Hi all,
We will have an organizing meeting for the openSUSE Conference on the
opensuse-project channel on freenode IRC today at 1700 UTC.
Yesterday was the last day to submit a TSP request for the conference.
Proposals for the conference have been accepted - http://bit.ly/1YhABOO
Please confirm your talks.
Here are the topics we will discuss in the meeting today:
Accepted Proposals
Requests for TSP Timeline
Marketing Status
Keynote Update
Trello Cards
Start Scheduling
Equipment update
Swag update
v/r
Doug
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Hi all,
For people who submitted proposals and they were accepted, visit
events.opensuse.org
<http://events.opensuse.org/conference/oSC16/program/proposal>, log on
and confirm your talk. Please do this by May 23.
Email notifications were expected to be sent for all accepted proposals,
but I have heard that not all people have been notified of their
accepted talk.
Thank you
v/r
Doug
Hi All
Round 1 of proposals for oSC16 have been accepted. The next round will
be announced next week. Please visit events.opensuse.org and confirm
your proposal.<https://t.co/p7x7Q4YNGa>
We will have an organizing meeting for the openSUSE Conference on the
opensuse-project channel on freenode IRC today at 1700 UTC.
The agenda for today's meeting will be:
Accepted Proposals
Requests for TSP Timeline
Marketing Status
Keynote Update
Trello Cards
Start Scheduling
Equipment update
Swag update
v/r
Doug
# Board Meeting Minutes 2 May 1600 CEST
## Present
- Richard Brown - Chair
- Michal Hrušecký
- Tomas Chvatal
- Gertjan Lettink
- Bryan Lunduke
## Absent
- Andrew Wafaa - Treasurer - Public Holiday
- Kostas Koudaras - Public Holiday
## General Items
### Budget/Financial Transparency
There has been a request for the Board to make the openSUSE Projects
financial records more open.
As openSUSE is primarily sponsored by SUSE, it is ultimately SUSE's
right to decide the public visibility of the details of their
sponsorship of the project.
Currently, as in previous years, there is no plans for SUSE to provide
public records regarding their sponsorship of the openSUSE Project.
The Board recognises the recent appointment of a Treasurer may have
given an incorrect impression regarding the intent of the role.
The role of the Treasurer is to provide a contact point between the
Board, Community, and Sponsors (including SUSE) on matters regarding
money.
It does not have any responsibility to change the status quo regarding
Financial reporting.
That said, both the Board and SUSE are keen to talk about the good
things made possible through SUSE's sponsorship of the Project.
The Board are pleased to report that this year, as in previous years,
all requests that has required financial sponsorship from SUSE has
been fulfilled.
openSUSE Asia, openSUSE Conference, openSUSE presence at many events
around the world, the Travel Support Program, the Local Reimbursement
Program, much of our merchandise and our infrastructure, and more
would all not be possible without SUSE's direct financial sponsorship.
And this is neglecting the direct contribution of numerous SUSE
employees, often as a key or core part of their day jobs.
As we're talking about sponsorship we'd also like to draw everyone's
attention to the amazing list of over 10! sponsors that are helping
make the openSUSE Conference happen this year
https://events.opensuse.org/conference/oSC16
### oSC 16
CFP went well. Very pleased with the large number of Proposals.
The Board recognise the work of the CFP is more complicated than in
previous years and is willing to help the CFP committee with selection
if necessary.
### Trademark request
The Board is still waiting for response about possible compromise
agreement for outstanding Trademark request.
### Infrastructure
The Board is concerned about the number of reports about slow
download.opensuse.org performance reported over recent weeks. This
will be raised in Richards next meeting with SUSE Management.
## 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
Douglas put together a new Sponsorship document
Tomas sent out the Call for Volunteers for the "openSUSE Release Team"
- Amazing response so far
### 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 working on tooling and the process of retiring members
*Nice, friendly, contact emails have been drafted, first experiments
will be soon*
Board to put stuff on wiki regarding rules/scope of Treasurer
*Gertjan to take care of this by the next meeting*
Michal is retiring connect.opensuse.org and doing the Membership tooling
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 still expected in the next week or two*
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(a)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
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# Board Meeting Minutes 18 April 1600 CEST
## Present
- Richard Brown - Chair
- Michal Hrušecký
- Tomas Chvatal
- Kostas Koudaras
- Gertjan Lettink
- Andrew Wafaa - Treasurer
## Absent
- Bryan Lunduke - Preparing for openSUSE's presence at LFNW
## General Items
### oSC 16
Discussed the possibility of a F2F meeting before/after/during the conference
The Board will be having an open Q&A/Project Meeting session at the conference
Ongoing discussions about various extra special bonus events which may
or may not happen around oSC
### TSP
Progress of the new TSP process is ongoing. Call for oSC TSP
applications should already be out.
### Trademark request
Waiting for response about possible compromise agreement for
outstanding Trademark request.
## 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
Kostas communicated our decision regarding FOSSCOMM sponsorship to the
organisers
### WIP
Board + Ludwig to send a 'Call for Volunteers' for the "openSUSE Release Team"
*Tomas todo*
Board is discussing some ideas with our various Desktop Teams
Michal is working on tooling and the process of retiring members
*Draft list of people to be contacted has been produced. No obvious errors*
*Nice mail to check if people want to remain a member needs to be
sent. A mailinglist would be nice for the responses to go to.*
*Michal working on detecting Forum activity*
Michal is retiring connect.opensuse.org and doing the Membership tooling
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 still expected in the next week or two*
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(a)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
Board to put together a Sponsorship policy document
Richard to review/tune up filtering in current system so trademark
enquiries don't get lost
Board to put stuff on wiki regarding rules/scope of Treasurer
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
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Hi,
Reading the blog post about accepted proposals (
https://news.opensuse.org/2016/05/02/opensuse-announces-first-round-of-acce…
) I wanted to check, if my proposal about syslog-ng is accepted. It
turned out, that proposal #796 was marked incomplete.
The missing piece of information was the planned "track". I chose one
now, but I'm not entirely sure, if it's the right one. Do you have a
description of tracks somewhere? My presentation would be about
syslog-ng, which was the default logging implementation in openSUSE
for over a decade and still has many active users in the community.
Bye,
CzP
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