Leadership circles help in large environments where many people operate independently. In this specific case, maintainers at 40+ CNCF projects. //add more summary here

Goals:

• Training
• Collaboration points on strategic issues; tackling size:L OSS issues
• Camaraderie / bringing people together
• Listening (to build better programs, relationships, and sustainability efforts)
• Share Best Practices
• Highlight successes

NonGoals:

• Sell to you - zero tolerance

Next Steps

• Recruit (paris, stephen, COULD BE YOU - comment here!)
• Define maintainer here (zach) / update README with this information
  • "A maintainer is anyone recognized as a maintainer of a project by that project's standards."
  • We will include 2-3 examples of project maintainer definitions on the readme, too.
  • someone who commits, has an overview of their project area or whole project, usually the final responsibility
• Update goals above and create a robust README (paris)
• send welcome email to dev lists.
• set up inputs and outputs: slack channel and ways to get a hold of each other - submitted CNCF servicedesk ticket for #maintainers-circle
• Bring in Liz, gb reps (michelle, matt), and others to see how we can all work together on similar goals under the same umbrella. they have n cadence meetings with similar maintainer crowd for governing board representation - see if they can come to thursdays meeting - continue this on a separate issue

What does done look like for this issue?
When we have a "come hang out with us" email ready to ship and approved by the group

Open Ended Questions

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