Minutes from the Board IRC meeting, 2012-02-08

Thu Feb 9 14:26:47 UTC 2012

In attendance:

Jon Stanley
Rex Dieter
Guillermo Gomez Savino
David Nalley
Robyn Bergeron
Toshio Kuratomi
Jaroslav Reznik
Peter Robinson
Rudi Landmann

Regrets:
Christoph Wickert

Highlights:

* Ticket #130 (Make the Board less of a SPOF): Toshio agreed to write up 
process changes, including identifying clear ownership of tasks / 
actions, as a proposal to be voted on in the next public IRC board 
meeting 2 weeks from now.
* Ticket #131 (Retire torrent seed?): It was agreed that we are more or 
less wrapped up with this for now, and we may revisit the issue after F17.
* Ticket #132 (endorsement of http://github.com/fedoraproject): The 
board granted https://github.com/fedora-jboss-as permission to use the 
Fedora trademark on that website for the purpose of getting JBoss-AS 
packaged for Fedora. Rex took the actoin to follow up with the requestor.
* Trademark guidelines: Spot is invited to the next board meeting, via 
telephone, to discuss any trademark guideline questions or concerns.  
Board members are expected to be familiar with guidelines by time of the 
meeting.
* Agreed that in the future, we will address the Q&A portion of the 
meeting first, as we run out of time to address community questions or 
concerns in that portion of the Board meeting.
* Additionally, John Rose (inode0) has volunteered to once again serve 
as election coordinator. Thanks, inode0! :)

Logs can be seen here:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2012-02-08/fedora_board.2012-02-08-18.30.log.html

Minutes can be seen here:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2012-02-08/fedora_board.2012-02-08-18.30.html

Full minutes follow below.

Cheers,

-Robyn

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#fedora-meeting: Fedora Board IRC Meeting
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Meeting started by rbergeron at 18:30:05 UTC. The full logs are
available at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2012-02-08/fedora_board.2012-02-08-18.30.log.html
.

Meeting summary
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* Roll call (for board members)  (rbergeron, 18:30:45)
   * present: jds2001, rdieter, gomix, cwickert (but not really and we
     saw his regrets earlier), ke4qqq, yours truly, abadger1999
     (rbergeron, 18:31:39)
   * present jreznik  (rbergeron, 18:32:47)

* Agenda  (rbergeron, 18:33:15)
   * First, General announcements  (rbergeron, 18:33:26)
   * Will cover tickets #130 (Board == Less of a SPOF), #131 (retire
     torrent seed), #132 (endorsement of http://github.com/fedoraproject)
     (rbergeron, 18:33:41)
   * Then see where we are with trademark guidelines.  (rbergeron,
     18:33:49)
   * Then open Q&A.  (rbergeron, 18:33:53)
   * Board Member Tasks.  (rbergeron, 18:34:45)

* General Announcements and the like  (rbergeron, 18:35:56)
   * Schedule Reminders: Alpha change deadline is next week on
     Valentine's Day/Singles Awareness Day (2/14 for those of you not
     into that type of thing), Alpha release on 2/28.  (rbergeron,
     18:36:02)
   * FUDCons for EMEA, LATAM, APAC are waiting on various types of things
     (approvals, dates, etc). Bidding for US FUDCon will open ... when I
     get to it. :D  (rbergeron, 18:36:06)

* Ticket 130: Make the Board less of a single point of failure
   (rbergeron, 18:37:47)
   * present: rudi  (rbergeron, 18:37:55)
   * all info is on the public wiki.  (rbergeron, 18:38:48)
   * For those playing along at home, description of the ticket is
     basically "reflecting on problems encountered in implementing the
     sopa banner for the blackout day"  (rbergeron, 18:39:47)
   * pbrobinson is here!  (rbergeron, 18:46:14)
   * ACTION: abadger1999 to write this up so process changes (like
     definite ownership) can be voted on and behaviour changes (like
     board members objecting need to propose solutions) are written as
     guidance for us to refer back to.  (rbergeron, 18:50:19)
   * ACTION: abadger1999 to be done with and revisit in 2 weeks (2/22).
     (rbergeron, 18:51:48)

* Ticket 131 (retire torrent seed?)  (rbergeron, 18:52:09)
   * This ticket is wrapped up / completed. YAY PROGRESS.  (rbergeron,
     18:53:16)
   * Nirik hoping that the board could provide ideas about when retiring
     might be an option, are there numberes to look for, or revisit in a
     few weeks?  (rbergeron, 18:54:22)
   * nirik urges everyone using torrents now to examine usage of mirrors,
     and provide feedback on where to improve.  (rbergeron, 18:58:25)
   * AGREED: (more or less) to revisit at some point after F17.
     (rbergeron, 19:02:28)

* Ticket 132, endorsement of http://github.com/fedoraproject
   (rbergeron, 19:02:53)
   * AGREED: 8 in favor, 1 not in favor, The Board grants
     https://github.com/fedora-jboss-as permission to use the Fedora
     trademarks on that website for hte purpose of getting JBoss-AS
     packaged for Fedora  (rbergeron, 19:20:55)
   * ACTION: rdieter to take the action on following up with the
     requestor. no paperwork is required (so long as it is indicated in
     trac).  (rbergeron, 19:21:44)

* Trademark Guidelines  (rbergeron, 19:22:00)
   * AGREED: invite spot to next phone meeting and dedicate it largely to
     TM guidelines topic.  (rbergeron, 19:26:31)
   * ACTION: all y'all to read and be familiar by next week. BRING YOUR
     QUESTIONS.  (rbergeron, 19:26:57)

* Open Floor  (rbergeron, 19:27:30)
   * thank you to inode0 for volunteering again to be election
     coordinator  (rbergeron, 19:38:09)
   * AGREED: have Q&A at start of meeting, rather than end of meeting, in
     future  (rbergeron, 19:39:13)

Meeting ended at 19:44:57 UTC.

Action Items
------------
* abadger1999 to write this up so process changes (like definite
   ownership) can be voted on and behaviour changes (like board members
   objecting need to propose solutions) are written as guidance for us to
   refer back to.
* abadger1999 to be done with and revisit in 2 weeks (2/22).
* rdieter to take the action on following up with the requestor. no
   paperwork is required (so long as it is indicated in trac).
* all y'all to read and be familiar by next week. BRING YOUR QUESTIONS.

Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* abadger1999
   * abadger1999 to write this up so process changes (like definite
     ownership) can be voted on and behaviour changes (like board members
     objecting need to propose solutions) are written as guidance for us
     to refer back to.
   * abadger1999 to be done with and revisit in 2 weeks (2/22).
* rdieter
   * rdieter to take the action on following up with the requestor. no
     paperwork is required (so long as it is indicated in trac).
* **UNASSIGNED**
   * all y'all to read and be familiar by next week. BRING YOUR
     QUESTIONS.

People Present (lines said)
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* rbergeron (191)
* jds2001 (42)
* abadger1999 (33)
* ke4qqq (30)
* rdieter (28)
* gomix (23)
* jreznik (19)
* spot (15)
* skvidal (14)
* pbrobinson (13)
* cwickert (8)
* nirik (7)
* pingou (7)
* Discordian (6)
* rudi (5)
* zodbot (5)
* jsmith (5)
* inode0 (4)
* stickster (4)
* ianweller (3)
* suehle (2)

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