Fedora Project Board Meeting :: Tuesday 2007-07-24

Roll Call

Attendees: Seth Vidal, John Poelstra, Karsten Wade, Matt Domsch, Chris Aillon, Jef Spaleta, Bill Nottingham, and Dennis Gilmore
Regrets: Steve Dickson, Chris Blizzard, Max Spevack

Request from Jack Aboutboul to discuss non-free codecs being included as presently being discussed on fedora-advisory list.
Not discussed.

Decision: best to continue discussion on fedora-advisory list for the time being

Majority of present board members voted to limit list membership to present board members and specially appointed people.
Max needs to adjust list after return from vacation

Jef will start thread on fedora-advisory list and then start creating a wiki page with a schedule
Looking at a block of time (2 or three hours) each day from 2007-aug-03 to 2007-aug-07
Have presentations by feature owners
Could we pull together resources for an Asterisk server?
Karsten will scope out resources needed
Dennis will help set things up once scoped out by Karsten
If Asterisk doesn't work we need to have a fall back plan like a regular conference system

Topic sparked by thread on fedora-advisory-list
If Fedora can do a better job of defining its market then marketing can be better targeted
Raises question about how good Fedora's marketing is?
Is planet.fedoraproject.org marketing?
How could Fedora Marketing be improved?
What we can advertise as "exciting and new in Fedora 8" and how can we go about doing that?
Observations from Chris Aillon's GUADEC experiences
Contrast between Fedora CD artwork and Ubuntu's very distinct
Firefox being used as a platform
Online desktop very well received
Backing from Gnome Foundation
Verbal backing from some of the other distros
Might be an area Fedora should consider targeting
ACTION: invite Havoc to a future meeting
Every application needs to be more "on-line aware"
Ubuntu seems to be doing a good job focusing developers on specific initiatives