[TOC Meeting][Public] 2025-01-07

[mrbobbytables]

Host: @TheFoxAtWork
Note Taker: @angellk

Recurring Items

• LF Antitrust Policy
• Review Open Votes (REMINDER: Check both Issues AND PRs)
• Review & Assign projects in moving levels backlog
• Review TOC Work Board

Agenda

• Elections! TOC, CoCC
• Agenda building monthly
• KCCN Keynote for London - Abstract due Jan 31
• Sandbox meeting coming up - be ready!!
• DD backlog triaging for "ready to assign"

TOC Attendees:

• @TheFoxAtWork
• @angellk
• @rochaporto
• @dims
• @linsun
• @mauilion
• @kgamanji
• @kevin-wangzefeng
• @dzolotusky

[angellk]

Voting

• Code of Conduct Committee
  • one week voting window
• TOC
  • check in with Governing Board members if you have a member that is a good candidate
  • reach out in the TOC slack channel for questions and what it means to be on the TOC
  • notifications going out soon for candidates
  • candidates will need to certify they have time for the position
  • elections kick off after the new GB is seated
  • new TOC members seated latest March 4

Coming up:

• Sandbox Reviews next week!! Tuesday - 90 minute session
  • over 20 projects - please be prepared
• January 21 is a public meeting
• Last meeting in January is a private TOC meeting
• February 4 meeting - TAG Reboot/Restructure

Notes

• Keynote for EU
  • Topics?
  • Regional speakers?
  • [Saiyam] It should be talked about bit more and also from the TAGs and working groups what is the TOC seeing in terms of innovation and work happening.
  • [Bob] QR code for CTA
  • [Ricardo] Many people don't know what graduated/incubated/sandbox mean
  • [Katie] Gap in terms of definitions - maybe do a survey? Bigger story around levels - maybe a case study | maybe walk through from different perspectives
  • [Emily] walk through how a project moves through the levels - TOC should probably look at the documentation in the repo and simplify
  • TODO - @mrbobbytables work on a survey to the community about the levels
    • [Bob] won't get good results back
    • Discuss in a private TOC session
    • Have at Maintainer Summit and Project Pavilion
    • Add to Adopter interviews
    • TODO - @rochaporto create PR to add to adopter interviews
• Triage projects
  • https://github.com/cncf/toc/operations/dd-toc-guide.md
  • Projects WILL lose their place in line if the application is not ready
  • ** TODO** - @linsun to work with @mrbobbytables on a PR

[TheFoxAtWork]

TOC keynote - tech trends, new technologies coming in, specific projects, what the TAGs are seeing from projects and innovation happening in those groups. Where to find information when you need it, we have a lot of resources. We have a lot of new attendees so imparting what the levels means (not the process but something like sandbox is early, incubation some due diligence and where to find the DD). Thorough technical review reliance by adopters. What it means to be a CNCF Project. potentially leverage one or two projects to talk through.

[castrojo]

😄 Biased projects hat on:

It'd be nice to see contributor growth and sustainability weaved into it. Perhaps as a bookend when discussing the process parts. Over half the audience are brand new, the minutea of the details of each step isn't as impactful as the who and the why.

Then drop in some facts on the reasons why organizations are involved. Bob has all sorts of stats on the economic benefits of the orgs that are involved directly in the projects. That way we're targeting potential new contributors, but also reminding organizations that there are benefits by participating directly.

It doesn't need to be a long preachy thing, just a gentle reminder to the audience that that the dynamic between contributors, end users, and all the organizations involved working together in order to keep the ecosystem healthy.