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
  • 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)
  • 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
• #113 CentOS Stream 9 Mirror request
  • 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

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