Meeting:Board meeting 2008-12-09

Fedora Project Board Meeting :: Tuesday 2008-12-09

Roll Call

Attendees: John Poelstra, Paul Frields, Bill Nottingham, Seth Vidal, Karsten Wade, Chris Tyler, Spot Callaway, Jesse Keating, Matt Domsch, Jef Spaleta

Regrets: Harald Hoyer

Fedora 11 Naming

• Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_11
• Submissions are closed
• In order to not overburden Red Hat legal department the Board will select a subset of entries
• Board needs to send a list to legal by December 15, 2008
• Receive list back from legal by January 2, 2009

Brainstorming FUDCon Fedora 11 External Audio Options

• streaming audio or video
• could someone at MIT Television help?
• one central server for streaming and use laptops in individual sessions
• potential problems
  1. enough bandwidth to get to fedora talk
  2. enough hardware
• use IRC for feedback loop to livestream
• what about targeting one or two rooms to pilot the live stream
  • do well in one room
• would need to create a standard setup guide so it is easy
• setup in advance, preferably the day before so time isn't wasted in individual sessions trying to get things to work
• would to designate people in each room to watch over equipment
• Plan of attack:
  1. Paul Frields will try to make contact with MIT TV
  2. Chris Tyler to send out email to various fedora lists soliciting help and hardware from people attending--clip on microphones or video cameras

FUDCon Update

• Planning is on track with Paul the organization of everything
• For people arriving before Friday, January 9, 2009, it might be good to have a meeting place for: "I'm here please put me to work place"
• Most of the critical help will be needed the week before and up until the event
• Will have a couple ads running in the MIT newspaper advertising FUDCon

Fedora 8 Package Resigning

• Release Engineering requested Board decision on necessity of resigning Fedora 8 packages with end of life less than one month away
• DECISION: Board unanimously believes that Fedora 8 must be re-signed, as was originally communicated to the public.

Push of Defective Packages

• earlier this week a broken dbus package update was pushed resulting in non-functioning systems
• The board would like to see tools and processes that lower the risk of this problem recurring.
• ACTIONS:Jesse is volunteering to lead a cross group effort involving QA, Infrastructure, Release Engineering, and tools developers (Seth Vidal, etc.)

Post Election Red Hat Board Appointments

• Short discussion about candidates under consideration