Meeting:Community Architecture 2008-04-14

Roll call

Max Spevack, Greg DeKoenigsberg, Harish Pillay

Last week

Max

• Fedora scholarship.
• Keep working with HR on internships.
• Figure out how to pre-pay the LinuxTag hotel bill.
• Spin SIG meeting.
• Work with Paul Frields on "what the FPL does during release month".
• Test Windows Live USB creator.
• Wiki migration meeting.
• Send swag to various folks worldwide.

Greg

• continued TAM discussion with Iain Gray and Brent Fox.

Jack

• University tour continues.

Harish

• Jim and other RH VIPs were in Singapore.

Budget (Max)

• Max sent out some budget planning emails last week. Trying to finalize Q1 budget by May 15th.

Harish's update

• Jim was in Singapore last week.
• Open Source Collaborative Initiative for Asia was announced.
• Home of Open Source @ Institute of Technical Education.
• potentially bring in a Blender developer.
• Software Freedom Day on September 20th.

TAMs

• Trying to get customers more engaged in OSS and community development.
• Trying to use TAMs for this, because they tend to talk to the most technical people in the organizations of our largest customers.
• Database that allows TAMs to take all their knowledge, and put it into a format usable by the entire company.

Fedora 9 release

• Paul Frields will be in Raleigh next week, working with MaxSpevack on the Fedora 9 GTM stuff.

University tour

• final week of tour -- west coast swing.

This week

Max

• Update events page for Q2 and remind Ambassadors of deadline.
• FUDCon Europe on Software Freedom Day weekend?

Greg

• Charleston
• FISL

Jack

• University Tour

Next meeting

• CLA and improved Join process.