Board SWG Meeting 2010-02-22 Recap
John Poelstra
poelstra at redhat.com
Tue Feb 23 00:43:37 UTC 2010
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Board_strategic_working_group_2010-02-22
== Roll Call ==
* Attendees: John Poelstra, Paul Frields, Matt Domsch, Colin Walters,
Mike McGrath
* Regrets: Chris Tyler
== Default Distribution Offering ==
* Owner: Paul Frields
* Question being answered: "On what basis do we have a default offering?"
* Original page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pfrields/Different_default_offering
* Added page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pfrields/Current_default_offering
* After some discussion group felt Paul should do a little more work on
second page explaining:
** why we ended up with the default we did, which combines a number of
technologies into a platform:
*** GNOME Desktop Environment
*** Compiz (not actually a part of GNOME, but prominent in the UI)
*** Firefox and other third party apps
*** SELinux
*** kernel
** Is this due to Red Hat as Fedora's main sponsor?
*** In part, because Fedora is driven by contribution, and Red Hat as a
Fedora contributor drives a massive amount of free software innovation
done directly in the kernel, tools, security, desktop, and elsewhere,
and then quickly inherited into Fedora where it can be distributed in
consumable form
*** R&D lab idea allows anyone to grow technology in Fedora
*** But other pieces of the platform are "best of breed FOSS" but not
due to Red Hat or Fedora necessarily, e.g. Firefox
*** Not just about a desktop environment, but in the future need to give
thought to how to design the whole system
*** We need to give thought whenever components change; and we have more
room available now (> CD size)
* '''NEXT ACTIONS:'''
** Paul will do more drafting and post back to Board
== Clarifying Issues Around Spins ==
* Owners: Matt & Colin
* Can Spins/SIGS or Fedora remixes define their own target audience?
**
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Walters/SpinsSigsRemixes_TargetAudience
* Can Spins/SIGS or Fedora remixes change the code enough to meet their
goals?
**
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Walters/SpinsSigsRemixes_ChangeDistribution
* http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/spins/2010-February/000996.html
* Summary of what Matt has tracked down so far
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mdomsch/SWG_Spins
* As part of the research for this this we tried to get a clearer
picture of what the Spins SIG is responsibile for. We understand those
responsibilities to be:
*** Managing the approval process for new spins
*** spins pages
*** kickstart file is good
*** Coordinating Board trademark approval
** Individual spin owners may not participate in the SIG, so will need
to reach out to them directly.
* Spins pain points raised on this recent thread:
**
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/advisory-board/2010-February/007975.html
and following for many messages. These are additional to the questions
we asked of them
* We still want to make sure that the work of the Spins SIG is not blocked
** Fedora as a project may not be able to provide all necessary
resources to every Spin
** Spins are a way for contributors to gather connected communities of
contributors, create more awareness and contribution to Fedora
** Community building is primarily a problem of increasing ''people
capacity'', not simply working harder
*** Build infrastructure capacity, storage space, etc. -- technical
blockers are critical path items
*** Enable easy processes (TM licensing/approvals, etc.) to help
contributors without inducing mass chaos
**** alternately, '''do''' allow mass chaos where appropriate (Fedora Remix)
*** Make it easier for contributors to help anywhere they want -- lower
barriers so that anyone can build the actual workforce in the Fedora Project
* '''NEXT STEPS''':
** Matt to email each of the spin owners with the original questions
posed to the Spins SIG
== Next Meeting ==
* March 1, 2010 @ 3 PM EST
* Discussion topics:
** Follow-up to Matt and Colin's work on Spins
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