Meeting:Board meeting 2010-04-08

Roll Call

 * Present: Paul Frields, Chris Tyler, Colin Walters, Mike McGrath, Tom "spot" Callaway, Matt Domsch, Dennis Gilmore, John Poelstra, Christopher Aillon
 * Regrets: Josh Boyer
 * Assigned meeting secretary: Dennis Gilmore

Election schedule
Paul Frields
 * STATUS: Newest drafts on Elections page, FAB, and project schedule
 * QUESTION: Is there anyone on the Board who cannot support the schedule? If so, what would have to change for you to do so?
 * ctyler: What happens in the event of a schedule slip?
 * pfrields: It's not necessary, but we could evaluate in the case that there was a substantial slip before the actual nomination, town halls, questionnaire tasks started.
 * We would not want to change the voting timeframe, for example, after it starts.
 * Mdomsch: if there was a slip early on we could postpone start of voting leaving the nominations as is
 * dgilmore: agreed
 * pfrields: agreed
 * ACTION: Paul to remove all draft notices
 * ACTION: John will add a link in the schedule to the Elections page
 * AGREED: Election Schedule approved as is

Spins (SWG)
Matt Domsch
 * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mdomsch/SWG_Spins
 * Resolved and concluded
 * Page now shows actionable items that were taken for each issue found
 * mdomsch: asks if anyone has anything else to add
 * Letters sent to Spins SIG, who resoponded that you need to ask spin owners
 * Spin owners felt that the delivery of spins are ok.
 * Spin owners would like to be able to trim fat easier, especially light weight desktops.
 * All identified, actionable issues have tickets or responsible persons attached according to the page.
 * AGREED: Board agrees this item has been resolved successfully

User base (SWG)
John Poelstra
 * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Poelstra/What_is_a_target_audience
 * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_base
 * QUESTION: Is there anyone on the Board who cannot support this statement? If so, what would have to change for you to do so?
 * jpoelstra: came up with the idea of creating a diagram to represent Fedora's user base
 * after further discussion at Monday's SWG meeting the members there felt it best not to block this topic on having a completed diagram
 * significant time was spent on making sure https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_base met with everyone's approval
 * dgilmore: There may be problems with the diagram but it will be really hard to make it right for everyone. The wording on the page is clear
 * spot: Since we don't have an expert diagram artist :-) let's move forward
 * ACTION: Paul to remove draft notices, link from appropriate places,
 * AGREED: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_base is complete and Target Audience discussion is considered officially closed

Fedora UX designers (SWG)
Paul Frields
 * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pfrields/Desktop_user_experience_designers
 * Page has been updated with input from Board and Design team members
 * QUESTION: Is there anyone on the Board who cannot support this statement? If so, what would have to change for you to do so?
 * pfields: collaboration helped to make this clear and come up with the best possible result
 * Spot recommends that both Desktop SIG and Design tema link to this page
 * the big result of the page is to emphasize the opportunities and the practice of collaborative (not contesting) decision making in Fedora
 * ACTION: Paul will finalise the page and remove draft notices, and file with the SWG pages
 * ACTION: Paul to link from Desktop and Design team pages as appropriate
 * AGREED: The Board supports this page and the statements it makes.

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 * Thursday 2010-04-15 UTC 1600