Minutes for CentOS Board of Directors for 2021-08-11

(Video of the meeting is available on YouTube.)

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 George
• 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/
  • Davide: Status of the meeting to discuss with the community the outcome of this meeting, 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)

• none

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 unanimously
  * 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 the 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**