#meeting:fedoraproject.org: Fedora Council Meeting

Meeting started by @amoloney:fedora.im at 14:00:47 UTC

Meeting summary

  1. TOPIC:Roll Call (@amoloney:fedora.im, 14:01:00)
    1. INFO: Fedora Week of Diversity runs from June 17th to 22nd, 2024, featuring a series of interviews with community members sharing their Fedora stories. Additionally, we will host a virtual event on June 21st – 22nd, featuring talks, panel discussions and social activities. CFP is already open Fedora Week of Diversity 2024 :: pretalx and everyone is welcome to apply by May 11. This year’s theme for Fedora Week of Diversity is “Empowering Diversity, Enriching Communities. (@amoloney:fedora.im, 14:08:19)
  2. TOPIC:Announcements (@jflory7:fedora.im, 14:08:30)
    1. INFO: Elections are now open! The Nomination period has begun for FESCo, Mindshare, Council and EPEL Steering Committee seats. Visit the Elections documentation for more information and the elections schedule for key dates. (@amoloney:fedora.im, 14:08:32)
    2. INFO: Fedora 40 is now available! https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/releases/f40/ (@amoloney:fedora.im, 14:09:02)
  3. TOPIC:Status Check for items in progress (@amoloney:fedora.im, 14:09:59)
    1. INFO: Council Hackfest Write ups (@amoloney:fedora.im, 14:10:07)
  4. TOPIC:Status checks (@jflory7:fedora.im, 14:10:56)
    1. LINK: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18h6nna1vyFLM_TAvi-BoeTNIllEqj0yofZnF4REpfxE/edit?usp=sharing (@amoloney:fedora.im, 14:11:22)
    2. INFO: The git forge evaluation is published, Strategy Update Pt.1 is published, Elections is due to be published tomorrow, Bugzilla is ready to be published, Mentored Projects is in progress, Stratrgy Update Pt.3 is in progress and IRC/Matrix will be started soon. We are over halfway to completing the hackfest write ups (@amoloney:fedora.im, 14:16:26)
  5. TOPIC:Status Check in (@amoloney:fedora.im, 14:17:12)
    1. INFO: Matrix hosted (@amoloney:fedora.im, 14:17:26)
    2. LINK: for ref https://pagure.io/Fedora-Council/tickets/issue/487 (@amoloney:fedora.im, 14:18:10)
    3. INFO: We added 200 seats to our hosted EMS homeserver. This sustains us until August, when the contract is up for renewal. Ongoing conversations are seeing if EMS will renegotiate with us if we look at termination, and if not, then JWF is pursuing simultaneous conversations with Red Hat Open Source Program Office and Fedora Infra/CPE on self-hosting options. (@jflory7:fedora.im, 14:19:07)
  6. TOPIC:status check in - git forge evaluation (@amoloney:fedora.im, 14:20:11)
    1. INFO: amoloney has a ticket open with Fedora council to review initial set of Stakeholders and Decision Makers for the evaluation process https://pagure.io/Fedora-Council/tickets/issue/488 and is working with jednorozec from the CPE team to refine a timeline and milestones for the investigation to work against. The effort will be mainly CPE -led, with @amoloney supporting administratively (@amoloney:fedora.im, 14:22:30)
  7. TOPIC:Discussions (@amoloney:fedora.im, 14:23:32)
  8. TOPIC:Trademark approval request (@amoloney:fedora.im, 14:23:50)
    1. LINK: https://pagure.io/Fedora-Council/tickets/issue/491 (@amoloney:fedora.im, 14:23:58)
    2. AGREED: The council would like to see this trademark request be renamed from Fedora Miracle Spin to Fedora Miracle-VM Spin (or other descriptive term) before submitting the request to legal, but are in favour of the request as a whole. If the name can be altered, this request will be accepted by the council and continue on through the process. (@amoloney:fedora.im, 14:37:05)
  9. TOPIC:- Stakeholder and Decision Maker list (@amoloney:fedora.im, 14:37:32)
    1. AGREED: The council will review the ticket for stakeholders & decision makers and add comments for any groups that may have been accidentally omitted. The deadline for the review is April 30th. (@amoloney:fedora.im, 14:42:05)
  10. TOPIC:Discuss & Decide on a Fedora Council Policy on the use of AI-based tooling for contributions (@amoloney:fedora.im, 14:42:39)
    1. LINK: https://pagure.io/Fedora-Council/tickets/issue/486 (@amoloney:fedora.im, 14:42:47)
    2. AGREED: The proposed statement for the AI ticket does not have consensus. A revision will be posted on discourse and/or the fedora council chat channel for further discussion & collaboration (@amoloney:fedora.im, 15:01:27)


Meeting ended at 15:01:32 UTC

Action items

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People present (lines said)

  1. @jflory7:fedora.im (76)
  2. @amoloney:fedora.im (69)
  3. @mattdm:fedora.im (43)
  4. @t0xic0der:fedora.im (31)
  5. @zodbot:fedora.im (13)
  6. @bt0dotninja:fedora.im (6)
  7. @rwright:fedora.im (5)
  8. @ffmancera:fedora.im (3)
  9. @nhanlon:beeper.com (2)
  10. @meetbot:fedora.im (2)
  11. @farribeiro:matrix.org (1)