Meeting:Community Architecture 2008-04-14

Roll call
Max Spevack, Greg DeKoenigsberg, Harish Pillay

Last week
Max
 * Fedora scholarship.
 * Keep working with HR on internships.
 * Figure out how to pre-pay the LinuxTag hotel bill.
 * Spin SIG meeting.
 * Work with Paul Frields on "what the FPL does during release month".
 * Test Windows Live USB creator.
 * Wiki migration meeting.
 * Send swag to various folks worldwide.

Greg
 * continued TAM discussion with Iain Gray and Brent Fox.

Jack
 * University tour continues.

Harish
 * Jim and other RH VIPs were in Singapore.

Budget (Max)

 * Max sent out some budget planning emails last week. Trying to finalize Q1 budget by May 15th.

Harish's update

 * Jim was in Singapore last week.
 * Open Source Collaborative Initiative for Asia was announced.
 * Home of Open Source @ Institute of Technical Education.
 * potentially bring in a Blender developer.
 * Software Freedom Day on September 20th.

TAMs

 * Trying to get customers more engaged in OSS and community development.
 * Trying to use TAMs for this, because they tend to talk to the most technical people in the organizations of our largest customers.
 * Database that allows TAMs to take all their knowledge, and put it into a format usable by the entire company.

Fedora 9 release

 * Paul Frields will be in Raleigh next week, working with MaxSpevack on the Fedora 9 GTM stuff.

University tour

 * final week of tour -- west coast swing.

This week
Max
 * Update events page for Q2 and remind Ambassadors of deadline.
 * FUDCon Europe on Software Freedom Day weekend?

Greg
 * Charleston
 * FISL

Jack
 * University Tour

Next meeting

 * CLA and improved Join process.