#fedora-meeting: Fedora Board IRC Meeting

Meeting started by rbergeron at 18:30:05 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

  1. Roll call (for board members) (rbergeron, 18:30:45)
    1. present: jds2001, rdieter, gomix, cwickert (but not really and we saw his regrets earlier), ke4qqq, yours truly, abadger1999 (rbergeron, 18:31:39)
    2. present jreznik (rbergeron, 18:32:47)

  2. Agenda (rbergeron, 18:33:15)
    1. First, General announcements (rbergeron, 18:33:26)
    2. Will cover tickets #130 (Board == Less of a SPOF), #131 (retire torrent seed), #132 (endorsement of http://github.com/fedoraproject) (rbergeron, 18:33:41)
    3. Then see where we are with trademark guidelines. (rbergeron, 18:33:49)
    4. Then open Q&A. (rbergeron, 18:33:53)
    5. Board Member Tasks. (rbergeron, 18:34:45)

  3. General Announcements and the like (rbergeron, 18:35:56)
    1. Schedule Reminders: Alpha change deadline is next week on Valentine's Day/Singles Awareness Day (2/14 for those of you not into that type of thing), Alpha release on 2/28. (rbergeron, 18:36:02)
    2. FUDCons for EMEA, LATAM, APAC are waiting on various types of things (approvals, dates, etc). Bidding for US FUDCon will open ... when I get to it. :D (rbergeron, 18:36:06)

  4. Ticket 130: Make the Board less of a single point of failure (rbergeron, 18:37:47)
    1. present: rudi (rbergeron, 18:37:55)
    2. all info is on the public wiki. (rbergeron, 18:38:48)
    3. For those playing along at home, description of the ticket is basically "reflecting on problems encountered in implementing the sopa banner for the blackout day" (rbergeron, 18:39:47)
    4. pbrobinson is here! (rbergeron, 18:46:14)
    5. ACTION: abadger1999 to write this up so process changes (like definite ownership) can be voted on and behaviour changes (like board members objecting need to propose solutions) are written as guidance for us to refer back to. (rbergeron, 18:50:19)
    6. ACTION: abadger1999 to be done with and revisit in 2 weeks (2/22). (rbergeron, 18:51:48)

  5. Ticket 131 (retire torrent seed?) (rbergeron, 18:52:09)
    1. This ticket is wrapped up / completed. YAY PROGRESS. (rbergeron, 18:53:16)
    2. Nirik hoping that the board could provide ideas about when retiring might be an option, are there numberes to look for, or revisit in a few weeks? (rbergeron, 18:54:22)
    3. nirik urges everyone using torrents now to examine usage of mirrors, and provide feedback on where to improve. (rbergeron, 18:58:25)
    4. AGREED: (more or less) to revisit at some point after F17. (rbergeron, 19:02:28)

  6. Ticket 132, endorsement of http://github.com/fedoraproject (rbergeron, 19:02:53)
    1. AGREED: 8 in favor, 1 not in favor, The Board grants https://github.com/fedora-jboss-as permission to use the Fedora trademarks on that website for hte purpose of getting JBoss-AS packaged for Fedora (rbergeron, 19:20:55)
    2. ACTION: rdieter to take the action on following up with the requestor. no paperwork is required (so long as it is indicated in trac). (rbergeron, 19:21:44)

  7. Trademark Guidelines (rbergeron, 19:22:00)
    1. AGREED: invite spot to next phone meeting and dedicate it largely to TM guidelines topic. (rbergeron, 19:26:31)
    2. ACTION: all y'all to read and be familiar by next week. BRING YOUR QUESTIONS. (rbergeron, 19:26:57)

  8. Open Floor (rbergeron, 19:27:30)
    1. thank you to inode0 for volunteering again to be election coordinator (rbergeron, 19:38:09)
    2. AGREED: have Q&A at start of meeting, rather than end of meeting, in future (rbergeron, 19:39:13)


Meeting ended at 19:44:57 UTC (full logs).

Action items

  1. abadger1999 to write this up so process changes (like definite ownership) can be voted on and behaviour changes (like board members objecting need to propose solutions) are written as guidance for us to refer back to.
  2. abadger1999 to be done with and revisit in 2 weeks (2/22).
  3. rdieter to take the action on following up with the requestor. no paperwork is required (so long as it is indicated in trac).
  4. all y'all to read and be familiar by next week. BRING YOUR QUESTIONS.


Action items, by person

  1. abadger1999
    1. abadger1999 to write this up so process changes (like definite ownership) can be voted on and behaviour changes (like board members objecting need to propose solutions) are written as guidance for us to refer back to.
    2. abadger1999 to be done with and revisit in 2 weeks (2/22).
  2. rdieter
    1. rdieter to take the action on following up with the requestor. no paperwork is required (so long as it is indicated in trac).


People present (lines said)

  1. rbergeron (191)
  2. jds2001 (42)
  3. abadger1999 (33)
  4. ke4qqq (30)
  5. rdieter (28)
  6. gomix (23)
  7. jreznik (19)
  8. spot (15)
  9. skvidal (14)
  10. pbrobinson (13)
  11. cwickert (8)
  12. nirik (7)
  13. pingou (7)
  14. Discordian (6)
  15. rudi (5)
  16. zodbot (5)
  17. jsmith (5)
  18. inode0 (4)
  19. stickster (4)
  20. ianweller (3)
  21. suehle (2)


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