https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Board_meeting_2010-06-18 == Roll call == * Present: Paul Frields, Christopher Aillon, Colin Walters, Rex Dieter, Chris Tyler, Matt Domsch, Mo Duffy, Jon Stanley, Stephen Smoogen * Regrets: Tom 'spot' Callaway * Assigned meeting secretary: Christopher Aillon == Agenda == === Organizational matters === * Welcome to the new Board members! * Brief update on meeting and issue tracking details (Paul) * May discuss sensitive matters. These will be noted, please keep them private. * Board members do not necessarily speak for their employers. * Trac access granted to new members, issues are potentially confidential in nature -- goal is to move as much of that material into minutes and IRC as possible. * Gobby used for taking meeting minutes, posted to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Board_meetings * Discuss issues on advisory-board list when possible, use the private list only for confidential items === Top issues for F14 cycle === * Get consensus on agenda for next ~6 months, focus on moving Fedora to next level ** High impact items to benefit the project or contributors ** Will be incredibly useful for FPL successor * Simply stating problems for now -- keep in mind that lots of Fedora works great -- we focus on the negative in this list as a way to embrace change and keep growing/moving forward * Limit to 3 minutes per person, then prioritize with remaining time * Christopher Aillon ** Fedora needs a target experience, more than a target user. -- facilitate them to go from random user to someone who will file a bug (and then onward) ** Fedora needs to be the open source development platform of choice * Rex Dieter ** We need to keep the community positive ** Rawhide needs to be more consumable (and consumed) ** Fedora needs to be easier and more welcoming for alternative desktops * Matt Domsch ** Fedora + Cloud: Fedora is great for platform as a service, and need to push Fedora as the OS of choice for cloud applications ** We need to keep the community positive, and take decisive action in cases of extreme negativity * Mo Duffy ** Confusion around target experience. *** Spins one area of confusion: should be closer to package groups, having to pick 1 spin is too restrictive ** Mailing lists are a time sink ** Losing mindshare - Need more marketing, Need more FOSS developers on Fedora, 3rd party software install is painful (especially when no Fedora packages provided) * Smooge ** Poisonous people make Fedora unpleasant to contribute to and are too prevalent [Noisy idiots is a better term look it up online] ** Still too many people using EOL Fedora versions (in part due to EC2 issue) ** We are not focusing towards eventual enterprise goals... We seem to wander from release to release without long term focus. * Jon Stanley ** Poisonous people tend to dominate discussions, need to find a way to fix this ** Update stability, need to keep an eye on this issue with FESCo * Chris Tyler ** Joining Fedora is not as clear and consistent as it could be ** Onramping: Make it easy for truly interested people to join Fedora and become effective contributors * Colin Walters ** Upgrade experience: have to do better here, not just packages but distros ** Need to minimize regressions ** Need to raise contributor interest in the default desktop (few new app suggestions for ex) * Paul ** Need to have a clear way to oppose useless trolling * Mo ** Negativity is a result of no clear vision or focus, we have one vision per person * Paul ** many of these problems are interlaced and need to be solved together to truly tackle the problem ** Artificial separation between e.g. FESCo and Board -- need people to work closer together Top 3 issues * Negativity * Fedora Experience * Mindshare (via cloud, etc.) == Next meeting == * Proposed: Cancel 2010-06-25 -- Red Hat Summit * Next meeting: 2010-07-02 UTC 1800, public IRC meeting _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
