Meeting:Board meeting 2010-05-13

Roll Call

• Present: Tom "spot" Callaway, Paul Frields, Chris Tyler, Matt Domsch, John Poelstra, MikeMcGrath, Dennis Gilmore, Colin Walters, Christopher Aillon
• Regrets: Josh Boyer
• Assigned meeting secretary: Chris Tyler

Agenda

License agreement for fedoraonline.it

• Status report
  • Multiple Italian community sites
  • Appears to meet community-based, non-commercial requirements
  • Legal disclaimer (in Italian) appears ok
  • Paul to work with Italian Ambassadors and site owners to promote cooperation
• APPROVED

License agreement for fedorastorm.com

• QUESTION: Is there anyone on the Board who does not support licensing this site? If not, what would need to change for you to do so?
• The board has no problem in principle with this site.
• ACTION: Paul to communicate with site owner regarding logo/graphics usage.
• ACTION: Held for discussion at a later meeting pending review of graphics (use of Fedora logo, Debian logo?)

Hall monitor policy change

• QUESTION: Is there anyone who does not support the changes made by Matt and John to this page? What would have to change for you to do that?
  • https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Hall_Monitor_Policy&diff=172746&oldid=171600
  • One objection was raised to first added bullet ("...achive: * the perception of the friendly inviting community")
    • Bullet struck from text.
  • Not clear how to balance increased specificity with the demands on the monitors themselves
• ACTION: continue discussion at future meeting, with input from current hall monitors

• Related discussion: Is the hall monitor policy useful and beneficial?
  • ctyler: Fortunately, seems to be rarely needed.
  • mmcgrath: Treating symptoms -- like a dome lowered over a leaking oil well.
  • pfrields: The policy is an interim measure -- we need a way to eject people who consistently run afoul of it. We can have just as much constructive dissent without so much flamage.
  • pfrields: negativity has a significant impact on the community, we need some general approaches to deal with it. Easier to deal with when a member is new to the community. Hall monitors can't remove people who are persistently negative, but can reduce the ripple-effect of their actions. We need a clear way of identifying, warning, and (if need be) removing people who are consistently causing problems.
• ACTION: Continue discussion on advisory-board (with possible submission of alternate proposals) and a future meeting.
• pfrields would like to see more discussion on advisory-board.

Team meeting

• Shall we use a biweekly schedule for public IRC team sessions?
• Next team suggestions?
• APPROVED: Public IRC team sessions on 1st and 3rd meeting of each month.
• ACTION: pfrields to draw up team meeting schedule.

Next meeting

• Thursday, 2010-05-20 UTC 1600
  • IRC Public team meeting, depending on conclusion of discussion above