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Nomination of Ish Sookun for Board candidacy
by Lubos Kocman 15 Jan '25

15 Jan '25

Hello openSUSE! I was thinking a lot about the current election situation and how I could personally help. I believe we have a strong candidate from SUSE who I'd like to support rather than go against as there is only one SUSE seat free. I was patiently waiting to see somebody from the community standing up. I'm happy that has recently happened with Rachel. But there is more than one free seat. I was having multiple discussions, and thinking about who'd be the best candidate from the community, and with that said. I would like to nominate *Ish Sookun as a candidate for the current openSUSE Board election. Of course, I have asked Ish for approval in advance, and Ish confirmed that he was already thinking about it himself, but was a bit worried regarding his responsibilities in the election process and the transferring of these responsibilities; based on our last conversation, it seems that this part is being taken care of as we speak. Ish answered me "Someone nominating me is the best recognition coming from the community". Ish is very active in the community in his homeland. He has been deeply involved in the openSUSE election process. He is willing to travel long distances to meet with the community at the openSUSE Conference. We all rely on the openSUSE election process to simply work. Things he's responsible for just work. Based on knowing Ish, he has a strong sense of responsibility and ownership, which I believe is very important. I'll leave the introduction part to Ish :-) [0]https://en.opensuse.org/User:Ishwon -- Best regards Luboš Kocman openSUSE Leap Release Manager

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Fwd: Throwing my name in for the board
by Charles Payne 14 Jan '25

14 Jan '25

I can't send this from terrorpup(a)gmail.com, GMAIL bonuses my email for the weirdest reasons. I did send this to Ish and Gerald on the 7th. I am resending this with my fingers crossed that it doesn't get bounced back. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Charles Payne <chuck.payne(a)softmeta.com> Date: Tue, Jan 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM Subject: Throwing my name in for the board To: Ish Sookun <ish.sookun(a)lasentinelle.mu>, Gerald Pfeifer <gp(a)suse.com> Guys, Sorry for the direct email, but GMail and the mailing list don't get along. Seeing that no one is willing to step, with a heavy heart. I am going to step up and run agian for the board. As you guys know I have run a few times in the past. I have used it since 96. I don't want to see the project fail. -- Chuck Payne SoftMeta (470) 535-3647

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Re: This should really not happen on Leap.....
by Axel Braun 13 Jan '25

13 Jan '25

Am Sonntag, 12. Januar 2025, 22:00:36 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit schrieb Robert Kocher: [pls reply to list, so everybody can read....] > I agree! > > And i wonder how long it will last, until it is corrected! The error > appears since several days now! > > Are there any news about this? No, but running 'zypper up' works flawless (although some GTK-packages are not installed, without this message). However, as posted, this should not happen for Leap - 'my' Leap users are already stuck with this message! Axel

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Board Meeting - 13 January moving to 20 January
by Shawn W Dunn 12 Jan '25

12 Jan '25

Due to some conflicts, we will be moving the openSUSE Board Meeting that was scheduled for tomorrow, 13 January, to 20 January at 14:00 UTC

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Fwd: This should really not happen on Leap.....
by Luna Jernberg 12 Jan '25

12 Jan '25

---------- Forwarded message --------- Från: Axel Braun <DocB(a)opensuse.org> Date: sön 12 jan. 2025 kl 11:04 Subject: This should really not happen on Leap..... To: <support(a)lists.opensuse.org>

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Board election
by Rachel Schrader 09 Jan '25

09 Jan '25

As a OpenSUSE member and active community member, I would like to stand for election on the board. Thank you - Rachel Schrader

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Board meeting minutes 2024-12-09
by ddemaio openSUSE 07 Jan '25

07 Jan '25

= Board Meeting Monday 2024-12-09 14:00 CET = * Present: Doug, Neal, Simon, Patrick * Excused: Shawn, Gerald * Guest: Luna * Minutes: Doug == system76 request to use logo for calendar == Answers provided: purpose of the calendar is our second annual calendar giveaway featuring Tux This year, system76 is trying something different and telling a story about Tux's adventure in Space to spread open source freedoms Target audience, every customer will get a free calendar in their shipment until we run out of supplies. calendars will also be mailed to some influencers, employees, and giveaways at conferences until we run out of calendars Plan for use https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/95b863519a7d Decision ddemaio to send proper svg. Ask to please not stretch or skew the logo. Always keep the aspect ratio intact when resizing == Discussed the cloud image == Geeko Foundation is trying to assist Need an admin for the site. Trying to take some ownership == Sponsorship == Geeko Expressed assisting with some infrastructure support == Next meeting == Meeting for 23.12.2024 is cancalled. Doug, Neal & Patrick will join meeting in January Meeting ends 14:28

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openSUSE Board Election — Extension for the nominations phase
by ish＠sysadmin-journal.com 03 Jan '25

03 Jan '25

Dear openSUSE members, I grab this opportunity to wish you all a joyful new year 2025! We did not conduct the Board election in December as initially scheduled since we did not receive enough of candidates required to run the election. Therefore, we are extending the nominations and applications phase by two weeks starting today. The election schedule is thus updated as follows: Friday 3 January 2025 * Extension for nominations and applications for Board candidacy * Membership drive Saturday 18 January 2025 * Announcement of the final list of candidates * Campaign begins * Membership drive continues, opportunity to apply for openSUSE membership, but new members will only be eligible to vote and not run as candidate Sunday 19 January 2025 * Ballots open: Please cast your vote during this time * Campaign continues Sunday 2 February 2025 * Ballots close Monday 3 February 2025 * Announcement of results We would like to remind members that as per the openSUSE Board Election rules [1] the sitting board is allowed to appoint new members as part of an election if not enough people are elected. Regards, Ish Sookun // on behalf of the Election Committee [1] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election_rules

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Re: spec file copyright headers
by Patrick Fitzgerald 02 Jan '25

02 Jan '25

oops replied to the wrong email 😳 On 2 Jan 2025 10:01, Patrick Fitzgerald <patrickf(a)i-layer.com> wrote: 2 mins please On 2 Jan 2025 09:15, Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com> wrote: On Thu, Jan 2, 2025 at 1:52 AM Bernhard M. Wiedemann <bwiedemann(a)suse.de> wrote: > > On 23/12/2024 12.16, Andreas Stieger wrote: > > > >> # Copyright (C) YEAR openSUSE project and contributors, see package > >> changelog. > >> > > > > Not the best idea, but one that includes the outside contributors. > > "openSUSE project" is not a legal entity, though. I guess, it would only > matter if we need to sue someone on .spec Copyright, which is unlikely > given the usually rather permissive license. > > > There may be a triviality limit for what constitutes a copyrightable > > contribution > > My proposal would be to stop auto-updating Copyright to avoid all the > legal trouble of claiming Copyright for trivial changes or changing > other people's Copyright notices. > > Copyright does not expire for 70+ years, so a packager can update it > manually for non-trivial contributions every few years. > A Copyright is not to be confused with a "last changed on" date. > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2390230/do-copyright-dates-need-to-be-u… > suggest, a correct timestamp would be > © 2000, 2010, 2024 > > or we omit the timestamp altogether. It is not required and we have > revision history to establish the date. > > So how about > > > Copyright © The openSUSE Contributors, see package changelog. Is the *full* changelog present *anywhere* in the published artifacts? I'm not sure that it is. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth!

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Re: spec file copyright headers
by Patrick Fitzgerald 02 Jan '25

02 Jan '25

2 mins please On 2 Jan 2025 09:15, Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com> wrote: On Thu, Jan 2, 2025 at 1:52 AM Bernhard M. Wiedemann <bwiedemann(a)suse.de> wrote: > > On 23/12/2024 12.16, Andreas Stieger wrote: > > > >> # Copyright (C) YEAR openSUSE project and contributors, see package > >> changelog. > >> > > > > Not the best idea, but one that includes the outside contributors. > > "openSUSE project" is not a legal entity, though. I guess, it would only > matter if we need to sue someone on .spec Copyright, which is unlikely > given the usually rather permissive license. > > > There may be a triviality limit for what constitutes a copyrightable > > contribution > > My proposal would be to stop auto-updating Copyright to avoid all the > legal trouble of claiming Copyright for trivial changes or changing > other people's Copyright notices. > > Copyright does not expire for 70+ years, so a packager can update it > manually for non-trivial contributions every few years. > A Copyright is not to be confused with a "last changed on" date. > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2390230/do-copyright-dates-need-to-be-u… > suggest, a correct timestamp would be > © 2000, 2010, 2024 > > or we omit the timestamp altogether. It is not required and we have > revision history to establish the date. > > So how about > > > Copyright © The openSUSE Contributors, see package changelog. Is the *full* changelog present *anywhere* in the published artifacts? I'm not sure that it is. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth!

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