Fedora Board Recap 2012-10-17

[Toshio Kuratomi]

Present:
* Peter Robinson
* John Rose
* Christoph Wickert
* Jaroslav Reznik
* Toshio Kuratomi
* Garrett Holmstrom

Absent:
* David Nalley
* Nick Bebout

Regrets:
* Eric Christensen
* Robyn Bergeron


Today's lucky secretary: Toshio Kuratomi
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Agenda:

* Announcements
** F18 slipped another week.  New target is 2012-11-06 for Beta, 2012-12-11 for GA

** FUDCon Paris
*** cwickert and probinson reports: Very successful
*** keynote filled with information and vision for future of fedora
*** First day that was cohosted with openworld was more focused on people who hadn't heard of Fedora yet than on enabling current contributors to do work
*** Monday Hackfest very productive -- people working even on Monday evening (last day)
*** Discussed many budget items
*** xfce work was worked on

** elections -- scheduling is getting harder due to the release slipping
*** Release is pushing up against the Christmas/New Years holidays.
*** That probably pushes the Board election to after the holidays -- if we keep slipping it starts to get us close to FUDCon
*** Could move the townhalls, nominations, etc to before the release and leave elections to after
**** Worry that would be pulling people who are working on release off to "campaign"
*** Also worry about fairness of some people having longer terms due to period between some releases being longer
*** Neither Board or FESCo have seemed to have difficulties with dates as long as they're not putting off the elections for a long period
*** inode0 to touch base with Ankur (Election Wrangler) and Jaroslav to figure out a proposed schedule

* Fedora 19 proposed names review
** http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_19
** We'll finish up next week's meeting
** This week we'll look at non grey areas:
*** Not an is-a relationship
*** Possible problems with trademark (see suggestions page for guidelines)
** Toshio to divide out the list to all Board Members


== Open Floor ==
=== Are we losing users? ===
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics#Total_repository_connections
* F15 took a large hit and we haven't recovered
** Listing of the technology changes that went into F15: gnome3, systemd
** Also F14 was the last release before RHEL6 was released.
* Have we really lost users?  (The statistics seem accurate at what they're measuring)
* Seeing large amount of enthusiasm at conferences which is a contrasting view to this 

* Next: Public IRC meeting 2012-10-24

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