Meeting:Board meeting 2008-01-22

= Fedora Project Board Meeting :: Tuesday 2008-01-22 =

Roll Call
Attendees: Paul Frields, Chris Aillon, Seth Vidal, Karsten Wade, John Poelstra, Bill Nottingham, Jef Spaleta, Steve Dickson, Matt Domsch, Dennis Gilmore. Regrets: Jack Aboutboul, Bob McWirther, Max Spevack

Red Hat Summit in Boston

 * Fedora talks
 * "Open source track"
 * Hackfest space
 * What are the logistics?
 * Whether and how to handle a barcamp?
 * There will be a Fedora booth
 * Could the expo floor be comp'd for FUDCon attendees?

ACTIONS: 1. Steve Dickson to track down details to understand how Summit participants and FUDCon attendees will mix? 1. Max and Greg D are having a meeting with Shay and Leigh (Summit organizers) before the next Board call and will report back

FUDCon & Contributor Survey
ACTION: Need a board member to own this item--followup at next meeting
 * FUDCon survey sent to marketing people
 * What would be a useful way to query the contributors?
 * What types of questions would help get to the bottom of the issues?
 * Query contributors from the perspective of where we should invest people resoures and time

Areas of Fedora That Need More Attention?

 * QA and testing
 * What is the situation with open sourcing RHTS?
 * What happened with testing.108 and "Table Cloth"?

Goals For the Board
1. Engaging more with Upstream 1. Think more about this and followup at next meeting
 * What things would the board like to accomplish over the next year?

fedoraproject.org mail

 * What is the status of it and who is working on it?
 * previous board discussions/decisions:
 * https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2007-July/msg00102.html
 * https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2007-August/msg00004.html

Next Meeting

 * Tuesday, January 29, 2008
 * 17:00 EST