Fedora Board Meeting Minutes, 2014-01-23

[Robyn Bergeron]

Fedora Board IRC Meeting Minutes, 2014-01-23.


Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2014-01-23/fedora_board.2014-01-23-19.01.html
Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2014-01-23/fedora_board.2014-01-23-19.01.log.html

Full Minutes follow below.

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#fedora-meeting-1: Fedora Board Meeting
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Meeting started by rbergeron at 19:01:29 UTC. The full logs are
available at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2014-01-23/fedora_board.2014-01-23-19.01.log.html


Meeting summary
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* Who's here?  (rbergeron, 19:01:58)
  * Board folks present: gholms inode0 jreznik jwb mjg59 rbergeron
    (rbergeron, 19:04:34)
  * also present: rdieter, who i would never intentionally forget :)
    (rbergeron, 19:05:44)

* Agenda  (rbergeron, 19:05:49)
  * Today's agenda posted here:
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/advisory-board/2014-January/012416.html
    (rbergeron, 19:06:21)
  * Topic at hand: Getting to a conclusion on the third-party repo
    discussion as initiated by cschalle_ on the advisory-board list
    (rbergeron, 19:06:54)
  * LINK:
    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board_public_IRC_meetings?rd=Board/IRC#Meeting_protocol
    (rbergeron, 19:10:53)
  * also present: sparks for board  (rbergeron, 19:11:04)

* 1) Does the Board agree with FESCo's determination around third party
  repositories  (rbergeron, 19:12:09)
  * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Third_Party_Repository_Policy
    (rbergeron, 19:12:30)
  * Add mjg59's questions at :13, :14 to end of agenda  (rbergeron,
    19:16:23)
  * AGREED: +6 in favor of "Board agrees with FESCo's determination
    around third-party repositories"  (rbergeron, 19:28:24)

* 2a) Do Fedora's foundations allow for any ease of use around non-free
  software?  (rbergeron, 19:29:07)
  * AGREED: The board believes that shipping repository metadata  that
    points at non-free software is incompatible with Fedora's
    foundations  (jwb, 20:47:27)
  * LINK:
    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board_public_IRC_meetings?rd=Board/IRC#Meeting_protocol
    says the quorum is +6 ???  (mitr, 20:47:46)
  * ACCEPTED: The board believes that reducing technical barriers to
    explicit user choice to install third-party software (non-free or
    otherwise) is compatible with Fedora's foundations. (+6, 1, -0)
    (gholms, 20:52:03)
  * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Third_party_repositories
    (spot, 20:56:38)
  * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections/Questionnaire
    (inode0, 21:18:20)

Meeting ended at 21:37:32 UTC.




Action Items
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Action Items, by person
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* **UNASSIGNED**
  * (none)




People Present (lines said)
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* mjg59 (146)
* rbergeron (135)
* jreznik (126)
* jwb (67)
* inode0 (47)
* gholms (42)
* Sparks_too (42)
* rdieter (35)
* abadger1999 (28)
* adamw (27)
* cschalle_ (25)
* Sparks (23)
* drago01_ (22)
* EvilBob (19)
* mclasen (18)
* stickster (16)
* handsome_pirate (14)
* hadess (11)
* pjones (11)
* otaylor (9)
* mitr (8)
* robyduck (7)
* sgallagh (7)
* spot (7)
* mattdm (6)
* kushal (5)
* zodbot (5)
* randomuser (4)
* jforbes (3)
* notting (2)
* Sparkz (1)
* threebean (1)
* nirik (1)