FAmSCo-Report

Report for January 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 January. Attendance was excellent:

3 out of 3 -- Joerg, Max, Maria, David, Susmit
2 out of 3 -- Rodrigo, 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, 5 regional meetings held in January had been logged.

NA -- 2 meetings, both attended by David.
EMEA -- 2 meetings, both attended by Max, 1 attended by Luca and Joerg.
APAC -- 1 meeting, attended by Susmit.
LATAM -- No meetings logged.

1.3. FAmSCo Mailing List

FAmSco's mailing list received 78 messages this month:

Name	Number of Mails
Max	23
Joerg	22
Susmit	12
David	6
Maria	5
Rodrigo	4
Luca	4
Francesco	1
Paul	1

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.

Significant work was done to clean up all FAmSCo wiki pages at the start of the new year, and new FAmSCo term.
Clarified the primary tasks and goals of FAmSCo in 2010.
Created a new FAmSCo mailing list with open archives.
Revised and ratified the FAmSCo election rules .
An Ambassador training class was held in Fedora Classroom.
The Events FAD 2010 was held, and a tremendous amount of work that is valuable to Ambassadors and regions around the world was started. In addition to the main FAD page, please see Max's wrapup post.
Fedora case badges arrived, and are about to be distributed worldwide.
zyxware.com became a Fedora vendor. This is significant because they were selling DVDs for two years and we didn't knew about them. We need to work on finding such shops/entities and reach out to them.
IOTA is selling pressed Fedora DVD from their stall at Kolkata Book Fair . FAmSCo has ensured that trademark guidelines are followed alongwith pointing to resources needed.

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.

We are currently in Q4 2010 (December 2009 - February 2010).
FAmSCo's total budget for this quarter is $32,000.
Total spent and fully expensed and/or reimbursed: $13,195
Estimated amount that has not yet been expensed and/or reimbursed: $3,000

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 $60 for Athens release party	$5380
LATAM	$340 for Case badges	$340
NA	see here	$5690

Table 1.2. Regional Breakdown

At the current pace, we are going to finish the quarter well under budget. This is fine if there are no urgent needs worldwide, but it seems like the flow of money into the regions that need it is currently stalled.

In short, FAmSCo is worried about what seems to be very little spending in LATAM, India, and APAC. We still have about two weeks left in this quarter to correct that, but it requires those regions to get their shopping lists together quickly. In your regional meetings, please make a list of the things that you need, and bring that discussion to the mailing list.

1.6. Mentoring

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

Table 1.3. Mentoring

One of the items on the FAmSCo agenda regarding mentoring is the automation of the membership service, which will improve the mentoring workflow, as described here .

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)	Comments
None reported				There are a number of events in February.

Table 1.4. APAC Events

APAC Updates

Inactive Ambassadors in India will be purged this weekend. The regional coordinators sent repeated mails asking Ambassadors to participate, and the mails that either bounced, or never received replies, will be purged.
India is going to have GNUNify 2010 in February.
Bangladesh is going to have BASIS SoftExpo 2010 and Fedora-BD get-together in February.
Malaysia is going to have FossDay'10 in February.
Indonesia is discussing about possibility of attending Gnome Asia. Not sure about the venue.
Philippines posts healthy growth in number of contributors.

1.7.2. EMEA Report

Name	Owner	Link	Event report(s)	Comments
Cerea Fair	Lfoppiano	CereaFair	Event Report	Huge event, 25,000 people attended.
Fedora Cafe	Zoltanh721	Cafe_con_Linux	Event Report	9 people

Table 1.5. EMEA Events

EMEA Updates

FOSDEM 2010 is the main event in EMEA for Q4 (December - February). We will hold a Fedora Activity Day on February 5th, and FOSDEM itself is on February 6 and 7.
New Fedora poloshirts are ordered and will arrive February 4, in time for FOSDEM.
41 listed Fedora contributors will attend FOSDEM.
Christoph Wickert will attend LIT-OL in Oldenburg, where he will present about Fedora.
We have new swag for the EMEA region and the EMEA Swag Inventory has been updated.

1.7.3. LATAM Report

Name	Owner	Link	Event report(s)	Comments
None reported

Table 1.6. LATAM Events

LATAM Updates

First 2010 ambassadors requests and Brazilian freemedia requests were shipped in Brazil.
FUDCon Santiago is announced, and in planning.
Plans to build a strong Fedora community in Uruguay has been started.
First event in Uruguay with Fedora participation is in planning.
2 new people from Uruguay were invited to join and build the local community as Ambassadors.
Brazilian Fedora community announced new project leader , and starts to plan actions for 2010.
FISL 2010 is announced and in planning.

1.7.4. NA Report

Name	Owner	Link	Event report(s)	Comments
CampKDE	rrix	CampKDE	Event Report
College Park F12 Distribution	dramsey	College Park F12 Distribution

Table 1.7. NA Events

NA Updates

DVDs/LiveCDs arrived
Window clings were ordered
Case badges (for the WORLD) were ordered and received.
T-shirts are in-process