Meeting:Community Architecture 2008-04-07

Roll call
Max Spevack, Greg DeKoenigsberg, Jack Aboutboul, Paul Frields, Michael Tiemann

Last week
Max
 * summer internships.
 * a little Fedora EMEA work.
 * lots of budget work.
 * Ambassadors and FAMSCo stuff.
 * News Council call.
 * Community presentation to marketing team.
 * statistics, artwork, chasing down a variety of things.

Greg
 * continue tracking down the TAM angle with Iain.

Jack
 * University tour -- BU, MIT, Northeastern, Harvard.

Other
 * Paul Frields gave a video conference speech at a conference in India. Over 100 folks in attendance.

Budget (Max)

 * Still trying to figure out money for the conference in India.
 * Discuss GUADEC & Libre Graphics Meetings.
 * Jack's expense reports.
 * How's the rest of the quarter looking?

Release

 * Chatted with Paul a bit about a few release-month logistical questions:
 * OpenJDK and Sun.
 * Ubuntu's release just a few days ahead of us. They set their date *after* we set ours, but they chose to release a few days ahead of us.

University tour (Jack)
Boston University
 * Met with Computer Science department chair, open to idea of a course.
 * A few BU students who had been to FUDCon showed up.

MIT
 * Met with some folks from the linguistics department.

Northeastern
 * Lots of interest, John Flanagan and Jesse spoke there recently.

This week
Max
 * what are we upstream for?
 * follow up with Kara on interviews for Paul on the release.
 * intern contracts.
 * college scholarship.
 * follow up with jrb about GUADEC.

Greg
 * I2 problems in RDU, Spot and Paul are also somewhat involved with this.
 * Prep for talk in Charleston.
 * chatting with the issue tracker folks about potentially open-sourcing it.
 * folks are looking for official support for cobbler.
 * partner manager inside RH for Alcatel.

Jack
 * get all the contacts and leads on the wiki.
 * keep blogging.
 * formal news story with the PR team.

Harish
 * continue assessing the situation and opportunities in APAC.

Next meeting

 * Greg leaves for Charleston on Tuesday, FISL on Wednesday.
 * CLA and improved Join process.