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+# SIG/AI - 2023-04-06
+
+## Rollcall
+
+	* Balaji B
+	* Mark Watson
+	* Ivan Novick
+	* Rajkumar Rajendran
+	* Neil Hanlon
+	* Sherif Nagy
+	* Gregory Kurtzer
+	* Arthur Tyde
+	* Forrest Burt
+	* Alexandre Barbieri
+
+## Links
+
+	* https://sig-ai.rocky.page/
+
+## Purpose
+
+To showcase and deliver user-friendly, robust, scalable AI ecosystems.
+
+## Goals
+
+	* deliver end-to-end open-source enterprise OS with flexibility to setup as per user needs
+	* bring in popular FOSS AI frameworks/libraries as technical partners of RockyAI
+	* become top OS among AI user community and be part of AI applications being developed and deloyed
+	* rank top in AI ecosystem deployed across BM, Cloud, Containers
+
+### Objectives
+
+	* Publish docs explaining installation and usage of popular AI frameworks, job schedulers, cluster managers, and AIOps
+	* Work with maintainers of popular frameworks to include in Rocky
+	* Publish cloud and container images in collaboration with partners for easy and scalable deployment
+	* Release RockyAI toolset for monitoring and maintenance of AI stack
+	* Hosting virtual conference demonstrating RockyAI
+
+## Roadmap
+
+|Time|Tasks|
+|--|--|
+| April - June | Publish RockyAI Docs and Find partners to work and collaborate with. Begin developing RockyAI Toolset |
+| July - Aug | Release RockyAI Toolset |
+| Sep - Oct | Publish prepackaged partner images |
+| Nov - Dec | Continue packaging and automating publishing of images |
+| January 2024 | Virtual user conference on RockyAI & other SIG's |
+| Feb - March 2024 | Expanding the RockyAI partnership with more applications |
+
+## New business / Discussion
+
+	* Arthur - some packages we can control, some we cannot, or cannot ship them due to being nonfree, etc.
+		* EPEL is a good option, want it to be simple
+	* Collaborating with NeuroFedora is a very good idea
+		* https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/neurofedora/ -
+	* Want to be able to build and release packages
+	* Longer term, want to be able to add cloud images, etc
+
+### Packages to target initially
+
+	* mostly python
+	* tensorflow
+	* pydash
+	* apache spark