On 4/6/21 6:48 PM, Richard Brown wrote:
On Fri, 2021-04-02 at 17:24 +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
On Fri 2021-04-02, David Mulder wrote:
[ actually discussing pulling the plug ] being considered. I assume this is about RMS?
We wanted to make this a broader assertion, not specific to just one organization.
As far as the FSF goes, we actually discussed this (also with Doug) and agreed to not sponsor until we hopefully can feel more confident again.
Gerald
Dear Gerald,
Given this news, I would like to suggest that the Board reconsiders whether it's actions on this topic actually reflect our own principles
"We want be open and work transparently" from https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Guiding_principles
To read this threads initial public statement and note the absense of any specifics and then subsequently learn that the Board did discuss and make a decision regarding a specific organisation, I am left feeling that the Board is trying to act in an obfuscating manner.
Even though I approve of both the initial message and the decision regarding sponsorship of the FSF, I do not approve of how the Board has conducted itself on this topic.
As part of our openness and transparency this was published as part of the minutes where we discussed this issue as can be seen in the link below. It is somewhat unfortunate that these minutes were not fully ready to be sent out at the same time, however that meeting contained several complex issues and as you would understand that did have an impact on how quickly we were able to publish the minutes. https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/project@lists.opensuse.org/thread/6... -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B