Meeting:Board meeting 2009-11-19

Roll Call

 * Present: Josh Boyer, Paul Frields, Bill Nottingham, Mike McGrath, John Poelstra, Matt Domsch, Chris Aillon, Tom "Spot" Callaway, Dennis Gilmore
 * Regrets: Dimitris Glezos

Last meeting
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Board_meeting_2009-11-05

Pending work

 * Trademark licenses
 * Update proposal
 * Both on Paul's plate, delayed by other work, will handle ASAP
 * NEXT ACTIONS:
 * Send TLAs to all the pending recipients noted on wiki and in Paul's email
 * Put together update proposal, possibly based in part on Spot's previous work

FUDCon session setup

 * Sessions board would like to participate in
 * FUDCon + Board roundtable Q & A (incl. target audience preso if needed)
 * Like monthly public IRC meeting
 * Evening session? Hackfest session?
 * Saturday: Update discipline intro (hopefully presenting ML ideation, not starting from scratch)
 * More definitive policy around updates - schedule as a regular session in the barcamp
 * Followup hackfest from update policy discussion
 * Election town hall is separate
 * NEXT ACTIONS:
 * Paul will pitch updates session at barcamp
 * Dropping idea of Board and FESCo roundtable
 * Matt to investigate viability and level of interest in an elections town hall at FUDCon

F12 release

 * Limit to 5 minutes
 * Thanks/congrats
 * Acknowledge PackageKit issue, anything Board actionable?
 * http://lwn.net/Articles/362592/
 * Need for security policy to guide large-scale decisions
 * a policy for the default distribution offering
 * a policy for spins
 * Requires the Board to say, "Spins, you can change this as a rule."
 * spot: if the board defines the user target--it has an obligation to define the security policy
 * Agree to table for now
 * NEXT ACTIONS
 * Revisit security policy after FESCo discusses PackageKit in their 2009-11-20 meeting
 * Decide if there's a Board action, and if so, move forward with it

FreeMedia
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2009-November/msg00035.html
 * Thread is public, anything to discuss here?
 * is there some way that we can fund shipping media to people to ship out to users
 * John: if we fund this what would we not be funding? IOW what trade-off would we be making?
 * Dennis: not fund there outbound postage, but provide them media so they can ship more at the same cost and give professional media not burnt and hand written.
 * NEXT ACTIONS:
 * Continue discussion on fedora-advisory-board
 * Follow-up

F13 naming

 * Board members to indicate anything left that is unsuitable
 * Remainder goes to Legal for approval

Next meeting

 * Proposed: Thu Dec 03 2009 - 1700 UTC/12:00pm US Eastern (public IRC)