#fedora-meeting-1: Council

Meeting started by bcotton at 15:02:15 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

    1. Meeting is being conducted on Jitsi at https://meet.jit.si/FedoraCouncil (bcotton, 15:02:47)
    2. Today's meeting is reports from FESCo, Mindshare, and Diversity & Inclusion (bcotton, 15:03:31)

  2. FESCo report (bcotton, 15:05:07)
    1. 15 System-Wide, 13 Self-Contained Changes accepted so far (bcotton, 15:07:05)
    2. Everything is awesome! (More or less) (bcotton, 15:07:46)

  3. FESCo report -- Infrastructure (bcotton, 15:09:05)
    1. FESCo & Infra will brainstorm ideas how to effectively provide a list of services and determine how much effort is required for self-hosting. No ETA yet (bcotton, 15:09:37)

  4. FESCo report - Q&A (bcotton, 15:10:51)
    1. Q: Some infra contributors are concerned that the things that make most sense to move off of self-hosting also take near-zero effort to keep running (bcotton, 15:12:38)
    2. A: It's too early to take a position on this (bcotton, 15:13:05)

  5. Mindshare report (bcotton, 15:16:39)
    1. 9 activities in Join/Classroom with 6 more scheduled (bcotton, 15:18:47)
    2. 9 Release parties for F29 have happened so far (bcotton, 15:18:59)
    3. Advocate success story: a new advocate ran a release party and has since starting making a lot of contributions to Fedora IoT (bcotton, 15:21:02)
    4. GCI: we had 6 mentors who worked with 125 participants. top 5 completed 110 tasks (bcotton, 15:21:52)
    5. https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/gci-report-2018/ (bcotton, 15:21:55)
    6. Google Season of Docs (GSoD) is a parallel program to Google Summer of Code focused on writing documenation. Google will launch this in April and run through August or September (bcotton, 15:23:08)
    7. Google Summer of Code has started. Feb 6 is the deadline for submission (bcotton, 15:25:14)
    8. ACTION: sumantrom to write a CommBlog post to get projects (bcotton, 15:25:46)
    9. Design and Badges: need to make a rule file to create an ambassador emeritus badge (bcotton, 15:27:32)
    10. Fedora Magazine reached 3.5 million page views for 2018 (avg 10k/day) (bcotton, 15:27:35)
    11. Translations: looking at what needs to be done to get more activity (bcotton, 15:28:04)

  6. Mindshare report -- Google Code In (GCI) (bcotton, 15:28:15)
    1. GCI is catered to students 13-17 years old as a first step into open source (bcotton, 15:28:32)
    2. All participants wrote good reviews about their Fedora contribution experience (bcotton, 15:29:00)
    3. Next year would benefit from more bite-sized infra tasks, e.g. writing ansible playbooks (bcotton, 15:29:39)

  7. Mindshare report -- closing notes (bcotton, 15:31:14)
    1. Mindshare is preparing a detailed proposal for the $100 event process. Should be ready for Council by mid-February (bcotton, 15:32:34)

  8. Diversity & Inclusion report (bcotton, 15:33:04)
    1. bex is working on code of conduct (mattdm, 15:35:52)
    2. Fedora Women's Day had 10 events in 7 countries (bcotton, 15:35:57)
    3. there was a imposter syndrome workshop at Flock (tyll, 15:36:06)
    4. and a unconcious bias workshop at Flock (tyll, 15:36:31)
    5. there was an outreachy intern but there is a problem finding mentors (tyll, 15:37:36)
    6. idea is to get more mentors with mentors summit (tyll, 15:37:46)
    7. ACTION: jonatoni to open a ticket for it (tyll, 15:37:52)
    8. flock hat a quiet room and communication preference sticker (tyll, 15:38:30)
    9. trying to improve collaboration with other teams, for example localization and translation (tyll, 15:39:06)
    10. there were also classroom sessions about how to join the team or how to speak at an event such as Flock (tyll, 15:39:46)
    11. pending: do a demographic survey (tyll, 15:39:58)
    12. idea: have non-native speaker event (tyll, 15:40:09)
    13. non-native speaker event can be a track or an evening social event (tyll, 15:40:46)
    14. allow participants to speak in their native language with other people (tyll, 15:41:15)
    15. demographic survey is blocked by legal review and CoC has more priority (tyll, 15:42:50)


Meeting ended at 15:43:53 UTC (full logs).

Action items

  1. sumantrom to write a CommBlog post to get projects
  2. jonatoni to open a ticket for it


Action items, by person

  1. jonatoni
    1. jonatoni to open a ticket for it
  2. sumantrom
    1. sumantrom to write a CommBlog post to get projects


People present (lines said)

  1. bcotton (44)
  2. tyll (16)
  3. zodbot (10)
  4. mattdm (8)
  5. contyk (0)
  6. sumantrom (0)
  7. langdon (0)
  8. dperpeet (0)
  9. pbrobinson (0)
  10. bex (0)
  11. jonatoni (0)
  12. dgilmore (0)


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