2021-02-10 CF Governance Panel meeting

Attendees

Karl, Bryan, Jonathan, Daniel, Ethan

Agenda

• 2021 CF Workshop
• Review notes/actions from last meeting, 12 May 2020
• 2021 CF Workshop - organizing committee?
• New members for CF Committees
• Thoughts on GitHub process?
  • Standard Names process seems to be going well.
  • Still some work to do on GitHub process. Progress seems to have slowed.
    • Automatic build of docs
• Community health files (all three repos): CONTRIBUTING.md, SUPPORT.md, etc.
  • Should we (committees) try to increase engagement? How?
  • GitHub now has “Discussion” functionality
• AOB

Discussion

CF Workshop - organizing committee - same folks is OK, ask for volunteers on Discussion

• Ethan will ping Allison & David to invite volunteers. Daniel is also willing to participate, giving 4 potential initial members. Chair of the organising committee is TBD, and could be appointed by committee.

CF Committee membership

• Discussed possible nominations
• Also can ask for nominations?
• Ethan will ask for nominations (self nomination is fine) in new CF Discuss issue

CF Gov Panel

• Discussed possible new members
• Ethan will ask Ocean sensing and Hydrology folks
• We’ll discuss a candidate list via email and aim for one or two invitations …

GitHub process, community engagement

• Some issues are just complicated and people get worn out
• Interoperability Experiments: need real use cases
  • Who has an issue that this will solve
• Virtual Hackathons? Needs to be well organized
• Regular community virtual meeting to discuss open issues, etc.
  • Announce the intent, ask for topics

Review previous action items

• Karl: Work with committees to select new chair (once membership settles down?).
• Ethan: Ask Ocean Sensing and Hydrology folks for suggestions of community members for the CF Gov Panel.
• Ethan/Karl: Ask community for nominations for committee membership.

New Action items

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