Meeting:Board meeting 2011-05-31

= Fedora Board Meeting, 31 May 2011 =


 * Meeting Type: Phone
 * Secretary: David Nalley

Present

 * David Nalley
 * Jared Smith
 * Jaroslav Reznik
 * Stephen Smoogen
 * Joerg Simon (Gobby only)
 * Máirín Duffy
 * Rex Dieter
 * Toshio Kuratomi
 * Tom Callaway

Regards

 * Jon Stanley

Agenda
Updates Board business

Updates

 * Fedora 15 released!
 * Largely positive press
 * F15 retrospective meeting coming soon (next week or two)
 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Retrospective
 * Lots of end-user facing changes in F15
 * Elections update
 * Yesterday (5/30) - Board Townhall
 * Very lively and good participation.
 * Today (5/31) - FESCo Townhall
 * Voting begins on June 2nd.
 * Discussion of appointments/elections
 * Jared should be appointing a Board seat within the next 24 to 48 hours, pending RH approval
 * Update on FUDCon {LATAM/EMEA/APAC?} status
 * LATAM
 * Occurred last week
 * Three board members attended (Spot, Toshio, and Jared)
 * Having people attend FUDcon Tempe seemed to improve the FUDcon experience - particularly barcamp which drove audience participation.
 * First time we've had hackfests in LATAM and they were well attended, a number of people were sponsored as packagers.
 * Very good organizers on the ground in Panama.
 * Good turnout from local university.
 * Very good local sponsorships, from Panamanian government, universities and local businesses and helped the success of the event.
 * Combo F15 release party and FUDpub


 * EMEA
 * Has a date now - October 7-9
 * Regular meetings occurring now.


 * APAC
 * Budget exists for FUDcon APAC per CommArch
 * Jared Smith will open bidding process in a few days
 * Like to find a long term 'mentor' to overwatch FUDcon APAC as it progresses over the years (not necessarily a board issue)

Board Business

 * Review of F16/F17 goals, and start brainstorming
 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board_goals_2011
 * Welcome SIG started by Alex Hudson https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Welcome_SIG - in support of Goal #4.
 * Toshio recently had someone step up to help onboard new infrastructure contributors.
 * Kevin Fenzi has recently started a 'low hanging fruit' list of infrastructure TODOs.
 * Not a board mandate, but just a place to begin the discussion.
 * jsmith: Better calendaring so that we can have more accountability to the schedule
 * toshio: Working with other people in Infrastructure to help mentor new people to the group, and help orient them
 * Will revisit the topic after new Board is seated.

Other notes

 * Next meeting: IRC meeting on Tuesday, June 7th.
 * Happy Birthday to Tom and Máirín.
 * Infrastructure retiring blogs:
 * Could have had better announcement messages with rationale
 * Updated announcement w/ rationale was sent this morning to infra list and announce
 * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/infrastructure/2011-May/010404.html
 * Action: jsmith approved message to announce list
 * Action: mizmo will post to planet