inode0 was roped into leading the meeting.
* Conference Planning
There was extensive discussion concerning the Linux Symposium in
Montreal next summer and the possibility of organizing a Fedora
conference in conjunction with it, possibly the F12 FUDcon. We will
contact our Canadian ambassadors to see if they can take ownership
of this event. Brian Powell will if they are unable to.
We then discussed planning for a site for the F12 FUDcon more generally.
Some sites that have been mentioned include Indianapolis, Chicago, Salt
Lake City, Austin or Dallas, and Clemson. Paul Frields joined us to lay
a foundation so we better understand the FUDcon planning process and its
expectations. This was immensely helpful. Thanks Paul. We will continue
to develop potential sites and keep Paul and Max Spevack informed.
Additionally we discussed making sure there was a good Fedora presence
at the inaugural Southeast LinuxFest (SELF) next summer. This could be
a potential FUDcon site or possibly a site for FADNA or something else.
We are going to begin thinking about how and where to hold future FADNA
events now.
* Task List Items
Event Box Update from Clint Savage. We have received tremendously
positive feedback about the first Event Box and Clint has done some
major updates to the wiki about the Event Boxes. A log book was suggested
to be included or perhaps on the wiki for reporting about the adventures
of each box. Clint also updated us on the development of a transfer
policy to help these boxes travel smoothly from event to event.
Q3 funding and media acquisition was touched on. We will follow up on
these with the relevant parties to get this all straight in the next
week or two.
* Open Floor
Clint raised the question of how to more effectively process requests
from ambassadors for various sorts of swag. Some discussion followed
and Clint will work on setting up something on the wiki we can refer
folks to for more information.
Clint also pointed out the new columns on Fedora Events page which will
support requesting and reporting about the event boxes in the future.
David Nalley raised the issue of further dividing the US so that the
workload/responsibilities can be spread out more. Some discussion of this
followed and we will revisit this subject at a future meeting.
I would again like to thank all the participants, especially the new
ambassadors joining us for the first time tonight.