20:00:26 <jonar> #startmeeting EMEA ambassadors 2015-05-13 20:00:26 <zodbot> Meeting started Wed May 13 20:00:26 2015 UTC. The chair is jonar. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 20:00:26 <zodbot> Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 20:00:38 <lupinix> .fas lupinix 20:00:39 <zodbot> lupinix: lupinix 'Christian Dersch' <lupinix@mailbox.org> 20:00:56 <jonar> #meetingname emea ambassadors 20:00:56 <zodbot> The meeting name has been set to 'emea_ambassadors' 20:00:57 <rsc> robert 'Robert Scheck' <redhat@linuxnetz.de> 20:01:03 <jonar> Evening all 20:01:10 <lupinix> hi @all 20:01:32 <jonar> hi lupinix 20:01:40 <jonar> #topic Roll Call 20:01:56 <jonar> .fas jfarcher 20:01:56 <zodbot> jonar: jfarcher 'Jonathan Archer' <jon@rosslug.org.uk> 20:02:35 <der-flo> .hello flo 20:02:36 <zodbot> der-flo: flo 'Florian Lehner' <dev@der-flo.net> 20:03:12 <Mohamed_Fawzy> .fas mohamedfawzy 20:03:13 <zodbot> Mohamed_Fawzy: mohamedfawzy 'Mohamed Fawzy' <medoelmasry142@gmail.com> 20:03:35 <jonar> we'll give it a few more minutes to see if anyone else is joining us. 20:06:49 <jonar> OK lets start 20:07:02 <FranciscoD_> .hellomynameis ankursinha 20:07:03 <zodbot> FranciscoD_: ankursinha 'Ankur Sinha' <sanjay.ankur@gmail.com> 20:07:09 <jonar> forgive me if i stumble a little tonight, I've been working since 4:40am UTC 20:07:27 <jonar> #topic Announcements 20:07:43 <jonar> Flock registration still open 20:07:53 <jonar> #link http://flocktofedora.org/ 20:08:11 <jonar> #link https://register.flocktofedora.org 20:08:19 <Mohamed_Fawzy> Flock sessions voting is running 20:08:22 <jonar> Proposal registration is closed but you can still vote on your favourite talks 20:08:28 <mohamed94> .fas mohamed94 20:08:29 <jonar> #link https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/flock-2015 20:08:29 <zodbot> mohamed94: mohamed94 'Mohammed Tayeh' <m.tayeh94@outlook.com> 20:09:15 <Mohamed_Fawzy> i have 2 talks and also 1 from egypt 20:09:30 <Mohamed_Fawzy> only 3 from middle east 20:10:35 <jonar> Anything else on Flock? 20:10:54 <jonar> ok, The Fedora Council met on Monday, the meeting was via Hangouts so can be viewed on youtube 20:11:03 <jonar> #link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP6GXsjM7AA 20:11:20 <jonar> I haven't watched it yet, but plan to see if anything interesting came from it 20:11:25 <FranciscoD_> (croberts gave a marketing team update in that one) 20:11:33 <jonar> I believe so 20:11:56 <Mohamed_Fawzy> fedora 22 final release 26 may :D 20:12:32 <jonar> yes indeed, we'll cover that more under the schedule 20:12:52 <jonar> Anyone have any announcements? 20:13:15 <Mohamed_Fawzy> also fhttps://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Multimedia_and_Future_Technology 20:13:15 * lupinix not 20:13:24 <Mohamed_Fawzy> #link https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Multimedia_and_Future_Technology 20:13:48 <jonar> Is this an event Mohamed_Fawzy? 20:14:00 <jonar> if so, mention it in the events topic 20:14:10 <Mohamed_Fawzy> it was about 10 days ago 20:14:39 <jonar> Oh sorry, please carry on then... How did it go? 20:14:40 <Mohamed_Fawzy> it was held in Gaza 20:15:03 <Mohamed_Fawzy> it held by mohamed94 in Gaza 20:15:31 <mohamed94> yes 20:15:35 <Mohamed_Fawzy> he say it was very good he was so happy when he saw the feedback 20:15:57 <jonar> excellent. Did you get plenty of Fedora exposure? 20:16:55 <Mohamed_Fawzy> yes 20:16:55 <mohamed94> no >> its about free multimedia software such as blender 20:17:10 <mohamed94> and run its on fedora 20:17:19 <jonar> ok 20:18:07 <jonar> Any other announcements? 20:18:18 <FranciscoD_> This is worth following: https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/26 20:18:27 <FranciscoD_> "Objective Proposal: Fedora Modularization (Requirements Phase)" 20:18:39 <FranciscoD_> Early days, but worth keeping an eye on 20:18:45 <jonar> I was reading the mailing list post on this earlier... definitely 20:18:54 <FranciscoD_> Another is that F22 is in final freeze now 20:18:59 <jonar> #info Objective Proposal: Fedora Modularization (Requirements Phase) 20:19:05 <FranciscoD_> (I think) 20:19:07 <jonar> #link https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/26 20:19:09 * FranciscoD_ checks mailing lists 20:19:57 <FranciscoD_> oh, one last one that folks might want to know 20:20:22 <jonar> Final freeze should have happened yesterday 20:20:26 <FranciscoD_> after some discussion on the desktop list, we've updated this post as a good source of info on 3rd party codecs - https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/9111/sticky-what-plugins-do-i-need-to-install-to-watch-movies-and-listen-to-music/?answer=12998#post-id-12998 20:20:41 <FranciscoD_> Just this, actually - https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/9111/sticky-what-plugins-do-i-need-to-install-to-watch-movies-and-listen-to-music/ 20:21:05 <jonar> #info good source of info on 3rd party codecs 20:21:17 <jonar> #link https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/9111/sticky-what-plugins-do-i-need-to-install-to-watch-movies-and-listen-to-music/ 20:21:19 <jonar> thanks 20:21:47 <jonar> Good page! 20:22:29 <lupinix> indeed 20:22:41 <lupinix> very nice one, thanks FranciscoD_ 20:22:42 <jonar> #link https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2015-May/001575.html 20:22:46 <jonar> Freeze did happen 20:23:09 <FranciscoD_> if you folks do see any improvements that can be made to that post, please let me know and I'll edit the answer 20:23:23 <FranciscoD_> It'll be nice to have it ready before F22 freeze so we can point new users to it 20:23:25 <jonar> #info Fedora 22 final freeze happened on 2015-05-12 20:23:55 <jonar> Great stuff... Any more Announcements? 20:24:27 <jonar> No? ok moving on... 20:24:28 <jonar> #topic Requests 20:24:38 <jonar> #link https://fedorahosted.org/emea-swag-tracking/report/1?sort=ticket&asc=1&page=1 20:24:55 <jonar> There are 4 new tickets 20:25:17 <jonar> #479 Badges for sesivany ready for F22 release 20:25:30 <jonar> https://fedorahosted.org/emea-swag-tracking/ticket/479 20:26:11 <FranciscoD_> no brainer :) +1 20:26:12 <jonar> Sesivany is looking to make a 1000 badges ready for F22 release, total of $244 20:26:16 <jonar> +1 20:26:25 <Mohamed_Fawzy> +1 20:26:25 <lupinix> +1 20:26:29 <mohamed94> +1 20:26:58 <jonar> don't think we have any more to vote 20:27:47 <jonar> ok next ticket 20:27:49 <Mohamed_Fawzy> yes 20:28:13 <jonar> #480 Stickers for sesivany ready for F22 release 20:28:22 <jonar> same thing really 20:28:32 <FranciscoD_> +1 20:28:33 <lupinix> +1 20:28:36 <jonar> +1 20:28:48 <Mohamed_Fawzy> +1 20:29:10 <jonar> mohamed94? 20:29:14 <mohamed94> +1 20:29:16 <jonar> thanks 20:29:30 <jonar> next ticket 20:29:46 <jonar> #481 Sponsorship funding for Barcamp Manchester 20:30:31 <jonar> now this ticket is for me, while it's been provisionally approved in the budget I'll leave the vote for when there are more ambassadors 20:30:44 <FranciscoD_> ok, but +1 anyway 20:30:47 <jonar> https://fedorahosted.org/emea-swag-tracking/ticket/481 20:30:50 <FranciscoD_> I see it's a yearly thing 20:31:03 <Mohamed_Fawzy> +1 20:31:06 * FranciscoD_ will maybe try to make it if he can 20:31:15 <lupinix> +1 20:31:16 <jonar> the same for #482 which is Blackpool 20:31:22 <FranciscoD_> jonar: dates up yet by any chance for these? 20:31:31 <jonar> yes.... 20:31:45 <jonar> Manchester is the last weekend in Sept 20:32:02 <FranciscoD_> ah, found the website 20:32:09 <FranciscoD_> http://www.barcampmanchester.co.uk/ 20:32:18 <jonar> Blackpool is August 2015 20:32:35 <jonar> sorry August 15 20:33:01 <FranciscoD_> http://barcampblackpool.com/ 20:33:09 <jonar> :-) 20:33:22 <FranciscoD_> http://barcampblackpool.com/barcamp-blackpool-is-back/ 20:33:26 <jonar> Any more to discuss on events? 20:33:33 <jonar> #link http://barcampblackpool.com/barcamp-blackpool-is-back/ 20:33:42 <jonar> #link http://www.barcampmanchester.co.uk/ 20:34:01 <Mohamed_Fawzy> i think no more tickets 20:34:10 <FranciscoD_> jonar: maybe short fedora magazine posts on these would be nice ;) 20:34:14 <jonar> fantastic! moving on then 20:34:37 <jonar> I generally do blog posts which appear in the fedora people feeds, but yes it would be really nice... 20:34:53 <jonar> #topic Ambassadors Schedule 20:35:05 <jonar> OK as we've said Final release still slated for 2015-05-26 20:35:10 <jonar> \o/ 20:35:27 <jonar> The ambassadors schedule can be seen here: 20:35:31 <jonar> #link https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-22/f-22-ambassadors-tasks.html 20:35:42 <jonar> Is anyone planning any release parties? 20:36:17 <Mohamed_Fawzy> sure 20:36:27 <Mohamed_Fawzy> but i have university exams 20:36:44 <Mohamed_Fawzy> we will rebuild Arab community 20:36:58 <mohamed94> and me i have university exams 20:37:01 <jonar> Good, I hope you do! 20:37:12 <Mohamed_Fawzy> it will be the best :P 20:37:37 <jonar> I'm planning a release party for the local LUG(s) 20:38:00 <jonar> make sure you get any requests in for any media or swag you may need 20:38:35 <Mohamed_Fawzy> yes i will long time before the event it take long time 20:38:43 <jonar> Fedora 22 is looking to be another strong release.... 20:38:56 <jonar> I've had the least amount of problems with a beta on 22 20:39:00 <FranciscoD_> ++ 20:39:04 <FranciscoD_> I feduped 3 systems 20:39:15 <FranciscoD_> everything went pretty flawleslly 20:39:17 <lupinix> same for me 20:39:25 <lupinix> and very nice: plasma 5 in kde spin! 20:39:30 <FranciscoD_> hoping rpmfusion can get ready in time - they still have nonfree to push 20:39:46 <FranciscoD_> that was the only hurdle upgrading pretty much 20:39:52 <jonar> they usually come through, fingers crossed though 20:40:01 <FranciscoD_> spotify's already released an f22 build too ;) 20:40:12 <jonar> nice 20:40:30 <jonar> ok lets move along 20:40:40 <jonar> #topic Events 20:40:56 <jonar> as mentioned the 2 barcamps are not too far away in the UK 20:41:09 <jonar> also plans for release parties are going on.. 20:41:21 <jonar> anything anyone else is planning or know of? 20:42:17 <FranciscoD_> negative :/ 20:42:36 <der-flo> will there be an booth at FrOSCon? 20:42:58 <der-flo> https://www.froscon.de/en/home/ 20:43:04 <jonar> I'm not sure, sesivany is probably best to ask about that. 20:43:21 <jonar> Did we have one last year? I remember discussion around it 20:43:29 <der-flo> yes, we did 20:44:17 <jonar> theres an entry in the budget for it, so i'm guessing we will 20:44:29 <jonar> #link https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/EMEA/EventPlan:2016 20:44:34 <der-flo> fine :) thanks! 20:44:34 <lupinix> i will help @FrOSCon too 20:45:03 <jonar> I hope to attend some time 20:46:14 <jonar> Looking at the Budget there is an event this weekend, in Croatia. Anyone know if this is taking place? 20:46:58 <jonar> not seen any tickets regarding it. 20:47:17 <jonar> Anyway, if theres nothing more for events 20:47:29 <jonar> #topic Action items from previous meetings 20:47:54 <jonar> There was only 1 action, and sesivany was going to look into our presence at LinuxCon Europe this year. 20:48:01 <jonar> I'll re add the action 20:48:48 <jonar> #action sesivany to contact the Linux Foundation and get a deal for this year's LinuxCon Europe. 20:48:57 <jonar> #topic Open Floor 20:49:08 <jonar> Any other business? 20:49:12 <FranciscoD_> https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/infrastructure/2015/5/13/?tzone=UTC#m2538 20:49:20 <FranciscoD_> ^ worth keeping an eye on too 20:49:44 <jonar> #link https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/infrastructure/2015/5/13/?tzone=UTC#m2538 20:49:45 <jonar> thanks 20:50:30 * lupinix received his ambassadors polo :) 20:50:40 <jonar> \o/ 20:50:54 <jonar> thanks for mentioning that, I still need to order mine 20:51:02 <Mohamed_Fawzy> lupinix: congrats 20:51:16 <FranciscoD_> :D 20:51:32 <FranciscoD_> if there are any package maintainers around, this is something you'll need to read -> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/desktop/2015-May/011988.html 20:52:10 <FranciscoD_> Comes into play F23 onwards 20:52:26 <jonar> Ahh yes this was mentioned in the Fedora Magazine 20:52:50 <jonar> #link http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Per-Product_Configuration 20:52:51 <lupinix> FranciscoD_: thx 20:54:05 <jonar> anything else to discuss? 20:54:05 <der-flo> thnk 20:54:10 <FranciscoD_> I generally have all these announcements saved up ;) 20:54:26 <jonar> It's good.... :-) 20:55:28 <jonar> Ok then lets wrap this up... 20:55:43 <jonar> Thanks for coming along everyone... 20:56:01 <jonar> see you all in 2 weeks for the next installment. 20:56:17 <jonar> #endmeeting