Meeting:Board meeting 2009-02-10

Fedora Project Board Meeting :: Tuesday 2009-02-10

Roll Call

• Board Members: Bill Nottingham, Paul Frields, Harald Hoyer, Seth Vidal, Chris Tyler, Chris Aillon, Jesse Keating, Dimitris Glezos, and Spot Callaway
• Special guest: Max Spevack
• Secretary: John Poelstra
• Regrets: Matt Domsch

Links to last meetings

• Board/Meetings/2009-02-03
• Board/Meetings/2009-01-27

Follow-up To Previous Business

• "What is Fedora?" discussion
• Paul drafting framework to decide process to arrive at

Max Spevack Update

• Max hijacked the entire agenda and kept the Board on the call 15 extra minutes! Who does he think he is?

Fedora Store in EMEA

• Looking for a way to distribute goods in an efficient manner
• Hard to find good quality and distribution networks
• Looking for board approval to move forward with linux-onlineshop.de
  • Customized skinned Fedora store
  • Built on FOSS
  • Custom fedora URL
  • Will handle warehouse space and shipping
  • Individual sales subsidize further Fedora related activities via Fedora EMEA
  • Board would like more information into:
    • What are the margins the vendor makes on these goods?
    • Quality of goods and sustainability of this business
    • Where/how (country and conditions) are the goods being produced?
• ACTIONS: Max to followup on questions and get back to the board

Denoting Fedora sponsorship

• http://fedoraproject.org/en/sponsors
• We do not have existing guidelines around receiving goods or services from sponsors and what is provided in return
• How do we give Red Hat reasonable credit for sponsoring Fedora?
  • Is there a special category for Red Hat?
• hardware, hosting/services, and events are forms of sponsorship Fedora is able to presently accept
• ACTIONS--Spot will lead investigation of ways to:
  1. give recognition to Red Hat
  2. recognize other sponsors
  3. design presentation

Community Architecture & LXDE In Fedora

• Looking for ways to promote LXDE and help them move forward
• Max met with president of LXDE Foundation at FOSDEM
• Can Fedora endorse LXDE in a certain way?
• Dimitris reports that conversations are underway to use Transifex in LXDE
• BOARD RESPONSE:
  • A custom LXDE spin easily addresses this request
  • We encourage all desktops to participate in this way

FUDCon LATAM 2009 and FUDCon EMEA 2009 plans

• Rodrigo Padula (recently hired by Red Hat) is helping to coordinate FUDCon at FISL
• Community Architecture team is funding FUDCon at FISL [1] & LinuxTag [2]
• Hoping to have FUDCon in conjunction with LinuxTag
  • 10,000+ people at LinuxTag
  • FUDCon would be co-located and integrated with LinuxTag (unlike Red Hat Summit 2008)
• Community Architecture brings this issue forward because the result is that funding would not be available for a North America FUDCon until September 2009 at the earliest
• BOARD RESPONSE: Fully support these events and use of funds. Max & Community team to continue working on these events.

Future Business

• Trademark & domain name registration matters
• "What Is Fedora?" discussion
• Goals & objectives of the board
• Status of security policies