APAC ambassadors meeting log. 15th March, 2009, 0300 UTC.
by susmit shannigrahi
<azneita> hi susmit
<susmit> hi azneita
<susmit> we start in 2 minutes
* susmit has changed the topic to: APAC ambassadors meeting is now on.
<susmit> Roll Call
<susmit> who is here?
<bhanupatial> Hi i a present
<azneita> Heherson Pagcaliwagan
<bhanupatial> i am*
<susmit> Susmit Shannigrahi
<susmit> and nobody else as usual??
<azneita> your fullname please bhanupatial
<bhanupatial> Bhanu Patial
<azneita> :D, thanks
<bhanupatial> ;)
* inode0 says hi and wishes APAC well
<susmit> inode0, thanks :)
<susmit> azneita, any idea what can be done about this low attendance?
* susmit has none
<azneita> i'm afraid, we need to push on until such time the other
ambassadors find reasson to attend
<susmit> inode0, how much attendance do you get in your meeting?
<inode0> about a year ago there were always getting canceled with no
one showing up
<azneita> just like ours today
<inode0> we re-organized and got 5 people to just get really busy and
it started to take off
<inode0> now normally we get maybe 6-10
<bhanupatial> It's Sunday morning here... many would have enjoyed
Saturday night. it makes tough to wake up
<inode0> even though it seems odd, we starting having them weekly when
no one came
<inode0> so we really did a lot of work at the meetings
<azneita> smaller means more agile :D
<inode0> larger does allow for more input, more a feeling of
belonging, and more people to give tasks to :)
<azneita> so true
<susmit> inode0, like telling someone : hey, you are the volunteer for
this task ;)
<inode0> we had several visible projects we could focus on
<susmit> inode0, like?
<inode0> ambassador kits, event boxes, doing our own swag and media distribution
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<azneita> that sure bring folks together
<inode0> and early on we organized our first ambassador day
<inode0> so lots of planning went into that too
<azneita> ah
<susmit> but the problem is APAC is so vast a region, we can not have
a central FAD, where people can meet up and discuss
<inode0> we have something of that problem too and certainly we didn't
have everyone
<inode0> the hope was to get the people working hard together and draw
in a few new people
<inode0> meeting in person really energized us to carry on
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<bhanupatial> u are right susmit, but there was a time when we use to
join it meetings at 0330 hrs
<susmit> this time was decided only because to serve everyone from
India to Australia.
<azneita> like me
<bhanupatial> friends do we continue today ? as it seems we 4 are here. :(
<azneita> i say continue
<susmit> I am getting inputs from inode0, we can end the meeting though.
<azneita> we're here already anyway
<azneita> we had nothing going since last month
* inode0 is happy to talk with you guys any time
<susmit> the formal meeting is ending for lack of attendance. anything
you want to discuss? We will continue informally
<azneita> let's just make it quick
<susmit> ok...
<azneita> let's go over the agenda first
<azneita> famsco news
<susmit> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/NA/Regions
<susmit> the decision was taken by famsco was to replace the current
Ambassador wiki page by pages like this
<azneita> the page was sure slow to load
<susmit> so we can get in touch with most of the people and update it
as necesary
<azneita> i personally like the page
<susmit> this is like a directory of responding people
<susmit> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/India/Regions
<azneita> do we already have one for apac or do we still need somebody
to take that on
<susmit> from the pinging, this is the list I made. These are who replied.
<susmit> Angel has done one for Bangladesh too...
<bhanupatial> looks great
<bhanupatial> i have a question
<azneita> go ahead
<susmit> go on please
<bhanupatial> is this page database driven ? or is auto created ?
<susmit> the Ambassdor country list page will be database driven.
<susmit> This page on the other hand will be manually created
<susmit> with the names of ambassadors who are working and responding.
<inode0> In NA we have ambassadors add themselves indicating they are
willing to be contacted this way
<susmit> oh...ok.
<inode0> we encourage them
<susmit> inode0, and how ofter do you update?
<azneita> is it just me or we're going to do this by countries
<susmit> inode0, I mean is there any method to cross check if someone
os still interested?
<azneita> anything for apac like https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/NA
<inode0> We have only been active as a group for about 9 months now so
we haven't had to clean up this page
<inode0> As far as I know we have no plan :(
<susmit> ok...
<susmit> azneita, we should...
<bhanupatial> This page should have methods to display the desired results only
<azneita> so we're agreed that we will be doing an APAC regional page
<bhanupatial> like drop downs to select country.. and then next one to
select state
<azneita> can wikis do that?
<bhanupatial> it will be easy to maintain
<susmit> bhanupatial, there is a proposal to make a map of ambassodors instead
<bhanupatial> that is what i want to understand
* thomasj_ is now known as thomasj
<azneita> i'll take this one on
<susmit> azneita, sure
<azneita> the APAC regional page
<bhanupatial> can anyone answer my question ?
<susmit> bhanupatial, AFAIK, no.
<azneita> i'm sorry bhanu, i don't think wikis support drop downs or am i wrong
<bhanupatial> :(
<susmit> so we move on?
<azneita> the regional page would be our working group with regional leaders
<azneita> working group directory
<susmit> exactly
<azneita> with volunteer regional leaders who will check on their folks
<azneita> update the page
<azneita> and in so doing make apac better organized and in a position
to do bigger things
<susmit> no, let people update the page themselves. We can ping them
occasionally/
<azneita> am i hitting them all
<susmit> lets do it this way,
<azneita> works fine by me
<susmit> 1. lets create the page
<susmit> 2. Advertise it widely.
<azneita> ok
<susmit> 3. Who updates the page, route works to them.
<KageSenshi> izharfirdaus .. late >.<
<susmit> 4. Those who takes up or replies fine.
<susmit> 5. If someone does not, ping him, and if still unreachable,
remove him/her.
<azneita> i'm ind of lost on the third one
<susmit> those who puts there name on the page, let's mail them like,
you have this event on your locality, can you please take care of it?
<azneita> ah
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<azneita> i think we can reserve them to the regional leaders
<shambo> sorry for being late
<susmit> of course yes.
<azneita> hi shambo
<susmit> azneita, ^^
<shambo> hi azneita
<KageSenshi> hi shambo
<susmit> hi all :)
<azneita> guys your full names please
<shambo> hi Kagesenshi
<KageSenshi> Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail .. FAS: izhar
<shambo> Shambo Bose .... FAS : shambo
<azneita> we're talking about creating an APAC regional page much like
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/NA
<susmit> and like https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/India/Regions
<KageSenshi> ah
<azneita> it will be our working group directory with volunteer
regional leaders to help us organize better
<shambo> ok , that will be nice
<susmit> azneita, brb in 2 minutes..sorry
<shambo> yes it will work as a directory
<azneita> ok i have this two fine guys to keep me company :D
<azneita> the operational word here is *working*
<bhanupatial> :D
<KageSenshi> ok
<shambo> someone from us has to maintain it regularly and it takes
quite amount of time
<azneita> only for your region
<azneita> maybe monthly or so
<bhanupatial> If we can have centralized location of contact numbers
of all the active ambassadors, will help us to communicate better
<shambo> monthly will be fine
<azneita> especially for India which is huge
<azneita> during our meetings
<azneita> let's wrap the APAC regional page
<azneita> it will be like this https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/NA
<shambo> ok
<azneita> i'll have it ready later and i'll just ping you guys about it
<KageSenshi> ok
<susmit> back
<bhanupatial> :)
<azneita> let's now move on to other things if nobody has any issue with it
<susmit> no, azneita make it once per release
<susmit> once in a month will be a bit more overhead
<azneita> ok
<azneita> we'll make it once every 6 months ~release
<susmit> fine.
<KageSenshi> agree
<susmit> +1
<shambo> once per release is also a good option +1
<susmit> KageSenshi, you are from?
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<KageSenshi> susmit, malaysia
<azneita> bhanu?
<bhanupatial> yup
<bhanupatial> +1
<susmit> yes, I knew, but wanted to make sure. :)
<xlook> xlook, froom Singapore.
<bhanupatial> :)
<xlook> Jason benedict
<KageSenshi> :)
<xlook> Hi sumit!
<KageSenshi> hi xlook
<azneita> that brings us to 6
<shambo> hi xlook
<azneita> yay
<susmit> xlook, your nick changed
<susmit> :)
<susmit> KageSenshi, we would like to hear about your region
* inode0 watches APAC meeting triple in size before his eyes :)
<xlook> so susmit how many joine this meeting? so sorry i drop in so
late as my laptop send for repair, i had to use vista with pidgin to
join here.
<xlook> Yes, my nick change, susmit
<azneita> we have 6 from apac and lord inode watching from above
<susmit> inode0, if there was 0 attendence, it could be multiplied a
million times. ;)
<susmit> KageSenshi, ?
<shambo> Is there any news from famsco
<KageSenshi> susmit, lots of interesting foss development around , gov
adopting odf , erm .. there might be an event happening on june .. erm
.. right now a number of us malaysian ambassadors are just students
who promote fedora in our uni, so not much movement at the country
side
<susmit> shambo, its done.
<azneita> can somebody give jason some log to keep him up to speed
<shambo> oh i am sorry I will catch up from the logs
<susmit> KageSenshi, why are not you trying to catch up other
universities as well?
<susmit> You must have friends there?
<inode0> ?
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<susmit> inode0, ?
<KageSenshi> susmit, coz most of us are stuck inside our own :P ..
<bhanupatial> :D
<inode0> This isn't quite live yet but maybe some of you could help
get it going ...
<inode0> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Campus_Ambassadors
<bhanupatial> friends can we talk about
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Availability_Initiative mail
regarding same floated some days back.
<susmit> bhanupatial, later if time permits.
<xlook> +1
<susmit> inode0, good idea.
<shambo> +1
<susmit> KageSenshi, will any one of you volunteer to be first Campus
Ambassador from APAC?
<inode0> If we add a few more and poke themayor a little gently in the ribs :)
<KageSenshi> this is my final semester .. but i believe the others can :) ..
<susmit> get your juniors!!!
<susmit> watch out for anyone who can be a good campus ambassador!!!
<KageSenshi> susmit, still doing it right now :D
<KageSenshi> (especially someone to take over this LAN mirror)
* susmit observes that the problem with APAC is communication.
Everything else is fine. Many people are working but no update reaches
to the list.
<azneita> we're going to work on that susmit
<KageSenshi> yup
<azneita> it's now on our table, nowhere to go but up
<susmit> thanks.
<susmit> we have very little time, lets move to other agenda.
<shambo> yes
<azneita> finally managed https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/APAC
<xlook> +1
<susmit> 3. Events/ Event reports
<azneita> nothing there yet but we can start now
<susmit> For India, I have ensured, all the event reports reach the
mailing lists/fedora planet.
<susmit> so no other update?
<susmit> ok...
<azneita> mine is on planet already
<susmit> 4. FreeMedia
<azneita> nothing from philippines right now
<susmit> KageSenshi, one thing I noticed, you probably have a separate
form for it...may I know why?
<xlook> just receieved 4 request...
<KageSenshi> susmit, form?
<KageSenshi> oh
<susmit> freemedia form
<KageSenshi> freemedia
<KageSenshi> it was there for a while
<KageSenshi> before the new centralized form
<xlook> look like the program work susmit, i get alert
<shambo> is that allowed ?
* KageSenshi havent update it yet >.<
<susmit> KageSenshi, please do it. Fedora wants to manage it's own
infrastructures. Not rely on google ;)
<KageSenshi> haha ok :D
<xlook> +1
<shambo> +1 :D
<susmit> xlook, what alerts are you getting?
<xlook> i mean the email for request for freemedia in singapore.
<susmit> but it is not yet set!!!!
<KageSenshi> erm .. regarding Event/Event reports .. i just got some
news that one of .my gov agency will be doing some sort of conference
on June/July .. more details yet to come
<KageSenshi> FOSS conference
<xlook> it's been sometime i have not receive any request ...
<xlook> ?
<susmit> xlook, no you will not....:)
<xlook> hur? sorry confuse now.
<susmit> please have a look at https://fedorahosted.org/freemedia/
<shambo> susmit i am not getting the concept of opening and closing of ticket
<susmit> log in with your fas account.
<shambo> ok
<susmit> view tickets
<shambo> ok
<xlook> susmit, i am the only FreeMedia in-charge in Singapore. I use
to get people request for fedora DVD via freemedia program but somehow
it just stop working till last week.
<susmit> Pending Requests, APAC, Ordered By Country.
<bhanupatial> guys please be fast .. we are running out of time
<susmit> xlook, you can always have a look at the TRAC
<shambo> where is this view tickets option
<susmit> ok...I shall explain that after the meeting.
<shambo> ok
<xlook> if there is request, will i be alerted by email? or i have to
keep checking back in Trac?
<susmit> we finishes our agenda.
<xlook> +1
<susmit> lets formally close the meeting. there may be other meets here.
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15 years, 1 month
Event Report: Florida Linux Show
by David Nalley
Monday I attended the Florida Linux Show in Jacksonville. It was good
to see some of the ATL crowd, most notably Nick Ali and Josh Chase
from the Ubuntu Podcast. I also spent some time talking with Mark
Hinkle from Zenoss, I literally see him at ever show I attend. I also
saw Zonker as he was heading out. Rod Sharp told us they had around
400 attendees last year and hoped to have around the same number this
year. Unfortunately turnout looked to be around 30 if you unclude all
of the Ubuntu guys who were manning the booth. (yes that’s only two
decimal places) Since there were relatively few people in the talks, I
sat down and had a conversation with those who showed up to mine. The
facility was awesome, nice layout, relatively easy to find considering
it was held on a college campus.
All in all it was really disappointing.
15 years, 1 month
REMINDER French Meeting today 1930UTC #fedora-meeting
by Thomas Canniot
This mail is a reminder for today´s meeting for French ambassadors and
_every_ interested people.
2009-03-15 / 19:30 UTC
IRC: freenode
#fedora-meeting
Ce mail est un rappel pour la réunion des ambassadeurs francophones,
qui aura lieu ce dimanche (15 mar.) à 20h30 heure de Paris sur
IRC (freenode) #fedora-meeting .
L'ordre du jour est disponible depuis cette page :
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/FrenchTeam/Reunions
N'hésitez pas à le modifier pour rajouter des sujets qui vous semblent
intéressants.
Merci de répondre à ce message en cas d'indisponibilité.
Thomas Canniot
15 years, 1 month
Event Report on Fedora Talk in OSI Days Chennai
by Balaji G
Hi Everyone
I am extremely thrilled and pleased to announce that my talk in OSI Days was
a real good success. The talk was quite short and I started off with
A Survey on how many in the audience have heard about Fedora and there was
quite a good number and then I started off with the following
1. What is Fedora
2. What's the Speciality of the Fedora Project
3. What role does Redhat Play in contributing to fedora.
4. What's the role I play in Fedora
5. What's the advantage in Contributing to Fedora and i asked
interested people to get my email ID offline to know more on how to
contribute
and I assured them that i could help them to get into World Of
Open Source Software through Fedora.
6. Question & answers
Then people when i got off the stage asked for my email IDs and have asked
me to give talks in LUG and lot of people had questions like
"i want to do some programming but i am not sure how do i do it in
Ubuntu " these sort of questions came up and then i took that opportunity to
tell them that i would help you do that by asking them to install fedora and
assured them that they could copy of DVD from me. Lot of students wanted to
do projects but they didn't know how to get into Fedora so i answered those
questions and have asked them to contact me through email and then i would
bring them onto the IRC channels. I have also asked them to log in to
#fedora-classroom on the April First Weekend where i would be taking IRC
sessions on kernel topics and Virtualization.
I strongly feel that this would bring in more users and contributors and I
would be giving more talks too in the future.
It was a pretty exciting day and i would be sharing some photos soon .
Thanks,
Cheers,
Balaji
15 years, 1 month
Proposal for "Quick starter guide" for ambasadors
by Ewan Luca
I tried to make a structure for a 16 pages guide to be distributed as pdf
and aimed at new members of the community as a centralised "First steps
guide". Pls make comments
Ewan Luca,
Fedora Ambassador
www.opencurse.blogspot.com
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Francesco Ugolini <francesco(a)ephisia.org>wrote:
> 2009/3/1 Ewan Luca <ewanluca(a)gmail.com>:
>
> > I'll also feel the need for "Quick starter guide" - a 10-20 slide/pages
> > presentation of the comunity structure and resources. If there is such a
> > thing I didn't find it yet and maybe it should be one of the steps for
> > joining "Step 4 - Read this"
>
> Great idea. We should think about it, maybe you could open a thread
> discussing about this topic, seprately from this closed discussion.
>
> I think there is something that talk about resources, but I focused
> document could work better.
>
> Something to think about, really.
>
> Regards
>
> Francesco Ugolini
>
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15 years, 1 month
Re: [fedora-india] Re: Event Report on Fedora Talk in OSI Days Chennai
by Balaji G
Hi Magesh
> balaji really did a great job at the OSI TechDays today...
> nice that he told about contributing to the fedora community and so on....
> that was really nice
Hey Thanks a lot and sorry we couldn't meet up today :(
Thanks,
Cheers,
Balaji
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 8:06 PM, magesh <kkmageshcse(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> I am extremely thrilled and pleased to announce that my talk in OSI Days
>>> was a real good success. The talk was quite short and I started off with
>>> A Survey on how many in the audience have heard about Fedora and there
>>> was quite a good number and then I started off with the following
>>>
>>> 1. What is Fedora
>>> 2. What's the Speciality of the Fedora Project
>>> 3. What role does Redhat Play in contributing to fedora.
>>> 4. What's the role I play in Fedora
>>> 5. What's the advantage in Contributing to Fedora and i asked
>>> interested people to get my email ID offline to know more on how to
>>> contribute
>>> and I assured them that i could help them to get into World
>>> Of Open Source Software through Fedora.
>>> 6. Question & answers
>>>
>>
>
> balaji really did a great job at the OSI TechDays today...
> nice that he told about contributing to the fedora community and so on....
> that was really nice
>
>
> magesh
> Life is "just tryin out things to see if they work"
>
> http://magesh.geexhq.com/
> http://twitter.com/mageshcse
>
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