Meeting:Board meeting 2009-02-10

= Fedora Project Board Meeting :: Tuesday 2009-02-10 =

Roll Call

 * Board Members: Bill Nottingham, Paul Frields, Harald Hoyer, Seth Vidal, Chris Tyler, Chris Aillon, Jesse Keating, Dimitris Glezos, and Spot Callaway
 * Special guest: Max Spevack
 * Secretary: John Poelstra
 * Regrets: Matt Domsch

Links to last meetings

 * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Meetings/2009-02-03
 * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Meetings/2009-01-27

Follow-up To Previous Business

 * "What is Fedora?" discussion
 * Paul drafting framework to decide process to arrive at

Max Spevack Update

 * Max hijacked the entire agenda and kept the Board on the call 15 extra minutes! Who does he think he is?

Fedora Store in EMEA

 * Looking for a way to distribute goods in an efficient manner
 * Hard to find good quality and distribution networks
 * Looking for board approval to move forward with linux-onlineshop.de
 * Customized skinned Fedora store
 * Built on FOSS
 * Custom fedora URL
 * Will handle warehouse space and shipping
 * Individual sales subsidize further Fedora related activities via Fedora EMEA
 * Board would like more information into:
 * What are the margins the vendor makes on these goods?
 * Quality of goods and sustainability of this business
 * Where/how (country and conditions) are the goods being produced?
 * ACTIONS: Max to followup on questions and get back to the board

Denoting Fedora sponsorship

 * http://fedoraproject.org/en/sponsors
 * We do not have existing guidelines around receiving goods or services from sponsors and what is provided in return
 * How do we give Red Hat reasonable credit for sponsoring Fedora?
 * Is there a special category for Red Hat?
 * hardware, hosting/services, and events are forms of sponsorship Fedora is able to presently accept
 * ACTIONS--Spot will lead investigation of ways to:
 * give recognition to Red Hat
 * recognize other sponsors
 * design presentation

Community Architecture & LXDE In Fedora

 * Looking for ways to promote LXDE and help them move forward
 * Max met with president of LXDE Foundation at FOSDEM
 * Can Fedora endorse LXDE in a certain way?
 * Dimitris reports that conversations are underway to use Transifex in LXDE
 * BOARD RESPONSE:
 * A custom LXDE spin easily addresses this request
 * We encourage all desktops to participate in this way

FUDCon LATAM 2009 and FUDCon EMEA 2009 plans

 * Rodrigo Padula (recently hired by Red Hat) is helping to coordinate FUDCon at FISL
 * Community Architecture team is funding FUDCon at FISL & LinuxTag
 * Hoping to have FUDCon in conjunction with LinuxTag
 * 10,000+ people at LinuxTag
 * FUDCon would be co-located and integrated with LinuxTag (unlike Red Hat Summit 2008)
 * Community Architecture brings this issue forward because the result is that funding would not be available for a North America FUDCon until September 2009 at the earliest
 * BOARD RESPONSE: Fully support these events and use of funds. Max & Community team to continue working on these events.

Future Business

 * Trademark & domain name registration matters
 * "What Is Fedora?" discussion
 * Goals & objectives of the board
 * Status of security policies