Today's Meeting: 2300 UTC 8th May

[Max Spevack]

On Thu, 8 May 2008, Jonathan Roberts wrote:

> I hope this is OK and doesn't inconvenience too many people. With the 
> release coming up, we've plenty of time to get our heads around what 
> we want to do before we'll be able to make any large changes, so 
> there's no rush. Let's just keep making good, steady progress :)

Ok, I'm glad we have a meeting time set-up for today, so let's talk a 
little bit about the flow of this meeting in particular.

Unfortunately, I will be unable to attend, since I am giving a talk 
about Fedora and Red Hat community building to the Triangle Linux User 
Group tonight at exactly the same time as the meeting.

JonRob, can you run today's meeting in my place?

Here is my recommended agenda and vision:

1) Let ricky spend 5 or 10 minutes giving everyone an update on all the 
websites stuff for fedora9.  Maybe it won't even take that long, because 
everything is more or less good to go at this point, but it's worth a 
quick check-in.

2) Continue the discussion around the future plans for the work that the 
websites team wants to do.

I'd like to frame the discussion, once again, around the idea of 
splitting our efforts into a few different groups that proceed in 
parallel, and I envision future meetings turning into opportunities for 
each of these sub-groups (which will probably share some members) having 
opportunities to report in.


THE LOOK AND FEEL GROUP
=======================
This is a group of contributors whose interest and expertise is in 
making the Fedora family of websites look and feel consistent.  Tasks 
for this group include:

1) coming up with a unifying CSS and look/feel for all Fedora sites.

2) working with the art team as necessary.

3) <Your suggestions here>


THE INFRASTRUCTURE GROUP
========================
This is a group of contributors whose interest and expertise is in the 
process of running a variety of websites, and in making sure that we 
have a good way of keeping content updated.  Tasks for this group 
include:

1) working with the Infrastructure team, and making sure that we have 
processes and procedures that are as light as possible while still 
giving us a consistent way to push updates and keep our content correct.

2) maintaining a list of all fedora-owned domains and subdomains (like 
fp.o, fedorahosted.org, spins.fedoraproject.org), or "major fedora web 
applications" (like the wiki or FAS).

3) <Your suggestions here>


THE CONTENT GROUP
=================
This is the group of people whose interest and expertise is in the 
actual content of our websites.

1) Work with the marketing team on the strategic messages that we want 
to send in different places of our web portfolio.  Is it text, video, 
podcasts, etc?

2) Determine *where* the best destination for that content is.  Keep in 
mind opportunities to work with Red Hat Magazine as well.

3) <Your suggestions here>.


THE SPINS.FP.O GROUP
====================
The major engineering endeavor that I think we need to begin thinking 
about is how to build a web app that can be a useful spins inventory, 
repository, and acquisition mechanism.

1) Design.

2) Prototype.

3) Implement.

This is going to require some recruitment of other volunteers, as it is 
an honest-to-god engineering endeavor that needs to be run in the same 
was as any other Fedora Feature is.

--Max