01:00:03 #startmeeting FAmNA 01:00:03 Meeting started Wed Oct 24 01:00:03 2012 UTC. The chair is inode0. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 01:00:03 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 01:00:05 #meetingname FAmNA 01:00:05 The meeting name has been set to 'famna' 01:00:16 #topic Roll Call 01:00:22 * kk4ewt 01:00:32 * award3535 01:00:41 * masta 01:01:14 #chair kk4ewt award3535 masta 01:01:14 Current chairs: award3535 inode0 kk4ewt masta 01:01:19 #topic Announcements 01:01:41 * lh here 01:01:47 greetings 01:02:15 #chair lh chanchito 01:02:15 Current chairs: award3535 chanchito inode0 kk4ewt lh masta 01:02:19 greetings 01:02:22 last call for announcements 01:02:35 F18 alfa is out 01:02:37 #chair farmerrob 01:02:37 Current chairs: award3535 chanchito farmerrob inode0 kk4ewt lh masta 01:02:41 I think fedora-arm is going to release f18 alpha image any day now 01:02:59 that's all I got 01:03:01 nice 01:03:39 #info fedora-arm release of F18 alpha soon 01:03:52 #link https://fedorahosted.org/famna/report/9 01:04:02 #topic Tickets 01:04:27 There are only three tickets pending and I've got nothing on any of them so does anyone else? 01:04:54 just waiting for more infomration for FADNA 01:05:23 oh darn... wanted to make a google doc like last week, except for ticket #33 swag 01:05:35 I am waiting for a lot of stuff and you know waiting just results in a sore butt 01:05:52 LMAO 01:05:59 you know the saying, if you want anything done ... 01:06:03 youre absolutely correct 01:06:11 do it my self 01:06:23 i am waiting for nb so get a guess of the swag he has 01:06:48 * inode0 is about to burst into a Tom Petty song now 01:07:04 +1 01:07:12 which one 01:07:32 The Waiting of course :) 01:08:01 ok 01:08:02 what do we need to set up? 01:08:47 shall we go through the tickets ? 01:08:56 yes 01:08:59 aside from all the stuff we have already talked about I guess since there is an actual hotel now someone needs to find out if we can reserve a conference room there for a day 01:09:01 the last one anyways 01:09:19 .famnaticket 33 01:09:21 masta: #33 (2012 Fedora Merchandise Order) – FAmNA general trac - https://fedorahosted.org/famna/ticket/33 01:09:21 * inode0 will go through any ticket someone asks for, otherwise it seems pointless 01:09:22 anyone in the area that can do that 01:09:36 2012 fedora merch 01:09:43 anyone can do that 01:09:51 it just requires a phone 01:10:34 so we got any central place tracking all the swag ideas? 01:10:41 and costs? 01:11:01 did anybody want to propose any new swag ideas? 01:11:10 Bens Spread sheet? 01:11:16 in that ticket there were a lot of wild suggestions 01:11:23 farmerrob: my spreadsheet is for events 01:11:36 has anyone gone out and done the work to get a quote on any of it? no 01:11:58 sorry thought it was 2 01:12:08 yea.... people are beign lazy on this one (myself included) 01:12:20 I'm waiting to hear back about shirts but I'd just as soon not report I haven't heard anything every week 01:12:32 I'll update when I hear something - it will happen though 01:12:53 ok... 01:13:02 kk4ewt and I talked about restocking balloons - I think we should 01:13:13 myself i am not in favor for any more Beefy Miracle stuff 01:13:33 no, Beefy Miracle is at the end of its run 01:13:45 but case badges is a yes 01:13:58 and we need to distrubute the remaining tattoos 01:13:59 we should have thousands of those somewhere 01:14:02 nb: ping 01:14:25 nb put his inventory on the ticket 01:15:08 not in the ticket we are talking about though?! 01:15:14 yes 01:15:20 #33 01:15:23 hrm, why don't I see it 01:15:41 #action ambassadors need to research the swag they want, get pricing, make proposal. 01:16:02 I don't see anything from nb there, does anyone else? 01:16:21 nothing else i think 01:16:31 inode0: affirmative, no nb in that ticket 01:16:43 nb has (per trac ticket): 01:16:43 a few sheets of keyboard stickers 01:16:43 quite a few shirts and pens and laptop stickers 01:16:43 maybe 15 strips of case badges 01:17:15 I think that has to be very old because he just bought something like 5000 case badges this year 01:18:42 if we burned through that in 3 months I'd be interested in where they went 01:18:50 5000? 01:18:53 wow 01:18:59 yeah wow 01:19:14 I think we actually bought 10000 but only part of that was for NA 01:19:20 did we hand them out at every consecutive event? 01:19:44 I only had a hand full at the last two i did 01:19:52 i know what i sent to events and used at events i was at 01:20:01 everyone I know is low or out - but I think nb has boxes 01:20:07 if every event received some, from the time the badges arrived, i could see a few thousand being gone 01:20:23 maybe not 5000 01:20:29 chanchito: and i sent you 150 01:20:30 but say 2500 01:20:31 there haven't been very many events, this was recently 01:20:39 they can't be used 01:20:41 i sent them back 01:20:53 i only have stickers left 01:20:57 chanchito: so they went to the summit 01:21:00 i returned everything else 01:21:16 I have a few stickers and a few buttons thats it 01:21:28 i'm saving the stickers for the WPI event and for Harvard Business School 01:21:58 i still have some pens too 01:21:59 #agreed Everyone at the meeting is low on swag and would like to know where all those new case badges are now :) 01:22:12 did anyone send jds2001 swag? 01:22:27 are we able to track down how many were shipped and to whom? 01:22:48 are you able to track down nb? 01:22:49 i remember sending in a swag from my two events 01:23:03 chanchito: i know what i sent to events yes 01:23:06 oops meant a swag count 01:23:13 do i have it documented no 01:23:18 sorry, just asking 01:23:23 no offense meant 01:23:28 only curious if we tracked 01:23:30 none taken 01:23:46 just saying, only the guy with them knows how many he sent where exactly 01:24:09 we all know it wasn't to us so I'm expecting he still has them 01:24:12 hopefully, some folks who are not here tonight, have some and we can find out later 01:24:35 ok we can move on to ticket 36 soon, anybody else have things to say about #33? 01:24:37 im sure they are not all gone 01:24:42 nada 01:25:03 otay, moving on 01:25:10 +1 01:25:21 .famnaticket 36 01:25:23 masta: #36 (Fedora Ambassador Day North America (FADNA)) – FAmNA general trac - https://fedorahosted.org/famna/ticket/36 01:25:43 we talked a little about the hotel and conf room 01:25:59 my feeling is we dont' need a local to make a phone call 01:26:09 can somebody tell me the hotel? 01:26:17 spring hill 01:26:22 we really don't have a local anyway 01:26:47 i would be willing to call and see what is available and a cost 01:26:47 anyone with a reservation can call a hotel and book a conference room during the course of their stay, all that is required is for the hotel to charge the fee to a room or card, unless it's free 01:27:25 we do it all the time at work, just did it sunday at the marriott in bethlehem, penn 01:27:27 we would like to reserve it and have Fedora pay for it - but first we need to find out what it costs and get that approved 01:27:41 find a hotel that offers free conferencing 01:27:52 free wifi and free projectors, audio, etc 01:27:56 better value 01:28:12 we will be at the FUDCon hotel - I'm sure they picked the best option 01:28:17 great excuse to go ahead with the room booking 01:28:18 ok 01:28:21 awesome 01:28:27 yes indeed 01:28:43 I am willing to find out 01:28:57 award3535: ok, your action item 01:29:11 roger 01:29:12 award3535: let me know if you want any help 01:29:40 so we have a hotel do we know the priceing? 01:30:00 yes it is on the FUDCon page 01:30:34 #action award3535 is going to get pricing on the conf room. 01:30:46 #link http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Lawrence_2013#Lodging 01:31:29 119 per night 01:31:42 does anybody have a projector, just incase one is not available? 01:31:51 yes i have two 01:31:57 epson and infocus 01:32:16 i can bring mine, plus tripods, lighting, mikes, mike stands, etc 01:32:24 i have podiums, etc 01:32:43 chanchito: great, and hopefully we won't have to ask you nicely to bring them... ;) 01:33:05 chanchito: wow... you in the speaking biz or what? 01:33:10 inode0: i think we need to get ian to get the block extended for wednesday 01:33:15 used to teach 01:33:50 all my equipment is collecting dust at home, so i prefer to use it 01:34:58 ok, moving on to the next ticket soon.... any more fadna things to go over? 01:35:22 +1 01:35:26 .famnaticket 44 01:35:28 masta: #44 (CPOSC 2012) – FAmNA general trac - https://fedorahosted.org/famna/ticket/44 01:36:01 * masta tickles jds2001 01:36:22 i had the event box and vbanners shipped from richmond to cposc 01:36:27 suehle: ping 01:36:58 * lcameron is here, was active in wrong channel 01:37:23 can you help with extending the hotel block to include Wednesday for FADNA participants? 01:37:35 #info the event box was sent to cposc 2012 01:38:12 #topic Open floor! 01:38:58 so did anyonesend cposc any swag ? 01:39:13 anyone scheduled for lectures for FADNA 01:39:16 :p Sends a Spherical Cow bearing IPA energy to all. :p 01:39:27 * inode0 assumes jds2001 will remind us if he doesn't have enough 01:39:41 inode0: i didnt send any 01:40:06 well, he was at puppetconf with rbergeron and who knows what he has now ... I don't 01:41:14 i dont either 01:41:25 but we need to do something tomorrow 01:41:28 it is a small event so I am guessing he is all set or he would come to a meeting 01:41:30 at the latest 01:42:13 he sent me receipts a couple days ago, didn't say anything about needing stuff 01:42:48 humm sounds like he is ready to go 01:43:01 @action kk4ewt is emailing jds2001 to check on swag 01:43:09 if he something guess he will ask 01:43:13 #action kk4ewt is emailing jds2001 to check on swag 01:45:43 next week might be trick or treat night - so I might be eating candy 01:46:06 nope, its wednesday 01:46:15 varies from city to city 01:46:34 true, I do live in the bible belt 01:47:19 but it is wednesday here too now that I check 01:47:30 but I will be home, the wife will be getting home fromt he hospital after surgery 01:47:38 that might mean more candy for me since the kids won't have been here yet :) 01:48:07 ours will be done by 8pm est 01:48:59 any other ambassador stuff for tonight then? 01:49:08 none from me 01:49:33 I am good 01:50:08 +1 01:50:24 hi 01:50:27 oh, we are having open floor now? 01:50:28 * nb has something 01:50:31 Spot will be sending OLPC 1.75's for the event boxes soon 01:50:31 ok, please pitch in on preparing FADNA - I'm getting a little worried about it 01:50:33 after i ping him with addresses 01:50:35 kk4ewt, can you send me your address? 01:50:38 kk4ewt, to get a olpc 1.75 for the event box from spot 01:50:41 have we discussed the reimbursement draft yet? 01:50:47 nb: where are all the case badges? :) 01:50:53 Have we discussed http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAMNA_Reimbursement_Guidelineshttp://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAMNA_Reimbursement_Guidelines yet? 01:51:06 * nb apologizes, i wasn't connected so I don't have scrollback to check 01:51:12 inode0, in my garage 01:51:13 who needs them still? 01:51:15 nb emailed 01:51:15 I sent out some 01:51:16 it wasn't on the agenda so I can't imagine how we would have known to talk about it 01:51:31 nb how many do you have 01:51:31 oh ok sorry 01:52:03 * inode0 is happy to hear what you have to say about it though 01:52:10 kk4ewt, probably 4-5k i think? 01:52:16 rough estimate 01:52:30 i think i still owe some to LATAM 01:52:34 and maybe APAC 01:52:57 +1 01:53:08 can we find out? 01:53:42 the link shows no content 01:53:56 the link is screwed up 01:55:13 inode0, yes, i will find out 01:55:27 click on half the link :) 01:55:32 I am 90% sure that i am still waiting on APAC and LATAM to send me an address 01:55:42 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAMNA_Reimbursement_Guidelines 01:55:42 ? 01:55:46 i think i sent out most of NA's allocation 01:55:59 to where? no one seems to have any 01:56:14 inode0, I will look and will email the list in the next day or two 01:57:17 the real question is do we need to buy more? seems we shouldn't if we bought 10k or something 5 months ago 01:57:52 afaik part of our 10k was for emea latam apac 01:57:56 or was it 10k+theirs 01:58:05 yes, 2k leaving us 4k 01:58:17 I sent the 2k for EMEA to sesivany 01:58:25 just a sec, i will run out there and look uip what i have for sur 01:59:30 we may need inventory software :) 01:59:43 hahaha 02:00:09 inode0: no we need someone to count it all and no one is willing 02:00:16 ill send another inventory again too 02:00:22 lh: did you do any digging into the companies that stock inventory and ship? 02:01:05 chanchito: yours is so small dont worry about it 02:01:19 [crickets chirping] 02:01:28 chanchito: I don't think we need to know about what stuff ambassadors have - it is more a regional shipper problem 02:01:29 masta, i found one but i have not contacted them 02:01:43 lh: ok -thanks for the update 02:02:07 inode0, i have approx 6k of them 02:02:12 4k of which are apac and latam 02:02:41 how about splitting up the rest and shooting them to the regional shippers then? 02:02:48 np 02:03:31 I'm curious where the other 2000 went but it doesn't really matter 02:03:41 Do you want to talk about that link? 02:03:50 inode0, i sent some IIRC to rbergeron 02:04:04 and i still owed ben his 02:04:06 leave her out this time then :) 02:04:14 ben and robyn and I are the only ones that ship now right? 02:04:27 oh, busguy 02:04:29 Scott does sort of 02:05:11 Do you want to talk about the link? Last chance ... we are over time now. 02:05:13 sorry, next time i will keep better track of who i send stuff to 02:05:19 sure 02:05:28 FYI that link is a draft of the reimbursement guidelines for NA 02:05:34 basically just to spell out how we already do stuff 02:05:52 FAmSCo is trying to make all the regions have more freedom, similar to how we have done stuff for a while in NA 02:05:58 so the regions can approve stuff themselves 02:06:16 although we know the issue of how much budget each region gets still needs to be worked on 02:06:25 Send any comments to herlo and I 02:06:32 although it is still a work in progress 02:06:35 EOF (i think) 02:07:49 I have plenty but I don't want this to go on much longer. 02:08:06 Great meeting. :D 02:08:06 inode0, thank you for chairing. :) 02:08:25 i think we let herlo finish his document 02:08:31 We can discuss it maybe in the ambassador channel later 02:08:35 or that too 02:09:10 I am out everyone, have a great evening...... 02:09:32 Yes nite all :-) 02:09:40 ok, thanks everyone 02:09:44 thanks all 02:09:52 :P 02:10:02 #endmeeting