FAmNA meeting change and events
by Andrew Ward
All,
********************The following information applies to FAmNA
only**************************************
BrickHack 2017 - Fedora is not attending this year, any ambassadors
planning to attend please be advised that there is no budget allocated
for Fedora. If you attend it will be at your own expense. Fedora will
attend this event during the FY18 or FY19 budget depending on when the
event is scheduled in 2018.
!!!!!!!!!!!!! Our next meeting has moved to Thursday 02 February 2017 -
2100 eastern. !!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am out that evening unless someone with
experience can chair.
During the next meeting event planners for SCALE 15X need to be ready to
pitch the event budget for approval. That includes all
requirements must be in place.
Also Penguicon event planner needs to be ready by mid month (February)
to pitch for budget and attendance.
If there is something of urgent nature please email me and I will get
something together if needed.
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V/R
Andrew Ward
award3535(a)fedoraproject.org
award3535(a)tds.net
award3535(a)gmail.com
7 years, 3 months
About the FAS regional groups
by Athos Ribeiro
Hello Ambassadors,
As some may know, there are a few FAS regional groups in Fedora, they
are:
fedora-ar
fedora-br
fedora-cl
fedora-ec
fedora-mx
fedora-ni
fedora-pa
fedora-pr
fedora-py
fedora-uk
fedora-ve
With exception from fedora-uk, all of them refer to LATAM countries.
Right now, there are several people in the fedora-br FAS group who are
not in any other FAS group but CLA. I suspect that this is true for
most of the other groups on the list.
fedora-br currently has 101 members. I bet more than half are not in any
other groups also, less than 25% are actually active AFAIK.
When we add non-contributors to them, they get mail aliases, fedora
people instances, right to edit wikis, etc. The only way these groups
would be worth for anything would be if they were cleaned up every 6
months after a survey on the mailing lists. This way, we would be able
to know who the ACTIVE contributors in a country are.
I am willing to remove all the non contributors from this group, i.e.:
if they are not CLA + other group, you cannot be part of these groups.
my plan would be:
A)
1 - remove non contributors
2 - survey with active brazilians
3 - politely email non active people and remove them from the group
4 - write the group purpose somewhere (wikipage)
5 - make active ambassadors sponsors of the group
6 - run the survey every 6 months(?) removing inactive ppl
7 - suggest all the other fedora-{region} groups do the same
OR
B)
1 - suggest deletion of all these groups
After talking to some people, I am more inclined to going with plan B,
since these groups are only in LATAM and UK and there are other means
to map where contributors are from.
Any thoughts? Also, is anyone using any of these groups for other
purposes?
--
Athos Ribeiro
http://www.ime.usp.br/~athoscr
7 years, 3 months
EMEA - Important information regarding reimbursements
by Zacharias Mitzelos
Hello everyone,
The following applies to EMEA only.
As we move through the fourth and final quarter of fiscal 17, it's
important to reimburse any remaining funding requests on time, so that
we will use the allocated funds for these events from FY17 (our current
fiscal year), and don't use funds from the next FY that can be used in
other events, just because we didn't ask for reimbursement in time.
For that reason I would like to ask everyone from EMEA that have open
funding request tickets (that have not been reimbursed yet), to submit
their receipts and assign the ticket to jsimon (the cardholder for EMEA)
with a paypal address for reimbursement,* before January 20*.
Although the quarter ends on February 28, it's important to complete
the reimbursements by January 20, so that we can do proper budgeting
and allocate any unused funds. Approved funding requests regarding
events between January 20 and February 28 (like DevConf and FOSDEM)
must be reimbursed before February 28, _as soon as the event is over_
(so please upload your receipts as soon as you have them).
Unfortunately we can't reimburse people in advance before the event
occurs. For reimbursements after January 20, please assign your ticket
directly to bex, instead of jsimon.
Also, if you plan to request funding for an event in this quarter (that
will be completed until February 28), open a ticket asap and get
approval before January 20. You will then request for reimbursement as I
mentioned previously, assigning the ticket directly to bex. This does
not apply to events happening from March 1 onwards (as from March 1 the
new fiscal year starts)
Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions.
Cheers,
Zach
--
Zacharias Mitzelos
<mitzie at mitzelos dot com>
mitzie on freenode
http://zacharias.mitzelos.com
7 years, 3 months
updating FUDCon related pages
by Mohan Prakash
Hi
Shouldn't FUDCon related pages wiki, website, etc. be updated to cover
the full story of the FUDCon event that is over? There are posts in
blogs etc, but the above mentioned pages do not cover reports and
details of the happenings at FUDCon. Perhaps it could help people
later to see what the particular FUDCon was like.
Mohan Prakash (mpduty)
7 years, 3 months
