Fedora Project Board Meeting :: Tuesday 2009-03-10

Roll Call

• Board Members: Paul Frields, Bill Nottingham, Seth Vidal,Jesse Keating, Dimitris Glezos, Chris Tyler, Harald Hoyer, Chris Aillon, Matt Domsch, and Spot Callaway
• Secretary: John Poelstra

Trademark Followup

• Paul Frields has sent necessary letters for trademark agreement and domain name registration
  • 10 letters sent so far
  • Feedback has been positive so far
• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Trademark_licensees
• Deadline for reply is 2009-03-20
• Will send reminder email to those who haven't responded on 2009-03-23
  • Will not use the @fedoraproject.org addresses due to password expirations

What is Fedora ?

• How well will mission statement translate to other languages?
• Add links to definitions of key words
• Mission statement arrived at:
  • To lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a collaborative community
  • Paul Frields to send announcement to fedora-advisory-board@redhat.com

Gobby Session

The following is a final snapshot of the Gobby session used by the Board for brainstorming, ideating and voting. To represent the colors used by Gobby, the information has been reformatted to reflect ownership.

== Round #3 ==


To lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a community of creators, contributors, collaborators, and consumers.

To lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a collaborative community.
stickster:  +1
notting:    +1
chris:      +1
mdomsch:    +1
harald:     +1
jkeating:   +1
spot:       +1
glezos:     +1
skvidal:    +1

spot:
To lead the advancement of free and open source software, content, and culture as a collaborative community.

caillon: +1 we kind of do want to encourage others to be more free/open-sourcey

jkeating: 
(less and version)
To lead the advancement of free/open source software and content as a collaborative community.

stickster:
To lead the advancement of free, open source software and content as a collaborative community.

glezos:
*Very* short version:
To lead the advancement of open source as a collaborative community.

caillon:
(not-as) *Very* short version:
To lead the advancement of open source culture as a collaborative community.

poelcat (dump from Round #2):
NOTES: (we can use this later) (s/software and content/culture/ +11
       software, content, and culture as ...
contributors _AND_ collaborators? -> use "contributors and consumers"? - collaboration implied by "community", "creator" is a subset of "contributor"

community of users (consumers?) and collaborators.  (all 3 are collaborators)

collaborator more in the sense of "helper, aider", I think 
What if instead of classifying people, we classify what we do? "...as a collaborative community." +1


== Round #2 ==

1) To lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a community of creators, contributors, collaborators, and consumers.

chris:
To lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a collaborative community.

poelcat (dump from Round #1):
NOTES: (we can use this later) (s/software and content/culture/ +11

jkeating:
       software, content, and culture as ...

mdomsch:
contributors _AND_ collaborators?

chris:
 -> use "contributors and consumers"? - collaboration implied by "community", "creator" is a subset of "contributor"

mdomsch:
community of users (consumers?) and collaborators.  (all 3 are collaborators)

harald:
collaborator more in the sense of "helper, aider", I think 

stickster:
What if instead of classifying people, we classify what we do? "...as a collaborative community." 
glezos:
+1

notting:
"community of <abstract noun>" sounds strange.

poelcat (dump from Round #1):
2) Become the premier community of contributors to lead the advancement of free and open source software and content. 
NOTES: again prefer culture here

3) To be the acknowledged world leader in creating and using free software and culture to empower and build a community of contribution.

chris:
NOTES: open source not mentioned here

poelcat (dump from Round #1):
--should we mention "Free" and "Open Source" explicitly?



== Round #1 == 
Original FEDORA MISSION Statements
====================================

IDEA #1: To provide/create/be the most effective and fulfilling community in which people learn about and contribute to free and open source software and content.
45 VOTES:  
chris:      7
glezos:     6
stickster:  6
jkeating:   7
caillon:    3
harald:     9
spot:       1
notting:    4
mdomsch:    2
skvidal:    0


IDEA #2: To be the community of contributors that produces and cultivates the world's most innovative and useful free software and content, and provides it to the most people worldwide.
52 VOTES:  
chris:      9
jkeating:   6
glezos:     5
stickster:  8
spot:       1
caillon:    1
harald:     7
notting:    8
mdomsch:    7
skvidal:    0


IDEA #3: To foster a community of contributors who further the mission and projects of free and open source software.
45 VOTES:
jkeating:   7
glezos:     4
stickster:  4
chris:      4
caillon:    5
spot:       3
harald:     6
notting:    8
mdomsch:    4
skvidal:    0


IDEA #4: To create and share free and open source code and content as a community of contributors.
32 VOTES:  
jkeating:   7
chris:      5
stickster:  3
caillon:    2
spot:       0
harald:     4
glezos:     2
notting:    5
skvidal:    0
mdomsch:    4


IDEA #5: (have a mantra instead of a mission statement)
To be THE place for open source contributions.
To be THE community for open source innovation.
Effective advancement of open source.
48/45 VOTES:  
jkeating:   4
caillon:    8
skvidal:    3
stickster:  7
harald:     8*
mdomsch:    2
harald:     5*
glezos:     8
notting:    6
spot:       2

[Editor note:  One duplicate vote.  Irrelevant in this context since the results still placed this candidate behind the top three.]


IDEA #6: Kick butt in open source development!
5 VOTES:
jkeating:   2
mdomsch:    0
spot:       0
notting:    0
skvidal:    0
stickster:  1
chris:      1
harald:     1
glezos:     0


IDEA #7: To make friends, to spread freedom, to make the finest features, and be first in innovation
23 VOTES:
jkeating:   4
mdomsch:    2
skvidal:    1
chris:      3
glezos:     1
stickster:  2
caillon:    1
harald:     2
spot:       3
notting:    4


IDEA #8: To be the friendliest community for (free) open source innovation.
14 VOTES:  
jkeating:   4
skvidal:    2
mdomsch:    0
stickster:  2
chris:      1
notting:    0
harald:     3
spot:       0
glezos:     2


IDEA #9: To lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a community of creators, contributors, collaborators, and consumers.
92 VOTES:  
jkeating:  11
spot:      11
stickster:  8
mdomsch:   10
glezos:     9
harald:    11
skvidal:   10
chris:      8
caillon:    4
notting:   10

NOTES: (we can use this later)
caillon: (s/software and content/culture/ +11


IDEA #10: Become the premier community of contributors to lead the advancement of free and open source software and content. 
72 VOTES:  
jkeating:   9
mdomsch:    8
glezos:    10
skvidal:    7
harald:    10
spot:       9
notting:   10
stickster:  9

NOTES:
caillon:  again prefer culture here


IDEA #11: To be the acknowledged world leader in creating and using free software and culture to empower and build a community of contribution.
50 VOTES:  
jkeating:   5
mdomsch:    2
skvidal:    4
chris:      6
stickster:  7
spot:       7
notting:    6
caillon:    6
glezos:     7