# 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