Meeting:Board meeting 2008-12-09

= Fedora Project Board Meeting :: Tuesday 2008-12-09 =

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

Regrets: Harald Hoyer

Fedora 11 Naming

 * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_11
 * Submissions are closed
 * In order to not overburden Red Hat legal department the Board will select a subset of entries
 * Board needs to send a list to legal by December 15, 2008
 * Receive list back from legal by January 2, 2009

Brainstorming FUDCon Fedora 11 External Audio Options

 * streaming audio or video
 * could someone at MIT Television help?
 * one central server for streaming and use laptops in individual sessions
 * potential problems
 * enough bandwidth to get to fedora talk
 * enough hardware
 * use IRC for feedback loop to livestream
 * what about targeting one or two rooms to pilot the live stream
 * do well in one room
 * would need to create a standard setup guide so it is easy
 * setup in advance, preferably the day before so time isn't wasted in individual sessions trying to get things to work
 * would to designate people in each room to watch over equipment
 * Plan of attack:
 * Paul Frields will try to make contact with MIT TV
 * Chris Tyler to send out email to various fedora lists soliciting help and hardware from people attending--clip on microphones or video cameras

FUDCon Update

 * Planning is on track with Paul the organization of everything
 * For people arriving before Friday, January 9, 2009, it might be good to have a meeting place for: "I'm here please put me to work place"
 * Most of the critical help will be needed the week before and up until the event
 * Will have a couple ads running in the MIT newspaper advertising FUDCon

Fedora 8 Package Resigning

 * Release Engineering requested Board decision on necessity of resigning Fedora 8 packages with end of life less than one month away
 * DECISION: Board unanimously believes that Fedora 8 must be re-signed, as was originally communicated to the public.

Push of Defective Packages

 * earlier this week a broken dbus package update was pushed resulting in non-functioning systems
 * The board would like to see tools and processes that lower the risk of this problem recurring.
 * ACTIONS:Jesse is volunteering to lead a cross group effort involving QA, Infrastructure, Release Engineering, and tools developers (Seth Vidal, etc.)

Post Election Red Hat Board Appointments

 * Short discussion about candidates under consideration