# NixOS Foundation Board Meeting Minutes - 2023-07-06

**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-foundation-board-meeting-minutes-2023-07-06/30104
**Category:** NixOS Foundation
**Created:** [July 7, 2023, 5:48am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-foundation-board-meeting-minutes-2023-07-06/30104 "2023-07-07T05:48:50Z")
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### Author: ![ron](https://discourse.nixos.org/user_avatar/discourse.nixos.org/ron/32/6170_2.png) [@ron](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/ron)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2023, 5:48am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-foundation-board-meeting-minutes-2023-07-06/30104/1 "2023-07-07T05:48:50Z")

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As the last few board meetings have been heavily centered around the S3 resolutions there were fewer items beyond that. Sharing the notes below:

## Agenda

- S3 bucket migration short and long term
- Hiring & Contracts
- Nix Grant Program and Funding Approvals
- nix.dev migration and announcement
- Banking

## Notes

- S3 short term resolution - [NixOS S3 Short Term Resolution! - Announcements - NixOS Discourse](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-s3-short-term-resolution/29413)

- S3 long term resolution effort -

- Hiring and Contracts

- Exploring more banking options as the current solution only covers (insurance) a certain portion

- Approved funding form grants - can be tracked in [GitHub - NixOS/foundation: This is the home of the NixOS Foundation · GitHub](http://github.com/nixos/foundation)

- nix.dev officially transitioned, writing up a general announcement post

- Approving annual bank account transactions for 2022

### Earlier S3 Related Notes - Beginning of June

- S3 bucket migration
  - Priorities for this decision:
    1. Focusing on reliability and minimizing any risk at all
    2. Costs
    3. Timeline

  - Split into Short and Long
    - Short - what we need to do just to make sure we are back on track
    - Long - ideally owned by the infra term for a long term, reliable, sustainable solution. Not the foundations position to make architectural/technical decisions

  - Need to balance the price and reliability

- Action Items
  - Team to follow up with contacts at AWS & cloudflare to establish comms
  - analysis of backup options
  - analysis of costs/breakdown of usage/storage

**Non-Board Meeting Minutes - S3 - Cloudflare team and @domenkozar / @ron**

- Provided historical context on the storage/S3
- Provided overview of Nix and Nix community
- Ran through numbers 425T
- Ran through short term needs and priorities and moving into the long term (deduplication/exploring gc/other opportunities)
- Ran through NixOS Community and Foundation priorities:
  - Risk
  - Cost
  - Long term

- Migration to R2?
  - As close to 0 overhead in terms of costs to doing the migration
  - egress costs
    - look into incremental

- 1 cent access fee to things inside the “infrequent access” bucket
- Bandwidth/fastly
  - They have the bandwidth alliance with multiple vendors there and different costs: google/oracle/etc..
  - They need to look into it