02:00:11 <masta> #startmeeting FAmNA 02:00:11 <zodbot> Meeting started Wed Feb 13 02:00:11 2013 UTC. The chair is masta. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 02:00:11 <zodbot> Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 02:00:11 <masta> #meetingname FAmNA 02:00:11 <zodbot> The meeting name has been set to 'famna' 02:00:15 <masta> #topic === FAmNA Roll Call === 02:00:45 <masta> Hello all, welcome to the weekly FAmNA meeting. 02:00:47 * inode0 might fall asleep during the meeting but is marginally awake now 02:00:51 <dramsey> :) 02:01:23 <masta> #chair inode0 dramsey 02:01:23 <zodbot> Current chairs: dramsey inode0 masta 02:01:29 <chanchito> here 02:01:29 <masta> hi chanchito 02:01:37 <chanchito> hey hey! :-) 02:01:44 <masta> #chair chanchito 02:01:44 <zodbot> Current chairs: chanchito dramsey inode0 masta 02:01:48 <chanchito> 28 inches of snow in my back yard 02:02:00 <chanchito> looking for a ride to arizona 02:02:40 <masta> hehe 02:03:05 <masta> have seen some crazy pictures in the Chambridge area 02:03:12 <chanchito> yeah we got slammed 02:03:32 <chanchito> 8 more inches falling friday and saturday 02:03:47 <chanchito> and my next road trip is not until march 02:03:55 <chanchito> so im stuck here in new england 02:03:58 <chanchito> terrible 02:04:03 <masta> hehe 02:04:21 <masta> #topic === Announcements === 02:05:29 <masta> This will be a quick meeting 02:05:44 <masta> EO Announcements 02:05:57 <masta> #topic === Tickets === 02:05:59 <masta> #link https://fedorahosted.org/famna/report/9 02:06:28 <masta> .famnaticket 49 02:06:29 <zodbot> masta: #49 (Northeast LinuxFest 2013, March 16 - 17, Harvard) – FAmNA general trac - https://fedorahosted.org/famna/ticket/49 02:06:33 <chanchito> yay 02:06:52 * masta pokes Mario 02:07:21 <chanchito> i know, before everyone drops hot coals on my head, yes i know i need to create some event tickets and post details, i will also need to askl for some volunteers too 02:07:22 <masta> chanchito: anything we need to do to help make this event fabulous? 02:07:25 <chanchito> yes 02:07:33 <chanchito> we need some additional speakers 02:07:37 <chanchito> we need some swag 02:07:49 <chanchito> we need the $500 for gold sponsorship 02:07:58 <chanchito> MIT and Harvard students attending 02:08:11 <chanchito> i have friends on both campuses 02:08:20 <chanchito> im inviting the BLUG from MIT 02:08:26 <chanchito> and OSTUG from ri 02:08:35 <chanchito> redhat will be there 02:08:42 <chanchito> OpenSuSE again 02:08:45 <chanchito> Debian 02:08:50 <chanchito> FreeBSD 02:08:57 <chanchito> and a bunch of vendors 02:09:14 <chanchito> so the expectation is over 5,000 in attendance 02:09:17 <chanchito> conservative 02:09:32 <masta> ok, so please get the ticket in for the $500 sponsorship, and the swag request 02:09:40 <chanchito> long weekend and we have the entire CS building, plus one floor of classrooms dedicated to the fedora track 02:09:49 <masta> I'll see about helpign with folsk to give talks 02:09:52 <chanchito> yes im a little behind, one million apologies all 02:10:02 <masta> bleh.... helping with folks* 02:10:05 <chanchito> work has been kicking my tail, and the blizzard 02:10:08 <chanchito> poor excuses 02:10:47 <chanchito> i need one other person so i can give some fedora talks and some other presentations 02:10:58 <chanchito> so if we take turns, the audience will have multiple speakers 02:11:05 <chanchito> it will give a better impression 02:11:28 <masta> We have a Fedora-arm person in Chambridge, he might be available.. I'll check 02:11:37 <chanchito> i know the team from BSD came last year, and the one person gave all of their talks, people were not paying attention after the second one 02:11:43 <chanchito> cool beans 02:11:47 <chanchito> if not, ill fly someone in 02:11:50 <nb> hi 02:11:55 <chanchito> hey hey hey 02:12:01 <masta> #chair nb 02:12:01 <zodbot> Current chairs: chanchito dramsey inode0 masta nb 02:12:37 <masta> chanchito: might consider sending out a call for papers, etc... see if anybody bites 02:12:44 * rbergeron pops in late 02:12:58 <masta> #chair rbergeron 02:12:58 <zodbot> Current chairs: chanchito dramsey inode0 masta nb rbergeron 02:13:49 <masta> chanchito: ok, well.... just get started with the ticket, and things will start to happen 02:13:54 <chanchito> so basically that's the meat and potatoes about NELF 02:14:05 <masta> chanchito: cool 02:14:06 <rbergeron> chanchito: there are plenty of folks in teh boston-ish area, I am sure you could probably get different people for every slot there is :) 02:14:28 <chanchito> this is the really important year to make the splash at Harvard, also because I want to use the event to get space at M.I.T as well 02:14:56 <chanchito> thx FPL! i figured as much, if i can get 2-3 people, that will be more than plenty 02:15:06 <chanchito> that gives the audience at least 3 different speakers 02:15:23 <chanchito> and shows MIT that they need to have us over for an event too 02:16:11 <chanchito> im counting on my friends in the BLUG at MIT to swing by as well, 02:16:15 * inode0 thinks he recalls MIT hosting FUDCon 02:16:25 <chanchito> they are also interesting in planning events 02:16:32 <chanchito> let's do it again 02:16:58 <chanchito> so i know i need to get cracking on the tickets, i will ASAP 02:17:05 <masta> =) 02:17:09 <chanchito> and put down some specifics so we can plan 02:17:19 <chanchito> i promise to get that done this week! 02:17:32 <masta> ok so moving on 02:17:35 <masta> thank you chanchito 02:17:45 <chanchito> :-) 02:17:50 <masta> .famnaticket 48 02:17:52 <zodbot> masta: #48 (PyCon 2013 March 13 - 21, Santa Clara, CA) – FAmNA general trac - https://fedorahosted.org/famna/ticket/48 02:18:29 <masta> AFAIK we just need to get swag to that guy going to pycon, right? 02:18:46 <inode0> as far as I know yes - nb? 02:20:07 <masta> Toshiro, right? 02:20:31 <rbergeron> toshio, yes 02:20:54 <kdas_> are we still discussing ticket 48 ? 02:21:05 <rbergeron> and he lives in the area so it's fairly easy for him to just take it down with him, AIUI 02:21:06 <masta> oops my spelling of his name, sry Toshio (if you read our logs) 02:21:56 <abadger1999> heh :-) 02:22:02 * rbergeron hugs abadger1999 02:22:09 <masta> ok, so do we need a ticket for NB to react against in terms of sending swag? an event page or any other things? 02:23:02 <inode0> probably 02:23:03 <rbergeron> it wouldn't hurt, unless abadger1999 has already provided all his shippy details to nb 02:23:09 <rbergeron> and it's already been sent 02:23:25 * inode0 still waiting to hear from nb :) 02:23:41 <rbergeron> and even then it's nice to know where the swag goes and if it's found to be useful at $event :) 02:23:47 <kdas_> just a sidenote: my poster presentation on "darkserver" project is selected in PyCon and yesterday my visa got approved, now looking for sponsorship for staying/travel , hopefully I will make it this time to pycon 02:23:56 <inode0> The request is to send more or less the same as last year - but I don't recall what that was 02:24:19 <inode0> abadger1999: any chance there is a room share? 02:24:42 <nb> i think i'm supposed to send stuff 02:24:45 <nb> but is there a ticket? 02:24:53 * nb doesn't know where to send it i don't think 02:25:01 <inode0> you are and no - send something like last year 02:25:15 <inode0> if you can 02:25:15 <abadger1999> inode0: roommate share you mean? I think from spot's team, we have four people going, so that's filled our rooms already. 02:25:34 <inode0> abadger1999: yes, kdas_ is looking for some help 02:25:46 <nb> abadger1999, have you given me your address yet? /me does not recall 02:26:03 <abadger1999> I can PM it to you right now. 02:26:42 <masta> thank you abadger1999 02:26:59 <abadger1999> inode0: also -- I hear that we're going to have a decent sized presence this year... Let me know if I should deliver to someone else -- if we have a whole booth or something. 02:27:00 <nb> got it 02:27:17 <abadger1999> cool. 02:27:44 <inode0> abadger1999: we being who? Fedora? 02:28:04 <abadger1999> Fedora and RH both... and separately. 02:28:11 <masta> does somebody want to create a ticket for the swag sending? 02:28:15 <abadger1999> I'm not sure if everyone is talking to each other. 02:28:21 * rbergeron has no idea if we have a booth but can investigate. i think red hat has a big ass booth and maybe gluster, not sure about fedora but i can beep at spot and lh about it 02:28:22 * inode0 is guessing we might get some friendly help from openshift (I think they have a booth) 02:28:25 <rbergeron> abadger1999: what made you think that :) 02:28:33 * abadger1999 is kinda outside of this whole thing... just planning on attendng :-) 02:29:09 <masta> I'm pretty sure we do not have a booth this year, but we want to ensure we get one next year 02:29:26 <inode0> My understanding is we were too late for a booth but plan to get one next year for sure 02:30:09 * rbergeron can take the action to confirm that is definitely the case and find out who does have booths that we might be able to hang out at 02:30:25 <rbergeron> if we don't have one 02:30:31 <abadger1999> Re: roomshare for kushal, migth want to ask them as well -- like I say, I think spot's group has filled their rooms already but I could be wrong about who's going/other groups might have space open. 02:30:49 <masta> we can deposit some swag at the booths.... friends of Fedora 02:30:55 <abadger1999> also... I'll have a car if someone ends up at a different hotel and needs to be driven around :-) 02:31:21 * rbergeron can ask about that as well (if there are any etra spots) 02:31:25 <rbergeron> abadger1999: are you at the hyatt? 02:31:33 * abadger1999 has to take kids to karate now. Sorry. 02:31:38 <masta> #action rbergeron to look into the booth situation for pycon 02:31:44 <kdas_> rbergeron, thanks 02:32:03 <abadger1999> rbergeron: I think so -- this year, RH sponsored and so spot's taking care of the room details for us as part of that. 02:32:40 <abadger1999> But like I say, if you end up at a different hotel, I can drive around. 02:32:45 * rbergeron wonders if maxamillion is around 02:32:58 * abadger1999 waves goodbye 02:33:02 <rbergeron> ah, well. we'll sort it out. abadger1999 thanks for the updates, have fun at karate :) 02:33:58 <j_dulaney> Sorry I'm late 02:34:24 <masta> hey there j_dulaney 02:34:31 <masta> ok so let's move on 02:34:47 <masta> .famnaticket 50 02:34:49 <zodbot> masta: #50 (LinuxFest NorthWest 2013, Apr 27-28, Bellingham, WA) – FAmNA general trac - https://fedorahosted.org/famna/ticket/50 02:35:21 <rbergeron> hooray lfnw 02:35:33 <masta> the person that normally does that event will NOT this year 02:36:14 <masta> so if anybody would liek to head up to Canada, err.... Washington state.... that would be great! 02:36:23 <masta> would like* 02:36:40 <masta> ;) 02:37:23 * j_dulaney cannot 02:37:25 <masta> #info need help with LFNW, please tag the ticket if you are interested 02:37:27 * rbergeron will be happy to own it if nobody else does but will probably want some assistance in boothland. I think jesse keating might be able to help out, maybe other random folks around (I hear spevack is going but will be in an amazon booth) 02:37:28 * j_dulaney will be at Merlefest 02:39:11 <masta> rbergeron: yes please, we need event owner, and we can help get people to join the effort 02:39:41 * rbergeron just hates to step in and stop others from owning but can do so to get the proverbial ball rolling 02:40:49 <masta> we can wait a week, but... then we might lose a week 02:41:25 <masta> what should we be doing to help this event? 02:41:58 <rbergeron> well, i think if there is any pressure to pay anything so we are getting a booth we should do that, and if we need to find an owner now to get that set up then I am happy to step up 02:42:14 <rbergeron> need an event page, event owner, pay for a booth/agree to get a booth 02:42:37 * inode0 can forward email floating around from LFNW to whoever would like it 02:43:06 <masta> ok 02:43:40 <rbergeron> inode0: send it to me plz. masta: can i put you in charge of asking me about status in like 2 days? :) 02:43:51 <masta> #action rbergeron to own the LFNW event 02:44:09 <masta> #action masta to poke rbergeron about the status in like 2 days 02:44:23 <masta> I can help with the vent page too 02:44:27 <rbergeron> ie: "reminding me" since I'm still sort of in technical difficulties mode (NEW LAPTOP HERE TOMORROW YAY) 02:44:28 <masta> event page 02:44:38 <rbergeron> I don't know. I think a vent page would be awesome too 02:44:39 * rbergeron grins 02:44:49 <j_dulaney> .moar Chromebook rbergeron 02:44:49 <zodbot> here rbergeron, have some more Chromebook 02:45:06 <rbergeron> #action inode0 to send aforementioned floating mail to robyn 02:45:15 * inode0 already did that :) 02:45:18 <rbergeron> j_dulaney: yeah that's not eactly what i got 02:45:33 <masta> ok, so one last detail, at what level do we want to sponsore this event? 02:45:43 <masta> #link http://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/sponsorship 02:46:24 <masta> it would be great if the vent was like, "whoa, fedora is awesome!" 02:46:27 <masta> *event 02:46:31 <j_dulaney> +1 02:46:43 <inode0> silver or gold depending on how big a presence we'll have and how much money rbergeron has 02:47:08 <rbergeron> I think that when we did budgety things we talked about $500 for each of the major cons; I (sadly) still have not heard anything about next year's budget 02:48:01 <masta> ok, tentativly Silver sponsorship (aka $500) 02:48:09 * j_dulaney is +1 $500 02:48:27 <masta> #info Fedora will likely be a Silver sponsor for LFNW 02:48:46 <masta> alright folks, it's that time..... 02:48:48 <rbergeron> I think if we could rustle up some cool stuff for the raffle it might be fun. 02:49:05 <masta> #topic == Who will be the next FAmNA meeting chair? == 02:49:24 * masta is happy to be the next victim, again 02:49:37 <masta> [joking] 02:49:49 <masta> any objections? 02:49:54 <inode0> you won't get any objections from me :) 02:50:19 * masta slams his hammer on his pretend court bench thingy 02:50:19 <rbergeron> your poking and prodding is appreciated :) 02:50:21 <masta> done 02:50:32 <masta> #topic == Open Floor === 02:50:34 * rbergeron has some open floorish things 02:50:38 <rbergeron> oh look 02:50:39 <rbergeron> open floor 02:50:44 * rbergeron raises her hand 02:50:50 <rbergeron> :D 02:50:53 <inode0> last ten minutes of top gear are a distraction 02:51:03 <rbergeron> inode0: british or american? 02:51:09 <j_dulaney> LOL 02:51:35 <rbergeron> so: I brought home from fosdem like... a bunch of fedora baseball caps that were made in brno... maybe 100ish of them, i haven't counted, may be more like 75 or 80 02:51:59 <nb> +1 02:52:04 <rbergeron> I also have a box of tee shirts at my house. I am not sure what (if anything( i am doing with them or if they are supposed to go in ambassador kits or whtaever. 02:52:14 <rbergeron> (for which I have no other swag, so I guess i'd need to refill that stuff) 02:52:18 <inode0> not ambassador kits 02:52:29 <inode0> use them at events 02:52:58 <rbergeron> well, i mean "when people need me to send them swaggy stuff for events" 02:53:31 <rbergeron> nb: before I dig in this box of shirts, are they all evenly distributed with multiple sizes, all the boes sent out? 02:53:35 * rbergeron hasn't opened it 02:53:44 <rbergeron> actually, i think ben may ahve ordered them and may know better 02:53:46 <nb> yeah 02:53:56 <rbergeron> are there lovely ladies' shirts or did we skip that 02:54:09 <masta> oh the hats came 02:54:22 <rbergeron> masta: ? 02:54:36 <masta> we are supposed to buy our own hats and then send them back to EMEA, to at least that was talked about a few months ago 02:54:41 <inode0> rbergeron: ben did split them as evenly as possible and there are ladies shirts 02:55:08 <rbergeron> YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS 02:55:42 * rbergeron isn't clear on the hat thing. all i know is that jiri handed me a bunch of hats and i wound up having to buy a suitcase. hooray 02:56:03 <inode0> I think we are just supposed to shuffle money around 02:56:14 <rbergeron> but they are lovely hats. i don't know what i am supposed to do with them. i don't want to just be like "hey i'm keeping them" since that's kind of crappy. 02:56:14 * MarkDude is unable to make it to Scale 02:56:26 * MarkDude is unable to make it to Scale 02:56:40 <masta> rbergeron: divide them in three 02:56:45 <rbergeron> markdude: but who will wear a penguin suit! 02:57:03 <nb> rbergeron, send a few to ben and I and vwbusguy i would assume? 02:57:11 <masta> rbergeron: send to our three regional swag people 02:57:11 <nb> although not sure 02:57:13 * inode0 reminds everyone doing shipping they really need to be kind to him the rest of this month 02:57:49 <rbergeron> am i a regional swag person? 02:58:08 * rbergeron doesn't even know. steve was just like "do we need to build an addition for this stuff" lol 02:58:16 <inode0> yes, while you were out the the country you received a promotion 02:58:27 <masta> lol 02:58:29 <rbergeron> inode0: pimpin. 02:58:49 * j_dulaney wonders how someone can get promoted past "Leader" 02:58:51 <rbergeron> nb: i will open a ticket in famnarequests (??) and procure addresses 02:58:57 <rbergeron> j_dulaney: "retirement" ? 02:58:58 <nb> rbergeron, i think you are? 02:59:00 <rbergeron> I mean 02:59:05 <rbergeron> that sounded wrong. but you know what i mean :) 02:59:19 <rbergeron> "leader and shipping EXPERT" 02:59:24 <nb> i thought you were mountain west and vwbusguy is west 02:59:27 <nb> although /me is not really sure 02:59:40 <masta> seem to remember something about changing one of the swag people, perhaps it was changed to rbergeron in an evil plot to cause chaos 02:59:56 <rbergeron> MarkDude: do you or dan408 have the event box? 03:00:17 <nb> dan408-, should have it 03:00:24 <rbergeron> nb: i just bring crap wherever people tell me. 03:00:24 <nb> we made him the new keeper of the event box at fudcon 03:00:26 <nb> i think 03:00:34 <nb> i know it got shipped to him at least 03:00:45 * rbergeron looks at event page to see who is owner of scale 03:01:48 <masta> DING DING DING - this meeting has reached it's hour .... some folks might spontaniously turn into pumpkins 03:01:50 <rbergeron> is vwbusguy the owner or 03:02:15 * rbergeron doesn't get why this page seems to have years-old info on it but 03:02:17 * inode0 thinks he is 03:02:18 <rbergeron> you know 03:02:26 <rbergeron> i have sopapillas nearby, that will fix everything 03:02:41 <dramsey> ;) 03:03:11 <rbergeron> okay, I will see about sending mail I guess to see if the event box is ordered or ... i'll look on list and see if i've missed any scale-related info 03:03:37 <masta> otay 03:03:47 <masta> I'm going to end the meeting now 03:03:51 * rbergeron just accumulated 12 postits 03:03:56 <masta> going once 03:04:05 <masta> twice..... 03:04:10 <masta> BAM! 03:04:10 <dramsey> ;) masta, thank you for chairing. ;) 03:04:16 <masta> #endmeeting