03:00:07 #startmeeting 03:00:07 Meeting started Sat Jan 25 03:00:07 2014 UTC. The chair is tuanta. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 03:00:07 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 03:00:17 #meetingname apac 03:00:17 The meeting name has been set to 'apac' 03:00:26 #topic Roll Call 03:00:29 .fas tuanta 03:00:29 tuanta: tuanta 'Truong Anh Tuan' 03:00:32 .fas zsun 03:00:33 zsun: zsun 'Zamir SUN' 03:01:07 .fas endle 03:01:08 endle: dendle 'Anthony Dendle' - fennics 'Ye ZongQiu' - endlessroad1991 'er91' - idealess 'liangyuan' - endle '' - thisisvancouver 'Terrance Evans ' - thbe 'Thomas Bendler' 03:01:10 ping FranciscoD 03:01:25 .fas litimetal@gmail.com 03:01:25 endle: endle '' 03:01:57 #chair zsun FranciscoD endle 03:01:57 Current chairs: FranciscoD endle tuanta zsun 03:02:36 anyone here today for APAC special meeting? 03:02:42 yes 03:03:07 today, we discuss about APAC Budget Plan for FY2015 and FUDCon APAC 2014 03:03:16 just two of us? 03:03:24 I think we should wait more for others 03:03:41 okay from my side 03:05:14 okay 03:07:11 alick hi 03:07:21 #chair alick 03:07:21 Current chairs: FranciscoD alick endle tuanta zsun 03:07:36 ok, we should start now 03:07:40 * alick on phone 03:07:53 #topic FUDCon APAC 2014 03:08:23 you know, we have only one bid this year from China team 03:08:25 #link https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Bid_for_Beijing_2014 03:08:52 you already read the wiki page? 03:08:56 We've updated the wiki and set the Event Owner to Christopher Meng(cicku) 03:09:27 tuanta endle is one of our coordinator 03:10:50 in the last meeting, I just have soem concerns about budget 03:11:28 s/soem/some 03:12:37 yeah, and we've updated the Budget table 03:12:57 AFAICS, you manage it much better 03:13:09 I have three actions last time * zsun to break down budget for travel and hotel separately of FUDCon 03:13:09 Beijing Bidding 03:13:09 * zsun talk with the team on the travel budget for FUDCon Beijing 03:13:09 Bidding 03:14:12 beside usual budget for FUDCon (15k), can you raise funds from other sources? 03:14:12 and to adjust the Transportation section to add more APAC cities 03:14:27 so you think it's possible? 03:15:04 I think it is possible, however, I am not focus on the budget issue, so I need to talk with the team to make it sure 03:16:28 btw, I think Accommodation and Food budget maybe too low 03:17:42 how many nights would attendees be sponsored? 03:18:10 23-24-25th of May, right? 03:18:12 we now calculated Accommodation as 20 people * 2 nights 03:18:13 three nights 03:18:32 event started on May 23rd 03:18:48 people will arrive on 22nd 03:18:56 oh. 03:19:02 right? 03:19:24 So the calculation is based on a not proper nights 03:19:27 so they stay three nights: 22,23,24 03:20:12 the most budget hotels is about $50/night/room 03:20:27 * 10 rooms 03:20:34 I think I'd better mark these as action so that I won't forget the actions 03:20:38 ~ $1,500 03:21:12 #action zsun to double check the Accommodation budget 03:21:23 #action zsun talk with the team about other possible sponsorships 03:21:31 how many attendees do you expect to come? 03:22:14 about 300-400 in total and about 20 sponsored 03:22:15 in previous FUDCon(s), there are about 150-250 attendees 03:22:21 ah, yes 03:22:38 so we have a big room for about 400 people 03:22:48 how about Food budget? 03:23:11 you plan to sponsor 20 ppl only or all attendees? 03:24:15 and the most important thing: have you got a tentative agenda? 03:24:55 $1000 will be about 600kg fruit in total. I think we do not need so much fruit so some of can be calculated as drinks 03:26:18 I believe you can manage budget well 03:26:25 actually, you have no choice :) 03:27:05 you must keep all budget managed, otherwise, you have to spend your pocket money :) 03:27:37 Alick may focus on tentative agenda in my mind. 03:27:44 yes I understand 03:27:56 you should have a thing like tentative agenda or master plan: 03:28:03 something like: 03:28:16 day-1: morning - afternoon 03:28:18 day-2... 03:28:21 day-3... 03:28:23 get it 03:28:43 so it looks like a schedule during the proposed days 03:28:47 so it's much easier for people to register their talks, hackfests, etc. 03:29:12 should we mark another action? 03:29:27 #action zsun talk with the team to make a tentative agenda 03:30:39 since I am not in Beijing, the fruit costs may be checked again by the ones there in Beijing later 03:31:05 it's not a big deal :) 03:31:35 just finish these two actions today 03:31:42 and you can propose to FPL 03:31:50 and FAmSCo 03:32:14 I will manage to have more comments in FAmSCo meetings, if they have any questions 03:32:24 thanks 03:32:43 so how should we do so, just mail FPL and FAmSCo to tell about the bid? 03:32:57 you can start a discussion on fudcon-planning list 03:33:36 please poke Robyn and Ruth to pay attention to your case 03:33:45 time is too close now 03:33:53 cicku already send mail to Robyn 03:34:00 good 03:34:16 we have not quorum to do voting now 03:34:36 however, I vote +1 on this 03:34:54 I just get one question,who is ruth or how can we get in touch with him/her? 03:35:07 and I believe that there are not any big problems with others 03:35:19 I did not see Ruth's User:Ruth 03:35:21 Ruth is Fedora budget owner 03:35:42 #link https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:OSAS 03:36:56 contacting to Robyn and on the fudcon-planning mailing list is enough, I think 03:37:06 oh. Thanks 03:38:11 #action zsun start a new thread non fudcon-planning mailing list to propose to FPL and FAmSCo 03:38:16 #undo 03:38:17 Removing item from minutes: 03:38:31 #action zsun start a new thread on fudcon-planning mailing list to propose to FPL and FAmSCo 03:39:35 we are willing to hear more question since it'll help to make the event better 03:40:08 #topic APAC Budget Plan for FY 2015 03:40:25 #link https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/APAC/Budget:2015 03:41:40 #info Fedora fiscal year is following Red Hat FY, from March until Feb of the next year 03:42:05 .fas nangthang 03:42:05 thangnn: nangthang 'Thang Nguyen Nang' 03:42:18 I have a draft https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/APAC/Budget:2015 03:42:49 I will add budget plan of China and Taiwan team to 03:42:52 #link https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/APAC/Budget/China_Budget_FY2015 03:42:59 #link https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/APAC/Budget/Taiwan_Budget_FY2015 03:43:32 I have no idea there are any more events/activities in other APAC countries 03:43:58 so now, we just have ones in: Vietnam, China, Taiwan, and Australia 03:44:52 why Australia? it is a big country of FOSS community 03:45:08 there are a lot Fedora and FOSS contributors there 03:45:48 there are some big events annually. and I want to have Fedora presence in those events 03:46:05 any questions and comments? 03:46:41 * zsun no 03:47:18 :) 03:47:47 so I just need to adjust the final draft myself 03:48:00 now is close to the deadline 03:48:12 I need to bring it to discuss in FAmSCo 03:48:35 then propose to FPL and budget owner by the end of this month 03:51:54 #action tuanta to adjust the final draft of APAC budget plan for FY2015 and bring to discuss in FAmSCo meeting 03:52:19 #topic Open Floor 03:52:38 okay if there are no more topic to discuss today, I will end the meeting in next two minutes 03:53:05 +1 tuanta 03:53:10 +1 03:54:09 #endmeeting