Agenda for the Flatcar Office Hours on Wednesday, 12th of August 2026, 2:30pm UTC

[LexiNadolski]

In the office hours we discuss news and happenings in and around Flatcar, provide a space for our user community to discuss with maintainers, show demos, and do our release planning.

Join if you want to learn about the project and get in contact with other users and with maintainers.

• Jitsi: https://meet.flatcar.org/OfficeHours
• Youtube live stream / recording: https://www.youtube.com/live/AHEW1nNxN5A
  • All recordings: https://www.youtube.com/@FlatcarLinux/live
• Community Calls calendar (all future calls): Google Calendar
  • iCal version: ical

Administrative tasks checklist before the meeting

See https://github.com/flatcar/flatcar-app-jitsi?tab=readme-ov-file#operate-jitsi for thorough runbook.

• Update Youtube Studio with upcoming stream information, copy streaming link
• Update this Agenda with streaming link
• Create and post announcements to Matrix, Discord, CNCF and Kubernetes slack
• Update matrix channel Youtube widget

Welcome

• Brief intro/check-in of the new participants joining the call. Please introduce yourself and share what brings you here today.

Agenda items

• Your agenda item here! Just comment on this discussion below 👇 and we'll take it into the agenda.

Open Mic time

• Tune in and speak about your Flatcar experiences and issues.

Release Planning

• Flatcar tactical, release planning, and roadmap (view)

Administrative tasks after meeting concluded

• Create a new Github discussion for the next Flatcar Office Hours: https://github.com/flatcar/Flatcar/discussions/new?category=flatcar-office-hours
• Close this discussion as "Resolved".

[LexiNadolski]

One main topic for this office hours will be the proposed Governance work.

[LexiNadolski]

We will also mention the new date and time for the office hours and dev syncs - these will not start until end of Sept at least. Thusday 2:30 UTC

[LexiNadolski]

@John15321 and I will also mention where we are on the Steering and Technical Committees and our timeline for graduation.

[LexiNadolski]

Mention that Froscon is on this weekend and Jan and Thilo will be there!

[sayanchowdhury]

I would like to discuss on helping the new contributors on to contribute and looking / browsing through the project.