Meeting:Board meeting 2012-03-28

= Fedora Board Meeting, 2012 03 28 =


 * Secretary: Rudi Landmann
 * Meeting Type: Phone

Attendees
Invitees:


 * Jon Stanley

Attendees:
 * Jaroslav Reznik
 * Rudi Landmann
 * Robyn Bergeron
 * Guillermo Gomez
 * Rex Dieter
 * Christoph Wickert
 * Toshio Kuratomi (delayed)

Regrets:
 * Peter Robinson
 * David Nalley (speaking at conference)

Today's goal reporting folks: Jaroslav Reznik and Guillermo Gomez


 * Announcements
 * Naming suggestions closed last night
 * Go/No-go for F17 Beta this afternoon
 * Quick updates on Jaroslav/Guillermo board member goals
 * Guillermo: project to develop and train new packagers; mailing list, IRC channel, new documentation; has produced 2 new packagers already, hoping for a new batch at FUDCon Margarita
 * RPMDev targetting LATAM region
 * Software Management Guide (Spanish original lang)
 * Fedora Robotics Guide (Valentin from Argentina leading)
 * http://rpmdev.proyectofedora.org is our site/planning/tracking tool
 * Three branches RPM (packaging), DEV (developers), DOC (documentation)
 * 11 Packagers up to 2011, trying to double it.
 * Jaroslav: Promoting Fedora community within Red Hat Brno developers; regular status updates; promoting Fedora to Czech developer community more generally.Wants to develop blog for better communication of Fedora leadership activities


 * Review proposed F18 elections schedule: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/advisory-board/2012-March/011461.html
 * FPL now announces first announcement earlier, before nomination period
 * Rex to follow-up on list and say that it all looks good.


 * Updates on trademark stuff
 * Still waiting for update to legal process


 * Tickets:
 * 84: Annual User Survey: https://fedorahosted.org/board/ticket/84 -- no update
 * 102: Fedora QA as a sub-project: https://fedorahosted.org/board/ticket/102 -- waiting for QA to finalise proposal
 * F18 Naming
 * Completed initial screening of proposed names


 * Ongoing concerns about naming
 * Propose at least one week of expanded community consultation process at same time as legal review
 * board willl need an extra week for board to process that feedback
 * Robyn to post to list
 * Release name process for F19+
 * Toshio to post to list
 * We'll have a poll at the same time as F19 release
 * Release names, yes, no, yes but Board and community to change the process
 * Poll on this will advise us -- nonbinding

* Name collection: 20 March through 27 March (23:59:59 UTC) * List to Fedora Board: 27 March through 30 March * Legal Review of Board approved names: 30 March through 05 April * Setup of Voting Application: 05 April * Community vote on final name: 06 April through 12 April (23:59:59 UTC) * Name announced: 13 April
 * Schedule:

Next Meeting
Next meeting will be IRC on 2012-04-04 at $18:30 UTC.