20:02:14 #startmeeting EMEA ambassadors 2014-08-20 20:02:14 Meeting started Wed Aug 20 20:02:14 2014 UTC. The chair is robyduck. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 20:02:14 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 20:02:23 #meetingname emea ambassadors 20:02:23 The meeting name has been set to 'emea_ambassadors' 20:02:32 #topic Roll Call 20:02:35 .fas gnokii 20:02:36 gnokii: gnokii 'Sirko Kemter' 20:02:40 .fas robyduck 20:02:41 .fas MooDoo 20:02:41 robyduck: robyduck 'Robert Mayr' 20:02:43 .fas fabian_a 20:02:44 MooDoo: paulmellors 'Paul Mellors' 20:02:47 fabian_a: fab 'Fabian Affolter' 20:03:01 .fas jfarcher 20:03:02 jonar: jfarcher 'Jonathan Archer' 20:03:20 evening folks 20:03:28 evening 20:03:41 hello 20:03:44 howdy 20:03:48 .fas kmf 20:03:51 kmf: kmfcandu 'Kyle Fletcher' - kmf 'Karl Fischer' 20:04:22 everyone well? 20:04:29 yeah pretty good thanks :D 20:04:38 :) 20:05:17 ok, other people will jump in later, hopefully. Let's start. 20:05:22 #topic Announcements 20:05:33 Any announcements? 20:05:54 Quiet as a mouse in the uk :S 20:05:58 MooDoo, want to mention the hangout? 20:06:03 #info Fedora 21 Alpha release is planned for September 2nd 20:06:46 I'm having a google hangout 8UTC tomorrow night, should be a laugh, fedora users whoever turns up basically :D 20:07:43 +1 20:07:49 ;) 20:07:57 nice idea MooDoo 20:08:44 #info FrOSCon will be this weekend, august 23-24 20:09:00 https://www.froscon.de 20:09:41 anything else? /me doesn't have much more 20:09:49 with an empty Fedora devroom 20:10:14 oh, why? 20:10:31 heffer is not around right? 20:10:49 because we didnt orgainze talks, nobody reacted on the list and then the gave us last week the room 20:11:46 gnokii: are you going to attend? 20:11:55 yes 20:12:35 hopefully we can fill the room anyway then ;) 20:12:38 wrong 20:12:39 :P 20:12:45 hi heffer 20:13:15 hi 20:13:31 heffer: do you have something to add to FrOSCon? 20:14:10 we are still in announcements, but if it's just an update you're welcome to give it now 20:14:38 Well we have all set so far except a schedule for our developer room that suddenly appeared. 20:14:54 @gnokii: hotel room for Sun -> Mon is confirmed now as well 20:15:07 ooh good 20:15:18 But basically I'm looking forward to it being a nice event as always :D 20:15:21 cool, how are you set about swags? I saw a ticket, but shipping now it's too late :( 20:15:35 gnokii: will bring some stuff 20:15:49 i have some buttons and stickers also 20:15:53 but not too many 20:16:14 plus we have the 3d printer so i will make some fedora keychains just in case 20:16:22 that's great 20:16:42 robyduck: Jirka gave me everything what was left, the russians, and apac, latam people did nearly grep nothing so its a lot I have to carry 20:17:15 oh, then you need to rent a pickup probably ^^ 20:18:02 anything other? If not let's move on. 20:18:04 gnokii: please remember to create a ticket for your travel reimbursement 20:18:14 heffer: +1 20:18:19 heffer I will surly not forget that 20:18:24 ;) 20:19:25 .fas thunderbirdtr 20:19:25 thunderbirdtr: thunderbirdtr 'Onuralp SEZER' 20:19:27 oh, and the budget tracking ticket is nice, maybe you can update that too, gnokii (once you have estimated travel costs) 20:19:43 80€ 20:19:46 88€ 20:20:40 #topic Requests 20:21:14 gnokii: will be back in a minute...can you look in the meanwhile? 20:21:24 https://fedorahosted.org/emea-swag-tracking/report/1?sort=ticket&asc=1&page=1 20:23:43 ok, first one is probably #398 20:23:52 https://fedorahosted.org/emea-swag-tracking/ticket/398 20:24:07 mmh not funny 20:24:09 Funding for Request for Pretoria Software Freedom Day 2014 20:24:44 yep, that's mine 20:24:52 kmf can you add something? I can'r see this as a planned event for the Fiscal Year 2015 20:25:21 is boring to hide the costs in pdfs we have to download now and convert Rand to US$ 20:25:40 sorry it's roughly $800 20:26:03 uuh 20:26:18 @robyduck ... no it's not there 20:27:04 humm, anything you want to add? 20:27:09 and thats just renting an room? 20:27:28 yes I see the most is for the lounge 20:27:52 it's more like a lounge with 3 board rooms and sound equipment and screen /projector 20:28:17 can accommodate 100 people 20:28:30 this event id not Fedora-only, right? 20:28:39 puh 20:28:55 have roughly 80 people registered already via Google+ and Facebook 20:29:08 No it's software freedom day 20:29:09 means addionally to this costs there will be others, for swag, DVD some snacks maybe 20:29:17 normally we don't sponsor things like this, and we don't have any budget allocated right now 20:29:34 gnokii, ... I have raised about $500 already 20:30:12 I have organized DVD's from Anish ... it was shipped to him for Idlelo 20:30:13 ok and where is the wiki page? 20:30:25 gnokii: the swag ticket is #400, is that right kmf? 20:31:02 robyduck, yes 20:31:23 gnokii, the official SFD page is here ... http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2014/SouthAfrica/Pretoria/SFD getting the Fedora page now 20:32:27 well we usually do that in the first place 20:33:37 gnokii, https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Events&action=history entry was added ... seems to be removed 20:34:34 kmf I meant more the planning page for the event 20:34:35 gnokii, ... here's the page .. it's point to the SFD Wiki https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=SFD_2014_Pretoria 20:35:10 gnokii, ... it's bare 20:35:21 -1 20:35:26 I'm the organizer for SFD .... 20:36:47 $500-1999 USD = The request requires approval from the appropriate regional community (APAC, EMEA, LATAM, or NA) 20:37:09 cool 20:37:38 kmf, 800$ is really too much, and I'm not aware of the actual budget situation. Also the event has not been budgetized. Can you review it? 20:38:14 robyduck, I can bring up previous meeting minutes where Jiri discussed it. 20:38:38 where? 20:40:14 found it 20:40:16 kmf: also don't forget that we still have the saved money from idlelo for an African event, that's something you can team up with twohot on. It'd be a pity not to use it. 20:41:00 robyduck, ta :) 20:41:14 kmf you dont convince me at all 20:41:24 we have another event in Nigeria, you should split up the money with twohot 20:41:49 gnokii, I'm all for that ... I had another company cover the deposit for today 20:42:15 gnokii, we had a deadline to ve cover 30% of the total amount 20:42:56 I'll settle for $499 20:43:14 we don't have any amount from twohot right now, so I' suggest to vote for 500$. Once we know how much twohot asks for, we can definitely agree to more. 20:43:33 kmf: would that be ok? 20:43:45 robyduck, yes $500 is cool by me 20:43:49 kmf I even will vote negative for 500$ 20:43:56 I tell you why 20:44:03 gnokii, tell me 20:44:43 I see on the wiki page of SFD wiki, which I had to search for after I saw only the link on our wiki page 3 talks 20:45:40 gnokii ... yes we are still geeting feedback on talks 20:46:11 ok, let's vote for SFD in Pretoria for 500$ 20:46:19 so I shall decide giving you a lot of money for a thing whats not planned until to the end? 20:47:12 gnokii: that's a good point, and we should keep that in mind. 20:47:28 kmf: hopefully Fedora will be tha main actor in that event ;) 20:47:35 gnokii, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kmf 20:47:44 until yet docker and ansible talk 20:47:59 can we vote now? 20:48:16 at this stage sorry -1 20:48:42 gnokii, no problem 20:49:11 thunderbirdtr: fabian_a jonar 20:49:26 MooDoo: 20:50:17 so this event isn't planned right? 20:50:31 i'm a bit unsure about what to think of this. are we to be the main sponsor of this event then? 20:50:45 it's still in planning stage, and will be at september 20th 20:51:17 heffer: no, we are not the main sponsor IIRC 20:51:29 and that is what makes me unsure too 20:51:54 Most organizations are donation a $100 20:52:07 uuh and fedora shall give 800$ 20:52:09 s/donation/donating 20:52:41 gnokii, it's a request ... I table it here it's up for discussion 20:53:12 i mean. if we haven't budgeted this that fact by itself makes it a -1 for me. i just can't see how we can chip out 500$ without having budgeted this first. also I don't see that we're currently in the right constellation of people at this meeting to reach a decision. 20:54:13 heffer: agree, we won't reach even the quorum I guess 20:54:18 i'm pretty sure we will have a larger sum left over from FrOSCon because they started subsidizing the accommodation but I would like to get a second opinion on shifting any budget 20:54:26 I'm with you on that heffer, I mean, is there a breakdown any where on what it's going to be used for? A lot of money for not a lot that I can see [no offense] 20:54:40 MooDoo, none taken 20:55:06 I will admit that I'm only seeing this request this evening as I've not been to recent EMEA meetings. 20:55:34 kmf from my side its not that I say no dont give it to him, if you show me a wiki page inside the fedora wiki with a good schedule where I can believe it make sense you get my vote 20:55:37 kmf: is there anything we can help you with so that we can get a clearer picture of what it is that is needed? 20:56:07 no I'll head back to the drawing board :) 20:56:24 Even if it's just a hackpad article with a break down, that would help :D 20:56:26 ok, let's pospone the decision 20:56:33 rather not vote on it now ... let me follow procedure and get everything in order 20:56:40 +! 20:56:42 +1 20:56:56 +1 for that kmf :D 20:57:39 This is what we have so far ... it's not life yet. http://sfd2.websiteinprogress.co.za/ 20:58:24 #info Ticket 398 for SFD Pretoria to be updated and voted at next meeting with a clear schedule and wiki page 20:59:11 we have another ticket 20:59:18 https://fedorahosted.org/emea-swag-tracking/ticket/404 20:59:37 Travel request for thereaper for FrOSCon 21:00:03 robyduck: we havent to vote on it, its budgeted 21:00:39 gnokii: yes, right 21:00:42 correct. i have a fixed budget that we discussed at Rheinfelden 21:01:02 heffer: yep, sorry 21:01:23 #topic Ambassadors Schedule 21:01:25 it was meant mostly for travel but because of the fact that flock was pretty close to this event (my guess) some people from abroad aren't coming 21:01:32 https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-21/f-21-ambassadors-tasks.html 21:02:28 there is not much we can do now, but as said in the last meeting, if you have ideas about swags, please let us know and we can see if we can produce them 21:03:32 Is there anything about events left? Otherwise I'll skip this topic for today. We already spoke about FrOSCon and SFD. 21:04:42 nothing from my side 21:04:51 #topic Open Floor 21:05:07 yes OpenRheinRuhr has called today 21:05:19 I'm thinking about becaming an Ambassador :) 21:05:20 ah right :) 21:05:28 #undo 21:05:28 Removing item from minutes: 21:05:36 going back to the hangout tomorrow night - https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/ci5e8no99976pmubha24p3c41lg 21:05:41 #topic Events 21:05:52 gnokii: have a link? 21:06:21 robyduck: http://openrheinruhr.de/callforpapers.html 21:06:29 gnokii: thx 21:06:37 It's a very nice event and I guess we also budgeted it at FAD 21:06:41 let me check 21:06:50 fale, have you looked at this: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors_Join_start 21:06:50 yes and you are the owner ;) 21:07:14 fale: where are you? locale I mean. 21:07:23 gnokii: Guess so ;) 21:07:38 jonar: yep, and I was looking for a mentor 21:07:39 #info Call for papers for OpenRheinRuhr ends at october 15th 21:07:42 MooDoo: Milan, Italy 21:08:15 fale: please speak up after the meeting, and check first the link MooDoo provided 21:08:25 #info call for papers for LinuxDay Dornbirn ends a September 22nd 21:08:54 #info call for papers for LinuxDay Dornbirn ends a September 22nd 21:09:06 #chair fabian_a gnokii heffer 21:09:06 Current chairs: fabian_a gnokii heffer robyduck 21:09:14 robyduck: ok, thankyou 21:09:56 ok have 2 things left 21:10:13 thanks fabian_a. Anything we should add to these events? 21:10:13 #info there seems to be an unknown event in the north of Germany 'Kieler Open Source und Linux Tage' 21:10:25 #link http://www.kieler-linuxtage.de/ 21:10:34 fabian_a: is not unknown 21:11:26 gnokii: well, wasn't covered in the past ;-) 21:12:05 fabian_a: was asked to make it but its like Augsburg, just one day and a lot of train ride 21:12:18 robyduck: not right now, there is still time 21:12:33 ok 21:13:05 #topic Open Floor 21:13:19 if you ahev anything else...now is the moment 21:13:26 I forgot one thing before 21:13:36 yes 2 left 21:13:44 1.https://apps.fedoraproject.org/nuancier/election/2/ go vote 21:13:46 #info F21 wallpaper voting is still open: https://t.co/TAPNMzWS4H 21:13:51 haha 21:13:55 lol 21:14:12 and the other? 21:14:16 I got my badge for that :d 21:14:23 * robyduck too 21:15:16 * MooDoo wants his mentor badge back :S 21:16:34 MooDoo: seriously? Wanna revert your stepping-down? 21:17:18 gets my +1 21:17:19 gnokii: anything else? You said 2 left... 21:17:20 robyduck: yeah 21:17:22 speaking about mentoring, what is with zoltan he sends me a lot of design requests 21:17:37 robyduck: was a d**k stepping down lol 21:18:16 I am not really conviced to produce "download banners or posters" 21:18:19 out of interest what is the criteria of becoming a mentor? 21:18:51 are such things used from you guys? 21:18:59 jonar: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mentors/NewMentors 21:19:05 moodoo, thanks 21:19:09 gnokii: no 21:19:59 MooDoo: a mentor can refile a ticket or I can bring it up as FAmSCo member. Let me know or ask a mentor ;) 21:20:13 if I get zoltan right, he wishes to "give" new ambassador something but from my perspective I would find it better Jirka sends a little bit swag with the shirt 21:20:25 and zoltan tells them how to get swag 21:20:32 robyduck: if you don't mine, then can you bring it back up at the next FamSCo, which I'll attend :) 21:21:00 ok 21:21:10 thanks :D 21:21:19 MooDoo: np 21:23:04 other opinions on download poster? 21:23:05 gnokii: AFAICS you are right, but I think it's not really related to this meeting, or? 21:23:28 robyduck: when me more ambassadors tell its needed I will do it 21:23:32 opinions for sure, they are important 21:23:46 +1 21:24:20 gnokii: is it something like the USB station we have for Release Parties? 21:24:58 no he means general poster, for the release party we do all time an poster which can be used for creating a party poster 21:26:35 then we have already what we need IMHO 21:27:13 ok, just wanted to hear if others think an ambassador need such a thing 21:27:26 if there is nothing else, I'll close in 1 minute 21:27:52 I'm happy fine with me 21:28:38 thanks to all for coming, see you in 2 weeks. 21:28:42 #endmeeting