Board Minutes 2016-07-20

Attendees

• Karanbir Singh (chair)
• Jim Perrin
• Johnny Hughes
• Ralph Agnenendt
• Karsten Wade (sec’y)
• Mike McLean
• Tru Huynh

Regrets:

• Fabian Arrotin
• Carl Trieloff

Agenda & notes

• SIG proposals
• OSAS sysadmins to bring idea of curating Ansible content idea to Config Mgmt SIG
• SIG reports
• SIGs reporting frequently enough to the devel list, mostly business as usual
• SIG Guide
• Finish the guide, then go for more feedback
• JZB, Berkus, Bowen - have newer-eyes perspective

RH Summit report back

• SIG potentials
  • Zimbra, Kollab, etc. with Docker help?

• Karsten

  • Similar conversations as the past, just different ratios

• KB

  • Far fewer explaining, justifying
  • People interested in what we are doing, seen as part of the RH equation
  • Not much new engagement, certainly in the vendor space
  • Great to meet people, but existing relationships
  • Board openness
  • What does it matter? Cf. other strongly-led communities.
  • Publishing of non-private agenda
  • Report out to community (public-allowed minutes)
  • Public meetings on video (Hangout, Bluejeans published)
  • Public meetings on IRC (agenda + open floor)

Office hours

* KB’s are vendor focused, not community-contributor focused
* Desire for more documentation
* “Why are not doing this? Why is this this way?”
* Attracts people who won’t get on IRC/mail/forums
* Uses direct calls as well
* Current problem is contributor-based
* People not getting there is more than just Linux
* Berkus observation that there is an unactivated CentOS community at DockerCon
* What are we doing that enables people to better understand what we’re doing, where we’re going?

• Do people care?
  • People don’t want their bosses to know they are interested
  • The small people we’re trying to reach don’t attend MeetUps
  • People not at Red Hat are not announcing stuff from the project --
  • A small % of the potential audience might come along, increase engagement
  • Public input meetings v. having to meet people in person …

Paris Nov

• Have it as an interlock -- have people come talk to us, not a Dojo
• Show the SIG process

Venues

• Zeneca & Enovance office (no strings, middle of town, 40+ people)
• Enovance booked for 9th, 10th Nov

Agenda

• Two days of talks in the morning
• Lunch - 12:00 - 13:30
• Then special groups/focus areas within the larger room
• HPC, Web hosting, etc. -- face to face discussions
• Two sessions toward the end (after 3:30)
  • 15:30 - 16:30
  • 16:30 - 17:30
• Focus areas
  • Where are we going to be in each of these focus areas in X years?
  • Contributor discussion
  • Have people walk away knowing how to participate
  • Get other interesting people doing stuff - Cern, etc.
• Lightning sessions for an hour each day
• Increase casualness over the two-days with small group
• Having Leslie give a talk about ecosystem
• Board members also have 15 min in there
• Record everything
• 11th morning for Board meeting

Organization

Want to announce soon

Attendees

• Will get some of the RH eng folks using the platform
• Folks from the SIGs (Cloud, Storage, etc.)
• People interested in relationship building
• Walking away with content about what we do with CentOS Linux