Meeting:Board meeting 2011-08-23

= Fedora Board Meeting, 20011 08 23 =


 * Secretary: Peter Robinson
 * Meeting Type: Phone

Attendance
Present:
 * Jared Smith
 * Jon Stanley
 * Peter Robinson
 * Toshio Kuratomi
 * Rex Dieter
 * Guillermo Gómez

Not Present:
 * Rudi Landmann
 * Joerg Simon (why? i told jsmith i can not make it?)

Regards:
 * David Nalley
 * Jaroslav Reznik (vacation)

Agenda

 * Updates
 * Board business

Fedora 16 Alpha

 * It's out!
 * Large round of applause to everyone involved especially the QA team

Update on trademark questions for RH Legal

 * Response from RH Legal that they are busy writing up the response, it's in progress

Ticket 112: Community domain request (Sri Lanka)

 * https://fedorahosted.org/board/ticket/112
 * Proposal: Grant conditional approval, contingent upon seeing a sample web design

Summary: Proposal was agreed to unanimously

Board Goals

 * Reminding folks that the Fedora Board (with feedback from FAmSCo and FESCo and other groups) came up with three strategic goals for the Fedora 16 and Fedora 17 development cycles:
 * Improve and simplify collaboration in the Fedora Community
 * Improve and encourage high-quality communication in the Fedora Community
 * It is extraordinarily easy to join the Fedora community and quickly find a project to work on.
 * That's the "strategy" -- let's remind people to work on the tactical side of the goals

Board Blog

 * Toshio brought up the question of what to do with the Board blog
 * At a minimum, we should restore the archive to a wordpress instance
 * Continue to blog significant board discussions/agreements rather than every thing discussed

Action Items
None

Next Meeting
Next meeting will be IRC on 2011-08-30 at 16:00 UTC