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[opensuse-project] Board Meeting Minutes - 16 May 2016
by Richard Brown 16 May '16

16 May '16

# Board Meeting Minutes 16 May 1600 CEST ## Present - Richard Brown - Chair - Michal Hrušecký - Tomas Chvatal - Gertjan Lettink - Andrew Wafaa ## Absent - Kostas Koudaras - Family Bereveament - Bryan Lunduke ## General Items ### Travel Support Programme We have 13 Applications for oSC 16. 3 of them from GSoC students, 1 from a GSoC Mentor. Budget forecasts look promising, so we expect to be able to sponsor them all, though the exact level is still to be determined. AI: Andrew to confirm some details with Izabel ### Infrastructure Board is 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(a)opensuse.org. ### openSUSE Asia The Board have seen a draft of a proposal for openSUSE Asia. Proposal looks good, but we are waiting feedback on a few points AI: Richard to Chase. ### Trademark request The Board is still 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 Board to put stuff on wiki regarding rules/scope of Treasurer *Gertjan to take care of this by the next meeting* ### 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* 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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] oSC16 - Organizing Team Meeting 13
by ddemaio 11 May '16

11 May '16

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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Confirm your oSC Proposal
by ddemaio 10 May '16

10 May '16

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

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[opensuse-project] oSC16 - Organizing Team Meeting 12
by ddemaio 04 May '16

04 May '16

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

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[opensuse-project] Board Meeting Minutes - 2 May 2016
by Richard Brown 02 May '16

02 May '16

# 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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Board Meeting Minutes - 18 April 2016
by Richard Brown 02 May '16

02 May '16

# 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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] osc proposal question
by Peter Czanik 02 May '16

02 May '16

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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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