Op woensdag 5 juni 2019 15:46:18 CEST schreef Ish Sookun:
On 6/3/19 12:35 PM, Richard Brown wrote:
So whatever your views, please sound off in this thread, even if your view is already echoed by others.
Do you think openSUSE should change it's name?
No matter how much I'd like openSUSE to stay close to its roots by keeping the SUSE part, I feel that the arguments to be less dependent on SUSE and gain more infrastructure control weigh more. I am in favor of both the logo & project name change.
Regards,
Ish Sookun Here's where I am too. One of the things I love about these community discussions is that reading other people's input sometimes makes me change my mind, makes me aware of the emotional part in my reasoning. "openSUSE is my home" f.e. But it's not the name, it's the community, the project which are in my heart. And that is not bound to it's name. My feeling part of that community, attempting to contribute to the project somehow did not change when openSUSE was started.
Atm I think that we do need to go for a long term solution, hence include what may happen f.e. when SUSE's owners bring it to some Stock Exchange. It's shareholders on such an occasion might simply split it into parts to sell, parts to kill. A different name, own trademarks thus would also directly relate to financial indepence/less dependence. The relationship with SUSE is something I would like to keep, and one of the things I could imagine is to include a paragraph in the Foundation's charter that describes that, incl. a mutual agreement to confirm that relationship once a year or something like that. A reminder: let's please have this discussion as community members amongst eachother. It's about the future of the project and community, and I sincerely believe that we all want what's best for both, in the long term. -- Gertjan Lettink a.k.a. Knurpht openSUSE Board Member openSUSE Forums Team -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org