Meeting:Board meeting 2009-10-29

Roll Call

• Attending: Tom "spot" Callaway, Mike McGrath, John Poelstra, Paul Frields, Bill Nottingham, Dennis Gilmore, Matt Domsch
• Regrets: Christopher Aillon, Dimitris Glezos, Josh Boyer

Last meeting

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Board_meeting_2009-10-22

Proposed Agenda

Audience profile refinement

• Limit to 30 minutes
• Use gobby to detail more characteristics, as a starting place

• • People voluntarily switching to Linux (in general? or fedora in particular?), not really "my aunt Tessie"
    • Better phrased -- conscious and independent choice to install and use a Linux platform
    • Not being forced into it -- willing to do an installation
    • Family member or friend support available (?)
      • Paul disagrees with above -- We want people to be able to run Fedora without support from a friend/family member (its just a reason why someone might take the jump to linux)
      • Does this mean we can assume an informed choice? Yes
    • Why did this person switch then?
      • stability
      • free of cost, functionality
      • lower risk (viruses, spyware, malware)
      • Family relationship to RHEL/CentOS (familiarity)
      • later:
        • free as in speech is secondary for many people, it's the hook that keeps them after they've already experienced the other beneficial effects
        • care about community later, after they discover the methodology and participation
    • What does this person expect when she installs?
      • Is comfortable with the idea that their whole hard disk may be erased
      • Wants the installation to take as few steps as possible
      • Does not want to be presented with choices that are not understandable

• • People who are not necessarily hackers, but are familiar with computers
    • (Not reached in time limit)

• • People who are likely to fix something that is not working (or at least collaborate or report when it's not working)
    • (Not reached in time limit)

• • People looking to perform one or more of the following tasks:
    • web browsing, email
    • office productivity
    • graphic arts
    • publishing
    • audio listeners
    • simple web services
    • collaboration & communication (IRC, gobby, IM)
      • All facilities that get the user in touch with any of our help venues
    • software development (cross platform, JAVA, not necessarily the development that we do)

• Board made it partially into the first area, and realizes that this is not a project that can be done alone -- more of a thought exercise
  • Not trying to create propaganda (Why switch?) -- rather to understand the person who we want to target, and create/maintain what they would naturally want to use
• AGREED: Board will engage with more design folks to find out how we can do this methodically and transparently
• ACTION: Paul to copy to a wiki page for collaboration with others

FUDCon sessions

• Suggestion:
  • One session: FUDCon + Board roundtable Q & A (incl. target audience preso if needed)
  • One session: Update discipline intro (hopefully presenting ML ideation, not starting from scratch).
    • Need a proposal to present to the audience for feedback and revision during the session. (Paul is planning to take a first shot at this) (spot made a pseudo-proposal in the old thread-of-doom)
  • Hackfests would take over work on updates, unfrozen Rawhide
  • Election town hall is separate
• Want:
  • Feedback from community on target audience discussion
  • Community to understand that both the board and FESCo are in favor of a more disciplined approach to updates
    • hopefully a proposal has been drafted in advance that can be clarified or ratified
• ACTION: Paul to take first shot at proposal, possibly using some or all of Spot's pseudo-proposal from FAB

Next Meeting

• Public IRC Meeting, 2009-11-05
• DST time change on Sunday, 2009-11-01 makes next meeting 1700 UTC, or same human time 12:00pm US-Eastern/9:00am US-Pacific
• ACTION: Paul to send out notifications