2022-10 CentOS board meeting

https://hackmd.io/@centosboard/SyMqYK24K

Zoom link : https://zoom.us/j/99567225678

Passcode will be sent to participants and guests the day the meeting takes place.

Attendees

Board members

• Davide
• Pat
• Thomas
• Shaun
• Bex
• Josh
• Mike
• Amy
• Celeste
• Jefro

Directors Absent

• Johnny

Guests

• Betty Liu
• Ning Yanran
• Lance Alberston
• Peter Georg
• Neal Gompa
• Jack Aboutboul

Agenda

• Previous minutes
  • https://hackmd.io/7HhzmSXhSqGMHva3FPCf6Q

On going discussion

• Event name change to be more Inclusive
  • Suggestions:
    • Connect
    • Jam (translation issues?)
    • Sync (with Async for Newsletter or Roundup)
    • Link
    • Fair
  • [ACTION - Shaun] Open suggestion for a week in diverse channels
• Follow up of the F2F Action Items
  • Improve onboarding docs for new contributors and projects
    • [ACTION - Amy create issue]
  • SIG and Governance clean up
    • doc discussion to be summarized - centos-devel thread
    • Contact SIGs and get feedback about their issue and handle case by case.
  • Vision Statement
    • More time needed for review
  • Mascot Discussions
    • Check with the design/marketing team. Alain ?
• Logo Use Request from 1 Und 1
  • Revamping the guideline
  • Partner may be a no-go
  • No update
• Logo Use Request from ARM
  • trademark mailing list
  • Mike: In general, not granting written permission ; just pointing to the trademark Guideline.
  • Bex: Open a small windows to legal to be able to comment
  • Side point : Need to improve the guideline
    • sync up with Fedora guidelines, why should they be different?
• New SiG proposals
  • #86 Proposal for CentOS China SIG
    • Suggest networking with Promo SIG
  • #87 Proposal for Alternate Images SIG
    • Approved, let follow up what need to be done in the ticket to move forward.

Issues

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

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

• #27 Providing Official AMIs in Amazon CN regions. - Closed

New issues

• None

Ongoing issues

• #67 Trusting the SIGs by default, from a CentOS Project perspective (Secureboot)
• #79 Recording historical SIG membership
• #82 Clarifications and open questions concerning the possibility of SIGs creating content for RHEL
• #83 Clarify legal aspects in our governance docs
• #85 Vision Statement

Issues on hold

• #03 Getting official CentOS images into Azure
• #80 CentOS Stream9 in WSL

Community Architect updates

• Need to make decision on FOSDEM Dojo, non-refundable
  • Proceed
• Application for distros devroom is going in, thanks to Vipul
• Working on work plan for revamping websites: https://hackmd.io/@shaunm/ByGfAzfbs
• Status of reviewing SIGs
• Doing a booth at OLF (feel free to join), Dec 2-3
• Do we want to have a booth at SCaLE? March 9-12
• Let's talk about Discourse (but probably talk more widely)

SIG Reports

AOB

• TBC

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