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Fedora Project Board Meeting :: Tuesday 2009-03-10
Roll Call
- Board Members: Paul Frields, Bill Nottingham, Seth Vidal,Jesse Keating, Dimitris Glezos, Chris Tyler, Harald Hoyer, Chris Aillon, Matt Domsch, and Spot Callaway
- Secretary: John Poelstra
Trademark Followup
- Paul Frields has sent necessary letters for trademark agreement and domain name registration
- 10 letters sent so far
- Feedback has been positive so far
- Trademark_licensees
- Deadline for reply is 2009-03-20
- Will send reminder email to those who haven't responded on 2009-03-23
- Will not use the @fedoraproject.org addresses due to password expirations
What is Fedora ?
- How well will mission statement translate to other languages?
- Add links to definitions of key words
- Mission statement arrived at:
- To lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a collaborative community
- Paul Frields to send announcement to fedora-advisory-board@redhat.com
Gobby Session
The following is a final snapshot of the Gobby session used by the Board for brainstorming, ideating and voting. To represent the colors used by Gobby, the information has been reformatted to reflect ownership.
== Round #3 ==
To lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a community of creators, contributors, collaborators, and consumers.
To lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a collaborative community.
stickster: +1
notting: +1
chris: +1
mdomsch: +1
harald: +1
jkeating: +1
spot: +1
glezos: +1
skvidal: +1
spot:
To lead the advancement of free and open source software, content, and culture as a collaborative community.
caillon: +1 we kind of do want to encourage others to be more free/open-sourcey
jkeating:
(less and version)
To lead the advancement of free/open source software and content as a collaborative community.
stickster:
To lead the advancement of free, open source software and content as a collaborative community.
glezos:
*Very* short version:
To lead the advancement of open source as a collaborative community.
caillon:
(not-as) *Very* short version:
To lead the advancement of open source culture as a collaborative community.
poelcat (dump from Round #2):
NOTES: (we can use this later) (s/software and content/culture/ +11
software, content, and culture as ...
contributors _AND_ collaborators? -> use "contributors and consumers"? - collaboration implied by "community", "creator" is a subset of "contributor"
community of users (consumers?) and collaborators. (all 3 are collaborators)
collaborator more in the sense of "helper, aider", I think
What if instead of classifying people, we classify what we do? "...as a collaborative community." +1
== Round #2 ==
1) To lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a community of creators, contributors, collaborators, and consumers.
chris:
To lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a collaborative community.
poelcat (dump from Round #1):
NOTES: (we can use this later) (s/software and content/culture/ +11
jkeating:
software, content, and culture as ...
mdomsch:
contributors _AND_ collaborators?
chris:
-> use "contributors and consumers"? - collaboration implied by "community", "creator" is a subset of "contributor"
mdomsch:
community of users (consumers?) and collaborators. (all 3 are collaborators)
harald:
collaborator more in the sense of "helper, aider", I think
stickster:
What if instead of classifying people, we classify what we do? "...as a collaborative community."
glezos:
+1
notting:
"community of <abstract noun>" sounds strange.
poelcat (dump from Round #1):
2) Become the premier community of contributors to lead the advancement of free and open source software and content.
NOTES: again prefer culture here
3) To be the acknowledged world leader in creating and using free software and culture to empower and build a community of contribution.
chris:
NOTES: open source not mentioned here
poelcat (dump from Round #1):
--should we mention "Free" and "Open Source" explicitly?
== Round #1 ==
Original FEDORA MISSION Statements
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IDEA #1: To provide/create/be the most effective and fulfilling community in which people learn about and contribute to free and open source software and content.
45 VOTES:
chris: 7
glezos: 6
stickster: 6
jkeating: 7
caillon: 3
harald: 9
spot: 1
notting: 4
mdomsch: 2
skvidal: 0
IDEA #2: To be the community of contributors that produces and cultivates the world's most innovative and useful free software and content, and provides it to the most people worldwide.
52 VOTES:
chris: 9
jkeating: 6
glezos: 5
stickster: 8
spot: 1
caillon: 1
harald: 7
notting: 8
mdomsch: 7
skvidal: 0
IDEA #3: To foster a community of contributors who further the mission and projects of free and open source software.
45 VOTES:
jkeating: 7
glezos: 4
stickster: 4
chris: 4
caillon: 5
spot: 3
harald: 6
notting: 8
mdomsch: 4
skvidal: 0
IDEA #4: To create and share free and open source code and content as a community of contributors.
32 VOTES:
jkeating: 7
chris: 5
stickster: 3
caillon: 2
spot: 0
harald: 4
glezos: 2
notting: 5
skvidal: 0
mdomsch: 4
IDEA #5: (have a mantra instead of a mission statement)
To be THE place for open source contributions.
To be THE community for open source innovation.
Effective advancement of open source.
48/45 VOTES:
jkeating: 4
caillon: 8
skvidal: 3
stickster: 7
harald: 8*
mdomsch: 2
harald: 5*
glezos: 8
notting: 6
spot: 2
[Editor note: One duplicate vote. Irrelevant in this context since the results still placed this candidate behind the top three.]
IDEA #6: Kick butt in open source development!
5 VOTES:
jkeating: 2
mdomsch: 0
spot: 0
notting: 0
skvidal: 0
stickster: 1
chris: 1
harald: 1
glezos: 0
IDEA #7: To make friends, to spread freedom, to make the finest features, and be first in innovation
23 VOTES:
jkeating: 4
mdomsch: 2
skvidal: 1
chris: 3
glezos: 1
stickster: 2
caillon: 1
harald: 2
spot: 3
notting: 4
IDEA #8: To be the friendliest community for (free) open source innovation.
14 VOTES:
jkeating: 4
skvidal: 2
mdomsch: 0
stickster: 2
chris: 1
notting: 0
harald: 3
spot: 0
glezos: 2
IDEA #9: To lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a community of creators, contributors, collaborators, and consumers.
92 VOTES:
jkeating: 11
spot: 11
stickster: 8
mdomsch: 10
glezos: 9
harald: 11
skvidal: 10
chris: 8
caillon: 4
notting: 10
NOTES: (we can use this later)
caillon: (s/software and content/culture/ +11
IDEA #10: Become the premier community of contributors to lead the advancement of free and open source software and content.
72 VOTES:
jkeating: 9
mdomsch: 8
glezos: 10
skvidal: 7
harald: 10
spot: 9
notting: 10
stickster: 9
NOTES:
caillon: again prefer culture here
IDEA #11: To be the acknowledged world leader in creating and using free software and culture to empower and build a community of contribution.
50 VOTES:
jkeating: 5
mdomsch: 2
skvidal: 4
chris: 6
stickster: 7
spot: 7
notting: 6
caillon: 6
glezos: 7