November 2015 - MOVED to https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/tag/council

[council] #40: Enforcing the code of conduct
by fedora-badges 10 Nov '16

10 Nov '16

#40: Enforcing the code of conduct -------------------+--------------------------------- Reporter: duffy | Owner: Status: new | Priority: normal Component: Legal | Keywords: coc, code of conduct -------------------+--------------------------------- See this post from the outreach-list regarding the actual enforcement of the code of conduct as currently written: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/outreach/2015-July/000067.html Langdon asked that this be made a ticket for council discussion, with the concern that an unenforceable / consequence without an SOP is a threat and isn't the right way to go: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/outreach/2015-August/000073.html For reference, the actual text is: "FUDCon brings together contributors and users from all over the world and this diversity is one of our greatest strengths. This diversity however can also lead to communication issues and unhappiness. Attendees are required to be considerate and respectful of each other. This includes, but is not limited to: - "Refraining from rude behaviour - "Refraining from any sort of harassment or discrimination (based on ethnic background, religion, gender, sexuality, body shape, disability, geographic location, sports team, preferred operating system or anything else) - "Obeying local laws "Attendees who are in violation of this policy may be subject to removal and banning from FUDCon (and future Fedora events). Whether an attendee is in violation is at the sole discretion of the conference organizers. Anyone with a possible concern relating to the code of conduct is encouraged to either email Rupali Talwatkar or talk directly to one of the designated FUDCon volunteers. Designated FUDCon volunteers will have a dark blue coloured VOLUNTEER badge." The line of particular concern here is: "Attendees who are in violation of this policy may be subject to removal and banning from FUDCon (and future Fedora events)." -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/40> council <https://fedorahosted.org/council> Fedora Council Public Tickets

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[council] #43: Create the Fedora Public Budget Page
by fedora-badges 07 Nov '16

07 Nov '16

#43: Create the Fedora Public Budget Page -------------------------+------------------------------------------------- Reporter: decause | Owner: decause Status: new | Priority: normal Component: General | Keywords: budget, websites, FCL, transparency, | community -------------------------+------------------------------------------------- As per the results of our council discussion here (https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/council- discuss/2015-October/013742.html) we are heretofore establishing a new page (wiki or otherwise) that will track the timeline and particulars of the Fedora Public Budget. It shall include: Budgetary Components, Projected and Adjusted for each fiscal year: - Regional Budget Allocations (APAC/EMEA/LATAM/NA) - Fedora Premier Event Budgets (FLOCK, FUDCon) - Central Discretionary Fund (approved by Council) - FAD specific Budgets Budgetary Milestones and Timelines: - August: In person meeting at FLOCK - September: Proposed budget components and metrics from each region - October: Ratification of Proposed Budget by Council - March: Confirmation of Received budget w/ Adjustment Meeting - Quarterly Check-ins with Regional Treasurers - Halfly approvals of Regional Funds, pending metrics and outcomes reporting If there are other details or resources that should be included on this page, feel free to leave them in the comments below. I would propose that this page eventually be made available at http://budget.fedoraproject.org -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/43> council <https://fedorahosted.org/council> Fedora Council Public Tickets

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[council] #16: Periodic contributor survey
by fedora-badges 07 Nov '16

07 Nov '16

#16: Periodic contributor survey ---------------------+------------------- Reporter: mattdm | Owner: Status: new | Priority: normal Component: General | Keywords: ---------------------+------------------- This is a tracking ticket for establishing a process by which we get regular feedback from the Fedora contributor base. This is a companion to https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/1. The desired goals, methodology, and basically everything else are really different between users and contributors it will be better to track them separately. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/16> council <https://fedorahosted.org/council> Fedora Project Board Public Tickets

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[council] #42: Schedule a FLOCK Budget Planning Session w/Council
by fedora-badges 24 Aug '16

24 Aug '16

#42: Schedule a FLOCK Budget Planning Session w/Council -------------------------+------------------------------------------------- Reporter: decause | Owner: decause Status: new | Priority: minor Component: Board Meta | Keywords: FLOCK, session, budget, council, | fiscal, -------------------------+------------------------------------------------- As per our discussion about Budget Planning here, (https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/council- discuss/2015-October/013742.html) one conclusion we came to was that Budget Planning for the next fiscal year would begin during August at FLOCK with a high-bandwidth in person meeting, that continued on maillists and IRC through September, and was delivered to the FCL in October, to be presented to Red Hat via OSAS. This ticket is a reminder that we need to schedule a session at FLOCK for the high-bandwidth in person session. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/42> council <https://fedorahosted.org/council> Fedora Council Public Tickets

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[council] #38: Dopr
by fedora-badges 21 Mar '16

21 Mar '16

#38: Dopr ------------------------+------------------- Reporter: msuchy | Owner: Status: new | Priority: normal Component: Trademarks | Keywords: ------------------------+------------------- Hi, we (as Copr team) would like to introduce new service "DOPR". It is very easy. It combine user Dockerfile and user's Copr and create new docker image on DockerHub. You can see staging instance at: http://dopr-dev.cloud.fedoraproject.org/ We would like to start production instance. However some members of fedora-infra would like to see this go through Council first. There is some sense on this as this is kind of new way of distribution of Fedora (beside Spins, Remixs...). It creates all docker images directly on DockerHub so technically speaking they are not created in Fedora infrastructure, but they are created under Fedora account. And we would like to market it as "Fedorea + Copr" or similar. So my question: Does Fedora Council approve granting trademark usage on resulting docker images? -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/38> council <https://fedorahosted.org/council> Fedora Council Public Tickets

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[council] #45: Sponsorship/Funding for FAD EMEA BUDAPEST 2015
by fedora-badges 22 Feb '16

22 Feb '16

#45: Sponsorship/Funding for FAD EMEA BUDAPEST 2015 ---------------------+-------------------- Reporter: rgeri77 | Owner: decause Status: new | Priority: normal Component: General | Keywords: ---------------------+-------------------- In this year we would like to organise, and run for FAD EMEA BUD 2015. We have made our calculations, and we have the venue places, but we require full funding/cover for food and hotel costs. NOT REIMBURSEMENT. More about the details can be found at here: Wiki: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Budapest_2015_bid. The event is planned to be held at 2015. nov. 27-29. Budget sheet : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wl5YcHQOlcM6BeRludN9eq1iTKkbfp2HICg… We have less and less time to have confirmation for the venues, and the current date that we can hold the offers are 2015 oct. 25. After this date the hotel cancel the reservation, and give other price (I guess expensive), so as the conference room owner. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/45> council <https://fedorahosted.org/council> Fedora Council Public Tickets

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[council] #39: Required approval for Fedora Globalization FAD at Tokto 2015
by fedora-badges 12 Jan '16

12 Jan '16

#39: Required approval for Fedora Globalization FAD at Tokto 2015 ---------------------+------------------- Reporter: pravins | Owner: Status: new | Priority: normal Component: General | Keywords: ---------------------+------------------- Hi Council members. Need your inputs for Globalization FAD proposal. Detailed information available on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_G11N_2015 Email regarding same has been sent to council list for discussion https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/council- discuss/2015-July/013480.html -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/39> council <https://fedorahosted.org/council> Fedora Council Public Tickets

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[council] #47: Elections Nov/Dec 2015
by fedora-badges 15 Dec '15

15 Dec '15

#47: Elections Nov/Dec 2015 ---------------------+--------------------- Reporter: jkurik | Owner: jkurik@… Status: new | Priority: normal Component: General | Keywords: ---------------------+--------------------- This ticket is to track progress on Elections Nov/Dec 2015. These elections are organized for the following teams: * FESCo (Engineering) (5 seats) * Fedora Council (1 seat) * Env and Stacks (4 seats) * FAmSCo (7 seats) Milestones: * Nomination period: Tue 2015-11-17 ... Mon 2015-11-23 * Campaign period: Tue 2015-11-24 ... Mon 2015-11-30 * Voting period: Tue 2015-12-01 ... Mon 2015-12-07 * Result Announcement: Tue 2015-12-08 -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/47> council <https://fedorahosted.org/council> Fedora Council Public Tickets

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meeting today -- tickets/ongoing (18:00UTC)
by Matthew Miller 30 Nov '15

30 Nov '15

Today: IRC meeting in #fedora-meeting on Freenode, at 18:00UTC (shifted for DST) Topic is "Tickets/Ongoing" -- while we strive to not be meeting driven (and particularly, to not be blocked on waiting for a meeting to come around), this helps make sure things aren't completely dropped. Topics I see for the agenda: - Current elections - Update on Outreachy Possibly: more on future of FAmSCo? Anything else? Upcoming: Dec 7: Report from Langdon on Modularization objective Dec 14: Open Floor Dec 21: Skip for Holidays Dec 28: Skip for Holidays Jan 4: Open Floor Jan 11: Tickets/Ongoing -- Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader

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[council] #44: Tracking Elections in Council's ticketing system
by fedora-badges 30 Nov '15

30 Nov '15

#44: Tracking Elections in Council's ticketing system ---------------------+-------------------- Reporter: jkurik | Owner: Status: new | Priority: normal Component: General | Keywords: meeting ---------------------+-------------------- Hi Council, as discussed on FESCo meeting and in the [https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1486 FESCo ticket], I would like to track progress of Elections in a ticket. As Elections are a part of the way how we assure governance and Council is the top-level governance body, it makes sense for me to track it under a "Council's namespace". Anyone has an objection to use [https://fedorahosted.org/council/report Council's ticketing system] for this purpose ? Regards, Jan -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/44> council <https://fedorahosted.org/council> Fedora Council Public Tickets

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Re: meeting today -- tickets/ongoing (18:00UTC)
by Rex Dieter 30 Nov '15

30 Nov '15

FYI, I may not be able to attend, seems I'm having trouble connecting to freenode today (apparently fallout from some DOS'ing over the weekend). -- Rex ________________________________________ From: Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> Sent: Monday, November 30, 2015 7:39 AM To: Discussions with the Fedora Council and community Subject: meeting today -- tickets/ongoing (18:00UTC) Today: IRC meeting in #fedora-meeting on Freenode, at 18:00UTC (shifted for DST) Topic is "Tickets/Ongoing" -- while we strive to not be meeting driven (and particularly, to not be blocked on waiting for a meeting to come around), this helps make sure things aren't completely dropped. Topics I see for the agenda: - Current elections - Update on Outreachy Possibly: more on future of FAmSCo? Anything else? Upcoming: Dec 7: Report from Langdon on Modularization objective Dec 14: Open Floor Dec 21: Skip for Holidays Dec 28: Skip for Holidays Jan 4: Open Floor Jan 11: Tickets/Ongoing -- Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ council-discuss mailing list council-discuss(a)lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/council-discuss@lists.fedoraproj… The Fedora Project's mission is to lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a collaborative community.

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[council] #27: Proposed Schedule for PRD Refresh
by fedora-badges 30 Nov '15

30 Nov '15

#27: Proposed Schedule for PRD Refresh ----------------------+------------------- Reporter: sgallagh | Owner: Status: new | Priority: normal Component: General | Keywords: ----------------------+------------------- As discussed in the Hangout meeting today, we need to do a periodic refresh of the PRDs to make sure they are kept up-to-date. I propose that each of the Edition, Base and Env/Stacks groups should provide an update by 23:59 UTC on June 12, 2015 for review. This gives a little over a week for them to be reviewed prior to the Change Submission Freeze as currently scheduled. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/27> council <https://fedorahosted.org/council> Fedora Council Public Tickets

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no meeting today
by Matthew Miller 23 Nov '15

23 Nov '15

(As per schedule.) -- Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader

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Fedora Elections for FAmSCo
by Jan Kurik 22 Nov '15

22 Nov '15

Hi Council and Ambassadors, I was pointed by several people to the fact that FAmSCo is (or should be) an inactive committee and I was questioned why we are organizing elections for this committee. As I understand the situation, there is an aim to replace FAmSCo by FOSCo & Council. However the current FAmSCo is securing some "level of service" for Ambassadors, which is not yet covered by any other group/team/governance body within the Fedora community. As such, I was explicitly ask by Ambassadors to organize the elections for FAmSCo team as well, to make sure FAmSCo will operate till the time we have a full replacement for it. However, it seems like we do not have a full agreement on this topic [1]. I would like to have a discussion here, to come up with a common agreement whether we support the idea of having FAmSCo operational for now or we have other solution. [1] https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-2/2015-11-17/fedora-meetin… - 17:23:27 Regards, Jan -- Jan Kuřík Platform & Fedora Program Manager Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic

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Re: Fedora Elections for FAmSCo
by Remy DeCausemaker 19 Nov '15

19 Nov '15

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Robert Mayr > <robyduck(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > 2015-11-18 16:26 GMT+01:00 Jan Kurik <jkurik(a)redhat.com>: > >> > >> Hi Council and Ambassadors, > >> > >> I was pointed by several people to the fact that FAmSCo is (or should > >> be) an inactive committee and I was questioned why we are organizing > >> elections for this committee. > >> > >> As I understand the situation, there is an aim to replace FAmSCo by > >> FOSCo & Council. However the current FAmSCo is securing some "level of > >> service" for Ambassadors, which is not yet covered by any other > >> group/team/governance body within the Fedora community. As such, I was > >> explicitly ask by Ambassadors to organize the elections for FAmSCo > >> team as well, to make sure FAmSCo will operate till the time we have a > >> full replacement for it. > >> > >> However, it seems like we do not have a full agreement on this topic > >> [1]. I would like to have a discussion here, to come up with a common > >> agreement whether we support the idea of having FAmSCo operational for > >> now or we have other solution. > >> > >> [1] > >> https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-2/2015-11-17/fedora-meetin… > >> - 17:23:27 > > Thank you Jan for this open discussion, I'm adding here some more > > informations. > > First of all FAmSCo is not dead and never has been officially dismissed, but > > FAmSCo decided months ago to hand all its repsonibilities over to FOSCo, > > which was planned as an even bigger committee, and which should have > > included also the Ambassador's activities. Therefor we reduced the activity > > and after some meetings without reaching a quorum FAmSCo decided to act only > > through the Trac until new elections would happen or FOSCo will start its > > activity. > > Many thing happened in the meanwhile and we are going towards a new and > > hopefully better budgeting process (thanks to all who worked on it and who > > are discussing it), but as you said this is not the only responsibility > > FAmSCo actually has. Unfortunately FAmSCo missed some of its deadlines, > > there is for example the EMEA FAD planning, release parties, F23 media and > > other stuff (which in the end happened partially but not in a coordinated > > way as before). > > > > That's why I would welcome, unless we will not reach the minimum number of 7 > > candidates, new elections. These new memebers could give continuity to > > FAmSCo's activities and the big ambassadors group, on the other hand they > > could actively help the integration of the actual FAmSCo responsibilities > > into the Council, FOSCo or whatever. > > Canceling the Ambassadors Steering Committee without replacing *all* its > > activities is not the best way if we don't want to loose some parts of the > > community, so IMO let's do elections and find the best solution to pass over > > all the stuff and try to represent _all_ regions in the body who will take > > over in the future the FAmSCo job. > > Forgive me, but I have not followed the ambassador side of things for > a while. If FAmSCo isn't actually meeting (per the IRC conversation) > and isn't technically a thing any longer, what is the elected body to > do? Start meeting again? > > I do not disagree with you at all that we need people performing the > tasks you highlight, but I'm not sure having an elected body to do > them is necessary. Once they are elected, are we to restart FAmSCo, > or would they only serve until FOSCo actually exists? Perhaps > volunteers would be better than elected members of a zombie > organization? > > josh > _______________________________________________ > council-discuss mailing list > council-discuss(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/council-discuss@lists.fedoraproj… > > The Fedora Project's mission is to lead the advancement of free and > open source software and content as a collaborative community. I'm not against FAMSCo elections, but if there were conversations about elections (other than FLOCK sessions) this is the first I have heard about them. I'm here to support what the community wants, and if the community wants to revive FAMSCo,and Fedora Leadership is on board with that (no -1's so far), then I will support that decision. For those who haven't done this sort of thing before (like me), the official rules can be found here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_election_rules So, firstly, if we're going to go through with this, we need enough candidates to be nominated. Officially, we have until November 23rd, which is this coming Monday, to secure at least 9 Candidates (7 Candidates, PLUS 25%, which is 2, rounding up.) It would be kinda weird since CommOps is helping to handle all the election interviews and communication, but if we really really needed a ninth Candidate on Monday, I would consider throwing my hat into the ring and running for FAMSCo if it would help to make this happen, but only if necessary. According to the wiki, only ambassadors can vote, and only ambassadors can be nominated for FAMSCo. I'm in full support for there to be reestablished ambassador-specific leadership, but I agree with jzb and others on this thread that this election be had with the understanding that FAMSCo is helping to create this new 'larger Fedora representative body' that includes other project stakeholders and teams, and is scoped beyond on-the-ground representation at specific events. (I've got a few ideas on this that are being formalized and organized I'll be sharing soonlyish.More on that later.) Best of luck securing the nominations, I'll be keeping an eye on this thread moving forward. --RemyD. -- Remy DeCausemaker Fedora Community Lead & Council <decause(a)redhat.com> https://whatcanidoforfedora.org

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Whither FOSCo
by Stephen John Smoogen 19 Nov '15

19 Nov '15

On 19 November 2015 at 10:37, Josh Boyer <jwboyer(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Joe Brockmeier <jzb(a)redhat.com> wrote: Was anybody else -1 on FAmSCo elections? > > Not that I had seen. And to be clear, I was never -1 for FAmSCo > elections either. I was/am just very concerned that the thing that is > supposed to be replacing FAmSCo isn't making actual progress. > > josh > _______________________________________________ I figure this might be the point for a new subject? Because I am confused on what FOSCo is supposed to do, why it is "delayed" from March, what the timeline for getting it birthed and what people can do to help. Thanks. -- Stephen J Smoogen.

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Fedora Budget.next - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Budget.next
by Remy DeCausemaker 17 Nov '15

17 Nov '15

Ambassadors, As some of you may be aware, there have been some changes to how Budget is proposed and allocated for the coming fiscal year. This conversation has been happening on the Council-discuss list, and through meetings with members of the OSAS team: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/council-discuss/2015-October/0137… With input from the council, OSAS, and other Ambassador Leads, I've taken the results of these budget meetings up until this point, and the discussions around FOSCo/FAMSCo, and created a wiki page to help explain our best understanding of how things should work going forward. The policy seen here is a blend of the results from public discussions and meetings over the past year on mailing lists, in IRC, and at FLOCK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Budget.next *tl;dr* - We're proposing 3 delegated roles in each ambassadorial region for treasurer, logistics, and storytelling. We're keeping our reimbursement and other policies as close to the same as possible. There is a now quarterly budget timeline with scheduled FADs and planning. There will be a webpage available in the near-ish future at http://budget.fedoraproject.org where folks can find the budget and policies related to it. This is not a permanent, set-in-stone policy, but we need to start somewhere, beginning with the new budget year (FY17) and the next Fedora Release (F24.) We can always come back and tinker and change what is on that wiki page, but for now, this is what we'd like to propose to close the loop on budget. Please read the wiki page, as the daemon is always in the details, and we can use as much informed input and feedback as we can get. I'm hoping to spend about a week gathering feedback, and then move forward implementing these new budget processes together with all of you :) Thank you Ambassador Leads and fellow council members for your early input and efforts on this. Your feedback helped to round off some of the rough corners, and provided a consistent reminder to adhere to the Fedora-way of defaulting to open. This formalized regional approach to budget is the first step in working out a larger community-wide strategy around integrating subprojects and other Fedora constituencies with eachother--but that will be a whole nother conversation after this one. Looking Forward, --RemyD.

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[council] #46: Budget approval for APAC FAD 2015
by fedora-badges 16 Nov '15

16 Nov '15

#46: Budget approval for APAC FAD 2015 ---------------------+------------------ Reporter: tuanta | Owner: Status: new | Priority: major Component: General | Keywords: ---------------------+------------------ Annually, APAC region organize a FAD for budget planning for the next fiscal year. This year, APAC FAD is organized by Singapore team, led by Harish Pillay, the former CommArch person. Please review the information at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Singapore_2015 Any comments or questions are welcome. Hope it could be approved soon then we can focus on other preparation work. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/46> council <https://fedorahosted.org/council> Fedora Council Public Tickets

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meeting today, 18:00 UTC (an hour later nominally; "normal" time with DST factored out)
by Matthew Miller 16 Nov '15

16 Nov '15

This is an open floor meeting, in freenode IRC #fedora-meeting. upcoming meeting schedule: Nov 23: Skip for Thanksgiving week Nov 30/Dec 7: Subproject report from __________ (Tickets/Ongoing other week) Dec 14: Open Floor Dec 21: Skip for Holidays Dec 28: Skip for Holidays Jan 4: Open Floor Jan 11: Tickets/Ongoing -- Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader

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Re: [Ambassadors] the "premier" label [was Re: Fedora Budget.next - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Budget.next]
by Matthew Miller 10 Nov '15

10 Nov '15

On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 07:01:36AM +0700, S.Kemter wrote: > > And, I think *some* FADs make sense from the central community budget > > (whether we call that the Council budget or something else), while > > others — like the ambassadors' planning FADs — make sense to me to be > > part of the regional budgets directly. > then they will not happen, they eat easily a third of the regional budget. > But there is still need for them. Well, they have to be paid for _somehow_. I'm suggesting that it makes sense to move that line item from the general pool to the regional pool. Are you saying that if that happened, the regions would prefer to spend that money in a different way and wouldn't do the planning meetings? -- Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader

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meeting time -> to 18:00 UTC for duration of non-DST?
by Matthew Miller 09 Nov '15

09 Nov '15

Most people at the meeting either prefer the later time or have no preference. Christoph, Josh, Jan — what do you think? -- Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader

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[council] #41: Budget Request: Outreachy Intern(s) for 2015 Winter Cycle
by fedora-badges 09 Nov '15

09 Nov '15

#41: Budget Request: Outreachy Intern(s) for 2015 Winter Cycle -------------------------+------------------------------------------------- Reporter: decause | Owner: decause Status: new | Priority: major Component: General | Keywords: outreachy, EDU Objective, | internship, interns, co-ops, D&I -------------------------+------------------------------------------------- Outreachy (formerly GNOME Outreach Program for Women) is administering their winter cycle, and there are members of the Fedora project willing to mentor on a handful of projects. You can view this year's proposed program on the Fedora Wiki (Work in Progress): https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Outreachy/2015 General information about the Outreachy program can be found here: https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreachy Information Specific to this upcoming round can be found here: https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreachy/2015/DecemberMarch The cost of sponsoring an intern is $6,500 USD. They are paid incrementally 3 times over the course of their internship by the Outreachy program, who handles the administrative burden via the Software Freedom Conservancy. A $500 travel stipend is included in that cost, which could be used to help subsidize the intern's travel to FOSS conferences, Events, or workshops (ideally Fedora Events, FADs, or hackfests.) I would propose that we *provisionally* allocate funding for at least 1 slot ($6,500), but ideally 2 slots ($13,000) pending suitable applicants to fill the slot(s). Outreachy program representatives will be available during our Monday meeting on 9/28 to answer our questions. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/41> council <https://fedorahosted.org/council> Fedora Council Public Tickets

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[council] #35: Requesting trademark approval for Astronomy Spin
by fedora-badges 09 Nov '15

09 Nov '15

#35: Requesting trademark approval for Astronomy Spin ------------------------+------------------- Reporter: lupinix | Owner: Status: new | Priority: normal Component: Trademarks | Keywords: ------------------------+------------------- I have proposed a new Spin for astronomers, the Astronomy Spin. It's using only packages already in Fedora. I am requesting trademark approval for this spin. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Astronomy_Spin -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/35> council <https://fedorahosted.org/council> Fedora Council Public Tickets

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meeting today (17:00 UTC, #fedora-meeting)
by Matthew Miller 09 Nov '15

09 Nov '15

This is a tickets-and-ongoing-stuff meeting, or "closing loops". The time-sensitive agenda item I see is the APAC planning FAD budget request -- see https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/46 and https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Singapore_2015. There are other open tickets at https://fedorahosted.org/council/report/1 ... are there any particular items that we think will benefit from real-time discussion? I'm going to take some time before the meeting to comment on those that are left hanging, and I encourage everyone else on the council to find some time sooner or later to do the same. :) upcoming meeting schedule: Nov 16: Open Floor Nov 23: Skip for Thanksgiving week Nov 30/Dec 7: Subproject report from __________ (Tickets/Ongoing other week) Dec 14: Open Floor Dec 21: Skip for Holidays Dec 28: Skip for Holidays Jan 4: Open Floor Jan 11: Tickets/Ongoing -- Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader

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reminder: IRC meeting with Design subproject status, 18:00 UTC (1pm EST)
by Matthew Miller 05 Nov '15

05 Nov '15

18:00 UTC (1pm EST) Looks like Infrastructure has a meeting in the main meeting channel, so #fedora-meeting-1 (assuming FPC finishes on time) -- Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader

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design team council presentation tomorrow, over IRC (note NOON US Eastern time)
by Matthew Miller 02 Nov '15

02 Nov '15

There will be slides, but the actual presentation and discussion in IRC in #fedora-meeting. The council meeting is specified as 17:00UTC. The United States has just switched off DST, so that means an hour earlier than we've been used to. If we want to change that, we should discuss. :) -- Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader

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Followups from Council phone call monday — Budget discussion for this year and beyond
by Matthew Miller 02 Nov '15

02 Nov '15

Here's the rough notes from the call: - Inside Red Hat, budget is due _way_ early now. We'll need to adjust our planning around that. (Specifically, we need it in by October.) - This year's budget request is set as same as last year's; we won't know for sure until possibly as late as March what we actually get. - In the future, we need to do our request planning in the Flock timeframe. (Discussion before Flock, high-bandwidth in-person session at Flock, followup and ratification after.) - Council (and specifically Remy as community action/impact lead) will work to thoroughly understand budget request, and then act as contact for the finance people. Remy will also help maintain an overall "state of the budget" document as we go through the year. - Given the long period between request and actual budget, makes sense to also have a second round of planning at the start of the fiscal year (which is March, and years are named after the one in which they end, so we're in FY16 right now, and the upcoming budget is FY17.) - Right now, all money is allocated to ambassadors through regions, including Flock and FUDCons, and except for FADs. We want to do that differently for FY18 — probably split out at least Flock, and have non-regional budget for marketing and other centralized community activities. - If we want to do more with our money, and request more as needed, we need to make sure we're spending what we have already — the Council should do a quarterly budget review with ambassadors (and in future any other groups). In the future, "no budget" should mean "no spending". - NA ambassadors in particular need to get a budget organized. APAC and LATAM need to get better at spending the money that's budgeted. - We want to ask for more money to grow Fedora. In order to do that, we need to demostrate that the money we do have is being spent well. Need ambassadors to connect spending to results in a a way that _we_ can take to the budget people. Not mentioned at the meeting, but a thing I'm concerned with and have mentioned before: having a Fedora presence at conferences is good, but is it the best use of Fedora money? Do we grow new users at Linux fests in the 21st century? What things could we do instead? -- Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader

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Re: council/design meeting -- wait, can we do it at 18:00UTC instead? US Eastern time)
by Rex Dieter 02 Nov '15

02 Nov '15

On 11/02/2015 07:15 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Sun, Nov 01, 2015 at 07:20:29PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: >> The council meeting is specified as 17:00UTC. The United States has >> just switched off DST, so that means an hour earlier than we've been >> used to. If we want to change that, we should discuss. :) > > Looks like I have a conflicting meeting from 11-1 EST (No lunch for > me?!) -- will switching this to an hour later work for people? ok with me -- Rex

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MOVED to https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/tag/council November 2015