Meeting:Board meeting 2008-01-22

Fedora Project Board Meeting :: Tuesday 2008-01-22

Roll Call

Attendees: Paul Frields, Chris Aillon, Seth Vidal, Karsten Wade, John Poelstra, Bill Nottingham, Jef Spaleta, Steve Dickson, Matt Domsch, Dennis Gilmore. Regrets: Jack Aboutboul, Bob McWirther, Max Spevack

Red Hat Summit in Boston

• Fedora talks
• "Open source track"
• Hackfest space
• What are the logistics?
• Whether and how to handle a barcamp?
• There will be a Fedora booth
• Could the expo floor be comp'd for FUDCon attendees?

ACTIONS: 1. Steve Dickson to track down details to understand how Summit participants and FUDCon attendees will mix? 1. Max and Greg D are having a meeting with Shay and Leigh (Summit organizers) before the next Board call and will report back

FUDCon & Contributor Survey

• FUDCon survey sent to marketing people
• What would be a useful way to query the contributors?
• What types of questions would help get to the bottom of the issues?
• Query contributors from the perspective of where we should invest people resoures and time

ACTION: Need a board member to own this item--followup at next meeting

Areas of Fedora That Need More Attention?

• QA and testing
• What is the situation with open sourcing RHTS?
• What happened with testing.108 and "Table Cloth"?

Goals For the Board

• What things would the board like to accomplish over the next year?

1. Engaging more with Upstream 1. Think more about this and followup at next meeting

fedoraproject.org mail

• What is the status of it and who is working on it?
• previous board discussions/decisions:
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2007-July/msg00102.html
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2007-August/msg00004.html

Next Meeting

• Tuesday, January 29, 2008
• 17:00 EST