Absent with notification: Marina Present: Gerald Axel Simon Christian Gertjan
Board welcomed Gerald Pfeifer as their new Chair Person, and introduced
themselves. Other members informed Gerald about the things that are on the
Board's table currently.
Gerald shared first observations and thoughts, and infrastructure and budgets
as two areas where he'd like to bring SUSE and the Board in closer contact.
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Hello,
better late than never - here are the minutes of the 2019-07-23 board
meeting. They were originally written by Richard, but he was too busy
with his Brexit^W^Wpreparing the handover to Gerald, and forgot to send
out the minutes.
You can also read these minutes on
https://en.opensuse.org/Archive:Board_meeting_2019-07-23
Absent: Marina
== Infrastructure ==
Reminder bot was migrated to new server.
Mailinglist server was down.
== CEO ==
Richard introduced the new CEO to the Board, shared his first
impressions, and shared Melissa's statements regarding the importance
of openSUSE to SUSE and her commitment that SUSE will to continue
supporting openSUSE and other communities SUSE is involved in.
AI: Richard to forward to the Board the letter from Melissa.
== Kubic trademark ==
Richard explained that SUSE has, on behalf of openSUSE, registered a
Kubic trademark. It is not yet approved, but Logos/references/etc
should start referring to Kubic "TM".
Board will consider it an 'openSUSE Mark' for the purposes of the
openSUSE Trademark Policy
== Brand Transfer ==
DECISION: Board approved a draft mail to request SUSE transfer the
openSUSE Marks, starting with the creation of a draft contract between
SUSE and the to-be-created Foundation
AI: Richard to send out approved draft on behalf of the Board
== openSUSE Asia ==
Board discussed who is going to openSUSE Asia. Both Simon and Axel
will be representing the Board at this community event.
Regards,
Christian Boltz
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(Das mag daran liegen, daß ich nicht viel besser programmiere als
ein Schimpanse - aber es läuft. :-) ) [Ratti in Fontlinge-devel]
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Hi there,
being relatively new to the openSUSE community over the past few weeks
I've been digging through websites and wiki. Quite often I stepped into
traps of unclear, misleading or just plain old content. This lead me to
the conclusion that there's urgent need of restructuring lots of things.
The following is a rough braindump strongly intended as RFC. I try to
visualize my thoughts as good as possible with screenshots.
# First sight
The website opensuse.org in overall is looking good and I really like
the coloring. But looking closer there is a lot of clutter which needs
to be restructured.
Important stuff needs to be visible at first glimpse. See the
screenshot taken on a regular FullHD monitor [1] and try to tell what's
this all about - imagining you don't know what openSUSE is. Why not
tell at first sight:
- this is a Linux distribution
- this is how it looks like
- these three things make it outstanding
Positive examples as comparison: Fedora [2], Solus [3]
# Getting information
To get more details I have to scroll quite a lot and/or click very
often in comparison to the amount of information I get in the end. The
waste of space is too high and it should be reduced. Also these
animations are quite annoying. Especially the bouncing circle when
clicking on "How to contribute" > "Code" just to show a few sentences
afterwards.
# Consolidate information
## News
News about ongoing development and information about achievements is
one the crucial thing to be spead out widely. The "News" section on
opensuse.org is just way too small and is just drowned out by the
"Tools" and "Contribute" sections. So we should either remove it there
completely and give it a separate page (See Solus Blog [4]). Or move it
upwards on opensuse.org and make it way more prominent. At least
linking to news.opensuse.org is useless and should be stopped (even
more from a design perspective).
Currently there are way too many places just to get news. Let me
summarize it and - please correct me if I got something wrong:
1. opensuse.org
It grabs first 2-3 sentences of a post and links to it on news.o.o.
2. news.opensuse.org
This filled by Doug and (just guessing) members of news mailing list.
3. lizards.opensuse.org
Looks exactly the same as news.o.o but consists of blog posts by devs
and dev teams. The difference to news.o.o is stated nowhere, the
reasons for this separation not made clear either.
4. planet.opensuse.org
This looks only slightly similar to news.o.o and lizards.o.o, even the
content is different. But: why is dimstar's blog (the TW reviews) and
the Open Build Service blog listed there? Following the logic above it
should at least be in lizards.o.o if not even in news.o.o!
## Website vs. Wiki
Looking at the content of opensuse.org and wiki.opensuse.org I think
there's no clear plan what to put where. My understand of a wiki is a)
collaboratively created content and b) content changing regularly. A
source for documentation if you will.
The "Contribute" section on opensuse.org gives you just a few sentences
but links to a wiki page. This is unnecessary as the ways to contribute
won't hardly change very often. I assume this is mostly done due to the
fact that opensuse.org has hardly any space left for slightly more
detailed information. But that's what a website is made for. Sending
people from URL to URL without giving them a consistent layout is at
best confusing if not frustrating.
Partly positive example: Fedora [5] (sat in comparison to opensuse.org)
That's all for now. I understand that many things have somehow grown
over the years. But as I'm willing to tackle these I am looking forward
to your comments/critics.
Regards,
vinz.
[1] https://vinzv.space/nextcloud/s/HzRmZnH7mwMgkEg
[2] https://vinzv.space/nextcloud/s/nPammszr3Z4me2B
[3] https://vinzv.space/nextcloud/s/G7xwekJPW6S5Dwi
[4] https://getsol.us/blog/
[5] https://vinzv.space/nextcloud/s/nXtaXHfqxwTyAbL
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Hi all,
We may sponsor LibOCon (https://libocon.org) in Almarie, Spain, this
year. If anyone plans on going and would like to help out with a booth
there, please email me.
v/r
Doug
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Hi all,
I wanted to motivate you to submit proposals to the Linux Application Summit:
https://linuxappsummit.org/
The summit is organized by KDE/Gnome with the help of a local team. This year
the summit will be in Barcelona from 12th to 15th of November.
CfP closes soon, 8th of September.
Would be nice to see some of you around.
Regards,
Matthias
