<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 2:57 AM, Gerard Braad <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gbraad@fedoraproject.org">gbraad@fedoraproject.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi guys,<br>
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Recently sankarshan wrote this on his blog:<br>
<a href="http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2011/01/21/i-wish-the-famsco-looked-into-these/" target="_blank">http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2011/01/21/i-wish-the-famsco-looked-into-these/</a><br>
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Most of the points mentioned by him have been talked about or is being<br>
dealt with, but I do believe we need to work on expressing these. We<br>
also need to show we are involved in discussions with the other *SCo<br>
and want to address most of the goals from the board.<br>
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> Focus on regions where there aren’t enough Ambassador strength.<br>
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Kaio and I are hard at work to establish Fedora's presence in the APAC<br>
and recently gained a Taiwanese Ambassador. As mentioned before, my<br>
Community Hosting proposal is related to this by providing the tools<br>
new regional communities need.<br>
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> Work towards converting the various FAQs into online courses/quizzes.<br>
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I am also investigating the viability to have Fedora Classroom as a<br>
side-project who works on creating educational material which can help<br>
with improving the skills and sharing of knowledge. This can be seen<br>
as an added-value (working on commitment) for members of our<br>
community, eg. Ambassador, but is of course not Fedora-exclusive.<br>
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Kind regards,<br>
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Gerard<br>
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<font color="#888888">Gerard Braad — 吉拉德<br>
Project-lead Fedora-MIPS<br>
Regional Mentor for APAC/China, Member of FAmSCo<br>
<a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:gbraad" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:gbraad</a><br>
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</div><br>After the FAD @ Brisbane for chat with ambassador Heherson (azneita), we came out some ideas from the discussion:<div><br></div><div><ul><li>Distribution of media in APAC region - We need to understand the process of manufacture and logistics of the media from the factory to the ambassadors within the area. We agreed to have at least 3 distribution center with the ambassadors who satisfy the following conditions:</li>
<ul><li>with high population of Fedora community</li><li>with no coverage of RH office</li><li>with limitation of internet bandwidth or without availability of better resources (such as media come with books about Fedora in Japan may has highest quality)<br>
<br></li></ul><li>Simplification of fund reimbursement - Heherson told me that the best practice to GTD in his reimbursement is "create a ticket at FAm trac -> create a ticket at FAmSCo trac -> keep pinging Max". I believe FAmSCo trac is read only to public for transparency and only FAmSCo can create ticket there for FAmSCo issues. FAmSCo member should follow up the requests on FAm and FAm regional trac for ambassadors and by assessment then Max and Harish push the fund timely. This is critical because ambassadors worry they cannot be reimburse timely or even nothing. Max's "things under $500 are generally okay" does not help and this create confusion to ambassadors without a firm green light before their expenses.<br>
<br></li><li>Funding method - As we all know, not every ambassador has access to PayPal in their countries. I want to suggest Western Union as our secondary funding method when PayPal is not able to use. This is critical because waiting telegraphic transfers from Max or Harish is even more painful than PayPal / Western Union.</li>
</ul>I will send another email to ambassadors list about my thoughts and attract more feedback from FAms.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>K410<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Regards <big>☺</big> Caius 'kaio' Chance<br>
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