# 2024-09 CentOS board meeting

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# 2024-09 CentOS board meeting - Agenda

# Attendees

## Board members

* Troy Dawson
* Pat Riehecky
* Thomas Oulevey
* Amy Marrich
* Johnny Hughes
* Davide Cavalca
* Josh Boyer (RH Liaison)
* Mike McLean
* Shaun McCance
* Jefro Osier-Mixon

## Directors Absent

* None

## Guests

* Lance Albertson
* lp seem ? Lukasz
* Brendan Conoboy
* benny Vasquez
* Brian Stinson
* Abdoul Aw
* Carlos Rodriguez-Fernandez

# Agenda

* Previous minutes
* https://hackmd.io/H1VvHAE_Qpyhm_3UU87Rnw

## On going discussion

* Quick update from Brendan on coordination from last meeting
* 3 weeks since last meeting, 3 way meeting between rhel,fedora and centos to be setup. More news coming next month, people are very positive about the initiative.

## Issues

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

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

**New issues**

* None

**Issues on hold**

* [#126 Charter the SIG Council](https://git.centos.org/centos/board/issue/126)
* Update from Brian
* Merge request ongoing, SIG governance still link to old wiki. Opportunity to move the content (SIG governance page, etc...)
* Follow up with Josh
* Davide: Secure boot is an element of this, but a sub project of the SIG Council rather than its focus
* [#67 Trusting the SIGs by default, from a CentOS Project perspective (Secureboot)](https://git.centos.org/centos/board/issue/67)
* First activity of the SiG Council to make sure we have the right security in place
* No technical blocker, work ongoing
* Brian to update the ticket
* [#114 Create a new Centos Legacy mirror in Norway](https://git.centos.org/centos/board/issue/114)
* [#113 CentOS Stream 9 Mirror request](https://git.centos.org/centos/board/issue/113)
* Get opinion from legal (centos trademark)
* Contact the mirror
* Implication of fully managing hw or the domain
* do we "licence" the trademark to servers for this?
* Johnny The current model forsees servers fully managed by Fabian / Infra team
* Take decision and document the output for future cases
* #action Update the trademark page

## Community Architect updates

* CentOS Showcase virtual event, Nov 11? (Planning around Fedora)
* Finalizing date, lots of Nov activities: kubecon / federal holidays / US voting
* CentOS Connect, many hotels already booked, but conversations are happening
* In progress
* Fosdem : Feb 1st & 2nd 2025
* Connect : Thu/Fri before ? Wed/Thu to widen our venue options ?
* Flock video are up (reupload was needed)
* Git repo to upload slides : https://gitlab.com/CentOS/promo/centos-events

## SIG Reports

* None

## AOB

* CentOS Stream 10
* Thomas: Do we want to advertise a Stream 10 rough timeline ?
* Organize a test day (extended to SIGs, connected with showcase ?) improve docs at the same time ? blog post ? Website Stream landing page/Downloads ?
* Timeline for elections
* Sep 30th deadline for applicants
* Then check if applicant willing to serve
* ~ Oct 4th + few days to cast the votes

###### tags: `agenda`