Meeting:Board meeting 2009-04-22

Fedora Project Board Meeting :: Wednesday 2009-04-22

Roll Call

• Attendees: Jesse Keating, Bill Nottingham, Harald Hoyer, Paul Frields, Tom "Spot" Callaway, Dimitris Glezos, Mike McGrath, Matt Domsch, Seth Vidal

Regrets: Chris Aillon, Chris Tyler

• Secretary: John Poelstra

Future Security Response Plans

• Dimitris requested that the board discuss plans for future handling
  • follow-up to: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Meetings/2009-03-24#Involvement_of_the_Board_in_Future_Security_Incidents
  • How can the board be kept updated and notified?
• Paul noted that there may be no way to avoid inherent conflict when a matter arises that affects both Red Hat and Fedora
• Mike would like to create policy, but it is difficult to write because:
  • Incident response will vary depending on the incident in question
  • Knowledge dissemination will happen as discovery happens
  • Would like to have a contact list and policy so that if Red hat asks who knows we can reference the policy
• Spot suggests there are two scenarios to consider when laying out a policy:
  1. Red Hat related
  2. Fedora issue only
  • Seth asked, 'what is a Fedora issue only'?
  • Dimitris noted the community need to have these answered very clearly
• First possible contacts could/should (?) be:
  • Spot as manager of Fedora Infrastructure
  • Paul as Fedora Project Leader
• One potential way to expose board members to more information would be a signed non-disclosure agreeement (NDA)
  • Seth opposed to NDAs
  • Dimitris opposed too, but would consider if it's the only way the Board would be kept in the loop
• Board supports Mike writing a policy that he believes is the right way to to do this
  • individual people will be brought into the loop "as needed"; no blanket groups automatically granted
  • Will need to run past Red Hat Security and potentially Red Hat Legal
• NEXT ACTIONS:
  • Mike to draft a document and send to fedora-infrastructure by 2009-05-27

What is Fedora?

• follow-up to: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Meetings/2009-03-24#What_is_Fedora
  • https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives
• Tabled for next week's meeting: 2009-04-28

Status of Trademark Followup

• follow-up to: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Meetings/2009-03-10#Trademark_Followup
  • Paul is following up with people that have concerns
• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Trademark_licensees
• Overall uptake is good
  • A few general misgivings remain
  • One community member with very specific issues, trying to resolve them currently
• Fedora Legal recently had to intervene in a misuse of "Fedora Remix" -- we do need to maintain vigilance

be.fedoracommunity.org Domain Request

• Tabled for next week's meeting: 2009-04-28
• Email from Frederic Hornain delayed in FAB queue while Paul (list maintainer) was on vacation
  • ACTION ITEM: Paul - to figure out status