Fedora Board Recap 2009-11-19 UTC 1700

[Paul W. Frields]

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Board_meeting_2009-11-19

== Roll Call ==
* Present: Josh Boyer, Paul Frields, Bill Nottingham, Mike McGrath,
John Poelstra, Matt Domsch, Chris Aillon, Tom "Spot" Callaway, Dennis
Gilmore
* Regrets: Dimitris Glezos

== Last meeting ==

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Board_meeting_2009-11-05

== Current issues ==

=== Pending work ===
* Trademark licenses
* Update proposal
* Both on Paul's plate, delayed by other work, will handle ASAP
* NEXT ACTIONS:
** Send TLAs to all the pending recipients noted on wiki and in Paul's
email
** Put together update proposal, possibly based in part on Spot's
previous work

=== FUDCon session setup ===
* Sessions  board would like to participate in
** FUDCon + Board roundtable Q & A (incl. target audience preso if
needed)
*** Like monthly public IRC meeting
*** Evening session? Hackfest session?
** Saturday: Update discipline intro (hopefully presenting ML
ideation, not starting from scratch)
*** More definitive policy around updates - schedule as a regular
session in the barcamp
** Followup hackfest from update policy discussion
** Election town hall is separate
* NEXT ACTIONS:
** Paul will pitch updates session at barcamp
** Dropping idea of Board and FESCo roundtable
** Matt to investigate viability and level of interest in an elections
town hall at FUDCon

== New business ==

=== F12 release ===
* Limit to 5 minutes
* Thanks/congrats
* Acknowledge PackageKit issue, anything Board actionable?
** http://lwn.net/Articles/362592/
** Need for security policy to guide large-scale decisions 
**# a policy for the default distribution offering
**# a policy for spins
** Requires the Board to say, "Spins, you can change this as a rule."
** spot: if the board defines the user target--it has an obligation to
define the security policy
** Agree to table for now
* NEXT ACTIONS
** Revisit security policy after FESCo discusses PackageKit in their
2009-11-20 meeting
** Decide if there's a Board action, and if so, move forward with it

=== FreeMedia ===
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2009-November/msg00035.html
* Thread is public, anything to discuss here?
* is there some way that we can fund shipping media to people to ship
out to users
** John: if we fund this what would we not be funding? IOW what
trade-off would we be making?
*** Dennis: not fund there outbound postage, but provide them media so
they can ship more at the same cost and give professional media not
burnt and hand written.
* NEXT ACTIONS:
** Continue discussion on fedora-advisory-board
** Follow-up 

=== F13 naming ===
* Board members to indicate anything left that is unsuitable
* Remainder goes to Legal for approval

== Next meeting == 
* Proposed: Thu Dec 03 2009 - 1700 UTC/12:00pm US Eastern (public IRC)


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