* Announcements
- inode0 reminds everyone this is the last week to vote in the current Fedora elections and encourages everyone who hasn't to do so now.
- VileGent and StabbyMc report on SELF and the Docs FAD, both were huge successes. SELF was also the debut appearance of the East Coast Event Box thanks to the efforts of VileGent. Fedora tattoos and case badges also made their public debut at SELF and were popular items at the booth.
* Events [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents]
- Montreal Linux Symposium
djf_jeff needs to get budget request for this in before the end of June to avoid a price hike in anticipated fees.
- OSCON
lcafiero and quaid continue working to try to acquire a booth for this event and have developed a backup plan if that doesn't work out. We are currently 2nd in line on a waiting list for an org booth.
- Red Hat Summit / JBossWorld
inode0 reports some progress with Red Hat Summit planning including more Fedora people confirmed as attendees, Red Hat helping with the arrangements to deliver Fedora on USB sticks to all attendees, and Fedora has a confirmed booth in the expo.
The schedule of sessions was released and unfortunately Fedora did not get much in the way of speaker slots in the regular conference tracks. So we will have to rock the campground!
- OLF
VileGent has made much progress getting the groundwork for OLF in place early. The Fedora booth is confirmed. Free electric was made available to the first 12 .org's who requested it and VileGent got Fedora #1 on that list. There is also a webpage for this event now containing attendee and budget information.
- Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference
DemonJester reports by proxy that he has contacted the organizers of this event and is working to arrange the Fedora booth now.
* Budget Review [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/NA/Budget]
- inode0 requests that someone create the template for our Q2 budget on the wiki and davdunc volunteers (and completes the task before the topic changes in the meeting!)
- DemonJester reports by proxy that splatter t-shirts are waiting for the final art proof before the order is finished up. (This happened later in the week so the t-shirts with the new design are coming to us soon.)
- StabbyMc reports that he has twisted the arm of a vendor and arranged a deal on Fedora branded pens (Bic Clic Stick) at a cost of about 41 cents per pen. These will be white barrels with blue trim and have the Fedora logo on the barrel. Sentiment from all was to try to get some of these for general swag distribution.
- herlo brings us up to date on the acquisition of new banners for the event boxes. Most of the work on this is complete but herlo requests that someone else volunteer to finish up this task and get them ordered. nb volunteers as the lead to finish this up with the assistance of other ambassadors who have experience with the acquisition process.
* Tasks [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/NA/Tasks]
- no report
* Open Floor
- inode0 thanks everyone who is stepping up to make things happen in NA. The growth in the number of ambassadors doing the legwork to improve our presence at events large and small is really helping us move forward.
I would again like to thank all the participants, especially the new ambassadors joining us for the first time tonight.
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