https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Board_meeting_2009-10-29 == Roll Call == * Attending: Tom "spot" Callaway, Mike McGrath, John Poelstra, Paul Frields, Bill Nottingham, Dennis Gilmore, Matt Domsch * Regrets: Christopher Aillon, Dimitris Glezos, Josh Boyer == Last meeting == https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Board_meeting_2009-10-22 == Proposed Agenda == === Audience profile refinement === * Limit to 30 minutes * Use gobby to detail more characteristics, as a starting place ** People voluntarily switching to Linux (in general? or fedora in particular?), not really "my aunt Tessie" *** Better phrased -- conscious and independent choice to install and use a Linux platform *** Not being forced into it -- willing to do an installation *** Family member or friend support available (?) **** Paul disagrees with above -- We want people to be able to run Fedora without support from a friend/family member (its just a reason why someone might take the jump to linux) **** Does this mean we can assume an informed choice? Yes *** Why did this person switch then? **** stability **** free of cost, functionality **** lower risk (viruses, spyware, malware) **** Family relationship to RHEL/CentOS (familiarity) **** later: ***** free as in speech is secondary for many people, it's the hook that keeps them after they've already experienced the other beneficial effects ***** care about community later, after they discover the methodology and participation *** What does this person expect when she installs? **** Is comfortable with the idea that their whole hard disk may be erased **** Wants the installation to take as few steps as possible **** Does not want to be presented with choices that are not understandable ** People who are not necessarily hackers, but are familiar with computers *** (Not reached in time limit) ** People who are likely to fix something that is not working (or at least collaborate or report when it's not working) *** (Not reached in time limit) ** People looking to perform one or more of the following tasks: *** web browsing, email *** office productivity *** graphic arts *** publishing *** audio listeners *** simple web services *** collaboration & communication (IRC, gobby, IM) **** All facilities that get the user in touch with any of our help venues *** software development (cross platform, JAVA, not necessarily the development that we do) * Board made it partially into the first area, and realizes that this is not a project that can be done alone -- more of a thought exercise ** Not trying to create propaganda (Why switch?) -- rather to understand the person who we want to target, and create/maintain what they would naturally want to use * AGREED: Board will engage with more design folks to find out how we can do this methodically and transparently * ACTION: Paul to copy to a wiki page for collaboration with others === FUDCon sessions === * Suggestion: ** One session: FUDCon + Board roundtable Q & A (incl. target audience preso if needed) ** One session: Update discipline intro (hopefully presenting ML ideation, not starting from scratch). *** Need a proposal to present to the audience for feedback and revision during the session. (Paul is planning to take a first shot at this) (spot made a pseudo-proposal in the old thread-of-doom) ** Hackfests would take over work on updates, unfrozen Rawhide ** Election town hall is separate * Want: ** Feedback from community on target audience discussion ** Community to understand that both the board and FESCo are in favor of a more disciplined approach to updates *** hopefully a proposal has been drafted in advance that can be clarified or ratified * ACTION: Paul to take first shot at proposal, possibly using some or all of Spot's pseudo-proposal from FAB == Next Meeting == * Public IRC Meeting, 2009-11-05 * DST time change on Sunday, 2009-11-01 makes next meeting 1700 UTC, or same human time 12:00pm US-Eastern/9:00am US-Pacific * ACTION: Paul to send out notifications _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
