September 2018

[opensuse-project] How we will use the GSoC money
by Vincent Untz 18 Jul '24

18 Jul '24

Hi, (let's see how a public discussion about money goes :-)) The Google Summer of Code brings us great students, but also means that the openSUSE project will get $8000 (if I'm not mistaken) at the end of the summer. That's $500 per student. A while ago, I requested comments on my blog about what to do with the money, but didn't get any feedback. So I take this as "do what you feel is best", and this mail is about the plan. As a reminder, the main issue is that we will likely not have the … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] Election Committee call for Volunteers.
by Simon Lees 23 Oct '18

23 Oct '18

Hi All, As was written in our last board minutes, to give plenty of time to organise our board elections as per the Board Election Rules[1], the board has decided to ask for volunteer's for the board election community a little earlier (now) Chuck has already proactively read our minutes and has put his name forward as a volunteer, so the remaining question is does anyone want to volunteer to help him? 1. https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election_rules -- Simon Lees (Simotek) … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] Call for oSC2020 Hosts and Upcoming events
by ddemaio 25 Sep '18

25 Sep '18

Hi all, I just wanted to send out an email to let you know that we are opening up the call for hosts for the openSUSE Conference 2020. You can find more information about it and the how to submit a proposal at this link - http://bit.ly/2Q6ssPo Additionally, I wanted to let you know that a the call for papers is open for openSUSE Conference 2019, which will be in Nuremberg, Germany. You can register for it and submit your talk at https://events.opensuse.org/ We will also have an … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] Board Meeting minutes 20180918
by Knurpht-openSUSE 21 Sep '18

21 Sep '18

Please find below the meeting minutes of the Board Meeting of 18th of September 2018: Present: Richard Christian Simon Gertjan Absent: Ana Sarah Agenda 1. Two trade mark issues 2. Gertjan: Doug sponsor wiki. What should be changed? It was not clear what needed changing. 2. The wiki pages re. our sponsors are OK, what we need is a page with info about us sponsoring other projects, i.e. about how other projects can ask for sponsorship from us AI: Gertjan emails Doug Meeting minutes … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] Board meeting minutes 2018-09-04
by Christian Boltz 16 Sep '18

16 Sep '18

Hello, here are the board meeting minutes of Sep 4 2018. You can also read them on https://en.opensuse.org/Archive:Board_meeting_2018-09-04 All board members were present. = transparency discussion on opensuse-project@ = We voted and the result was not to discuss it in this board meeting, and to continue the discussion on the public mailinglist. If needed, we might discuss it in the next board meeting. = DevFest'18- VIT Vellore sponsoring = ACTION : Gertjan will pass the available … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] Board Meeting Minutes of August 21 2018
by Ana Martínez 11 Sep '18

11 Sep '18

Board Meeting Minutes of August 21 2018. You can also find them in the Wiki: https://en.opensuse.org/Archive:Board_meeting_2018-08-21 Enjoy reading! ;) = Attendees = Complete = openSUSE.Asia Summit retrospective = Simon and Ana attended openSUSE.Asia Summit two weeks ago and they provided their impressions about the conference to the other board members. The conference was really successfully, incredibly well organized and a community event with lots of volunteers. There were some concerns … [View More]

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Re: [opensuse-project] Board meeting minutes 2018-09-04
by Knurpht-openSUSE 10 Sep '18

10 Sep '18

Op maandag 10 september 2018 22:46:01 CEST schreef Charles Payne: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 4:20 PM, Knurpht-openSUSE <knurpht(a)opensuse.org> > > wrote: > > Op maandag 10 september 2018 22:08:26 CEST schreef Christian Boltz: > > > ACTION :Gertjan will send an email to Douglas to ask him to update the > > > wiki to make it clear how to request sponsorship. > > > > Done. > > > > -- > > Gertjan Lettink a.k.a. Knurpht > … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] CoC
by Ana Martínez 05 Sep '18

05 Sep '18

Hi, openSUSE CoC[1] is outdated, with things like: Conference staff can be identified by their special oSC organizer t-shirts I think it should be updated. Regards, Ana [1] - https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference_code_of_conduct -- Ana María Martínez Gómez https://anamaria.martinezgomez.name -- 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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Re: [opensuse-project] Re: Board Meeting Minutes of August 21 2018
by Patryk Zera 04 Sep '18

04 Sep '18

4.9.18 (Wt), Richard Brown <RBrownCCB(a)opensuse.org> napisał(a): Temat: Re: [opensuse-project] Re: Board Meeting Minutes of August 21 2018 Do: "Ana Martínez" <anamma06(a)gmail.com> DW: "opensuse-project" <opensuse-project(a)opensuse.org> Data: 4 Wrzesień 2018 (Wtorek), 13:13 On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 at 12:53, Ana Martínez <anamma06(a)gmail.com> wrote: On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 at 12:53, Ana Martínez <anamma06(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> I object to not discuss … [View More]it. >> >> From this thread I get that: >> - Community wants the votes to be public > >Some of the community wants the votes to be public. There are others who do not. I don't really need public votes, if Board votes on things requiring privacy. >> > I agree with your principle. My point is, the Board should only be >> > deciding on topics where there is a good reason not to make it public. >> >> What was the good reason for the board to decide on the football team >> and not to make it public? > >Because, unlike the vast amount of other sponsorships which the >Project decides upon without the Board's direct involvement, the >unusual nature of this one led to the marketing team (who normally >decide on sponsorships) asking the Board for our opinion. OK. So this was not a decision but an opinion. And the final decision was made (or not yet?) by marketing team, I supouse. I think, in this particular case Board could pass their opinion as description of thoughts even if contradicting (with names? Board internally decide) to the marketing team (like "more of us think that but some think different", more detailed of course). If marketing team doesn't specified that this could be discussed in public and need private opinion of Board, I would insert into minutes only "Board issued opinion on sponsorship opportunity as requested by marketing team". (I don't know how marketing team works on sponsorship and how much public they are. I'm sorry, if this is some kind of bad interpretation of situation.) If marketing team doesn't need keep this sponsorship private why not starting discussion right here, just as it was with foundation options, when everybody could write their opinions on various options. >> > We have the Board so the Project has people who can make unpopular, >> > but trusted decisions. >> >> I disagree. I believe the Board should make popular decisions, which >> represent what the community wants. >> >> From our Wiki[1]: Facilitate decision making processes where needed. >> Facilitate decision is not the same as decide and it also doesn't >> include anything about unpopular decisions. > >Indeed, so on the topic that decided this, I think there is a case to >be made that the Board could consider suggesting a way to allow the >marketing team to decide about sponsorships without involving the >Board. I would fully support such an effort. > >But without such a way, we end up being the only process left > >And that process in which the Board makes decisions is one which >doesn't make those votes public, because the Board is designed and >structured for making decisions only in cases where no other process >or community mechanisms exist. > >The Board should only be making decisions _as_a_last_resort_. > >When that is the case, we need to have the freedom to make those >decisions with private voting (but public minuting). > >As many decisions as possible should be made by people other than the >Board - like our wiki says "community mechanisms exist to accomplish >the goals of the project" - the Board is there for when those >community mechanisms don't exist, or fail to work for the Project. > >> > If the Board's function is only to make popular decisions, then we >> > might as well not have a Board and put everything to a popular vote. >> > And such an option is not viable in many of those cases. >> >> I really like the idea for the cases in which it is possible. > >I really think those cases should be none of the Board's business, and >should be handled elsewhere in the Project. To kinda sum up my toughts: - Board could recognize if meeting item needs voting (now it looks like voting on football team sponsorship was unnecessary) - Board could internally clearly to all Board members decide if current case requires privacy and how much (sometimes Board is the last resort [no community mechanism], but the case is public) - Board could internally also clearly to all Board members decide if they can share their opinions or votes (if case is public, why vote and not discuss it in public? or discuss it in public then public/private vote?) best regards, Patryk 'Sanchez' Zera -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org [View Less]

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[opensuse-project] Formally resigning my openSUSE membership
by Bryan Lunduke 02 Sep '18

02 Sep '18

To the openSUSE community, There are so many wonderful, inspiring projects and communities in the broader Free Software world -- that it makes little sense for me to remain a member of one where the leadership personally attacks those who suggest simple notions such as "let's be more transparent" (an implied criticism that is as much about my own failings, as a past Board Member, as anyone). The responses received from some openSUSE Board members were profane, rude, slanderous... and … [View More]

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