August 2020 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-project] Ad-hoc openSUSE Board Election 2020 - Nominations
by Ariez Vachha - openSUSE 03 Aug '20

03 Aug '20

Dear community members, It's the 3rd of August, the call for nominations and applications has ended. We are now at phase 1 of our Ad-hoc Board Election. We have received applications from the the following two candidates: * Stasiek Michalski <hellcp(a)opensuse.org> * Pierre Böckmann <pb(a)crowbyte.org> We thank them for stepping up and wish them the best for the election campaign. The campaign will last for two weeks and members can vote from 17th thorough to 30th August 2020. The final results will be announced on 31st August 2020. Full details can be found at: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election In the coming days, we will share more information about our candidates. Should you have any questions for our candidates, please feel free to ping them. openSUSE Election Officials -- 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] Re: Pierre's nomination...
by Ish Sookun 03 Aug '20

03 Aug '20

Noted and well received. We will make the announcement of election candidates shortly. Cheers, Ish Sookun On 03/08/2020 10:50, Pierre Böckmann wrote: > Hi everyone. > > First of all I want to say thank you to those of you who have nominated me. > > Secondly I stand by my own word and accept the nomination. > > A good and successful start into the new week for everyone. > > Kind regards > Pierre Böckmann > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Ish Sookun <ish(a)lsl.digital> > Date: 8/2/20 17:14 (GMT+01:00) > To: Pierre Böckmann <pb(a)crowbyte.org> > Cc: openSUSE Project <opensuse-project(a)opensuse.org>, openSUSE Election > Officials <election-officials(a)opensuse.org> > Subject: Pierre's nomination... > > Hi Pierre, > > Gerald has nominated [1] you for the Ad-hoc Board Election. Do you > accept this nomination? > > I am asking this on behalf of the Election Committee. > > Regards, > > Ish Sookun > > [1] https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2020-08/msg00005.html > <https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2020-08/msg00005.html> > -- 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] Pierre's nomination...
by Ish Sookun 02 Aug '20

02 Aug '20

Hi Pierre, Gerald has nominated [1] you for the Ad-hoc Board Election. Do you accept this nomination? I am asking this on behalf of the Election Committee. Regards, Ish Sookun [1] https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2020-08/msg00005.html -- 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] Call for a No-Confidence Vote - Re-Election of the openSUSE board
by Pierre Böckmann 02 Aug '20

02 Aug '20

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. -- 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] Upcoming election to backfill a board seat
by Gerald Pfeifer 01 Aug '20

01 Aug '20

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 -- 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] ssl cert on status.opensuse.org expired
by Mathias Homann 01 Aug '20

01 Aug '20

The certificate on status.opensuse.org expired last night... maybe a new cert for *.opensuse.org + opensuse.org from letsencrypt would be an idea? renewal can be automated... Cheers MH -- Mathias Homann Mathias.Homann(a)openSUSE.org Jabber (XMPP): lemmy(a)tuxonline.tech IRC: [Lemmy] on freenode and ircnet (bouncer active) telegram: https://telegram.me/lemmy98 keybase: https://keybase.io/lemmy gpg key fingerprint: 8029 2240 F4DD 7776 E7D2 C042 6B8E 029E 13F2 C102

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