Meeting:Board meeting 2012-10-17

Absent:

• David Nalley
• Nick Bebout

Present:

• Peter Robinson
• John Rose
• Christoph Wickert
• Jaroslav Reznik
• Toshio Kuratomi
• Garrett Holmstrom

Regrets:

• Eric Christensen
• Robyn Bergeron

Today's lucky secretary: Toshio Kuratomi

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Agenda:

• Announcements
  • F18 slipped another week. New target is 2012-11-06 for Beta, 2012-12-11 for GA

• • FUDCon Paris
    • cwickert and probinson reports: Very successful
    • keynote filled with information and vision for future of fedora
    • First day that was cohosted with openworld was more focused on people who hadn't heard of Fedora yet than on enabling current contributors to do work
    • Monday Hackfest very productive -- people working even on Monday evening (last day)
    • Discussed many budget items
    • xfce work was worked on

• • elections -- scheduling is getting harder due to the release slipping
    • Release is pushing up against the Christmas/New Years holidays.
    • That probably pushes the Board election to after the holidays -- if we keep slipping it starts to get us close to FUDCon
    • Could move the townhalls, nominations, etc to before the release and leave elections to after
      • Worry that would be pulling people who are working on release off to "campaign"
    • Also worry about fairness of some people having longer terms due to period between some releases being longer
    • Neither Board or FESCo have seemed to have difficulties with dates as long as they're not putting off the elections for a long period
    • inode0 to touch base with Ankur (Election Wrangler) and Jaroslav to figure out a proposed schedule

• Fedora 19 proposed names review
  • http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_19
  • We'll finish up next week's meeting
  • This week we'll look at non grey areas:
    • Not an is-a relationship
    • Possible problems with trademark (see suggestions page for guidelines)
  • Toshio to divide out the list to all Board Members

Open Floor

Are we losing users?

• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics#Total_repository_connections
• F15 took a large hit and we haven't recovered
  • Listing of the technology changes that went into F15: gnome3, systemd
  • Also F14 was the last release before RHEL6 was released.
• Have we really lost users? (The statistics seem accurate at what they're measuring)
• Seeing large amount of enthusiasm at conferences which is a contrasting view to this

• Next: Public IRC meeting 2012-10-24