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Fedora Board Meeting, 20011 09 20

  • Secretary: Jaroslav Reznik
  • Meeting Type: Phone

Attendance

Present:

Jaroslav Reznik
Toshio Kuratomi
Jon Stanley
Peter Robinson
Rudi Landmann
Rex Dieter

Not Present:

Regards:

  • David Nalley (on the road)
  • Jared Smith (on the road)

Agenda

  • Updates
  • Board business
    • F17 release names
    • upcoming elections

Updates

Board Business

Fedora 17 release names

Lorenz   - [NO] does not share an isa relation with Verne
Potter - Small, regional software consultants: http://pottersoftware.com/ 
  -- "[PSIon] is an acronym standing for "Potter Scientific Instruments", after the company's founder, David Potter. "  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion
Erwin- I think that the link here is tenous at best - Verne is the son of a FICTIONAL scientist 
Neptune - [No] http://www.neptunesoftwareplc.com/ (online banking software)
  -- Mapping software for sailing charts http://www.neptune-navigation.com/plotter.htm 
Rocky Ripple - Jon - valid link (though quite obscure) - however, ripple rock is a software development consultancy - too similar?
Rutan - [No] Living Person (Burt Rutan)  link tenuous but could be made better (Both are people who envisioned circumnavigating the globe)
Hugo - pbrobinson - Living person (Hugo Chávez) - NOT OK
Omoto - pbrobinson - was approved for F16 so OK
Shakespeare - Jon - seems OK at first pass
Ramon - [No] Variety of semi-famous living people (soccer, basketball, singer), none in Linux/software http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram%C3%B3n
  - radio monitoring/locating software http://www2.rohde-schwarz.com/product/ramon.html
  - small software conculting firm in New Zealand http://web.me.com/ramonsoftware/Home/Welcome.html
  - CLI program on Linux written by QoSient for dealing with log data http://linux.die.net/man/1/ramon
Morgan - jreznik - does not share an isa relation with Verne - NOT OK
Alcatraz - jreznik - link ok, but alcatrazsoftware company - NOT OK
Fenimore - jreznik - link ok, not alive (July 28, 2010), but Fenimore Software Group, Inc. - NOT OK
Balboa - jreznik - note: Verne was writer, not an explorer, conquistador as far as I know... link not ok and Balboa Software - NOT OK  
Lundmark - rudi - link ok, not alive (23 April 1958) -- no apparent links to software -- OK
Koch - rudi - link ok, not alive (27 May 1910) -- couple of loose software connections (Koch-Glitsch, Verlag Martin Koch), but probably OK
Pavlov - rudi - link ok, not alive (February 27, 1936) -- Igor Pavlov is a developer, of at least one reasonably well-known project (7-Zip), but this isn't an uncommon surname, so probably OK
Delaney - Jon - living person. Mike Delaney is the Attorney General of New Hampshire (among many, many others)
Coral - [NO] Many collisions with software and small to medium computer companies
Percheron - rudi -- link ok -- Percheron Systems and Percheron Control Systems are small software businesses - Probably OK?
Never - Jon - hard to link out of (but possibly OK)
Piccard - jreznik - link (submarines/deep waters exploring, date of death) ok, not alive, Piccard is a software by Kuranet but seems really obsolete (see http://bit.ly/oN0rvt) - similar theming to Verne, probably OK
Shitton Falls - jreznik - link not ok (no link) - NOT OK 
Drake - pbrobinson - a number of consulting companies inc sofware http://www.drakeconsult.com/ http://www.drakeconsulting.co/ - NOT OK
Apollo - pbrobinson - a number of sofware products have Apollo in their name (Apollo CRM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_%28software%29 ApolloSoftware http://www.apollosoftware.com/ADefault.aspx Apollo Software http://www.apollo-software.nl/ Apollo Space Optimization Suite http://www.retailsmart.com/apollo.htm Apollo Root Cause Analysis http://www.apollorca.com/software) Probably not OK?
Farragut - rdieter - software company http://www.farragut.com/ - NOT OK
Aristarchus - rdieter - hard to link out of? - OK
Panguipulli - rdieter - hard to link out of? - OK
Gernsback - [OK] may be hard to link from.  Both Verne and Gernsback were fathers of science fiction.
  - Used in the title of a William Gibson short story (which may be our only link out as well) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gernsback_Continuum
McFly - rudi - link isa, but depends on a film property (Back to the Future) -- a few vague software references -- OK if the BTTF link isn't considered a problem
Bonaparte - Jon - a disaster vicitm identification software (http://www.bonaparte-dvi.com/bonaparte.html)
Grimm - Jon - GRIMM is a tool for analyzing rearrangements in pairs of genomes (http://grimm.ucsd.edu/GRIMM/)
Mini - jreznik - too generic name, former Fedora Mini SIG/spin - NOT OK
Zucchetto - rdieter - shaky link in, hard to link out of? - OK?
Fez - rdieter - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEZ_%28software%29 - NOT OK
Tubiteika - rdieter - shaky link in, hard to link out of? - OK?
Amaldi - Jon - link OK, no conflicts found.
Atlantis -- Rudi -- no "isa" provided, but Verne is a spaceship, and so was Atlantis -- however, it is also (unsurprisingly) a software company (www.atlantissoftware.com) also a prominent defunct software company (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis_Software) -- name is so generic that this might not be a problem though? -- maybe OK
Bacon - Living person (Jono Bacon)
Villeroi - jreznik - link ok, not alive, Villeroy & Boch (bathroom company but found some software references...) but looks ok - OK
Atmosphere -[NO] Many pieces of computer software including Adobe's discontinued http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Atmosphere
Hofmann - Jon - no link (unless you want to go on the scientist one)
Arbil - Rudi - link OK - a couple of loose software connections -- OK
Liege - [OK] only computer links found via google were references to the town name, Liege
Tagore - rdieter - fails "...is a" test - NOT OK
Beefy Miracle - rdieter -  OK
Cannon - Rudi - no link -- NOT OK
Chthonic - jreznik - weak link (?), no person alive, no software business - probably not OK and probably not pronouncable :)
Cusp - Rudi - no link -- NOT OK
Antwerp - Jon 
Nudd - Rudi - weak link, and the Verne in question is alive (and an entrepreneur -- http://www.gazelles.com/verne_guru_growth_masters.html) -- not obviously themeable -- only vague software references -- NOT OK
Nehru - jreznik - link ok, Nehra Software India is quite similar - but probably OK
Dario - Rudi - link OK, not alive (February 6, 1916) -- some vague software references (looks like the name is not too uncommon) -- OK
Guerrero - rdieter -  OK
Neville - [NO] Neville data solutions: http://www.neville.net/
  - Software company http://www.nevilleandrowe.co.uk/
  - Variety of living people unrelated to computers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville
  - Neville Isdell (that the link to Verne is for) is still alive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Neville_Isdell
Méliès - [OK] jreznik - (loosely) based on From the Earth to the Moon - link ok, no software company link (only Czech consultancy company), OK
Urso - jsmith - Link tenative, but ok.  Found both Irmão Urso software and a torrent link for "Urso Linux" -- NOT OK
Hedayat - Rudi - link OK (not alive 4 April 1951) -- only loose software connections (because this is a personal name) -- might not be easy to theme, but looks OK
Alpharabius - Rudi - link pretty weak but OK -- no obvious software connection -- OK
VonBraun - [OK] Best link is the crater.  Didn't find any trademark collisions.

Qazwini - rdieter - hard to link out of?  notable living fellow http://www.qazwini.org/ - NOT OK
Netemachikayotl - Rudi - link not "isa" -- NOT OK
Uluru - [NO] jreznik - weak link, Uluru is a software platform..., Uluru Consulting Ltd - Computer Software (Development) - NOT OK

upcoming elections

  • Need an election wrangler
    • jsmith to do public call for election wrangler

Action Items

None

Next Meeting

Next meeting will be IRC on 2011-08-27 at 16:00 UTC