13:00:13 #startmeeting FZUG 13:00:13 Meeting started Fri Jan 20 13:00:13 2017 UTC. The chair is zsun. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 13:00:13 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 13:00:13 The meeting name has been set to 'fzug' 13:00:17 #topic Roll Call 13:00:35 #chair tonghuix tiansworld gbraad bexelbie 13:00:35 Current chairs: bexelbie gbraad tiansworld tonghuix zsun 13:00:41 .hellomynameis zsun 13:00:42 zsun: zsun 'None' 13:00:56 anyone online now? 13:01:24 .hello bex 13:01:24 bexelbie: bex 'Brian (bex) Exelbierd' 13:01:52 hi bexelbie 13:01:57 Hey :) 13:02:05 in fact this meeting have been quiet for some time now 13:02:07 So apparently the Spring Festival is upon us ... 13:02:48 bexelbie: fine, the Spring Festival vacation starts from next Friday (to Feb 2nd) so now it is still work time 13:03:04 ahh, next Friday is when the mad rush to travel all over China begins :) 13:03:04 Even this Sunday 13:03:07 I've seen pictures 13:03:21 It starts already 13:03:36 Friends have told me about their 14 hour train rides in packed trains 13:03:40 gbraad: amazing to see you attended 13:03:49 ./hellomynameis tonghuix 13:03:56 .hellomynameis tonghuix 13:03:57 tonghuix: tonghuix 'None' 13:04:16 two more minutes for roll call, then we get into topics 13:04:22 Tickets are sold out for weeks 13:04:36 .hello gbraad 13:04:37 gbraad: gbraad 'Gerard Braad (吉拉德)' 13:04:49 .hellomynameis tiansworld 13:04:50 tiansworld: tiansworld 'None' 13:04:57 gbraad: Ah, you even knows much better than some Chinese in Beijing 13:05:15 zodbot: help 13:05:15 Please see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Zodbot for general help and information about this Supybot - If you want information about a specific command, type .misc help 13:05:15 * zsun is amazed to see so many people attending today 13:05:23 Traffic is already a mess these days 13:05:34 ok, let's get started 13:05:35 * bexelbie has never seen BJ traffic not a mess :P 13:05:42 #topic Offline events 13:05:45 LOL 13:05:54 XD 13:05:59 let me introduce each other a bit 13:06:27 * gbraad is online on phone (typing will be slower) 13:06:32 tiansworld is the Fedora Chinese Translation coordinator (zh_CN) 13:06:44 tonghuix is an ambassador in Beijing 13:06:53 * zsun the same as Tonghuix 13:07:06 IMO tiansworld is not in Beijing currently 13:07:12 and gbraad? 13:07:27 * tiansworld no, in a western city 13:07:27 * gbraad is not relevant ;-) 13:07:42 bexelbie is the current FCAIC of Fedoraproject, in EMEA 13:07:49 I am based in EMEA 13:07:53 my role is world-wide 13:08:04 bexelbie: Hi, good to see you!! 13:08:11 ty 13:08:24 gbraad is ambassador mentor based in Beijing currently 13:08:45 The talk started in the mailing list 13:08:55 * zsun looking for the mail archive 13:09:45 #link https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/ambassadors@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/7H35EIOQXUWNF23TVBMSGNATXM6JDUA6/ 13:10:45 bexelbie: I'd like to answer your question 2 and 3 first 13:11:09 cool 13:11:37 putting up a booth for that should not be a problem for us I guess 13:12:21 zsun: A lot of stuff needed, dvds, booth cloths, flyers..and so one 13:12:26 s/one/on 13:12:43 #idea zsun thinks it should not be a problem putting up a booth for the LinuxCon event 13:13:07 Swag and merchandise is not the same problem 13:13:12 While we don't need to identify someone today, is there someone in China willing to be the event owner and to approach APAC for funding for stuff 13:13:17 tonghuix: since Red Hat will offer some help, swags wouldn't be a big problem. 13:13:32 RH may not print the swag for Fedora - we will need to see 13:13:42 I'd like to see this run at least partly through Ambassadors 13:13:46 this isn't RH trying to dictate 13:13:54 +1 13:13:55 I want RH to supplement an Ambassador driven presence 13:14:19 * bexelbie hasn't cleared all of his ideas with RH yet either :P ... I am trying to build support on both sides at the same time 13:14:36 bexelbie: I can take this action, but from the budget planning FAD, we may not able to get too much 13:14:41 Am I the only one not working in RH? 13:14:46 To give an example 13:15:00 tonghuix: Me also 13:15:23 At LinuxCon Berlin - Fedora Ambassadors ran the booth and provided swag, etc. RH provided a monitor to do demos on ($ridiculous cost) and provided support for an extra booth attendee who was an expert in modularity 13:15:23 tonghuix no, tiansworld is also not a Red Hat employee. And you know gbraad and I was in Fedora first before join Red Hat 13:15:29 I am proposing a talk, but will try to keep it Fedora. 13:16:21 I need to get approval from my manager beforehand, since the event is on working day. 13:16:38 I would love to looking afer the booth during linuxcon, i am not good at fedora-ralated talk 13:16:38 for swags, I will talk to site team as well as APAC 13:17:04 tonghuix, perhaps there is a talk about translation and community you and I can propose together 13:17:09 #action zsun query Fedora APAC about swags for LinuxCon Beijing 13:17:19 bexelbie: oh yes! 13:17:33 you too tiansworld :) 13:17:34 bexelbie: great idea. Even better if tiansworld can show up in Beijing at that time 13:17:58 * bexelbie read tiansworld instead of tonghuix :P But I am happy to help with talk ideas for anyone and be a copresenter if desired 13:18:35 beexelbie is duo presentations preferred? 13:18:35 I think this will be the first time that this event is held in China - so I think asking APAC if they can fund some travel is not unreasonable 13:18:50 Having more Mandarin speakers is always good in China 13:19:16 If so, I can also co-present with others 13:19:54 bexelbie: maybe, however now budget.next requires us to submit the budget plan in summer. And budget planning for FY18 already finished in July, 2016, so it needs some work 13:20:33 budget.next is in progress still 13:20:33 anyway, let's just see 13:20:37 no FY18 planning has been done 13:20:42 * bexelbie is responsible for budget.next 13:20:43 When will the event be held? I am afraid I won't be able to go to Beijing due to heavy work loads. 13:20:58 BJ 13:20:59 tiansworld: 19-20 June 13:21:19 bexelbie: but APAC is already did the budget planning for FY18 (March 2017 - Feb2018) as Budget.next requires.. 13:22:05 zsun who else can we approach for Fedora speakers? 13:22:05 let's first get back to questions, then we can discuss other details in case we are missing something 13:22:06 zsun, ok ... I didn't know that. I hope their plans and the actual money will align :) 13:22:21 +1 13:22:24 tonghuix: summer is great. 13:22:34 gbraad: let's talk about speakers last 13:22:38 zsun: Try to contact Tommy He 13:22:48 zsun: +1!! 13:22:51 +1 13:22:52 tiansworld: thanks. Will ping him later 13:22:53 zsun: ok 13:23:10 so it sounds like #2 (can we do a booth) is a yes - but we need to think about funding a bit 13:23:16 * bexelbie tends to believe funding works itself out 13:23:18 bexelbie: yes 13:23:20 what about #3 13:23:38 are we ok with sharing a booth with other communities and the community team from Red HAt? 13:23:40 Funding is a bed thing :-P 13:23:54 for #3, sharing a booth works IMO 13:23:59 s/bed/bex/ 13:24:09 gbraad XD 13:25:09 Shouldn't be a worry, since impact can justify cost in the worst case. But this needs to be shown... 13:25:12 Assuming we are not making a final decision, how does everyone else feel about sharing? 13:25:23 I prefer not to 13:25:26 it is better share with a community not a company 13:25:47 So the team that is going represents upstream communities, like Ceph, Gluster, OpenStack, etc. 13:25:50 It is not a product team 13:25:53 it is simply, as gbraad and I now works for Red Hat so it should be fine. The two things I need to figure out are, 1)what actually is the community team; 2) costs for renting (sharing) things should be figured out to see if we can afford 13:25:54 Or if it aligns, like Gnome? 13:26:16 If we share, there would be no cost to the Fedora Public budget, assuming it works like in the past 13:26:30 personally I prefer not to share with Red Hat, but share with some corresponding community 13:26:38 gbraad, yes - we don't have a community lead for Gnome though 13:26:40 Zsun +q 13:26:40 gbraad: it is okay for GNOME 13:26:50 what about with CentOS? 13:26:52 I am a GNOME foundation member now 13:26:58 Hmmm, good idea 13:27:03 bexelbie: Good idea! 13:27:12 bexelbie: +1 13:27:18 I have tried to get CentOS in e picture for a long time 13:27:27 * bexelbie will talk to CentOS and find out if they will be in the RH Community booth or would be willing to join us in a booth separately 13:27:31 kbsingh will be very happy 13:27:45 If we can do a dojo in the days around it ???? 13:27:46 also, what about a booth where we had a separate pod/area? 13:27:49 ;-) 13:28:09 gbraad, those are CentOS questions :) We should loop in jperrin 13:28:15 and kb 13:28:17 bexelbie sounds fine as long as we can put up a roll up and some swags 13:28:21 +1 13:28:40 zsun, we would always be allowed a swag and rollup or I wouldn't suggest sharing :) 13:28:44 But it can ease the idea, this is why ii suggest 13:28:46 we have a brand we want to show off 13:29:17 proposed action: bex will follow up wiht CentOS about sharing and a dojo .. he will also clarify what sharing with the community booth means 13:29:21 ok? 13:29:27 Community projects, like gnome or centos sound like possible share 13:29:38 gbraad: +1 13:29:40 +1 13:29:47 * zsun agrees with bexelbie 13:29:59 #action bexelbie will follow up wiht CentOS about sharing and a dojo .. he will also clarify what sharing with the community booth means 13:30:14 For GNOME, I will ask BinLi for sharing booth help 13:30:26 so #3 is almost clear 13:30:28 Sharing with Red Hat in China is not an ideal choice 13:30:30 ...and other GNOME foundation 13:30:44 Willnnot help develop the community 13:30:45 gbraad, can you elaborate on that (after the meeting is fine) 13:31:02 now let's get to #1, I think it is most difficult question overall 13:31:04 I will offline later 13:31:08 gbraad, ty 13:32:20 I wonder if modularity attracts people or not 13:32:27 * zsun means in Beijing 13:32:52 zsun: don't know more about LinuxCon's talk.. 13:33:06 I included it because it was something that is an emphasis of Fedora and unique 13:33:07 since for the majority, they just see Linux as an OS, not something interesting now 13:33:11 but that doesn't mean it is right for this market 13:33:29 bexelbie nothing bad, but there is a strong feeling of red hat controls fedora here in China. 13:33:54 As you all are local, I hope you can suggest topics that will be interesting for people in Beijing/China 13:34:02 gbraad, ok, that makes sense 13:34:20 and how would you suggest we attract people to a booth, what messaging? 13:34:31 With containers, the OS is more relevant than ever :) 13:34:41 in my opinion, linuxCon more focus on cloud and comercial related topic, so a desktop distro talk may not accepted 13:35:00 Fedora and Atomicnis important 13:35:04 tonghuix: luckily we have Fedora Atomic 13:35:16 We choose the drop the cloud image 13:35:28 zsun: yep, so I suggest gbraad talk about Atomic 13:35:31 Thisnis big, as the Atomic idea is far stretching 13:35:45 It has a different workflow 13:35:51 bexelbie: I think you are from OSAS, maybe you have some ideas on Atomic ? 13:35:56 Project Atomic should have a good presence as well, afaik 13:36:00 ...or openshift? 13:36:03 I used to work on Atomic :) 13:36:14 tonghuix: no, openshift is totally not Fedora 13:36:22 OpenShift is also way cool and we are working on some Fedora+OpenShift stuff 13:36:37 Devtools 13:36:51 I will at least propose fedora atomic and devtools 13:36:55 how about Fedora for DevOps? 13:36:59 iirc there is a project in the works to use Fedora as a leading test and dev platform for OpenShift 13:37:04 Excuse for my slow reading speed, so the event is more technical related? Then I guess more professional talks are preferred. 13:37:15 since this is a joint event for LinuxCon vs ContainerCon vs CloudOpen, contain related should be better 13:37:32 tiansworld: +1 13:37:52 It's not suitable for a normal daily user. 13:38:01 tiansworld: I supose it is a hight-end commercial-technical conf 13:38:07 This is a weakness for Fedora China. Focus is a lot on translation 13:38:24 However, we can detail bodhi+koji, pagure etc 13:38:27 It is not a user conference, it is for system administrators, programmers, managers 13:38:30 gbraad: translation is no more focus 13:38:33 yep we did a lot of on l10n 13:38:39 gbraad: ed 13:39:11 My own feelings 13:39:22 One theme that Fedora can be is "Getting started in open source - being comfortable to make your first suggstion, patch, commit" 13:39:25 let's get it clear. bexelbie, since this event happens in CNCC, which is a commercial venue, so I assume the ticket is expensive 13:39:34 * gbraad typos and dense comments due to phone 13:39:45 If this is in line with Fedora Ambassador's in China messaging 13:40:00 zsun, if it is like the others 13:40:08 there will be inexpensive hallway passes 13:40:25 Check 13:40:37 for certain definitions of inexpensive 13:40:45 but that is a funding detail 13:40:51 So I don't think talking about translation or entry level thing is a better choice on this event 13:40:59 I really feel like I am hearing opinions on whether this is good for Fedora or not 13:41:31 tiansworld: I hope you knows exactly what kind of events CNCC usually holds.. 13:41:34 How comfortable on Chinese Engineers with making open source contributions? Should we talk about contributor onboarding? 13:41:42 I think it is good 13:41:51 bexelbie: sorry if I misled you. :) 13:41:51 Yes 13:42:06 bexelbie gbraad I think we may make it much technical focused 13:42:13 But we also reach out to potential companies to work with us 13:42:25 Like cs2c did before 13:42:26 zsun: In fact, I don't know. 13:42:46 tiansworld: will explain this a bit to you later on 13:43:13 zsun: OK, 13:43:59 Back in 2 minutes 13:44:36 bexelbie: generally I think open source is not widely known in China 13:45:10 I know that several Chinese companies are trying to get their engineers involved in open source projects like OPNFV 13:45:23 do you think we should talk about Fedora as a way to get used to working in open source 13:45:29 because we have local people to talk to 13:45:37 Yes 13:45:38 and some structure to work with and join? 13:45:51 bexelbie: yes, if it can be accepted 13:45:55 The open source way 13:46:01 Also we have both RHers and non-RHers so they can talk to the people they are comfortable with "corporate" or "community" even though we are all Fedora 13:46:32 * zsun always prefer to show up as fully community, although dayjob works in RH 13:47:16 In that sense, even making a small translation to practice working with a contribution is a good idea 13:47:22 bexelbie: good idea, but I think the audience may more commercial managers indead of programmer 13:47:23 and even a small translation one-time is a good bonus for Fedora 13:47:34 tonghuix, I don't know if we know .. this is the first time in China I think 13:47:39 tonghuix +1 13:47:43 and managers can tell programmers to visit us 13:48:09 as we may be a "safer" first try than their major contribution to say OpenStack that is commercially critical to the company 13:48:12 nope, managers and programmers are totally two different world 13:48:31 bexelbie: I really prefer something technical related. Chinese hold different cultural vs generally westners 13:48:43 Then lets stick to technical 13:49:05 but it would be nice to have a theme we can all think on during the upcoming holiday and then come back and discuss further 13:50:20 bexelbie: so what is the expected outcome for Fedora talks? this really matters 13:50:25 yep, it is better start a mail thred focus on linuxcon talk 13:51:10 IMO, the point is: What is the point of attending such an event for Fedora? This will determine the themes of the talks 13:51:13 zsun, that is a question we should answer first. What do we want for Fedora in China 13:51:25 * bexelbie looks at everyone else to help figure that out :) 13:51:38 tiansworld, +1 13:51:41 It depends on who is repsonsible for the organisation. LF or LF+local agent, or local agent 13:51:57 gbraad +1 13:52:01 with OpenStack it became very commercially focussed for the China days 13:52:11 afaik LF is directly going to be present and running the event 13:52:17 OK 13:52:29 * zsun totally, seriously agreed with gbraadfor OpenStack Days China 13:52:36 hopefully similar to Japan 13:52:51 * bexelbie hasn't been to LF Japan, but my understanding is it is the same idea 13:53:00 * bexelbie will be there this year though, I think 13:53:23 and I plan to start this same conversation with them .. :) you all just got to go first 13:53:52 In short i believe we should have a presence... but we need to discuss further about topics 13:54:12 5 minutes left for the meeting 13:54:16 gbraad: agreed 13:54:28 I would like the focus on the open source way, as it can align with our community aim, but also assisting those who want to join; companies and individuals 13:54:57 so let's figure out some kind of info first, then we can have actions or better ideas on this question 13:55:00 but if possible, propose technical talks that are proven projects from Fedora 13:55:55 we all know what proven means, but thsi can be explained in the talk as community, people, etc, and the open source way 13:56:47 bexelbie: I hope you can confirm with LF if they are directly running the event in Beijing, or they make other agent/companies do this 13:56:52 for open source way, there are several talks that fedora china could talk to, but most are suitble for community-like conf, not a commercial-tech conf 13:57:06 tonghuix: we can work on this 13:57:15 tonghuix: provide examples of success stories 13:57:32 gbraad tonghuix tiansworld we need to figure out what is expected and possible target audience/areas 13:57:33 zsun: it should be working with CSIP or COPU 13:57:49 tonghuix: I hope NOT 13:57:50 * gbraad refrains from comments 13:57:52 zsun: +1, 13:58:37 zsun: I would like to contact someone working in COPU to confirm it 13:58:45 1. Get to the background of organizer, directly or indirectly 13:59:13 and we also have to figure out maybe the plan/aim for Fedora Chinese User Group in FY18, as it will start soon 13:59:23 tiansworld: +1 13:59:42 huawei is a main sponsor. could it be they are assisting? 14:00:06 gbraad: if huawei assisting, it would be much better than COPU or CISP IMO 14:00:20 same thought, anyways.... 14:00:33 this is not the biigest question 14:00:38 zsun: yep, a huge company better than a gov 14:00:51 gbraad: I will contact with Richard Lin in Huawei 14:00:57 it is about; what can we do for LinuxCon, and is LinuxCon the place for us? 14:01:15 tonghuix: That means more technology than *bullshit* :) 14:01:31 #action zsun contact with Richard Lin to see the roles Huawei acts in LinuxCon Beijing 14:02:16 #action tonghuix contact with someone working in COPU to see the roles of gov will act in LinuxCon 14:02:48 I think we've been talking about much problematic questions now. I think we also need to make it clear when shall the next meeting be 14:02:50 I think we need some time to get an answer to topics. can we make an action to get visibility on potential topics/speakers? 14:03:01 bexelbie: is this time Friday fits you well? 14:03:10 Generally yes 14:03:21 next week is devconf and the week after that is FOSDEM so my availability may be tougher 14:03:26 but generally yes 14:03:28 bexelbie: Great. 14:03:38 bexelbie: I'd like to make it clear of our vacations 14:03:39 * bexelbie just added this to my calendar as a recurring meeting :) 14:03:45 * gbraad cant attend FOSDEM :,-( 14:04:08 next Friday ( Jan 27th ) is in Spring Festival vacation so seems no meetings 14:04:35 * bexelbie deletes entry for Jan 27 :) 14:04:45 the week after ( Feb 3rd ) I am still taking PTO and away from internet. So anyone will make this happen? 14:04:52 zsun: we plan a meeting, but will focus on getting answers within our community also 14:05:11 gbraad: agreed. We still need to work on this out of the meeting 14:05:18 yes 14:05:33 Is 10 Feb too soon to continue this conversation? 14:05:48 if nobody can make Feb 3rd happen, then it is also tentative. 14:05:49 sounds reasonable 14:06:05 I think you guys would better to hold a meeting face to face. 14:06:11 it should not be postponed after the 10th... 14:06:12 when is the CFP deadline? 14:06:14 bexelbie: ideally we have IRC meetings weekly 14:06:27 tonghuix: March 18 14:06:54 we can use a confcall if needed 14:07:22 a meet.jit.si also works for it 14:07:38 So we still hold IRC meetings from Feb. 10th as usual (if possible) and for the next irc meeting focused on this topic we can announce it in the mailing list if needed 14:07:40 If f2f works hold it without me .. I understand 14:07:52 tonghuix: fine, or BlueJeans (although commercial 14:08:31 we'll figure out how later... first, when, and why ;-) 14:08:53 I am OK to travel during day time... 14:09:08 so, f2f no issue 14:09:35 I will try to visit raycom next week... zsun and I can meet beforehand related to this 14:09:37 gbraad: ideally you can visit 'your' office someday and have F2F there if needed ;-) 14:09:56 * gbraad has only a concept of home office ;-) 14:10:15 gbraad: Hey, my PTO starts next Wednesday.. Only Monday and Tuesday (morning only) works 14:10:38 hmmm... OK. let's try Monday? 14:10:57 we'll discuss offline 14:11:07 bexelbie: if things are clear, we can have IRC meeting on this topic Feb 10 or 17 for the next time 14:11:08 tonghuix, tiansworld we can also talk about community talk ideas .. even if we don't use them for this we can look at using them elsewhere 14:11:13 this means tonghuix and us will catch up later? 14:11:19 zsun, sure and feel free to loop me in on email, etc. 14:11:30 okay from my side 14:11:36 tonghuix will you leave BJ? 14:12:04 gbraad: no, I was born in BJ, so don't leave 14:12:08 ;-) 14:12:15 you sound like my wife 14:12:24 gbraad: haha maybe 14:12:35 tiansworld: we will involve you in by conference call when essential 14:13:04 zsun: tiansworld tommyhe by email and ask for confcall 14:13:26 try to make it without me, so you guys speak Chinese ;-) 14:13:33 #ideas gbraad and tonghuix come to Red Hat Raycom office next week for face to face meeting 14:13:45 #idea gbraad and tonghuix come to Red Hat Raycom office next week for face to face meeting 14:14:11 next week? 14:14:14 * gbraad will leave soon... kid needs to sleep 14:14:23 #idea conference call with tiansworld and Tommy He for community planning 14:14:42 tonghuix: if you can not make it next week, we can meet later 14:14:59 gbraad: I will send you some other question later 14:15:28 ok 14:15:29 #action zsun remind bexelbie the next IRC meeting time 14:15:30 zsun: before 25th is okay for me 14:15:49 are we clear now? I mean actions 14:16:26 so I think we are done. 14:16:32 I am OK. follow-up questions will come by email 14:16:50 yes, follow-up questions can be emails 14:16:55 okay 14:17:03 * zsun closing the meetings in 1 minute 14:17:12 * gbraad already leaves 14:17:15 bye bye 14:17:20 gbraad: see you later 14:18:01 #endmeeting