Hi, thanks for the debate. It was very useful. The below topics and many other ones are things we can work on. The Board will play a relevant part on this. We will take steps forward toward having more transparency and delegating responsibilities step by step. Please take the below comments just as things to debate, not as statements. We are opening these and other topics up to discussions. We can really make changes and I am glad to see that the candidates bring ideas to the table. During the following weeks/months we won't agree on everything, but we will find many common points. We all want the same, make this project stronger. We will try our best. Thanks again to those that made the debate possible and to the participants. I want to finish with some questions: What do we have to do at SUSE to get more people involve in the Release process? Do we need to define targets for our distribution or that is a role for deployers and third parties? What aspects of SUSE work in openSUSE can we improve in 2013? In general.....in which aspects should SUSE focus its activity for 2013 (in openSUSE)? On Friday, December 07, 2012 10:01:40 AM Agustin Benito Bethencourt wrote:
Hi,
these statements reflect issues that I would like to work on:
1.- 15:50:13 <lupinstein> without it, the money would go to SUSE like the money from Google Summer of Code, but I could be wrong.
2.- 15:50:58 <manugupt1> lupinstein: Last time heard, Jos telling in a mailing list that we do get money.. so thats great.. :) but we need some transparency there.. I believe.. which should be a role for the next board
3.- 15:52:37 <lupinstein> it would be hard for me to give to SUSE, because I am not sure if it would all go to openSUSE.
4.- 15:53:22 <lupinstein> anyway foundation would be a plus for transparency in my opinion.
It seems that two topics, transparency and increasing income are linked to the creation of the Foundation. This is a wrong approach to me. They are separate and not neccesarily linked topics.
The Foundation is, in any case, the consequence of a wider and more complex process. Having a company like SUSE should allow openSUSE to, in the case a foundation is created, to start it in a very mature and susteinable state. We are far from there at this point.
We can and should increase transparency in the economic area and we have to find ways for the project to become economically susteinable, so creating a Foundation could be a topic to discuss because it has a clear mid term future.
5.- 16:09:54 <tittiatcoke> The KDE area didn't loose any members to open-slx, but the loss was more due to the reorganization of the boosters team
open-slx is an example of the opportunities openSUSE has to become "business friendly" Open Source Press is another example. Transforming openSUSE into a business friendly ecosystem will be a major topic in the coming new action plan.
What do you think?
Saludos -- Agustin Benito Bethencourt openSUSE Team Lead at SUSE abebe@suse.com
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