Hi Project,
After each Board election the openSUSE Board is required to review any
appointed positions to the Board.
Appointed positions to the Board have no voting privileges, but can
attend meetings and assist the Board in various aspects of running the
Project.
Currently there is one Appointed position, that of Treasurer, who is
responsible for managing the Travel Support Program and liaising with
our sponsors on any financial matters.
In the Board meeting of 20190219 the Board discussed the appointment
of this position and agreed to reappoint Andrew Wafaa pending his
acceptance of the role for another year.
Andrew has agreed to continue this important work for this year, so
everyone please thank Andrew!
Due to personal commitments, Andrew wishes this to be his last year in the role.
Therefore this mail doubles as a well-in-advance call for Volunteers.
If you think running the Travel Support Program and dealing with
openSUSE's financial issues might be of interest to you, please
contact board(a)opensuse.org
At the very least, we will keep your name in mind for next year, but
ideally we will look into ways of spreading some of the work across
more people right away.
Regards,
Richard Brown
openSUSE Board
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# Board Meeting Minutes 20190219
# Attendees
Richard
Gertjan
Simon
Christian
Marina
Axel
Sarah
Ana
# Agenda
- On Boarding New Members
- Thanks to Departing Members
- Handover
- Regular Board Meetings - To be continued? If so arrange time/frequency.
- Treasurer Appointment
- Face to Face Meeting Planning
- Suggestion from SUSE for Future Discussion (Richard)
# Minutes
## On Boarding New Members
Axel and Marina were welcomed to the Board.
Neither had any questions before starting their first meeting.
## Thanks to Departing Members
The Board thanks Ana and Sarah for all the exceptional work they did
during their tenure in the Board. The Board wishes them all the best
and look forward to their ongoing contributions to the Project.
Ana took the opportunity to encourage the new Board to continue its
efforts to improve transparency of its activities. This was accepted
by all attendees with the expectation that Ana would give the Board a
hard time on the appropriate mailinglists if they fail.
Sarah expressed her thanks to both her Board colleagues and the
community who voted for her in the recent election. Despite obvious
disappointment at not being re-elected, Sarah expressed some relief
that the circumstances would give more time for both her current
studies and ongoing contributions to the Project.
## Handover
The Board discussed a few dangling items that were involving previous
Board members, specifically establishing a License for the content on
news.opensuse.org
AI: Richard to talk to Doug about moving forward with all future posts
being appropriately licensed
## Ana and Sarah left the meeting at this point
## Regular Board Meetings
The Board discussed the frequency and time of it's regular meetings.
It was agreed to continue them bi-weekly at 2200 CEST on Tuesdays
## Treasurer Appointment
As it is an appointed position, each new Board need to discuss whether
or not to continue the role of Treasurer and whom to appoint it to.
This was discussed, with the agreement to continue with Andrew in
post, if he is willing to do the job for another year
AI: Richard to talk to Andrew
## Face to Face Meeting Planning
The Board discussed having a face to face meeting to discuss the
big-ticket items for the Year, and meet with people from SUSE.
It was decided to try and schedule this meeting for the 2 days before
conference, ideally hosted at SUSE HQ in Nuremberg
AI: Richard to request sponsorship & support for the meeting from SUSE
## SUSE/openSUSE relationship, openSUSE self-determination
Richard brought to the Board news of a recent discussion had within SUSE.
With SUSE's independence from MicroFocus there is an increased
interest, from SUSE, to better structure some aspects of the
relationship between SUSE and openSUSE.
There have been repeated and clear statements from every level of
SUSE, there is absolutely no desire to reduce SUSEs contribution to
openSUSE.
But on topics such as legal, finance, and data protection there is
scope for things to be restructured in a way that enables openSUSE to
adopt more responsibility, sovereignty and independence.
A lot of these aspects are currently structured based on the needs of
Novell when openSUSE was first formed.
Many of the assumptions those decisions were based on are no longer
true, and there are people within SUSE who can see the benefits for
both SUSE and openSUSE to dismiss some of those old assumptions and
arrange things appropriately for how things work today.
Such an endeavour could help remove sources of tension and complexity
between both organisations while potentially making it easier for both
to work together and do what they need to do.
But such an endeavour can produce a lot of work and has potentially
huge implications for the Project, raising the need that any decision
in this area is carefully considered before being enacted.
There are no concrete demands or requirements to address this at the moment.
All discussions to date on this topic have been informal.
Richard asked the Board to take this opportunity to consider the
possibilities and begin discussions within the Board.
It is expected that these discussions will continue for some time
while the Board collectively piece together a picture of how they
might wish to see things change, so that collective Board vision can
form the basis of any future discussions with both SUSE, and of course
with the openSUSE Project at large.
AI: All Board members to consider the possibilities and implications
on this topic and continue discussions on the board(a)opensuse.org
mailinglist for now
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Hi all,
I just wanted to let you all know that there will be no phase 2 of
accepting talks for oSC19. All people accepted their talks by March 1.
There was one lighting talk that was cancelled. All other talks were
accepted.* Thank you all for submitting your talks. We are starting to
make the schedule for the openSUSE Conference and will discuss the
proposed schedule in our next planning meeting next Tuesday.
v/r
Doug
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https://news.opensuse.org/2019/02/13/first-phase-for-opensuse-conference-ta…
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Hello dear fellow opensuse-enthusiasts!
I am wondering about openSUSE connect - there is a huge amount of spam
on it and it really is not a shiny & bright representation of the
openSUSE project.
Who is in charge of it?
I think we should deal with it.
cheers
Alex
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