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Roll Call
- Attending: Tom "spot" Callaway, Mike McGrath, John Poelstra, Paul Frields, Bill Nottingham, Dennis Gilmore, Matt Domsch
- Regrets: Christopher Aillon, Dimitris Glezos, Josh Boyer
Last meeting
Meeting:Board_meeting_2009-10-22
Proposed Agenda
Audience profile refinement
- Limit to 30 minutes
- Use gobby to detail more characteristics, as a starting place
- People voluntarily switching to Linux (in general? or fedora in particular?), not really "my aunt Tessie"
- Better phrased -- conscious and independent choice to install and use a Linux platform
- Not being forced into it -- willing to do an installation
- Family member or friend support available (?)
- Paul disagrees with above -- We want people to be able to run Fedora without support from a friend/family member (its just a reason why someone might take the jump to linux)
- Does this mean we can assume an informed choice? Yes
- Why did this person switch then?
- stability
- free of cost, functionality
- lower risk (viruses, spyware, malware)
- Family relationship to RHEL/CentOS (familiarity)
- later:
- free as in speech is secondary for many people, it's the hook that keeps them after they've already experienced the other beneficial effects
- care about community later, after they discover the methodology and participation
- What does this person expect when she installs?
- Is comfortable with the idea that their whole hard disk may be erased
- Wants the installation to take as few steps as possible
- Does not want to be presented with choices that are not understandable
- People who are not necessarily hackers, but are familiar with computers
- (Not reached in time limit)
- People who are likely to fix something that is not working (or at least collaborate or report when it's not working)
- (Not reached in time limit)
- People looking to perform one or more of the following tasks:
- web browsing, email
- office productivity
- graphic arts
- publishing
- audio listeners
- simple web services
- collaboration & communication (IRC, gobby, IM)
- All facilities that get the user in touch with any of our help venues
- software development (cross platform, JAVA, not necessarily the development that we do)
- People voluntarily switching to Linux (in general? or fedora in particular?), not really "my aunt Tessie"
- Board made it partially into the first area, and realizes that this is not a project that can be done alone -- more of a thought exercise
- Not trying to create propaganda (Why switch?) -- rather to understand the person who we want to target, and create/maintain what they would naturally want to use
- AGREED: Board will engage with more design folks to find out how we can do this methodically and transparently
- ACTION: Paul to copy to a wiki page for collaboration with others
FUDCon sessions
- Suggestion:
- One session: FUDCon + Board roundtable Q & A (incl. target audience preso if needed)
- One session: Update discipline intro (hopefully presenting ML ideation, not starting from scratch).
- Need a proposal to present to the audience for feedback and revision during the session. (Paul is planning to take a first shot at this) (spot made a pseudo-proposal in the old thread-of-doom)
- Hackfests would take over work on updates, unfrozen Rawhide
- Election town hall is separate
- Want:
- Feedback from community on target audience discussion
- Community to understand that both the board and FESCo are in favor of a more disciplined approach to updates
- hopefully a proposal has been drafted in advance that can be clarified or ratified
- ACTION: Paul to take first shot at proposal, possibly using some or all of Spot's pseudo-proposal from FAB
Next Meeting
- Public IRC Meeting, 2009-11-05
- DST time change on Sunday, 2009-11-01 makes next meeting 1700 UTC, or same human time 12:00pm US-Eastern/9:00am US-Pacific
- ACTION: Paul to send out notifications