[Ambassadors] APAC Ambassadors extra meeting minutes 2014-12-13

[Truong Anh. Tuan]

Hi folks,

This has been set to be followed up in FUDCon Planning mailing list so
I put it here. Please kindly check my inline comments below.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Siddhesh Poyarekar" <siddhesh.poyarekar at gmail.com>
> To: "ambassadors" <ambassadors at lists.fedoraproject.org>, meetingminutes at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2014 12:46:54 PM
> Subject: [Ambassadors] APAC Ambassadors extra meeting minutes 2014-12-13

> Hi,
> 
> We had an extra meeting today to discuss the two FUDCon proposals.  We
> hope to reach a decision on a recommendation for the next FUDCon APAC
> in our regular meeting next week.  Everyone is requested to please
> continue the discussion on the fudcon-planning mailing list.
> 
> Siddhesh
> 
> ===========================================
> 
> Meeting started by siddhesh at 04:03:48 UTC (full logs).
> 
> Meeting summary
> 
> The pune bid: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Bid_for_Pune_2015
> (siddhesh, 04:07:09)
> 
> 30-40 Fedora contributors in Pune alone and more in the rest of india
> (siddhesh, 04:22:12)
>> 500 students expected to attend the conference. Not as many as in PP (siddhesh,
>> 04:22:57)
> Pune team have committed sponsors for the additional $10,000 in the
> budget. (kushal, 04:31:03)

This is really interesting point. Could you explain more where are you
getting this fund and which stuffs are you planning to cover by it?

> India has hosted two FUDCons earlier, one in 2006 and another in 2011
> (siddhesh, 04:31:48)
> of the 4 FUDCons organized in APAC, 2 were in India (siddhesh, 04:34:37)
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon 2005-2014 4 fudcons organized 2
> were in India (Delhi, Pune) (pravins, 04:37:05)
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Bid_for_PhnomPenh_2015
> (somvannda, 04:39:22)

Yes, one of the most advantages to organize FUDCon in India is there are
many existing Fedora contributors here and we can save a lot of money to
sponsor others to travel to.

> discussing the PP bid:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Bid_for_PhnomPenh_2015
> (siddhesh, 04:40:20)
> 
> flight costs to PP from south-east asia is cheaper than to India
> (siddhesh, 04:53:22)

It is not cheap because we have to reserve more fund for more APAC
contributors there or it should be called "FUCon" (without or less
*D*evelopers).

> FUDCon will be hosted as a sub-event in Barcamp PP with a room
> dedicated for FUDCon (siddhesh, 04:55:06)
> PP does not have a lot of contributors, so most will have to be flown
> in (siddhesh, 05:00:08)
> PP has never had a FUDCon and would benefit from having a large event
> to promote Fedora (siddhesh, 05:00:26)
> IDEA: We should start doing smaller targeted events in Cambodia to get
> more contributors first and then go for bigger events. (kushal,
> 05:10:22)

+1 to kushal.

In the other hand, we also could not organize all upcoming FUDCons in
India, right?

> ===========================================
> 
> Minutes:
> http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2014-12-13/fedora-meeting.2014-12-13-04.03.html
> Minutes (text):
> http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2014-12-13/fedora-meeting.2014-12-13-04.03.txt
> Log:
> http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2014-12-13/fedora-meeting.2014-12-13-04.03.log.html
> Please remember to CC: meetingminutes at lists.fedoraproject.org on your
> summary/minutes email.

There are a lot of interesting information discussed in the meeting.
Can anyone put them into the bids?

Also, please keep this going then we can make decision in the next
Saturday meeting.

Kind regards,
Tuan