Meeting:Board meeting 2010-03-25

Roll Call

• Present: Matt Domsch, Mike McGrath, Christopher Aillon, Colin Walters, Paul Frields, Dennis Gilmore, Chris Tyler
• Regrets: Josh Boyer, Tom 'spot' Callaway, John Poelstra
• Assigned meeting secretary: Paul Frields

Agenda

Trademark matter

• Question to legal@fp.o asking for permission to use our logo in a T-shirt contest entry at the Linux Foundation
  • TM counsel reports we can give a specific permission that is limited in scope to just this contest entry, without setting broader precedent.
  • Inclined to give a specific permission for this since (a) it was

  sought, and (b) seems like a negligible risk

• • Thanks to the community member who asked in advance!
  • QUESTION: Does the Board agree we can grant a specific, limited

  permission for the creator to enter these two designs in the LF
  contest?

AGREED: No objections. Paul to note to requester.

Diagram progress

• STATUS: In progress, Paul to give a short status
  • Met with Mo Duffy for some designer input
    • Presented purpose for the diagram
    • Got feedback, and will do some narrative and another iteration
  • ACTION: Paul working on next draft, will present to SWG+Board+FAB

FPL succession

• STATUS: In progress, Paul to give a short status
  • Announcements
    • http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=3085
    • http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/advisory-board/2010-March/008247.html
  • The next few weeks of planning

Election schedule

• STATUS: Draft is out on advisory-board list
  • Feedback from Board members encouraged
  • mdomsch: FESCo rules have specific rules
    • we should ask FESCo to reconcile this with a general project schedule-based policy
    • Is there any desire to change the way that town halls/questionnaires work?
  • pfrields: Light but generally positive response in Fedora community, and also from external free software communities as well
    • as long as people are interested in staffing it, OK to continue
    • make sure we have a way for people to get involved in the process if desired
  • ACTION: mdomsch to file ticket with FESCo explaining issue

FESCo Update Policy

• STATUS: FESCo has posted a policy
  • https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_update_acceptance_criteria
  • Planning is still underway
  • Board members should keep an eye on progress
    • Does the plan so far meet our vision/requirements?
    • Implementation details will really be the key
    • Be mindful of people costs/requirements
  • pfrields: Outlined Board responsibilities above
  • mdomsch: Testimony to quality of FESCo discussion and vote -- no resulting uproar
  • mmcgrath: Having the known quantity of criteria has helped a lot
  • mdomsch: interested in possibility of a backport capability, but that's independent of the updates model and making them more stable
  • dgilmore: work is going forward on gathering info for a KoPeR capability
    • http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JesseKeating/KojiPersonalRepos -- the original idea page
• Board agree it's good to see people driving this idea to a conclusion

Next meeting

• PROPOSED: Wed 2010-04-01 UTC 1600
  • This is a public IRC meeting
  • Paul hasn't had cycles to work on getting new Asterisk packages

  made to try out, but will work on it in April for the May meeting.