FAmSCo-Report

Report for February 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. Regional Meetings

1.3. FAmSCo Mailing List

1.4. General accomplishments or decisions

1.5. Budget

1.6. Mentoring

1.7. Regional Reports

1.7.1. APAC Report
1.7.2. EMEA Report
1.7.3. LATAM Report
1.7.4. NA Report

Chapter 1. FAmSCo Activity

1.1. Meetings

1.2. Regional Meetings

1.3. FAmSCo Mailing List

1.4. General accomplishments or decisions

1.5. Budget

1.6. Mentoring

1.7. Regional Reports

1.7.1. APAC Report
1.7.2. EMEA Report
1.7.3. LATAM Report
1.7.4. NA Report

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

FAmSCo held 3 meetings in February. Attendance was excellent:

3 out of 3 -- Joerg, Maria, Susmit, Rodrigo, Luca
2 out of 3 -- Max, David

So far this year, FAmSCo has held 6 meetings. Overall attendance has been:

6 out of 6 -- Joerg, Maria, Susmit
5 out of 6 -- Rodrigo, Max, David, Luca

1.2. Regional Meetings

One of FAmSCo's goals this year is to make sure that at least one FAmSCo member is at each regional meeting that is held. As of the time this report was prepared, 6 regional meetings held in February had been logged.

NA -- 2 meetings, both attended by David and 1 attended by Max.
EMEA -- 1 meeting, attended by Joerg.
APAC -- 2 meetings, with no FAmSCo members in attendance.
LATAM -- 1 meeting, attended by Rodrigo.

1.3. FAmSCo Mailing List

FAmSCo's mailing list received 33 messages this month:

Name	Number of Mails
Max	12
Joerg	8
Susmit	4
David	3
Rodrigo	3
Luca	2
Paul	1
Maria	0

Table 1.1. Mailing List Stats

1.4. General accomplishments or decisions

About

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

The first FAmSCo townhall meeting was held, and it was generally constructive.
Concerns were expressed about "bad" booth behavior after FOSDEM. FAmSCo discussed it and decided to leave the final decisions about booth behavior at events to the event owner, or the folks who are in charge of that event's booth.
FAmSCo has decided to create a page for "things to show on your laptop during an event".
FAmSCo was notified about a case of dispute between a mentor and a mentee. FAmSCo decided to create a standard operating procedure for ensuring prompt action for settling such disputes.
FAmSCo has decided to open up the FAmSCo trac, but not before Max deletes all the tickets with private info.
Paul Mellors is now a Mentor.
FAmSCo has decided to replace the Ambassadors FAQ with a page like this. Help is needed from the ambassadors for building this.
FAmSCo will triage all the outdated pages in the Ambassadors category. The pace will be 20 pages/week.

1.5. 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.

Based on the Community Architecture expenses, FAmSCo has about $25,000 USD to spend across the world for regional Fedora support from March 2010 - May 2010.

FAmSCo is recommending earmarking the money as follows:

Region	Detailed breakdown	Total Budget
NA	-	$7000
EMEA	$4,600 for Fedora 13 media $2600 USD -- Fedora-fr yearly funding for local events and schwags	$7000
LATAM	-	$6000
India/APAC	$200 -- new set of stickers $350 -- set of pens with Fedora branding $3500 -- FAD planned in April at Pune (projected cost needs re-check)	$5000

Table 1.2. FY11 Q1 Budget

February marked the end of Q4 2010 (December 2009 - February 2010). FAmSCo's total budget for this quarter was $32,000.

We finished the quarter under budget, but the Community Architecture team used some of that extra budget for other purposes related to open source in education.

We definitely need to spend more money in LATAM, India, and APAC.

Region	Detailed breakdown	Total Expense
APAC	$930 for Hiemanshu's CLT sponsorship $340 for Case badges $290 for FOSS.in $225 for FOSS.my	$1785
EMEA	$4,640 for Fedora 12 media $680 for Case badges $2,110 -- FOSDEM 2010 $1,005 -- Transifex support $580 -- Italian community support $335 -- Hotel reimbursements for CLT 2009 $60 for Athens release party	$5380
LATAM	$340 for Case badges	$340
NA	see here	$6290

Table 1.3. Regional Budget

1.6. Mentoring

Month	New tickets	Still under mentoring	Sponsored	Rejected
February	66	10	10	75
January	50	28	9	57
December	63	5	10	56

Table 1.4. Mentoring

Ambassadors Statistic

1.7. Regional Reports

About

This section lists the events that were on the global events page as happening in each region, during this month. This section examines the end-result of each of these events, and also reports any general news for the region.

1.7.1. APAC Report

Name	Owner	Link	Event report(s)
BASIS SoftExpo 2010	Mahay Alam Khan	BASIS SoftExpo 2010	Report
Asian University (Dhaka) Fedora 12 Release Party	Mahay Alam Khan		Report
IIUM FOSSDay	IzharFirdaus	IIUM FOSSDay	Report
GNUnify 2010	fedora-india	GNUnify 2010	Shreyank, Kushal, Susmit

Table 1.5. APAC Events

APAC Updates

Fedora-India is working on a FUDCon at Pune.
Fedora-India has got their swags done (t-shirts and buttons).
Fedora-Malaysia is working on an Event Box
Fedora-Philippines is working on geekcamp and a FAD

1.7.2. EMEA Report

Name	Owner	Link	Event report(s)	Comments
FOSDEM	FredericHornain	FOSDEM	1 , 2, 3, 4, 5
4. LIT-OL	Christoph Wickert	4. LIT-OL	Report

Table 1.6. EMEA Events

EMEA Updates

No significant update

1.7.3. LATAM Report

Name	Owner	Link	Event report(s)	Comments
None reported

Table 1.7. LATAM Events

LATAM Updates

Brasil, Uruguay, Peru, Venezuela, Mexico and Argentina are getting ready to be at FLISoL this year.
Some badges were produced for this event in Venezuela.
In Latam, Linux events start in April, so we are preparing ourselves for this.
Chile will have a FUDCon this year (We already know that all our ambassadors are OK after the earthquake. I guess we will have a few weeks before we start working on this.)
We had one meeting with ambassadors from Chile to set the FUDCon date and the date was fixed with the Universidad Central at 15-17 July.
Mexico is producing some wonderful marketing material (cheat cube).
Nicaragua continues on the Free Media project (we need some sponsorship in here).
Perú, Venezuela, Panamá and Rep. Dominicana has some new ambassadors.
A lot of new packages and projects were added to RPMDEV
We will have 2 new meetings this week to guide new contributors.

1.7.4. NA Report

Name	Owner	Link	Event report(s)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Center for Open Source (RCOS) General Meeting	Máirín Duffy	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Center for Open Source (RCOS) General Meeting	Report
Schmoocon	Ivan Makfinsky	Schmoocon
Fedora Talks at CMU	User:Mjg59	Fedora Talks at CMU
SCaLE	Scott Williams	SCaLE	Report

Table 1.8. NA Events

NA Updates

No significant update