council November 2015

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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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