Meeting:Board strategic working group 2010-03-15

Role Call

 * Attendees: John Poelstra, Mike McGrath, Colin Walters, Paul Frields, Chris Tyler
 * Regrets: Matt Domsch


 * Last meeting: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/advisory-board/2010-February/008135.html

User Base

 * Discussion of https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Poelstra/What_is_a_target_audience + diagram sent in separate email
 * http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/paste-bin/user-base-v3.pdf
 * John: Remove call-outs on the left and marketing language at the bottom
 * Paul: Make lower part of triangle bigger to represent that User Base is much larger
 * Paul: Maybe make another version of the triangle showing what proportions might look like in the future.
 * Colin, Paul, Chris: Use gradient instead of solid line between groups
 * Colin: add some gradients and remove the hard line between the top triangle and bottom
 * Colin: Make it easy for people to be contributors without joining devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
 * Idea of a "Minimum bar"
 * This is the most basic profile of a person that we want to be interested in our distribution
 * The distribution is the primary gateway to participation + contribution
 * Does it make more sense in the context of upward progression to cast this as a "user base" instead?
 * Pyramid model matches the model of user -> contributor that is used in communities of practice (such as in CommArch)
 * Colin: could enhance by thinking of axis: frequency of contribution vs. experience level
 * Maybe split into two triangle, one as involvement and one as skill
 * draw parallel to community of contribution diagrams
 * NEXT STEPS:
 * John to modify diagram
 * Upload diagram to a wiki page
 * Request that board review the diagram for consistency with user base wiki pages https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_base
 * Agree that this topic is closed https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Poelstra/What_is_a_target_audience

Spins

 * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Walters/SpinsSigsRemixes_TargetAudience
 * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mdomsch/SWG_Spins
 * Provides the answers to the originally proposed pages
 * For pain points make sure we have links to where we are addressing them
 * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Walters/SpinsSigsRemixes_ChangeDistribution
 * NEXT STEPS:
 * Colin to add redirects, add links and tidy up as applicable to show how we have addressed the questions originally raised

Distribution Pages

 * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pfrields/Current_default_offering
 * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pfrields/Different_default_offering
 * Both pages will go before the board on Thursday
 * NEXT STEPS:
 * Paul to put before board at next meeting

Next Meeting

 * Paul will do a proposal to answer the question, "If the Desktop Spin is the default offering, does this mean the Desktop team defines the user experience for all of Fedora?"
 * Chris: we should consider and address why this discussion keeps coming up
 * Monday March 29 @ 3 PM EST
 * skipping next week because Paul and John have conflicts