+ # 2021-08 CentOS board meeting

+ 

+ https://hackmd.io/@centosboard/rkrO4zllY

+ 

+ Zoom link : https://zoom.us/j/99070797372

+ 

+ Passcode will be sent to participants and guests the day the meeting takes place.

+ 

+ # 2021-08 CentOS board meeting - Agenda

+ 

+ # Attendees

+ 

+ ## Board members

+ 

+ * Pat Riehecky

+ * Brian Exelbierd

+ * Davide Cavalca

+ * Johnny Hughes

+ * Jim Perrin

+ * Mike McLean

+ * Rich Bowen (Chair)

+ * Thomas Oulevey (Secretary)

+ 

+ ## Directors Absent

+ 

+ * Josh Boyer

+ * Tru Huyhn

+ * Karanbir Singh

+ 

+ ## Guests

+ 

+ * Neal Gompa

+ * Kris Knigga

+ * Jack Aboutboul

+ * Lance Albertson

+ * Jonathan Billings

+ * Brian Stinson

+ * Carl

+ * Glenn Cooper

+ * Peter Georg

+ * Jefro Osier-Mixon

+ 

+ **Quorum at 22:05**

+ 

+ # Agenda

+ * Previous minutes

+  https://blog.centos.org/2021/07/centos-board-of-directors-minutes-2021-07-14/

+ * Any Comments ?

+ * Davide: Status of the meeting to discuss with community the outcome of this meeting minutes 1 week after the board meeting.

+ * ACTION: Rich to follow up on IRC meeting (Note: Planned for Wednesday the 18th of August at 14h00 UTC )

+  

+ ### On going discussion

+ 

+ * Quick review of pending issues with Red Hat around the announcement of C8 EoL

+    * Blog post published: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/expanding-red-hat-enterprise-linux-choices-research-and-academia 

+    Discussion can be now closed.

+ 

+ ### Issues

+ 

+ https://git.centos.org/centos/board/issues

+ 

+ **Issues to be closed (ACTION close all of them if no objection)**

+ 

+ **New issues**

+ 

+ * #06 Red Hat majority seat contradiction in governance

+     * Required Red Hat employees to have 50 % of the seats

+     * Motion to remove this requirement 

+     * Approved unanonymously

+     * ACTION: update the website with this change

+ 

+ * #45 CentOS variant artifacts (ISOs, disk images, etc.) branding

+     * Draft messaging at https://hackmd.io/pPixYTZ8QmyJcjoJq_V9dA

+     * Thomas: important to handle the lifecycle, changes committed to the document

+     * Neal: discussed how Fedora is handling Spin 

+     * ACTION: Draft message and post it to centos-devel for community comment.

+ 

+ * #44 Remove former Directors from various accounts and permissions

+     * Davide : Document different accesses 

+     * Johnny : Check with infrastructure team if needed to remove specific accesses.

+     * Davide : Add a note on the onboarding document

+         * https://git.centos.org/centos/board/blob/master/f/directors/onboarding

+ 

+ * #27 Providing Official AMIs in Amazon CN regions.

+     * Sponsored by David Duncan

+     * ACTION: sync with David and infrastructure team.

+ 

+ * #22 Draft all recent governance changes or ideas for Board discussion

+     * Draft has been posted at https://centos.org/about/governance/board/

+     * Announced: https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2021-July/077172.html

+     * No comment from the community

+     * Amy Marrich has volunteered to help with ongoing edits

+     * Related: #06

+ 

+ * #03 Getting official CentOS images into Azure

+     * Take down cloud images that violate our trademark (requested to Legal team). 

+         * It will be tracked in a specific issue to avoid to add to this ticket. 

+         * Issues #56, #61, #62 track individual images

+     * Add official images

+         * Jack proposed to help with this task (investigate Azure tools such as https://github.com/microsoft/lisa)

+ )

+     * ACTION: Move forward with the requirement / track progress 

+ 

+ * #01 Shift Board to be more transparent in support of becoming a contributor-focused open source project

+     * Some progress has been made! (This meeting!)

+     * Are there other processes that we can make more transparent? Community can raise specific items on this issue.

+ 

+ **Issues on hold**

+ 

+ * #04 Definitive answer requested regarding logo design

+     * Johnny: talk to the designer and is ready to resume discussion around the logo. 

+     * Johnny: Not a critical issue if the logo is kept relevant and reminds the existing one.

+     * Neal: Current branding is problematic to decline the logo for different use-cases. He Hopes to have more assets and a more polished brand.

+     * Pat: Better and free fonts would make sense for an opensource project. 

+     * A Proposal should be available prior to next board meeting

+     * ACTION: Resume work on the branding

+ 

+ 

+ ### Community Architect updates

+ 

+ * Dojo CFP still open (4 submissions so far) - https://wiki.centos.org/Events/Dojo/October2021

+ * Newsletter: https://blog.centos.org/2021/08/centos-community-newsletter-august-2021/

+ * Presence expected at Open Source Summit (Sept 27-29, Seattle) and All Things Open (October 18-20)

+ 

+ ### AOB

+ 

+  * Mike : Work on CentOS branded protection masks for All Things Open and Open Source Summit

+  * ACTION: No objection, Rich will follow-up

+ 

+ **Adjourned at 22:43**

+ 

+ ###### tags: `agenda`, `minutes`

+