Distro/irc20050830

• date: Aug 30, 2005
• checkin time: 7-7:15pm PDT -0700 (10-10:15pm EDT)
• meeting time 7:15pm PDT -0700 (10:15pm EDT)
• meet in irc.freenode.net #freegeek-distro

Agenda

unfinished items from last meeting:

• freekbox3 packaging:
  • building new freekbox3 packages [1]
  • new freekbox3 package archive possibilities:
    • mini-dinstall
    • reprepro
    • built by hand, but similar structure to "regular" debian archive

ongoing items:

• user-oriented-design
• Prognosis: how is this project looking?
• Long-term outlook - including definition of objectives, estimation of required work, and timeline
• hosting our own popularity-contest server
• trimming a multi-profile Install CD
• svn repository with trac interface
  • who still needs access?
  • target cut-off date for cvs? 1 month?

new items:

• frequency of irc meetings (do we want to stick with weekly meetings?)
• media player options: vlc, xine
• where to put irc meeting logs, agenda and notes

commitments from last meeting:

• skippy
  • research popularity-contest server
  • svn import

• meho_pdx
  • provide tarball of cvs for svn import

• vagrant
  • general guidelines for "how to play nice with version control"
  • post package removal suggestions for freekbox3/freekbox3-gnome

• tymp (= baxrob)
  • read freekbox3 manual to gauge impacts of freekbox3-fgoly suggestions

• everybody
  • read enrico zini's zen-paper on user-oriented-design

• anybody
  • look for similar themes in current personae, drop inappropriate debian-np personae