Meeting:Community Architecture 2008-04-21

Roll call

Max Spevack, Greg DeKoenigsberg, Harish Pillay, Jack Aboutboul

Max

Greg

Jack

Most promising leads at Syracuse, Carnegie Mellon, and Oregon State.
ACTION: Need to finalize the PR side of the University Tour with Kerrin (Tuesday).
ACTION: File all expense reports from University Tour (Tuesday or Wednesday).
ACTION: Update wiki and figure out next tasks (by end of week).

Paul Frields is in Raleigh this week, working with Max on various Fedora 9 GTM items.

7,000 people at FISL, they think maybe 10,000 next year.
Many governmental organizations. Mostly university kids and commmunity folks.
Fedora is very well liked. Debian is loved.
Brazilian audience is extremely focused on innovation and in doing things for themselves. Robots running Linux, etc.
Very technical audience, language barrier is the biggest problem.
Rodrigo Padula is definitely the Fedora community superstar down there.
The biggest problem that we've always had is getting money into Brazil, but once we do that, they take care of the rest.
ACTION: Trip report for Fedora community.
ACTION: Funding requirements for the month of May.

Software Freedom Day as a target for community energy in APAC.
Red Hat Forum, new office, Jim in town, etc. Harish looking to plan other things from community perspective.
Use Singapore's Software Freedom Day planning as a template for the Fedora Ambassadors.