Meeting:Board meeting 2010-10-21

Board Meeting 21 Oct 2010

Roll Call

Present

• Tom "spot" Callaway
• Jared Smith
• Chris Tyler
• Rex Dieter
• Colin Walters
• Jon Stanley
• Matt Domsch
• Máirín Duffy
• Stephen Smoogen

Regrets

• Christopher Aillon

Agenda

• Work on name suggestions for Fedora 15
• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_15

Top 12

* Iroquois	XXXXXXXXX     ***
* Asturias	XXXXXXXX      ***
* Blarney	XXXXXXXX      ***
* Malmstrom	XXXXXX        ***
* Sturgis	XXXXXX        ***
* Carlin	XXXXX         ***
* Guerrero	XXXX          ***
* Gutzwiller	XXXX          ***
* Macau		XXXX          ***
* Lovelock	XXX           ***
* Bardeen	XXX           ***
* Pushcart	XXX           ***

Needs to be done

Amur - http://amursoftwarelimited.web.officelive.com/default.aspx

Fortaleza (jstanley) - nothing obvious - http://www.startlocal.com.au/computing/computerequipmentandaccessories/nsw_centralnsw/Fortaleza_Services_Pty_Ltd_1554949.html looks like a local computer shop, not sure.

Iommi (jstanley) living person - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Iommi

Iroquois (mdomsch) online poker http://www.iroquoispoker.net. Iriquois Gas uses linux. http://m.sybase.com/detail?id=1026945 looks OK to me

Gutzwiller (spot) Meets criteria (might be hard to move forward from)

Bellevue - MAYBE

Neruda (mizmo) - NO Verdi Neruda is a prolog meta interpreter http://github.com/Joelbyte/verdi-neruda, Neruda Neruda Consulting is a private company categorized under Online Services Technology Consultants and located in Columbus OH (http://www.manta.com/c/mm2301k/neruda-consulting)

Sewickey - Looks good (ctyler)

Leuchars - Looks good (jsmith)

Blarney (mizmo) Looks good.

Weizenbaum just ELIZA hits no company names (walters: REJECTED, duplicate link physicist->physicist) but was Laughlin a pianist :)

Coltrane - old wordpress code name and software for Library/Environment for the Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations

Szpilman - do not see any conflicts with software/code (smooge)

Voting Schedule

• October 23-31 Collect Questions for Questionnaire*
• October 23- November 7th Nominations Open
• November 1 Publish Questionnaire*
• November 1-10 Organize/Schedule Town Halls
• November 2-8 Candidates Respond to Questionnaires*
• November 10 Publish Questionnaire Responses*
• November 13-19 Town Halls
• November 20-28 Voting Period

* depends on someone volunteering to do the work, otherwise there

won't be questionnaires

jsmith: +1 spot: +1 mizmo: +1 smooge: +1 jstanley: +1 ctyler: +1 walters: +1 rdieter +1 mdomsch: +1

Board approved! (jsmith to post on wiki + advisory board list)

• nominations moved out to nov 7 rather than oct 31

Notes

Spins Wrangler

• Bruno started writing a job description for spins wrangler, need to finish document
• How much work is it?
  • From Nirik's work - 1-2 hours day / machine builds them every day
  • If a build breaks in rawhide, wrangler has to fix
  • A release-engineering style job

• We need to figure out what spins are
  • Mega DVD put all desktop choices in GRUB. Not necessarily best approach, why not DE selection in GDM?
  • Two types of spins - Desktop Environments and Functional (Electronics, Design)
  • Does anyone practically use them? Issue with live usb eating itself when out of disk space
  • mdomsch added agenda item to FUDCon Tempe; Board should lead discussion on future of Spins and bring up at FUDcon

Dual-Layer DVD Ambassadors' Request

• Board isn't opposed to the idea, but dislikes the timing of the request, well past feature freeze
  • We're not saying no to the concept, it's a good idea, but we want to make sure things are done right
  • Most spins are not provided as official physical media
  • Mega DVD is available for review:
    • torrent: http://sspreitzer.fedorapeople.org/torrents/
    • direct download: http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/mega-dvd-test/
  • Major concerns are:
    • Needs to be built on Fedora infrastructure
    • Needs to have basic QA
    • Needs polish/artwork/sleeves
• We need to establish requirements for approving something like this
  • https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Media_Handout_Requirements (mdomsch)
• Board to revisit once requirements are documented.

= Election Schedule

Board started with John Rose's proposed schedule, and modified slightly the early dates.

• October 23-31 Collect Questions for Questionnaire*
• October 23- November 7th Nominations Open
• November 1 Publish Questionnaire*
• November 1-10 Organize/Schedule Town Halls
• November 2-8 Candidates Respond to Questionnaires*
• November 10 Publish Questionnaire Responses*
• November 13-19 Town Halls
• November 20-28 Voting Period

* depends on someone volunteering to do the work, otherwise there

won't be questionnaires

There are several jobs that need volunteers to step up for:

1. Election Coordinator
2. Questionnaire Coordinator
3. Town Hall Moderator (x3)