20:00:04 #startmeeting EMEA ambassadors 2017-09-13 20:00:04 Meeting started Wed Sep 13 20:00:04 2017 UTC. The chair is nmilosev. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 20:00:04 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 20:00:04 The meeting name has been set to 'emea_ambassadors_2017-09-13' 20:00:11 #meetingname emea_ambassadors 20:00:11 The meeting name has been set to 'emea_ambassadors' 20:00:19 Hello everyone and welcome to another regular meeting for the EMEA region. Please note the meeting protocol is in order: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_IRC#Meeting_Protocol - Use ‘!’ to ask for permission to speak, or ‘?’ to ask a question. End with ‘eof’. 20:00:29 #topic Roll Call 20:00:45 .hello lupinix 20:00:46 lupinix: lupinix 'Christian Dersch' 20:00:48 .hello2 20:00:52 jonatoni: jonatoni 'Jona Azizaj' 20:00:58 good evening everyone :) 20:00:59 .fas nmilosev 20:01:00 nmilosev: nmilosev 'Nemanja Milosevic' 20:01:14 Hi! :) 20:01:29 Hi everyone :) 20:02:05 Let's wait a few more minutes for others to show up. 20:02:23 Hello all :) 20:03:35 lets use robot to say hello :) 20:03:41 .hello2 20:03:42 haghighi: haghighi 'Ahmad Haghighi' 20:05:00 #topic Announcements 20:05:06 #info Flock 2017 interviews 20:05:06 #link https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/tag/flock-2017/ 20:05:13 #info Flock 2017 interviews 20:05:13 #link https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/tag/flock-2017/ 20:05:18 oops 20:05:20 #undo 20:05:20 Removing item from minutes: 20:05:22 #undo 20:05:22 Removing item from minutes: INFO by nmilosev at 20:05:13 : Flock 2017 interviews 20:05:30 #info Outreachy 2017: Mentors and ideas needed 20:05:30 #link https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/outreachy-2017-mentors-ideas/ 20:05:37 #info Fedora 27 Beta Freeze 20:05:37 #link https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/NDGGS3RKXNX5V45DYHPXA7H3KXUBDEQO/ 20:05:47 #info Raspberry Pi 3 improvements in Fedora 26 20:05:47 #link https://nullr0ute.com/2017/09/raspberry-pi-improvements-in-fedora-26/ 20:05:58 #info An experience of Flock 2017 20:05:58 #link https://abompard.wordpress.com/2017/09/04/my-experience-of-flock-2017/ 20:06:07 #info Proposed Fedora 28 schedule 20:06:07 #link https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/1765 20:06:19 We have a lot of announcements because we skipped one meeting 20:06:46 Take a few minutes and check them out, and please let me know if I missed anything :) 20:09:48 Any other announcements? 20:10:13 nothing else here 20:10:27 Let's move on then :) 20:10:29 #topic Requests 20:10:34 #link https://pagure.io/ambassadors-emea/funding_requests/issues 20:10:34 #link https://pagure.io/fedora-budget 20:10:34 #link https://budget.fedoraproject.org/budget/FY18/emea.html 20:10:55 Looks like we don't have any tickets for today. 20:10:58 * nmilosev double checks 20:11:30 nobody wants the money :D 20:11:35 #info No tickets for today 20:11:53 we are all rich :D 20:12:01 .fas frantisekz 20:12:02 frantisekz: frantisekz 'František Zatloukal' 20:12:12 Anything to add to requests? 20:13:00 nothing here 20:13:10 We will have a short meeting it seems 20:13:16 #topic Ambassadors Schedule 20:13:23 #link https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-27/f-27-ambassadors-tasks.html 20:13:32 :)) 20:13:53 So I checked the release schedule and was quite surprised that we are only one and a bit months away from F27! 20:14:10 This release went really fast for me, maybe because there are no more alpha releases 20:14:24 yes, and due to f26 delay 20:14:53 #topic Events 20:15:04 Anyone here went to Flock? jonatoni? 20:16:21 jonatoni and robyduck 20:16:46 I was there too :D 20:16:47 yep 20:17:09 together with nb we had a workshop 20:17:21 related to Ambassadors Future 20:18:07 where we discussed even about the article that mttdm has posted 20:18:47 and if you have not read it yet please do it :P 20:18:56 let me check the link 20:19:33 https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/ambassadors-fedora-strategy/ 20:19:37 this one 20:20:12 also we were discussing to make the budget process more clear 20:20:25 not only for ambassadors but also to other people 20:21:06 will try to write an article asap to explain in more details about the workshop that we had 20:21:19 Great! :) 20:21:25 Thanks for the report 20:21:46 overall it was a great event, I like a lot the change that we had this year that was more hands on oriented 20:22:36 btw mariana[m] is the newest ambassador here :) 20:22:54 would be great if you can introduce yourself :) 20:22:57 eof 20:23:08 Oh hi marianab[m]! Can you please make a short introduction? 20:23:15 * nmilosev thanks jonatoni 20:23:49 thanks jonatoni, hello marianab[m] :) 20:24:53 I'm also new :P but I'm introduced myself in past meeting 20:24:59 Hello everyone! My name is Mariana and I come from Albania. I started contributing to Fedora almost two years ago and only a week before Flock I got accepted ass an ambassador 20:25:29 marianab[m]: you're welcome :) 20:25:52 Please ask if you have any questions and welcome! :) 20:26:22 We're still at events, any other events worth mentioning? 20:26:47 btw anyone who will organize a FWD? 20:26:54 FWD - Fedora Women Day 20:26:55 in late august we had FrOSCon here in germany 20:27:19 Thank you :) 20:28:58 lupinix, how was it? 20:29:23 jonatoni, in Serbia I don't think so 20:29:37 We should definitely do something in the future 20:29:55 quite nice, bookwar, mitzie, tyll, raphgro and me managed the booth, mitzie gave a nice copr workshop 20:30:18 but less people (in general) compared to last years 20:30:54 and we hacked openSUSE :P 20:31:30 lupinix, you should checkout the new bluetooth vulnerability if you're into hacking :D 20:31:37 there is an article on arstechnica 20:31:48 they had some tombola with tshirts, bags and so on, we managed to get a "proud fedora user" tshirt in there :P 20:32:02 Oh, that's different kind of hacking! 20:32:06 (the better kind) 20:32:16 Good job! lupinix++ 20:32:18 nmilosev: Karma for lupinix changed to 6 (for the f26 release cycle): https://badges.fedoraproject.org/tags/cookie/any 20:32:48 We have Balccon2k17 this week 20:32:49 another interesting observation: they switched back to DVDs 20:32:55 #link https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BalCCon_2k17 20:33:10 lupinix, any chance to talk with someone about that decision? 20:33:16 because usb sticks are too expensive 20:33:38 they got some sponsoring from open source press for the DVDs 20:33:45 lupinix++ 20:33:47 jonatoni: Karma for lupinix changed to 7 (for the f26 release cycle): https://badges.fedoraproject.org/tags/cookie/any 20:34:23 and they think about something like fedorator too 20:35:06 nmilosev good luck with Balccon2k17 :) 20:35:12 nmilosev++ 20:35:12 jonatoni: Karma for nmilosev changed to 5 (for the f26 release cycle): https://badges.fedoraproject.org/tags/cookie/any 20:35:21 jonatoni, thanks, sad you won't be there :( 20:35:28 We will have booth all three days 20:35:42 nmilosev: good luck 20:36:02 thanks! 20:36:07 Let's move on 20:36:09 Good luck 20:36:16 #topic Action items from previous meetings 20:36:18 another event next week: http://ag2017.uni-goettingen.de/splinter/escience.php 20:36:22 "event" 20:36:24 oh 20:36:25 oh sorry lupinix 20:36:27 too late :D 20:36:33 nevermind, never too late! 20:36:35 I think it's amazing if we can use a smarthphone with an OTG cable as Fedorator, I don't know it's possible or not 20:37:26 that "event" is a talk about fedora astronomy at the biggest astrophysical conference in germany and partitipation at GAVO booth 20:37:29 e.g. write and Android app to create bootable USB drive 20:37:38 haghighi, I had that idea as well 20:37:46 too promote free software and free standards like virtual observatory 20:38:12 ‎nmilosev‎: great :) 20:39:43 sorry create an Android* 20:39:50 eof 20:39:56 We have some action items 20:39:59 Let's do those 20:40:04 #link https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teams/emea_ambassadors/emea_ambassadors.2017-08-16-20.00.html 20:40:09 #info mitzie to write to ML about Fedorator distribution 20:40:17 I don't recall reading about this one 20:40:24 mitzie was probably busy with flock 20:40:43 jonatoni, do you remember anything about this? It was about who gets the first batch of fedorators? 20:41:01 giannisk will write an email about it 20:41:06 maybe he forgot 20:41:25 Okay, I'll just reaction it for the next meeting 20:41:43 #action mitzie to write to ML about Fedorator distribution 20:41:52 #info nmilosev to write to ML about meeting skip 20:41:59 * nmilosev forgot about this 20:42:18 Luckily no confusion was made, because everyone was on holiday :D 20:42:46 #info JacobCZ to write to the ML about F26 DVDs in the near future 20:43:15 I won't reaction this one, we will catch JacobCZ once and see what he found out about this 20:43:19 btw from the meeting that we had today with FAmSCo we talked about this 20:43:25 DVDs? 20:43:45 we will not produce DVDs anymore but if any of the regions want to produce they can request budget for it 20:44:07 That seems reasonable, do you know about artwork? 20:44:11 makes sense 20:44:33 artwork about the DVD sleeves? 20:45:07 Yeah, sorry bad wording 20:45:37 yeah we putted it as an action item 20:45:43 because other regions might need it 20:45:55 or countries* 20:47:07 Great news 20:47:14 Let's make a short ifo 20:48:07 #info DVDs will not be produces anymore, however regions can request budget to produce them. Artwork will be discussed later 20:48:23 Thanks jonatoni 20:48:43 #topic Open Floor 20:48:48 Anything goes here. 20:49:25 Thank you all for coming, see you in two weeks :) 20:49:40 thanks for chairing nmilosev :) 20:49:44 nmilosev++ 20:49:52 good night everyone 20:49:54 If that is all I will be ending the meeting in two (2) minutes. 20:50:04 thanks for chairing nmilosev :) 20:50:10 .thank nmilosev 20:50:10 jonatoni thinks nmilosev is awesome and is happy they are helping! (Please don't forget to nmilosev++ also) 20:50:19 ‎nmilosev‎: Thank you 20:50:32 good night everyone! thanks! :) 20:51:00 nmilosev++ 20:51:03 haghighi: Karma for nmilosev changed to 6 (for the f26 release cycle): https://badges.fedoraproject.org/tags/cookie/any 20:51:13 jonatoni++ for the two new zodbot commands i learned today :P (.hello2 and .thank) 20:51:14 lupinix: Karma for jonatoni changed to 9 (for the f26 release cycle): https://badges.fedoraproject.org/tags/cookie/any 20:51:34 hahahaha thanks lupinix :) 20:51:53 .thank jonatoni 20:51:53 lupinix thinks jonatoni is awesome and is happy they are helping! (Please don't forget to jonatoni++ also) 20:51:55 #endmeeting