Meeting:Board meeting 2009-02-24

Fedora Project Board Meeting :: Tuesday 2009-02-24

Roll Call

• Attendees: Paul Frields, Seth Vidal, Jesse Keating, Matt Domsch, Chris Tyler, Chris Aillon, Spot Callaway, Dimitris Glezos, Harald Hoyer
• Regrets: Bill Nottingham
• Secretary: John Poelstra

Trademark & Domain Name Registration

• Paul Frields will begin contacting people individually about trademark agreements and domain name registrations
• Board set procedure around granting trademark approval for domain name registration
  • https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Local_community_domains
  • subject to ammendment based on outcome of embargoed country issue
• NEXT ACTIONS: Paul to report back in two weeks on progress

Fedora 11 FUDCon Survey Status

• results have been collected
• ACTIONS: Paul will post the results to the wiki
  • https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Survey_for_FUDCon_F11_post-event#Results

Fedora and Embargoed Countries

• Community building and interactions with embargoed countries
• Red Hat Legal is reviewing the matter and will respond as they are able
• Board would like to issue a formal statement when and if that is possible

What is Fedora?

• Process will start with laying out a general mission statement followed by more detailed vision statements
• Lengthy discussion (1.25 hours) and collaborative brainstorming using gobby
• Board is still working to reach consensus
• NEXT ACTIONS:
  • Continue discussion on mailing list
  • Reach consensus on mission statement at 2009-03-10 meeting (cannot discuss next week due to public IRC meeting)

Unfinished Board Business

• To discuss at future meetings
  1. Creative Commons Repo--https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/65
  2. Request for trademark approval for domain name registration
  3. Review of security response plans

Next Meeting

• Date: 2009-03-03
• Time: 18:00 UTC
• Location: irc.freenode.net
  • Moderated channel for board answers: #fedora-board-meeting
  • Public channel to ask questions: #fedora-board-public