Meeting:Community Architecture 2008-07-28

Roll call

Max, Greg, Harish, Karsten, Paul, Jack

ISV summary:

Hyperic -- Jeremy Hogan is the community manager. He has paid somebody to build RPMs for hyperic. Potential future communication here in the Java Packaging front.
JasperSoft -- Karsten and Jennifer Venable, they know what their next steps are
Concrete Five -- CMS that we'll help get into Fedora
Ingres -- community version potentially forthcoming, lots of legacy stuff that makes it hard for them to become LSB compliance.
Plain Black
Sugar CRM -- couldn't find anyone technical at this show to talk to.
Zimbra -- met John Robb, their VP of Marketing; Karsten to meet Engineering folks in Sunnyval
OpenJDK -- met Dalibor Topic, former Kaffe hacker now leading the OpenJDK team
Digium -- Mark Spencer and Todd (Community Manager)
- They want to do a case study about our use of Asterisk.
A few projects we talked to but didn't discuss in this CommArch meeting
- Mifos, micro finance server/system
- Apress, talked with them about using Fedora content as upstream with them embedding writers and editors in the project
- DemocracyLab
- Drupal -- they said howdy, we discussed CMS and anti-PHP sentiment; Karsten received a follow-up email from them to talk further about Drupal and Fedora Infrastructure
- Mozilla -- Blizzard said howdy
- OW2 -- someone stopped by and talked with someone, nothing captured?

Greg mentions the troubles of a "get everything into Fedora/EPEL" policy as the one-size-fits-all ISV strategy.

</del>ACTION: Max puts Jack in touch with News Council.</del>

EDU summary:

Open Source Education panel -- Jack made various introductions.
- Open High School in Utah
- Danese Cooper -- works for Intel, on OSI board.
- Karl Fogel

ACTION: Updated .edu deck by end of week from Jack.

Greg suggests making FSOSS in Toronto our big kick-off for all of this. October 23-24. Seneca, .edu strategy, CMU.

Oregon State University -- Jeff Sheltren (OSUOSL)

Goal is to have quarterly expenses finished -- that means everything is in the system, and Max has all the report numbers and dollar amounts -- by August 15th.
Everything else in Q2 gates on OSCON. We can't make any decisions until we know Jack and Greg's OSCON expenses in full.
- OLPC Sprint?
- Greg's Boston trips?