Meeting:Board meeting 2011-06-07

Present
Jared Smith David Nalley Jaroslav Reznik (secretary) Toshio Kuratomi  Rex Dieter Joerg Simon

Regards
Jon Stanley

Agenda

 * Updates
 * Q&A

Updates

 * FUDCon Panama was a great success -- not only did people show up to learn and to grow, but they showed up to work as well
 * FUDCon EMEA will be in Milan, Italy from September 30th through October 2nd )
 * FUDCon APAC 2011 is currently open for bids (November/December)
 * we'll be opening bidding for FUDCon APAC 2012 soon as intention is to have APAC earlier in the year
 * FUDCon NA hotel contracts will be finished up in June
 * FUDCon North America will be in Blacksburg, Virginia on the campus of Virginia Tech in January of 2012

Fedora usability testing

 * dcr226 reported, he and mharris were doing some testing with Fedora 15 for a total newbie, I've also done a fair amount in and around my peers. I guess its just food for though and data
 * Fedora is sooo close to being usable by AverageJoe, just a few tiny adjustments to the process. Perhaps promoting "mind broadening" to some of the guys working on anaconda and the live.isos - the process of finding, downloading and installing Fedora
 * should be reported directly to Anaconda and websites team (or design team)

Fedora 15 retrospective

 * an open Fedora 15 retrospective page at where people can give feedback
 * jsmith to schedule meeting for next week to go over the retrospective
 * the issue with incorrect recommended installation space in release notes should be reported there too, not to forget

How to join documentation team

 * DrManhattan asked, how to help documentation team
 * ke4qqq answered with wiki page
 * jsmith recommended joining mailing list or IRC and offered help with tools etc.
 * this led to broader discussion on mentoring and spread and recruit topics
 * see full log

China Ambassadors mentors

 * Haowei complained that only a few Chinese ambassador mentors are active
 * this is to be discussed on FAMSCo meeting

IRC protocol

 * gholms asked how to cancel ! and ? requests
 * "cancel !" worked very well
 * be bold and update wiki with IRC protocol

IRC Log

 * Full IRC log text
 * Meetbot summary