RE: Ask your openSUSE Board candidates questions

1. Why are you running for the openSUSE board? (Some of you have covered this already.)

Specifically - reform and change.
* Helping the move to a charitable foundation. This should open up new sources of funding.
* Embracing new users, and new technologies. Start a outreach program to get both more users, and companies involved in using the product set.

2. Clearly you care a lot about openSUSE and have contributed to the
project. What do you think will you be able to add as a member of the
board?

* A fresh point of view, with a open perspective
* Commercial experience - I've run various companies over the last 35 years.

And what would be the opportunity cost, i.e., what might you not be
able to do, or do less of, for openSUSE in that case?

* I can devote to about 4-8 hours per week to the new role.
* As far as my company is concerned, it will be counted as "training" ;)

3. What would you like the board to do differently / more / less of?
* As "elected officials" the board has a duty to take decisions to ensure that the project both survives and thrives.

4. What are your thoughts on an openSUSE Foundation or similar structure?
If positive, how would you address that practically and what, if any, role
do you see for yourself in the way there?

* I am specifically interested in moving to a foundation as soon as possible, to ensure the future growth of membership, projects and community.
* I've already provided an initial report and wish to expand on it to drive this forward.

5. What are you biggest worries around / for openSUSE? (And how might we tackle those?)

* Lack of pro-activity will cause the the project to wither.
* Running it as a commercial/charity entity will reduce the chances of this occurring.

Bonus question:

6. What makes you happy about openSUSE? What do you appreciate, enjoy?

* I like the community and the output of that community in terms of the software that they contribute to.
* In my experience openSUSE has always been about high quality, and I would love to support the endeavour.
* The beer isn't bad either.

On Mon 2022-11-07, ddemaio wrote:
> Please ask your questions (Ask us Anything) in this thread so we can 
> keep the conversations focused and centralized for all the candidates 
> and members who want to ask questions of the candidates.
>
> All the candidates are in cc and you can find their profiles at the 
> board election wiki. https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election

This is a great idea (and I meant to ask questions two weeks ago, 
but ... personal circumstances).

This may be my most difficult choice in an election as an openSUSE 
member so far. (A great problem to have, of course.)

Here are some aspect I am curious to learn more about:

 1. Why are you running for the openSUSE board? (Some of you have 
covered this already.)

 2. Clearly you care a lot about openSUSE and have contributed to the 
project. What do you think will you be able to add as a member of the 
board? 

And what would be the opportunity cost, i.e., what might you not be 
able to do, or do less of, for openSUSE in that case?

 3. What would you like the board to do differently / more / less of? 

 4. What are your thoughts on an openSUSE Foundation or similar structure?
If positive, how would you address that practically and what, if any, role 
do you see for yourself in the way there?

 5. What are you biggest worries around / for openSUSE? (And how might we 
tackle those?)

Bonus question:

 6. What makes you happy about openSUSE? What do you appreciate, enjoy?

Thank you,
Gerald