Meeting:Board meeting 2007-07-24

Fedora Project Board Meeting :: Tuesday 2007-07-24

Roll Call

• Attendees: Seth Vidal, John Poelstra, Karsten Wade, Matt Domsch, Chris Aillon, Jef Spaleta, Bill Nottingham, and Dennis Gilmore
• Regrets: Steve Dickson, Chris Blizzard, Max Spevack

Multimedia Discussion

• Request from Jack Aboutboul to discuss non-free codecs being included as presently being discussed on fedora-advisory list.
• Not discussed.

Decision: best to continue discussion on fedora-advisory list for the time being

Strictifying fedora-board-list

• Majority of present board members voted to limit list membership to present board members and specially appointed people.
• Max needs to adjust list after return from vacation

Freeze for F8 Test1

• Simple reminder to board
• Freeze is today (2007-07-24)
• F8 Test 1 Release is slated for next thursday
• Need to notify mirrors
• Matt will follow up with Jesse and notify mirrors

Virtual FUDCon Update

• Jef will start thread on fedora-advisory list and then start creating a wiki page with a schedule
• Looking at a block of time (2 or three hours) each day from 2007-aug-03 to 2007-aug-07
• Have presentations by feature owners
• Could we pull together resources for an Asterisk server?
• Karsten will scope out resources needed
• Dennis will help set things up once scoped out by Karsten
• If Asterisk doesn't work we need to have a fall back plan like a regular conference system

Update on Feature Process

• John reported that so far things seem to be going well
• First round of approvals last week
• Seems to have helped to create lines of communication between related features

Targeted Audience Discussion

• Topic sparked by thread on fedora-advisory-list
• If Fedora can do a better job of defining its market then marketing can be better targeted
• Raises question about how good Fedora's marketing is?
• Is planet.fedoraproject.org marketing?
• How could Fedora Marketing be improved?
• What we can advertise as "exciting and new in Fedora 8" and how can we go about doing that?
• Observations from Chris Aillon's GUADEC experiences
• Contrast between Fedora CD artwork and Ubuntu's very distinct
• Firefox being used as a platform
• Online desktop very well received
• Backing from Gnome Foundation
• Verbal backing from some of the other distros
• Might be an area Fedora should consider targeting
• ACTION: invite Havoc to a future meeting
• Every application needs to be more "on-line aware"
• Ubuntu seems to be doing a good job focusing developers on specific initiatives