Andreas Jaeger wrote:
We are the openSUSE Community - a friendly, welcoming, vibrant, and active community. This includes developers, testers, writers, translators, usability experts, artists, promoters and everybody else who wishes to engage with the project.
I have read everything again - I'd just like to add one or two comments.
To grow the openSUSE Community, we will put contributors first and focus on the following activities:
* Build a lively and active community * Increase contributor visibility * Attract contributions by empowering our community to influence and shape the Project in all aspects * Make contributing easy by eliminating or greatly reducing bureaucratic obstacles and having great governance * Market the Project
I'm not completely certainly what to read into "great governance", but overall the above sounds really good.
This includes the following activities in order to excel in our goals:
* Create tools that support community activities * Establish the openSUSE Foundation * Improve visibility through announcements, news, blogs, tweets, etc * Give presentations about the Project
These last two are really just one: Improve visibility through prsentations, announcements, news, blogs, tweets, etc
* Emphasize the value of communication and recognize cultural diversity within our community
My wife (who for her sins must spend a lot of her time on the carpeted upper floors in the corporate world) concurs - this is unnecessary corporate blurp. She suggested it be, at best, referred to the openSUSE Principles.
* Foster governance discussions * Mentor new contributors * Praise contributors (Publicity, bounties, ...)
Somehow I feel the last two should be combined into something about actively and positively encouraging and acquiring contributors. I also think it is an area in which we, as a project, have not been doing overly well.
We will also do the following activities:
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* Encourage technical discussions (via mailing lists and forums)
I do wish they could be combined. If we genuinely value communication, this is ought to be a top priority.
Note that we are very well aware that anything we do depends on the willingness of our community to drive it and make it successful. The openSUSE Community Board sees its leadership role in making coherent proposals and driving community decisions -- not in just taking decisions on behalf of the community.
Very well put.
Note that openSUSE has evolved from it's initial launch with little participation to being now a real open source project. It has many sponsors including Novell as main sponsor. The sponsors are part of the Project and will support it in various ways but not control the project. openSUSE being an open source project means that everybody in the community can contribute equally to it in all aspects of the project and should not depend on any of the sponsors doing everything.
Also very well said. It would be good (but not urgent) to clarify the sponsors' position and responsibilities. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (17.8°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org