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Focus Meeting Minutes 5-23-2008

Agenda:

  1. Focus Meeting
  2. In Development
    1. 2.02 Release
    2. Updated Packages
    3. Live Images
  3. Foresight Future Development
    1. Single CD
    2. Packages / software stack
    3. FL-1380
  4. Security updates
  5. Marketing
    1. Marketing Meeting
    2. Linux Format
Focus Meeting
  • Focus meetings will continue to be held on Fridays at 9 a.m. EST
  • The decision was made to open the meeting to all community members and hold the meeting on Freenode IRC in #foresight-council
  • Agendas will be published no later than Noon CST the Thursday before the meeting
  • Closed sessions could be held in the future after the open meeting to discuss OEM opportunities for example
In Development
  •  2.25.x kernel in 2-QA, needs to be pushed to fl:2 soon
  • New kernel fixes live images.  Ken needs to follow up on extra flavor possibly needed.  Lower priority.
  • Mono stack rebuilt and pushed to 2-qa
  • New GDM in 2-qa
  • NetworkManager should be mush more stable
  • gxti continues to work on a caching appliance for PackageKit
  • 2.02 ISOs to be released next week / end of May
Future Development
  • Single CD ISO
    • Had to remove OOo and locales
    • Need to follow up with Elliot on LiveCD Installer
  • Feature parity with other distributions including bluetooth, hunspell and Java
  • Encrypted filesystem
  • Reduce group cook time to ~40 minutes
  • FL-1380:  Creating a kick ass desktop
    • Foresight continues to focus on the user in creating an easy to use next generation desktop
    • New themes / panels and desktop interaction for the user
    • Faster boot time
    • PackageKit development
Security Team
  • Security team space set up on the wiki
  • Need to work with smithj on documenting security release process and announcements
    • Minor security updates have slipped through
  • Need to reach out to Up2 to help coordinate with rpl security updates
Marketing
  • Marketing meeting scheduled for Thursday, May 29th by Kevin
  • Linux Format magazine (Europe) had a great write-up on Foresight in the latest issue
    • 2 page review with screenshots
    • Included on DVD
    • "One of the most promising distros around"
    • Paul to follow up with them to try and get copies