Meeting:Board meeting 2009-10-29

Roll Call

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

Last meeting
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Board_meeting_2009-10-22

Audience profile refinement

 * Limit to 30 minutes
 * Use gobby to detail more characteristics, as a starting place
 * People voluntarily switching to Linux (in general? or fedora in particular?), not really "my aunt Tessie"
 * Better phrased -- conscious and independent choice to install and use a Linux platform
 * Not being forced into it -- willing to do an installation
 * Family member or friend support available (?)
 * Paul disagrees with above -- We want people to be able to run Fedora without support from a friend/family member (its just a reason why someone might take the jump to linux)
 * Does this mean we can assume an informed choice? Yes
 * Why did this person switch then?
 * stability
 * free of cost, functionality
 * lower risk (viruses, spyware, malware)
 * Family relationship to RHEL/CentOS (familiarity)
 * later:
 * free as in speech is secondary for many people, it's the hook that keeps them after they've already experienced the other beneficial effects
 * care about community later, after they discover the methodology and participation
 * What does this person expect when she installs?
 * Is comfortable with the idea that their whole hard disk may be erased
 * Wants the installation to take as few steps as possible
 * Does not want to be presented with choices that are not understandable
 * People who are not necessarily hackers, but are familiar with computers
 * (Not reached in time limit)
 * People who are likely to fix something that is not working (or at least collaborate or report when it's not working)
 * (Not reached in time limit)
 * People looking to perform one or more of the following tasks:
 * web browsing, email
 * office productivity
 * graphic arts
 * publishing
 * audio listeners
 * simple web services
 * collaboration & communication (IRC, gobby, IM)
 * All facilities that get the user in touch with any of our help venues
 * software development (cross platform, JAVA, not necessarily the development that we do)
 * Board made it partially into the first area, and realizes that this is not a project that can be done alone -- more of a thought exercise
 * Not trying to create propaganda (Why switch?) -- rather to understand the person who we want to target, and create/maintain what they would naturally want to use
 * AGREED: Board will engage with more design folks to find out how we can do this methodically and transparently
 * ACTION: Paul to copy to a wiki page for collaboration with others

FUDCon sessions

 * Suggestion:
 * One session: FUDCon + Board roundtable Q & A (incl. target audience preso if needed)
 * One session: Update discipline intro (hopefully presenting ML ideation, not starting from scratch).
 * Need a proposal to present to the audience for feedback and revision during the session. (Paul is planning to take a first shot at this) (spot made a pseudo-proposal in the old thread-of-doom)
 * Hackfests would take over work on updates, unfrozen Rawhide
 * Election town hall is separate
 * Want:
 * Feedback from community on target audience discussion
 * Community to understand that both the board and FESCo are in favor of a more disciplined approach to updates
 * hopefully a proposal has been drafted in advance that can be clarified or ratified
 * ACTION: Paul to take first shot at proposal, possibly using some or all of Spot's pseudo-proposal from FAB

Next Meeting

 * Public IRC Meeting, 2009-11-05
 * DST time change on Sunday, 2009-11-01 makes next meeting 1700 UTC, or same human time 12:00pm US-Eastern/9:00am US-Pacific
 * ACTION: Paul to send out notifications