fedora_emea_fad_2010
MINUTES

#fedora-fad Meeting

Meeting started by cwickert at 09:56:55 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

  1. events (cwickert, 09:59:09)
  2. Events EMEA 2011 (kital, 10:06:54)
    1. List of all known and important events (jenskuehnel, 10:08:09)
    2. Bert Desmet is the event owner for FOSDEM 2011 (jsmith, 10:18:31)
    3. Joerg Simon is the event owner for Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2011 (rsc, 10:18:59)
    4. Fedora will hold a FAD at CLT (cwickert, 10:23:20)
    5. ACTION: kital to also try to organize a Fedora talk track (mostly German-language talk) (jsmith, 10:24:46)
    6. ACTION: kital to talk to Zoltan to see if he's interested in leading LinuxTAGE in April in Gratz, Austria (jsmith, 10:26:42)
    7. GeroldKa interested in attending LinuxTAGE in Gratz as well, if his costs are covered (jsmith, 10:30:55)
    8. ACTION: marcus to take care of LinuxDay in Austria this year, and probably next year as well (jsmith, 10:32:44)
    9. Cebit off the radar for now (jsmith, 10:35:07)
    10. AGREED: 1000 Euros for CLT is OK (jsmith, 10:35:45)
    11. OpenExpo not a primary event, but still will be handled (jsmith, 10:39:08)
    12. ACTION: cwickert, twoerner, jenskuehnel to own the LinuxTAG event in May (jsmith, 10:39:47)
    13. Let's not make it a huge event -- but we need a presence there (jsmith, 10:40:21)
    14. Planning on presence at FrosCon as well (jsmith, 10:43:56)
    15. ACTION: cwickert to contact owners of FrosCon event (jsmith, 10:44:20)
    16. ACTION: cwickert to own the OpenRheinRuhr event (jsmith, 10:44:47)
    17. FrOSCon event owners could be heffer or dmaphy (rsc, 10:44:49)
    18. Zoltan to be the owner of LinuxWochen -- he'll need help (jsmith, 10:47:10)
    19. GeroldKa may also go to Vienna for LinuxWochen, if his expenses are covered (jsmith, 10:50:34)
    20. kital has connections for IDLELO -- FSF Africa? (jsmith, 10:52:17)
    21. ACTION: kital to organize the IDLELO event, but cannot be there for the event (jsmith, 10:53:36)
    22. s2abad-sw-conf is a one-day Hungarian event (jsmith, 10:54:05)
    23. Szabad Szoftver Konferencia will get owned by Zoltan Hoppar (rsc, 10:55:00)
    24. kital to attend Szabad Szoftver Konferencia as well (jsmith, 10:55:17)
    25. Bert Desmet is the event owner and event organizer for LOAD in Belgium (jsmith, 10:55:54)
    26. kanarip will likely attend as well (jsmith, 10:56:10)
    27. FAMSCo to take care of LinuxExpo in Prague (jsmith, 10:57:42)
    28. Local Greek ambassadors to handle GFOSS in Greece (jsmith, 10:58:20)
    29. OSSConf at Zilina, Slovak Republic was owned by Marek Mahut (fabian_a, 10:59:26)
    30. Athens Digital Week to be handled by local Greek ambassadors (jsmith, 10:59:51)
    31. LIT-OL will likely be owned by Michael Spahn, Christoph Wickert will also attend (cwickert, 11:00:10)
    32. FSCONS is a two-day conference in Scandinavia (jsmith, 11:00:43)
    33. FSCONS takes place in Gothenborg, rsc will be event owner (rsc, 11:02:18)
    34. From the people at the FAD the planned attend numbers are: FOSDEM 7, LinuxTag, 7, CLT 5, OpenExpo 5, Linux Solutions Paris 0, FrOSCon 3, OpenRheinRuhr 1, LinuxTge Graz 1, Linux-Wochen 2, LinuxDay 1, Idelo 0, Szabad Szoftware Konferencia 2, LOAD 1, LinuxExpo 0, GFOSS 0, OSSCon 0, LIT-OL 1, Athens Digital 0, FSCONS 1 (rsc, 11:29:07)
    35. ACTION: jsmith is taking care about paying the bill FUDCon Zurich 2010 t-shirts, because bill got forwarded from Red Hat Munich to kital who forwarded it to mspevack, but still unpaid so far (rsc, 11:30:37)

  3. FUDCon 2011 (rsc, 11:38:02)
  4. New regions - Middle East and Africa from EMEA (rsc, 11:41:37)
    1. conclusion is that Africa has to do the job themself, Europe can just support them e.g. by media (rsc, 11:45:42)
    2. jsmith mentioned that we need to be very sensitive regarding religious/political things (rsc, 11:55:59)
    3. AGREED: Fedora should (or try to) have an event (no matter how big or small) in Eastern block countries, Saudi Arabia and Africa (based on proposal from kital) (rsc, 12:00:20)
    4. jsmith is seeing that as a great goal for the next year and a great chance for Fedora & community (rsc, 12:00:47)

  5. Lunch break (rsc, 12:02:42)
  6. Fedora EMEA e.V. - Membership Meeting (rsc, 13:56:13)
    1. AGREED: to close down the entity at the end of the year (voted on by members) (jsmith, 14:14:52)
    2. AGREED: Fedora EMEA e.V. board to deal with finalizing the paperwork, accounting, and so forth (jsmith, 14:15:34)
    3. jsmith appologizes on behalf of Red Hat for the trouble and issues due to Red Hat related to Fedora EMEA e.V. (rsc, 14:17:28)

  7. Swag / Budget / Sponsorship / T-Shirts / Reimbursement (rsc, 14:33:41)
  8. Break for 10 minutes (rsc, 15:08:30)
    1. dinner at 9 p.m. at http://www.restaurant-amazonica.de/ (GeroldKa, 15:24:51)
    2. social event: starts at 7 p.m. till 9 p.m. http://www.impulsiv-loerrach.com/sport_bowling_kegeln.html (GeroldKa, 15:26:40)
    3. Swag we would like to have somehow: t-shirts, caps, stickers (big ones with F and good notebook metallic ones), umbrellas, balloons, usb-sticks, pens, pins, frosted mugs, scarfs, notepads, bags, lanyards (rsc, 16:08:41)
    4. usb-sticks seem to get removed from the list again (rsc, 16:11:50)
    5. ACTION: kital gets offers for t-shirts, caps, umbrellas, scarfs, bags (rsc, 16:12:39)
    6. ACTION: marcus gets offers for stickers (rsc, 16:13:01)
    7. ACTION: jared gets offers for balloons and notepads (rsc, 16:13:18)
    8. ACTION: kanarip gets offers for pens (together with the france ones or with Zoltan) (rsc, 16:13:38)
    9. ACTION: cwickert gets offers for pins (rsc, 16:13:50)
    10. ACTION: cwickert gets offers for pins, frosted mugs, lanyards (rsc, 16:14:54)
    11. ACTION: kanarip will talk to whoever made the nice pens before (France?) rather get the offer himself, strike the previous action item of kanarip (rsc, 16:17:18)
    12. Fedora metallic high-quality stickers for notebook/computers were produced by Lustre Cal Cooperation (www.lustrecal.com) - maybe contact them again? (rsc, 16:19:05)


Meeting ended at 16:55:57 UTC (full logs).

Action items

  1. kital to also try to organize a Fedora talk track (mostly German-language talk)
  2. kital to talk to Zoltan to see if he's interested in leading LinuxTAGE in April in Gratz, Austria
  3. marcus to take care of LinuxDay in Austria this year, and probably next year as well
  4. cwickert, twoerner, jenskuehnel to own the LinuxTAG event in May
  5. cwickert to contact owners of FrosCon event
  6. cwickert to own the OpenRheinRuhr event
  7. kital to organize the IDLELO event, but cannot be there for the event
  8. jsmith is taking care about paying the bill FUDCon Zurich 2010 t-shirts, because bill got forwarded from Red Hat Munich to kital who forwarded it to mspevack, but still unpaid so far
  9. kital gets offers for t-shirts, caps, umbrellas, scarfs, bags
  10. marcus gets offers for stickers
  11. jared gets offers for balloons and notepads
  12. kanarip gets offers for pens (together with the france ones or with Zoltan)
  13. cwickert gets offers for pins
  14. cwickert gets offers for pins, frosted mugs, lanyards
  15. kanarip will talk to whoever made the nice pens before (France?) rather get the offer himself, strike the previous action item of kanarip


Action items, by person

  1. cwickert
    1. cwickert, twoerner, jenskuehnel to own the LinuxTAG event in May
    2. cwickert to contact owners of FrosCon event
    3. cwickert to own the OpenRheinRuhr event
    4. cwickert gets offers for pins
    5. cwickert gets offers for pins, frosted mugs, lanyards
  2. jenskuehnel
    1. cwickert, twoerner, jenskuehnel to own the LinuxTAG event in May
  3. jsmith
    1. jsmith is taking care about paying the bill FUDCon Zurich 2010 t-shirts, because bill got forwarded from Red Hat Munich to kital who forwarded it to mspevack, but still unpaid so far
  4. kanarip
    1. kanarip gets offers for pens (together with the france ones or with Zoltan)
    2. kanarip will talk to whoever made the nice pens before (France?) rather get the offer himself, strike the previous action item of kanarip
  5. kital
    1. kital to also try to organize a Fedora talk track (mostly German-language talk)
    2. kital to talk to Zoltan to see if he's interested in leading LinuxTAGE in April in Gratz, Austria
    3. kital to organize the IDLELO event, but cannot be there for the event
    4. jsmith is taking care about paying the bill FUDCon Zurich 2010 t-shirts, because bill got forwarded from Red Hat Munich to kital who forwarded it to mspevack, but still unpaid so far
    5. kital gets offers for t-shirts, caps, umbrellas, scarfs, bags
  6. twoerner
    1. cwickert, twoerner, jenskuehnel to own the LinuxTAG event in May
  7. UNASSIGNED
    1. marcus to take care of LinuxDay in Austria this year, and probably next year as well
    2. marcus gets offers for stickers
    3. jared gets offers for balloons and notepads


People present (lines said)

  1. rsc (68)
  2. jsmith (39)
  3. jenskuehnel (13)
  4. cwickert (8)
  5. zodbot (7)
  6. kanarip (6)
  7. kital (5)
  8. gentth (4)
  9. GeroldKa (3)
  10. fabian_a (2)
  11. AndreasR_ (0)
  12. twoerner (0)


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