Meeting:Board meeting 2009-01-13
Fedora Project Board Meeting :: Tuesday 2009-01-13
Attendees: John Poelstra, Paul Frields, Seth Vidal, Matt Domsch, Chris Aillon, Spot Callaway, Dimitris Glezos, Bill Nottingham, Harald Hoyer, Chris Tyler, and Jesse Keating
Welcome New Board Memebers
- Chris Aillon
- Dimitris Glezos
- Reminder that as much business as possible should be conducted on the firstname.lastname@example.org mailing list
- email@example.com should be used for confidential matters that cannot be discussed publicly
- Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) are not required for non-Red Hat members and the board would like to keep it this way
- Ask that issues confidential and legal issues which cannot be discussed publicly remain confidential
Net Neutrality hearings in Canada
- Chris Tyler may be participating in hearings and using Fedora as an example of an open source project
- may request a letter from Fedora
- Paul Frields also working to provide resources from Red Hat
- Check back with Paul to see that information has been provided
FUDCon Fedora 11
Things That Went Well
- No conflict with the Red Hat Summit like last time
- Lots of talks at barcamp
- Audio and video streaming very helpful for people not physically present
- Hotel and venue close to T (public transpiration) was fantastic!
Observations and Possible Changes
- Some participants felt that the overall conference was poorly organized
- Hard to know how to get involved or what was going on when they showed up at Friday's hackfest
- Examine structure of FUDCon and order of sessions--have barcamp on day #1 followed by two days of hackfest
- Move to a Saturday, Sunday, Monday schedule?
- Some barcamp sessions were not presented or organized very well
- What if we required a slide deck prepared a week before FUDCon?
- Doing pitches online could add more time to the barcamp day itself
- Move last-minute topics or shorter topics to a "lightning talk" slots
- Some sessions consumed a lot of time while presenter tried to get their demo to be functional
- Could we message better what happens on each day and what people can expect?
- Tension between between making conference more organized and stifling flexibility
- Can we survey past attendees to identify other areas that were deficient?
- Only five time slots for barcamp presentations
- Lots of presentations which resulted in 45 total sessions
- Resulted in too many conflicts
- Some sessions were the "same old people" where the information being presented was already known by a majority of the audience
- FUDPub worked well in the shared environment where it wasn't just a private party
- By the third day a lot of people seem tired and less engaged
- What about encapsulating the event and lodging in one location (hotel)?
- Wireless connections were unreliable at MIT
- Having FUDCon Boston in the heart of winter does not make a lot of sense
- Extend barcamp day to have talks after dinner break
- Break up days by having barcamp in morning, hackfest in afternoons across multiple days
- Moving to Fedora Activity Day (FAD) structure
- Will not be holding FUDCon in conjunction with Red Hat Summit in Chicago, September 2009
- Funding for FUDCon in Boston in 2010 looks unlikely at this point
- Would be a great time/location for a Fedora Activity Day
- Why can't someone write a barcamp application do the counting, room scheduling, and conflict resolution?
- Could this be a Google summer of code project?
- Barcamps are happening everywhere--seems like there could be a lot of uptake from conferences
- FEL/OEM requests for trademark clearance:
- At first glance, TM guidelines appear to allow use of the trademark to show support for FEL/Fedora, provided other requirements are met
- Is the revenue stream worth pursuing?
- Transparency of accounting issues:
- Max could track funds, which helps
- Donors would need to know up front what fraction supports Fedora
- Not sure this minor revenue stream is required or desirable