Meeting:Board meeting 2011-03-22

= Fedora Board Meeting - 2011-03-22 =

Present

 * David Nalley
 * Jared Smith
 * Toshio Kuratomi
 * Joerg Simon
 * Jaroslav Reznik (secretary)
 * Jon Stanley
 * Rex Dieter
 * Stephen Smoogen (til 16:30)

Absent

 * Tom Callaway

Regards

 * Máirín Duffy (leave of absence)

Agenda

 * Updates
 * Board business

Updates

 * Follow-up from SXSW
 * jsmith, spot and mo attended SXSW
 * SXSW is a conference in Austin for musicians, filmakers, and "interactive graphics" (web design, and such)
 * 36,000 attendees last year
 * 4-500 photos taken at Fedora photo booth on first day
 * Update on FUDCon {LATAM/EMEA/APAC?} status
 * LATAM is coming in the end of May (meeting tonight)
 * EMEA - 4 bids
 * Dublin (Ireland) https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Bid_for_Dublin_2011
 * Milan (Italy) https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Bid_for_Milan_2011
 * Budapest (Hungary) https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Bid_for_Budapest_FUDCon_EMEA_2011
 * Zurich (Switzerland) https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Bid_for_Zurich_2011
 * APAC - next year (may or may not happen this year)
 * Personal preferences have some sort of event in APAC this fiscal year even if it's smaller
 * possibility in India (close to Red Hat office) or China (interest by people in that area)
 * schedule depends on EMEA timeframe
 * smaller event (budget etc...)

Board Business

 * Double-check meeting time works
 * US already in daylight saving time
 * Also make sure we update all the various schedules on the wiki
 * Work on the F16 release names.
 * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_16

List of names

 * Barona - Rex - OK
 * Jay - Toshio  http://jayisgames.com/
 * Bonnet - Jared - OK - no significant collisions
 * Sagan -ke4qqq - multiple collisions - including Apple who named a computer 'sagan' and was subsequently litigated
 * Rasputin - Jon - questionable????- rasputin-titled software occurs multiple times
 * Ringworld - Toshio -- as noted on the page already, there is a Ringworld computer game
 * Lightbody - Jon - nothing found surprisingly -- Patrick Lightbody (apache foundation person), Lightbody is a computer company in Dorchester
 * McLuhan - Toshio -- Author (does not seem "famous") http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_McLuhan - Shareware software product (helps apply Business theory to a particular company) http://www.sqaki.com/9/McLuhanLaws/
 * Talladega - Rex - OK
 * Neuromancer - jreznik NOT OK (link ok - sci-fi books, neuromancer was a computer game in 1988, new one development stopped in 2009)
 * Dreadlock - jreznik NOT OK(link ok - hairstyles, Dreadlock Privacy - software, internet history cleaner)
 * Llullaillaco - Rex - OK
 * Mayflower - Toshio -- NOT OK software company: http://www.maysoft.com/
 * Bacon -Jon (name of living person relevant in Linux community)
 * Cornrow - ke4qqq - Cornrow Curves software from RPI, from TESS: Internet based social networking, introduction, and dating services. FIRST USE: 20080919
 * Mt. Orne - Jared (link OK, no significant collisions)
 * Iao - Rex - OK Iao used as acronym for Information and Computer Science (ICS) Alumni Organization (University of California, Irvine)
 * Legation - Jon - OK
 * Gaia - ke4qqq - multiple collisions gala construction software, gala factory software, slightly related Globalization and Localization Assocation conference
 * Golding - Jon (current living person, prime minister of Jamaica)
 * Periwig - Jon (no link, it's a thing, not a hairstyle)
 * Lennox - ke4qqq NOTOK - Lennox Computer Software Design
 * Verne - Rex - OK
 * Nepia - jreznik - OK
 * Tyrie - Jon - current living person (MP for Chichester, UK)
 * Codpiece - Toshio NOT OK http://codpiece.sourceforge.net/
 * Spaceship - Jared - NOT OK (bad link, multiple collisions)
 * Hollyhock - ke4qqq - hollyhock inc is a software dev house.
 * Lapland - Toshio - NOT OK - http://www.gmdu.net/corp-471825.html 5-10 person laptop computer trading company
 * Steamship - Jared - NOT OK (tenuous link, several name collisions)
 * Flamel - jreznik (link - Nicolas Flamel was alchemist, not chemist; no collision)
 * Sunset - Jared - NOT OK (bad link, multiple collisions)
 * Ablebaker - Jared - NOT OK (multiple collisions)
 * Marvin - jreznik NOT OK (bad link, several collisions - even my friend's class-less Smaltalk implementation ;-)
 * Ayers- ke4qqq - possible collision via TESS, Ayers Virtual Entertainment, plus ayerstechnology.com
 * Sheepy Shenannigans - Jared - NOT OK (bad link, collision with blog post at http://jejunesplace.blogspot.com/2007/05/special-date.html)
 * None - jreznik NOT OK (no link at all, "none" ;-)
 * Money Fountain - Jared - NOT OK (tenuous links, several conflicts)
 * Cousteau - jreznik (probably) NOT OK (link ok BUT one son still alive and he's famous as his father)
 * Dusty - Rex - OK
 * Babbage - Rex - NOT ok, Babbage's Computer Software in Santa Rosa, CA
 * Cunningham - jsimon - NOT OK it is a Software http://sourceforge.net/projects/cunningham/ and there are several TM in EU registered
 * Hatefree - jsimon - can not find a collision

Other notes

 * Next meeting: IRC meeting on Tuesday, March 29th
 * Informational, Toshio and Robyn Bergeron are looking at improving the Feature Process
 * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes_to_Feature_Process