Meeting:Board meeting 2011-09-20

= Fedora Board Meeting, 20011 09 20 =


 * Secretary: Jaroslav Reznik
 * Meeting Type: Phone

Attendance
Present: Jaroslav Reznik Toshio Kuratomi Jon Stanley Peter Robinson Rudi Landmann Rex Dieter

Not Present:

Regards:
 * David Nalley (on the road)
 * Jared Smith (on the road)

Agenda

 * Updates
 * Board business
 * F17 release names
 * upcoming elections

Fedora 17 release names
Lorenz  - [NO] does not share an isa relation with Verne Potter - Small, regional software consultants: http://pottersoftware.com/ -- "[PSIon] is an acronym standing for "Potter Scientific Instruments", after the company's founder, David Potter. " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion Erwin- I think that the link here is tenous at best - Verne is the son of a FICTIONAL scientist Neptune - [No] http://www.neptunesoftwareplc.com/ (online banking software) -- Mapping software for sailing charts http://www.neptune-navigation.com/plotter.htm Rocky Ripple - Jon - valid link (though quite obscure) - however, ripple rock is a software development consultancy - too similar? Rutan - [No] Living Person (Burt Rutan) link tenuous but could be made better (Both are people who envisioned circumnavigating the globe) Hugo - pbrobinson - Living person (Hugo Chávez) - NOT OK Omoto - pbrobinson - was approved for F16 so OK Shakespeare - Jon - seems OK at first pass Ramon - [No] Variety of semi-famous living people (soccer, basketball, singer), none in Linux/software http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram%C3%B3n - radio monitoring/locating software http://www2.rohde-schwarz.com/product/ramon.html - small software conculting firm in New Zealand http://web.me.com/ramonsoftware/Home/Welcome.html - CLI program on Linux written by QoSient for dealing with log data http://linux.die.net/man/1/ramon Morgan - jreznik - does not share an isa relation with Verne - NOT OK Alcatraz - jreznik - link ok, but alcatrazsoftware company - NOT OK Fenimore - jreznik - link ok, not alive (July 28, 2010), but Fenimore Software Group, Inc. - NOT OK Balboa - jreznik - note: Verne was writer, not an explorer, conquistador as far as I know... link not ok and Balboa Software - NOT OK Lundmark - rudi - link ok, not alive (23 April 1958) -- no apparent links to software -- OK Koch - rudi - link ok, not alive (27 May 1910) -- couple of loose software connections (Koch-Glitsch, Verlag Martin Koch), but probably OK Pavlov - rudi - link ok, not alive (February 27, 1936) -- Igor Pavlov is a developer, of at least one reasonably well-known project (7-Zip), but this isn't an uncommon surname, so probably OK Delaney - Jon - living person. Mike Delaney is the Attorney General of New Hampshire (among many, many others) Coral - [NO] Many collisions with software and small to medium computer companies Percheron - rudi -- link ok -- Percheron Systems and Percheron Control Systems are small software businesses - Probably OK? Never - Jon - hard to link out of (but possibly OK) Piccard - jreznik - link (submarines/deep waters exploring, date of death) ok, not alive, Piccard is a software by Kuranet but seems really obsolete (see http://bit.ly/oN0rvt) - similar theming to Verne, probably OK Shitton Falls - jreznik - link not ok (no link) - NOT OK Drake - pbrobinson - a number of consulting companies inc sofware http://www.drakeconsult.com/ http://www.drakeconsulting.co/ - NOT OK Apollo - pbrobinson - a number of sofware products have Apollo in their name (Apollo CRM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_%28software%29 ApolloSoftware http://www.apollosoftware.com/ADefault.aspx Apollo Software http://www.apollo-software.nl/ Apollo Space Optimization Suite http://www.retailsmart.com/apollo.htm Apollo Root Cause Analysis http://www.apollorca.com/software) Probably not OK? Farragut - rdieter - software company http://www.farragut.com/ - NOT OK Aristarchus - rdieter - hard to link out of? - OK Panguipulli - rdieter - hard to link out of? - OK Gernsback - [OK] may be hard to link from. Both Verne and Gernsback were fathers of science fiction. - Used in the title of a William Gibson short story (which may be our only link out as well) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gernsback_Continuum McFly - rudi - link isa, but depends on a film property (Back to the Future) -- a few vague software references -- OK if the BTTF link isn't considered a problem Bonaparte - Jon - a disaster vicitm identification software (http://www.bonaparte-dvi.com/bonaparte.html) Grimm - Jon - GRIMM is a tool for analyzing rearrangements in pairs of genomes (http://grimm.ucsd.edu/GRIMM/) Mini - jreznik - too generic name, former Fedora Mini SIG/spin - NOT OK Zucchetto - rdieter - shaky link in, hard to link out of? - OK? Fez - rdieter - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEZ_%28software%29 - NOT OK Tubiteika - rdieter - shaky link in, hard to link out of? - OK? Amaldi - Jon - link OK, no conflicts found. Atlantis -- Rudi -- no "isa" provided, but Verne is a spaceship, and so was Atlantis -- however, it is also (unsurprisingly) a software company (www.atlantissoftware.com) also a prominent defunct software company (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis_Software) -- name is so generic that this might not be a problem though? -- maybe OK Bacon - Living person (Jono Bacon) Villeroi - jreznik - link ok, not alive, Villeroy & Boch (bathroom company but found some software references...) but looks ok - OK Atmosphere -[NO] Many pieces of computer software including Adobe's discontinued http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Atmosphere Hofmann - Jon - no link (unless you want to go on the scientist one) Arbil - Rudi - link OK - a couple of loose software connections -- OK Liege - [OK] only computer links found via google were references to the town name, Liege Tagore - rdieter - fails "...is a" test - NOT OK Beefy Miracle - rdieter - OK Cannon - Rudi - no link -- NOT OK Chthonic - jreznik - weak link (?), no person alive, no software business - probably not OK and probably not pronouncable :) Cusp - Rudi - no link -- NOT OK Antwerp - Jon Nudd - Rudi - weak link, and the Verne in question is alive (and an entrepreneur -- http://www.gazelles.com/verne_guru_growth_masters.html) -- not obviously themeable -- only vague software references -- NOT OK Nehru - jreznik - link ok, Nehra Software India is quite similar - but probably OK Dario - Rudi - link OK, not alive (February 6, 1916) -- some vague software references (looks like the name is not too uncommon) -- OK Guerrero - rdieter -  OK Neville - [NO] Neville data solutions: http://www.neville.net/  - Software company http://www.nevilleandrowe.co.uk/  - Variety of living people unrelated to computers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville - Neville Isdell (that the link to Verne is for) is still alive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Neville_Isdell Méliès - [OK] jreznik - (loosely) based on From the Earth to the Moon - link ok, no software company link (only Czech consultancy company), OK Urso - jsmith - Link tenative, but ok. Found both Irmão Urso software and a torrent link for "Urso Linux" -- NOT OK Hedayat - Rudi - link OK (not alive 4 April 1951) -- only loose software connections (because this is a personal name) -- might not be easy to theme, but looks OK Alpharabius - Rudi - link pretty weak but OK -- no obvious software connection -- OK VonBraun - [OK] Best link is the crater. Didn't find any trademark collisions.
 * filter proposed names according guidelines
 * see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_17#How_to_use_this_table

Qazwini - rdieter - hard to link out of? notable living fellow http://www.qazwini.org/ - NOT OK Netemachikayotl - Rudi - link not "isa" -- NOT OK Uluru - [NO] jreznik - weak link, Uluru is a software platform..., Uluru Consulting Ltd - Computer Software (Development) - NOT OK

upcoming elections

 * Need an election wrangler
 * jsmith to do public call for election wrangler

Action Items
None

Next Meeting
Next meeting will be IRC on 2011-08-27 at 16:00 UTC