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openSUSE Code of Conduct and "toilet humour"
by Gerald Pfeifer 14 Apr '24

14 Apr '24

Dear all, based on recent discussions on this list (and off list) with a quick electronic vote the openSUSE Board agreed on the following: "Toilet humour" shall be added as an example of unacceptable behavior in the openSUSE Code of Conduct. [ https://en.opensuse.org/Code_of_Conduct ] Gerald (on behalf of the Board) -- Dr. Gerald Pfeifer <gp(a)suse.com>, CTO @SUSE + chair @openSUSE

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Board meeting minutes 2024-02-26
by Neal Gompa 13 Apr '24

13 Apr '24

I realize this is long overdue, between getting sick and other chaos, it fell off a bit. Here it is (admittedly very late!) Also here: https://en.opensuse.org/Archive:Board_meeting_2024-02-26 = Board Meeting Monday 2024-02-26 13:00 CET = * Present: ddemaio, Gerald, knurpht, Patrick, Simon, Neal * Minutes by: Neal * Guests: bittin, Georg, Marcel == Membership == Update: * ddemaio sent email on 12.02.24 requesting add two additional volunteers for membership committee * 1 New application / 6 Applications open * AI: Gerald - Summarize draft proposal we discussed on the call == Admins & Mods == * Currently lots of toxicity and non-sense on IRC * Very unwelcoming towards, in particular, new users asking for help * AI: Simon: Will monitor #opensuse, if we reintroduce the irc matrix bridge we won't bridge that channel to matrix == Box == ddemaio has artwork * Push to 11.03 meeting == F2F Meeting == If? When? Where. * Aim for June 25 in afternoon and June 26 in the morning Ended at 14:06 -- Neal Gompa (ID: Pharaoh_Atem)

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openSUSE Board minutes 2024-03-25
by ddemaio openSUSE 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

= Board Meeting Monday 2024-03-25 13:00 CET = * Present: ddemaio, simon, neal, patrick * Excused: Gerald * Missed: Gertjan * Minutes by: ddemaio * Guests: == Review Topics from last meeting == * Status membership * Go over those who have expressed interest in volunteering to be me a member of the membership committee & make a determination * Discussed the four people who express interest in volunteering * Geeko Foundation recieved funds from SUSE. * Discussed openSUSE.Asia Summit and awaiting Asia Summit Committees communication * Bugzilla contact * No update * Moderation * No update * Discussion for meeting time to be adjusted if necessary. Ended at 13:44 CET https://en.opensuse.org/Archive:Board_meeting_2024-03-25

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openSUSE Membership Officials - looking for volunteers
by Gerald Pfeifer 18 Mar '24

18 Mar '24

Hi folks, as you may know, at openSUSE we have three bodies helping with the governance of the project: · the board, · the election officals (who run board elections and the occasional other membership vote), and · the membership officials (who vet and approve membership applications). After conversations between membership officials and the board, we now plan to expand the group of membership officials and are looking for some volunteers. If you are intestered to serve in that capacity and an openSUSE member yourself already, please reach out to me or board(a)opensuse.org. Don't be shy, effort is moderate (though it can come in bursts); no hacking skills required! Gerald -- Dr. Gerald Pfeifer <gp(a)suse.com>, CTO @SUSE + chair @openSUSE

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Minutes of openSUSE Board Meeting Monday 2024-03-11
by Gerald Pfeifer 18 Mar '24

18 Mar '24

= Board Meeting Monday 2024-03-11 13:00 CET = * Present: Doug, Gerald, Gertjan, Neal, Patrick (13:20) * Missed: Simon * Guests: Georg == Membership == * Discussed increasing the amount of membership officials * Concluded, also based on feedback from Wolfgang, to add three more. * Gerald will send out a note to the project@ list. * Found it would be good to trim redundant readme items from https://code.opensuse.org/project/membership and keep in one place on Wiki. * As part of onboarding new membership official team members, enhance documentation (responsiblities, checklist used for recruiting and onboarding). == Bugzilla == * Ticket filed with SUSE IT about getting contact with Bugzilla admins: * https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1220916 * Looking for a solution rather than simply deleting "If you experience any difficulties or find any issues, please, report to SUSE Bugzilla Team" on landing page. * Doug and Gerald on it. == Moderation == * Discussion about IRC moderation. * 5/0 (one absent) to add operator for IRC. Ended at 13:39 CET

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Leap 15.6 Beta Update + Bug Day annoucement
by Lubos Kocman 08 Mar '24

08 Mar '24

Hello openSUSE! We expect the current build-in-progress to be openSUSE Leap 15.6 Beta. openQA on the last build looks decent, Max did a great job! We were able to eliminate many build failures thanks toPeter Simons and his help on the Haskell stack. GNUHealth got merged thanks to Axel, and hard work from many awesome engineers working on the python3.11 stack. We expect that the build should be ready to be published by tomorrow, but we'd like to announce it on Thursday as part of our weekly meeting with some "extra sauce". Our regular *Beta testing effort (the Google sheet) was challenged at one of the recent weekly meetings and the agreement was that we'd like to lower the threshold for people who would not be able to follow the sheet. To be honest the participation in the manual test effort dropped by 70% since we stopped providing giveaway t-shirts for budget reasons. I agree that lowering the bar and simply asking people to do their usual workflows and tell us what went wrong could increase the testing effort. I've met a few times with Santiago Zarate, Doug, Neal, and the regular weekly meeting crew and the plan is the following: 0) Revisit update/polish https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Bug_Day and https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Known_bugs_15.6 (ONGOING) ** Any help on the wiki would be highly appreciated. ** I'd appreciate help, and suggestions from QA. ** 1) Release the Leap 15.6 Beta article on Thursday 1-2 hours before the weekly meeting + get-o-o availability. 2) Do Leap 15.6 Beta announcement && a "Bug day/testing effort" kickoff as part of our upcoming Thursday 9:00 CEST meeting on 7th March https://calendar.opensuse.org/teams/marketing/events/thursday_weekly_meeting **Everyone is welcome to join!** 3) Do a live stream from the meeting and screen share while making people familiar with https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Bug_Day#March_7th:_Leap_15.6_Beta and https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Known_bugs_15.6 and installing 15.6 live (e.g. in a VM). Doug gave me access to streamyard.com which is used for the current set of contributor workshops on YouTube. FYI: https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/openSUSE-Contribution-Workshop 4) We suggest https://matrix.to/#/#openqa:opensuse.org as an alternative place (from the meeting itself) where people can ask regarding testing/bug reporting. I'm not so sure if it's the best idea, Santi said we could try it. Feel free to suggest an alternative in openSUSE:Bug_Day. -1) We'd be happy if you could support us and share that we'll have a Leap 15.6 Beta Bug Day event on Thursday https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Bug_Day#March_7th:_Leap_15.6_Beta Just for comparison Fedora is using the following https://testdays.fedoraproject.org/events I personally like the wiki+table structure over the google-sheet (which limits us with columns, check e.g. 15.4 attendance) [0] - old Google sheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AGKijKpKiJCB616-bHVoNQuhWHpQLHPWCb3… Many thanks to all of you who helped us to make Beta possible! -- Best regards Luboš Kocman openSUSE Leap Release Manager

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[MAINTENANCE] UCS major version upgrade.
by Martin Koci 05 Mar '24

05 Mar '24

Hello, This Thursday 7.3.2024 we will be doing a major version upgrade of the IDP (UCS), it will be done during the maintenance window from 9:00 - 11:00 (CET), although there is a possibility that it will take longer if any complications occur. During the update there will be one node available at all times in order prevent service (LDAP) downtime, but some level of downtime might occur. Write options for self-service for UCS will not be available until the update is finished. Thanks for understanding and cooperation. SUSE IAM Team

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Board meeting minutes 2024-02-12
by Gerald Pfeifer 25 Feb '24

25 Feb '24

= Board Meeting Monday 2024-02-12 13:00 CET = * Present: Doug, Gerald, Gertjan, Neal, Patrick, Simon == This meeting's logistics == * Thanks to the Heroes we got a new calendering system, which includes board meetings * https://calendar.opensuse.org/teams/board * AI: Neal to reach out to Heroes re (missing) e-mail notifications * The board proceeds to import the calander event to their personal calanders == Boxed Sets DVD == * Simon is wondering whether we can get boxed sets DVDs for contributors and use at events. * Doug shares historic background and how in 2024 demand for DVDs is very low, not making it viable business for a third party any more. * Do USB keys instead? Other branded merchandise? * Opportunity cost? == Membership == * Formally request the membership officials to add two more people * AI ddemaio: sent email to members and board * Discuss a better system for recording and assessing members once we have more officials, including trying to recover lost list of Emeritus Members from a connect backup. == FOSDEM Update == * geekos.io had success accepting donations for Goods at a booth. == Private Topics == * Should we keep private minutes in a private ticket in code.o.o rather then just via email? Meetings ended 14:28

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Board Meeting minutes 2024-01-29
by Knurpht-openSUSE 25 Feb '24

25 Feb '24

= Board Meeting Monday 2024-01-29 13:00 CET = * Present: Doug, Gerald, Neal, Patrick, Simon, Gertjan * Excused: Mau * Missed: * Minutes by: * Guests: Georg == Handover from the 2023 Board to the 2024 Board == * In a nutshell the handover is extending Patrick's tenure and Simon replacing Mau * Board thanks Mau for all the work done during their Board membership * Gerald and Neal took care of adjusting various groups and access rights for Board's communication and issue tracking * Simon to review and update https://en.opensuse.org/[1] openSUSE:Board_best_practices#Joining_the_Board == openSUSE Logos == * Any ultimate decision to change the logo, let alone how, has not been made yet. * WIP, Doug will (re)share process on project@, following his December 16th email on the project@ ML * Consensus is : ** (a) align with SUSE and ** (b) put out any logo change for a vote by openSUSE membership, options to be provided by design team. == TSP == The TSP ( Travel Support Program ) will now be handled by the Geeko Foundation - https://geekos.org/[2] - SUSE will provide funding to the Geeko Foundation and thus continue to sponsor that program Users will need to become familiar with new procedures and limitations. Meeting ended 14:07. -- Gertjan Lettink a.k.a. Knurpht openSUSE Board openSUSE Forums Team -------- [1] https://en.opensuse.org/ [2] https://geekos.org/

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Meeting minutes 2024-01-29
by Knurpht-openSUSE 25 Feb '24

25 Feb '24

Apologies for sending this so late. = Board Meeting Monday 2024-01-29 13:00 CET = * Present: Doug, Gerald, Neal, Patrick, Simon, Gertjan * Excused: Mau * Missed: * Minutes by: * Guests: Georg == Handover from the 2023 Board to the 2024 Board == * In a nutshell the handover is extending Patrick's tenure and Simon replacing Mau * Board thanks Mau for all the work done during their Board membership * Gerald and Neal took care of adjusting various groups and access rights for Board's communication and issue tracking * Simon to review and update https://en.opensuse.org/[1] openSUSE:Board_best_practices#Joining_the_Board == openSUSE Logos == * Any ultimate decision to change the logo, let alone how, has not been made yet. * WIP, Doug will (re)share process on project@, following his December 16th email on the project@ ML * Consensus is : ** (a) align with SUSE and ** (b) put out any logo change for a vote by openSUSE membership, options to be provided by design team. == TSP == The TSP ( Travel Support Program ) will now be handled by the Geeko Foundation - https://geekos.org/[2] - SUSE will provide funding to the Geeko Foundation and thus continue to sponsor that program Users will need to become familiar with new procedures and limitations. Meeting ended 14:07. -- Gertjan Lettink a.k.a. Knurpht openSUSE Board openSUSE Forums Team -------- [1] https://en.opensuse.org/ [2] https://geekos.org/

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