[opensuse-project] Project Meeting Minutes
Hi All, We had a nice long discussion during the Project Meeting in IRC today, minutes are below: * Tumbleweed Feedback was given about the timing of the merger, the nature of the announcements, and the lack of a broader discussion in the Project before the decision to merge the two rolling releases. sysrich (Richard Brown) explained that these issues were caused by a desire to have the situation clear for Tumbleweed users before the release, mixed in with unavailability caused by travel surrounding openSUSE summit. sysrich apologised, accepted the feedback, and agreed that standard practices should have been followed like involving the News team before making the announcement and starting a discussion/heads up to the opensuse-factory mailinglist at the earliest opportunity. * AoB * News/Marketing Teams It was suggested that the News and Marketing Teams should be merged. Arguments against this include the fact that the whole point of the News team is to allow private news items to be discussed before they go public, whereas the Marketing team operate in the public. However, this did raise the issue that both teams and many of our other 'non-technical' areas of contribution seem to be lacking lately, and ideas were discussed on how to get more people enthusiastic, contributing, and (also very importantly) contributing to the right areas where the Project needs it most Ancorgs asked for help filling in the Major Features wiki page for 13.2 at https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Major_features which is still incomplete * Board Elections Board elections are coming up, we need Election committee volunteers and candidates, see the announcement on -project -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org
oops, and I forgot to include the link to the Log
http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2014/opensuse-projec...
Our next project meeting will be at 15:00 UTC on Wed 12 November
On 29 October 2014 17:28, Richard Brown
Hi All,
We had a nice long discussion during the Project Meeting in IRC today, minutes are below:
* Tumbleweed Feedback was given about the timing of the merger, the nature of the announcements, and the lack of a broader discussion in the Project before the decision to merge the two rolling releases. sysrich (Richard Brown) explained that these issues were caused by a desire to have the situation clear for Tumbleweed users before the release, mixed in with unavailability caused by travel surrounding openSUSE summit. sysrich apologised, accepted the feedback, and agreed that standard practices should have been followed like involving the News team before making the announcement and starting a discussion/heads up to the opensuse-factory mailinglist at the earliest opportunity.
* AoB * News/Marketing Teams It was suggested that the News and Marketing Teams should be merged. Arguments against this include the fact that the whole point of the News team is to allow private news items to be discussed before they go public, whereas the Marketing team operate in the public. However, this did raise the issue that both teams and many of our other 'non-technical' areas of contribution seem to be lacking lately, and ideas were discussed on how to get more people enthusiastic, contributing, and (also very importantly) contributing to the right areas where the Project needs it most
Ancorgs asked for help filling in the Major Features wiki page for 13.2 at https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Major_features which is still incomplete
* Board Elections Board elections are coming up, we need Election committee volunteers and candidates, see the announcement on -project -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org
On 29/10/14 17:30, Richard Brown wrote:
oops, and I forgot to include the link to the Log
ty for sharing ;) agree +1 : 16:00:32 <sysrich> I'd like to ask that people stop expecting things right now to be 'like they used to be' and accept how they are right now - non-technical contributors are sometimes harder to keep, motivate, energise - it's not like packaging where there's always something new to work on. Lets focus on positive ways on how we can get more people involved, and make the people we have involved more active and encouraged. 15:59:55 <gmanu> henne: and how to find new contributors 16:00:02 <gmanu> that is something we should consider too (as already "said" at OSC14 marketing spontaneous meeting) by the way - we'll go the 15 & 16/11 at Toulouse France : http://2014.capitoledulibre.org/programme/ (and go on exploring these questions/answers of getting involved ... in openSUSE or other open community .. if you wish to share "how YOU do/did pass from THEM to US" ? Thanks in advance regards ;-) F. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org
Le 30/10/2014 10:43, Françoise Wybrecht a écrit :
by the way - we'll go the 15 & 16/11 at Toulouse France : http://2014.capitoledulibre.org/programme/
and there will be an openSUSE booth like last year :-) http://dodin.info/piwigo/picture.php?/100833-img_20131123_124033_30141/searc... jdd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org
On 30/10/14 10:47, jdd wrote:
Le 30/10/2014 10:43, Françoise Wybrecht a écrit :
by the way - we'll go the 15 & 16/11 at Toulouse France http://2014.capitoledulibre.org/
and there will be an openSUSE booth like last year :-)
700 visitors according to the police, 1200 according to organization ;-) seriously, I was impressed - around 800 to 1000 visitors for a french open "local" event, it's really great! (& jdd did not leave the booth, even for lunch) openSUSE distribution is ++ appreciated by lots of ppl, that's for sure! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org
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Françoise Wybrecht -
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Richard Brown