council-meeting-2025-02-12
MINUTES

#meeting:fedoraproject.org: Council Meeting 2025-02-12

Meeting started by @amoloney:fedora.im at 15:01:34 UTC

Meeting summary

  1. TOPIC:roll call (@amoloney:fedora.im, 15:02:45)
  2. TOPIC:Agenda Stuff (@amoloney:fedora.im, 15:05:57)
    1. INFO: We have a number of items to discuss today - reviewing the draft of Flock cfp helpful tips and tricks, we need owners for summaries of all the f2f topics, and make sure everyone is ok with their ticket assignments. (@amoloney:fedora.im, 15:07:38)
  3. TOPIC:Flock to Fedora CfP Helpful Tips Post (@amoloney:fedora.im, 15:07:54)
    1. AGREED: Council members will review, edit and sign off on the Flock to Fedora CfP Tips and Tricks post by end of their working day on Thursday 13th February (tomorrow). It will be posted to the Community blog, Discourse and Fedora Magazine on Friday 14th February. @amoloney will own executing the posting part. (@amoloney:fedora.im, 15:18:53)
  4. TOPIC:Council Hackfest Summary Write Ups (@amoloney:fedora.im, 15:19:10)
    1. ACTION: mattdm will provide a summary on the Strategy topic from the Council f2f 2025 (@amoloney:fedora.im, 15:32:31)
    2. ACTION: JWW (@jflory7) will provide a summary on the Budget topic from the Council f2f (@amoloney:fedora.im, 15:32:52)
    3. ACTION: Sumantro Mukherjee will provide a summary on the Mindshare committee proposal from the Council f2f (@amoloney:fedora.im, 15:33:17)
    4. ACTION: bookwar will provide a summary on the AI topic from the Council f2f (@amoloney:fedora.im, 15:33:40)
    5. ACTION: @amoloney will provide a summary on how the council works topic, and summarize the policies we discussed from the Council f2f (@amoloney:fedora.im, 15:34:28)
    6. AGREED: These summaries will be posted to discourse as linked topics from an original post, and topics will be reviewed by all council members before going live for accuracy. This activity will finish by the end of February 2025 (@amoloney:fedora.im, 15:35:39)
  5. TOPIC:Ticket follow ups (@amoloney:fedora.im, 15:36:10)
  6. TOPIC:Proven Packager Incident Follow Up (@amoloney:fedora.im, 15:41:08)
    1. INFO: The council have been conducting our own investigation, as requested, into this incident, and we have reached the end of our investigation into the issue. We have reached a conclusion and have identified a number of next steps for this. (@amoloney:fedora.im, 15:43:09)
    2. INFO: The first step we wish to take is to formally reach out to Peter Robinson to discuss with him the Councils conclusions (@amoloney:fedora.im, 15:44:14)
    3. INFO: The council would then like to make our report public, with the actions we are taking to improve this situation for the future (@amoloney:fedora.im, 15:45:41)
    4. INFO: One of these steps is to work with FESCo to review and make changes the Proven Packager guidelines that bring more clarity, which FESCo had already noted needed improvements (@amoloney:fedora.im, 15:46:48)
    5. INFO: Another step is to create a 'meta-policy' that can be used by any group in the Fedora Project to aid them when finding they need to make a decision that impacts someones ability to contribute to Fedora in a significant way. We expect this to be used as a framework that will keep the groups authority and integrity, but also ensure 'big decisions' are being done in the right way for Fedora (@amoloney:fedora.im, 15:49:17)
    6. ACTION: mattdm & dcantrell to formally meet with Peter Robinson during the week of Feb 17th - 21st 2025 to discuss the Councils conclusion into the Proven Packager Incident (@amoloney:fedora.im, 15:55:54)
    7. ACTION: @amoloney will schedule the meeting and attend as facilitator (@amoloney:fedora.im, 15:56:25)
  7. TOPIC:open floor (@amoloney:fedora.im, 15:58:02)
    1. INFO: thank you Aoife Moloney for helping the hackfest run so smoothly! (@mattdm:fedora.im, 15:58:05)
    2. INFO: and ffmancera for on-the-ground support. If anyone needs restaurant recommendations in Sevilla, we have an expert! (@mattdm:fedora.im, 15:58:45)


Meeting ended at 16:01:39 UTC

Action items

  1. mattdm will provide a summary on the Strategy topic from the Council f2f 2025
  2. JWW (@jflory7) will provide a summary on the Budget topic from the Council f2f
  3. Sumantro Mukherjee will provide a summary on the Mindshare committee proposal from the Council f2f
  4. bookwar will provide a summary on the AI topic from the Council f2f
  5. @amoloney will provide a summary on how the council works topic, and summarize the policies we discussed from the Council f2f
  6. mattdm & dcantrell to formally meet with Peter Robinson during the week of Feb 17th - 21st 2025 to discuss the Councils conclusion into the Proven Packager Incident
  7. @amoloney will schedule the meeting and attend as facilitator


People present (lines said)

  1. @amoloney:fedora.im (76)
  2. @mattdm:fedora.im (24)
  3. @zodbot:fedora.im (23)
  4. @jflory7:fedora.im (22)
  5. @dcantrell:fedora.im (6)
  6. @sumantrom:fedora.im (4)
  7. @jonatoni:fedora.im (4)
  8. @bookwar:fedora.im (3)
  9. @ffmancera:fedora.im (2)
  10. @jbrooks:matrix.org (2)
  11. @meetbot:fedora.im (2)
  12. @asamalik:fedora.im (2)
  13. @nhanlon:beeper.com (1)
  14. @smilner:fedora.im (1)