Meeting:Board meeting 2009-03-10

= Fedora Project Board Meeting :: Tuesday 2009-03-10 =

Roll Call

 * Board Members: Paul Frields, Bill Nottingham, Seth Vidal,Jesse Keating, Dimitris Glezos, Chris Tyler, Harald Hoyer, Chris Aillon, Matt Domsch, and Spot Callaway
 * Secretary: John Poelstra

Trademark Followup

 * Paul Frields has sent necessary letters for trademark agreement and domain name registration
 * 10 letters sent so far
 * Feedback has been positive so far
 * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Trademark_licensees
 * Deadline for reply is 2009-03-20
 * Will send reminder email to those who haven't responded on 2009-03-23
 * Will not use the @fedoraproject.org addresses due to password expirations

What is Fedora ?

 * How well will mission statement translate to other languages?
 * Add links to definitions of key words
 * Mission statement arrived at:
 * To lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a collaborative community
 * Paul Frields to send announcement to fedora-advisory-board@redhat.com

Gobby Session
The following is a final snapshot of the Gobby session used by the Board for brainstorming, ideating and voting. To represent the colors used by Gobby, the information has been reformatted to reflect ownership.

Round #3
To lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a community of creators, contributors, collaborators, and consumers.

To lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a collaborative community. stickster: +1 notting:   +1 chris:     +1 mdomsch:   +1 harald:    +1 jkeating:  +1 spot:      +1 glezos:    +1 skvidal:   +1

spot: To lead the advancement of free and open source software, content, and culture as a collaborative community.

caillon: +1 we kind of do want to encourage others to be more free/open-sourcey

jkeating: (less and version) To lead the advancement of free/open source software and content as a collaborative community.

stickster: To lead the advancement of free, open source software and content as a collaborative community.

glezos: To lead the advancement of open source as a collaborative community.
 * Very* short version:

caillon: (not-as) *Very* short version: To lead the advancement of open source culture as a collaborative community.

poelcat (dump from Round #2): NOTES: (we can use this later) (s/software and content/culture/ +11      software, content, and culture as ... contributors _AND_ collaborators? -> use "contributors and consumers"? - collaboration implied by "community", "creator" is a subset of "contributor"

community of users (consumers?) and collaborators. (all 3 are collaborators)

collaborator more in the sense of "helper, aider", I think What if instead of classifying people, we classify what we do? "...as a collaborative community." +1

Round #2
1) To lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a community of creators, contributors, collaborators, and consumers.

chris: To lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a collaborative community.

poelcat (dump from Round #1): NOTES: (we can use this later) (s/software and content/culture/ +11

jkeating: software, content, and culture as ...

mdomsch: contributors _AND_ collaborators?

chris: -> use "contributors and consumers"? - collaboration implied by "community", "creator" is a subset of "contributor"

mdomsch: community of users (consumers?) and collaborators. (all 3 are collaborators)

harald: collaborator more in the sense of "helper, aider", I think

stickster: What if instead of classifying people, we classify what we do? "...as a collaborative community." glezos: +1

notting: "community of " sounds strange.

poelcat (dump from Round #1): 2) Become the premier community of contributors to lead the advancement of free and open source software and content. NOTES: again prefer culture here

3) To be the acknowledged world leader in creating and using free software and culture to empower and build a community of contribution.

chris: NOTES: open source not mentioned here

poelcat (dump from Round #1): --should we mention "Free" and "Open Source" explicitly?

Round #1
Original FEDORA MISSION Statements

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IDEA #1: To provide/create/be the most effective and fulfilling community in which people learn about and contribute to free and open source software and content. 45 VOTES: chris:     7 glezos:    6 stickster: 6 jkeating:  7 caillon:   3 harald:    9 spot:      1 notting:   4 mdomsch:   2 skvidal:   0

IDEA #2: To be the community of contributors that produces and cultivates the world's most innovative and useful free software and content, and provides it to the most people worldwide. 52 VOTES: chris:     9 jkeating:  6 glezos:    5 stickster: 8 spot:      1 caillon:   1 harald:    7 notting:   8 mdomsch:   7 skvidal:   0

IDEA #3: To foster a community of contributors who further the mission and projects of free and open source software. 45 VOTES: jkeating:  7 glezos:    4 stickster: 4 chris:     4 caillon:   5 spot:      3 harald:    6 notting:   8 mdomsch:   4 skvidal:   0

IDEA #4: To create and share free and open source code and content as a community of contributors. 32 VOTES: jkeating:  7 chris:     5 stickster: 3 caillon:   2 spot:      0 harald:    4 glezos:    2 notting:   5 skvidal:   0 mdomsch:   4

IDEA #5: (have a mantra instead of a mission statement) To be THE place for open source contributions. To be THE community for open source innovation. Effective advancement of open source. 48/45 VOTES: jkeating:  4 caillon:   8 skvidal:   3 stickster: 7 harald:    8* mdomsch:   2 harald:    5* glezos:    8 notting:   6 spot:      2

[Editor note: One duplicate vote. Irrelevant in this context since the results still placed this candidate behind the top three.]

IDEA #6: Kick butt in open source development! 5 VOTES: jkeating:  2 mdomsch:   0 spot:      0 notting:   0 skvidal:   0 stickster: 1 chris:     1 harald:    1 glezos:    0

IDEA #7: To make friends, to spread freedom, to make the finest features, and be first in innovation 23 VOTES: jkeating:  4 mdomsch:   2 skvidal:   1 chris:     3 glezos:    1 stickster: 2 caillon:   1 harald:    2 spot:      3 notting:   4

IDEA #8: To be the friendliest community for (free) open source innovation. 14 VOTES: jkeating:  4 skvidal:   2 mdomsch:   0 stickster: 2 chris:     1 notting:   0 harald:    3 spot:      0 glezos:    2

IDEA #9: To lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a community of creators, contributors, collaborators, and consumers. 92 VOTES: jkeating: 11 spot:     11 stickster: 8 mdomsch:  10 glezos:    9 harald:   11 skvidal:  10 chris:     8 caillon:   4 notting:  10

NOTES: (we can use this later) caillon: (s/software and content/culture/ +11

IDEA #10: Become the premier community of contributors to lead the advancement of free and open source software and content. 72 VOTES: jkeating:  9 mdomsch:   8 glezos:   10 skvidal:   7 harald:   10 spot:      9 notting:  10 stickster: 9

NOTES: caillon: again prefer culture here

IDEA #11: To be the acknowledged world leader in creating and using free software and culture to empower and build a community of contribution. 50 VOTES: jkeating:  5 mdomsch:   2 skvidal:   4 chris:     6 stickster: 7 spot:      7 notting:   6 caillon:   6 glezos:    7