Foundation & Corporation BAC & TAC presence at the OpenSSL Conference
Nicola Tuveri
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Hi everyone,
I wanted to get the ball rolling about an interactive participation of the TAC&BAC representatives (as well as Foundation & Corporation spokepeople) in one or more slots during the OpenSSL Conference.
I think this would be an amazing opportunity to get more users to get to know their representatives and the role of TAC&BAC and how to interact with the governance of the project.
IIRC Jon has already submitted a proposal for a slot describing the governance structure, and I was thinking that, if we have enough interest from other representatives, it would be nice to arrange some sort of panel with representatives from the TACs and BACs, alongside some of the Directors of Foundation and Corporation, to solicit involvement from the audience and answer their questions.
If you agree with this plan, we would need also to appoint a facilitator, introducing the panel and moderating the Q&A, and maybe prepare some list of (controversial?) topics we might want to challenge the audience with to break the ice and get the conversation started.
My preference would be to avoid one of those panels were there is only presentations from the people on the stage, and minor discussions among them: the whole point of this panle in my mind would be to have the panelists discuss with the audience, and the audience ask all those questions they care about, but otherwise don't really feel comfortable asking in a web forum like Loomio.
@all What do you think?
Probably we should start with a head-count of attending representatives, to see if this is doable at all.
@Jon @Anton could you please invite all BACs/TACs and Directors to this thread? Or move it to a place in Loomio where they can all post comments?
@Matt @Tim, do you think this would be a valuable addition to the programme?
Tim Hudson · Wed 30 Jul 2025 7:57PM
Jon has a slot for BAC/TAC/Community discussions in general and the structure of that is somewhat fluid - i.e. Jon is working on details and has many ideas/thoughts on what to do in that slot.
There is also a completely separate Corporation BAC and Corporation TAC slot for the TAC and BAC themselves to use as they see fit (added at the request of the Corporation BAC). Foundation hasn't asked for a Foundation BAC or Foundation TAC specific slot as yet but if they do it will be added. There is also a Committers placeholder slot for the committers to collectively have a session.
These thoughts were floating around for a while (well before your post) but laying out an agenda was waiting on the program committee so has only just happened and still has a couple of tweaks to be done to it around some speaking slots that need confirmation for some sponsors and invited speakers.
So to be direct - if you want a slot for the Foundation BAC and Foundation TAC just ask for the Foundation to make it happen (and it will happen). If you want to operate inside Jon's broader slot then talk with @Jon - it is also in the agenda.
I also expect a lot of conversations will happen not in formal session slots.