Meeting:Board meeting 2008-09-30

= Fedora Project Board Meeting :: Tuesday 2008-09-30 =

Roll Call
Attendees: John Poelstra, Jesse Keating, Karsten Wade, Bill Nottingham, Matt Domsch, Chris Tyler, Seth Vidal, Paul Frields, Spot Callaway, Jef Spaleta

Regrets: Harald Hoyer

Codecs (2008-09-16)

 * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GStreamer_dependencies_in_RPM
 * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438225
 * Seth Vidal is going to meet with Richard Hughes to make sure a EULA associated with a specific package or codec works correctly with PackageKit and associated packages
 * UPDATE 2008-09-23
 * RESOLUTIONS
 * Fedora will only handle packages with EULAs through
 * Fedora does not foresee ever having packages in the official Fedora repos that contain EULAs
 * Remaining questions for follow-up:
 * What is the regular work flow for codecs in F10 when someone goes to play a media file with a gstreamer enabled player?
 * What will be the default behavior for a default installation?
 * Can we confirm that we are no longer prompting for any specific vendor?
 * Spot to track down answers to the remaining questions
 * UPDATE 2008-09-30 from Spot
 * In a default, fresh F10 install, if you go to play an mp3 file with a gstreamer enabled player, it will pop-up a helper
 * On a default F10 system there will be nothing in the pop-up
 * If you have an applicable third party yum repository configured, it will find the packages that provide the missing codecs and install them.
 * Codeina will NOT be installed by default and should be removed from the Fedora 10 repository and obsoleted and blocked.
 * There are no hooks to any third party vendors at this time.
 * ACTIONS
 * Spot will talk with PackageKit upstream about finding a way to included Fedora specific information which links to a Fedora wiki page on Fedora's stance on third party codecs
 * Spot will work with package maintainer(s) to resolve the items noted above related to codeina

Trademark Update (2008-09-16)

 * Board wants to maintain a good hold on how the primary Fedora trademark is used while provides lots of latitude for secondary mark
 * Process of legal review continues and appears to be moving forward favorably
 * trademark guidelines draft has recently been updated and can be found here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pfrields/NewTrademarkGuidelines
 * UPDATE 2008-09-23
 * Paul Frields has a meeting with with Red Hat legal this week
 * UPDATE 2008-09-30
 * Met with Legal this week
 * Looking for a way to include language that accommodates appliance operating systems (AOS) and qualified ISV applications
 * Very close to having a finalized policy--review if you haven't done so lately
 * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pfrields/New_trademark_guidelines
 * Working with community to come up with a term related to the secondary trademark
 * Leaning towards using the term Fedora Remix
 * The secondary trademark will be a text based trademark
 * Requested Fedora artwork team help with stylizing the text
 * Working to clarify licensing of the image containing the wordmark design

New Business

 * fedora-advisory-board thread about multiple elections at the same time
 * https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2008-September/msg00080.html
 * The board thinks that having concurrent Fedora elections is a great idea and supports it
 * Have a "Fedora General Election" of sorts
 * Could the marketing group help raise visibility within Fedora?
 * Need a clear call to action
 * Is there a way to collect questions and responses from the community and candidates?
 * ACTIONS
 * Jef to take discussion to fedora-marketing-list brainstorming about what could happen around vetting issues, debates, etc.

Next Meeting

 * Date: 2008-10-07
 * Time: 18:00 UTC
 * Location: irc.freenode.net
 * Public channel to ask questions: #fedora-board-public
 * Moderated channel for board answers: #fedora-board-meeting
 * Board to only join moderated channel so as to focus discussion there