Meeting:Board meeting 2010-06-18

Roll call

 * Present: Paul Frields, Christopher Aillon, Colin Walters, Rex Dieter, Chris Tyler, Matt Domsch, Mo Duffy, Jon Stanley, Stephen Smoogen
 * Regrets: Tom 'spot' Callaway
 * Assigned meeting secretary: Christopher Aillon

Organizational matters

 * Welcome to the new Board members!
 * Brief update on meeting and issue tracking details (Paul)
 * May discuss sensitive matters. These will be noted, please keep them private.
 * Board members do not necessarily speak for their employers.
 * Trac access granted to new members, issues are potentially confidential in nature -- goal is to move as much of that material into minutes and IRC as possible.
 * Gobby used for taking meeting minutes, posted to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Board_meetings
 * Discuss issues on advisory-board list when possible, use the private list only for confidential items

Top issues for F14 cycle

 * Get consensus on agenda for next ~6 months, focus on moving Fedora to next level
 * High impact items to benefit the project or contributors
 * Will be incredibly useful for FPL successor
 * Simply stating problems for now -- keep in mind that lots of Fedora works great -- we focus on the negative in this list as a way to embrace change and keep growing/moving forward
 * Limit to 3 minutes per person, then prioritize with remaining time
 * Christopher Aillon
 * Fedora needs a target experience, more than a target user. -- facilitate them to go from random user to someone who will file a bug (and then onward)
 * Fedora needs to be the open source development platform of choice
 * Rex Dieter
 * We need to keep the community positive
 * Rawhide needs to be more consumable (and consumed)
 * Fedora needs to be easier and more welcoming for alternative desktops
 * Matt Domsch
 * Fedora + Cloud: Fedora is great for platform as a service, and need to push Fedora as the OS of choice for cloud applications
 * We need to keep the community positive, and take decisive action in cases of extreme negativity
 * Mo Duffy
 * Confusion around target experience.
 * Spins one area of confusion: should be closer to package groups, having to pick 1 spin is too restrictive
 * Mailing lists are a time sink
 * Losing mindshare - Need more marketing, Need more FOSS developers on Fedora, 3rd party software install is painful (especially when no Fedora packages provided)
 * Smooge
 * Poisonous people make Fedora unpleasant to contribute to and are too prevalent [Noisy idiots is a better term look it up online]
 * Still too many people using EOL Fedora versions (in part due to EC2 issue)
 * We are not focusing towards eventual enterprise goals... We seem to wander from release to release without long term focus.
 * Jon Stanley
 * Poisonous people tend to dominate discussions, need to find a way to fix this
 * Update stability, need to keep an eye on this issue with FESCo
 * Chris Tyler
 * Joining Fedora is not as clear and consistent as it could be
 * Onramping: Make it easy for truly interested people to join Fedora and become effective contributors
 * Colin Walters
 * Upgrade experience: have to do better here, not just packages but distros
 * Need to minimize regressions
 * Need to raise contributor interest in the default desktop (few new app suggestions for ex)
 * Paul
 * Need to have a clear way to oppose useless trolling
 * Mo
 * Negativity is a result of no clear vision or focus, we have one vision per person
 * Paul
 * many of these problems are interlaced and need to be solved together to truly tackle the problem
 * Artificial separation between e.g. FESCo and Board -- need people to work closer together

Top 3 issues
 * Negativity
 * Fedora Experience
 * Mindshare (via cloud, etc.)

Next meeting

 * Proposed: Cancel 2010-06-25 -- Red Hat Summit
 * Next meeting: 2010-07-02 UTC 1800, public IRC meeting