17:59:48 #startmeeting Council (2016-01-25) 17:59:48 Meeting started Mon Jan 25 17:59:48 2016 UTC. The chair is mattdm. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 17:59:48 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 17:59:48 The meeting name has been set to 'council_(2016-01-25)' 17:59:51 #meetingname council 17:59:51 The meeting name has been set to 'council' 17:59:53 #chair mattdm jkurik jwb cwickert rdieter langdon decause robyduck 17:59:53 Current chairs: cwickert decause jkurik jwb langdon mattdm rdieter robyduck 17:59:55 #topic Introductions, Welcomes 18:00:04 .hello jkurik 18:00:05 jkurik: jkurik 'Jan Kurik' 18:00:11 .hello langdon 18:00:12 langdon: langdon 'Langdon White' 18:00:23 .hello mattdm 18:00:24 mattdm: mattdm 'Matthew Miller' 18:00:29 decauseWiTNYC: you around today? 18:01:13 .hello robyduck 18:01:14 robyduck: robyduck 'Robert Mayr' 18:01:26 hi robyduck! 18:01:36 hi mattdm, hi all 18:01:36 * mattdm waits a couple of minutes 18:02:26 hi, sorry i'm late 18:02:46 .hello 18:02:47 decauseWiTNYC: (hello ) -- Alias for "hellomynameis $1". 18:02:49 err 18:02:55 .hello decause 18:02:56 heh. 18:02:56 decauseWiTNYC: decause 'Remy DeCausemaker' 18:03:11 decauseWiTNYC: are you back from your conference? 18:03:22 my nick is still NYC, because I'm still in NYC due to blizzard-pocalypse 18:03:28 2nd largest blizzard in NYC history 18:03:39 oh yeah that. 18:03:46 nice and sunny up in MA :) 18:03:47 flights are backed up, but I'll be returning to Raleigh on Wednesday 18:03:57 just in time to fly out to FOSDEm on Thurs ;) 18:04:22 no rest for the council :) 18:04:26 okay, so.... 18:04:32 #topic Today's Agenda 18:05:19 #info This is a "tickets and ongoing" meeting. While we strive to not be meeting-driven, a monthly checkin like this helps make sure we are not dropping important items on the floor 18:05:40 #info something is wrong with my spacebar, which is severely slowing my typing 18:05:53 I was looking through open tickets 18:06:21 and most of them currently happen to _also_ be no rest for decauseWiTNYC :) 18:06:32 Specifically: 18:06:34 nod nod nod 18:06:49 I do have some good updates for some of them though 18:06:53 #info 1. Fedora Budget update 18:07:09 #info 2. EMEA FAD at DevConf.cz 18:07:23 #info 3. FUDCon APAC... any update? 18:07:33 anything else? 18:07:55 mattdm: Periodic User/Contributor Survey 18:08:33 #info 4. user/contributor survey 18:08:39 lgtm 18:08:44 start with 1 18:08:48 decauseWiTNYC: in this case, specifically diversity focused, yeah? 18:09:38 mattdm: yes, I think that one survey which also includes demographics is likely the way to go, but we haven't gotten all the way through getting the "pool" of questions 18:10:09 k. 18:10:10 #topic 1. Fedora Budget update 18:10:13 tatica (who sends her regrets, she just had a loss in her family and will not here this week) has done an excellent job brainstorming demographic questions 18:10:25 oop, missed the topic switch 18:10:31 so, For budget 18:10:37 yeah sorry. we'll come back to that :) 18:10:40 #link https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/43 18:11:14 the budget site itself is scheduled as a February action for CommOps team 18:11:26 this week we're hoping to round out all of our "Year in Review" posts 18:12:07 decauseWiTNYC: cool. Let's revisit when the site is ready, then? 18:12:20 ++ to commops team for the year in review stuff! 18:12:20 #link https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-commops/ticket/11 18:12:40 #topic EMEA FAD at DevConf.cz 18:12:41 mattdm: we're about to Greenlight the FamNA YiR, and mktg is really close too 18:13:04 i switched topics on you again :) 18:13:21 :P 18:13:24 #link https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DevConf_2016#EMEA_Ambassadors_Meetup 18:13:27 AIUI this is going ahead. Are there any related budget requests? 18:13:41 ooh thanks for the link. 18:13:52 mattdm: not that I can see so far. The EMEA ambassador meeting seemed to have their own travel being covered 18:14:20 okay cool. that was my main question. 18:14:25 anyone else have anything here? 18:14:32 I will check in with mitzi 18:14:45 decauseWiTNYC: right now, or in general? 18:14:48 #action decause check in with mitzi about accomodations for DevConf.cz meeting 18:15:04 mattdm: sesivany said we had conference rooms book on site 18:15:16 mattdm, personally.. i am a little lost 18:15:17 *booked 18:16:15 langdon: the original budget FAD for EMEA was not approved in time for accomodations to be booked, so we alternatively proposed to have a meetup at DevConf.cz to discuss budget and FY17 things as a replacement for budapest 18:16:38 FYI EMEA ambassadors have a dedicated ticket for all: https://fedorahosted.org/emea-swag-tracking/ticket/546 18:16:46 robyduck: thanks! 18:16:52 robyduck++ 18:16:53 decauseWiTNYC, isn't that on the calendar for friday of devconf already? 18:16:53 langdon: less lost now? :) 18:17:17 #info Date: Fri-Sun 5-7 February, 2016 18:17:20 err 18:17:25 mattdm, meh.. maybe? its all the topic switches :) 18:18:19 langdon: I will double check with sesivany about the conference room booking 18:18:42 decauseWiTNYC, ohh.. no. .that was a council dinner.. i don't think there is a meeting room 18:18:57 now I'm lost :) 18:19:28 mattdm, http://imgur.com/hnMG99D 18:19:34 langdon: the council dinner starts on Friday 5th, at 7PM 18:19:52 jkurik, ack.. i thought that was the thing decauseWiTNYC was talking about.. but perhaps not 18:20:18 langdon: nope. he's talking about a separate thing for EMEA ambassadors 18:20:25 ready for next topic? 18:20:29 mattdm, yeah.. ok.. i think i got it now 18:20:37 im good.. it can wash over me :) 18:20:37 roger roger 18:20:48 as far as I know sesivany is organizing EMEA ambassadors meeting during the day 18:21:02 jkurik: agreed 18:21:21 #topic FUDCon APAC... any update? 18:21:30 #link https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/49 18:21:54 * decauseWiTNYC digs for ML link 18:22:11 From the ticket, this one basically seems to have been left hanging with a lot of uncertainty over... I guess, unity of ambassadors in APAC 18:22:48 #link https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2016-January/001715.html 18:23:09 FAMSCo just had it's first meeting last week, and this should have been a topic of discussion 18:23:26 I will circle back with them and see if we've covered ground (I wasn't at the first meeting) 18:23:51 decauseWiTNYC: okay, thanks 18:24:08 bring it to the council ticket if action is needed before after devconf? 18:24:17 ("before after" is clear, right?") 18:24:28 clear 18:24:45 #action decause follow-up with FAMSCo about APAC bid 18:25:16 cool thanks! 18:25:20 okay, so... 18:25:22 nod nod nod 18:25:29 #topic user/contributor survey 18:26:01 mattdm has seen the early back-and-forth, but tatica/me/him have been knocking around a pool of questions for our annual survey 18:26:09 First, condolences to tatica on her family loss 18:26:19 yes, indeed :( 18:26:34 she will be joining us next week with any luck 18:26:50 okay, so, let's postpone this until then? 18:26:57 yeah, that is fair 18:27:09 #info tune in next week.... 18:27:12 #topic next week 18:27:17 which brings me to this :) 18:27:37 I will be on my way to brno 18:27:53 * langdon notes, as always, confused on tzs.. but may be on a plane during next mtg too .. 18:27:53 nod nod nod 18:27:53 however, if enough people are around, go ahead wtihout me? 18:28:15 I /think/ I'll be in brno by meeting time, has not done the TZ math yet 18:28:30 * langdon thinks it through and should be on the ground.. somewhere 18:28:36 Brno has UTC +1 actually 18:29:14 i'll around 18:29:19 * decauseWiTNYC is still doing math 18:29:24 poorly 18:29:38 I will join the meeting the next week as well 18:29:59 * robyduck too 18:30:14 ok. so, we'll see who can make it. whoever gets here first can run meetbot 18:30:23 any other items for this week? 18:30:25 As I will probably the only one not traveling, I might run the meeting 18:30:35 +1 18:30:40 jkurik++ 18:31:09 jkurik++ 18:31:13 jkurik: that would be great. i'll be present because my flight leaves later in the evening, but i will be in and out of the "office" packing probably :) 18:32:17 #action jkurik to run the council meeting on Feb-01st 18:32:40 okay then. half an hour back for everyone. see all of you in brno, right? 18:32:48 #action decause provide jkurik with a beverage of choice at DevConf.cz 18:32:58 #endmeeting