Meeting:Board meeting 2008-09-16

= Fedora Project Board Meeting :: Tuesday 2008-09-15 =

Roll Call
Attendees: John Poelstra, Max Spevack, Paul Frields, Seth Vidal, Jef Spaleta, Matt Domsch, Jesse Keating, Spot Callaway, Harald Hoyer, Chris Tyler, and Karsten Wade

Regrets: Bill Nottingham

Fedora EMEA update

 * Max Spevack
 * Revenue and expense activity are reflected in entity's books which is a registered German non-profit entity
 * Entity has covered the expense to create Fedora t-shirts and is accounting for the related revenue from selling them
 * Goal is to supplement budget that Red Hat provides for world-wide events
 * Infrastructure to do things is in place and looking forward to doing more in the future

Beta Freeze and Upcoming Release

 * Release Engineering held a round-table yesterday
 * Still targeting to release day of 2008-09-23

Beta Release Meeting

 * John Poelstra is organizing a meeting with each of the team leaders from the various part of Fedora
 * Make sure coordination between the groups is in place
 * Meeting on 2008-09-16

Codecs

 * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GStreamer_dependencies_in_RPM
 * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438225
 * Seth Vidal is going to meet with Richard Hughes to make sure a EULA associated with a specific package or codec works correctly with PackageKit and associated packages

Trademark Update

 * Board wants to maintain a good hold on how the primary Fedora trademark is used while provides lots of latitude for secondary mark
 * Process of legal review continues and appears to be moving forward favourably
 * trademark guidelines draft has recently been updated and can be found here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pfrields/NewTrademarkGuidelines