Hello Shawn, Am Sonntag, 7. Juli 2024, 21:47:21 MESZ schrieb Shawn W Dunn:
Pursuant to Richard and Robert's talk at oSC 2024:
https://media.ccc.de/v/4411-we-re-all-grown-up-opensuse-is-not-suse
This is a topic that needs to be discussed as a community, especially as it's currently a request from SUSE.
Ah, that sheds a different light on it. So SUSE wants to force the project to change its name...its not something thats grown out of the community (or maybe only a bit)
I do want to be clear, this message is me posting as "Community Member SFalken" not "openSUSE Board Member SFalken"
Myself, I'm in favour of "rebranding" the community project, and making it clear that openSUSE != SUSE. Far too much of the time in our support channels is spent clearing up these misconceptions, where new users (and even some experienced users), are saying things like "SUSE Should do $x" or "Why doesn't SUSE do $x?".
I tend to ignore these details.....
I'm less certain that I agree with Richards proposal of the individual projects sort of "go their own way", at least as he's laid it out, but again, this is absolutely a topic that deserves consideration.
Me neither - the road to insignificance. For the rebranding, I'm not a fan of it either, and I have stated that in the discussion after the above talk. Plus the points that justify a rebranding. Having SUSE putting a gun on the project is clearly another valid reason. So lets talk about terms and conditions then. It needs a lot of communication (and money) to do a rebranding properly. Did SUSE put a budget behind the gun? Cheers Axel