# Board Meeting Minutes 18 April 1600 CEST ## Present - Richard Brown - Chair - Michal Hrušecký - Tomas Chvatal - Kostas Koudaras - Gertjan Lettink - Andrew Wafaa - Treasurer ## Absent - Bryan Lunduke - Preparing for openSUSE's presence at LFNW ## General Items ### oSC 16 Discussed the possibility of a F2F meeting before/after/during the conference The Board will be having an open Q&A/Project Meeting session at the conference Ongoing discussions about various extra special bonus events which may or may not happen around oSC ### TSP Progress of the new TSP process is ongoing. Call for oSC TSP applications should already be out. ### Trademark request Waiting for response about possible compromise agreement for outstanding Trademark request. ## Action Item Review Due to the large number of action items, the progress of these will be split into 3 sections - DONE; This task is complete and will not be discussed in future meetings - WIP; This task is in progress, and will be discussed in future meetings - TODO; This task is still waiting for some progress by the Board ### DONE Kostas communicated our decision regarding FOSSCOMM sponsorship to the organisers ### WIP Board + Ludwig to send a 'Call for Volunteers' for the "openSUSE Release Team" *Tomas todo* Board is discussing some ideas with our various Desktop Teams Michal is working on tooling and the process of retiring members *Draft list of people to be contacted has been produced. No obvious errors* *Nice mail to check if people want to remain a member needs to be sent. A mailinglist would be nice for the responses to go to.* *Michal working on detecting Forum activity* Michal is retiring connect.opensuse.org and doing the Membership tooling Tomas has talked with Craig about OBS team preparing the code for maintaner tidyup *Feature in OBS teams TODO* Bryan has started arrange informal exploratory discussions with ownCloud and Kolab about closer relationships *Meetings still expected in the next week or two* Kostas is reaching out to our few bloggers on lizards.opensuse.org about moving to other platforms. Richard has been talking to Douglas about the possibility of moving news.opensuse.org to a new blogging platform. Richard's personal blog is running a potential candidate (Jekyll with custom openSUSE theme) http://rootco.de ### TODO Board to request release-team@opensuse.org list for the Release Team Board to investigate alternatives for voting & membership management _To be done after the Membership Tidy Up_ Tomas will investigate Helios voting system for openSUSE Board to put together a Sponsorship policy document Richard to review/tune up filtering in current system so trademark enquiries don't get lost Board to put stuff on wiki regarding rules/scope of Treasurer Tomas will talk with Andrew and Marketing teams about possible Kickstarter Board intends to create a skeleton of the getting started guides to help people get started with Using, Joining, and Partnering with openSUSE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org