# Board Meeting Minutes 30 May 1600 CEST ## Present - Richard Brown - Chair - Michal Hrušecký - Kostas Koudaras - Bryan Lunduke ## Absent - Tomas Chvatal - Apartment move - Gertjan Lettink - House move - Andrew Wafaa (Treasurer) - Bank Holiday ## General Items ### openSUSE Asia The Board recieved an exceptional bid from the Indonesia Team. The Board discussed the bid over email and again during the meeting. It's Approved - openSUSE Asia should happen later this year in Indonesia. ### oSC 16 Planning all going smooth. Full program is published https://events.opensuse.org/conference/oSC16. The Board is very pleased to see a very wide range of talks covering talks across the whole spectrum of Linux, Distributions, DevOps, Cloud and Storage. ### TSP The Board understands all TSP requests for oSC 16 have been approved with the applicant notified. ### Hackweek SUSE have confirmed their Hackweek will start on Friday 24th (at oSC) and carry over into the next week, 27-01. The Board would like to invite all SUSE employees to use at least part of this extra hackweek day on the 24th to visit oSC and use it to get ideas for the rest of Hackweek. Fridays program includes talks about ARM, btrfs, Docker, Ceph, KDE, Machinery, CI and more, including two awesome talks about openQA (one from Christopher Hoffman and another by the author of these minutes who really shouldn't misuse this platform to advertise his session but I wonder if anyone is reading this anyway ;)). Friday evening also has a performance of the SUSE Band ### Trademark Request The Board have heard from the members with the outstanding Trademark request. Local legal requirements complicate our proposed solution. Negotiations ongoing. ### Membership Tidyup The first round of the Membership reminder/tidy emails have been sent. 268 members were pinged with an email asking htem to respond if they still interested in being a member. 70 responses came from Mail Delivery System. If you think you could be one of those 70 please update your contact details on https://connect.opensuse.org or else you will not recieve future reminders. A few dozen human responses have already been recieved. Those peoples openSUSE Memberships are now secured and will no longer recieve reminders until the next round of membership cleanup. ### Infrastructure The Board remains concerned about ongoing Infrastructure issues. Board notes that some efforts have been made to improve the situation with www.opensuse.org and other Provo hosted openSUSE services, but would like to see a sustainable long term solution. The Board is also concerned by the long lead time on tickets to admin@opensuse.org. AI: Richard to have meeting with Roland. ### SLE Packages The Board has spotted a number of cases in Leap 42.2 Alpha 2 where packages inherited from SLE are newer than the ones available in Tumbleweed or Devel Repos. AI: Richard has send both general and directed reminders internally at SUSE to remind them of the SUSE company policy to contribute to Tumbleweed before/in parralel/in sync with their work on SLE. ## Action Item Review Due to the large number of action items, the progress of these will be split into 3 sections - DONE; This task is complete and will not be discussed in future meetings - WIP; This task is in progress, and will be discussed in future meetings - TODO; This task is still waiting for some progress by the Board ### DONE Michal has started the bot to contact missing members to see if they wish to retain their openSUSE membership. openSUSE Asia team submitted their proposal. Andrew completed the first round of TSP approvals for oSC. ### WIP Board + Ludwig to figure out what to do with all the Volunteers for the "openSUSE Release Team" *Richard & Ludwig to discuss* Board is discussing some ideas with our various Desktop Teams Michal is retiring connect.opensuse.org and doing the Membership tooling and maintenance. Tomas has talked with Craig about OBS team preparing the code for maintaner tidyup *Feature in OBS teams TODO* Bryan has started arrange informal exploratory discussions with ownCloud and Kolab about closer relationships *Meetings expected at oSC* Kostas is reaching out to our few bloggers on lizards.opensuse.org about moving to other platforms. Richard has been talking to Douglas about the possibility of moving news.opensuse.org to a new blogging platform. Richard's personal blog is running a potential candidate (Jekyll with custom openSUSE theme) http://rootco.de ### TODO Board to request release-team@opensuse.org list for the Release Team Board to investigate alternatives for voting & membership management _To be done after the Membership Tidy Up_ Tomas will investigate Helios voting system for openSUSE Richard to review/tune up filtering in current system so trademark enquiries don't get lost Tomas will talk with Andrew and Marketing teams about possible Kickstarter Board intends to create a skeleton of the getting started guides to help people get started with Using, Joining, and Partnering with openSUSE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org