22:00:26 #startmeeting FAmSCo 22:00:26 Meeting started Wed Feb 22 22:00:26 2012 UTC. The chair is cwickert. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 22:00:26 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 22:00:47 #meetingname FAmSCo 2012-02-22 22:00:47 The meeting name has been set to 'famsco_2012-02-22' 22:00:56 #topic Roll call 22:01:03 .fas cwickert 22:01:03 cwickert: cwickert 'Christoph Wickert' 22:01:07 .fas herlo 22:01:07 herlo: herlo 'Clint Savage' 22:01:08 .fas yn1v 22:01:12 yn1v: yn1v 'Neville A. Cross' 22:01:22 that is 3. we need one more 22:01:28 ping kaio 22:01:50 I have a situation at work, I will be fully here in about 5 to 10 minutes 22:01:59 #info Zoltan sent regrets he cannot attend. He went through the tickets before the meeting 22:02:32 Hi 22:02:44 Just checking mailbox. 22:03:04 ok, this makes it 5 22:03:07 excellent 22:03:15 who is the last one missing? 22:03:16 .fas me@kaio.net 22:03:17 kaio_: kaio 'Caius Chance (かいお)' 22:03:30 .fas igorps 22:03:30 cwickert: igor 'Igor Pires Soares' 22:03:59 ah, Geraad 22:04:15 Note that it's his birthday today 22:04:21 Ping gbraad 22:04:26 well, I guess for him it's already over 22:04:37 these time zone things are a problem 22:04:44 Hello! 22:04:48 lets start 22:04:49 https://fedorahosted.org/famsco/report/9 22:05:05 .famsco 250 22:05:07 https://fedorahosted.org/famsco/ticket/250 22:05:14 #topic Swag shipping improvements 22:05:34 lets take a moment to read the new comments in the ticket 22:06:41 cwickert: nb and I had a discussion today regarding his comment. He misunderstood the purpose of this ticket. He is planning on adding another comment to which may help more than his confused comment :) 22:07:03 herlo: who is "he"? Zoltan? 22:07:10 nb 22:07:19 it's the second to last comment 22:07:27 to me it looks like nb is right with his comment 22:07:35 cwickert: https://fedorahosted.org/famsco/ticket/250#comment:15 22:07:47 he responded to Zoltan and Zoltan indeed is overcomplicating things 22:08:14 cwickert: however, he thought the whole ticket was about enforcing rules 22:08:21 rather than just getting opinions 22:08:23 I see 22:08:26 nb's comment seems perfectly reasonable to me as well 22:08:41 in relation to the previous comment, probably. 22:08:43 that's probably because of Zoltan's previous comment 22:08:55 I think Zoltan really got some things wrong 22:09:10 yes, I would guess so. I am just saying that he (nb) may add more to the conversation later on 22:09:18 1. The ticket is about shipping, not about production 22:09:32 2. Nobody wants to take the responsibility from the local teams 22:09:38 not saying his comments should be stricken or anything, just that he may want to add more. 22:09:46 3. We are just trying to learn from each other here 22:10:02 everybody agrees my 3 points? 22:10:16 aye 22:10:21 cwickert, +1 22:10:43 ok, now for the actual improvments 22:10:56 I think that the idea of the ambassadors kit is a good one 22:11:04 but we already have this, say in NA 22:11:35 the idea is to have one person have much swag so everything for an event can be sent by a single person 22:11:57 cwickert: I think that's region specific, but a good idea nonetheless :) 22:12:05 however if we have such a swag wrangler in each region, we also have a single point of failure 22:12:55 In Brazil we are trying to build something similar to an ambassador kit, but we need to foster this in other parts of LATAM too 22:13:44 but it depends on the swag wranglers 22:14:06 it seems we agree on most things here, so I wonder where the problems are 22:14:26 unfortunately none of the people who said they had problems has yet spoken up 22:14:42 we need to discuss this in the regional meetings or on the mailing list 22:14:48 I believe that most problems in that case are region-specific 22:15:01 and I am guilty as chared I did not bring it up in the EMEA meeting 22:15:11 s/chared/charged 22:15:30 in Australia & New Zealand, nothing had ever been organised 22:15:31 cwickert: regional meetings would probably be good. I don't think NA sees too many problems with swag wranglers 22:15:47 multiple swag wranglers 22:16:01 ok, next steps? I don't think we made much progress in the last week, so we should reach out to the regional teams 22:16:07 herlo: +1 22:16:29 cwickert, +1 22:16:44 cwickert: let's ask each region to discuss swag wrangling in their region and report back over the next month? 22:16:50 ok 22:17:03 unless all regions meet each week, in which we can shorten the time to 2 weeks 22:17:26 #action all FAmSCo members do bring up #250 in their regional meetings 22:17:47 #action cwickert to write something about #250 to the ambassadors list 22:18:00 anything else for now? 22:18:02 very good! :) 22:18:02 oh 22:18:04 im here 22:18:10 nb: hello 22:18:28 nb: don't worry, everything is fine 22:18:35 nb: we discussed your comment a little, it looks like I didn't catch that you were replying to zoltan 22:18:45 everyone liked your point of view :) 22:18:53 nb: nobody wants to centralize anything or take the power from the regional teams 22:18:59 oh ok 22:19:21 famsco != rulers 22:20:04 nb: we are simply trying to learn here. so you could add your positive and negative experiences to the ticket. what works well in NA and what does not 22:20:07 that's all we want 22:20:27 cwickert, sure, i can do that 22:20:39 ok, there is not much we need to do here, but I want to make you aware of one thing 22:20:53 although herlo mainly already said how NA works in the ticket 22:21:16 * cwickert still searches for the link... 22:22:01 ok, found it 22:22:03 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pchestek/TMGuidelinesDraft#Ambassador_giveaways 22:22:16 there are new trademark guidelines coming our way 22:22:38 and they will make swag production way more complicated when the section I just linked gets approved 22:22:56 * inode0 pleads that you don't approve it :) 22:22:58 the board has just raised it's concerns 22:23:22 inode0: I'll do my best to prevent serious damage 22:23:39 cwickert: I would like to see the boards response. I guess I'll go find that... 22:24:19 herlo: we are fine with most things, at least we understand why we need to follow certain rules 22:24:30 however the Ambassadors section just does not work 22:24:38 see my mail at http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/advisory-board/2012-February/011368.html 22:25:01 currently the board is collecting all open questions and then we sent it to legal 22:25:13 thanks 22:25:15 basically what we want is that the whole section gets removed 22:25:22 or at least made way more easy 22:25:23 cwickert: I'd agree 22:25:33 just take this as a heads-up 22:25:44 or should we have a dedicated ticket about this? 22:26:31 cwickert: I think it might be a good thing for us to give some suggestions regarding this as a whole. 22:26:36 * inode0 would like to see this addressed regionally by the people who actually make the swag we use now 22:26:53 herlo: +1 22:27:22 #action cwickert to file a ticket about the new TM guidelines in order to have a common FAmSCo statement 22:27:50 * yn1v is fully back and has catch up with log 22:28:01 inode0: of course I want feedback from the regional teams, but I want the power of FAmSCo to speak up with one voice 22:28:20 ok, I think that's all for swag for now 22:28:41 .famsco 251 22:28:41 https://fedorahosted.org/famsco/ticket/251 22:28:43 cwickert: if I may ! 22:28:56 inode0: speak up 22:29:34 I probably misspoke, I don't really care about regional teams in this case - I care about the impact this will on the individuals who do the actual work now 22:29:53 someone should take care to talk to some of them :) 22:30:03 eof 22:30:09 I think we all agree on that since we all dealt with swag 22:30:22 +1 22:30:38 inode0: just to make this clear: your "give back our distro" buttons would never have made it with these guidelines 22:31:09 while the guidelines are not bad per-se, they have something of ACTA :) 22:31:26 ok, lets move on 22:31:27 guidelines can't stop renegade violations :-) 22:31:32 #topic Budget and reimbursement issues 22:31:52 I think I need to give you some updates 22:32:13 1. spot is going to hire somebody who will do the budget. not sure when this happens though 22:32:38 2. rbergeron is working like crazy to clean the budget mess up 22:32:55 an applause for rbergeron everybody! 22:33:00 * cwickert claps his hands 22:33:11 * nb applauds 22:33:18 * yn1v aplaude 22:33:21 +3 for rbergeron 22:33:23 3. rbergeron and I are working on a dedicated track only for budget 22:33:25 with clapping 22:33:30 * igorps claps! 22:33:41 * zodbot claps 22:34:18 this doesn't mean we will take budget away from FAmSCo or the regional teams, it will just happen in another trac with lots of custom fields, better workflow, meaningful queries etc 22:34:24 stay tuned for changes here 22:34:33 ah 22:34:45 and 4: you all have read the mail from Harish I think 22:35:07 the budget for next year was approved and the numbers are the same as last year 22:35:30 * cwickert is not sure if it was actually approved, but it will be and it looks like last year 22:35:39 ok, questions? 22:35:48 From the feedback I got from our last report people are a bit confused with budget information, but I believe that things will get clearer now. 22:35:59 cwickert, I thought the proposed budget was a little bigger than last year? 22:36:11 nb, me too 22:36:13 cwickert, is there one more recent than http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2012-February/001003.html ? 22:36:41 nb: no, that is that latest 22:36:46 ok 22:36:53 it's the same from FY11, tough 22:37:03 nb: but AFAIK it always was 200k 22:37:25 and yes, the numbers for the 2012 budget in that mail are pretty messed up and outdated 22:37:32 but there is not much we can do about it 22:38:09 more questions? 22:38:47 doesn't seem so 22:38:58 .famsco 255 22:38:58 https://fedorahosted.org/famsco/ticket/255 22:39:02 #topic New FAmSco election rules 22:39:12 herlo: did you have the time to look over them? 22:39:44 cccccccbjrgdgjbtefbkcelruhierbljcurecverjduu 22:39:49 cwickert: I did 22:40:04 oh shit sorry 22:40:09 accidentally pushed yubikey 22:40:29 I added a few comments there, mostly about making people with CLA+1 eligible and about the vacant seats 22:40:31 herlo: and did I miss something from our session? I mean the "filling up vacant seats" stuff 22:40:44 I have a feeling it's a bit wordy, but it is a very good draft. Probably just need to clean up some language and duplications like you mentioned in your comments 22:40:56 cwickert: I don't think you missed anything on that 22:41:03 cool 22:41:12 yup :) 22:41:18 Sounds very good to me as well 22:41:20 I like to have CLA+1 to vote 22:41:21 if you have suggestions how to stip things down, please add them 22:41:27 igorps: I saw your comment and I agree with that as well 22:41:42 who agrees to CLA+1? 22:41:44 +1 22:41:48 +1 22:41:49 +1 22:42:37 herlo, kaio... 22:42:51 +1 22:43:12 Zoltan already agreed in the ticket 22:43:48 #agreed: We will make all project members with CLA+1 eligible to vote for FAmSCo 22:44:10 kaio: just for the record I'd like to hear your opinion on that, too 22:44:20 inode0: congrats, your suggestion made it 22:44:36 ok, lets leave it at this for now 22:44:57 lets work on the wording and strip things down and then vote on it 22:45:15 I suggest we vote by paragraph, but we can figure that out next week 22:45:34 questions, ideas, rants before I move on? 22:45:56 .famsco 258 22:45:56 https://fedorahosted.org/famsco/ticket/258 22:46:01 #topic FUDCon bids 2012 22:46:27 ok, what is there to do for us? 22:46:46 * cwickert was not involved in FUDCon planning in the past 22:47:28 cwickert, bidding proposal deadline is already over for APAC and EMEA? 22:47:40 don't know 22:48:15 we need to check that out so we can make a proper recommendation 22:48:19 cwickert: what is this word 'consentaneous'? 22:48:27 do you mean conscientious? 22:48:33 just so I am clear 22:49:32 herlo: no, it means we all agree 22:49:38 we have a consens 22:49:46 unanimous? 22:49:59 "consensus" I guess 22:50:10 yeah, depends on the context 22:50:20 I guess unanimous should work 22:50:43 * cwickert is looking at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_organization_process 22:51:10 so who was involved in FUDCon planning or member of FAmSCo before? 22:51:54 me 22:52:09 What we did on the past was to look at bids and tell what we think will be better 22:52:12 and what did you do in the past? 22:52:21 I did too. In the past the FPL have announced a deadline for the bids 22:52:25 ok, what about the deadlines? 22:52:48 well, according to the wiki there is no fixed deadline, at least if I read it correctly 22:53:05 it just says that the bids are closed X months before the event 22:53:17 but we don't know when the event will take place 22:53:48 yes I asked for the event date but no one can provide me that 22:54:30 ok, then 22:54:36 lets look at the bids 22:54:43 I suggest we start with the APAC one 22:55:11 kaio: AFAIK the APAC community is in favor of Malaysia. is that correct? 22:55:13 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-December/003024.html 22:55:26 "All bids for both of these FUDCon events should be submitted by January 11, 2012." 22:56:10 huh 22:56:14 ? 22:56:16 I mean 22:56:47 the subject says LATAM but he already announced Venezela 22:56:53 FUDCon APAC is really close 22:57:14 is it? 22:57:27 I mean, where is the info on that? 22:57:33 apac has not officially conclude a site yet 22:57:42 cwickert, in that same email 22:58:02 FUDCon APAC should be held between March 1st and May 31st 22:58:16 * cwickert wants this info on the wiki rather then in some random email 22:58:25 igorps: that email is not very accurate 22:58:34 it's also available here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Premier_Fedora_Events 22:59:32 somewhere from the email till now, afaik I also heard of the date was in May 22:59:37 ok, now about decision making 22:59:53 yes, the date will be may, this is why we need to hurry up 23:00:12 so, opinions about the bids? 23:00:27 That Beijing bid in the ticket refers to a bid from 2011 23:01:28 igorps: this is the right one: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Bid_for_Beijing_2012 23:01:47 cwickert, thanks 23:02:12 * azneita wants to address famsco 23:02:22 frankly speaking I don't think I can make a recommendation now 23:02:44 azneita: can this wait a little until we finish this topic? or is it about FUDCons? 23:02:50 last FAmSCo term we discussed the bids in a meeting only for that purpose 23:03:04 i'm from one of those bids 23:03:15 ok, go ahead please azneita 23:03:21 igorps: good idea 23:03:26 thanks cwickert 23:03:32 last year the bids are chosen by famsco 23:03:44 well i'm not going to push for our bid since kagesenshi is not here 23:04:07 but we're wondering if we can have some push 23:04:08 and this year, bids are pushed to region meetings for discussions instead 23:04:34 cwickert, we also invited the bidders to the meeting so they could answer our questions 23:04:49 in the right direction... picking one bid over the other has reached an impasse for us 23:04:55 i.e. I don't know is the bid selection this year has been changed or not 23:04:56 hold on. I think we need to discuss this a little more stuctured 23:05:09 cwickert, +1 23:05:12 guys, we have now 3 different people talking about 3 different things 23:05:30 * shaiton is here 23:05:35 should we discuss the process or the individual bids? 23:05:42 shaiton: EMEA is not yet up 23:05:48 :) 23:05:58 I prefer to discuss about the process. 23:06:20 ok, my 2 cents on this 23:06:43 I don't know much about the process and I don't think that we have a consistent process 23:07:08 and I feel I first need more input from jsmith first 23:07:25 kaio, APAC already have a recommendation? 23:07:25 suggestions? 23:07:43 igorps: kaio said no, jsmith said they had 23:07:58 igorps: your question confuses me once again. :) 23:08:41 as for the process. I would like to discuss this both in the regional communities and in FAmSCo 23:08:57 kaio, I mean, do your region made a bid recommendation in a regional meeting? 23:09:16 igorps: NO, we said this twice in this meeting already ;) 23:09:36 discussed, no concluded 23:10:02 kaio, ok 23:10:07 are we talking about bids or about the process now? 23:11:04 are we actually talking or am I the only one? 23:11:09 region community, famsco, com arch, FPL; 4 parties were communicating 23:11:35 and I have no idea "who can make the final decision" 23:11:57 right, same here 23:12:24 nevertheless we should start with the first two parties, that is the regional communties and FAmSCo 23:12:26 last year, famsco decided, end of story 23:12:45 FAmSCo made just a recommendation 23:12:56 I think the decision was made by the FPL 23:13:05 The FPL is the one to ratify it or not 23:13:19 according to what the other parts also said 23:13:23 but when the local communities and FAmSCo already agree, it is hard for the FPL to not ratify it 23:13:37 cwickert, indeed 23:13:38 ok, I want us to to this: 23:13:48 1. discuss this in your local community ASAP 23:13:58 2. Add the results to the ticket 23:14:09 if there are meeting logs, please link them 23:14:23 and then I would like us to make a decision next week 23:14:29 so I hope either FPL or Comm Arch could step aside for a "community" discussion 23:14:52 kaio: CommArch is dead, they were never really involved 23:15:33 cwickert: harish did express his preference, AFAIR 23:15:44 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_bid_process 23:15:50 kaio: you mean this year? 23:15:53 yes 23:16:03 igorps: what are you trying to tell us? 23:16:03 yeah, i don't think commarch really exists anymore aside from harish 23:16:05 fpl makes the decision always iirc 23:16:15 cwickert, basically this: 23:16:17 robyn never was commarch i think, mel is gone, and ianweller is engineering now i think 23:16:25 "While the decision on the winning bid is ultimately made by the majority budget sponsors, the FUDCon planning committee (made up of the FPL, FAmSCo, and other interested community members) works together with the majority budget sponsor to choose the best location." 23:16:26 kaio: and what was his recommendation? 23:16:29 personally community needs only one representative from sponsor (aka RH) 23:16:40 * ianweller blinks 23:17:03 ianweller, i thought you used to be commarch but now you're on the engineering wiki 23:17:04 i think 23:17:19 i am engineering now, yeah 23:17:23 * ianweller was finding where he was highlighted 23:17:46 I feel we are wasting time here 23:18:07 all famsco members, please make a suggestion how to move forward now 23:18:19 okay lets not stuck on the naming, lets say "the one who pays", which is harish 23:18:33 cwickert, let's follow your suggestion 23:19:01 we can make a recommendation next meeting 23:19:05 ok I will send an email to get a unified recommendation from apac communityu 23:19:08 +1 igorps 23:19:15 great 23:19:53 kaio, ok, and post that on the ticket so we are aware of before next meeting 23:20:06 kaio: can you please add all details about APAC to the ticket? what you discussed before and what Harish recommened 23:20:18 for any comments from the sponsor, I will request for justification 23:20:38 sure 23:20:39 kaio: what did Harish recommend? 23:20:53 cwickert: I will put in the trac 23:21:08 thanks 23:21:17 good 23:21:59 #action kaio to add all details about previous discussions about FUDCon APAC 2012 to the ticket 23:22:14 #action all FAmSCo members to reach out to their local communities 23:22:56 #info we want recommendations from the local communities, FAmSCo and fudcon-planning / CommArch 23:23:52 anything more on this? 23:24:01 nothing else from me 23:24:11 no 23:24:15 too bad we cannot discuss any bids now 23:24:43 azneita_: are you still there? 23:25:10 cwickert: how many bids we need for each region? 23:25:28 please do not ask me anything about the process 23:25:33 I have no idea 23:25:34 cwickert, i'm still here 23:25:35 * yn1v has to go now 23:25:36 sorry 23:25:57 but the deadline is overdue and we cannot accept new bids I think 23:26:01 azneita_: cool 23:26:08 azneita_: you are from where? 23:26:15 philippines 23:26:17 cwickert, please mail the logs 23:26:22 discussions within famsco, implies that more than 1 bids should region propose to famsco 23:26:23 yn1v: yes 23:26:41 kaio: ? 23:27:25 cwickert: its okay, action item is set so move on to next topic then 23:28:04 the recommendation of a regional community is not binding for FAmSCo. While the regional community has their local point of view, FAmSCo has a more global perspective 23:28:18 the community recommends what is best for the local community 23:28:37 FAmSco recomments what is best for Fedora from a global POV 23:28:40 makes sense? 23:29:01 cwickert, +1 23:29:05 +1 23:29:09 + 23:29:30 :) 23:29:44 ok, azneita_, are you on the FUDCon planning list? 23:30:16 yep 23:30:53 ok, I think we should discuss things there rather than in this meeting 23:31:26 I really need to go to bed and we are over time, so lets make the last 2 tickets quick ones 23:31:35 .famsco 259 23:31:35 https://fedorahosted.org/famsco/ticket/259 23:31:38 #topic #259 23:31:39 cool cwickert, thanks 23:31:45 #undo 23:31:45 Removing item from minutes: 23:32:05 #topic Reviewing process of selection/approval of mentors for ambassadors 23:32:23 * cwickert wonders what meetbot removed from the minutes now 23:32:37 as there was no feedback from tatica, there is not much to do 23:32:49 sry, holidays in here 23:32:51 0x2d5df310 23:33:08 tatica: any progress on this ticket? 23:33:20 cwickert: meetbot always removes the previously added item :) 23:33:41 herlo: yes, but the question is if #topic counts as item 23:33:47 I believe so 23:33:51 ok then 23:33:52 cwickert, beside some feedback that latam guys just give me today, no. Carnivals in here 23:34:09 tatica: did you write anything to the mailing list yet? 23:34:17 noup, sry about that 23:34:21 ok 23:34:48 I will remove the meeting keyword from the ticket. add it again when there is something to do for us 23:35:04 ok 23:35:33 #action tatica to follow up on #259 and add the 'meeting' keyword again once FAmSCo can help 23:35:47 .famsco 262 23:35:47 https://fedorahosted.org/famsco/ticket/262 23:35:50 #topic Ambassador Membership Request by a Candidate with a legacy 23:36:01 I don't think we can discuss anything here 23:36:13 I first want feedback from both his old and new member 23:36:19 does that sound fair? 23:36:44 cwickert, do you mean mentor? 23:37:14 sorry, yes 23:37:28 it sounds fair, so we can have some background on this 23:37:47 I do have a lot of background, yet though I cannot make a decision 23:38:05 anyway, I'll ask for feedback then 23:38:17 #topic Open floor 23:38:44 * cwickert will end the meeting in 3 minutes if there are no further questions 23:39:08 nothing else from me 23:39:42 * herlo is done 23:41:52 #endmeeting