Meeting:Board meeting 2011-03-22

Fedora Board Meeting - 2011-03-22

Roll Call

Present

• David Nalley
• Jared Smith
• Toshio Kuratomi
• Joerg Simon
• Jaroslav Reznik (secretary)
• Jon Stanley
• Rex Dieter
• Stephen Smoogen (til 16:30)

Absent

• Tom Callaway

Regards

• Máirín Duffy (leave of absence)

Agenda

• Updates
• Board business

Updates

• Follow-up from SXSW
  • jsmith, spot and mo attended SXSW
  • SXSW is a conference in Austin for musicians, filmakers, and "interactive graphics" (web design, and such)
    • 36,000 attendees last year
  • 4-500 photos taken at Fedora photo booth on first day
• Update on FUDCon {LATAM/EMEA/APAC?} status
  • LATAM is coming in the end of May (meeting tonight)
  • EMEA - 4 bids
    • Dublin (Ireland) FUDCon:Bid_for_Dublin_2011
    • Milan (Italy) FUDCon:Bid_for_Milan_2011
    • Budapest (Hungary) FUDCon:Bid_for_Budapest_FUDCon_EMEA_2011
    • Zurich (Switzerland) FUDCon:Bid_for_Zurich_2011
  • APAC - next year (may or may not happen this year)
    • Personal preferences have some sort of event in APAC this fiscal year even if it's smaller
    • possibility in India (close to Red Hat office) or China (interest by people in that area)
    • schedule depends on EMEA timeframe
    • smaller event (budget etc...)

Board Business

• Double-check meeting time works
  • US already in daylight saving time
  • Also make sure we update all the various schedules on the wiki
• Work on the F16 release names.
  • Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_16

List of names

• Barona - Rex - OK
• Jay - Toshio http://jayisgames.com/
• Bonnet - Jared - OK - no significant collisions
• Sagan -ke4qqq - multiple collisions - including Apple who named a computer 'sagan' and was subsequently litigated
• Rasputin - Jon - questionable????- rasputin-titled software occurs multiple times
• Ringworld - Toshio -- as noted on the page already, there is a Ringworld computer game
• Lightbody - Jon - nothing found surprisingly -- Patrick Lightbody (apache foundation person), Lightbody is a computer company in Dorchester
• McLuhan - Toshio -- Author (does not seem "famous") http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_McLuhan - Shareware software product (helps apply Business theory to a particular company) http://www.sqaki.com/9/McLuhanLaws/
• Talladega - Rex - OK
• Neuromancer - jreznik NOT OK (link ok - sci-fi books, neuromancer was a computer game in 1988, new one development stopped in 2009)
• Dreadlock - jreznik NOT OK(link ok - hairstyles, Dreadlock Privacy - software, internet history cleaner)
• Llullaillaco - Rex - OK
• Mayflower - Toshio -- NOT OK software company: http://www.maysoft.com/
• Bacon -Jon (name of living person relevant in Linux community)
• Cornrow - ke4qqq - Cornrow Curves software from RPI, from TESS: Internet based social networking, introduction, and dating services. FIRST USE: 20080919
• Mt. Orne - Jared (link OK, no significant collisions)
• Iao - Rex - OK Iao used as acronym for Information and Computer Science (ICS) Alumni Organization (University of California, Irvine)
• Legation - Jon - OK
• Gaia - ke4qqq - multiple collisions gala construction software, gala factory software, slightly related Globalization and Localization Assocation conference
• Golding - Jon (current living person, prime minister of Jamaica)
• Periwig - Jon (no link, it's a thing, not a hairstyle)
• Lennox - ke4qqq NOTOK - Lennox Computer Software Design
• Verne - Rex - OK
• Nepia - jreznik - OK
• Tyrie - Jon - current living person (MP for Chichester, UK)
• Codpiece - Toshio NOT OK http://codpiece.sourceforge.net/
• Spaceship - Jared - NOT OK (bad link, multiple collisions)
• Hollyhock - ke4qqq - hollyhock inc is a software dev house.
• Lapland - Toshio - NOT OK - http://www.gmdu.net/corp-471825.html 5-10 person laptop computer trading company
• Steamship - Jared - NOT OK (tenuous link, several name collisions)
• Flamel - jreznik (link - Nicolas Flamel was alchemist, not chemist; no collision)
• Sunset - Jared - NOT OK (bad link, multiple collisions)
• Ablebaker - Jared - NOT OK (multiple collisions)
• Marvin - jreznik NOT OK (bad link, several collisions - even my friend's class-less Smaltalk implementation ;-)
• Ayers- ke4qqq - possible collision via TESS, Ayers Virtual Entertainment, plus ayerstechnology.com
• Sheepy Shenannigans - Jared - NOT OK (bad link, collision with blog post at http://jejunesplace.blogspot.com/2007/05/special-date.html)
• None - jreznik NOT OK (no link at all, "none" ;-)
• Money Fountain - Jared - NOT OK (tenuous links, several conflicts)
• Cousteau - jreznik (probably) NOT OK (link ok BUT one son still alive and he's famous as his father)
• Dusty - Rex - OK
• Babbage - Rex - NOT ok, Babbage's Computer Software in Santa Rosa, CA
• Cunningham - jsimon - NOT OK it is a Software http://sourceforge.net/projects/cunningham/ and there are several TM in EU registered
• Hatefree - jsimon - can not find a collision

Other notes

• Next meeting: IRC meeting on Tuesday, March 29th
• Informational, Toshio and Robyn Bergeron are looking at improving the Feature Process
  • Changes_to_Feature_Process