Hi Axel, Richard, On Mon, Nov 30, 2020, at 21:32, Axel Braun wrote:
Hello Richard,
somehow I had a feeling that you are going to ask something.... ;-)
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Regarding the legal structure, I think the Board is the only body we have right now in a position of sufficient trust and formal links with SUSE to be able to bootstrap such efforts.
That said, you posted meeting minutes in August that suggested the Board wished other people to take the lead in such efforts [1]
How do you explain the discrepency between your running for re-election on the premise that you'll push forward the formation of an openSUSE legal structure, and the statements from the Board you currently serve on that the Board shouldn't be the ones pushing that forward?
Following the mentioned meeting minutes there was a call to the community [2] to broaden the group of people working on foundation. There was little discussion afterwards, and mostly silence from then on.
This can lead to 2 conclusions - there is not sufficient interest in the community on a foundation in general and/or not enough interest to spend time work on this (given the difficulties we had finding a treasurer a very valid point) - self organization of this task does not work
Just today [3] there is a reaction that point one may not be valid (much appreciated Syds!). That leaves point 2, that it needs some more steering. Here the loops closes with my intend to drive this a bit more.
Regarding the discussions with SUSE, you as an employee are probably better than I as 'just community member' aware that there are some larger organizational changes ongoing. So we (the board) determined on our call on last Tuesday that currently is not a good time to approach SUSE with this - the dust needs to settle. I trust the judgement of the chairperson about the right timing.
For me I've asked about how to donate money to openSUSE before and been asking on Discord about the Foundation, but Richards email from today made me realise that there were actually links to the wiki about the project and that I want to contribute in the creation of the foundation + I can actually contribute in something that is more in line with my skill set. Just didn't want to take over the tread, so created a new one :) But please don't let me do it alone, as my skill set is not big enough for the entire transition.. BR, Syds
Thanks in advance for your answers,
Welcome, let me know if you have additional questions. Axel
[1] https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/project@lists.opensuse.org/message/ FYWMOARCYSN6PYOIQRVY7HB6WSRACFOH/
[2] https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/project@lists.opensuse.org/ thread/QYJ6VVYWK7VU5WOKF5SMCA6NJ3SHX57H/
[3] https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/project@lists.opensuse.org/ thread/2OPQYPB5F3LK3TJD5N2O6B43EPXWMVQO/ _______________________________________________ openSUSE Project mailing list -- project@lists.opensuse.org To unsubscribe, email project-leave@lists.opensuse.org List Netiquette: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Mailing_list_netiquette List Archives: https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/project@lists.opensuse.org