Meeting:Community Architecture 2008-04-07

Community Architecture Meeting :: Monday 2008-04-07

Roll call

Present: MaxSpevack, GregDeKoenigsberg, JackAboutboul, PaulFrields, MichaelTiemann
Absent: HarishPillay (travel)

Last week

• Max
• summer internships.
• a little Fedora EMEA work.
• lots of budget work.
• Ambassadors and FAMSCo stuff.
• News Council call.
• Community presentation to marketing team.
• statistics, artwork, chasing down a variety of things.
• Greg
• continue tracking down the TAM angle with Iain.
• Jack
• University tour -- BU, MIT, Northeastern, Harvard.
• Other
• PaulFrields gave a video conference speech at a conference in India. Over 100 folks in attendance.

Budget (Max)

• Still trying to figure out money for the conference in India.
• Discuss GUADEC & Libre Graphics Meetings.
• Jack's expense reports.
• How's the rest of the quarter looking?

Release

• Chatted with Paul a bit about a few release-month logistical questions:
• OpenJDK and Sun.
• Ubuntu's release just a few days ahead of us. They set their date *after* we set ours, but they chose to release a few days ahead of us.

University tour (Jack)

• Boston University
• Met with Computer Science department chair, open to idea of a course.
• A few BU students who had been to FUDCon showed up.
• MIT
• Met with some folks from the linguistics department.
• Northeastern
• Lots of interest, John Flanagan and Jesse spoke there recently.
• Harvard

This week

• Max
• what are we upstream for?
• follow up with Kara on interviews for Paul on the release.
• intern contracts.
• college scholarship.
• follow up with jrb about GUADEC.
• Greg
• I2 problems in RDU, Spot and Paul are also somewhat involved with this.
• Prep for talk in Charleston.
• chatting with the issue tracker folks about potentially open-sourcing it.
• folks are looking for official support for cobbler.
• partner manager inside RH for Alcatel.
• Jack
• get all the contacts and leads on the wiki .
• keep blogging.
• formal news story with the PR team.
• Harish
• continue assessing the situation and opportunities in APAC.

Next meeting

• Greg
• Leaves for Charleston on Tuesday, FISL on Wednesday.
• CLA and improved Join process.