Fedora Board Meeting Minutes | 2013-04-04

[Robyn Bergeron]

Minutes and links to logs follow below for today's meeting.

Minutes:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2013-04-04/fedora_board.2013-04-04-18.00.html
Full Logs:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2013-04-04/fedora_board.2013-04-04-18.00.log.html

Thanks to all for coming and making it a lively meeting, as expected :)

-Robyn

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#fedora-meeting-1: Fedora Board
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Meeting started by rbergeron at 18:00:52 UTC. The full logs are
available athttp://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2013-04-04/fedora_board.2013-04-04-18.00.log.html
.



Meeting summary
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* Roll Call  (rbergeron, 18:01:45)
  * pbrobinson apologizes for his inability to attend today due to
    $dayjob fires  (rbergeron, 18:03:00)

* Agenda  (rbergeron, 18:05:52)
  * Today's major topic is: User Base Definition  (rbergeron, 18:06:32)
  * LINK:
    http://wordshack.wordpress.com/2013/04/04/board-meeting-topic-for-the-day-user-base-aka-target-audience/
    (rbergeron, 18:07:12)
  * ACTION: jreznik to poke for further feedback on board mailing list
    re: board meeting format, inducing more participation.  (rbergeron,
    18:13:17)

* User Base Discussion  (rbergeron, 18:13:30)
  * FYI, there is a #fedora-advisory-board channel where anyone is
    welcome to hang out.  (rbergeron, 18:14:40)
  * Today's meeting is not going to involve "make a decision," and I
    suspect that "timeline for a decision" will probably be omething we
    need to take up on the mailing list.  (rbergeron, 18:15:19)
  * If you have not read what the user base definition is, or aren't
    familiar with it, please read it before having a spherical cow, man.
    (rbergeron, 18:15:48)
  * LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_base   (rbergeron,
    18:16:03)
  * LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview   (rbergeron, 18:16:46)
  * List of things that have changed in 3 years since "likely
    collaborators" was written: Cloud.  (rbergeron, 18:25:53)
  * explosion of different DEs.  (rbergeron, 18:26:01)
  * github rised, people who likely care about opensource  (misc,
    18:26:59)
  * arm, maker, people extending the idea of free software and sharing
    on different topic  (misc, 18:28:03)
  * virtualization is much more prevalent  (rbergeron, 18:31:21)
  * AGREED: Loosely agreed: User Base, as currently defined, isn't
    matching up with what we are producing, and unclear that what the
    majority of existing contributors are here to do is to address the
    user base.  (rbergeron, 19:10:38)
  * ACTION: mizmo volunteered valiantly to pore over the meeting minutes
    and do a blog post summary  (rdieter, 19:16:51)
  * mizmo propose to look at various brainstorming tools  (misc,
    19:22:31)

* meeting wrap up  (rdieter, 19:25:04)
  * ACTION: rbergeron to write up her thoughts on "what has changed",
    and a few other things  (gholms, 19:28:22)
  * LINK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whuffie   (rbergeron, 19:30:14)
  * ACTION: rbergeron to send note to board list regarding "ways to
    solicit why/how about Fedora usage/contribution from people"
    (rbergeron, 19:43:13)

Meeting ended at 19:45:32 UTC.




Action Items
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* jreznik to poke for further feedback on board mailing list re: board
  meeting format, inducing more participation.
* mizmo volunteered valiantly to pore over the meeting minutes and do a
  blog post summary
* rbergeron to write up her thoughts on "what has changed", and a few
  other things
* rbergeron to send note to board list regarding "ways to solicit
  why/how about Fedora usage/contribution from people"




Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* jreznik
  * jreznik to poke for further feedback on board mailing list re: board
    meeting format, inducing more participation.
* mizmo
  * mizmo volunteered valiantly to pore over the meeting minutes and do
    a blog post summary
* rbergeron
  * rbergeron to write up her thoughts on "what has changed", and a few
    other things
  * rbergeron to send note to board list regarding "ways to solicit
    why/how about Fedora usage/contribution from people"
* **UNASSIGNED**
  * (none)




People Present (lines said)
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* rbergeron (205)
* mizmo (93)
* dan408 (79)
* misc (63)
* rdieter (53)
* DiscordianUK (53)
* vwbusguy (52)
* herlo (44)
* jreznik (43)
* mattdm (39)
* gregdek (38)
* StillBob (37)
* inode0 (31)
* gholms (30)
* brunowolff (21)
* mitr (20)
* Viking-Ice (17)
* mattrose (16)
* satellit (16)
* andreasn (14)
* skvidal (8)
* j_dulaney (8)
* zodbot (6)
* AndyP (6)
* Sparks (2)
* AnnaE (2)
* nb (2)
* pandaconstantin (1)
* satellit_ (1)
* sparks (0)




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