Meeting:Community Architecture 2008-02-25

Community Architecture Meeting :: Monday 2008-02-25

Roll call

Present: MaxSpevack, GregDeKoenigsberg, JackAboutboul, HarishPillay
Absent: n/a

Last week

• Max
• orientation.
• lots of budget stuff, finishing fy08 and planning fy09.
• start working through legal issues around relocation.
• update to Fedora Board about budget and community plans for fy09.
• continued helping with LinuxTag planning and Fedora EMEA NPO.
• email Jan Wildeboer at Greg's suggestion to start chatting about RH/Fedora in Europe (no response yet).
• working to finalize Fedora IT budget for FY09.
• begin planning FUDCon @ RH Summit Boston .
• email interview with PaulFrields for JonathanRoberts
• Greg
• Delivered Community Architecture pich to worldwide marketing group
• NCSU lunch and learn
• Reviewed Google pitch with Jennifer Venable
• Moved FAST meeting (community consulting) to 2/25
• UNC visit to pitch Fedora to accessibility lab
• Fedora TV test instance inches closer to completion
• Jack
• university tour work

General (Max)

• budget summary and how that impacts Harish.
• expenses and budget update.

FUDCon @ Summit in Boston (Max)

• FUDCon @ RH Summit Boston sign up page has been created.
• meeting with IDG on Thursday.
• need to transition over to PaulFrields soon.

Marketing plan for Fedora (Greg)

• Colby doesn't really have time right now.
• Greg will call a meeting and work through some of the open items .

University Tour (Jack)

• a typical day at one of these schools will involve meetings with both faculty and students.
• pitch faculty on developing classes or integrating open source into the classes.
• when Will Cohen opened up his course at NCSU , it was full within 20 minutes.
• talk to students opens with Truth Happens, moves into everything from there.
• enthusiasm is key.
• 20 schools, 11 are driving distance.

This week

• Max
• make a page for talks and presentations.
• get the intern stuff finalized.
• keep on with LinuxTag.
• keep working on the EMEA stuff.
• keep working on FUDCon @ RH Summit, talk to Leigh about Fedora presenters.
• RH Mag article about FOSDEM.
• Greg
• write up Fedora TV intern request.
• keep working on google start page.
• work on Fedora Marketing.
• keep working on FISL.
• keep working on Fedora TV.
• community consulting -- calls with FAST, TI.
• put CSEET talk up on wiki.
• Jack
• get all the university stuff on the wiki (again).
• finish the actual presentation to present in next week's meeting.
• set up a meeting with Leigh Day.
• find sponsors for swag.
• talk to websites team about a nice page and graphic designers about stuff.
• get the NASA post up.

Next meeting

• JackAboutboul presents his rough draft presentation to us.
• what new metrics do we need? what do we need to measure? how can we get the most out of FAS?
• what are the dates of new users signing the CLA over time, and how do we show our impact on that?