# 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`