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