FAmSCo-Report

Final Report for 2010

Edition 1

Abstract

The purpose of this document is to update the community about the working, decisions and status of FAmSCo. This is also to summarise the activities around the world and to request feedback and suggestions from the community.

This document is available under Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported licence.

1. FAmSCo Activity

1.1. Meetings
1.2. FAmSCo Mailing List
1.3. General Accomplishments or Decisions
1.4. Budget
1.5. Events
1.6. Mentoring

Chapter 1. FAmSCo Activity

1.1. Meetings
1.2. FAmSCo Mailing List
1.3. General Accomplishments or Decisions
1.4. Budget
1.5. Events
1.6. Mentoring

About

This section gives some quick health indicators about how much FAmSCo is communicating. Sometimes FAmSCo members can't make a meeting due to travel or conflict, but the combination of meeting attendance plus email is a nice metric.

1.1. Meetings

This year, FAmSCo has held 26 FAmSCo_meetings. Overall attendance has been:

24 out of 26 -- Joerg, Susmit
22 out of 26 -- David
21 out of 26 -- Maria
19 out of 26 -- Max
13 out of 26 -- Luca

1.2. FAmSCo Mailing List

FAmSCo's mailing list has received a total of 521 messages including the emails received before opening the archives.

1.3. General Accomplishments or Decisions

About

This section discusses the non-regional achievements within either FAmSCo or the larger Ambassadors project from this year.

Significant work has been done to clean up all FAmSCo wiki pages at the beginning of FAmSCo term.
Clarified the primary tasks and goals of FAmSCo in 2010.
- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_tasks
Created a new FAmSCo mailing list with open archives.
- https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/famsco
Revised and ratified the FAmSCo election rules.
- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_election_rules
Decided to create a standard operating procedure for ensuring prompt action for settling disputes.
- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassador_dispute_resolution
Decided to not open up the FAmSCo trac:
- After quite a long period and a bit of effort on a number of members of FAmSCo, we have come to the realization that exposing the trac instance to public view is essentially not possible. Each solution we arrived at placed us further away from transparency that the situation now is. The reasons for this are given below.
- A significant amount of information that contains personal data is contained in the tickets that currently exist. Those include addresses, bank account numbers, credit card numbers, etc.
- Moving forward, additional tickets will be created that of a necessity will require submission of personal data for reimbursement. (FAmSCo considered having Max be emailed directly via an encrypted email, having encrypted data be submitted to the trac instance, and a number of other 'solutions' that proved in FAmSCo's opinion to be unworkable.)
Decided to replace the Ambassadors FAQ.
- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/FAQ
Decided to release the Ambassadors project structure.
- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors_project_structure
Announced tweaked Ambassador Membership Process.
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-June/014669.html
Held a Mentors Survey to improve the Mentoring Process.
- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Mentors_Survey_Summary
- # https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Mentors_Survey
For the first time worked out Ambassadorial Milestones for the official release schedule.
- http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-14/f-14-ambassadors-tasks.html

1.4. Budget

About

The FAmSCo budget rolls up into the larger Community Architecture expenses . On that page, FAmSCo's budget is represented by the "Regional support" line item.

Total Budget: $100,000

Total Spent (as of Nov. 28): $54,335

However, there are expenses from India/APAC from earlier in the year that still need to be found and accounted for, which will increase our total spend once they are accounted for.

Table 1.1. FY11 Q1 Budget

Region	Detailed breakdown	Total Budget
NA	$5,500 -- Fedora 14 media $4,145 -- Fedora 13 media $3,765 -- Shirts $3,260 -- Shipping $2,830 -- Utah Open Source Conference 2010 $2,675 -- Pens $2,280 -- Stickers $1,705 -- Ohio Linux Fest 2010 $1,230 -- Texas LinuxFest 2010 $1,000 -- Support for SELF $860 -- SCALE leftovers $800 --SXSW 2011 $185 -- LinuxFest Northwest (LFNW) 2010 $585 -- OSCON 2010 $325 -- Canada event box $85 -- Fedora 13 release parties	$31,730
EMEA	$3,780 -- Fedora 13 media $2,030 -- Support for IDLELO 2010 $1,030 -- Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2010 $930 -- USB keys $775 -- Linuxwochen Wien 2010 $680 -- Open Source Days $600 -- Shipping $500 -- Support for Libre Graphics Meeting $425 -- Szabad Szoftver Konferencia $275 -- Support for OpenExpo 2010 Berne $125 -- LinuxDay Italy	$13,765
LATAM	$2,510 -- Support for FLISOL $1,675 -- FPL to FISL $1,355 -- Fedora 13 media $195 -- Swag for Mexico	$5,735
India/APAC	$2400 -- Support for swag creation by Harish $480 -- Support for BASIS $225 -- Fedora 13 release party	$3,105

1.5. Events

From December 2009 till November 2010 a number of at least 183 Events overall was held through the amazing work of our Ambassadors.(after consulting dramsey - the Akihabara for the APAC Region was counted 1 Event for every 4x2h)

Over the years we have constantly increased our Event participation.

1.6. Mentoring

Table 1.2. Mentoring

Month	New tickets	Still under mentoring	Sponsored	Rejected
November	41	36	9	54
October	63	-	6	43
September	32	28	5	0
August	40	26	10	54
July	50	31	7	22
June	54	20	13	58
May	68	48	6	69
April	80	48	11	54
March	75	32	7	84
February	66	10	10	75
January	50	28	9	57
December	63	5	10	56