Meeting:Board meeting 2011-03-22
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Fedora Board Meeting - 2011-03-22
Roll Call
Present
- David Nalley
- Jared Smith
- Toshio Kuratomi
- Joerg Simon
- Jaroslav Reznik (secretary)
- Jon Stanley
- Rex Dieter
- Stephen Smoogen (til 16:30)
Absent
- Tom Callaway
Regards
- Máirín Duffy (leave of absence)
Agenda
- Updates
- Board business
Updates
- Follow-up from SXSW
- jsmith, spot and mo attended SXSW
- SXSW is a conference in Austin for musicians, filmakers, and "interactive graphics" (web design, and such)
- 36,000 attendees last year
- 4-500 photos taken at Fedora photo booth on first day
- Update on FUDCon {LATAM/EMEA/APAC?} status
- LATAM is coming in the end of May (meeting tonight)
- EMEA - 4 bids
- Dublin (Ireland) https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Bid_for_Dublin_2011
- Milan (Italy) https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Bid_for_Milan_2011
- Budapest (Hungary) https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Bid_for_Budapest_FUDCon_EMEA_2011
- Zurich (Switzerland) https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Bid_for_Zurich_2011
- APAC - next year (may or may not happen this year)
- Personal preferences have some sort of event in APAC this fiscal year even if it's smaller
- possibility in India (close to Red Hat office) or China (interest by people in that area)
- schedule depends on EMEA timeframe
- smaller event (budget etc...)
Board Business
- Double-check meeting time works
- US already in daylight saving time
- Also make sure we update all the various schedules on the wiki
- Work on the F16 release names.
List of names
- Barona - Rex - OK
- Jay - Toshio http://jayisgames.com/
- Bonnet - Jared - OK - no significant collisions
- Sagan -ke4qqq - multiple collisions - including Apple who named a computer 'sagan' and was subsequently litigated
- Rasputin - Jon - questionable????- rasputin-titled software occurs multiple times
- Ringworld - Toshio -- as noted on the page already, there is a Ringworld computer game
- Lightbody - Jon - nothing found surprisingly -- Patrick Lightbody (apache foundation person), Lightbody is a computer company in Dorchester
- McLuhan - Toshio -- Author (does not seem "famous") http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_McLuhan - Shareware software product (helps apply Business theory to a particular company) http://www.sqaki.com/9/McLuhanLaws/
- Talladega - Rex - OK
- Neuromancer - jreznik NOT OK (link ok - sci-fi books, neuromancer was a computer game in 1988, new one development stopped in 2009)
- Dreadlock - jreznik NOT OK(link ok - hairstyles, Dreadlock Privacy - software, internet history cleaner)
- Llullaillaco - Rex - OK
- Mayflower - Toshio -- NOT OK software company: http://www.maysoft.com/
- Bacon -Jon (name of living person relevant in Linux community)
- Cornrow - ke4qqq - Cornrow Curves software from RPI, from TESS: Internet based social networking, introduction, and dating services. FIRST USE: 20080919
- Mt. Orne - Jared (link OK, no significant collisions)
- Iao - Rex - OK Iao used as acronym for Information and Computer Science (ICS) Alumni Organization (University of California, Irvine)
- Legation - Jon - OK
- Gaia - ke4qqq - multiple collisions gala construction software, gala factory software, slightly related Globalization and Localization Assocation conference
- Golding - Jon (current living person, prime minister of Jamaica)
- Periwig - Jon (no link, it's a thing, not a hairstyle)
- Lennox - ke4qqq NOTOK - Lennox Computer Software Design
- Verne - Rex - OK
- Nepia - jreznik - OK
- Tyrie - Jon - current living person (MP for Chichester, UK)
- Codpiece - Toshio NOT OK http://codpiece.sourceforge.net/
- Spaceship - Jared - NOT OK (bad link, multiple collisions)
- Hollyhock - ke4qqq - hollyhock inc is a software dev house.
- Lapland - Toshio - NOT OK - http://www.gmdu.net/corp-471825.html 5-10 person laptop computer trading company
- Steamship - Jared - NOT OK (tenuous link, several name collisions)
- Flamel - jreznik (link - Nicolas Flamel was alchemist, not chemist; no collision)
- Sunset - Jared - NOT OK (bad link, multiple collisions)
- Ablebaker - Jared - NOT OK (multiple collisions)
- Marvin - jreznik NOT OK (bad link, several collisions - even my friend's class-less Smaltalk implementation ;-)
- Ayers- ke4qqq - possible collision via TESS, Ayers Virtual Entertainment, plus ayerstechnology.com
- Sheepy Shenannigans - Jared - NOT OK (bad link, collision with blog post at http://jejunesplace.blogspot.com/2007/05/special-date.html)
- None - jreznik NOT OK (no link at all, "none" ;-)
- Money Fountain - Jared - NOT OK (tenuous links, several conflicts)
- Cousteau - jreznik (probably) NOT OK (link ok BUT one son still alive and he's famous as his father)
- Dusty - Rex - OK
- Babbage - Rex - NOT ok, Babbage's Computer Software in Santa Rosa, CA
- Cunningham - jsimon - NOT OK it is a Software http://sourceforge.net/projects/cunningham/ and there are several TM in EU registered
- Hatefree - jsimon - can not find a collision
Other notes
- Next meeting: IRC meeting on Tuesday, March 29th
- Informational, Toshio and Robyn Bergeron are looking at improving the Feature Process
