# Governance Meeting, March 4, 2024

**URL:** <https://community.jenkins.io/t/governance-meeting-march-4-2024/13041>\
**Category:** Community\
**Tags:** governance\
**Created:** [March 5, 2024, 8:37am UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/governance-meeting-march-4-2024/13041 "2024-03-05T08:37:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 5, 2024, 8:37am UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/governance-meeting-march-4-2024/13041/1 "2024-03-05T08:37:19Z")

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# March 4, 2024

[![](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/jenkins/original/2X/1/13be273fadf3a26763780e21e12cbe8e1b95a5e1.jpeg "Jenkins Governance Meeting March 04, 2024") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nBF4OofJak)

## Attendees 👥

- @NotMyFault (Alexander Brandes)
- @uhafner (Ullrich Hafner)
- @gounthar (Bruno Verachten)
- @basil (Basil Crow)

## Upcoming Calendar 📆

- Next weekly release: 2.448
- Next LTS: 2.440.2, March 20, 2024
  - RC is ready to be tested
  - Jakarta Mail changes might break some things (release notes will show details)

- Next major events:
  - [Southern California Linux Expo](https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x) (SCaLE 20x) March 14-17, 2024
    - Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, CA, USA
    - Jenkins project will have a booth at the conference
    - Alyssa Tong, Mark Waite, and Basil Crow plan to attend

  - [cdCon 2024](https://cd.foundation/cdcon-2024/) April 16-18, 2024
    - Co-located with [Open Source Summit North America](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/) in Seattle, WA, USA
    - Mark Waite plans to attend

## Agenda

### News

- Jenkins has been accepted to Google Summer of Code 2024, see [Blog post](https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2024/02/23/gsoc2024-announcement/) from Alyssa Tong
  - Proposols to be sent by end of March

- Final nominations for the Jenkins awards are available. These awards recognize contributions from individuals in the community and the progress made in the name of Jenkins. Nominated candidates are:
  - Most Valuable Jenkins Advocate:
    - Alexander Brandes
    - Bruno Verachten
    - Darin Pope
    - Kris Stern

  - Most Valuable Jenkins Contributor:
    - Basil Crow
    - Daniel Beck
    - Kris Stern
    - Stefan Spieker
    - Tim Jacomb
    - Ullrich Hafner

  - Jenkins Security MVP:
    - Alvaro Muñoz
    - Yaniv Nizry

  - [Voting](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScUHeNX-4H5jboVo6nRxo0-JtMiA8pLvMq2VkNYceax4frHPQ/viewform) is possible until March 22, 2024

### Action Items

- Basil create the attribution entries for the downloads page
  - Jenkins sponsors have changed
  - Draft PR is almost ready for review at: [Add a Sponsors page by basil · Pull Request #6882 · jenkins-infra/jenkins.io · GitHub](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/jenkins.io/pull/6882)

- Kevin Martens retire the Chinese Jenkins site
  - Mark needs to do more Kubernetes setup, then Kevin and Mark will meet with Damien
  - More work after FOSDEM

### Community activity

- Contributor summit results: [Blog post](https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2024/02/28/jenkins-contributor-summit-and-fosdem-recap/) from Kevin Martens is available now
- GSoC preparation: A lot of traffic in the community forums, chat rooms, and GitHub repositories
- Contributer Spotlight this week: Stefan Spieker

### Governance Topics

- Azure expense status
  - February expenses were: To be filled after the Infra-Meeting

- AWS credits donation
  - Credits have been received, not yet applying the credits to Jenkins tasks