00:59:47 #startmeeting Fedora Ambassadors of North America 00:59:47 Meeting started Fri Sep 8 00:59:47 2017 UTC. The chair is jwf. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 00:59:47 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 00:59:47 The meeting name has been set to 'fedora_ambassadors_of_north_america' 00:59:50 #meetingname famna 00:59:50 The meeting name has been set to 'famna' 00:59:57 #topic === Roll call === 01:00:00 .hello jflory7 01:00:02 jwf: jflory7 'Justin W. Flory' 01:00:15 Let's see who else is around… 01:01:10 * mikedep333 is here 01:01:28 * jwf waves 01:01:30 #chair mikedep333 01:01:30 Current chairs: jwf mikedep333 01:02:41 Might be a small crowd tonight 01:02:55 mikedep333: Is there anything we still have pending for HackMIT other than the hotel with Brian? 01:03:01 Hopefully we'll hear back on that tomorrow 01:03:22 I am on amtrak.com right now. 01:03:34 going to boston south station 01:03:50 mikedep333: Okay, cool. When would you arrive? 01:03:55 Do you know how far that is from the hotel? 01:04:00 1 minute 01:04:04 oh, lol 01:04:07 That's convenient 01:04:13 Well, south station is the main train station. 01:04:18 All the commuter rail goes to there. 01:04:22 I was going to suggest picking you up in my car, but if it's a minute away… 01:04:29 yeah 01:04:58 I'm going to try to coordinate with kk4ewt / Southern_Gentlem on getting the event box shipped to HackMIT venue 01:04:58 I can always get out 1 station earlier at back bay. It's probably the same price. 01:05:19 I was writing the email for the address, they had a form to request shipping materials to the venue, but didn't give an address 01:05:27 * jwf nods 01:06:03 Crap, I should have booked sooner. These are expensive. 01:06:13 Oh, really? :/ 01:06:22 Yeah 01:06:36 Friday: 2:48 pm to 8:12pm is $121.50 01:07:28 I could do an Acela. I'd be willing to pay the difference. 01:07:45 The Acela's would arrive at 7:40, 8:45 or 10:50pm. 01:08:04 They are all $162. 01:08:39 I'd very much like to do that Acela that arrives at 8:45, so as to minimize interference with my work. 01:08:44 * jwf nods 01:08:55 OK, I'll do that then. 01:09:06 mikedep333: I think you should do the best option for you, and we did budget a little extra for any circumstances that might come up like this 01:09:17 I also just pinged the organizers for an address 01:09:34 On another note, I'm not sure if any other folks are going to be here tonight… 01:10:15 #topic Announcements 01:10:21 #info === Flock 2017 ended last week === 01:10:37 So you still think HackMIT lasts until roughly 5:00 PM on Sunday? 01:10:43 3PM to 5PM I think you said. 01:10:47 #info Flock 2017 wrapped up last week, so it's been a little quiet around Fedora as a lot of people are getting home. Expect to see more things in the coming week. 01:10:55 mikedep333: Let me see if they have a schedule posted online 01:11:02 * jwf also didn't have any other announcements 01:11:19 And since it's just the two of us, it's not a quorum to vote on any tickets 01:11:20 #topic === Open floor === 01:11:57 Aha 01:11:58 https://hackmit.org/#faq 01:12:05 "We’ll release a more detailed schedule after July. For now, know that we’re planning for check-in to start Saturday at 8 am and for closing ceremony to end Sunday at 4 pm. " 01:12:22 Guess it's a little late for the schedule, but… looks like 4pm on Sunday then 01:12:41 mikedep333: And we could possibly end up packing up on the earlier side too, last year, we didn't stay for all of the awards ceremony 01:13:19 OK. I'll take the $121.50 (cheapest possible) train that departs Boston at 5:40pm on Sunday. 01:13:31 Nice, that seems like a good bet to me 01:15:04 My action items before this week end is to get a shipping address and file the ticket for the event box, and then hopefully we can get the hotel once we hear back from bexelbie 01:15:23 mikedep333: If we don't hear back from bexelbie before tomorrow night, I think you should book the hotel and then opt for reimbursement 01:15:28 o/ 01:15:32 But I know he's just been really busy these days 01:15:37 * jwf waves to juggler 01:15:39 Heyo! 01:15:50 #chair juggler 01:15:50 Current chairs: juggler jwf mikedep333 01:15:53 yay my client finally caught up...lol 01:15:55 understood 01:16:15 exit 01:16:43 mikedep333: I just pinged him on Telegram too so hopefully we'll hear back soon when he's awake tomorrow 01:16:46 I'll keep you in the loop 01:17:05 juggler: It's a little bit of a quiet evening tonight. It was just me and mikedep333, so we're doing a quick check-in on HackMIT prep 01:17:12 But we didn't cover any other tickets tonight. 01:17:38 The only announcement was that Flock just ended, so Fedora has been a little quiet since a lot of people traveled home this week and/or are recovering from jet lag too. :P 01:18:03 There was a lot of great Ambassador-specific discussion and content that came out of Flock too 01:18:08 hi mikedep /jwf 01:18:11 Hopefully will be shared out soon. 01:18:18 were either of you able to go? :) 01:18:26 Yep, we were both there :) 01:18:32 aw *envy* 01:18:40 We also got a super cool and awesome Fedorator for the event box!! 01:18:53 nifty 01:19:09 A Fedorator is like a mini machine with dual USBs on the front. Someone can insert a USB, and then with the touchscreen, burn Fedora onto their USB 01:19:13 The frame is all 3D-printed 01:19:19 It's really cool, not sure if there's pictures anywhere 01:19:39 please do post some...I'm curious to see what it looks like 01:19:45 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedorator 01:19:57 https://github.com/Sanqui/fedorator 01:20:04 Pictures included there :-) 01:20:51 ty 01:21:08 I think nb also grabbed one that could hopefully make it out to the west coast 01:21:17 Let's see… 01:21:21 do we have enough ppl for a quorum? 01:21:23 mikedep333: Anything else to cover for HackMIT at the moment? 01:21:33 OK, purchasing train tickets now. 01:21:33 juggler: No, that's why we skipped tickets… :-/ 01:21:37 That's everything. 01:21:45 award3535 is evacuating from Hurricane Irma and that's why he's not here tonight 01:21:48 Not sure about others 01:21:53 yikes 01:21:55 mikedep333++ Awesome 01:21:56 I hope that goes well for him. 01:21:58 Me too 01:22:07 me 3 01:22:12 Anyways, I think that's really all we have to cover for now, since we're not at quorum 01:22:18 Either of you two have something you want to throw out? 01:22:29 yep, pending since last week 01:22:54 there's a ticket in there, can't remember the number, regarding OSSNA 01:23:20 Paradox and I plan to attend it; it's scheduled for next week. 01:23:31 Ooh 01:24:18 juggler: Right, so the only thing that needed to be budgeted was accommodation for the both of you? 01:24:19 in December is SocalCodeCamp at USC, and SCaLE 15x early next year 01:24:31 Didn't realize it was next week… 01:24:49 I'll be commuting for Monday and Tuesday, so it would be nice for some gas money or Metro money. 01:25:08 otherwise I volunteer that.. 01:25:25 yep, next week. snuck up on us. 01:25:33 juggler: Here's what I'll recommend you do since we're not at quorum tonight: 01:25:48 (1) Get an approximate / final number for total budget requested for the event 01:25:51 (2) Update that number in the wiki 01:26:15 (3) Post to the mailing list with an urgent notice requesting FAmNA to review and vote in the ticket 01:26:20 And let's go from there 01:26:31 ty for the tips 01:26:33 I'll drop a vote in the ticket once there's an approximate total budget 01:26:52 But it will help to have some solid numbers in there and then a definite ask for how much you would like to use for the event 01:27:10 Answering the questions about impact is good 01:27:22 Ideally we could try to brainstorm ways to gauge our impact there too 01:27:31 I think those have been provided. 01:27:32 I'm hoping to build some sort of form to have at our table during HackMIT 01:27:48 We could possibly share that with you folks too for OSSNA 01:28:02 thank you, much appreciated 01:28:04 But for now, let's work on getting it up to vote in time 01:28:20 #action juggler Calculate a final / estimated budget for OSSNA, update numbers in wiki page 01:28:41 #action juggler Post to Ambassadors mailing list requesting FAmNA Ambassadors to review ticket and vote in ticket 01:28:47 juggler: Sound good? 01:29:19 yep, sounds great, thx 01:29:59 offhand, should I file something for SocalCodeCamp / December, or do you think it's too late? 01:30:46 juggler: I think it's early for something in December, but best to start on it early if you can 01:30:56 Gives more time to figure out logistics and plan. 01:31:13 Alrighty… anything else for tonight that we want to cover? 01:32:00 Going once… 01:32:06 I think that is all 01:32:10 Going twice… 01:32:16 Going thrice… 01:32:20 And sold :) 01:32:23 Going force? 01:32:25 :) 01:32:25 lol 01:32:26 Have a good night, folks! 01:32:35 mikedep333: See you next weekend! 01:32:36 #endmeeting