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From: rbowen <rbowen@rcbowen.com>
Date: Aug 18 2021 15:01:15 +0000
Subject: august 2021 board meeting


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+# 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`
+