13:32:59 <JoeJulian> #startmeeting 13:32:59 <zodbot> Meeting started Wed Sep 18 13:32:59 2013 UTC. The chair is JoeJulian. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 13:32:59 <zodbot> Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 13:34:05 <JoeJulian> #meetingtopic Minutes 13:34:06 <semiosis> http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/GlusterBoardMeeting 13:34:20 <JoeJulian> http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/gluster-meeting/2013-06-12/gluster-meeting.2013-06-12-13.36.html 13:34:24 <johnmark> #link http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/GlusterBoardMeeting 13:36:02 * jimjag has 13:36:04 <JoeJulian> #link http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Governance/Gluster_Community_Board 13:36:49 <semiosis> http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Gluster_Community_Governance_Overview 13:47:08 <JoeJulian> #meetingtopic Governance Document 13:48:00 <JoeJulian> #topic voting 13:48:47 <JoeJulian> The board shouldn't be involved in that level of minutia, but rather to establish guidelines 13:49:55 <JoeJulian> #meetingtopic Indications of a Healthy Project 13:50:21 <JoeJulian> #topic Diversity of contributors 13:51:15 <JoeJulian> #idea to identify a project as mature, more than one entity should be involved in the project 13:51:50 <JoeJulian> #idea maturity in drupal modules is driven by the community 13:52:41 <JoeJulian> #idea ASF doesn't define any project as mature. They define the community as mature. 13:55:16 <JoeJulian> #idea Do people use it? Are people depending on it? Are other people using it in production and can I rely on that use to satisfy my own production requirements? 13:58:30 <JoeJulian> #idea the board should provide guidelines and recommendations for project maturity 13:59:53 <JoeJulian> Why would like to take a crack at that? (John Mark stares intently at Lance) 14:00:17 <JoeJulian> #action Lance agrees to take a crack at it. 14:00:34 <JoeJulian> #meetingtopic Review Letter of Intent 14:01:03 <JoeJulian> #link http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Letter_of_Intent 14:05:48 <JoeJulian> What is the incentive to sign the letter of intent? 14:06:46 <JoeJulian> RedHat owns the Gluster trademark, Red Hat is able to take that away. 14:07:22 <JoeJulian> Under current conditions Red Hat partners are the most likely to be involved. 14:08:52 <JoeJulian> It seems to be beneficial to the trademark owner to stay open. 14:10:12 <JoeJulian> #action John Mark is going to convene a meeting with Red Hat execs to move Gluster.org into a foundation of its own, or as part of another foundation. 14:12:19 <JoeJulian> #idea Join the Outer Curve Foundation? 14:14:35 <JoeJulian> Creating our own foundation is a lot of work, a distraction from our goals, etc, etc. 14:15:08 <JoeJulian> #idea examine existing foundations that would suit our goals 14:25:39 <semiosis> dropped call again 14:30:24 <semiosis> [unintelligble mumbling] 14:31:45 <JoeJulian> The mumbling was discussing various forge projects and their contributors and potential level of maturity. 14:32:04 <semiosis> thx 14:32:12 <JoeJulian> #meetingtopic steering committee 14:33:15 <semiosis> tmux? 14:33:22 <semiosis> did i hear correctly? 14:33:32 <JoeJulian> pmux 14:33:36 <semiosis> oh 14:33:44 <JoeJulian> #link https://github.com/iij/pmux 14:33:51 <semiosis> got it 14:42:00 <semiosis> what was that? 14:42:38 <JoeJulian> HP and/or OpenStack has Zul, some sort of CI integration thing. 14:42:43 <semiosis> thx 14:42:56 <Ramereth> #link http://ci.openstack.org/zuul/ 14:44:21 <ke4qqq> #link https://archive.fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/opennebula/ 14:44:26 <JoeJulian> #idea We don't need a Technical Steering Committee since they have no ability to affect change in the contributing projects. 14:45:14 <JoeJulian> #meetingtopic Branding 14:45:53 <JoeJulian> #idea Hire Chris Grahams (sp?) 14:46:29 <ke4qqq> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0789748029/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0789748029&linkCode=as2&tag=c4vetpro-20 14:46:50 <ke4qqq> ^^ link to Chris Grams book "The Ad Free Brand" 14:46:53 <JoeJulian> Marketing committee would work on trade show presence, unified message, social media, etc. 14:47:38 <JoeJulian> John Mark could ask for an Anna. May currently have a Ruth. 14:47:50 <JoeJulian> JMW needs a Karin 14:48:06 <ke4qqq> JMW wants a Karen. 14:48:38 <JoeJulian> JMW turns beet red. 14:48:52 <jimjag> better than 'beat red' 14:49:28 <semiosis> what's in that new orleans coffee?! 14:49:51 <JoeJulian> BP Oil! 14:50:56 <JoeJulian> #action Work with an agency first. Develop a committee second. 14:51:07 <JoeJulian> #meetingtopic Board Members 14:51:14 <JoeJulian> #topic Anand Avati 14:51:18 <semiosis> action item: define the gluster.org image/brand 14:51:30 <semiosis> "I know what GlusterFS is, but what is Gluster.org?" 14:52:34 <JoeJulian> #topic Theron Connery (sp?) 14:52:42 <ke4qqq> Conrey 14:52:52 <JoeJulian> #topic Theron Conrey 14:53:01 <ke4qqq> or as I refer to him "The Ron Conrey" :) 14:54:46 <jimjag> Ugg. phone died. calling back 14:55:17 <JoeJulian> Theron's done real operations. He has a voice. Downside is minimal engagement with the rest of the community. 14:55:47 <JoeJulian> Do we want ... Joe and Lewis are obvious contributors ... with everyone else it's less obvious. 14:55:49 <JoeJulian> He's likely to travel. 14:57:08 <JoeJulian> #action johnmark will submit their names for vote to the mailing list. 14:57:31 <JoeJulian> #topic Citrix 14:57:40 <semiosis> #action get a gluster.org polycomm for future meetings 14:57:51 <JoeJulian> +1 14:57:58 <semiosis> worst conf call quality evar 14:58:05 <JoeJulian> #topic Harvard 14:58:12 <JoeJulian> HPC use case 14:59:28 <johnmark> lol 15:00:16 <johnmark> *talk to Jared re: voip phone 15:00:22 <semiosis> yay voip! 15:02:16 * ke4qqq would like to see us doing these meetings more often, perhaps via GTM or Goog Hangouts or something similar 15:02:59 <JoeJulian> #endmeeting