fedora board tuesday 3/27, 17:00 EDT

[Max Spevack]

#fedora-meeting

17:00 EDT, 21:00 GMT

We'll start with:

(1) Donald Fischer (dff at redhat.com), VP Online Services will join us. 
Donald's previous jobs have been as the project manager/leader for 
Mugshot, as well as the product manager for RHEL a few years back.  He'll 
talk about some of the things he has been working on both in the Red Hat 
and Fedora spaces, to share that with the Board and get our feedback.

Donald has another appointment at :30 past the hour, so we'll start with 
him.

Once he's done, I'll talk a bit more on a similar vein, and then we'll 
move into the other important topic.

(2) Clearing up any confusion in mandate between the Board and FESCO and 
making sure that the lines between the two are clear, especially due to 
the fact that there are some people who sit on both, and that creates the 
opportunity for confusion.  Thorsten and I have been chatting a bit about 
this offline, and I'll present some of our conversation to the Board.  The 
Board does tend to (inadvertantly) poach some of FESCO's topics, and we 
need to fix that.

(3) Talk about Fedora Board succession, especially with regard to the Red 
Hat seats, and thinking about it in a "role-based" way.  Especially if we 
can properly delegate to FESCO, we have a lot of potentially good options 
in how we set up the Board.

Off the top of my head (and incorporating lots of feedback that I've 
heard):

* Chair -- Max
* Red Hat appointed seats
   1) RHEL engineering manager -- ???
   2) Fedora "downstream" stakeholder -- Chris Blizzard (OLPC)
   3) product/marketing focus -- ???
   4) Fedora engineer -- Bill/Jeremy/???
   5) Potentially flipping this to a community seat
* Community elected seats
   * open election for anyone (Red Hat or not)

I think it's probably best for us to figure out who will be in the Red 
Hat appointed seats before we go ahead and figure out which 2 community 
seats will "stay" and which two will open up for election.  Also because 
in the interest of having a well balanced Board (in terms of skills and 
focus), the appointed seats might have an impact on the community seats.

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