# 2022-01-26 - coreboot Leadership
Attendees: Felix Singer, Jay Talbott, Werner Zeh, Tim Crawford,
Patrick Georgi, Stefan Reinauer, David Hendricks, Eric Peers, Felix
Held, Martin Roth, Daniel Maslowski, j. redpath, Christian Walter, Ron
Minnich
Agenda / Minutes
* [Felix S.] flashrom is looking for mentors
*
[https://mail.coreboot.org/hyperkitty/list/flash...@flashrom.org/thread/VADY53T6C445HEESXQKFCOI6OSFNJLER/](https://mail.coreboot.org/hyperkitty/list/flash...@flashrom.org/thread/VADY53T6C445HEESXQKFCOI6OSFNJLER/)
* Looking for mentors. If someone is interested in being a mentor,
please respond to this mail mentioned above and also send a copy to
Anastasia K. [a...@chromium.org](mailto:a...@chromium.org).
* homepage.git: who should be able to set Verified+1 there?
* Right now, only Stefan, Patrick and Martin can.
* We could extend this to an existing Gerrit group, e.g. users who
can submit coreboot changes, or create a new Gerrit group with this
specific permission.
* Patrick is created [a new
group](https://review.coreboot.org/admin/groups/2a680d10d3cdc6990a84d68d1aa2e5413d3cb071)
* Inherits the “Core Developers” group (those with submit
rights to coreboot)
* Allows adding more website maintainers who are not coreboot
submitters easily
* [Felix S.] coreboot GSoC participation
*
[https://mail.coreboot.org/hyperkitty/list/coreboot@coreboot.org/thread/PGKTAPC3UEPG722JBUBZYIQQ2UZSGRNA](https://mail.coreboot.org/hyperkitty/list/coreboot@coreboot.org/thread/PGKTAPC3UEPG722JBUBZYIQQ2UZSGRNA/)
* Looking for projects and mentors (see the email above)
* [Jay T.] CAR layout for Xeon SP
* workaround implemented in coreboot:
[https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/61164](https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/61164)
* SysPro and 9esec collaborating on solution and discussing with Intel
* LVFS
* Suggesting to provide coreboot for older/no longer supported
(EOL) devices (postmarket) as an alternative on LVFS
*
[https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/wiki/LVFS-Community-Meeting-2022-01-28](https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/wiki/LVFS-Community-Meeting-2022-01-28)
* Should coreboot.org ship binaries?
* No.
* Probably best left to folks like Mr. Chromebox
* Who would do Lenovo support? Libreboot et al ship binaries
* Could make things easier for certain projects like Heads that
already use coreboot.
* Werner: Instability with eMMC devices
* Need initialization, seems to be in scope for coreboot
* ITRenew server heading for Martin still not there
* Martin is ready (space, cables, …)
* [New videoconferencing system?](#bookmark=id.ehzxgz9a1ta0)
* Google changed policy to require Googler to allow access for
Googler-initiated meeting.
* Public version? 1 hour limit? Number of people?
* coreboot account?
* This seems problematic, but can be worked. It’s free
for non-profits, but the SFC is the non-profit, not coreboot.
* OSFF’s google meet?
* BigBlueButton worked relatively well for most people, though
some still seemed to have issues.
* Matt - BBB did a poor job of filtering background noise.
Not as good from an audio perspective.
* Felix - same. Audio is much better in google meet.
* Probably no
* Jitsi
* Tested [https://meet.jit.si/](https://meet.jit.si/) Limits:
100 ppl is free limit
* [http://meet.coreboot.org](http://meet.coreboot.org) now exists, too.
* Jitsi performed very well compared to all the other open
source solutions that we’ve used.
* Unfortunately it flopped in the buildbot discussion on
Dec. 8 with only 8-10 participants
(https://meet.coreboot.org/BuildbotJenkinsReplacement)
* Does this work with firefox?
* Firefox worked well compared to a couple of years ago.
* In the vpub, we ran into a jitsi issue where some people
couldn’t hear each other.
* Downside: no phone bridges. If we had one or several SIP
servers people can call into, we could hook it up (add-on feature on
meet.jit.si but available OOTB for custom installs like
meet.coreboot.org)
* Audio propagation issues on meet.coreboot.org
* Should we change videoconferencing systems for the leadership
meeting or not?
* Ron: projects keep trying to switch and keep coming back to meet.
* Not urgent. If Meet gets too aggravating, waiting to join,
we can decide at that point.
* We're not going to change now. Meet gives consistently good
audio and video quality even with a large number of people. We need
to choose the defects, and can look again if we get fed up with google
meet.
* New social media accounts:
*
[https://mastodon.technology/@coreboot](https://mastodon.technology/@coreboot)
*
[https://mastodon.technology/@flashrom](https://mastodon.technology/@flashrom)
* People who want to help promote them, reach out to Felix S. or Patrick G.
* Decision making at flashrom
* Project should get some structure, not on how the code is being
managed but everything around it (e.g. Twitter accounts), who
volunteers to reach out to folks?
# Notice
Decisions shown here are not necessarily final, and are based
on the current information available. If there are questions or comments
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Of course items may also be discussed on the mailing list, but as it's
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do not have good progress in those discussions. For particularly
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