# Board Minutes 2016-07-20

## Attendees

* Karanbir Singh (chair)

* Jim Perrin

* Johnny Hughes

* Ralph Agnenendt

* Karsten Wade (sec’y)

* Mike McLean

* Tru Huynh

## Regrets:

* Fabian Arrotin

* Carl Trieloff

## Agenda & notes

* SIG proposals

* OSAS sysadmins to bring idea of curating Ansible content idea to Config Mgmt SIG

* SIG reports

* SIGs reporting frequently enough to the devel list, mostly business as usual

* SIG Guide

* Finish the guide, then go for more feedback

* JZB, Berkus, Bowen - have newer-eyes perspective

## RH Summit report back

* SIG potentials

    * Zimbra, Kollab, etc. with Docker help?

* Karsten

    * Similar conversations as the past, just different ratios

* KB

    * Far fewer explaining, justifying

    * People interested in what we are doing, seen as part of the RH equation

    * Not much new engagement, certainly in the vendor space

    * Great to meet people, but existing relationships

    * Board openness

    * What does it matter? Cf. other strongly-led communities.

    * Publishing of non-private agenda

    * Report out to community (public-allowed minutes)

    * Public meetings on video (Hangout, Bluejeans published)

    * Public meetings on IRC (agenda + open floor)

# Office hours

    * KB’s are vendor focused, not community-contributor focused

    * Desire for more documentation

    * “Why are not doing this? Why is this this way?”

    * Attracts people who won’t get on IRC/mail/forums

    * Uses direct calls as well

    * Current problem is contributor-based

    * People not getting there is more than just Linux

    * Berkus observation that there is an unactivated CentOS community at DockerCon

    * What are we doing that enables people to better understand what we’re doing, where we’re going?

* Do people care?

    * People don’t want their bosses to know they are interested

    * The small people we’re trying to reach don’t attend MeetUps

    * People not at Red Hat are not announcing stuff from the project -- 

    * A small % of the potential audience might come along, increase engagement

    * Public input meetings v. having to meet people in person …

## Paris Nov

* Have it as an interlock -- have people come talk to us, not a Dojo

* Show the SIG process

### Venues

* Zeneca & Enovance office (no strings, middle of town, 40+ people)

* Enovance booked for 9th, 10th Nov

### Agenda

* Two days of talks in the morning

* Lunch - 12:00 - 13:30

* Then special groups/focus areas within the larger room

* HPC, Web hosting, etc. -- face to face discussions

* Two sessions toward the end (after 3:30)

    * 15:30 - 16:30

    * 16:30 - 17:30

* Focus areas

    * Where are we going to be in each of these focus areas in X years?

    * Contributor discussion

    * Have people walk away knowing how to participate

    * Get other interesting people doing stuff - Cern, etc.

* Lightning sessions for an hour each day

* Increase casualness over the two-days with small group

* Having Leslie give a talk about ecosystem

* Board members also have 15 min in there

* Record everything

* 11th morning for Board meeting

### Organization

Want to announce soon

### Attendees

* Will get some of the RH eng folks using the platform

* Folks from the SIGs (Cloud, Storage, etc.)

* People interested in relationship building

* Walking away with content about what we do with CentOS Linux