Meeting:Board meeting 2011-05-31

Fedora Board Meeting, 31 May 2011

• Meeting Type: Phone
• Secretary: David Nalley

Attendance

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