Board Meeting 21 Oct 2010

Roll Call

Present

Tom "spot" Callaway
Jared Smith
Chris Tyler
Rex Dieter
Colin Walters
Jon Stanley
Matt Domsch
Máirín Duffy
Stephen Smoogen

Regrets

Christopher Aillon

Agenda

Work on name suggestions for Fedora 15
Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_15

Top 12

* Iroquois	XXXXXXXXX     ***
* Asturias	XXXXXXXX      ***
* Blarney	XXXXXXXX      ***
* Malmstrom	XXXXXX        ***
* Sturgis	XXXXXX        ***
* Carlin	XXXXX         ***
* Guerrero	XXXX          ***
* Gutzwiller	XXXX          ***
* Macau		XXXX          ***
* Lovelock	XXX           ***
* Bardeen	XXX           ***
* Pushcart	XXX           ***

Needs to be done

Amur - http://amursoftwarelimited.web.officelive.com/default.aspx

Fortaleza (jstanley) - nothing obvious - http://www.startlocal.com.au/computing/computerequipmentandaccessories/nsw_centralnsw/Fortaleza_Services_Pty_Ltd_1554949.html looks like a local computer shop, not sure.

Iommi (jstanley) living person - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Iommi

Iroquois (mdomsch) online poker http://www.iroquoispoker.net. Iriquois Gas uses linux. http://m.sybase.com/detail?id=1026945 looks OK to me

Gutzwiller (spot) Meets criteria (might be hard to move forward from)

Bellevue - MAYBE

Neruda (mizmo) - NO Verdi Neruda is a prolog meta interpreter http://github.com/Joelbyte/verdi-neruda, Neruda Neruda Consulting is a private company categorized under Online Services Technology Consultants and located in Columbus OH (http://www.manta.com/c/mm2301k/neruda-consulting)

Sewickey - Looks good (ctyler)

Leuchars - Looks good (jsmith)

Blarney (mizmo) Looks good.

Weizenbaum just ELIZA hits no company names (walters: REJECTED, duplicate link physicist->physicist) but was Laughlin a pianist :)

Coltrane - old wordpress code name and software for Library/Environment for the Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations

Szpilman - do not see any conflicts with software/code (smooge)

Voting Schedule

October 23-31 Collect Questions for Questionnaire*
October 23- November 7th Nominations Open
November 1 Publish Questionnaire*
November 1-10 Organize/Schedule Town Halls
November 2-8 Candidates Respond to Questionnaires*
November 10 Publish Questionnaire Responses*
November 13-19 Town Halls
November 20-28 Voting Period

* depends on someone volunteering to do the work, otherwise there

won't be questionnaires

jsmith: +1 spot: +1 mizmo: +1 smooge: +1 jstanley: +1 ctyler: +1 walters: +1 rdieter +1 mdomsch: +1

Board approved! (jsmith to post on wiki + advisory board list)

nominations moved out to nov 7 rather than oct 31

Notes

Spins Wrangler

Bruno started writing a job description for spins wrangler, need to finish document
How much work is it?
- From Nirik's work - 1-2 hours day / machine builds them every day
- If a build breaks in rawhide, wrangler has to fix
- A release-engineering style job

We need to figure out what spins are
- Mega DVD put all desktop choices in GRUB. Not necessarily best approach, why not DE selection in GDM?
- Two types of spins - Desktop Environments and Functional (Electronics, Design)
- Does anyone practically use them? Issue with live usb eating itself when out of disk space
- mdomsch added agenda item to FUDCon Tempe; Board should lead discussion on future of Spins and bring up at FUDcon

Dual-Layer DVD Ambassadors' Request

Board isn't opposed to the idea, but dislikes the timing of the request, well past feature freeze
- We're not saying no to the concept, it's a good idea, but we want to make sure things are done right
- Most spins are not provided as official physical media
- Mega DVD is available for review:
  - torrent: http://sspreitzer.fedorapeople.org/torrents/
  - direct download: http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/mega-dvd-test/
- Major concerns are:
  - Needs to be built on Fedora infrastructure
  - Needs to have basic QA
  - Needs polish/artwork/sleeves
We need to establish requirements for approving something like this
- Media_Handout_Requirements (mdomsch)
Board to revisit once requirements are documented.

= Election Schedule

Board started with John Rose's proposed schedule, and modified slightly the early dates.

October 23-31 Collect Questions for Questionnaire*
October 23- November 7th Nominations Open
November 1 Publish Questionnaire*
November 1-10 Organize/Schedule Town Halls
November 2-8 Candidates Respond to Questionnaires*
November 10 Publish Questionnaire Responses*
November 13-19 Town Halls
November 20-28 Voting Period

* depends on someone volunteering to do the work, otherwise there