Meeting:Board meeting 2010-12-06

Board Meeting

December 06 2010

Roll Call

Present

• Tom Callaway
• Jared Smith
• Jon Stanley
• Rex Dieter
• Jaroslav Reznik
• Stephen Smoogen
• Mo Duffy

Absent

• Christopher Aillon

Regards

• Joerg Simon (weather in Germany)
• Toshio Kuratomi (dentist)

Assigned meeting secretary: Christopher Aillon
Actual meeting secretary: Tom Callaway

Agenda

Updates Board business

Updates

• New Board Members
  • Welcome to Jaroslav!
  • Joerg Simon absent today due to weather in Germany
  • Toshio Kuratomi absent today due to dentist appointment
• Updated meeting schedule at

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Board_meetings

• • Cancel meeting that overlaps with FUDCon?
    • No, lets actually have it with a dial-in for folks not present
    • Also add item to FUDCon schedule
    • should setup public dial-in (maybe Fedora Talk???)
    • will be a public meeting
    • make sure meeting agenda doesn't have issues on it that we can't speak publicly about

Board Business

• Advisory Board discussions
  • Spins SIG
  • I'd like to concentrate on discussing the SIG and spin governance

• • Target Audience

Definition from 2009:

We found four defining characteristics that we believe best describe the Fedora distribution's target audience: Someone who (1) is voluntarily switching to Linux, (2) is familiar with computers, but is not necessarily a hacker or developer, (3) is likely to collaborate in some fashion when something's wrong with Fedora, and (4) wants to use Fedora for general productivity, either using desktop applications or a Web browser.

• • • (spot) We have defined one! Maybe we have done a poor job of sharing it.
    • (mo) Definitely lack of information
    • (Jon) Communication problems to blame?
    • (mo) Yes. Also, many people disliked it, and then promptly ignored it. Have not done much to actually use it, besides website.
    • (Jon) who will be responsible. willing to help, but cannot carry entire burden. needs to be merged from rel-eng
    • (spot) can hear rel-eng screaming from here
    • (Mo) this is inline with bruno's idea
    • (spot) What do people want?
    • (Jon) what about design spin?
    • (Mo) barely used, discovered it didn't have network stack.
    • (Jared) is there difference between spin and packageset?
    • (Jared) This is obvious from the Robitics SIG -- they don't know whether they want a spin or a package group or both -- and they're asking us to tell them
    • (Spot) Should we ask the Spins what it is they really want? (custom art, livecd, listed on website, package group in Anaconda)
    • (Jon) will reach out to current spin owners to get answers to that question
    • (Mo) year-old list: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Website_redesign/Mockups/Spins.fpo#Spins_Content
    • (spot) may be possible to figure out owners by looking at commit history for kickstarts
    • (spot) Two questions regarding "default" spin? Do we want to have a default? Assuming we do, do we want that default to be the Gnome desktop?
    • (jsmith) We discussed a "Fedora Sampler" DVD on Friday. Should that be the "default" for media handed out at events?
    • (jsmith) Previous boards have already made that decision
    • (Jon) is there anyone who thinks GNOME should not be default
    • The board continues to stand behind GNOME as the default desktop experience.
    • (Mo) there may be better ways to accomplish what Spin SIGs want without actually using "spins"
    • (Mo & Jon) there are specific use-cases for live-images (see list here: http://spins.fedoraproject.org/about under "Why use a spin?")

LIST OF SPINS AND OWNERS:

• KDE (Rex, Jaroslav)
• LXDE (Christoph?)
• XFCE (Kevin F and Christoph Wickert)
• Fedora Electronics Lab
• Design Spin (Pierros)
• Mobility Spin (Peter Robinson)
• BROffice (going away w/ LibreOffice)
• Games (Bruno Wolff)
• Education (Sebastian)
• Security (Joerg Simon)

• Any other business?
  • Thanksgiving homework (3 goals from vision statement)
    • Much of this was discussed https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Board_meeting_2010-11-29
    • Revisit items for vote at future meeting, and give new Board members a chance to make suggestions

Other notes

• Next meeting: December 13th