Open Source Summit in Los Angeles

[Perry Rivera]

Hi all:

Just wanted to check Los Angeles ambassador and vicinity ambassador availabilities for an
LA event here:
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/open-source-summit-north-americ...

Open Source Summit in Los Angeles, September 11-14.

We just heard back from the Linux Foundation and they would love to have us if we are
available.

If you could let me know by 8/15 (or sooner!)  if you would be able to ambassador for this
event. If there's enough interest, we can then set up an event page. We'd need a
minimum of 2 people.

Please do not book any travel/accommodations at this time.

Thank you,

Perry Rivera

[Justin W. Flory]

On 08/13/2017 12:56 AM, Perry Rivera wrote:
>  Hi all:
>  
>  Just wanted to check Los Angeles ambassador and vicinity ambassador availabilities for an
> LA event here:
>
> https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/open-source-summit-north-americ...
>  
>  Open Source Summit in Los Angeles, September 11-14.
>  
>  We just heard back from the Linux Foundation and they would love to have us if we are
> available.
>  
>  If you could let me know by 8/15 (or sooner!)  if you would be able to ambassador for
> this event. If there's enough interest, we can then set up an event page. We'd
> need a minimum of 2 people.
>  
>  Please do not book any travel/accommodations at this time.
>   
Were you able to find anyone who was interested or available?

-- 
Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com

[Perry Rivera]

Yes, ParadoxGuitarist is anticipated to attend the effort.

Aacosta was also interested in attending, and we'd very much like to have him assist,

but obtaining funding and tentative on having time-off posed challenges.

[Brian Exelbierd]

On Sun, Aug 13, 2017, at 07:56 AM, Perry Rivera wrote:
>  Hi all:
>  
>  Just wanted to check Los Angeles ambassador and vicinity ambassador
>  availabilities for an LA event here:
>
> https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/open-source-summit-north-americ...
>  
>  Open Source Summit in Los Angeles, September 11-14.
>  
>  We just heard back from the Linux Foundation and they would love to have
>  us if we are available.
>  
>  If you could let me know by 8/15 (or sooner!)  if you would be able to
>  ambassador for this event. If there's enough interest, we can then set up
>  an event page. We'd need a minimum of 2 people.
>  
>  Please do not book any travel/accommodations at this time. 
The OSAS team will have a presence at this event.  We have done a
combined booth with other projects in China and did some resource
sharing in Germany and both worked well.  Perhaps one way to help with
people power and to get more equipment would be to work with other
communities.  This makes our story about integration as well as Fedora
alone.

regards,

bex

[Perry Rivera]

Thank you bex. We look forward to visiting with them at the conference!

[Brian Exelbierd]

On Fri, Sep 8, 2017, at 09:02 AM, Perry Rivera wrote:
>  Thank you bex. We look forward to visiting with them at the
>  conference! 
Does this mean that you've chosen to get a separate booth? 

If so, can we ask to locate it near the OSAS booth to prevent the "why
are friendly/sibling open source projects across the room from each
other" Question?
Also, what is being demo'ed? Sometimes OSAS has some extra resources
that can used by Fedora at no cost. For example we were able to get an
OSAS provided tv in Berlin to add a slide show and demos to the Fedora
booth to increase traffic.
Regards,

bex 


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[Perry Rivera]

>  On Fri, Sep 8, 2017, at 09:02 AM, Perry Rivera wrote:
>  Does this mean that you've chosen to get a separate booth?  
We've been already assigned booth #601

>  If so, can we ask to locate it near the OSAS booth to prevent the
> "why
>  are friendly/sibling open source projects across the room from each
>  other" Question? 
So close to the event, I don't think that would be
possible...

>  Also, what is being demo'ed? Sometimes OSAS has some extra
> resources
>  that can used by Fedora at no cost. For example we were able to get an
>  OSAS provided tv in Berlin to add a slide show and demos to the Fedora
>  booth to increase traffic. 
Informal demos of what's new on Fedora 26 and also
find out how people are using Fedora 26 in their day to day.

Perry

[Brian Exelbierd]

On Sun, Sep 10, 2017, at 05:36 AM, Perry Rivera wrote:
>  > On Fri, Sep 8, 2017, at 09:02 AM, Perry Rivera wrote:
>  > Does this mean that you've chosen to get a separate booth? 
>  
>  We've been already assigned booth #601
>  
>  > If so, can we ask to locate it near the OSAS booth to prevent the "why
>  > are friendly/sibling open source projects across the room from each
>  > other" Question?
>  So close to the event, I don't think that would be possible... 
I saw the first email about this event on August 13 and responded on
August 16.  What can we do to improve communication so we can figure out
if these kinds of collaborations can be leveraged next year?

>  > Also, what is being demo'ed? Sometimes OSAS has some extra
> resources
>  > that can used by Fedora at no cost. For example we were able to get an
>  > OSAS provided tv in Berlin to add a slide show and demos to the Fedora
>  > booth to increase traffic.
>  Informal demos of what's new on Fedora 26 and also find out how people
>  are using Fedora 26 in their day to day. 
Are there any specific areas of improvement you will be focusing on?  I
think it'd be great to talk up our work in Modularity/Boltron.  I think
our CI objective, while still being fleshed out would make a good
talking point for drawing in new contribution.

regards,

bex

[Perry Rivera]

>  On Sun, Sep 10, 2017, at 05:36 AM, Perry Rivera wrote:
>  
>  I saw the first email about this event on August 13 and responded on
>  August 16.  What can we do to improve communication so we can figure out
>  if these kinds of collaborations can be leveraged next year? 
I do receive a high
volume of e-mails. Feel free to reach out to associate ambassadors at FAmNA who can relay
messages to me.

>  Are there any specific areas of improvement you will be focusing on? 
> I
>  think it'd be great to talk up our work in Modularity/Boltron.  I think
>  our CI objective, while still being fleshed out would make a good
>  talking point for drawing in new contribution. 
We'd be drawing from some
talking points from here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_26_talking_points

and Nemanja's slides here:
https://github.com/nmilosev/f26rpns-gallery/tree/gh-pages/talks

I'm not too familiar with Modularity/Boltron, so feel free to refer us to additional
reference in case we are asked about it.

Perry

[Brian Monroe]

On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 11:17 PM Brian Exelbierd <bex(a)pobox.com&gt; wrote:

>  On Sun, Sep 10, 2017, at 05:36 AM, Perry Rivera wrote:
>  > > On Fri, Sep 8, 2017, at 09:02 AM, Perry Rivera wrote:
>  > > Does this mean that you've chosen to get a separate booth?
>  >
>  > We've been already assigned booth #601
>  >
>  > > If so, can we ask to locate it near the OSAS booth to prevent the "why
>  > > are friendly/sibling open source projects across the room from each
>  > > other" Question?
>  > So close to the event, I don't think that would be possible...
>
>  I saw the first email about this event on August 13 and responded on
>  August 16.  What can we do to improve communication so we can figure out
>  if these kinds of collaborations can be leveraged next year?
>  
The problem with this particular event is that it seems *no one* knew this
event was going to happen (for Fedora involvement) until that time. By that
I mean that this event doesn't seem to have a standard location (It was in
Canada last year and Seattle the year before and it seems like next year
isn't announced yet) and we were asked to be involved last minute. We
didn't even know if anyone would be available until a few weeks ago. Due to
the volunteer nature of our group, between juggling IRL (full time work,
families, ect), and not including the extra funding that would have been
required to obtain through FAmSCO (to cover travel for others to come) on
such a short notice (if I understand our new policies right...) I think we
should call this a win for getting there, with bonus points for practically
no cost.

All that being said, now is a good time to talk about SCaLE for March '18.


>  > > Also, what is being demo'ed? Sometimes OSAS has some
> extra resources
>  > > that can used by Fedora at no cost. For example we were able to get an
>  > > OSAS provided tv in Berlin to add a slide show and demos to the Fedora
>  > > booth to increase traffic.
>  > Informal demos of what's new on Fedora 26 and also find out how people
>  > are using Fedora 26 in their day to day.
>
>  Are there any specific areas of improvement you will be focusing on?  I
>  think it'd be great to talk up our work in Modularity/Boltron.  I think
>  our CI objective, while still being fleshed out would make a good
>  talking point for drawing in new contribution.
>  
That's a good thought given a lot of the breakout topics, and I saw the
recent talk on devel list about the delays. Some people, if they aren't
aware of the growing pain points, are scared off when things aren't as
polished as expected and that can be a potential stumbling block for new
community members. But that's just one of the tradeoffs of "First".