:37 guys, I am not going to make this decision, I have pushed too much already 22:35:48 I say we take a vote for F18 22:36:12 If we are going to cast votes I vote for F19 22:36:13 if we don't get a decision to go ahead, we do F19 22:36:31 F18 22:36:32 I vote for F18 22:36:39 igorps: or that could work. 22:36:52 I think we need to determine how the vote will work. 22:36:53 that is +3 for F18 and +1 for F19 22:37:03 if F18 wins my seat will be open for election anyway :) 22:37:09 fortunately it does not really matter what I think at this point 22:37:25 hmm, okay 22:37:30 * cwickert is glad he did not have to make the decision 22:37:38 cwickert: did I vote? 22:37:45 because I don't recall voting 22:37:58 herlo: I thought you were for F18? 22:38:09 cwickert: I was aksing if we vote for or against f18 22:38:15 ah 22:38:20 and if not, we let it slide to f19 22:38:25 ok, lets make it simple 22:38:25 but everyone started voting 22:38:30 who wants F18? 22:38:32 so I'm good to try again. 22:38:36 F18 22:38:41 F18 22:39:00 F19 22:39:24 F18 22:39:32 F18 22:40:10 I saw that coming :) 22:40:17 #agreed There will be a FAmSCo election for F18, all seats will be open. The top 4 vote-getters will serve one year, the bottom three 6 months 22:40:20 indeed. I actually debated it. 22:40:37 ok, we have a decision now and that's it 22:40:38 yay! we have a decision 22:40:40 case closed 22:40:47 fair enough 22:40:52 yay! 22:40:58 wait... 22:41:14 nb: are you fine or do you still have some concerns? 22:42:06 nb: ? 22:42:17 or more general 22:42:28 what if somebody else has concerns? 22:42:51 we planned to have a 2 weeks period for feedback 22:43:08 ! 22:43:25 cwickert, i am fine 22:43:31 but this will get tricky if we want elections for F18, inode0 needs to send out the announcements 22:43:35 inode0: shoot 22:43:38 nb: thanks 22:44:26 We can make the announcement on Friday. There is plenty of time. 22:44:46 great! 22:44:54 People should blog and whatnot to let ambassadors know if they are interested to run. 22:45:04 inode0: good point 22:45:13 ok, what about the others? do you see any problems with the feedback phase against the upcoming elections? 22:45:43 cwickert: the feedback phase has been going on, I figured that is what this whole 'todo' was about in the first place. No? 22:46:00 when will be the election date likely? 22:46:11 yes, but we can't wait two weeks to announce - it isn't ideal to not allow feedback but you got plenty of feedback already I think :) 22:46:12 we put it out there, ambassadors responded with their POV and we have adjusted accordingly. 22:46:13 EOF 22:46:13 kaio: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections 22:46:24 inode0: agreed. 22:46:31 I'm not quite sure if we have enough time for more feedback 22:47:00 igorps: +1 22:47:02 herlo, inode0: right, I think after nb's petition we had a lot of attention, probably more than every blog article or whatnot could ever cause 22:47:20 cwickert, +1 22:47:28 ok, then let go public ASAP 22:47:36 +1 22:47:39 #action cwickert to update the wiki page 22:47:44 #undo 22:47:44 Removing item from minutes: 22:48:03 #action cwickert to update http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FESCo_election_policy 22:48:23 #action all FAmSCo members: spread the word about the new FAmSCo election guidelines 22:48:35 #info we need to hurry up 22:48:56 #action cwickert to send inode0 all necessary info for his announcement 22:49:20 inode0: if I send you the info tonight, what do you think when you can send the announcement? 22:50:34 * inode0 is happy to consider himself informed of the decision now and he can proceed without anything more, thanks 22:50:48 ok 22:51:09 the announcement will come from a Board member I think as it traditionally does 22:51:15 anything more on this or can we *finally* close this case and do something else? 22:51:32 +1 22:51:36 nothing else from me 22:51:37 +1 close it 22:51:38 ok 22:51:44 what's next? 22:51:52 * herlo votes for sleep 22:51:54 any ideas what we can discuss without trac? 22:51:58 ah, I have one 22:52:06 the case of the missing FAmSCo member 22:52:10 oh, yes. 22:52:18 I received a mail form gbraad 22:52:32 it said he personally had a very hard time 22:52:52 health and family issues 22:53:09 kaio knows something about this, so do I 22:53:18 It really seemed a hard time for him 22:53:21 but as this is personal, it does not belong into this meeting 22:53:41 I think he deserves respect and support 22:53:50 I talked to him the other day, but I let gbraad to manage how much he wants to tell. 22:54:00 Gerard was an active member of last FAmSCo term 22:54:00 kaio: +1 22:54:11 igorps: +1 as well 22:54:30 only something really serious could have happened 22:54:35 he has been active and helpful in China community, but there are real hard times forced his absence 22:55:01 igorps: I think that is what cwickert and kaio are indicating 22:55:01 igorps: it was serious, trust me. all of us can be happy it did not happen to us 22:55:23 so Gerard told me he will not step down 22:55:36 but he said he would understand if we force him to do so 22:55:55 so the question is: what are we going to do? 22:55:56 cwickert, sure, that was clear for me knowing him from his work on FAmSCo previous term 22:56:23 I think if it's as serious as you indicate, we just have his seat up for F18 like the rest of us and the case can be closed. 22:56:42 his seat will be open for election, anyway 22:56:45 should we remove him from FAmSCo, given that the next elctions are beginning at July 1st? 22:56:57 that is 5 weeks from now 22:57:04 * inode0 thought all seats were up for election in F18, is that incorrect? 22:57:10 inode0: yes 22:57:17 IMO this don't make a big difference, if we have quorum in next few meetings. 22:57:23 I see no point in removing him at this point. It changes nothing. 22:57:25 I really don't think a removal is necessary now 22:57:29 not enough time for somebody to catch up with FAmSCo business 22:57:30 * inode0 suggests riding it out until then 22:57:37 +1 22:57:42 I think we're all on the same page 22:57:49 ok 22:57:52 lets everyone just attend meeting as avail as possible 22:57:52 +1 22:57:55 +1 22:58:18 what is it we are voting then? 22:58:33 herlo: not removing him but just waiting 22:58:36 +1 22:58:37 +1 22:58:45 +1 22:58:49 +1 22:58:51 +1 22:58:52 cwickert: yeah, just wanted it to be official. :) 22:59:03 #agreed FAmSCo appreciates the work gbraad has done and will not remove him from the committee forcefully 22:59:19 oops, still wrong #topic, but anyway... 22:59:31 ok, anything more we can do? 22:59:40 I filed a ticket about FISL, fortunately the wiki page has budget information 22:59:56 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FISL13 23:00:12 #topic 13th International Free Software Forum - FISL 23:00:25 .famsco 276 23:00:26 https://fedorahosted.org/famsco/ticket/276 23:00:37 (still doesn't work, just for the logs) 23:00:51 The wiki page has basically the same information anyway 23:00:58 I have already given my +1 in trac before it disappeared 23:01:36 The FAD that we will host is already approved as well 23:01:54 igorps: is it really a FAD? 23:02:02 oh, it is! 23:02:03 cool 23:02:20 * cwickert likes getting stuff done (tm) 23:02:34 GTD++ 23:02:34 +1 for the fad 23:02:38 +1 23:02:43 * kaio goes 23:02:57 any more tickets need me? 23:03:07 cwickert, it will be a nice opportunity to get stuff done 23:03:37 I will work with yn1v to purchase airfare directly 23:03:51 I was to make a blessing for buying blank medias, but did not have opportunity to make a ticket 23:03:52 so we avoid PayPal fees 23:03:53 #agreed budget for FISL is approved as outlined in the wiki 23:04:16 s / make /ask 23:04:35 then we have this ticket for 100 USD 23:04:53 #topic Reimbursement - shipping costs 23:05:05 .famsco 284 23:05:06 https://fedorahosted.org/famsco/ticket/284 23:05:07 Yes, I like what is been planned for FISL and yes I can help igorps 23:05:17 * cwickert pulls all the info from his inbox 23:05:27 I think we should just approve this one 23:05:58 it's only USD 100.43 and has been paid already, so somebody is waiting for reimbursement 23:06:05 +1 23:06:07 +1 23:06:09 +1 23:06:19 cwickert, that would be me :) 23:06:43 This is for Leandro, isn't it? 23:06:43 igorps: ah, then we don't approve it ;) 23:07:04 cwickert, I'm biased here :) 23:07:09 I assume that igorps is +1 23:07:13 +1! 23:07:30 #agreed #284 is approved 23:07:50 #topic Fedora disks for first half of 2012 (Chile and Argentina) 23:07:53 +1 23:07:58 .famsco 263 23:07:59 https://fedorahosted.org/famsco/ticket/263 23:07:59 to who I have to reimburse? 23:07:59 sorry, I'm slow today 23:08:15 yn1v, me 23:08:18 yn1v: to igorps 23:08:41 ah, ok.. 23:08:57 yn1v: what about the media? will you be able to make a payment of USD 3055.53 or do we need harish? 23:09:23 sorry, USD 1449 23:10:18 I can reimburse that, but I would like to have harish approval first 23:10:23 yn1v: USD 1449 is with PayPal, else it's only 1380 23:10:50 yn1v: I'm afraid this will take too long, but if you like 23:11:22 yn1v: would you be able to make the payment directly without PayPal? 23:11:29 harish took ownership of the ticket 23:11:33 5% extra seems a much 23:12:22 usually we work with 7.5% 23:12:22 yn1v: harish did not take ownership, we assigned it to him when it was still > USD 3000 23:12:40 igorps: for a bank transfer?! 23:12:49 harish is more flexible, he is using other reimburse methods that were not used before, he may use western union or some siminlar service 23:12:58 cwickert, no, for Paypal 23:13:23 yn1v: ok, then harish should take care of it 23:13:36 I will write harish to speed things up 23:13:45 #action yn1v to nag harish about #263 23:14:12 any other tickets? 23:14:31 I have one petition for blessing but no ticket 23:14:54 yn1v: is it urgent? how much is it? 23:15:02 to buy 50 blank dvd and 50 blank cd for FLISOL 23:15:18 approved 23:15:20 :) 23:15:26 I was so focus in the other request that forgot mine,... it is for this weekend 23:15:37 yn1v, +1 23:15:56 no, really, as a credit card holder we do trust you to approve this 23:16:21 yes, but I like to have blessing from the rest 23:16:29 you should file a ticket for reporting, but we definitely trust you 23:16:34 yn1v: what is the rest? 23:16:52 nothing important form my side 23:17:08 just that 23:17:41 yn1v: the rest of famsco? 23:17:46 ah 23:18:04 * cwickert thought there was more to be approved 23:18:23 what about the general approval guidelines? 23:18:53 note sure if we should discuss this topic now, but it seems important in long or mid term 23:20:02 sorry, cwickert the rest = other famsco members 23:20:12 yeah, got this 23:20:28 #topic Regulate what regional tracs are needed 23:20:36 .famsco 268 23:20:36 https://fedorahosted.org/famsco/ticket/268 23:20:52 I received a mail from Ankur while trac was offline 23:21:08 and he said the APAC community will take care of this 23:21:16 nothing left for us to do 23:21:41 http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2012-04-14/apac.2012-04-14-04.01.html 23:21:42 good to know they figured this out 23:21:50 http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2012-04-14/apac.2012-04-14-04.01.log.html#l-125 23:22:12 wrong link 23:22:19 http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2012-04-14/apac.2012-04-14-04.01.log.html#l-385 23:22:53 #info all APAC tickets will be handled in https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-apac 23:23:09 #info https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-india/ will be discontinued and read-only 23:23:44 #topic Discuss Budget Allocation for FY2012 23:23:54 .famsco 279 23:23:55 https://fedorahosted.org/famsco/ticket/279 23:24:14 I'm afraid there is nothing we can do until we have figures about the regional budget from Harish 23:24:37 and until the 2012 budget is confirmed 23:24:46 indeed, we really need those numbers 23:24:49 but the good news is that we at least have a deadline now 23:25:05 #info 2012 budget should be confirmed by May 15th 23:25:16 no matter who actually will pay it 23:25:54 #topic Funding request for the drinks, Release Party F17 Surakarta 23:26:01 .famsco 278 23:26:01 https://fedorahosted.org/famsco/ticket/278 23:26:08 this is about USD 53 23:26:15 for catering only 23:26:22 the rest was already approved 23:26:34 the ticket even has an invoice attached 23:26:41 so I think we should just approve it 23:26:55 the food is already ordered and will be delivered to the event 23:27:07 opinions? 23:27:37 It seems that everything is in place already 23:27:41 +1 23:27:46 +1 23:27:51 no need to delay the approval 23:28:40 herlo: still with us? 23:29:20 yn1v: what about you? 23:29:37 come on, this is the last ticket according to my inbox 23:29:46 +1 23:29:50 #agreed #278 is approved 23:29:56 ok, eof then 23:30:01 any other business? 23:30:10 #topic Open Floor 23:30:15 No from me 23:30:17 nothing else from me 23:30:29 * cwickert waits 3 minutes before he closes the meeting 23:30:30 I have an announcement ... https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Bid_for_Managua_2013 23:30:46 The trip to hong kong is almost prepared. 23:31:00 yn1v: can you please add this to #288? 23:31:12 okey 23:31:21 #action yn1v to add the bid for Managua to #288 23:31:42 ok, thanks everybody for coming 23:31:45 * herlo is good 23:31:53 Just need to fill the later half of 20 people and more topics. Given bochecha provided venue, snacks. 23:32:05 Thanks. 23:32:24 Cya ttyl. Getting food back for my cats. 23:34:31 kaio_ph: hurry, before they eat you" 23:34:37 lol 23:34:39 #endmeeting