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Minutes of the openSUSE Board Meeting 2020-10-27 0800 CET
by Axel Braun 03 Jan '21

03 Jan '21

[ Per the last meeting minutes we are catching up on missing ones; don't shoot the messengers. ] == Board Meeting Minutes 2020-10-27 0800 CET == Attendees: Axel, Gerald, Marina, Stasiek, Vinz Apologized: Simon Guest: Lubos Minutes: N.S. === Status Jump / Closing the Leap Gap === * Go/No Go query submitted to affected/contributing teams by Lubos: https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Jump/Leap15.2.1:GoNogo * Main Painpoints: maintenance migration * Deadline for Release of 15.2.1: Nov 4th * Nov 2nd, last review for Go/NoGo * Kick-off meeting Leap 15.3 * 15.3 will be based on the new Jump concept. More info during the kickoff. * several presentations from Lubos and no real concerns on the topic. * kickoff announced to factory@ and project@ by Lubos * meeting on 4th afternoon === Conference Review === * Upcoming: DevConf -> https://www.devconf.info/cz/ openSUSE community encouraged to submit papers * oSLO 2020 feedback and kudos to TDF team * Board session during oSLO Topics discussed: openSUSE committment and interactions with the Board Status of the project Marketing activities (not mainly a board job) Mailing Lists Foundation Losing users and installations General approach: board should not/does not want to interfere with the various teams. * AI: Marina: check the status of the board session at the conference. * Asking community at large for a retrospective * Potential tool for community retrospective: https://www.parabol.co/ https://github.com/ParabolInc/parabol === Next elections === AI: Gerald: contact the election officials for starting the next board election process Seats up for election are Axel's and Marina's. Gerald will clarify with the election officials. === Misc ==== * openforum europe on Nov 5th<br> Event: First results of the European Commission Open Source study

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Minutes of openSUSE Board meeting 2020-09-01
by Gerald Pfeifer 03 Jan '21

03 Jan '21

[ Per the last meeting minutes we are catching up on missing ones; don't shoot the messengers. ] Present: Axel, Gerald, Marina, Simon, Vinz Missed: Stasiek Minutes: N.S. == Welcome Stasiek to the board == * "Video welcome" deferred to next board call. == Board internal communications == * Options for communications channel beyond board(a)opensuse.org? * Telegram/IRC are already bridged with Matrix. * One can join, though openSUSE SSO is not yet available. * Matrix is hosted by openSUSE infra. * Telegram has a web client and other features. * Simon is not using Telegram nor Matrix yet. * Gerald is fine, same for Axel. * Agreement to generally focus on e-mail and use board-only IM group for urgencies. * Decision: wait for Stasiek to weigh in. == openSUSE + LibreOffice conference update == * October 15-17 * Organizing team putting focus on diversity, inclusion * Promote/inform ** project@ ** news.opensuse.org ** SUSE blog?

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openSUSE Board Election 2020 Results
by Ariez Vachha - openSUSE 01 Jan '21

01 Jan '21

Fellow openSUSE Members, The results of the 2020 openSUSE Board Election are in. Total eligible voters: 518 Voters who cast ballots: 229 Vote Count by candidate: Axel Braun 142 Gertjan Lettink 134 Maurizio Galli 103 Nathan Wolf 59 Neal Gompa 131 None of the above 5 The newly elected Board members are: 1. Axel Braun 142 2. Gertjan Lettink 134 3. Neal Gompa 131 On behalf of the election officials, A huge thank you to all the candidates for stepping up for election and congratulations to our new board members! Wishing all "Geekos" a very Happy New Year and fruitful and successful 2021! -- Ariez Vachha ajv(a)opensuse.org

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