#fedora-meeting-2: Fedora Board Meeting

Meeting summary

1. Who's here? (rbergeron, 18:02:48)
   
2. Agenda & Format (rbergeron, 18:08:13)
   
3. Discussion topic #1: ** What are the problems we would try to solve by changing our user base, and why do we think they are problems? (rbergeron, 18:13:33)
   1. focus ( or perceived focus ) on the desktop is a issue (misc, 18:21:23)
   2. Problem: Too much focus on desktop, to the degree of excuding other obvious target use cases (misc, 18:27:17)
   3. Problem: We don't have relationships with other major downstream users of Fedora (aside from OLPC and RHEL) (gholms, 18:27:25)
   4. Problem: Fedora is perceived as RH-owned/dominated, perhaps causes division in community (misc, 18:27:30)
   5. ACTION: rbergeron to put that list of problems in a blog/mail and ask for other suggestions (gholms, 18:29:32)
   
   
4. Discussion question: What do we think our existing user base looks like, or attracts them to fedora? (rbergeron, 18:29:55)
   1. attracted to philosophy (rbergeron, 18:31:31)
   2. specifically free and open culture, not just free/open software (rbergeron, 18:32:03)
   3. contributing, making spins, attracting/mentoring other contributors (rbergeron, 18:32:10)
   4. EPEL has 2-3x the machines using it than Fedora. They were equal a few years ago. (gholms, 18:36:42)
   5. We have lots of EPEL users, disconnections on how to contribute, why to contribute to Fedora. (rbergeron, 18:38:13)
   
   
5. use Cases (for the heck of it) (rbergeron, 18:52:40)
   
6. Wrap-up (rbergeron, 18:56:20)
   1. ACTION: rbergeron to consolidate and put notes on wiki, think about action plan for next week / in-between (rbergeron, 18:57:24)
   2. hopefully obvious use-cases: spins, derivative distributions (RHEL) (rbergeron, 18:58:01)

Action items

1. rbergeron to put that list of problems in a blog/mail and ask for other suggestions
2. rbergeron to consolidate and put notes on wiki, think about action plan for next week / in-between

Action items, by person

1. rbergeron
   1. rbergeron to put that list of problems in a blog/mail and ask for other suggestions
   2. rbergeron to consolidate and put notes on wiki, think about action plan for next week / in-between

People present (lines said)

1. rbergeron (129)
2. pbrobinson (31)
3. inode0 (30)
4. rdieter (26)
5. gholms (25)
6. rackerhacker (20)
7. misc (17)
8. jreznik (14)
9. zodbot (6)
10. Sparks (4)
11. brunowolff (1)
12. sparks (0)