Community Architecture Meeting :: Monday 2008-09-29
Roll call
Present: MaxSpevack, GregDeKoenigsberg, PaulWFrields, KarstenWade, JackAboutboul, HarishPillay, MichaelTiemann
Respins
Paul brought us up to speed on the remix questions.
Greg and Paul need to chat about Fedora trademarks and OLPC.
Goals
Max indicates the pressing need of getting our goals updated.
Tiemann suggests articulating both in qualitative and quantitative terms the value that we provides. Separate that which we can define and measure from that which we must accomplish. Provide the organic context from which our other products and capabilities are derived.
Jack ran-down the University/Education status, and Max took notes directly on the goals page.
Seneca:
- Whatever work comes directly out of Seneca students in the Fedora Project.
- One of the Seneca students is working on Java packaging.
- FSOSS will be where some "consortium for open source and education" is founded.
- Metric for success at FSOSS is to have the foundation started, which will lead all this open source education stuff.
Tiemann: if and when local universities are priming the local government pumps with open source software so that every GIS, statistics, etc. question can be answered with open source infrastructure, that is a win. We can measure specific contributions to specific projects, but if a school with a $2M endowment for teaching OSS rewires their state's government with open source, that is a major win condition. Collaboration between education and government. Priming the pump is just as important as the specific technical achievements that are made. How our actions today enable or allow the possibility of changes that will still be relevant in 20 years. Things happen on different cycles -- 6 months to 20 years.
Max's upcoming trip to Russia. Borrow from Tiemann's trip to Brazil?