Fedora Board Recap 2008-SEP-16

[John Poelstra]

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Meetings/2008-09-16

== Roll Call ==

Attendees: John Poelstra, Max Spevack, Paul Frields, Seth Vidal, Jef 
Spaleta, Matt Domsch, Jesse Keating, Spot Callaway, Harald Hoyer, Chris 
Tyler, and Karsten Wade

Regrets: Bill Nottingham

== Fedora EMEA update ==
* Max Spevack
* Revenue and expense activity are reflected in entity's books which is 
a registered German non-profit entity
* Entity has covered the expense to create Fedora t-shirts and is 
accounting for the related revenue from selling them
* Goal is to supplement budget that Red Hat provides for world-wide events
* Infrastructure to do things is in place and looking forward to doing 
more in the future

== Beta Freeze and Upcoming Release ==
* Release Engineering held a round-table yesterday
* Still targeting  to release day of 2008-09-23

== Beta Release Meeting ==
* John Poelstra is organizing a meeting with each of the team leaders 
from the various part of Fedora
* Make sure coordination between the groups is in place
* Meeting on 2008-09-16

== Codecs ==
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GStreamer_dependencies_in_RPM
* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438225
* Seth Vidal is going to meet with Richard Hughes to make sure a EULA 
associated with a specific package or codec works correctly with 
PackageKit and associated packages

== Trademark Update ==
* Board wants to maintain a good hold on how the primary Fedora 
trademark is used while provides lots of latitude for secondary mark
* Process of legal review continues and appears to be moving forward 
favourably
* trademark guidelines draft has recently been updated and can be found 
here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pfrields/NewTrademarkGuidelines