Meeting:Board meeting 2012-02-29

= Fedora Board Meeting, 2012-02-29 =


 * Secretary: Jaroslav Reznik
 * Meeting Type: Phone

Attendees

 * Robyn Bergeron
 * Peter Robinson
 * Jaroslav Reznik (gobby only, still trying)
 * Jon Stanley
 * Christoph Wickert
 * Toshio Kuratomi
 * Rudi Landmann
 * Rex Dieter
 * Guillermo Gomez

Regrets

 * David Nalley

Agenda

 * Trademark guidelines updates
 * Google Summer of Code - thoughts? Mentor org apps due March 9, need a wrangler/leader/noisemaker
 * Review of Board member goals: Rudi and David
 * Ticket #130: Make the board less of a single point of failure: https://fedorahosted.org/board/ticket/130
 * Ticket #133: Fedora LTS and a single rapid release proposal: https://fedorahosted.org/board/ticket/133

Meeting Notes

 * Trademarks update
 * No update at the moment


 * GSoC
 * How many people did we have last summer?
 * We need someone (or more than one) who is happy to commit for the full duration of the program
 * Robyn to write blog post about needing a volunteer to wrangle GSoC, get time estimate from Karsten by tomorrow
 * Gomix will try to involve some people from rpmdev latam area (Nushio was at GSoC last year AFAIK)


 * Board Goals
 * Going to write these up on: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board_personal_goals


 * Rudi
 * Help to streamline the docs publishing process
 * Process is somewhat cumbersome
 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Automating_publishing
 * Multifaceted including a number of teams
 * Focusing on procedural
 * Infrastructure - hw requests, testing etc.
 * Gomix working on new docs in not english as first language, just as a reminder on procedures for such kind of documents (as SMG).


 * Rex
 * Try to sponsor over the next release cycle sponsor/mentor 3 new contributors
 * Small goal due to time contraint with aim for quality new contributors


 * Christoph
 * the question is - how to make the three different election guidelines more streamlined, to have one common guideline (from the Board member perspective)
 * to have someone from FESCo to cooperate on this task, Christoph to go with FAmSCo


 * Ticket #130 - The Board less of a single point of failure
 * Toshio added a section on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Toshio/sopa-post-mortem
 * He's busy until March 15th, will fill it in then or someone else can work on it first


 * Ticket #133 - Fedora LTS and rolling release
 * sounds like a question whether Red Hat would be interested to help with?
 * LTS for Fedora versions that will become RHEL later (but not overlapping with RHEL?)
 * What is the question to put to Red Hat?
 * What would Red Hat be willing to provide towards implementing a Fedora LTS?
 * More hardware to Fedora for hosting packages, building, etc?
 * More infrastructure system admins to maintain the hardware?
 * Pay engineers to work on their packages throughout the lifecycle of the LTS?
 * Ticket #80 - Ways to improve Board Q&A
 * Ticket #89 - Discuss possible support burden from Fedora Remixes
 * very old ticket, close and ask Jóhann for more input


 * There are several TM tickets


 * https://fedorahosted.org/board/ticket/117 - Suggestion regarding to Fedora on Launchpad.net
 * Christoph to take the ticket to contact Launchpad again to clarify the use of it


 * https://fedorahosted.org/board/ticket/83 - revisit updates vision
 * the idea was to revisit update vision language after a release/two (how does it work)
 * "... only fix bugs and security issues" language, reported by Rex

Open Floor

 * CoC enforcement
 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Community_working_group/CoC_Enforcement
 * open ended to be flexible, case by case


 * Robyn will be gone for next week's IRC meeting
 * Jaroslav Reznik will run next week's IRC meeting
 * Toshio will be gone for the next two weeks

Next Meeting
Next meeting will be IRC on 2012-Mar-07 at 18:30UTC.