Meeting:Community Architecture 2008-04-21

Roll call
Max Spevack, Greg DeKoenigsberg, Harish Pillay, Jack Aboutboul

Last week
Max
 * Budget update to the finance folks.
 * Chat with Greg and jrb about Fedora, Desktop, etc.
 * Internal to RH summary of F9.
 * Meet with the folks who run http://www.wisteme.com
 * Work on updating Fedora presentations for Ambassadors, etc.
 * Small amount of work on FUDCon Brno.

Greg
 * CSEET in Charleston.
 * FISL in Brazil.

Jack
 * University tour finishes.

University Tour (Jack)

 * Most promising leads at Syracuse, Carnegie Mellon, and Oregon State.
 * ACTION: Need to finalize the PR side of the University Tour with Kerrin (Tuesday).
 * ACTION: File all expense reports from University Tour (Tuesday or Wednesday).
 * ACTION: Update wiki and figure out next tasks (by end of week).

Fedora 9 (Max)

 * Paul Frields is in Raleigh this week, working with Max on various Fedora 9 GTM items.

FISL (Greg)

 * 7,000 people at FISL, they think maybe 10,000 next year.
 * Many governmental organizations. Mostly university kids and commmunity folks.
 * Fedora is very well liked. Debian is loved.
 * Brazilian audience is extremely focused on innovation and in doing things for themselves. Robots running Linux, etc.
 * Very technical audience, language barrier is the biggest problem.
 * Rodrigo Padula is definitely the Fedora community superstar down there.
 * The biggest problem that we've always had is getting money into Brazil, but once we do that, they take care of the rest.
 * ACTION: Trip report for Fedora community.
 * ACTION: Funding requirements for the month of May.

APAC (Harish)

 * Software Freedom Day as a target for community energy in APAC.
 * Red Hat Forum, new office, Jim in town, etc. Harish looking to plan other things from community perspective.
 * Use Singapore's Software Freedom Day planning as a template for the Fedora Ambassadors.

Next meeting

 * Budget!!!