title: Inside Infra November 2024 
date: '2024-11-28' 
permalink: newsletter1124 layout: post

**Welcome to *Inside Infra* for November, 2024**

## Two November Roundtables

Infra held two Roundtables this month. The November 6 meeting was at 1700 UTC (more convenient for folks in Europe and North America) and the meeting on the 13th was at 1000 UTC in hopes that ASF folks in Asia and Australia would be able to attend.

The topic at both meetings was **Phishing attempts, spam, and code security**. Drew Folks led a presentation on maintaining information confidentiality, availability, and integrity. At both meetings the conversation was wide-ranging, with speculation and ideas about how to achieve those goals better at the ASF.

Summaries of the conversations are here:

  - <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INFRA/Infra+Roundtable+2024-11-06+1700UTC" target="_blank">November 6</a>
  - <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INFRA/Infra+Roundtable+2024-11-13+1000UTC" target="_blank">November 13</a>

## December roundtable

The next roundtable will be **Wednesday, December 4, 1700 UTC**. The main topic will be a deep dive into **asf.yaml**, the Swiss Army Knife of ASF build utilities.

See <a href="https://infra.apache.org/roundtable.html" target="_blank">this page</a> for details about how to join a roundtable, and what happens at it. 

## A message from the VP-Infra

_Please welcome Chris Lambertus to the role of interim Infrastructure Administrator at The Apache Software Foundation. Chris has worked for Infra for many years, and is imminently capable. I look forward to working with you Chris._

_Please also join me in thanking Greg Stein for his many years of service in the role of Infrastructure Administrator. He's been instrumental in defining the role and forming the current team. Thank you, Greg._

_Best Regards,_

_Myrle Krantz_

A two-part interview with Chris Lambertus is here:

  - <a href="https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/inside-infra-chris-lambertus-part" target="_blank">part one</a>
  - <a href="https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/inside-infra-chris-lambertus-part1" target="_blank">part two</a>

## ASF Writers

Infra team member Andrew Wetmore has started a Slack channel for people whose main contribution to The ASF and its projects is through writing–documentation, marketing materials, tutorials, and much more. The 'ASF-writers' channel is in the _the-asf_ workspace on Slack. The group meets next on **Friday, December 6, 1700 UTC**, in the channel's huddle.

More soon!
