(I wrote a few mails about openSUSE. You are free to trash them or to "not read", but of course, I secretely ;-) hope not.) So "is openSUSE a community without a community manager?" is my first "key project question", as Joss was hired for that a few years ago, did a lot of articles, marketing, noise for and around openSUSE, he "did the job" (2011 was a good marketing year, no?) then Augustin was hired too did try to "reorganize openSUSE community with less success, he left ? we guess (even if he is still managing openSUSE group on linkedin) then ??? no information on the project list ? no formal information (on what was decided) And now ? Some of us have met Doug ... he was not introduced, wasn't he. as far as I heard, he was not hired as a community manager, did he ? in fact, we (member/contributors ... non SUSE employees) don't know who is "responsible" for what ? (about "SUSE ppl working for openSUSE" - since the openSUSE booster team is no more ... ?) is there a wiki page somewhere ? explaining who (from SUSE) is working for openSUSE distribution or collaborating to openSUSE project with openSUSE "non-SUSE contributors" ? who do what ? Comment : it's a difficult mission (challenge?) to manage a community as openSUSE but it's very pretentious to believe that a community can grow and go over challenges without a "community manager" (boosting, listening, communicating, helping, animating) it should be an important question for the present and future : is openSUSE definitely a community without a community manager ? (who can answer ? who decide ? who choose ?) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org