Meeting:Board meeting 2009-11-19

Roll Call

• Present: Josh Boyer, Paul Frields, Bill Nottingham, Mike McGrath, John Poelstra, Matt Domsch, Chris Aillon, Tom "Spot" Callaway, Dennis Gilmore
• Regrets: Dimitris Glezos

Last meeting

Meeting:Board_meeting_2009-11-05

Current issues

Pending work

• Trademark licenses
• Update proposal
• Both on Paul's plate, delayed by other work, will handle ASAP
• NEXT ACTIONS:
  • Send TLAs to all the pending recipients noted on wiki and in Paul's email
  • Put together update proposal, possibly based in part on Spot's previous work

FUDCon session setup

• Sessions board would like to participate in
  • FUDCon + Board roundtable Q & A (incl. target audience preso if needed)
    • Like monthly public IRC meeting
    • Evening session? Hackfest session?
  • Saturday: Update discipline intro (hopefully presenting ML ideation, not starting from scratch)
    • More definitive policy around updates - schedule as a regular session in the barcamp
  • Followup hackfest from update policy discussion
  • Election town hall is separate
• NEXT ACTIONS:
  • Paul will pitch updates session at barcamp
  • Dropping idea of Board and FESCo roundtable
  • Matt to investigate viability and level of interest in an elections town hall at FUDCon

New business

F12 release

• Limit to 5 minutes
• Thanks/congrats
• Acknowledge PackageKit issue, anything Board actionable?
  • http://lwn.net/Articles/362592/
  • Need for security policy to guide large-scale decisions
    1. a policy for the default distribution offering
    2. a policy for spins
  • Requires the Board to say, "Spins, you can change this as a rule."
  • spot: if the board defines the user target--it has an obligation to define the security policy
  • Agree to table for now
• NEXT ACTIONS
  • Revisit security policy after FESCo discusses PackageKit in their 2009-11-20 meeting
  • Decide if there's a Board action, and if so, move forward with it

FreeMedia

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2009-November/msg00035.html

• Thread is public, anything to discuss here?
• is there some way that we can fund shipping media to people to ship out to users
  • John: if we fund this what would we not be funding? IOW what trade-off would we be making?
    • Dennis: not fund there outbound postage, but provide them media so they can ship more at the same cost and give professional media not burnt and hand written.
• NEXT ACTIONS:
  • Continue discussion on fedora-advisory-board
  • Follow-up

F13 naming

• Board members to indicate anything left that is unsuitable
• Remainder goes to Legal for approval

Next meeting

• Proposed: Thu Dec 03 2009 - 1700 UTC/12:00pm US Eastern (public IRC)