Meeting:Board strategic working group 2010-02-01

Roll Call

 * Attendees: Mike McGrath, John Poelstra, Colin Walters, Paul Frields, Colin Walters
 * Regrets: Chris Tyler, Matt Domsch

Previous Meeting

 * Meeting:Board_strategic_working_group_2010-01-25

Setting Strategy

 * Work on: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Poelstra/Importance_of_strategy
 * Why the Fedora the Board (and this workgroup) are pursuing these strategic issuses and the benefits that will result to Fedora from investing time in them.
 * Added a new section with latest iteration: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Poelstra/Importance_of_strategy#2010-02-01
 * NEXT ACTIONS: John to propose to full board for acceptance

Individual Progress Updates

 * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Unfinished_Board_issues

Mike

 * Did some research and work on crowdsourcing as it related to the question of "1,000 contributors"
 * Does answering the pros/cons of crowdsourcing really help us?
 * Cons: Can add cost to the project
 * For Fedora -- gets done less efficiently, possibly?
 * Is the end product higher or lower quality?
 * Seemed like a good question at the time, do not see need to pursue further--mike will add reasoning and bullets and close out topic

Paul

 * working on default offering question and spins
 * next: Go to Spins SIG and ask some pointed questions about default offering
 * on what basis do you think the Project would decide to change?
 * Next meeting will have Default offering page written up for review and discussion

Colin

 * working on Spins questions and starting wiki pages
 * will link pages into https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Unfinished_Board_issues

John

 * Worked on personas and target audience page
 * Linked in some pages
 * Next meeting will have Personas page written up for review and discussion

Meeting Quality

 * John raised question of meeting quality and format and if people felt that the meetings were working
 * Everyone present felt that the meetings were working fine and no changes were needed at this time

Next Meeting

 * February 8, 2010 @ 15:00 EST