Meeting:Board meeting 2011-11-15

= Fedora Board Meeting - 2011-11-15 =


 * Secretary: Peter Robinson
 * Meeting Type: Phone

Attendance
Present: Jared Smith Jon Stanley Toshio Kuratomi Peter Robinson Rex Dieter Guillermo Gómez

Not Present: Rudi Landmann Joerg Simon

Regards: David Nalley (travel) Jaroslav Reznik (travel)

Fedora 16 release

 * Good press coverage

FUDCon India a great success

 * Over 500 people showed up
 * Great job of reaching out to the local community
 * University cancelled classes on Friday so students could attend
 * ~200 students who had very little exposure to Fedora/Linux/Open Source before
 * Very well organised
 * About 20 student volunteers to help out with University Logistics
 * Good mix of User and Developer talks

How to get more user tracks at FUDCon NA?

 * Southern_Gentleman has been working to get a mix of tracks (inviting speakers for end users, etc)

End user support -- informal talk w/ a few OLPC Peru developers about whether there could be a release with a longer support/update cycle

 * OLPC 11.x release based on Fedora 14 being used for upcoming deployments
 * We are okay with the idea but there needs to be people who step up to run it
 * Inside of Fedora, the idea has come up before but people didn't organize to the point of work on it
 * Core OLPC release team is only ~4 people so there's not manpower there to do this on their own
 * Regional OLPC teams (like Peru) have more people who could do it
 * They would need to come forward and commit to what resources they have, what they want to achieve, and be able to build a community to work on it

Work on Board tickets
jstanley: +1 jsmith: +1 pbrobinson: +1 toshio: +1<BR> rdieter: +1<BR> gomix: +1<BR>
 *  122: Indonesian domain request (http://idfedora.blogspot.com/) <BR>

APPROVED


 *  121: Move IRC meetings to #fedora-meeting 
 * Meetings tend to run over
 * problem with blocking a 2 hour block is it ends up being a 2 hour meeting
 * Another alternative is to just keep the meeting on topic to not go over
 * Feeling at last meeting that #fedora-meeting-{1,2,3} not as good as #fedora-meeting but still better than #fedora-board-meeting (all by itself)
 * Board going to try to move to #fedora-meeting* after the Board elections and we discuss a new meeting time


 *  120: Unclear and never performed clause in Board election policy 
 * jstanley had a go and decided nothing would meet the requirements
 * Approved just to remove altogether


 *  113: Chinese community domains 
 * domains zh.fc.o cn.fc.o and zht.fc.o
 * APPROVED, details documented in the ticket


 *  112: Sri Lankan Fedora community 
 * Awaiting feedback from community
 * Closing ticket, the community can reopen when they have a proposed site


 *  117: Fedora on Launchpad.net 
 * Is it a board or FESCo issue? Board currently as initially at least its branding etc
 * toshio will approach Launchpad.net about their expectation for what we use it for


 *  105: Change Secretarial duties for Public IRC meetings 
 * Already agreed upon a couple of months ago


 *  98: Board decisions may take a long time to make 
 * Decisions can block on external entities such as community or legal
 * Need more explicit examples of when the board was slow in resolving issues so process can be analysed
 * Board strives to close issues as quickly as possible
 * Board will ensure tickets are updated within a reasonable time
 * Board will say where the ticket is being blocked (for instance, "legal is still looking at this")
 * Public shaming allowed: Ask ticket owners to reach us at irc public meetings, fab-list

New meeting time!

 * stick with 15:30 UTC for the next meeting until new board members join us

Any other business

 * None

Other Notes

 * Next Board meeting will be a public IRC meeting on Tuesday, November 22nd (15:30 UTC)