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Roll Call
Attendees: John Poelstra, Matt Domsch, Mike McGrath, Paul Frields, Colin Walters, Chris Tyler
Status
- Matt and Colin have worked up some questions about Spins
- User:Walters/SpinsSigsRemixes_TargetAudience
- User:Walters/SpinsSigsRemixes_ChangeDistribution
- Would like to bring back some feedback by next week
- Mike checked in with websites team to see how latest design is going
- get.fedoraproject.org
- overall look and feel
- latest updates are in git repo
Purpose of Strategy
- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Poelstra/Importance_of_strategy
- Paul: "areas we want to emphasize" is too nebulous
- Matt: strategy is to rally the troops
- Paul: target audience discussion was to help refine strategy, the means rather than the end
- Colin: is distinction between "Fedora Distro" and "Fedora Project" too strong?
- Paul: There is a difference because the Project encompasses people who aren't necessarily working on the direction of the distro -- for example, people who are building processes for free/open marketing, which isn't constrained to the distro
- NEXT ACTIONS: Paul will take a shot at moving page to conclusion
Next Steps for Personas
- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Poelstra/Target_audience_personas
- John is the owner of this proposal
- John: unclear how much we can rely on this without a leader to move it forward who's experienced in UX design
- Matt: personas make a lot of sense for specific spins. Could this be a good tool for spins to use?
- Colin: may want to consider personas for general purpose spins/Fedora general audience
- John: understand the personas to be for identifying users of the default distribution
- Paul: Personas were meant to provide a smooth interface between user attraction and expectations we set up in our basic web pages (front and get), with the actual experience of running the default distribution
- We can continue without, but personas would make it easier in the future to tune that work
- NEXT ACTIONS:
- John will email advisory-board list seeking help with carrying personas work forward
- In absence of experienced people to help, the Board will proceed as best it can
Next Steps for Discussion of Default Offering
- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pfrields/Different_default_offering
- Paul is the owner of this proposal
- Review page for pros and cons
- Colin: In the future could we create some criteria that would help guide the process of selecting a change in the default behavior of an application or subsystem?
- criteria: Does the upstream project share our values? How active is upstream? (these are semi-lame but anyways)
- Paul: Would see the criteria Colin brings up as a decision belonging to FESCo
- NEXT ACTIONS:
- SWG members asked to go over risk/benefit analysis carefully and add comments as desired
- Request board discussion at next meeting: Does the board as a whole agree with the conclusion of the wiki page that the Desktop Spin should continue as Fedora's default distribution offering?
Next Week's Discussion
- Matt: Feedback gathered from Spins discussions
- Chris: User:Ctyler/draft/what_is_fedora_the_distro
Next SWG Meeting
- 2010-02-15 @ 3 PM EST
- John will NOT be at Thursday board meeting.
- Colin will represent SWG at board meeting if there are any questions about progress, etc., beyond what is in the meeting notes