#fedora-meeting: Fedora Magazine editorial board meeting (2016-05-05)

Meeting summary

1. Roll Call (jflory7, 20:56:09)
   1. stickster is unable to make it to tonight's meeting (jflory7, 20:57:45)
   
   
2. Week in review (jflory7, 21:04:18)
   1. Total views for last month: 157,960 (jflory7, 21:04:35)
   2. Total views for this month (so far): 20,752 (jflory7, 21:04:47)
   3. Total views last week: 43,797 (best week for all of April) (jflory7, 21:05:18)
   4. Total views this week (so far): 16,724 (jflory7, 21:05:35)
   
   
3. Scheduled (jflory7, 21:07:19)
   1. === "Organising your finances with HomeBank" === (jflory7, 21:07:34)
   2. https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=12689&preview=1&_ppp=181c815f89 (jflory7, 21:07:39)
   3. Scheduled for 2016-05-05, 8:00 UTC (jflory7, 21:07:46)
   
   
4. Pending review (jflory7, 21:07:54)
   1. === "Fedora teaches future makers in school" === (jflory7, 21:08:32)
   2. https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=12806&preview=1&_ppp=3c6f87c61c (jflory7, 21:08:37)
   3. ACTION: jflory7 Choose one of jdieter's pictures as the featured image for the Fedora + school article (jflory7, 21:11:42)
   4. ACTION: jflory7 Take another look at intro and try to soften it a bit with more introductory material (jflory7, 21:11:59)
   5. === "Retiring 32-bit Fedora Cloud Images" === (jflory7, 21:12:16)
   6. https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=12606&preview=1&_ppp=c90bb506f4 (jflory7, 21:12:22)
   7. Request for more info sent to mailing list earlier this week; no response heard back yet. We'll keep this one pending until we get a definite greenlight from the Cloud SIG on pushing this one out (jflory7, 21:14:31)
   
   
5. Drafts (jflory7, 21:14:55)
   1. Drafts in progress, but not finished / started: "What's new in Fedora 24 Workstation", "Single sign-on improvements in Fedora 24" (recently approved from pitch), "Call for Contributors: Fedora Magazine Authors", "What do you look forward to in Fedora 24?", "COPR: the road ahead"' (jflory7, 21:18:24)
   2. === "Getting started with Fedora Jam" === (jflory7, 21:18:55)
   3. https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=12800&preview=1&_ppp=d3b511a9b5 (jflory7, 21:19:11)
   4. Article is almost ready to go, few ideas: (jflory7, 21:21:20)
   5. IDEA: Little more of an introduction to what the Fedora Jam remix is (jflory7, 21:21:30)
   6. IDEA: Some kind of intro paragraph to some of the steps (e.g. "What is a jackuser group?" "What will that let me do?" etc.) (jflory7, 21:22:09)
   7. IDEA: Screenshots of some of this cool software would be awesome! (jflory7, 21:22:19)
   8. ACTION: jflory7 Give ParadoxGuitarist feedback on Fedora Jam spin article via mailing list (jflory7, 21:23:55)
   9. === "Cantarell font improvements" === (jflory7, 21:24:05)
   10. https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=12482&preview=1&_ppp=b8ec6f9027 (jflory7, 21:24:09)
   11. Sylvia (lailah / Kohane) is trying to get in contact with Cantarell maintainers and get more information about the changes to the font. This is still in progress, will check in next week! (jflory7, 21:26:06)
   12. === "John Dulaney: How do you Fedora?" === (jflory7, 21:26:19)
   13. https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=12742&preview=1&_ppp=febfcdda33 (jflory7, 21:26:25)
   14. ACTION: cprofitt Check in with the Marketing mailing list / jflory7 about John Dulaney HDYF status (jflory7, 21:29:25)
   15. Also, cprofitt is rocking the HDYF series, keep up the awesome work! (jflory7, 21:29:42)
   
   
6. Pitches (jflory7, 21:30:37)
   1. === "Fedora is on diaspora*!" === (jflory7, 21:31:15)
   2. https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=12844&preview_id=12844 (jflory7, 21:31:21)
   3. AGREED: This would be awesome for the Magazine! jbishop has full permission to begin working on a full draft of this article. (jflory7, 21:33:41)
   4. === "Linux, OVS and Libvirt Bridges" === (jflory7, 21:34:03)
   5. https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=12840&preview_id=12840 (jflory7, 21:34:09)
   6. AGREED: Article proposal looks good and we'd like to see more about this topic on the Magazine! Ashutosh is clear to begin making this a full draft. (jflory7, 21:37:25)
   7. IDEA: An introduction to what the purpose of doing this / "why" would help expand the article further! (jflory7, 21:37:50)
   8. === "New ToDo Features in Gnome 3.20" === (jflory7, 21:38:32)
   9. https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=12796&preview_id=12796 (jflory7, 21:38:37)
   10. AGREED: Another awesome idea by ridgemat - full steam ahead on drafting this one for the Magazine! (jflory7, 21:41:05)
   
   
7. Open Floor (jflory7, 21:42:43)
   1. jflory7 will not be as around for the next two weeks - starting Saturday to May 23rd, he will not be as around as normal for writing / editing / publishing on the Magazine (jflory7, 21:44:44)

Action items

1. jflory7 Choose one of jdieter's pictures as the featured image for the Fedora + school article
2. jflory7 Take another look at intro and try to soften it a bit with more introductory material
3. jflory7 Give ParadoxGuitarist feedback on Fedora Jam spin article via mailing list
4. cprofitt Check in with the Marketing mailing list / jflory7 about John Dulaney HDYF status

Action items, by person

1. cprofitt
   1. cprofitt Check in with the Marketing mailing list / jflory7 about John Dulaney HDYF status
2. jflory7
   1. jflory7 Choose one of jdieter's pictures as the featured image for the Fedora + school article
   2. jflory7 Take another look at intro and try to soften it a bit with more introductory material
   3. jflory7 Give ParadoxGuitarist feedback on Fedora Jam spin article via mailing list
   4. cprofitt Check in with the Marketing mailing list / jflory7 about John Dulaney HDYF status

People present (lines said)

1. jflory7 (149)
2. ridgemat (39)
3. linuxmodder (10)
4. zodbot (10)
5. jbishop (3)
6. cprofitt (0)