#fedora-meeting-1: Fedora Board

Meeting summary

1. Roll Call (rbergeron, 18:01:45)
   1. pbrobinson apologizes for his inability to attend today due to $dayjob fires (rbergeron, 18:03:00)
   
   
2. Agenda (rbergeron, 18:05:52)
   1. Today's major topic is: User Base Definition (rbergeron, 18:06:32)
   2. http://wordshack.wordpress.com/2013/04/04/board-meeting-topic-for-the-day-user-base-aka-target-audience/ (rbergeron, 18:07:12)
   3. ACTION: jreznik to poke for further feedback on board mailing list re: board meeting format, inducing more participation. (rbergeron, 18:13:17)
   
   
3. User Base Discussion (rbergeron, 18:13:30)
   1. FYI, there is a #fedora-advisory-board channel where anyone is welcome to hang out. (rbergeron, 18:14:40)
   2. Today's meeting is not going to involve "make a decision," and I suspect that "timeline for a decision" will probably be omething we need to take up on the mailing list. (rbergeron, 18:15:19)
   3. If you have not read what the user base definition is, or aren't familiar with it, please read it before having a spherical cow, man. (rbergeron, 18:15:48)
   4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_base (rbergeron, 18:16:03)
   5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview (rbergeron, 18:16:46)
   6. List of things that have changed in 3 years since "likely collaborators" was written: Cloud. (rbergeron, 18:25:53)
   7. explosion of different DEs. (rbergeron, 18:26:01)
   8. github rised, people who likely care about opensource (misc, 18:26:59)
   9. arm, maker, people extending the idea of free software and sharing on different topic (misc, 18:28:03)
   10. virtualization is much more prevalent (rbergeron, 18:31:21)
   11. AGREED: Loosely agreed: User Base, as currently defined, isn't matching up with what we are producing, and unclear that what the majority of existing contributors are here to do is to address the user base. (rbergeron, 19:10:38)
   12. ACTION: mizmo volunteered valiantly to pore over the meeting minutes and do a blog post summary (rdieter, 19:16:51)
   13. mizmo propose to look at various brainstorming tools (misc, 19:22:31)
   
   
4. meeting wrap up (rdieter, 19:25:04)
   1. ACTION: rbergeron to write up her thoughts on "what has changed", and a few other things (gholms, 19:28:22)
   2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whuffie (rbergeron, 19:30:14)
   3. ACTION: rbergeron to send note to board list regarding "ways to solicit why/how about Fedora usage/contribution from people" (rbergeron, 19:43:13)

Action items

1. jreznik to poke for further feedback on board mailing list re: board meeting format, inducing more participation.
2. mizmo volunteered valiantly to pore over the meeting minutes and do a blog post summary
3. rbergeron to write up her thoughts on "what has changed", and a few other things
4. rbergeron to send note to board list regarding "ways to solicit why/how about Fedora usage/contribution from people"

Action items, by person

1. jreznik
   1. jreznik to poke for further feedback on board mailing list re: board meeting format, inducing more participation.
2. mizmo
   1. mizmo volunteered valiantly to pore over the meeting minutes and do a blog post summary
3. rbergeron
   1. rbergeron to write up her thoughts on "what has changed", and a few other things
   2. rbergeron to send note to board list regarding "ways to solicit why/how about Fedora usage/contribution from people"

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