#fedora-meeting: EMEA Ambassadors 2013-01-02

Meeting summary

1. Roll Call (sesivany, 21:00:50)
   
2. Announcements (sesivany, 21:07:05)
   1. egyDev and representatives of other open source communities managed to meet a minister of communications in Egypt to discuss deploying open source in public organizations. (sesivany, 21:12:18)
   2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/EMEA/Budget (sesivany, 21:14:33)
   3. ACTION: shaiton to add numbers for Solutions Linux to the budget (cwickert, 21:18:06)
   4. ACTION: everybody to look at the budget and add things if they're missing. Every bigger event than can be planned, should be planned. (sesivany, 21:19:52)
   5. ACTION: cmpahar2 and comzeradd to make a budget for Fosscomm (cwickert, 21:21:15)
   6. ACTION: giallu to send a note about http://www.codemotionworld.com/ to ambassadors list. (sesivany, 21:27:02)
   
   
3. Requests (sesivany, 21:32:45)
   1. https://fedorahosted.org/emea-swag-tracking/ticket/197 (sesivany, 21:34:32)
   2. ACTION: cwickert to mail FOSDEM attendees about accommodation (cwickert, 21:42:08)
   3. airface in #197 was approved (sesivany, 21:46:59)
   4. https://fedorahosted.org/emea-swag-tracking/ticket/198 (sesivany, 21:47:44)
   5. the #198 ticket has been approved with limit €300 (sesivany, 21:52:08)
   
   
4. Ambassadors Schedule (sesivany, 21:53:21)
   1. http://jreznik.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-18/f-18-ambassadors-tasks.html (sesivany, 21:54:31)
   
   
5. Events (sesivany, 22:00:17)
   1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#EMEA-FY13Q4 (sesivany, 22:00:55)
   2. https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/distributions/2012-December/000160.html (comzeradd, 22:10:41)
   3. consider organizing a F18 release party. The best time for it is early Feb. (sesivany, 22:12:12)
   4. http://talkweb.eu/openweb/2062 - interesting article on organizing release events. (sesivany, 22:15:03)
   
   
6. Action items from previous meetings (sesivany, 22:16:56)
   1. ACTION: cwickert to ask biertie if he can arrange something for Friday afternoon before FOSDEM beer event (cwickert, 22:19:35)
   2. ACTION: twohot and frankice to look for events in Africa in 2013 (sesivany, 22:33:05)
   3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/MediaArt/F18 (gnokii, 22:34:36)
   
   
7. openfloor (sesivany, 22:41:27)
   1. the next meeting will be on January 16th (sesivany, 22:49:46)

Action items

1. shaiton to add numbers for Solutions Linux to the budget
2. everybody to look at the budget and add things if they're missing. Every bigger event than can be planned, should be planned.
3. cmpahar2 and comzeradd to make a budget for Fosscomm
4. giallu to send a note about http://www.codemotionworld.com/ to ambassadors list.
5. cwickert to mail FOSDEM attendees about accommodation
6. cwickert to ask biertie if he can arrange something for Friday afternoon before FOSDEM beer event
7. twohot and frankice to look for events in Africa in 2013

Action items, by person

1. cmpahar
   1. cmpahar2 and comzeradd to make a budget for Fosscomm
2. cmpahar2
   1. cmpahar2 and comzeradd to make a budget for Fosscomm
3. comzeradd
   1. cmpahar2 and comzeradd to make a budget for Fosscomm
4. cwickert
   1. cwickert to mail FOSDEM attendees about accommodation
   2. cwickert to ask biertie if he can arrange something for Friday afternoon before FOSDEM beer event
5. giallu
   1. giallu to send a note about http://www.codemotionworld.com/ to ambassadors list.
6. shaiton
   1. shaiton to add numbers for Solutions Linux to the budget
7. UNASSIGNED
   1. everybody to look at the budget and add things if they're missing. Every bigger event than can be planned, should be planned.
   2. twohot and frankice to look for events in Africa in 2013

People present (lines said)

1. sesivany (144)
2. cwickert (75)
3. gnokii (25)
4. zodbot (18)
5. zoltanh7211 (18)
6. egyDev (17)
7. cmpahar2 (15)
8. comzeradd (14)
9. giallu (12)
10. shaiton (11)
11. robyduck (6)
12. cmpahar (6)
13. jreznik_n9 (3)
14. GeroldKa (3)
15. mailga (3)
16. rgeri77 (2)
17. underscores (2)
18. mizmo (1)