Hello,

I do agree that, since the EMEA FAD did not take place, it will be nice to have some sort of a meetup to create a plan for the next year.

We could have had an opportunity during FOSDEM as well (i.e. stay an extra day in Brussels and meet somewhere), but unfortunately many (if not all) of us have finalized our travel arrangements already.

So, who is already planning to attend DevConf?

If we subsidize some active contributors to participate, then it wouldn't make much sense (budget-wise) to hold a meeting just for a few hours. It's also not safe to assume that we can have a proper meeting right after the conference ends, for a number of reasons.

It would be really nice If we could get a room at Red Hat Brno, for one or two days before or after DevConf. We can have a solid FAD there, and the same ambassadors we subsidize for the FAD will also represent Fedora at DevConf. Two birds, one stone.

What do you think?
-Giannis

On December 29, 2015 at 12:24 AM Jona Azizaj <jonaazizaj@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello everyone,

I totally agree with Zacharias and Sessivany. I also think that this meetup is a must in order to make our event plan, coordinate among us and propose the budget for the next year. I think it is a great idea of having an EMEA ambassadors meetup during or after the DevConf so in this way we can reduce the costs of organizing it independetly. In my opinion this form of organizing this meetup has all the advantages that Zacharias has listed in his email.


If i can help you in anyway please let me know. :)

Happy holidays everyone! :D
Jona

On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Gerold <gerold@lugd.org> wrote:
I´m sorry.
I can´t make it happen, because of beeing the weekend before @FOSDEM and the dutys at $DAYJOB
that short time for two events is (for mee) too much
BG
Gerold


Am 26.12.2015 um 15:31 schrieb Zacharias Mitzelos:
Hello everyone,

Along with sessivany we were thinking of having an EMEA Ambassadors
meetup in DevConf[1] (5-7 February 2016), and ask for a few hours in the
schedule and a room in the last day, after the conference ends.

We didn't organize an EMEA FAD this year, and I think this small meetup
would be really valuable, so that we can make our event plan, decide
which events we should participate in, and propose the budget for the
next year.

DevConf is also a very good and easy choice to have a meetup there, as
it is a conference co-organized from Fedora, and there will already be
there many active contributors from the project, plenty Ambassadors from
the Czech Republic, the FPL, and many other Ambassadors from nearby
countries. Sessivany told me that we could get a room with good
connectivity so that we could also live stream for contributors that
won't be able to come. And of course, DevConf is a much more affordable
solution, as it's much cheaper than organizing something independent at
this moment.

Finally, we could use some funds of the EMEA budget that we have left
from this FY, to get some important and active contributors there, and
accommodate them.

Thoughts?

I hope everyone has a great holiday season,
Zacharias


[1] http://devconf.cz/


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