Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (186 mails)

[Manu Gupta <manugupt1@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Henne,
Thanks for your questions. I will try to answer for you as best as I can

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Henne Vogelsang <hvogel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I too have a couple of questions that I would like to see answered
> before I vote.
>
> 1. What do you think the board is really doing? We all know the boards
>   duties and goals as stated in the guiding principles but what do
>   the board members do to fulfill and reach those? Please name as many
>   tasks as you can and what they involve specifically.
The tasks which I have seen the board doing is this
1. Trademark approval
2. Alan is working on getting our funds to get the foundation right.
This funds are to be presented to SUSE specifically so as to get our
funding in shape for the foundation

Apart from this, the board has not been communicating well enough. If
you read my platform, I have emphasised on board is better
communication
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election_2011_platform_template_manugupt1#Communication


>   Example:
>   * The Board cleans the loo. Every week another board member (rotated
>   alphabetically) organizes cleaner, a cloth and a mop from someone in
>   the community. He/she then cleans the porcelain and wipes the floor.
>
> 2. What do you think is the most important thing that you personally as
>   a Board member have to do? I'm not so much interested in goals you
>   want to reach in the future but more in what you think is the most
>   important part in your "job description".
Personally, Getting new contributors and engaging the community to
help them, in short finding comfort zones for each and everyone. The
best part is we have such a variety of interesting things in our
community is we can always find something that is suited to someone.
While GSoC and Google Code-in are not the only ways but have ensured
great benefits to us.
I see myself fairly successful in this attempt when people remain at
irc, voice their opinions and in GCI volunteered to help further.

> 3. Please describe your view of openSUSE as a project. Which
>   people/groups/functions are there and how do they work together? I'm
>   looking for a structured list, a short text or an org-chart :)

Best part of our project, is we have minimum organizational overhead.
There are a few people who like to code, do artwork and do marketing
yes all three of them and possibly more. So you can move and do things
in the area of interest.  One major concern here is a clear disconnect
between the people at forums and the people on mailing lists ( I
somehow would like to bridge that gap). There are a lot of people who
have done excellent work like providing support at forums and are not
recognized.


> 4. How would you describe openSUSE's relationship to its sponsors? What
>   do we get from our sponsors and how? What do the sponsors get from
>   us and how?

One word symbiotic, both of us benefit from each other. While the
sponsors help us with infrastructure, conference sponsoring etc and
matching our ideologies. We also benefit the sponsors by providing
them with a lot of testing work like submitting bug reports etc. This
in turn helps to form a base for their enterprise products like SLES
etc. Products like these need polishing and we help them do it.

So at the end, we get resources to learn and do what we want and the
sponsors get some early testing done and offcourse a lot of marketing.

> Thanks in advance for answering those and helping me to decide between
> so many fine candidates :)
>
> Henne
>
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>        - Mike Tyson
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Manu Gupta
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