Meeting:Community Architecture 2008-07-28

Roll call
Max, Greg, Harish, Karsten, Paul, Jack

OSCON
ISV summary:
 * Hyperic -- Jeremy Hogan is the community manager. He has paid somebody to build RPMs for hyperic.  Potential future communication here in the Java Packaging front.
 * JasperSoft -- Karsten and Jennifer Venable, they know what their next steps are
 * Concrete Five -- CMS that we'll help get into Fedora
 * Ingres -- community version potentially forthcoming, lots of legacy stuff that makes it hard for them to become LSB compliance.
 * Plain Black
 * Sugar CRM -- couldn't find anyone technical at this show to talk to.
 * Zimbra -- met John Robb, their VP of Marketing; Karsten to meet Engineering folks in Sunnyval
 * OpenJDK -- met Dalibor Topic, former Kaffe hacker now leading the OpenJDK team
 * Digium -- Mark Spencer and Todd (Community Manager)
 * They want to do a case study about our use of Asterisk.
 * A few projects we talked to but didn't discuss in this CommArch meeting
 * Mifos, micro finance server/system
 * Apress, talked with them about using Fedora content as upstream with them embedding writers and editors in the project
 * DemocracyLab
 * Drupal -- they said howdy, we discussed CMS and anti-PHP sentiment; Karsten received a follow-up email from them to talk further about Drupal and Fedora Infrastructure
 * Mozilla -- Blizzard said howdy
 * OW2 -- someone stopped by and talked with someone, nothing captured?

Greg mentions the troubles of a "get everything into Fedora/EPEL" policy as the one-size-fits-all ISV strategy.

ACTION: Max puts Jack in touch with News Council.

EDU summary:
 * Open Source Education panel -- Jack made various introductions.
 * Open High School in Utah
 * Danese Cooper -- works for Intel, on OSI board.
 * Karl Fogel

ACTION: Updated .edu deck by end of week from Jack.

Greg suggests making FSOSS in Toronto our big kick-off for all of this. October 23-24. Seneca, .edu strategy, CMU.

Oregon State University -- Jeff Sheltren (OSUOSL)

LWCE SF

 * LinuxWorld as the assembly point for the kit.

Ambassadors

 * Global re-org in the works.

EMEA

 * Meeting w/ French Ambassadors team this Saturday, Aug. 2.
 * FUDCon planning is going well. We need to sort out US travel.

APAC

 * Requests for CD/DVDs for SFD 2008 (Sept 20 2008)
 * Going to try for budget from RH APAC Marketing first.

Budget

 * Goal is to have quarterly expenses finished -- that means everything is in the system, and Max has all the report numbers and dollar amounts -- by August 15th.
 * Everything else in Q2 gates on OSCON. We can't make any decisions until we know Jack and Greg's OSCON expenses in full.
 * OLPC Sprint?
 * Greg's Boston trips?

Vacation

 * Max PTO. Out starting Tue. Aug. 5.  Returns Wed. Aug. 13.