Fedora Board Strategic Working Group

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 01:14:19PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 3:39 PM, John Poelstra <poelstra at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I've heard a few suggestions for holding these discussions in IRC.
> > Considering that board meetings can run 2 hours over the phone on this topic
> > I cannot imagine discussing these topics over IRC.  We can certainly address
> > any questions or issues people want to raise at our monthly IRC meetings.
> >
> > == Timing ==
> > o I'm looking for feedback until Wednesday, January 13, 2010.
> > o Thursday to Sunday I will find out the best day and time to meet each week
> > o Weekly "working group" meetings will start the week of January 18, 2010
> >
> > == Big Picture ==
> > o A committed group of board members that are passionate about
> > satisfactorily finishing the "What is Fedora" and "Target Audience" agenda
> > items.
> > o Provide status at regular board meetings
> > o Bring specific structured proposals to the regular board meeting
> > o All decisions by way of proposals are reviewed and voted on by all board
> > members at the regular meeting
> >
> > == Framework ==
> > o Meet one day each week (outside of our regular meeting) for one hour on
> > the telephone
> 
> If we're thinking of this as producing something, why not try to say
> create a wiki page as we work?  Or proposed modifications to existing
> definitions like the first few paragraphs of fedoraproject.org.

We definitely will be producing written work for consumption by any
interested parties.  The wiki's ideal for that.

> As far as scheduling goes I'm flexible, though ideally not Thursday.

We'll probably broach this as soon as we have the list of people
finalized.

Chris Tyler indicated to me at some point he was interested, but he
hasn't popped up here as of yet, unless I missed some mail along the
way.

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