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* Hyperic -- Jeremy Hogan is the community manager.  He has paid somebody to build RPMs for hyperic.  Potential future communication here in the Java Packaging front.
* Hyperic -- Jeremy Hogan is the community manager.  He has paid somebody to build RPMs for hyperic.  Potential future communication here in the Java Packaging front.
* JasperSoft -- Karsten and Jennifer Venable
* JasperSoft -- Karsten and Jennifer Venable, they know what their next steps are
* Concrete Five -- CMS that we'll help get into Fedora
* Concrete Five -- CMS that we'll help get into Fedora
* Ingres -- community version potentially forthcoming, lots of legacy stuff that makes it hard for them to become LSB compliance.
* Ingres -- community version potentially forthcoming, lots of legacy stuff that makes it hard for them to become LSB compliance.
* Plain Black
* Plain Black
* Sugar CRM -- couldn't find anyone technical at this show to talk to.
* Sugar CRM -- couldn't find anyone technical at this show to talk to.
* Zimbra -- met Jon Robb, their VP of Marketing.
* Zimbra -- met John Robb, their VP of Marketing; Karsten to meet Engineering folks in Sunnyval
* OpenJDK
* OpenJDK -- met Dalibor Topic, former [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaffe Kaffe] hacker now leading the OpenJDK team
* Digium -- Mark Spencer and Todd (Community Manager)
* Digium -- Mark Spencer and Todd (Community Manager)
** They want to do a case study about our use of Asterisk.
** They want to do a case study about our use of Asterisk.
* A few projects we talked to but didn't discuss in this CommArch meeting
** [http://www.mifos.org/ Mifos], micro finance server/system
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** [http://www.apress.com/ Apress], talked with them about using Fedora content as upstream with them embedding writers and editors in the project
** [http://www.democracylab.org/ DemocracyLab]
** Drupal -- they said howdy, we discussed CMS and anti-PHP sentiment; Karsten received a follow-up email from them to talk further about Drupal and Fedora Infrastructure
** Inveneo -- Greg said howdy?
** Mozilla -- Blizzard said howdy
** [http://www.ow2.org/ OW2] -- someone stopped by and talked with someone, nothing captured?


Lead tracking is an internal CommArch concern that we need to address.
Lead tracking is an internal CommArch concern that we need to address.

Revision as of 19:01, 28 July 2008

Community Architecture Meeting :: Monday 2008-07-28

Roll call

Present: MaxSpevack, GregDeKoenigsberg, HarishPillay, KarstenWade, PaulWFrields, JackAboutboul

OSCON

ISV summary:

  • Hyperic -- Jeremy Hogan is the community manager. He has paid somebody to build RPMs for hyperic. Potential future communication here in the Java Packaging front.
  • JasperSoft -- Karsten and Jennifer Venable, they know what their next steps are
  • Concrete Five -- CMS that we'll help get into Fedora
  • Ingres -- community version potentially forthcoming, lots of legacy stuff that makes it hard for them to become LSB compliance.
  • Plain Black
  • Sugar CRM -- couldn't find anyone technical at this show to talk to.
  • Zimbra -- met John Robb, their VP of Marketing; Karsten to meet Engineering folks in Sunnyval
  • OpenJDK -- met Dalibor Topic, former Kaffe hacker now leading the OpenJDK team
  • Digium -- Mark Spencer and Todd (Community Manager)
    • They want to do a case study about our use of Asterisk.
  • A few projects we talked to but didn't discuss in this CommArch meeting
    • Mifos, micro finance server/system
    • Apress, talked with them about using Fedora content as upstream with them embedding writers and editors in the project
    • DemocracyLab
    • Drupal -- they said howdy, we discussed CMS and anti-PHP sentiment; Karsten received a follow-up email from them to talk further about Drupal and Fedora Infrastructure
    • Inveneo -- Greg said howdy?
    • Mozilla -- Blizzard said howdy
    • OW2 -- someone stopped by and talked with someone, nothing captured?

Lead tracking is an internal CommArch concern that we need to address.

Greg mentions the troubles of a "get everything into Fedora/EPEL" policy as the one-size-fits-all ISV strategy.

ACTION: Max puts Jack in touch with News Council.

EDU summary:

  • Open Source Education panel -- Jack made various introductions.
    • Open High School in Utah
    • Denise Cooper -- works for Intel, on OSI board.
    • Karl Fogel

ACTION: Updated .edu deck by end of week from Jack.

Greg suggests making FSOSS in Toronto our big kick-off for all of this. October 23-24. Seneca, .edu strategy, CMU.

Oregon State University -- Jeff Sheltren (OSUOSL)

LWCE SF

  • LinuxWorld as the assembly point for the kit.

Ambassadors

  • Global re-org in the works.

EMEA

  • Meeting w/ French Ambassadors team this Saturday, Aug. 2.
  • FUDCon planning is going well. We need to sort out US travel.

APAC

  • Requests for CD/DVDs for SFD 2008 (Sept 20 2008)
  • Going to try for budget from RH APAC Marketing first.

Budget

  • Goal is to have quarterly expenses finished -- that means everything is in the system, and Max has all the report numbers and dollar amounts -- by August 15th.
  • Everything else in Q2 gates on OSCON. We can't make any decisions until we know Jack and Greg's OSCON expenses in full.
    • OLPC Sprint?
    • Greg's Boston trips?

Vacation

  • Max PTO. Out starting Tue. Aug. 5. Returns Wed. Aug. 13.