On 08/21/2018 05:38 PM, Ancor Gonzalez Sosa wrote:
On 08/21/2018 05:23 PM, Ana Martínez wrote:
2018-08-21 15:29 GMT+02:00 Alexander Graul
: I have to say I don't really see a good reason to sponsor a football team. I doubt we will find users let alone contributors among the players or their parents. I think this money could be spent on groups or clubs that are closer related to our project instead.
I also don't understand why "local" matters here. I thought openSUSE was an "open and global community project" (quote from https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Members) - where does "local" fit in a global community?
I couldn't agree more. The vote against this sponsorship is mine, but that is how democracy works. ;) It would be interesting to know what other people think about that. Any other opinions?
Since you asked... ;-)
The decision to sponsor that team also sounded kind of weird to me. As much as I would like to see openSUSE sponsoring my own kids' football team, I don't think it makes much sense from the project perspective. And it can become a dangerous precedent for others to ask for sponsorship for all kind of random things.
That being said. I fully support the Board's work. They are elected to make decisions and I'm 100% sure they do that in a fully responsible way. But since the topic was already open and a call for opinions was raised, I saw it like an opportunity to raise my concerns about the topic. In other words, no flame war intended. ;-) Cheers. -- Ancor González Sosa YaST Team at SUSE Linux GmbH -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org