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Board Meeting
03 January 2010
Roll Call
Present
- Toshio Kuratomi
- Jared Smith
- Joerg Simon (gobby only)
- Jaroslav Reznik
- David Nalley
- Rex Dieter
- Jon Stanley
- Tom Callaway
- Stephen Smoogen (late)
Absent
- Mo Duffy
Regards
- Assigned Secretary: Mo Duffy
- Substitute Secretary: Rex Dieter
Agenda
Updates Board business
Updates
- Catch up after the holidays and festivities
- Contributor issue with regards to possible trademark violation
- Spot working with Red Hat Legal to help resolve the issue, as they're a Red Hat partner
- Slight clarification on the trademark guidelines with regards to theming (dropped the word "desktop" in front of "applications")
- Contributor issue with regards to possible trademark violation
Board Business
- Welcome David Nalley to the Board
- Ticket 94: Revisit concept of IRC meetings/Board transparency
Concerns have been expressed that the Board does not operate as transparently as it possibly could. This discussion is around finding means to increase that level of transparency.
- https://fedorahosted.org/board/ticket/94
- Previously, there were twice monthly IRC meeting and phone meetings were Board business but there was a backlog so it was changed to weekly phone and bi-weekly Board "chats" with community
- Proposal (from Spot): First meeting every month is phone meeting. Define topics to be discussed at second meeting which is an IRC meeting (half dedicated to the agenda, half dedicated to open Q and A)
- Addition (jsmith): Mechanism to add things that come up in IRC
- Pros and Cons of moving more Board business to IRC
- Possibly use Fedora Talk to allow others to listen to (some?) phone calls -- and have complete logs of calls
- Proposal(rdieter): flip flop between phone and IRC meetings
- If we have IRC Board meetings need structure:
- Agenda
- Topics (via meetbot)
- leader/moderator keeps us all on topic
- If we have IRC Board meetings need structure:
Action: (spot): Will design a meeting protocol for IRC
- Proposal(jreznik): phone calls recording
- Action Item: jsmith to work on the Fedora Talk server
- Action Item: jsmith to investigate dial-in numbers (DIDs or DDIs) in other parts of the world (jreznik to help with the Czech Rep.)
- private topics? todo: figure how to make sure no private issues are made public
- All Board members would need to know what things can't go out publically/only be talked about in exectutive session
- Luckily, those issues are few and far between
- Board_public_IRC_meetings
- Proposal(jreznik): phone calls recording
- The Board Goals for the coming year topic
- Next step -- let's talk with fesco/famsco about what they like so that we can narrow it down.
- Invite the folks to a meeting
- We'll try to have two meetings, one with fesco, one with famsco
Action: jds2001 will start talking to fesco Action: ke4qqq and JoergSimon will start talking to famsco
- Clarify what the goals mean (in terms of work, who does it, etc)
- Goals affirmed (hopefully) by the SCo's and plans for next steps in achieving them.
- Clarify what the goals mean (in terms of work, who does it, etc)
Action: Have a governance hackfest at fudcon to make some strawman proposals for how Fedora is governed
- We need to get better with logistics and budget management outside the US
- Budget has traditionally been managed between FAMSCo and Red Hat's community architecture team, and not by the Board
- Certainly this is a topic that can be discussed at FUDCon as well (JoergSimon will prepare that topic for FUDCon)
- We need to get better with logistics and budget management outside the US
- Any other business?
Other notes
- Next meeting: Friday, January 7th (IRC meeting / office hours)
- jsmith to send an email to announce, devel-announce, and users to get more community input on Board goals