# 2022-02 CentOS board meeting

https://hackmd.io/@centosboard/Hk6S1bYAK

Zoom link : https://zoom.us/j/91739775683

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

# 2022-02 CentOS board meeting - Agenda

# Attendees

## Board members

* TBD
* Celeste Lyn Paul :heavy_check_mark:
* Amy Marrich :heavy_check_mark:
* Thomas Oulevey :heavy_check_mark:
* Tru Huynh :heavy_check_mark:
* Brian Exelbierd :heavy_check_mark:
* Pat Riehecky :heavy_check_mark:
* Davide Cavalca :heavy_check_mark:
* Josh Boyer :heavy_check_mark:
* Mike McLean :heavy_check_mark:

## Directors Absent

* Johnny Hughes

## Guests

* John R. Dennison
* Abdoul Aw
* Lance Albertson :heavy_check_mark:
* Rich Bowen :heavy_check_mark:
* Neal Gompa
* Matthias Runge :heavy_check_mark:
* Brian Stinson :heavy_check_mark:

# Agenda

* Previous minutes
* https://blog.centos.org/2022/01/january-2022-board-meeting-minutes/

### On going discussion

* Welcome to Amy Marrich and Celeste Lyn Paul

* "Usage of CentOS Logo for STACKIT Linux Servers" from Trademark mailing
* Any comment on this subject ?
* Should this transition to a ticket so we can get RH legal to answer in writing?
* Create a ticket
* https://www.centos.org/legal/trademarks/
* https://git.centos.org/centos/board/issue/77

* Date and Time of next Board Meeeting
* No complain on the 2nd Wednesday of the month and the timeslot so far ; please reply to the thread if you didn't yet. Trying to send few slots next week if there is a need to change it.
* Doodle poll?

* Elect new Chair
* Ranked choice via secret ballot?
* In theory this gives folks the ability to decline quietly if time/employeer prevents taking the role.
* Shaun and Thomas to manage the election before next meeting.

* Clarify CentOS errata policy
* Started something in https://hackmd.io/gpDt2S4aRrS9MsyXIBTY9g but need feedback
* IRC conversation about polkit, how to clarify the errata policy.
* ACTION: review draft and follow up at next board meeting.
* ACTION: Fill a ticket https://git.centos.org/centos/board/issue/78

### Issues

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

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

* None

**New issues**

* #76 Clarify license of CentOS specfiles
* Feedback needed from Bex / RH (Shaun)
* Clarify if MIT license like Fedora

**Opened issues**

* #72 cloud-ops/AWS
* wider group of people will receive those emails
* close ticket
* #71 Using the new brand word mark typeface with the old logo as a transitional measure
* https://gitlab.com/areguera/centos-brand/-/tree/v1-Montserrat work in progress
* #67 Trusting the SIGs by default, from a CentOS Project perspective (Secureboot)
* Brian is working on the proposal. Any news this month ?
* Brian: As of yesterday, two separate root of trust for distro and SIGs
* Red HAt Security on board with the proposal
* Ticket can be closed, implementation on the way.
* Follow progress on the infra side ?
* #45 CentOS variant artifacts (ISOs, disk images, etc.) branding
* https://git.centos.org/centos/sig-guide/pull-request/1 work in progress
* Merge it and close this ticket.

**Issues on hold**

* #03 Getting official CentOS images into Azure
* #04 Definitive answer requested regarding logo design
* #27 Providing Official AMIs in Amazon CN regions.

### Community Architect updates

* https://wiki.centos.org/Events/Dojo/FOSDEM2022
* Dojo went well - 89% of people showed-up
* Video are up
* Newsletter on its way
* Pull request for the website
* Dojo video
* C8 -> CS8
* Board office hours
* Thomas: New format ? Ask for question in advance or change the format, Q&A, remind people about ongoing discussion.

### SIG Reports

### AOB

* Kmod SIG chair (Jonathan Billings) did resign, extending our thanks for all the work done to bootstrap this SIG and wishing him the best for the future.
* Do we have a process for recording historical membership to ensure folks contribution/participation are credited?
* Former/Alumni member list
* Rich : There is board membership tracking in the board git repo. Possibly doing SIG membership tracking there too?
* ACTION: Pat to follow-up with ticket - https://git.centos.org/centos/board/issue/79
* Private email sent out to a bunch of folks pointing them here to discuss the ideas
* Talk to centos "docs SIG" to be sure to not miss translation / etc...

22h45

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