# Board Meeting Minutes 2 May 1600 CEST ## Present - Richard Brown - Chair - Michal Hrušecký - Tomas Chvatal - Gertjan Lettink - Bryan Lunduke ## Absent - Andrew Wafaa - Treasurer - Public Holiday - Kostas Koudaras - Public Holiday ## General Items ### Budget/Financial Transparency There has been a request for the Board to make the openSUSE Projects financial records more open. As openSUSE is primarily sponsored by SUSE, it is ultimately SUSE's right to decide the public visibility of the details of their sponsorship of the project. Currently, as in previous years, there is no plans for SUSE to provide public records regarding their sponsorship of the openSUSE Project. The Board recognises the recent appointment of a Treasurer may have given an incorrect impression regarding the intent of the role. The role of the Treasurer is to provide a contact point between the Board, Community, and Sponsors (including SUSE) on matters regarding money. It does not have any responsibility to change the status quo regarding Financial reporting. That said, both the Board and SUSE are keen to talk about the good things made possible through SUSE's sponsorship of the Project. The Board are pleased to report that this year, as in previous years, all requests that has required financial sponsorship from SUSE has been fulfilled. openSUSE Asia, openSUSE Conference, openSUSE presence at many events around the world, the Travel Support Program, the Local Reimbursement Program, much of our merchandise and our infrastructure, and more would all not be possible without SUSE's direct financial sponsorship. And this is neglecting the direct contribution of numerous SUSE employees, often as a key or core part of their day jobs. As we're talking about sponsorship we'd also like to draw everyone's attention to the amazing list of over 10! sponsors that are helping make the openSUSE Conference happen this year https://events.opensuse.org/conference/oSC16 ### oSC 16 CFP went well. Very pleased with the large number of Proposals. The Board recognise the work of the CFP is more complicated than in previous years and is willing to help the CFP committee with selection if necessary. ### Trademark request The Board is still waiting for response about possible compromise agreement for outstanding Trademark request. ### Infrastructure The Board is concerned about the number of reports about slow download.opensuse.org performance reported over recent weeks. This will be raised in Richards next meeting with SUSE Management. ## Action Item Review Due to the large number of action items, the progress of these will be split into 3 sections - DONE; This task is complete and will not be discussed in future meetings - WIP; This task is in progress, and will be discussed in future meetings - TODO; This task is still waiting for some progress by the Board ### DONE Douglas put together a new Sponsorship document Tomas sent out the Call for Volunteers for the "openSUSE Release Team" - Amazing response so far ### WIP Board + Ludwig to figure out what to do with all the Volunteers for the "openSUSE Release Team" *Richard & Ludwig to discuss* Board is discussing some ideas with our various Desktop Teams Michal is working on tooling and the process of retiring members *Nice, friendly, contact emails have been drafted, first experiments will be soon* Board to put stuff on wiki regarding rules/scope of Treasurer *Gertjan to take care of this by the next meeting* Michal is retiring connect.opensuse.org and doing the Membership tooling Tomas has talked with Craig about OBS team preparing the code for maintaner tidyup *Feature in OBS teams TODO* Bryan has started arrange informal exploratory discussions with ownCloud and Kolab about closer relationships *Meetings still expected in the next week or two* Kostas is reaching out to our few bloggers on lizards.opensuse.org about moving to other platforms. Richard has been talking to Douglas about the possibility of moving news.opensuse.org to a new blogging platform. Richard's personal blog is running a potential candidate (Jekyll with custom openSUSE theme) http://rootco.de ### TODO Board to request release-team@opensuse.org list for the Release Team Board to investigate alternatives for voting & membership management _To be done after the Membership Tidy Up_ Tomas will investigate Helios voting system for openSUSE Richard to review/tune up filtering in current system so trademark enquiries don't get lost Tomas will talk with Andrew and Marketing teams about possible Kickstarter Board intends to create a skeleton of the getting started guides to help people get started with Using, Joining, and Partnering with openSUSE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org