Ambassadors/Meetings/2006-09-28

= Fedora Ambassadors Meeting Minutes 2006-09-28 =

Meeting Time

 * 2006-09-28 22:00 UTC
 * #fedora-mktg on freenode

Participants

 * : AlexMaier
 * : DavidNalley
 * : SamFolkWilliams
 * : SiddharthUpmanyu
 * : KushalDas
 * : BobJensen
 * :RexDieter
 * : FrancescoUgolini

Transcript

 * [[Image:Ambassadors_Meetings_2006]](2d)09(2d)28_fedora-ambassadors-2006-09-28.txt

Summary

 * Fedora Usability Issues

(10:05:59) lxmaier: okay, then let us talk about any business you guys have, so we can all make this meeting productive (10:06:24) kushal: ! (10:06:29) lxmaier: > kushal (10:06:57) kushal: I talked a large number of students in west bengal, india (10:07:00) BobJensen: BobJensen (10:07:15) kushal: they have mainly two things to say (10:07:26) siddhart: ! (10:07:41) kushal: 1. Why can't they install anything from the Fedora CD/DVD ? (10:08:04) kushal: through add/remove software (10:08:12) BobJensen: ! (10:08:28) davidn: ! (10:08:28) kushal: 2. is about restricted codecs.. (10:08:46) kushal: I hope I provided a solution for the q2. (10:08:50) kushal: 

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Multimedia (10:15:21) siddhart: about the codecs i agree this is the most common problem faced there have to be a soultion like giving guidlines so that installing 3rd paryt softwares will be easy (10:16:00) siddhart: a quick guid for accessing repos of 3ed party softwares (10:16:03) siddhart: (10:16:23) samfw: ! (10:16:25) BobJensen: ! (10:16:34) kushal: ! samfw siddhart sm|CPU smoha1 Sonar_Gal StillBob (10:16:39) lxmaier: > samfw (10:17:14) samfw: siddhart: i think instead of telling people how to install "ugly" codecs, we need to educate people as to why they should not
 * Commercial v/s OSS


 * Unanswered May be considered in future meetings when more info is avalible

(10:47:50) lxmaier: > davidn ( rdieter lxmaier kushal ) (10:47:55) davidn: We talk repeatedly about 'free' formats only, but honestly, thats not the case, it's liability avoidance on redhats part. .doc isn't an open standard, its been reverse engineered, .xls isn't open some story, and yet we support both. I don't expect a policy change, but lets at least not say it's because mp3 isn't an OSS format..... (10:48:24) davidn: we do and have supported many closed formats (gif too iirc) and yes arguing about it here doesn't change anything, so I'll shutup and apologize. (10:48:35) davidn: s/some/same (10:48:52) davidn: eof

Next Meeting

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