30 Jan
2020
30 Jan
'20
10:36
Namaste Ariez, On Sun, 26 Jan 2020 at 22:49, Ariez J Vachha <ariez@ajvco.com.hk> wrote: > > Election candidates, et al, > > Happy Chinese New Year from Hong Kong! There is 1 openSUSE.asia group at Slack & it is active. Many members are active in this group & they are from APAC/JAPAC region. Currently we are discussing about upcoming openSUSE Asia summit which is proposed in Delhi, India. I am sending an invite to above e-mail of yours. Looking forward to see you at Slack. Thanks & Regards, Amey. > > Firstly let me thank the candidates for stepping forward as well as the > other election officials especially, Ish and Edwin for their hard work > in getting this process so far. > > As an openSUSE old timer, yet probably one of the newest members of > openSUSE. I have a question for the the election candidates albeit > extremely 11th hour, which I believe is extremely pertinent to the > future of openSUSE. For some years I saw openSUSE fall down the rankings > as well as as experienced some lag in the update cycles relative to > other distros. I put this down to SUSE being passed from pillar to post > for over a decade. Recently though openSUSE has really got its "mojo" > back and is on fire! I've had a number of projects recently which I > think would have been extremely difficult to execute with any other > distribution. > > But here's the thing, the future relies on getting new blood involved. > My recent experience in trying to get involved in the project by > understand the workings of the organisation has been a long and > relatively painful process. So much so that I failed in my commitment to > the other election officials. I do not want to detract from any of the > contribution of any of the volunteers, as I know no from other projects > I'm involved in the commitment it takes. > > I would like to know the candidates views on making it easier for those > that want to participate, especially non coders, to do so, and how they > propose to do it. > > From reading the mailing lists, I can see that this has been touched on > on and talked about quite a bit. I feel it needs to be moved up the > priority list. Not being one to make comment if I'm unable to contribute > I'm happy to volunteer in this effort regardless of election outcome. > > Cheers, > Ariez > > On 15/01/2020 17:09, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > > [ Delayed by 2 weeks plus a night due to DNS/mail server mis-config. :-( ] > > > > On Thu 2019-12-26, Ish Sookun wrote: > >> It's 26 December! The call for nominations and applications for the > >> openSUSE Board election has ended. We received four applications. > >> The list of candidates is as follows: > > Thank you, Ish! And a huge thank you to the four candidates > > for stepping up and volunteering their energy and time. > > > >> Should you have any question for our candidates, please feel free > >> to ping them. > > 1. What do you see as three, four strenghts of openSUSE that we > > should cultivate and build upon? > > > > 2. What are the top three risks you see for openSUSE? (And maybe > > ideas how to tackle them?) > > > > 3. What should the board do differently / more of? > > > > 4. If you had a blank voucher from the SUSE CEO for one wish, > > what would that be? > > > > 5. What is your take on the Foundation? What do you consider > > a realistic outcome of that endeavour? (And if different, what > > outcome would you like to see?) > > > > > > Thanks, > > Gerald > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org > To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org