We are launching the Kickoff meeting to plan for the openSUSE Conference
following SUSECon. This conference will be held in Orlando, Florida
September 21-23.
Meeting Information:
#openSUSE-Project Freenode IRC Channel [1]
Wednesday - 1 February, 2012
18:00 UTC (1 p.m. Eastern/10 a.m. Pacific) [2]
Now what?:
Please visit the wiki page which outlines our agenda, tasks and open
questions. [3]
Who should attend the kickoff meeting?:
We strongly encourage people from US, Canada, Mexico and Central America
to participate in the planning. We also encourage people from other
parts of the world who may or may not attend but still have valuable 2
cents to contribute to the planning. :-)
See you on Wednesday!
Bryen M Yunashko
openSUSE Project
[1] irc://freenode.net/#opensuse-project
[2] Local Time http://bit.ly/AoLcg6
[3] Wiki Page: http://en.opensuse.org/SUSECon_Planning
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Just my opinion - I think openSUSE should stay far away from politics of
any kind. It doesn't matter whether it might affect the project or
not. If we had seen a discussion of SOPA on opensuse-general
or -factory, it would have been fairly quickly relegated to
opensuse-offtopic.
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All,
During today's project meeting a discussion about openSUSE membership
started, see earlier posts to the list for meeting minutes.
While we have documented procedures
(http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Members) on how to become a member, we
do not have any guidelines about what it means to be a member in good
standing. Additionally, the only way to get pruned from the list of
members is to repeatedly violate the guiding principals or actively
request removal.
I am suggesting that the conditions for loss of membership are not
sufficient. As briefly discussed in the meeting today we have about 500
or so members. Also in a recent meeting it was suggested that we have a
large contingent of non active members. This would then explain why we
end up with only 200 and some odd votes of 500 members for the board
elections.
As probably anyone who is a member of some club or association knows,
there is always some condition, often a fee, that assures continued
membership in said club or association. No I am NOT proposing a
membership fee for openSUSE. However, I am proposing that we come up
with a mechanism to prune our list of members and that there is no such
thing as a "free" (as in I don't contribute) life time membership.
I propose the following guideline:
"
On even years of membership anniversary (that would be year 2, 4, 6...)
a member gets an automated e-mail.
- If the e-mail bounces and there is no other means to contact the
person than the person is removed as a member.
- If the person does not respond within two weeks, another e-mail is
sent. If after 2 additional weeks no response is received the person is
removed as a member.
A response to the received e-mail should include a short list of areas
in the project where the member was active during the past two years.
This can be verified by the membership team. With the response and
verification membership continues.
"
I realize I am proposing more work for the membership committee, sorry.
However, I would hope that this is not too much of a burden. With maybe
300 or fewer active members there would be on average less than 1
verification e-mail per day sent. In addition this is spread out based
on anniversary date of membership, thus the additional verification
should be small.
Why would we as a project want to do this?
IMHO, it is important that our members are active and contribute to the
project. There is nothing gained for us as a project to accumulate a
large number of members when the members are not active in the project
and do not contribute. Having only members that are active also bestows
more meaning on board election results and other votes we might have in
the project. This goes back to my earlier comment and leads to a
question, what does it mean when the board gets elected with a vote
count that is less than 50% of the membership? (I am not implying that I
am dissatisfied with the board). No direct answer to this question
please. If we have only active project participants I would speculate
that we will get participation of 80% or more. Last but not least this
should create a perceived draw to become a member, as you can only be a
member and remain a member if you contribute to the project.
For the discussion, I'd like to ask that people stick to the topic and
not go off on some tangent ;)
I have added this as a topic to the next project meeting (Feb 8, 2012)
and will provide a summary of the discussion on the wiki. The board can
then make a decision on how to move forward on this proposal based on
the summary, and hopefully board members will be following this thread.
Later,
Robert
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Hey Everyone,
I just want to let you all know that Peter Linnell and I are working
on contacting the Linux Audio Conference (LAC) and organizing the
openSUSE presence there. Just to let everyone know where we are right
now: I will be contacting the good folks at LAC either tonight or
tomorrow (though I am going to try to contact them tonight). As soon
as I hear back from them I will update the list on the status. If we
have anyone is interested in the event they can check it out at
http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2012/ and let Peter or I know. I don't know
the format of the LAC as I have never been before, but as with any
event, I'd love for us to have a good openSUSE team representing our
community there.
Stand by for updates ;)
Drew Adams
openSUSE Member & Ambassador
Freenode Nick: druonysus
eMail: druonysus(a)gmail.com
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