Meeting:Community Architecture 2009-02-23

Roll call

Max, Greg, Jack, Karsten, Paul, Tiemann, Sankarshan, Harish

Notes

Michael

• Genome
  • Internal IT team experiences beginning to mirror customer experiences.
  • Opportunity to show best practices for OSA migration.
  • We need to be focused on solving actual problems and focusing on positives.
  • Need help - make sure CommArch is engaging w/ Genome.

Karsten

• SCALE & FAD
  • Maybe a bigger commitment at SCALE 8x?.
  • We have a sort of "distributed rock star" model for excitement.
• Cookbook
  • Catch up this week, behind due to event execution.

Max

• Purpose of CA meetings
  • We're global, but individual tasks are isolated from each other.
  • Keep each other informed and find connections.
• MRC said work done back in Nov had significant impact.
• CMU - Profs are highly incented to teach FOSS well, Max working on clarifying agreement.

Greg

• Education
  • Need to find out about opening of content before we go further.
  • MRC liked stuff about POSSE -- time is of the essence, so need decision.
    • Wants cohesive plan to go with all the vision and big-picture stuff.
    • Slide deck to socialize with other execs, and notes for deep-diving.
  • Education by-products
    • Tiemann provided update on leveraging education of customers into vastly improved sales opportunities.
    • Harish talked about arming sales with consistent messages on value prop.
• Sugar
  • Not going to block F11 anywhere, moving very quickly right now.
  • No spin for F11, concentrating on Sugar on a Stick.

Jack

• Marketing
  • Picture Book - is there a blocker on release forms, or are they just one thing that needs to be fixed in parallel.
    • Establish critical path issues for community to move forward.
  • Tasks - Condense schedules from JonRob with the main task schedule.

Harish

• Eucalyptus - next gen stuff from Fedora perspective? Will contact McGrath.