Meeting:Board meeting 2010-10-21

= Board Meeting 21 Oct 2010 =

Present

 * Tom "spot" Callaway
 * Jared Smith
 * Chris Tyler
 * Rex Dieter
 * Colin Walters
 * Jon Stanley
 * Matt Domsch
 * Máirín Duffy
 * Stephen Smoogen

Regrets

 * Christopher Aillon

Agenda

 * Work on name suggestions for Fedora 15
 * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_15

Top 12

 * Iroquois	XXXXXXXXX    ***
 * Asturias	XXXXXXXX     ***
 * Blarney	XXXXXXXX     ***
 * Malmstrom	XXXXXX       ***
 * Sturgis	XXXXXX       ***
 * Carlin	XXXXX        ***
 * Guerrero	XXXX         ***
 * Gutzwiller	XXXX         ***
 * Macau		XXXX         ***
 * Lovelock	XXX          ***
 * Bardeen	XXX          ***
 * Pushcart	XXX          ***

Needs to be done
Amur - http://amursoftwarelimited.web.officelive.com/default.aspx

Fortaleza (jstanley) - nothing obvious - http://www.startlocal.com.au/computing/computerequipmentandaccessories/nsw_centralnsw/Fortaleza_Services_Pty_Ltd_1554949.html looks like a local computer shop, not sure.

Iommi (jstanley) living person - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Iommi

Iroquois (mdomsch) online poker http://www.iroquoispoker.net. Iriquois Gas uses linux. http://m.sybase.com/detail?id=1026945 looks OK to me

Gutzwiller (spot) Meets criteria (might be hard to move forward from)

Bellevue - MAYBE

Neruda (mizmo) - NO Verdi Neruda is a prolog meta interpreter http://github.com/Joelbyte/verdi-neruda, Neruda Neruda Consulting is a private company categorized under Online Services Technology Consultants and located in Columbus OH (http://www.manta.com/c/mm2301k/neruda-consulting)

Sewickey - Looks good (ctyler)

Leuchars - Looks good (jsmith)

Blarney (mizmo) Looks good.

Weizenbaum just ELIZA hits no company names (walters: REJECTED, duplicate link physicist->physicist) but was Laughlin a pianist :)

Coltrane - old wordpress code name and software for Library/Environment for the Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations

Szpilman - do not see any conflicts with software/code (smooge)

Voting Schedule
* depends on someone volunteering to do the work, otherwise there won't be questionnaires
 * October 23-31 Collect Questions for Questionnaire*
 * October 23- November 7th Nominations Open
 * November 1 Publish Questionnaire*
 * November 1-10 Organize/Schedule Town Halls
 * November 2-8 Candidates Respond to Questionnaires*
 * November 10 Publish Questionnaire Responses*
 * November 13-19 Town Halls
 * November 20-28 Voting Period

jsmith: +1 spot: +1 mizmo: +1 smooge: +1 jstanley: +1 ctyler: +1 walters: +1 rdieter +1 mdomsch: +1

Board approved! (jsmith to post on wiki + advisory board list)


 * nominations moved out to nov 7 rather than oct 31

Spins Wrangler

 * Bruno started writing a job description for spins wrangler, need to finish document
 * How much work is it?
 * From Nirik's work - 1-2 hours day / machine builds them every day
 * If a build breaks in rawhide, wrangler has to fix
 * A release-engineering style job


 * We need to figure out what spins are
 * Mega DVD put all desktop choices in GRUB. Not necessarily best approach, why not DE selection in GDM?
 * Two types of spins - Desktop Environments and Functional (Electronics, Design)
 * Does anyone practically use them? Issue with live usb eating itself when out of disk space
 * mdomsch added agenda item to FUDCon Tempe; Board should lead discussion on future of Spins and bring up at FUDcon

Dual-Layer DVD Ambassadors' Request

 * Board isn't opposed to the idea, but dislikes the timing of the request, well past feature freeze
 * We're not saying no to the concept, it's a good idea, but we want to make sure things are done right
 * Most spins are not provided as official physical media
 * Mega DVD is available for review:
 * torrent: http://sspreitzer.fedorapeople.org/torrents/
 * direct download: http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/mega-dvd-test/
 * Major concerns are:
 * Needs to be built on Fedora infrastructure
 * Needs to have basic QA
 * Needs polish/artwork/sleeves
 * We need to establish requirements for approving something like this
 * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Media_Handout_Requirements (mdomsch)
 * Board to revisit once requirements are documented.

Election Schedule
Board started with John Rose's proposed schedule, and modified slightly the early dates.

* depends on someone volunteering to do the work, otherwise there won't be questionnaires
 * October 23-31 Collect Questions for Questionnaire*
 * October 23- November 7th Nominations Open
 * November 1 Publish Questionnaire*
 * November 1-10 Organize/Schedule Town Halls
 * November 2-8 Candidates Respond to Questionnaires*
 * November 10 Publish Questionnaire Responses*
 * November 13-19 Town Halls
 * November 20-28 Voting Period

There are several jobs that need volunteers to step up for:
 * 1) Election Coordinator
 * 2) Questionnaire Coordinator
 * 3) Town Hall Moderator (x3)