#fedora-meeting: Board (2014-10-06)

Meeting summary

1. Welcomes, hellos, etc. (mattdm, 17:00:49)
   
2. Agenda (mattdm, 17:06:46)
   1. https://fedorahosted.org/board/ticket/12 (mattdm, 17:06:51)
   
   
3. Is consensus process adequately described? (mattdm, 17:09:18)
   1. ACTION: mattdm to update draft to clarify that lack of consensus is negative votes (esp in the context of the deadlock scenario) (mattdm, 17:23:04)
   2. ACTION: mattdm to add that any project member can ask for lazy consensus to be extended to full consensus if they have a concern (mattdm, 17:44:50)
   
   
4. Term limits? (mattdm, 17:51:26)
   1. ACTION: mattdm to remove six-month "cooloff" period from elected seats (mattdm, 17:53:40)
   
   
5. Selection of area-representative seats (particularly outreach) (mattdm, 17:53:48)
   1. we agree to engage FAmSCo now to handle this election but those of us who are interested in broader outreach leadership can pursue it (mattdm, 18:02:16)
   
   
6. Minor: change order as gholms suggests? (mattdm, 18:02:39)
   
7. Other? (mattdm, 18:05:54)
   
8. diversity advisor (mattdm, 18:06:41)
   
9. Next steps! (mattdm, 18:16:53)
   1. ACTION: mattdm to make ticket for board vote by Wednesday. (mattdm, 18:19:02)
   2. ACTION: inode0 to (attempt) to write general broad announcement of coming change (mattdm, 18:23:18)

Action items

1. mattdm to update draft to clarify that lack of consensus is negative votes (esp in the context of the deadlock scenario)
2. mattdm to add that any project member can ask for lazy consensus to be extended to full consensus if they have a concern
3. mattdm to remove six-month "cooloff" period from elected seats
4. mattdm to make ticket for board vote by Wednesday.
5. inode0 to (attempt) to write general broad announcement of coming change

Action items, by person

1. inode0
   1. inode0 to (attempt) to write general broad announcement of coming change
2. mattdm
   1. mattdm to update draft to clarify that lack of consensus is negative votes (esp in the context of the deadlock scenario)
   2. mattdm to add that any project member can ask for lazy consensus to be extended to full consensus if they have a concern
   3. mattdm to remove six-month "cooloff" period from elected seats
   4. mattdm to make ticket for board vote by Wednesday.

People present (lines said)

1. mattdm (141)
2. number80 (48)
3. inode0 (44)
4. jwb (37)
5. gholms (21)
6. cwickert (17)
7. yn1v (15)
8. zodbot (7)
9. misc (4)
10. jreznik (2)
11. mjg59 (0)
12. Sparks (0)