On Tue 2024-04-16, Richard Brown wrote:
I strongly feel the Board have a responsibility to work for ALL the community, not just the exclusive community that attend Board Meetings.
Agreed. During my tenure (and Neal was instrumental in pushing this) we improved transparency and opened up board meetings for all members, and even the general public; this is a standing invitation, not an obligation.
If it is a policy of the openSUSE Board to treat issues raised in person with a higher priority or severity
The openSUSE Board has no such policy.
The minutes made it clear, the Board decided to not act on the reports of the endless nonsense in IRC
I am not aware of such a decision, and I do not see this in the minutes. (What many probably are not aware of, and what is not covered in the minutes, is that Simon has been IRC moderator for years and now focused on it again.)
Gerald, Gertjan, Neal, all undermined that Board decision by stating they supported the CoC, Moderation, etc.
There is no board decision in conflict with what I wrote.
I don't want a dysfunctional Board.
Nor do I. Nor do I want to be in a project with assumptions, allegations, and (unfounded) accusations galore that suck energy, time, and motivation of mine. In decades of free software and open source and a professional career none of my roles has been as painful and frustrating with a certain regularity as serving on the openSUSE Board. Gerald