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Minutes for CentOS Board of Directors for 2021-06-09

Tuesday, 6, July 2021 Rich Bowen Board minutes No Comments

Quorum and started at :09 Attendees Board Johnny Pat Mike Rich  Jim bex Thomas (secretary) Tru KB Guests Davide Cavalca Matthias Runge Aoife Brian Rich Amy Marrich Started 22:09 Quick review of pending issues with Red Hat around the announcement Status of additional RHEL programs for Academic ? (bex) Bex: no formal announcement, redesign existing […]

CentOS Community Newsletter, July 2021

Tuesday, 6, July 2021 Rich Bowen Newsletter 5 Comments

Dear CentOS Enthusiasts, Here's what's happening in our community over the past month. CentOS Stream 9 is open for contribution: Container images and a note about new composes We've been working on producing more artifacts for CentOS Stream 9, those can be found at the composes location: https://composes.stream.centos.org You'll notice a few directories under there, […]

Kmods SIG quarterly report

Thursday, 1, July 2021 Rich Bowen SIG No Comments

Purpose Packaging and maintaining kernel modules for CentOS Stream. Membership Update The SIG elected Peter Georg and Jonathan Billings as co-chairs. No SIG members have been added since the SIG has been approved (June 9th). New Packages No packages have been released yet. Health and Activity The Kmods SIG has been approved recently. So far […]

CentOS IRC migration complete

Friday, 25, June 2021 Rich Bowen Uncategorized No Comments

This is a followup to our earlier post regarding CentOS' move to the Libera IRC network. Thanks primarily to the efforts of John "Bahhumbug" and our other IRC ops, the move has been completed, and all channels have been moved from Freenode to irc.Libera.chat, complete with the topics, bots, access lists, and supporting documentation. Note […]

CentOS Board welcomes new directors

Wednesday, 9, June 2021 Rich Bowen announcement No Comments

The CentOS Board of Directors is delighted to welcome two new directors - Davide Cavalca and Josh Boyer - to the Board. Please join us in welcoming them, and thanking them for their willingness to dedicate some of their time to the endeavor of steering the CentOS Project. Once again, we thank outgoing directors Karsten […]

CentOS Community Newsletter, June 2021

Tuesday, 8, June 2021 Rich Bowen Newsletter No Comments

(Yes, we're a little late this month. Sorry about that.) Dear CentOS Enthusiasts, Here's what's happening around the CentOS community lately. CentOS Linux 8.4 Released We are pleased to announce the general availability of the latest version of CentOS Linux 8. Effective immediately, this is the current release for CentOS Linux 8 and is tagged […]

SIG experience feedback

Friday, 21, May 2021 Rich Bowen Uncategorized No Comments

Thank you to everyone who responded to my call for feedback on the SIG process. A few people responded on-list. More people responded off-list. I’ve summarized common complaints, and in a few cases provided comments verbatim - especially when they already went to a public list. Please see the centos-devel mailing list for further discussion […]

CentOS IRC channels moving to irc.libera.chat

Wednesday, 19, May 2021 Rich Bowen Uncategorized 1 Comment

TL;DR: #centos and #centos-* are moving to libera.chat Over the past few days, there has been some upheaval on the Frenode IRC network, resulting in a number of the staff members quitting and starting a new IRC network. I don't wish to explain all the details here, but you can read more at https://kline.sh which […]

CPE is hiring

Wednesday, 5, May 2021 Rich Bowen announcement No Comments

The Community Platform Engineering group, or CPE for short, is the Red Hat team combining IT and release engineering from Fedora and CentOS. Our goal is to keep core servers and services running and maintained, build releases, and other strategic tasks that need more dedicated time than volunteers can give. See our wiki page here […]

CentOS Community Newsletter, May 2021 (#2105)

Tuesday, 4, May 2021 Rich Bowen Newsletter No Comments

Hello, friends, It's been another busy month in the CentOS Project, so we'll get straight to the news: CentOS Stream News Last week, Brian Stinson announced some updates on the progress towards CentOS Stream 9 on the centos-devel mailing list. This included the availability of Stream 9 packages on Gitlab, and a koji instance where […]