Meeting:Community Architecture 2009-02-23

Roll call

Genome
- Internal IT team experiences beginning to mirror customer experiences.
- Opportunity to show best practices for OSA migration.
- We need to be focused on solving actual problems and focusing on positives.
- Need help - make sure CommArch is engaging w/ Genome.

SCALE & FAD
- Maybe a bigger commitment at SCALE 8x?.
- We have a sort of "distributed rock star" model for excitement.
Cookbook
- Catch up this week, behind due to event execution.

Purpose of CA meetings
- We're global, but individual tasks are isolated from each other.
- Keep each other informed and find connections.
MRC said work done back in Nov had significant impact.
CMU - Profs are highly incented to teach FOSS well, Max working on clarifying agreement.

Education
- Need to find out about opening of content before we go further.
- MRC liked stuff about POSSE -- time is of the essence, so need decision.
  - Wants cohesive plan to go with all the vision and big-picture stuff.
  - Slide deck to socialize with other execs, and notes for deep-diving.
- Education by-products
  - Tiemann provided update on leveraging education of customers into vastly improved sales opportunities.
  - Harish talked about arming sales with consistent messages on value prop.
Sugar
- Not going to block F11 anywhere, moving very quickly right now.
- No spin for F11, concentrating on Sugar on a Stick.

Marketing
- Picture Book - is there a blocker on release forms, or are they just one thing that needs to be fixed in parallel.
  - Establish critical path issues for community to move forward.
- Tasks - Condense schedules from JonRob with the main task schedule.