Meeting:Board meeting 2012-03-28

Fedora Board Meeting, 2012 03 28

• Secretary: Rudi Landmann
• Meeting Type: Phone

Attendees

Invitees:

• Jon Stanley

Attendees:

• Jaroslav Reznik
• Rudi Landmann
• Robyn Bergeron
• Guillermo Gomez
• Rex Dieter
• Christoph Wickert
• Toshio Kuratomi (delayed)

Regrets:

• Peter Robinson
• David Nalley (speaking at conference)

Today's goal reporting folks: Jaroslav Reznik and Guillermo Gomez

• Announcements
  • Naming suggestions closed last night
  • Go/No-go for F17 Beta this afternoon
• Quick updates on Jaroslav/Guillermo board member goals
  • Guillermo: project to develop and train new packagers; mailing list, IRC channel, new documentation; has produced 2 new packagers already, hoping for a new batch at FUDCon Margarita
  • RPMDev targetting LATAM region
  • Software Management Guide (Spanish original lang)
  • Fedora Robotics Guide (Valentin from Argentina leading)
  • http://rpmdev.proyectofedora.org is our site/planning/tracking tool
  • Three branches RPM (packaging), DEV (developers), DOC (documentation)
  • 11 Packagers up to 2011, trying to double it.
  • Jaroslav: Promoting Fedora community within Red Hat Brno developers; regular status updates; promoting Fedora to Czech developer community more generally.Wants to develop blog for better communication of Fedora leadership activities

• Review proposed F18 elections schedule: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/advisory-board/2012-March/011461.html
  • FPL now announces first announcement earlier, before nomination period
  • Rex to follow-up on list and say that it all looks good.

• Updates on trademark stuff
  • Still waiting for update to legal process

• Tickets:
  • 84: Annual User Survey: https://fedorahosted.org/board/ticket/84 -- no update
  • 102: Fedora QA as a sub-project: https://fedorahosted.org/board/ticket/102 -- waiting for QA to finalise proposal
• F18 Naming
  • Completed initial screening of proposed names

• • Ongoing concerns about naming
  • Propose at least one week of expanded community consultation process at same time as legal review
    • board willl need an extra week for board to process that feedback
    • Robyn to post to list
  • Release name process for F19+
    • Toshio to post to list
      • We'll have a poll at the same time as F19 release
      • Release names, yes, no, yes but Board and community to change the process
      • Poll on this will advise us -- nonbinding

• • Schedule:

   * Name collection: 20 March through 27 March (23:59:59 UTC)
   * List to Fedora Board: 27 March through 30 March
   * Legal Review of Board approved names: 30 March through 05 April
   * Setup of Voting Application: 05 April
   * Community vote on final name: 06 April through 12 April (23:59:59 UTC)
   * Name announced: 13 April

Next Meeting

Next meeting will be IRC on 2012-04-04 at $18:30 UTC.