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# 2021-08 CentOS board meeting
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https://hackmd.io/@centosboard/rkrO4zllY
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Zoom link : https://zoom.us/j/99070797372
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Passcode will be sent to participants and guests the day the meeting takes place.
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# 2021-08 CentOS board meeting - Agenda
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# Attendees
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## Board members
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* Pat Riehecky
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* Brian Exelbierd
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* Davide Cavalca
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* Johnny Hughes
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* Jim Perrin
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* Mike McLean
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* Rich Bowen (Chair)
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* Thomas Oulevey (Secretary)
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## Directors Absent
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* Josh Boyer
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* Tru Huyhn
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* Karanbir Singh
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## Guests
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* Neal Gompa
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* Kris Knigga
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* Jack Aboutboul
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* Lance Albertson
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* Jonathan Billings
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* Brian Stinson
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* Carl
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* Glenn Cooper
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* Peter Georg
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* Jefro Osier-Mixon
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**Quorum at 22:05**
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# Agenda
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* Previous minutes
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 https://blog.centos.org/2021/07/centos-board-of-directors-minutes-2021-07-14/
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* Any Comments ?
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* Davide: Status of the meeting to discuss with community the outcome of this meeting minutes 1 week after the board meeting.
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* ACTION: Rich to follow up on IRC meeting (Note: Planned for Wednesday the 18th of August at 14h00 UTC )
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### On going discussion
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* Quick review of pending issues with Red Hat around the announcement of C8 EoL
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   * Blog post published: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/expanding-red-hat-enterprise-linux-choices-research-and-academia 
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   Discussion can be now closed.
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### Issues
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https://git.centos.org/centos/board/issues
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**Issues to be closed (ACTION close all of them if no objection)**
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**New issues**
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* #06 Red Hat majority seat contradiction in governance
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    * Required Red Hat employees to have 50 % of the seats
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    * Motion to remove this requirement 
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    * Approved unanonymously
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    * ACTION: update the website with this change
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* #45 CentOS variant artifacts (ISOs, disk images, etc.) branding
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    * Draft messaging at https://hackmd.io/pPixYTZ8QmyJcjoJq_V9dA
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    * Thomas: important to handle the lifecycle, changes committed to the document
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    * Neal: discussed how Fedora is handling Spin 
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    * ACTION: Draft message and post it to centos-devel for community comment.
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* #44 Remove former Directors from various accounts and permissions
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    * Davide : Document different accesses 
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    * Johnny : Check with infrastructure team if needed to remove specific accesses.
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    * Davide : Add a note on the onboarding document
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        * https://git.centos.org/centos/board/blob/master/f/directors/onboarding
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* #27 Providing Official AMIs in Amazon CN regions.
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    * Sponsored by David Duncan
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    * ACTION: sync with David and infrastructure team.
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* #22 Draft all recent governance changes or ideas for Board discussion
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    * Draft has been posted at https://centos.org/about/governance/board/
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    * Announced: https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2021-July/077172.html
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    * No comment from the community
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    * Amy Marrich has volunteered to help with ongoing edits
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    * Related: #06
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* #03 Getting official CentOS images into Azure
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    * Take down cloud images that violate our trademark (requested to Legal team). 
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        * It will be tracked in a specific issue to avoid to add to this ticket. 
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        * Issues #56, #61, #62 track individual images
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    * Add official images
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        * Jack proposed to help with this task (investigate Azure tools such as https://github.com/microsoft/lisa)
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)
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    * ACTION: Move forward with the requirement / track progress 
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* #01 Shift Board to be more transparent in support of becoming a contributor-focused open source project
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    * Some progress has been made! (This meeting!)
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    * Are there other processes that we can make more transparent? Community can raise specific items on this issue.
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**Issues on hold**
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* #04 Definitive answer requested regarding logo design
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    * Johnny: talk to the designer and is ready to resume discussion around the logo. 
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    * Johnny: Not a critical issue if the logo is kept relevant and reminds the existing one.
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    * Neal: Current branding is problematic to decline the logo for different use-cases. He Hopes to have more assets and a more polished brand.
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    * Pat: Better and free fonts would make sense for an opensource project. 
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    * A Proposal should be available prior to next board meeting
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    * ACTION: Resume work on the branding
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### Community Architect updates
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* Dojo CFP still open (4 submissions so far) - https://wiki.centos.org/Events/Dojo/October2021
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* Newsletter: https://blog.centos.org/2021/08/centos-community-newsletter-august-2021/
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* Presence expected at Open Source Summit (Sept 27-29, Seattle) and All Things Open (October 18-20)
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### AOB
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 * Mike : Work on CentOS branded protection masks for All Things Open and Open Source Summit
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 * ACTION: No objection, Rich will follow-up
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**Adjourned at 22:43**
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###### tags: `agenda`, `minutes`
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