2021-10 CentOS board meeting

Attendees

Board members

• Brian “bex” Exelbierd
• Thomas Oulevey
• Davide Cavalca
• Jim Perrin
• Tru Huynh
• Mike McLean
• Josh Boyer

Directors Absent

• Pat Riehecky
• Karanbir Singh
• Johnny Hughes

Guests

• Shaun McCance
• Matthias Runge
• Lance Albertson
• Brian Stinson
• Alfredo

** 22h05 **

Agenda

• Previous minutes
  • https://blog.centos.org/2021/09/minutes-for-centos-board-of-directors-for-2021-09-08/

On going discussion

• Nothing to report.

Issues

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

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

• None

New issues

• #63 CentOS Stream and Operate First (Unclear what action, if any, is needed here. Propose we close until there is an action requested.)
  • close issue and wait for concrete actions
• #45 CentOS variant artifacts (ISOs, disk images, etc.) branding (Draft was posted to https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2021-September/077326.html and there was, as far as I can tell, no comment from the community. Can we go ahead and get this published?)
  • Rich : publish as a policy
  • Decide where we can publish it. SIG documentation would be the right. MikeM: link with trademark guidelines.
  • Brian: SIGGuide wiki page would make sense
• #44 Remove former Directors from various accounts and permissions
  • https://git.centos.org/centos/board/blob/master/f/directors/onboarding
  • On going / no urgency but it needs to be completed for next election
• #27 Providing Official AMIs in Amazon CN regions.
• #03 Getting official CentOS images into Azure
  • no updates
  • Jim & Bex : it’s being worked on.
• #01 Shift Board to be more transparent in support of becoming a contributor-focused open source project
  • Closing this issue
  • Thomas: Write a blog post about the evolution in the past year with the point of view of new members
• #04 Definitive answer requested regarding logo design (This is currently in the hands of Brand. I was hoping to have some update before this meeting.)
  • Rich : Red Hat brand contacted, no definitive answer yet
  • 1/ Do we have to register a new brand ?
  • Can we use the new branding before 1/ is sorted out ?

Issues on hold

• None

Community Architect updates

• October CentOS Dojo update
  • Dojo very successful, more non-redhatter speakers for the first time.
• Upcoming events
  • All Things Open (Oct 17-19)
  • Supercomputing (November 14-19)
  • FOSDEM (Just announced, Feb 5-6 2022)
• Newsletter
  • https://blog.centos.org/2021/10/centos-community-newsletter-october-2021/
  • https://youtu.be/RD8ikDwS6yo
• Other awesome stuff happening
  • https://sigs.centos.org/
    • sigs.centos.org available thanks to Fabian.
  • New visual identity stuff (See https://www.dev.centos.org/)
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• Stream 9 launch promotion/marketing work - https://hackmd.io/RkOiWNmIQcWSubQ3emY0lg?edit
  • Publicity around Stream 9 ; let the world know that it exists.
  • centos-promo email to coordinate this effort.

SIG Reports

• Hyperscale SIG quarterly report
• Automotive SIG quarterly report
• Kmods SIG quarterly report
• Software Collections SIG quarterly report
• CPE Weekly Update, week of September 27th

AOB

• TBC

** Adjourned at 22h23 **