Meeting:Board meeting 2010-08-20

Roll Call

 * Present: Jared Smith, Colin Walters, Stephen Smoogen, Jon Stanley, Chris Tyler, Tom "spot" Callaway, Rex Dieter, Christopher Aillon
 * Regrets: Matt Domsch, Máirín Duffy
 * Assigned meeting secretary: Rex Dieter

Updates

 * Fedora 14 Alpha deemed GOLD at go/no-go meeting
 * Meeting on Wed night, one potential issue decided not a blocker.
 * Fedora 14 slogan
 * Marketing team proposed some options, one was approved by legal, but was found to conflict with one used already. So slogan choice is being revisited on marketing list.


 * Discussion regarding Fedora governance
 * Lots of good discussion on advisory-board list, and the board will revisit soon.
 * (spot) no oversight over appointments. proposal: a majority of the board must approve appointments.  will vote on this next week.

Review of open tickets

 * Ticket 78: Vision statement
 * Will revisit again next week when Máirín is present.
 * (jsmith) shared an initial draft of his own.
 * Discussion around a vision describing where we are vs where we want to go.
 * ACTION: Board members encouraged to comment on Máirín's proposal onlist, as well as being more active on advisory-board list in general.


 * Ticket 79: Anthropology Report
 * http://➡.ws/fedora-anthro-report
 * ACTION: Board members, please review the report. homework: Bring back notes and suggestions.
 * Ticket 80: Ways to improve Board Q&A
 * Find ways to help moderate questions on irc.


 * Ticket 81: start.fedoraproject.org
 * Brainstorm for where we want this domain to land short-term, until a better one has been designed. Pandas?  Embarassing photos of Paul?
 * (smooge) motion: ask marketing team to adjust start.fedoraproject.org as they best see fit.
 * ACTION: jsmith to update ticket and send email to marketing list

Other Board Business

 * Rex working on Community Working Group charter
 * Consider different meeting time/day ?
 * Friday has problem of carry-over momentum being lost.
 * ACTION: jsmith to send out email to revisit meeting times

Next meeting

 * Next meeting: 2010-08-27 UTC 18:00, public IRC meeting
 * Entire time for Q&A
 * Limit questions to 8 minutes, unless the Board wants to extend by another 5 minutes
 * Hard Limit of 1 hour for entire meeting