17:02:19 #startmeeting 17:02:19 Meeting started Mon Aug 17 17:02:19 2015 UTC. The chair is decause. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 17:02:19 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 17:02:39 #topic rollcall 17:02:47 .fasinfo decause 17:02:48 decause: User: decause, Name: None, email: decause@redhat.com, Creation: 2008-10-01, IRC Nick: None, Timezone: None, Locale: None, GPG key ID: None, Status: active 17:02:51 decause: Approved Groups: @gitfedora-commops sysadmin-badges sysadmin fi-apprentice gitcivx cla_done freemedia cla_fedora gitmoksha @gitopenvideochat gitfortune_hunter @gitgamesforscience @gitfossrit ambassadors cla_fpca 17:03:05 welp, that was perhaps TMI :P 17:04:24 #chair jwb sgallagh_afk mattdm 17:04:24 Current chairs: decause jwb mattdm sgallagh_afk 17:04:41 #chair langdon 17:04:41 Current chairs: decause jwb langdon mattdm sgallagh_afk 17:06:53 #topic Announcements 17:07:34 with mattdm at LinuxCon, and the rest of the council more or less still traveling and recovering from FLOCk, I will be convening today's open floor meeting 17:07:49 * rdieter waves late, sorry 17:08:16 if anyone has anything they'd like to bring to the floor, the agenda is pretty much wide open :) 17:08:29 #topic Agenda 17:08:40 1) FLOCK Updates 17:08:48 2) Fedora EDU updates 17:08:53 3) Open Floor 17:09:05 #topic FLOCK Updates 17:09:29 So, for those of you who couldn't make it, FLOCK 2015 in Rochester NY happened this past week/weekend 17:09:46 #link http://www.flocktofedora.org 17:10:05 * rdieter heard and read about lots of good flock stuff 17:10:10 There were 2 days of talks, followed by 2 days of workshops/hackfests 17:10:31 hi decause and rdieter 17:10:38 on day 2, (Thursday) there was a 2 hour session with the Fedora Council 17:10:45 * decause waves to jkurik and rdieter 17:11:12 the session was recorded, along with most of the other FLOCK Sessions, and will be posted in the near-ish future 17:11:25 jkurik: hi 17:11:51 at the Council session we had langdon, jwb, mattdm, sgallagh, and decause representing on stage 17:12:27 the session was very much like an open meeting/town hall style forum, where members of the community were able to ask specific questions to council members 17:13:13 Each of the council objectives was at least touched upon (EDU/Modularization/Editions) with the objective proposal process being a hot topic during the first block of the double session 17:14:49 the second block was mostly spent discussing specific aspects of current objectives, mainly EDU and Modularization 17:15:55 the community working group was also a topic of discussion, with a focus on process for arbitration of disputes and reporting in IRC 17:16:32 again, the video/audio of this session will be live in the near future, so I won't get into too much detail on the conversations. 17:17:21 On Day 4 (Saturday) Langdon led a workshop on Fedora Modularization and Rings, which seemed quite well attended 17:17:52 * decause was not able to make it because he was leading a introductory session on Fedora Community Operations Team (CommOps) 17:18:10 #link https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CommOps 17:18:55 I don't belive the Modularization workshop had recording, but I could be wrong 17:19:42 that is generally where council-specific sessions were conducted at FLOCK 17:20:04 individual council members also led their own sessions as well, and those too will hopefully be made available in the near future 17:20:18 does anyone else have any additional council-at-FLOCK related updates? 17:21:05 going once 17:21:09 going twice 17:21:16 going thrice 17:21:25 #topic Fedora EDU Updates 17:22:12 during FLOCK, I met with kushal about his ticket he filed with the council some weeks ago to provide letters to students in India for internship credit 17:22:20 #link https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/37 17:23:19 after discussion on the trac thread, there were no objections, so we approved the proposed process in the thread, and will be moving forward with the initiative 17:23:47 #info Have a formal, written proposal with goals and deadlines. 17:23:47 Have this approved by a Fedora mentor (at which point it will be posted to the Fedora contributor blog) 17:23:53 Have completed the work, as assessed by that mentor. 17:24:04 * decause apologizes for the copy/paste fail 17:25:04 #info 1) have a fromal, written proposal with goals and deadlines. 2) have this approved by a Fedora Mentor (to be posted to Fedora Contributor Blog). 3) Have completed work assessed by that mentor. 17:25:45 once the process has been followed, students will be issued a letter to signify the completion of their tasks 17:26:52 after speaking with some of the other Ambassadors, I've been told that different regions have different requirements, so this process can/will be adjusted for other schools/students/regions as we move forward 17:27:08 for now though, kushal and his program in India will serve as our pilot :) 17:28:06 #action decause kushal set up a mail list like "letters@fp.o" where students/mentors can request letters/pads/certificates 17:28:51 EDU update #2: I'm working with CommOps team to hold concurrent installfests at Universities during Software Freedom Day 2015 17:29:01 #link http://softwarefreedomday.org/ 17:29:50 There will be an event at Rochester Institute of Technology from Noon-Midnight EST 17:30:12 we're working with a community member who is organizing an event at Sienna College in Albany, NY as well 17:30:34 there is a possiblity that an event will be organized at RPI as well, but that is super tentative 17:31:19 if folks know of other Software Freedom Day events happening on Saturday September 19th, then by all means reach out to me to coordinate 17:31:57 I will be working with Ambassadors/Mktg to update the installfest materials we have, to create a "module" that can be run during SFD and other FOSS events 17:32:10 sounds fun, I'll see if I can get our local LUG interested 17:32:15 rdieter++ 17:32:15 decause: Karma for rdieter changed to 9: https://badges.fedoraproject.org/tags/cookie/any 17:32:20 awesome 17:33:15 EDU Update #3: we had a professor from Bolton University in the UK reach out to us about helping to get more Fedora into their program 17:34:01 I will hopefully be closing the loop with him in the next 2 weeks to make in roads there, including a proposed 'security lab' powered by Fedora Workstations 17:34:43 if any other council members, or community members are interested, just email me and I will cc you on the invitation, or make a point to follow-up after 17:35:25 #action decause Open a loop with Bolton University in the UK post-FLOCK 17:35:48 #action decause reach out to community partner to help with SFD Sienna 17:36:08 #action decause reach out to amabassadors to get latest installfest materials for updating 17:36:36 #action decause reach out to mktg/design for help updating installfest materials 17:36:55 anyone have any other Fedora EDU updates? 17:36:59 going once 17:37:02 going twice 17:37:04 going thrice 17:37:19 #topic Open Floor 17:37:36 at this time we will open the floor to questions/comments/general discussion 17:38:08 if anyone has new or old business they'd like to discuss, I will give you a few moments to add your items to the agenda now. 17:38:19 * decause waits patiently for any takers 17:38:50 * jkurik has no topics for today 17:40:04 jkurik: thank you 17:40:07 anyone else? 17:42:19 * decause waits a little longer 17:44:47 * rdieter has nothing either 17:45:12 ok, then I think it is safe to close the meeting today 17:45:29 thank you everone for attending, and we'll see you next week 17:45:39 decause: Thanks for the extensive update from FLOCK & EDU 17:45:54 travel safe council members coming home from FLOCK, and good luck at LinuxCon mattdm :) 17:45:58 #endmeeting