Meeting:Community Architecture 2008-02-25

Roll call
Max Spevack, Greg DeKoenigsberg, Jack Aboutboul, Harish Pillay

Last week
Max
 * orientation.
 * lots of budget stuff, finishing fy08 and planning fy09.
 * start working through legal issues around relocation.
 * update to Fedora Board about budget and community plans for fy09.
 * continued helping with LinuxTag planning and Fedora EMEA NPO.
 * email Jan Wildeboer at Greg's suggestion to start chatting about RH/Fedora in Europe (no response yet).
 * working to finalize Fedora IT budget for FY09.
 * begin planning FUDCon @ RH Summit Boston.
 * email interview with Paul Frields for Jonathan Roberts

Greg
 * Delivered Community Architecture pich to worldwide marketing group
 * NCSU lunch and learn
 * Reviewed Google pitch with Jennifer Venable
 * Moved FAST meeting (community consulting) to 2/25
 * UNC visit to pitch Fedora to accessibility lab
 * Fedora TV test instance inches closer to completion

Jack
 * university tour work

General (Max)

 * budget summary and how that impacts Harish.
 * expenses and budget update.

FUDCon @ Summit in Boston (Max)

 * Sign up page has been created.
 * meeting with IDG on Thursday.
 * need to transition over to Paul Frields soon.

Marketing plan for Fedora (Greg)

 * Colby doesn't really have time right now.
 * Greg will call a meeting and work through some of the Marketing open items.

University Tour (Jack)

 * a typical day at one of these schools will involve meetings with both faculty and students.
 * pitch faculty on developing classes or integrating open source into the classes.
 * when Will Cohen opened up his course at NCSU, it was full within 20 minutes.
 * talk to students opens with Truth Happens, moves into everything from there.
 * enthusiasm is key.
 * 20 schools, 11 are driving distance.

This week
Max
 * make a page for talks and presentations.
 * get the intern stuff finalized.
 * keep on with LinuxTag.
 * keep working on the EMEA stuff.
 * keep working on FUDCon @ RH Summit, talk to Leigh about Fedora presenters.
 * RH Mag article about FOSDEM.

Greg
 * write up Fedora TV intern request.
 * keep working on google start page.
 * work on Fedora Marketing.
 * keep working on FISL.
 * keep working on Fedora TV.
 * community consulting -- calls with FAST, TI.
 * put CSEET talk up on wiki.

Jack
 * get all the university stuff on the wiki (again).
 * finish the actual presentation to present in next week's meeting.
 * set up a meeting with Leigh Day.
 * find sponsors for swag.
 * talk to websites team about a nice page and graphic designers about stuff.
 * get the NASA post up.

Next meeting

 * Jack presents his rough draft presentation to us.
 * what new metrics do we need? what do we need to measure?  how can we get the most out of FAS?
 * what are the dates of new users signing the CLA over time, and how do we show our impact on that?