Ambassadors in Texas?
by Alick Zhao
Howdy,
I have recently moved to College Station, Texas for study, and will
stay here for quite some time. I'd like to meet the local community
here. Are there any local Fedora ambassadors here?
Regards,
Alick
8 years, 3 months
Re: future "bigger than famsco thing": what I want to see [was Re: Fedora Elections for FAmSCo]
by Matthew Miller
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 02:51:21PM -0500, Ben Cotton wrote:
> For what it's worth, "Fedora Friends Steering Committee" was a serious
> suggestion. :-(
It sounds like it might be a subgroup for Quakers (compare
http://afsc.org/). :)
>
> In the end, though, what we call the thing is probably less important
> than what we do with the thing. (I propose we rename this thread the
> Fedora Bikeshed Committee)
Sold!
--
Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader
8 years, 3 months
APAC bi-weekly meeting minutes
by Truong Anh Tuan
================================
#fedora-meeting: APAC 2015-11-21
================================
Meeting started by tuanta at 04:00:05 UTC. The full logs are available
at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2015-11-21/apac_2015-11-2...
.
Meeting summary
---------------
* Roll call (tuanta, 04:00:13)
* Topic: F23 release parties (tuanta, 04:03:17)
* Topic: F23 media (tuanta, 04:03:26)
* Topic: FAD Singapore 2015 (tuanta, 04:03:37)
* there are no "meeting" tickets today (tuanta, 04:04:22)
* F23 release parties (tuanta, 04:05:43)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F23_release_events (tuanta,
04:05:50)
* there is no F23 events in APA registered here (tuanta, 04:06:09)
* F23 media (tuanta, 04:12:03)
* ACTION: pjp to check about F23 media (pjp, 04:16:33)
* FAD Singapore 2015 (tuanta, 04:18:23)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Singapore_2015 (tuanta,
04:20:25)
* ACTION: tuanta to update Participants section on wiki (tuanta,
04:23:40)
* LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/ticket/650 (tuanta,
04:48:57)
* ACTION: hanthana to follow up and decide hotel to book for FAD
(tuanta, 04:53:32)
Meeting ended at 05:06:36 UTC.
Action Items
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* pjp to check about F23 media
* tuanta to update Participants section on wiki
* hanthana to follow up and decide hotel to book for FAD
Action Items, by person
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* hanthana
* hanthana to follow up and decide hotel to book for FAD
* pjp
* pjp to check about F23 media
* tuanta
* tuanta to update Participants section on wiki
* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)
People Present (lines said)
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* tuanta (88)
* kaio (41)
* hanthana (34)
* pjp (24)
* zodbot (19)
* gnokii (13)
* rtnpro (11)
* KageSenshi (6)
* GIANT_CRAB (4)
* harish (2)
* amit (1)
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Rgds,
Tuan
8 years, 4 months
Re: Fedora Elections for FAmSCo
by Robert Mayr
2015-11-19 14:52 GMT+01:00 Josh Boyer <jwboyer(a)fedoraproject.org>:
[snip]
> But all of this aside, FOSCo needs to happen extremely soon or it
> needs to go back to the drawing board. It's planned existence without
> actual existence is causing confusion and actually causing more
> problems.
>
> josh
> _______________________________________________
>
>
Josh, as always you get the point :)
The main problem is:
* Actual FAmSCo members are serving the commitee since June 2013, and
although you're saying the interim activity is ongoing well, that's
unfortunately not happening (and I feel responsible for that)
* FOSCo elections would be much better, but it's a body which should have
started a year ago. Do you have a plan to make FOSCo happen within the next
weeks? If yes I'd say YAY!!! Probably nobody can say for sure when we are
able to put FOSCo in place, define exact responsibilities, involve all the
teams and write correct Wiki pages and election terms for it.
And that's the main reason why as an actual FAmSCo member I'm strongly
suggesting to keep elections as planned by our rules. And yes, let's add to
the main responsibilities of the new elected members, they have to play an
*active* role in making FOSCo happen ASAP, working together with the
Council or CommOps to sync out the necessary tasks.
Does this sound more reasonable for you?
--
Robert Mayr
(robyduck)
8 years, 4 months
Re: future "bigger than famsco thing": what I want to see [was Re: Fedora Elections for FAmSCo]
by Matthew Miller
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 04:20:42PM -0500, Ben Cotton wrote:
> > So if anyone has a better word, I'd love
> > to hear it. Fedora Non-Engineering Steering Committee? :)
> Fedora Community Steering Committee?
I have a strong objection to this, since the engineering side is _also_
community lead and community driven.
> Or if you want to bring the Fs into it:
> Fedora Friends Steering Committee
Heh.
--
Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader
8 years, 4 months
Re: Fedora Elections for FAmSCo
by Remy DeCausemaker
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Robert Mayr
> <robyduck(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > 2015-11-18 16:26 GMT+01:00 Jan Kurik <jkurik(a)redhat.com>:
> >>
> >> Hi Council and Ambassadors,
> >>
> >> I was pointed by several people to the fact that FAmSCo is (or should
> >> be) an inactive committee and I was questioned why we are organizing
> >> elections for this committee.
> >>
> >> As I understand the situation, there is an aim to replace FAmSCo by
> >> FOSCo & Council. However the current FAmSCo is securing some "level of
> >> service" for Ambassadors, which is not yet covered by any other
> >> group/team/governance body within the Fedora community. As such, I was
> >> explicitly ask by Ambassadors to organize the elections for FAmSCo
> >> team as well, to make sure FAmSCo will operate till the time we have a
> >> full replacement for it.
> >>
> >> However, it seems like we do not have a full agreement on this topic
> >> [1]. I would like to have a discussion here, to come up with a common
> >> agreement whether we support the idea of having FAmSCo operational for
> >> now or we have other solution.
> >>
> >> [1]
> >> https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-2/2015-11-17/fedora-meet...
> >> - 17:23:27
> > Thank you Jan for this open discussion, I'm adding here some more
> > informations.
> > First of all FAmSCo is not dead and never has been officially dismissed, but
> > FAmSCo decided months ago to hand all its repsonibilities over to FOSCo,
> > which was planned as an even bigger committee, and which should have
> > included also the Ambassador's activities. Therefor we reduced the activity
> > and after some meetings without reaching a quorum FAmSCo decided to act only
> > through the Trac until new elections would happen or FOSCo will start its
> > activity.
> > Many thing happened in the meanwhile and we are going towards a new and
> > hopefully better budgeting process (thanks to all who worked on it and who
> > are discussing it), but as you said this is not the only responsibility
> > FAmSCo actually has. Unfortunately FAmSCo missed some of its deadlines,
> > there is for example the EMEA FAD planning, release parties, F23 media and
> > other stuff (which in the end happened partially but not in a coordinated
> > way as before).
> >
> > That's why I would welcome, unless we will not reach the minimum number of 7
> > candidates, new elections. These new memebers could give continuity to
> > FAmSCo's activities and the big ambassadors group, on the other hand they
> > could actively help the integration of the actual FAmSCo responsibilities
> > into the Council, FOSCo or whatever.
> > Canceling the Ambassadors Steering Committee without replacing *all* its
> > activities is not the best way if we don't want to loose some parts of the
> > community, so IMO let's do elections and find the best solution to pass over
> > all the stuff and try to represent _all_ regions in the body who will take
> > over in the future the FAmSCo job.
>
> Forgive me, but I have not followed the ambassador side of things for
> a while. If FAmSCo isn't actually meeting (per the IRC conversation)
> and isn't technically a thing any longer, what is the elected body to
> do? Start meeting again?
>
> I do not disagree with you at all that we need people performing the
> tasks you highlight, but I'm not sure having an elected body to do
> them is necessary. Once they are elected, are we to restart FAmSCo,
> or would they only serve until FOSCo actually exists? Perhaps
> volunteers would be better than elected members of a zombie
> organization?
>
> josh
> _______________________________________________
> council-discuss mailing list
> council-discuss(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/council-discuss@lists.fedorapr...
>
> The Fedora Project's mission is to lead the advancement of free and
> open source software and content as a collaborative community.
I'm not against FAMSCo elections, but if there were conversations
about elections (other than FLOCK sessions) this is the first I have
heard about them.
I'm here to support what the community wants, and if the community
wants to revive FAMSCo,and Fedora Leadership is on board with that (no
-1's so far), then I will support that decision.
For those who haven't done this sort of thing before (like me), the
official rules can be found here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_election_rules
So, firstly, if we're going to go through with this, we need enough
candidates to be nominated. Officially, we have until November 23rd,
which is this coming Monday, to secure at least 9 Candidates (7
Candidates, PLUS 25%, which is 2, rounding up.)
It would be kinda weird since CommOps is helping to handle all the
election interviews and communication, but if we really really needed
a ninth Candidate on Monday, I would consider throwing my hat into the
ring and running for FAMSCo if it would help to make this happen, but
only if necessary.
According to the wiki, only ambassadors can vote, and only ambassadors
can be nominated for FAMSCo.
I'm in full support for there to be reestablished ambassador-specific
leadership, but I agree with jzb and others on this thread that this
election be had with the understanding that FAMSCo is helping to
create this new 'larger Fedora representative body' that includes
other project stakeholders and teams, and is scoped beyond
on-the-ground representation at specific events. (I've got a few ideas
on this that are being formalized and organized I'll be sharing
soonlyish.More on that later.)
Best of luck securing the nominations, I'll be keeping an eye on this
thread moving forward.
--RemyD.
--
Remy DeCausemaker
Fedora Community Lead & Council
<decause(a)redhat.com>
https://whatcanidoforfedora.org
8 years, 4 months
Re: FAD Singapore 2015: The 1st round fund support approval on 12th November 2015
by Danishka Navin
I will cancel your booking on 1st of December night as we need to book
somewhere else.
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 9:15 AM, Zamir SUN <zsun(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Hi Danishka,
>
> All of my materials are sent out yesterday. The visa decision should come
> out within 8 days as of the confirmation said.
>
> Zamir
>
> On 11/18/2015 12:47 PM, Danishka Navin wrote:
>
>> Zamir,
>>
>> Any update on your VISA?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Zamir SUN <zsun(a)fedoraproject.org
>> <mailto:zsun@fedoraproject.org>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> Any updates for the second round?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> zsun
>>
>> On 11/13/2015 02:25 AM, Danishka Navin wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We did the first round fund approval tonight.
>> Second round will be on Satueday, 14th December 2015.
>>
>> I have updated wiki page where you can find which ticket has been
>> approved and the amount. [1]
>>
>> [1]
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Singapore_2015#Participants
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Danishka
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Danishka Navin
>> <snavin(a)fedoraproject.org <mailto:snavin@fedoraproject.org>
>> <mailto:snavin@fedoraproject.org
>> <mailto:snavin@fedoraproject.org>>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> We will be having a quick meeting to approve urgent support
>> requests
>> on tomorrow,
>> 12th November 2015 at 10.00PM SGT.
>>
>>
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Singapore_2015#Important_Deadlines
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --
>> Danishka Navin
>> http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Danishka Navin
>> http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com
>> http://twitter.com/danishkanavin
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/danishkanavin/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Zamir SUN
>> zsun(a)fedoraproject.org <mailto:zsun@fedoraproject.org>
>> zsun in #fedora-zh #openshift on freenode.net <http://freenode.net>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Danishka Navin
>> http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com
>> http://twitter.com/danishkanavin
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/danishkanavin/
>>
>>
>>
>>
> --
> Zamir SUN
> zsun(a)fedoraproject.org
> zsun in #fedora-zh #openshift on freenode.net
>
--
Danishka Navin
http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com
http://twitter.com/danishkanavin
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danishkanavin/
8 years, 4 months
Re: Fedora Elections for FAmSCo
by Joe Brockmeier
On 11/19/2015 09:11 AM, Josh Boyer wrote:
>> > And that's the main reason why as an actual FAmSCo member I'm strongly
>> > suggesting to keep elections as planned by our rules. And yes, let's add to
>> > the main responsibilities of the new elected members, they have to play an
>> > *active* role in making FOSCo happen ASAP, working together with the Council
>> > or CommOps to sync out the necessary tasks.
>> > Does this sound more reasonable for you?
> Sounds fantastic to me!
Does this mean you're onboard with FAmSCo elections with the proviso
that they should be actively working to make FOSCo happen?
Was anybody else -1 on FAmSCo elections?
Best,
jzb
--
Joe Brockmeier | Community Team, OSAS
jzb(a)redhat.com | http://community.redhat.com/
Twitter: @jzb | http://dissociatedpress.net/
8 years, 4 months