[council] #19: new terminology for cloud/server/workstation
by fedora-badges
#19: new terminology for cloud/server/workstation
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Reporter: mattdm | Owner:
Status: new | Priority: normal
Component: Fedora.next | Keywords:
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We've been using the term "product" to refer to the different Fedora
variants produced and marketed as part of the new (or by now, not so new)
Fedora.next plan. This has a number of problems -- we're not actually
selling anything, and we don't want to give that impression. And some
spins users have expressed that it doesn't carry the meaning that we did
intend very well. So, we're looking for something new.
I had suggested "flavors", but that has its own problems: it's idiomatic,
doesn't translate well, and apparently I'm the only one that likes it. :)
So let's find something else.
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Fwd: [Ambassadors] Announcing the next FUDCon APAC?
by Truong Anh Tuan
Dear FPL and Council,
On behalf of APAC community, I would like to propose this idea to you
for approval. You can see all other comments here [1].
Once it is approved, according to FUDCon Bid process [2], we will need
FPL to send a call for bidding to start the process.
Please let us know if you have any questions.
Rgds,
Tuan
[1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2015-March/023307.html
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_bid_process
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From: "Siddhesh Poyarekar" <siddhesh.poyarekar(a)gmail.com>
To: "ambassadors" <ambassadors(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 12:36:04 AM
Subject: [Ambassadors] Announcing the next FUDCon APAC?
Hi,
Credit goes to Sirko for the original idea - he suggested this at the
Phnom Penh FAD last year and I think it's a great idea that we should
probably think deeper about and act on before it is forgotten.
The current call for bid for FUDCon happened in November, got awarded
in January and is happening in June. Overall we have about 6 months
to get everything in place to do the event, which is just about enough
time for teams that have experience and resources in organizing
events. However, it could be better. We could open the bid for the
next FUDCon for the region ~2-3 months before the dates of the current
FUDCon and after discussions, announce the winner for the bid at the
current FUDCon. That would give the next team about a year to get
everything in place.
That is, we could make a call for bids for FUDCon APAC 2016 about now
(maybe last week or March or beginning of April) and time discussions
such that we reach a decision just before FUDCon Pune at the end of
June. We could then announce the venue for the next FUDCon APAC
chapter during the event, probably at the close of the second or the
last day.
It won't be much of a surprise for those who attend the APAC
ambassador meetings or for FAmSCO or the FPL, but it could become a
nice little tradition that we form for the event. This could also be
adopted by FUDCon LATAM or even Flock.
Thoughts?
Siddhesh
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Planning for upcoming council meetings
by Matthew Miller
As you may have noticed, I again didn't schedule a meeting for today.
However, I don't want to slip into a routine of nothin' happening. So,
here's a proposal.
Every other week, we will have a drop-in meeting in IRC. I'll set up an
automatic invite for this. I'll make a point of being there, but
attendance won't be mandatory. This will basically function as open
floor for the topics of the day, but if people have specific topics to
raise, we'll try to organize around that on the mailing list
beforehand.
The other weeks will alternate between IRC-based business meetings and
subproject status meetings.
The "business" meetings will focus on tickets and specific agenda
items, and will try to timebox these and avoid extended discussion —
and therefore will require planning ahead. These meetings will end up
being only monthly, so they can't be the _only_ place we do work, but
basically will serve to make sure that work that needs to be done has
the right people attached, and that things don't slip forever.
The status meetings will feature presentations from various
subprojects, covering
- the current state of the subproject
- future plans
- things the team needs from the rest of the project
- any blockers we can help unblock
- big resource requests?
I'm thinking we will ask for an actual slideshow presentation... with
these — not really formal, but a little more prepared than a
show-up-and-answer-questions session.
I asked Chris Roberts from the Marketing Team if he'd be interested in
doing the first of these, and he said he would, so we can use that as a
trial. I'd like to experiment with doing these as recorded video
sessions, ideally with an open-source technology, but if the tech isn't
up to our needs, I'm open to considering something like Google Hangouts
and Youtube, as we've done for Flock. (Would anyone like to raise their
hand to experiment with something like Jitsi? https://jitsi.org/ —
looks like it can even use all-open codecs.) Or, for some of these, we
could do IRC with follow-along URLs to slides.
So, concretely, that would look something like:
- April 27: Council business meeting
- May 4: Open Floor
- May 11: Subproject Status: Marketing
- May 18: Open Floor
- May 25: Council business meeting
- June 1: Open Floor
- June 8: Subproject Status: TBD (QA, maybe?)
- June 15: Open Floor
- June 22: Council business meeting
etc.
Does this sound good? Is it too slow — too much open floor? I'm trying
to find a balance between no regular cadence and too much reliance on
meetings (and, avoiding too many "same as last week" reports").
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Fedora Project Leader
9 years
a fedora council blog?
by Matthew Miller
In addition to 5tFTW, I've been occassionally posting things like
<http://fedoramagazine.org/lets-talk-about-fedora-project-objectives/>
to Fedora Magazine.
However, the general consensus in Fedora Marketing (of which the
magazine is a branch) is that content there should be on the vast
majority _user_ focused, rather than inward/contributor focused.
I could set up a personal blog (and aggregate it to the planet), but
I've never been a prolific blogger and signs are not pointing to me
becoming one -- I'll probably continue to do a post or two a month (in
addition to 5tFTW, which I think will stay on the Magazine). I was also
talking to Remy, and he was wondering where a good place for _his_
Fedora leadership posts would be.
So, I'm thinking of maybe asking infrastructure to set up a wordpress
site specifically for council members. What do you think? Council
members, would you post to it?
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Fedora Project Leader
9 years
Announcing the Diversity Advisor search team
by Matthew Miller
I'm pleased to announce the formation of the search team for our
Diversity Advisor position. I was excited and moved by all of the
introductions received. In no particular order, the search team will
be:
* María Leandro
* K Rain Leander
* Tsegga Siyoum Medhin
* Tyler Golden
* Spencer Hunley
* Marina Zhurakhinskaya
* Alejandro Sanchez
* Máirín Duffy
* Amita Sharma
The group has a new mailing list at
<https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/diversity/>
and is working on first steps — a first meeting, and filling out the
role description a little more concretely. (Once that's ready, I or the
team will send out another, wider annoucement.)
As noted before, at the end of this process the end, I'm looking for a
recommendation, or failing consensus, a strong shortlist. I don't have
a particular deadline in mind, as long as there isn't stagnation. If
the recommendation ends up being one of the awesome people listed
above, I don't think that's a problem.
If you're interested in learning more, please feel free to follow or
join the diversity mailing list.
(And, thank you and welcome to the search team members!)
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Fedora Project Leader
9 years
Apologies
by White, Langdon
I can't make the meeting today (chaperoning school trip).
Langdon
9 years
mattdm time off thursday-sunday
by Matthew Miller
Hey all. I'm attending my brother's wedding, and will be offline from
tomorrow until Monday morning. This is in Fedocal, but just in case
you're looking for me and I'm not to be found, that's what's up. :)
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Fedora Project Leader
9 years
Stack OverFlow Developer survey
by Matthew Miller
[I posted this to the desktop list, as it seems most relevant to Fedora
Workstation, but it occurs to me that it's also quite interesting from
an overall strategic perspective.]
<http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2015>
There's a lot which is of interest here, but this jumped out at me:
http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2015#tech-os
Breakdown by OS:
* 58.3% Windows 7 & 8
* 21.5% OS X
* 20.5% Linux
Which is awesome and encouraging for desktop Linux. However, the
breakdown of distros (from 4667 responses) is:
* 12.0% Ubuntu
* 2.2% Debian
* 1.6% Mint
* 1.3% Fedora
* 4.0% Other
So... we've got some Room for Growth there. :)
Unfortuantely, Stack Exchange didn't ask distro version in previous
years, but this'll at least give us a number from here. (For OSes as a
whole, the shift seems to be entirely from Windows XP and 7 to Windows
8 — desktop Linux is basically flat and OS X gains a few percent over
the past two years.)
I wish they asked about deployment / target OS, too.
You can see some of the demographics further down the study — about a
third (32%) are full-stack web devs, 14% are students, 10% do back-end
web devs, 9% mobile, 8% desktop, 6% front-end web, and then enterprise
developers of various stripes at 2.9%.
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Fedora Project Leader
9 years
do we want to have a meeting today?
by Matthew Miller
Friday was a Red Hat company holiday in the US, and today is in Cz and
elsewhere. And from Thursday, Monday seemed so far in the future I
forgot to think about it. Do we want to have a meeting today? If so,
what items are ready for meeting discussion?
Alternately, we could do a quick mailing-list checkin on various
items.....
For example:
- I'm working on putting together the diversity advisor search team
this week from the (impressive) list of applicants.
- If you haven't yet, I highly, highly recommend reading Paul Frields'
blog post about Fedora.next. I don't think there's anything really new,
but it's a nice summation of where we are and where we should/might/can
go: <http://paul.frields.org/2015/04/02/fedora-under-construction/>.
Are there council-level items to discuss from that?
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Fedora Project Leader
9 years
