Swag Shipping Changes in EMEA
by Jiri Eischmann
Hi all my fellow ambassadors from EMEA,
I've got great news! Red Hat facilities department in Brno office
finally finished all steps to have Czech Post as another shipping
option.
Why did I go for the Czech Post? Because Fedex and DHL (the only two
options Red Hat so far allowed) got insanely expensive. Especially
packages going outside the EU were really, really expensive. We can no
longer afford it with our budget.
Czech Post's Express Mail Service is approx. 3-4 times cheaper than
Fedex or DHL and still a reliable service with tracking and reasonable
delivery times (usually 6 days outside the EU).
>From now on, I'll be using Czech Post as a default option for packages
to EU countries unless it's in a hurry and for all packages outside the
EU unless the country is not supported by Czech Post.
The service may not be as comfortable as Fedex or DHL because those two
have been mostly excellent. Packages will most likely be delivered by
your local postal service whose quality varies country to country. But
it will bring significant savings and I'd rather spend money on swag or
bringing people to events than giving it to logistic companies.
Our shipping budget is really tight and I'd like to optimize the way it
works in EMEA generally. Currently, I sometimes get several requests for
swag from the same ambassador or place in one Fedora release cycle.
There are many ambassadors in EMEA and sending each one of them several
packages a year is not possible budget-wise. Bear in mind that the whole
content of the package is usually much cheaper than its shipping, it's
especially valid for packages going outside the EU.
My plan is to send one package to each location every release cycle with
all they need (media, swag, ambassador's polo shirt,...). It requires
planning from both me (to have enough of everything when it needs to be
sent) from you (to know what you will need for the whole release cycle).
We should also leverage situations when we attend various events and can
bring stuff there or pick it up there.
Jiri
11 years, 1 month
FAmNA Meeting (20 March 2013)
by Jon
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#fedora-meeting: FAmNA
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Meeting started by masta at 01:00:17 UTC. The full logs are available
athttp://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2013-03-20/famna.2013-0...
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Meeting summary
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* === FAmNA Roll Call === (masta, 01:00:17)
* === Announcements === (masta, 01:03:49)
* === Tickets === (masta, 01:04:46)
* LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/famna/report/9 (masta, 01:04:47)
* Northeast LinuxFest 2013, March 16 - 17, Harvard (dan408, 01:13:12)
* LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/famna/ticket/49 (dan408, 01:15:45)
* ticket #48 & #49 to be closed as soon as they have event reports
(masta, 01:19:15)
* ACTION: rbergeron to update ticket (dan408, 01:22:13)
* == Who will be the next FAmNA meeting chair? == (masta, 01:23:49)
* == Open Floor === (masta, 01:28:22)
* ACTION: dan408 to have a time and date to vote on for a new official
meeting time if not the same one (dan408, 01:51:27)
Meeting ended at 02:00:08 UTC.
Action Items
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* rbergeron to update ticket
* dan408 to have a time and date to vote on for a new official meeting
time if not the same one
Action Items, by person
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* dan408
* dan408 to have a time and date to vote on for a new official meeting
time if not the same one
* rbergeron
* rbergeron to update ticket
* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)
People Present (lines said)
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* dan408 (157)
* chanchito (55)
* masta (46)
* award3535 (38)
* inode0 (22)
* rbergeron (18)
* davdunc (10)
* zodbot (9)
* dramsey (3)
* nb (1)
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11 years, 1 month
FAmNA Meeting Announcement (19 March 2013)
by inode0
*** We need a volunteer to run the meeting this week ***
Please join us for our weekly FAmNA meeting this Tuesday at 9:00pm
Eastern in #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net.
I'd like to remind everyone that it is important for us to get some work
accomplished at these meetings and staying on the topic is important
to that end. All comments are welcome from ambassadors during the
meetings but please wait until the Open Floor to add any subject
matter not included in the meeting agenda via a ticket.
Feel free to add to the agenda. The easy way to add an agenda item is
described at the bottom of this announcement. Especially if you have
an event coming up that needs some attention.
This week's meeting leader: ???
== Meeting Agenda ==
=== Announcements ===
Time for brief announcements.
=== Tickets ===
Tickets scheduled for discussion at this meeting can be found at
https://fedorahosted.org/famna/report/9
Please read through each ticket in advance so you can be prepared to
discuss them at the meeting.
=== Select Next Meeting Leader ===
=== Open Floor ===
Unscheduled topics can be raised during the open floor if time
permits. Discussion of any topic will generally be more productive if
participants know about the topics in advance and have some time to
think about them, so please add your topics to the meeting agenda in
the ticket system when possible.
If you would like to add a topic for discussion at our meetings please
open a ticket at
https://fedorahosted.org/famna/
and set its milestone to meeting.
Thanks,
John
11 years, 1 month
Self-Introduction: Wilfredo Porta
by Wilfredo Porta
Hi all,
I'm Wilfredo Porta, my wiki page is at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Wporta
Personal Email: wporta at gmail dot com
FAS: wporta
GPG Key: Get it by running gpg --recv-key B73B60C3
Languages supported: es, en
Profession: Computer Science Engineer.
Blog: http://owldevx.wordpress.com
Location: Managua, Nicaragua
I'm a 29 year old software developer, husband and father of a two
months beautiful son and new Ambassador for Nicaragua.
I've been using and loving Fedora everyday since F12. I've joined our
local Fedora community [0] [1] and now I'm an active member.
I'm currently helping organizing our newly initiative of Fedora
School. I'm looking forward to keep contributing and promoting the use
of Fedora and to help bringing new talented contributors to the Fedora
Project.
Greetings,
~Wilfredo
[0]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraNi
[1]: http://fedora.org.ni/
11 years, 1 month
Timeline and need idea for the Evaluation of Release Party Dinner Award - APAC
by Buddhike Kurera
Dear APAC FAms,
In the last FAmSCo meeting we have decided to conclude release party
dinner award with in 3 weeks from now.
Therefore please be kind enough to attach reports (with photos) to the
ticket you used to get the funds so that it can be refereed.
Further I would like to know your ideas on how to evaluate those,
please use the ticket #70 to note your ideas and will take a final
decision on next bi weekly meeting.
Timeline is as follow
March 19 - Mach 30 till the meeting - Collecting ideas on how to
evaluate and who?
March 30 - Bi Weekly meeting - Finalize the evaluation process, how and who?
March 31 - Submit reports by either attaching them to tickets or
posting to the ML
April 1 to April 6 - Evaluation
April 8 - Announce the winner
Please give us your fullest support to get this concluded with in the
time frame.
make sure your report described what has happened in the release party
and why it is special, use photos as well.
--
Regards,
Buddhike Chandradeepa Kurera (bckurera)
11 years, 1 month
REMINDER French Fedora Meeting Today #fedora-meeting-1
by Reminder
This mail is a reminder for today's meeting for the French speaking community.
2013-03-19 / 21:00 (hour of Paris)
IRC: freenode
#fedora-meeting-1
Ce mail est un rappel pour la réunion de la communauté francophone, qui aura lieu ce mardi (19 mars) à 21h00 heure de Paris sur IRC (freenode) #fedora-meeting-1 .
L'ordre du jour est disponible depuis cette page :
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Réunions_hebdomadaires_de_la_French_team
N'hésitez pas à le modifier pour rajouter des sujets qui vous semblent intéressants.
Merci de répondre à ce message en cas d'indisponibilité.
11 years, 1 month
