Fedora Project Board Recap 2007-JUL-17

John Poelstra poelstra at redhat.com
Thu Jul 19 22:08:30 UTC 2007


http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Meetings/2007-07-17

== Roll Call ==

Attendees Max Spevack, Seth Vidal, John Poelstra, Matt Domsch, Steve 
Dickson, Bill Nottingham, Jef Spaleta, Karsten Wade, and Dennis Gilmore

Absent: Chris Blizzard, Chris Aillon

== Summer of Content ==
  * Fedora would like to participate and cosponsor
  * Put forth 3 or 4 internships
  * On a short time line (3 weeks)--will need to identify people in advance
  * http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Summer_of_Content_2007
  * Karsten Wade to make it all happen

== Fedora Training Program ==
  * Online program is under design internally for Red Hat employees that 
package for Fedora
  * Will be made available publicly for everyone once completed

== Virtual FUDCon ==
  * Still would like to do it
  * Jef will look at feature drivers over the next few days and 
collaborate with Rahul
  * Check back in with board on Thursday to double-check on viability

== Fedora Mailing List (Re)Organization ==
   * Working out most details on fedora-advisory-board list
   * Renaming of mailing lists is a not a road we want to go down
      a. Reasons discussed on fedora-advisory-board list
      a. Needless hassle for little gain + loss of contributors
   * Use lists.fedoraproject.org alias
     * Keep mailing lists inside Red Hat infrastructure
        * Do not fix what is not broken
     * Fedora Infrastructure is the liaison, manages community mailing 
list requests

== Membership to fedora-board-list ==
  * Should previous board members remain on fedora-board-list after 
their term is complete?
  * Current members will vote on fedora-board-list to decide
    * Max to organize and tally the votes

== GPLv3 Discussion ==
  * Karsten will start drafting a wiki page that addresses important issues
  * Keep an eye on projects making license changes
  * Have FESCo investigate the best way to track license by package




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