Fedora Board Recap 2008-JAN-22

[John Poelstra <poelstra redhat com>]

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Meetings/2008-01-22

== Roll Call ==

Attendees: Paul Frields, Chris Aillon, Seth Vidal, Karsten Wade, John 
Poelstra, Bill Nottingham, Jef Spaleta, Steve Dickson, Matt Domsch, 
Dennis Gilmore.
Regrets: Jack Aboutboul, Bob McWirther, Max Spevack

== Red Hat Summit in Boston ==
 * Fedora talks
 * "Open source track"
 * Hackfest space
 * What are the logistics?
 * Whether and how to handle a barcamp?
 * There will be a Fedora booth
 * Could the expo floor be comp'd for FUDCon attendees?

ACTIONS:
 1. Steve Dickson to track down details to understand how Summit 
participants and FUDCon attendees will mix?
 1. Max and Greg D are having a meeting with Shay and Leigh (Summit 
organizers) before the next Board call and will report back

== FUDCon & Contributor Survey ==
 * FUDCon survey sent to marketing people
 * What would be a useful way to query the contributors?
   * What types of questions would help get to the bottom of the issues?
   * Query contributors from the perspective of where we should invest 
people resoures and time
ACTION: Need a board member to own this item--followup at next meeting

== Areas of Fedora That Need More Attention? ==
 * QA and testing
 * What is the situation with open sourcing RHTS?
 * What happened with testing.108 and "Table Cloth"?

== Goals For the Board ==
 * What things would the board like to accomplish over the next year?
   1. Engaging more with Upstream
   1. Think more about this and followup at next meeting

== fedoraproject.org mail ==
 * What is the status of it and who is working on it?
 * previous board discussions/decisions:
   * 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2007-July/msg00102.html
   * 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2007-August/msg00004.html

== Next Meeting ==
 * Tuesday, January 29, 2008
 * 17:00 EST