Hi all, The Bare Metal SIG met up Wednesday, June 5 2024 at CERN – one day before the large OpenInfra Days event. There were over 2 dozen Ironic operators and contributors present. Riccardo gave a presentation overviewing Metal3. JayF gave a presentation covering the basics of most Ironic features and highlighted several features which were deprecated. While the talks were recorded, I don't believe the recordings are available yet – I do plan on recreating an updated version of my talk for Youtube in the near future for anyone interested. After the presentations and lunch, participants returned to discuss their use cases and ask questions relating to the earlier presentations. The discussion, as well as specific action items/follow-ups, were documented here: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/baremetal-sig-cern-june-5-2024 – I will be documenting these action items and RFEs as appropriate over the next week. Add in a short afternoon break to tour the CERN data center, seeing the thousands of machines provisioned by Ironic for CERN, and it was a pleasant day discussing and building rapport with the Ironic community. In my over ten years of working in Ironic, this was the most productive operator/contributor feedback session I've had the pleasure of attending – the attendees were engaged and I'm grateful for their participation and attendance. A special thanks to: - Dmitry Tantsur and Julia Kreger connected up remotely to the session to help field questions. Their expertise was a great help! - Arne Wieback and his team at CERN were gracious hosts and provided us a great VIP tour of the datacenter space. If you were at this event, and have feedback on how we can make future ones better, feel free to reach out here or privately with your ideas. Thanks, Jay Faulkner