Meeting:Community Architecture 2008-03-10

Roll call

Max Spevack, Greg DeKoenigsberg, Jack Aboutboul, Harish Pillay, Paul Frields

Last week

Max

• orientation.
• Ambassadors meeting for North/South America.
• reworking events page.
• general linuxtag stuff.
• Google meeting with Brian Faustyn.
• fedora IT budget meeting.
• Brian Stevens chat.
• red hat summit/fudcon planning.
• budget meeting with Jeff Mackanic.
• follow up on NASA and University Tour press plans.
• FUDCon planning meeting.
• began work on a status report that can be updated monthly for mchen and Fedora Board.

Greg

• Ambassadors meeting for North/South America.
• Google summary/postmortem to fedora board.
• Brian Stevens chat.
• presentation at Liberty University, wants to rebuild CS curriculum around Open Source.
• began looking into Fedora TV on archive.org, with much success on creating rss feeds.

Jack

• University tour.

Budget (Max)

• Greg's expenses for him and Dennis to Brazil, and Liberty University.

Liberty University

• Greg met with head of Computer Science department at Liberty University.
• Looking to completely rebuild their CS curriculum around Open Source.
• Talked with many CS professors, lectured at a CS class about OSS and ethics in computing.
• Their professor is going to meet with Will Cohen for next steps about how they can incorporate OSS bits into curriculum.

University Tour (Jack, Max)

• Max needs to get the infrastructure side up.
• Albany is likely to be dropped, we need to find some new avenues into Stanford.
• We need a flyer, and advertising.
• Getting an update from Thinkgeek, hopefully on March 10.

Swag

• Swag continues to be a horrible bottleneck. Jack needs it for University Tour, but production and distribution is a gigantic time sink and pain in the ass.
• ACTION: Paul Frields will continue to work with Jeffrey Tadlock on Fedora Store stuff.
• Greg wants an official way of licensing the Fedora mark.
• ACTION: Paul Frields to chat with legal about easy licensing of the mark.
• ACTION: Harish will look into something for APAC.

Fedora TV

• Plumi is getting a lot of buzz internal to RH University.
• From Fedora TV perspective, the question is still "who is going to do the work?"
• Fedora TV will quickly run into space/resource issues to keep it running.
• one possibility is archive.org -- one of the minuses is that there is no "we have our own video site".
• no archive.org RPM -- you can't host it yourself.
• on the plus side, everything they use is open source.
• advantage #2 is the size of their server farm.
• they do ogg video, which was the biggest point of going through all of this in the first place.
• they have RSS feeds, and they work via Venus (which is the fork of Planet).

This week

Max

• Max will be in Amsterdam Sat March 15 - Sun March 23.
• help Jack with university tour stuff.
• contact lawyers, housing folks in Netherlands.
• swag that must get mailed out.
• University Tour swag.

Greg

• send a note to Fernando at Stanford.
• continue down Fedora TV @ archive.org path.

Jack

• Will chat with art team about a University Tour flyer.
• Will update wiki with schools that have dropped.

Next meeting

• Max won't be at next week's meeting.