Meeting:Board meeting 2009-12-10

Roll Call

 * Present: Paul Frields, Josh Boyer, John Poelstra, Dennis Gilmore, Mike McGrath, Bill Nottingham, Matt Domsch, Tom 'spot' Callaway
 * Regrets: Dimitris Gilmore, Chris Aillon

Last meeting
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Board_meeting_2009-12-03

Trademark agreements

 * Paul is sorting these out today and tomorrow

fedoraturkiye.org
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2009-December/msg00001.html NEXT STEPS:
 * Board is not interested in replicating Fedora Infrastructure site
 * Matt says he cannot host a mirror (Matt investigated and informed requestor - insufficent bandwidth for a US-hosted mirror)
 * Paul suggested to contributor that a localized site would be beneficial and could be approved
 * waiting for the contributor to get back to us with details

Planet guidelines
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Planet#Appropriate_Material
 * Stems from some planet posts that showed up during FUDCon
 * Want to have a list of things that are not allowed
 * Board to decide: OK to use these guidelines?
 * Should we add this to the hall monitors' activity?
 * No, just a ticket filed with infrastructure should be fine.
 * mmcgrath opposed - on the grounds that censorship is bad
 * spot and pfrields: Censorship is preventing output from users; we are simply refusing to aggregate and pass it on
 * pfrields: having some limits to aggregation is the cost of not restricting the subject matter on the Planet
 * allowing some non-Fedora material on the Planet has a valuable social aspect for community building
 * dgilmore: We all have lives of which Fedora is a part
 * DECISION:
 * Planet content will continue to be dealt with case-by-case once contributors notify a Board member or the sysadmin team
 * The Board will manage the list of inappropriate material as needed
 * We will not ask the hall monitors to moderate content at this time
 * ACTION: Paul to add a bit that tells people what to do if they're not sure if something is inappropriate, and a link to report questionable material.

FUDCon follow-up

 * excellent content and attendance
 * dgilmore: first time we have not been able to fit all proposals in.(maybe we can look at having an overflow session)
 * mmcgrath: Budget constraint on transportation -- connecting flights where I lost a whole day, similarly with smooge+toshio+jkeating+inode0+others
 * mdomsch: People who might not have come due to timing other than encouragement from others
 * There was a lot of IRC to help mitigate if people aren't on site
 * poelcat: How about starting earlier? It felt like we were getting started half way through the day.
 * not taking full advantage of cost of bringing all these people together
 * At RDU FUDCon a few times back breakfast was at 8:30 AM and we started at 9:00 AM.
 * dgilmore: maybe the key is having breakfast at the event
 * poelcat: internet speed was a problem (at both the hotel, and at the university)
 * could we bring in an outside internet provider at a price that would not kill us?
 * mdomsch: possible yes, inexpensive no
 * poelcat: setting the problem reasons aside, the internet is our primary communication and producitivty mechanism so it seems important that it works well
 * digilmore: being outside of the US, restricted alternative personal connection methods like WIMAX or phone tethering
 * mdomsch: very hard problem to solve when you bring 150-200+ people to an event
 * ACTIONS: Board members to send additional feedback to fudcon-planning -at- lists fedoraproject org as appropriate

Updates
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Desktop/Whiteboards/UpdateExperience https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2009-October/msg00222.html
 * pfrields: Talk by McCann + Aillon at FUDCon was interesting because it acknowledges and ties together a lot of common problems with some thoughts on solving them
 * ACTION: Paul will break out the sub-thread to it's own topic on f-a-b to restart discussion.
 * ACTION: Paul to invite Jon McCann, to expand on (with Chris) the update talk they gave at FUDCon

Ad Bard banner offer

 * Ad Bard is a FSF-approved free software project advertising network, offering to run a Fedora Project ad banner over January 2010
 * We just need to put together a specific sized/formatted ad to link to fp.o
 * ACTION: Josh to coordinate with the design team and get something sent out

Next meeting

 * Proposed: Thu Dec 17 2009 - 1700 UTC/12:00pm US Eastern