My ten-tokens worth below

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From: Richard Brown <rbrown@suse.de>
Sent: Monday 28th November 2022 14:12
To: project@lists.opensuse.org
Subject: Re: Ask your openSUSE Board candidates questions

On Sun, 2022-11-27 at 13:04 +0000, doug demaio wrote:
> Absolute reform, I would like to see the project rewrite it’s
> charter, make use of blockchain technologies and embrace newer ways
> of doing things, so that we can replenish the project with a
> succeeding/next generation of members. 

We are a project that has historically struggled to run single-
instance, centralised infrastructure for key parts of our project
operation.

eg. Our members database on https://connect.opensuse.org is no more
eg2. Our TSP and voting tooling have both been stories of long
struggles by very few people.

The voting tooling in particular would be of absolute importance for
any major reforms (they'd need to be voted on by the Membership at
least to be accepted)

Voting in order to have a vote? Sounds like that is something to be decided by the board, actually, since they would be voted in in the first place... ;)

How do you expect us, as a Project, to be able to run complicated,
multi-instance, distributed blockchain tooling when we've repeatedly
demonstrated we struggle with even single node systems?

Who will be funding all the additional hardware that blockchain
technologies would require?

All the additional hardware? Actually it is simpler than you think - it could be implemented as simple app, and run on every members system.

As a foundation we could seek out startups, for example, who are beginning to be engaged in this space, and collaborate with them.

(Or mature startups that would want a tax break for that matter).

Upsides for both parties. Just a thought.

Regards,

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Richard Brown
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