Meeting:Community Architecture 2009-02-23

Roll call
Max, Greg, Jack, Karsten, Paul, Tiemann, Sankarshan, Harish

Michael

 * Genome
 * Internal IT team experiences beginning to mirror customer experiences.
 * Opportunity to show best practices for OSA migration.
 * We need to be focused on solving actual problems and focusing on positives.
 * Need help - make sure CommArch is engaging w/ Genome.

Karsten

 * SCALE & FAD
 * Maybe a bigger commitment at SCALE 8x?.
 * We have a sort of "distributed rock star" model for excitement.
 * Cookbook
 * Catch up this week, behind due to event execution.

Max

 * Purpose of CA meetings
 * We're global, but individual tasks are isolated from each other.
 * Keep each other informed and find connections.
 * MRC said work done back in Nov had significant impact.
 * CMU - Profs are highly incented to teach FOSS well, Max working on clarifying agreement.

Greg

 * Education
 * Need to find out about opening of content before we go further.
 * MRC liked stuff about POSSE -- time is of the essence, so need decision.
 * Wants cohesive plan to go with all the vision and big-picture stuff.
 * Slide deck to socialize with other execs, and notes for deep-diving.
 * Education by-products
 * Tiemann provided update on leveraging education of customers into vastly improved sales opportunities.
 * Harish talked about arming sales with consistent messages on value prop.
 * Sugar
 * Not going to block F11 anywhere, moving very quickly right now.
 * No spin for F11, concentrating on Sugar on a Stick.

Jack

 * Marketing
 * Picture Book - is there a blocker on release forms, or are they just one thing that needs to be fixed in parallel.
 * Establish critical path issues for community to move forward.
 * Tasks - Condense schedules from JonRob with the main task schedule.

Harish

 * Eucalyptus - next gen stuff from Fedora perspective? Will contact McGrath.