From b60903ce3c33dd82af1ced1c9438234b8c6a4cb1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rbowen Date: Aug 18 2021 15:01:15 +0000 Subject: august 2021 board meeting --- diff --git a/meetings/2021/2021-08-11.md b/meetings/2021/2021-08-11.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c9e6ddc --- /dev/null +++ b/meetings/2021/2021-08-11.md @@ -0,0 +1,133 @@ +# 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` +