Fedora Board Meeting - 2011-11-15

Attendance

Present:
Jared Smith
Jon Stanley
Toshio Kuratomi
Peter Robinson
Rex Dieter
Guillermo Gómez

Not Present:
Rudi Landmann
Joerg Simon

Regards:
David Nalley (travel)
Jaroslav Reznik (travel)

Over 500 people showed up
Great job of reaching out to the local community
- University cancelled classes on Friday so students could attend
- ~200 students who had very little exposure to Fedora/Linux/Open Source before
Very well organised
- About 20 student volunteers to help out with University Logistics
- Good mix of User and Developer talks

Southern_Gentleman has been working to get a mix of tracks (inviting speakers for end users, etc)

OLPC 11.x release based on Fedora 14 being used for upcoming deployments
We are okay with the idea but there needs to be people who step up to run it
- Inside of Fedora, the idea has come up before but people didn't organize to the point of work on it
- Core OLPC release team is only ~4 people so there's not manpower there to do this on their own
- Regional OLPC teams (like Peru) have more people who could do it
  - They would need to come forward and commit to what resources they have, what they want to achieve, and be able to build a community to work on it

jstanley: +1
jsmith: +1
pbrobinson: +1
toshio: +1
rdieter: +1
gomix: +1

APPROVED

121: Move IRC meetings to #fedora-meeting
- Meetings tend to run over
  - problem with blocking a 2 hour block is it ends up being a 2 hour meeting
  - Another alternative is to just keep the meeting on topic to not go over
- Feeling at last meeting that #fedora-meeting-{1,2,3} not as good as #fedora-meeting but still better than #fedora-board-meeting (all by itself)
- Board going to try to move to #fedora-meeting* after the Board elections and we discuss a new meeting time

120: Unclear and never performed clause in Board election policy
- jstanley had a go and decided nothing would meet the requirements
- Approved just to remove altogether

113: Chinese community domains
- domains zh.fc.o cn.fc.o and zht.fc.o
- APPROVED, details documented in the ticket

112: Sri Lankan Fedora community
- Awaiting feedback from community
- Closing ticket, the community can reopen when they have a proposed site

117: Fedora on Launchpad.net
- Is it a board or FESCo issue? Board currently as initially at least its branding etc
- toshio will approach Launchpad.net about their expectation for what we use it for

105: Change Secretarial duties for Public IRC meetings
- Already agreed upon a couple of months ago

98: Board decisions may take a long time to make
- Decisions can block on external entities such as community or legal
- Need more explicit examples of when the board was slow in resolving issues so process can be analysed
- Board strives to close issues as quickly as possible
- Board will ensure tickets are updated within a reasonable time
  - Board will say where the ticket is being blocked (for instance, "legal is still looking at this")
- Public shaming allowed: Ask ticket owners to reach us at irc public meetings, fab-list

Next Board meeting will be a public IRC meeting on Tuesday, November 22nd (15:30 UTC)