Hi all,
after reading https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Members, I understand that I can cancel my membership status with
immediate effect and forever.
To become a "Member Emeritus", with a "way back" into the community in case things might turn good again, I have to wait
for the status request and just not respond to it. But the last such request was almost 3 years ago. IIUC I need to stop
all actions on the mailing lists (might be a good idea ;-)) and packaging (not so good) for the bot to pick me up.
So is there a manual procedure to follow to become "Member Emeritus"?
Best regards,
Stefan
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Hi,
Am Do., 21. Feb. 2019 um 15:32 Uhr schrieb Lars Vogdt
<Lars.Vogdt(a)suse.com>:
As such, maintaining 447 [1] openSUSE members should not depend on a
single tool. Especially not if the used tool has open, well known
security issues since years[2].
On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 11:41:19 +0100 Richard Brown wrote:
> This isn't the first time I've asked this question on a public stage,
> but in the hope that this time I get an answer;
> Who volunteers to tackle the problem with connect.o.o and drive
> forward a solution?
I made my proposal already and I stand the point: shut down an insecure
system!
what does "drive forward a solution" mean? Can we integrate the
functions of connect.o.o into other services at openSUSE which are
allready maintained like the openSUSE wiki? A form for travel support
for example?
An application for membership could be done by e-mail to an e-mail
address of the membership officials. Elections could be done with an
eVote software like https://github.com/mdipierro/evote for example, but
probably there are better tools.
What did I miss?
I think Lars is right an we should shutdown this insecure system as soon
as possible.
Regards
Christian Imhorst
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hi,
I'm wondering what the difference is between these two lists, or why
they both exist/which to use.
opensuse English Generic questions and User to User support for
all the openSUSE distributions
opensuse-support English openSUSE support
thanks,
ITwrx
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Dear openSUSE community members,
this is a call for a no-confidence vote against the current openSUSE board.
We should initiate a poll, asking the community whether it wishes a full re-
election of the openSUSE board.
Reasoning:
In advance of the last board member elections Sarah’s application as a
candidate raised concerns regarding the expressed opinion and wording. Those
concerns were a matter of discussion on the mailing list with a lot of partly
harsh words on both sides.
Throughout the weeks before the election and throughout the election weeks
Sarah’s application and its wording and expressed opinion had at no point been
ruled as violation of Guidelines or the Code of Conduct. There has even never
been any discussion about it. If there would have been any evidence or
indication of a violation those points should have been a topic and should
have lead to ruling Sarah out of candidacy. But for good reasons that has
never happened.
Despite those mentioned public criticism the *community members decided to
legitimately elect Sarah* as a new board member.
Later, like Marina states in her mail to the community in behalf of the board,
2/3rds of the board members decided in the weeks after the election to force
Sarah to resign from the board due to claimed breaches of the guiding
principles and the Code of Conduct of which there has never been any evidence
or indication and has never been considered and discussed throughout the weeks
before the election and the election weeks itself.
Even worse, like Christian stated in an answer to the mentioned board
statement, at least parts of the board itself breached the guiding principles
and Code of Conduct in a very heavy way which even lead to Christian's
decision to step down, too.
As a result the community has been very upset about the incidents which are
subject to this mail. Criticism and distrust in the board had already been
around since Sarah and shortly after Christian resigned from the board but
even intensified after the board decided to try shutting down speculations and
discussions around the reasons for both to step down with their statement
published by Marina.
As a member of the openSUSE community those last few weeks and its incidents
which became finally public are raising serious concerns about whether the
openSUSE board is really still making decisions in the full interest of the
complete community or rather is putting its own interests above those of the
community and respecting the community's elections and the community's rules
itself.
Therefore we, as the electing community, should initiate a poll and see
whether the needed 20% of the community members are in favor of making a clean
new start by re-electing the complete openSUSE board instead.
Kind regards
Pierre Böckmann
P.S.
Though a few details have become known, we don't know all of the in-depth
details.
Therefore I want to assure that this mail is not intended to be disrespectful
towards the board and/or its members as well as each individuals work in favor
of the openSUSE project and the openSUSE community.
Nonetheless we can not and should not ignore what has happened in the last few
weeks and the unacceptable nature and disrespect towards the community
elections outcome, rules and principles.
Additionally I am well aware that not everyone will be happy or be agreeable
to my proposal of a full re-election of the openSUSE board. Be assured, I took
the time and thoroughly thought out this step and that I think that this
proposal is in the best interest of openSUSE as a project and a community.
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Dear openSUSE members,
just off today's meeting a brief note that the openSUSE board
has unanimously agreed to backfill the open board seat with an
election for that vacancy.
The next steps will be initiated by our trusted openSUSE election
officials.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out!
Gerald
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Hi all,
I just wanted to give you an update on the conference for those of you
who might not have seen it. There is also the option for a mini summit
below. I'll send more information from our latest meeting once we work
out the details. If you want to help with the planning of the
conference, feel free to contact me.
v/r
Doug
Organizers of the openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference
<https://events.opensuse.org/conferences/oSLO> along with the project’s
boards have made the decision to change the conference to an online
conference.
The uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on
travel, conference planning, logistics and possibility for attendees to
come to the event were reasons for shifting the event from a physical
event to an online event.
Shifting the conference online is good news and the organizers intend to
provide a great conference that is filled with insightful talks,
technical presentations and sessions dedicated for those who want to
socialize during the event. Using video a conferencing tool, attendees
learn about new technologies in openSUSE and LibreOffice and have the
chance to chat to developers and ask questions. Communities involved in
marketing, design, QA and other topics will be able to meet online,
catch up and exchange ideas.
The Call for Papers (CfP) will remain open and people can continue to
submit their talks until July 21. The submissions for the CfP will
continue to take place on the Open Source Event Manager (OSEM) instance
at https://events.opensuse.org. The collection of submissions will be
organized in the OSEM tool, but the online event will take place on a
different website site like the one recently used for the openSUSE
Virtual Summit – https://opensuse.reqmagic.com. The platform works with
Firefox, Chromium and other open-source browsers. The software leverages
various APIs (YouTube, Dolby, etc) to enable web based service, which is
entirely HTML5 based with no plugins required.
More information can be found at
https://news.opensuse.org/2020/06/02/opensuse-libreoffice-conference-will-t…
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Dear openSUSE Members,
We have set up an electronic petition on Helios for the Non-Confidence
Vote that Pierre Böckmann called for [1] on the 13th of March 2020.
The petition will end on the 14th of July 2020 at 23h59 CET. The
schedule of the petition is as follows:
- 30 June 2020
- Publish wiki page about the petition, its schedule & procedure
- Announcement of the petition on the project mailing list &
social media
- Ballot is open
- 14 July 2020
- Ballot is closed
- 15 July 2020
- Result is announced on the project mailing list
This information is also published on the openSUSE Wiki [2] and if
further clarification about this petition is needed please send your
questions to election-officials(a)opensuse.org.
If 20% or more of the members sign the petition (by casting a vote)
then, an election for the complete Board seats will be triggered,
otherwise an election only for one vacant seat will be triggered.
If you don't want to sign the petition, then simply ignore this email
and do not vote.
If you want to sign the petition, then follow the voting instructions
sent to you on your member email alias.
Regards,
Ish Sookun
(on behalf of the Election Committee)
[1] https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2020-03/msg00091.html
[2] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Non_Confidence_Petition
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Hello team,
I' would like to schedule a marketing brainstorm session for openSUSE
Leap 15.2 prior to launch on the 2nd of July. It should be this or
early next week.
I'd like to ask you to pick up one or more time slots that work for you
at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/openSUSELeap152MarketingBrainstorm
This document will also serve as a scratchpad and meeting minutes.
Meeting itself will happen in a virtual form at
https://meet.opensuse.org/Marketing
The task to schedule this event is tracked here:
https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/61344
We can absolutely do more than one round if necessary.
ps. I did message the Telegram group openSUSE_Marketing.
Thank you
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Luboš Kocman
Release Manager openSUSE Leap
SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
Maxfeldstr. 5
90409 Nuremberg
Germany
(HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)
Managing Director: Felix Imendörffer
Dear openSUSE project members,
If you're a careful reader of the opensuse-factory mailing list, you
can stop here.
Otherwise I would like to highlight that a few days ago I posted for
review on the openSUSE distribution
Tiers policy. This should define which architecture builds of openSUSE
we consider premium Tier
and fully maintained.
The draft can be found here:
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:OpenSUSE_Distribution_Tiers_Policy
I appreciate your feedback. I would hope to get it from you by July 1st.
Thanks a lot in advance,
Dirk
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Hi all,
The release announcement for openSUSE Leap 15.2 is ready for
translation. We have some weeks before the release in July.
It would be highly appreciated if you could help to translate the
release announcement to your native language and help promote the news
of that release. Currently the release is only in English. Please link
your translated version to the top and include your ISO 639-1 Code
language code (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes).
I have placed the release announcement on the openSUSE wiki at
https://en.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_15.2. This is the single
point from where I will take all the links of the translated versions.
Please remember to link your translated version to your ISO 639-1 Code
on https://en.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_15.2
If you have any questions, please let me know.
v/r
Doug
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