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Fwd: [opensuse-project] Call for a No-Confidence Vote - Re-Election of the openSUSE board
by Bernd Ritter 17 Mar '20

17 Mar '20

Hi fellow chameleons and penguins, I do NOT support a whole re-election of the openSUSE board. These event as they did can happen and should not happen very often. Until then we should use the elected pop ups (like Vinvz who has been close in votes). There is work to do and these politics just block and suspend a lot of efforts. This is not the main intend of openSUSE! Cheers, Bernd Am Fr., 13. März 2020 um 11:10 Uhr schrieb Pierre Böckmann <pb(a)crowbyte.org>: > > Dear openSUSE community members, > > this is a call for a no-confidence vote against the current openSUSE board. > > We should initiate a poll, asking the community whether it wishes a full re- > election of the openSUSE board. > > Reasoning: > > In advance of the last board member elections Sarah’s application as a > candidate raised concerns regarding the expressed opinion and wording. Those > concerns were a matter of discussion on the mailing list with a lot of partly > harsh words on both sides. > > Throughout the weeks before the election and throughout the election weeks > Sarah’s application and its wording and expressed opinion had at no point been > ruled as violation of Guidelines or the Code of Conduct. There has even never > been any discussion about it. If there would have been any evidence or > indication of a violation those points should have been a topic and should > have lead to ruling Sarah out of candidacy. But for good reasons that has > never happened. > > Despite those mentioned public criticism the *community members decided to > legitimately elect Sarah* as a new board member. > > Later, like Marina states in her mail to the community in behalf of the board, > 2/3rds of the board members decided in the weeks after the election to force > Sarah to resign from the board due to claimed breaches of the guiding > principles and the Code of Conduct of which there has never been any evidence > or indication and has never been considered and discussed throughout the weeks > before the election and the election weeks itself. > > Even worse, like Christian stated in an answer to the mentioned board > statement, at least parts of the board itself breached the guiding principles > and Code of Conduct in a very heavy way which even lead to Christian's > decision to step down, too. > > As a result the community has been very upset about the incidents which are > subject to this mail. Criticism and distrust in the board had already been > around since Sarah and shortly after Christian resigned from the board but > even intensified after the board decided to try shutting down speculations and > discussions around the reasons for both to step down with their statement > published by Marina. > > As a member of the openSUSE community those last few weeks and its incidents > which became finally public are raising serious concerns about whether the > openSUSE board is really still making decisions in the full interest of the > complete community or rather is putting its own interests above those of the > community and respecting the community's elections and the community's rules > itself. > > Therefore we, as the electing community, should initiate a poll and see > whether the needed 20% of the community members are in favor of making a clean > new start by re-electing the complete openSUSE board instead. > > Kind regards > Pierre Böckmann > > P.S. > Though a few details have become known, we don't know all of the in-depth > details. > Therefore I want to assure that this mail is not intended to be disrespectful > towards the board and/or its members as well as each individuals work in favor > of the openSUSE project and the openSUSE community. > Nonetheless we can not and should not ignore what has happened in the last few > weeks and the unacceptable nature and disrespect towards the community > elections outcome, rules and principles. > Additionally I am well aware that not everyone will be happy or be agreeable > to my proposal of a full re-election of the openSUSE board. Be assured, I took > the time and thoroughly thought out this step and that I think that this > proposal is in the best interest of openSUSE as a project and a community. > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org > -- What are clouds made of? Linux servers, mostly. -- What are clouds made of? Linux servers, mostly. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Goodbye Board
by Christian Boltz 12 Mar '20

12 Mar '20

Dear openSUSE community, in the last weeks, some things happened in the board that are completely against my principles and beliefs. I don't want to go into details, and will get straight to the heart: I'm resigning from the board. I know this is a drastic step, and I can assure you that I didn't take this decision easily. In the best interest of the openSUSE project and everybody involved, please don't speculate about the details or ask for them. Of course, I won't let the community suffer from what happened, and will continue everything else I do in and for openSUSE (for example my heroes tasks and my work on AppArmor). Even more important: I have many friends in the community, and this is something that will never change! I'm looking forward to meet you again. There is one thing I'll open up for discussion: One of my heroes tasks is to maintain the elections.opensuse.org server. I don't have any evil plans ;-) but I could fully understand if someone thinks that I better should keep my fingers off it and hand it over to another hero. If someone thinks so, please speak up (doesn't need to be public, you can even ask a board member to relay it to me anonymously). I guarantee that I won't be mad at whoever asks for this. However, the hero who has to take over maintenance of elections.o.o might be ;-) Regards, Christian Boltz PS: All the best, Vinz! Supporting your appointment was my last official act on the board. -- Warning: Sleeping Sigmonster! Please do not disturb. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Projects of the openSUSE Project
by Stasiek Michalski 09 Mar '20

09 Mar '20

Hi, We don't really have a resource for this, and it's really hard to find everything. What does the openSUSE Project do? I would need a full list of projects of the project. I know about openQA, Uyuni, Kiwi, OBS, YaST (and probably some more I'm forgetting right now). Please enlighten me and advertise yourself ;) It's also hard to tell what's SUSE and what's openSUS, is openQA actually openSUSE? it does say SUSE on the bottom of open.qa. LCP [Stasiek] https://lcp.world -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] openSUSE Summit Dublin Canceled
by ddemaio 06 Mar '20

06 Mar '20

The openSUSE <https://www.opensuse.org/> Summit Dublin <https://events.opensuse.org/conferences/Dublin> has been canceled due to the cancellation of some talks and the cancellation of the in-person SUSECON 2020 <https://www.susecon.com/> in Dublin. Concerns over the developing situation of COVID-19 coronavirus lead to the decision to cancel the openSUSE <https://www.opensuse.org/> Summit Dublin <https://events.opensuse.org/conferences/Dublin> as the venue would have been shared with SUSECON and is no longer available for the summit. Please email me if you have any questions concerning the summit. I apologize for any inconvenience this might have caused. v/r Doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] New news-o-o site is live
by Vinzenz Vietzke 02 Mar '20

02 Mar '20

Hi all, Thanks to the work by LCP and guoyunhe we now have a news site that is a) looking modern and b) making contributions much easier! [1] The site has moved from being a Wordpress application to a Jekyll static site developed directly on Github. So now you can publish articles by sending pull requests to the openSUSE/news-o-o repository. There is also a brief introduction to the process available. [2] If feel like you want to contribute some written words but don't know where to start we have list of topics to pick from. [3] Or you could even poke someone else to write some article. ;-) Cheers, vinz. [1] https://news.opensuse.org [2] https://github.com/openSUSE/news-o-o/blob/master/README.md [3] https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/62126#note-3 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Notes from the board on the recent thread
by Marina Latini 01 Mar '20

01 Mar '20

Dear Community, several members asked for a clarification and, even if we tried to keep the desired confidentiality as already mentioned in the other threads, there are not many alternatives to (at least) partially disclosing what happened in the last weeks. What guided the decision taken were our community guiding principles and code of conduct. https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Guiding_principles "We value respect for other persons and their contributions, for other opinions and beliefs. We listen to arguments and address problems in a constructive and open way. We believe that a diverse community based on mutual respect is the base for a creative and productive environment enabling the project to be truly successful. We don't tolerate social discrimination and aim at creating an environment where people feel accepted and safe from offense." For the second time Sarah significantly breached the guiding principles and how she chose to deal with this situation led to 2/3rds of board members believing that she should step down from her role within the board. As all of you can imagine, this decision was not an easy one, and the board gave her the opportunity to try to solve what happened. Unfortunately the ultimate outcome was to offer her to step down instead of publicly removing her from the board per the openSUSE election rules. Christian was the board member against this decision and to our regret decided to step down. Yours Marina, On behalf of the board. -- Marina Latini openSUSE Board: deneb_alpha -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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