Let me bring this up again.

I don't see any feedback from other ambassadors as well, so we could go ahead and organize a mini-FAD during DevConf. Seems like the best option we have, given the circumstances.

Zacharias, will you go ahead with the planning?

On January 4, 2016 at 12:49 PM Jiri Eischmann <eischmann@redhat.com> wrote:


Giannis Konstantinidis píše v Út 29. 12. 2015 v 04:18 +0200:
> Hello,
> I do agree that, since the EMEA FAD did not take place, it will be
> nice to have some sort of a meetup to create a plan for the next
> year.
> We could have had an opportunity during FOSDEM as well (i.e. stay an
> extra day in Brussels and meet somewhere), but unfortunately many (if
> not all) of us have finalized our travel arrangements already.
> So, who is already planning to attend DevConf?

All active Czech ambassadors should be there: me, Jaroslav Reznik, Miro
Hroncok, Frantisek Zatloukal.
Patrick Uiterwijk from NE has an accepted talk there. In the last
years, there were also ambassadors from Russia (Aleksandra), French
ambassadors who work for Red Hat (Pingou,...), ambassadors from
Hungary, ambassadors from Germany who work for Red Hat (Matthias
Runge).
I think there will be more than 10 ambassadors from EMEA no matter if
we organize the meeting or not.

> If we subsidize some active contributors to participate, then it
> wouldn't make much sense (budget-wise) to hold a meeting just for a
> few hours. It's also not safe to assume that we can have a proper
> meeting right after the conference ends, for a number of reasons.
> It would be really nice If we could get a room at Red Hat Brno, for
> one or two days before or after DevConf. We can have a solid FAD
> there, and the same ambassadors we subsidize for the FAD will also
> represent Fedora at DevConf. Two birds, one stone.
> What do you think?
> -Giannis
> > On December 29, 2015 at 12:24 AM Jona Azizaj <jonaazizaj@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I totally agree with Zacharias and Sessivany. I also think that
> > this meetup is a must in order to make our event plan, coordinate
> > among us and propose the budget for the next year. I think it is a
> > great idea of having an EMEA ambassadors meetup during or after the
> > DevConf so in this way we can reduce the costs of organizing it
> > independetly. In my opinion this form of organizing this meetup has
> > all the advantages that Zacharias has listed in his email. 
> >
> >
> > If i can help you in anyway please let me know. :)
> >
> > Happy holidays everyone! :D
> > Jona
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Gerold <gerold@lugd.org> wrote:
> > I´m sorry.
> > I can´t make it happen, because of beeing the weekend before
> > @FOSDEM and the dutys at $DAYJOB
> > that short time for two events is (for mee) too much
> > BG
> > Gerold
> >
> >
> > Am 26.12.2015 um 15:31 schrieb Zacharias Mitzelos:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > Along with sessivany we were thinking of having an EMEA Ambassadors
> > meetup in DevConf[1] (5-7 February 2016), and ask for a few hours
> > in the
> > schedule and a room in the last day, after the conference ends.
> >
> > We didn't organize an EMEA FAD this year, and I think this small
> > meetup
> > would be really valuable, so that we can make our event plan,
> > decide
> > which events we should participate in, and propose the budget for
> > the
> > next year.
> >
> > DevConf is also a very good and easy choice to have a meetup there,
> > as
> > it is a conference co-organized from Fedora, and there will already
> > be
> > there many active contributors from the project, plenty Ambassadors
> > from
> > the Czech Republic, the FPL, and many other Ambassadors from nearby
> > countries. Sessivany told me that we could get a room with good
> > connectivity so that we could also live stream for contributors
> > that
> > won't be able to come. And of course, DevConf is a much more
> > affordable
> > solution, as it's much cheaper than organizing something
> > independent at
> > this moment.
> >
> > Finally, we could use some funds of the EMEA budget that we have
> > left
> > from this FY, to get some important and active contributors there,
> > and
> > accommodate them.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > I hope everyone has a great holiday season,
> > Zacharias
> >
> >
> > [1] http://devconf.cz/
> >
> >
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