Hi, It's my first draft. It's rather formal since I converted whatever notes I'd made from the logs into sentences and paragraphs. I don't think there should be any factual errors in it though. A proofread is most welcome: > Complete log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2013-10-29/fedora-workstation.2013-10-29-14.00.log.html > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Summary: > > The first ever Fedora Workstation Working Group IRC meeting was held recently on > the 29th of October. The Workstation Working Group is one of the three main > working groups tasked with the creation of the Fedora workstation product, the > other two being the Fedora Cloud and the Fedora Server. The complete proposal, > as explained by Matthew Miller, can be found on the Fedora project wiki here: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora.next/boardproposal . In short, the default > Fedora product, which the Fedora Desktop Spin is traditionally seen as, will be > replaced by the three aforementioned products. The community's resources: QA, > marketing, others, will then be allocated towards these three products. Note > that this does not limit Fedora to three products: it merely attempts to > prioritize these three as core products, or "ring 1". The community is still > free to produce other products in parallel, in lower priority rings such as > ring 2, 3, and so on. One practical aspect of these rings is that products > in rings 2 and onwards can therefore be governed by less stringent policies. > > The Workstation Working Group is composed of 9 members that were chosen by FESCo > from a list of nominees: > - Owen Taylor > - Kalev Lember: > - Christoph Wickert > - Lukas Tinkl > - Jens Petersen > - Ryan Lerch > - Matthias Clasen > - Christain Schaller > - Josh Boyer > > Out of the 9, one member, Josh Boyer, is the liaison to FESCo. Such a liaison is > a requirement of all three working groups and is chosen by FESCo. > > [TODO: write a little about each member, and what they bring to the working group] > > The formal annoumcement can be found here: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2013-October/001258.html > The complete list of nominees can be found here: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora.next/WG_Nominations#Fedora_Workstation_Working_Group > > This first meeting aimed at getting all members of the working group up to speed > with recent happenings. FESCo has tasked each working group with two tasks: > - Deciding on their governance model, i.e., how will members be chosen in the > future, what tenure they serve, how are members that leave replaced, and > such. A first proposal of this governance charter is already under discussion on > the mailing list: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/desktop/2013-October/008245.html > Upon completion, it will be placed on the Fedora project wiki. > > - Drafting a PRD (Product requirements document). As wikipedia explains, the > function of this document is to define product itself: it's scope, what > problems it aims to solve, what is required to create this product. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_requirements_document > > Other than these two tasks, which volunteers from the working group are > now working on, the secondary goal of the meeting was to decide on the channels > that the group would use to communicate. The existing fedora desktop mailing > list (desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) will be used as the mailing list for the > workstation group. A new IRC channel: #fedora-workstation has been created on > Freenode to be used by people interested in conversing about the product. > > In the open floor, the subject of desktop environment sprung up. Members were > interested in discussing whether they'd stick to a single desktop environment > for the workstation product, and what this would mean for other desktop > environments that are available in Fedora. After a short discussion, it was > decided that this will be taken up once the PRD has been agreed on. > > The meeting was short and to the point. Since the working group initiative has > only just kicked off, meetings in the future will have more matter to report on. > Do keep an eye out on the meeting-minutes mailing list for future meetings, or > the fedora magazine for meeting summaries. -- Thanks, Warm regards, Ankur (FranciscoD) http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha Join Fedora! Come talk to us! http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Join_SIG
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