Meeting:Board meeting 2011-10-11

Present
Jared Smith Peter Robinson Rudi Swanepoel Guillermo Gómez Jon Stanley Jaroslav Reznik Toshio Kuratomi Rex Dieter (secretary)

Absent
Joerg Simon

Agenda

 * Status updates
 * Statistics discussion
 * Spins discussion
 * Elections
 * Open Q&A

Status updates

 * F17 release name announcement... "Beefy Miracle" won the election
 * FUDCon Milan was a success
 * FUDCon India is coming up in just a few weeks
 * and last but not least, FUDCon North America is in January

Statistics discussion

 * is anybody actually using the data we collect?
 * are we measuring the right things?

Spins discussion

 * At FUDCon Milan, Christoph Wickert gave a presentation on the Spins process, where we've (collectively) failed, and how it can be improved
 * Slides from his presentation are at http://cwickert.fedorapeople.org/presentations/New_Spins_Process.odp
 * the board is generally in favor of and supportive of the the changes proposed in cwickert's presentation

Elections

 * missed some advisory deadlines already, http://rbergero.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-16/f-16-elections.html
 * jsmith will cook up a formal schedule for review
 * discussed various ideas and strategies to simplify, streamline elections process, particularly to avoid schedule slips.

Q&A
Not much time left for additional Q&A

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