Hi folks,

plese find below the combined meeting minutes of 2 meetings of the openSUSE Board. Next Board meeting will be (was) held on March 25. For questions, topics the Board should address etc. please send an email to board@opensuse.org

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Board Meeting Feb 25 9pm - 11pm CET, Federico Mena Quintero (federico3) Hendrik Vogelsang (henne) Michael Löffler (michl) Bryen Yunashko (suseROCKs) Joe Brockmeier (zonker)

Board Meeting March 11 8:15 - 10pm CET Hendrik Vogelsang (henne) Michael Löffler (michl) Bryen Yunashko (suseROCKs) Pascal Bleser (yaloki)

Meeting chair: michl

Old AI's: spotlight AI: henne WIP - with IS&T Provo spotlight

Member approval - henne and yaloki want to hack the thing that it becomes more efficient - for now another round of manually importing from users.o.o into the board wiki is needed Note: meanwhile approx 90 member requests are imported and get reviewed AI: henne/yaloki

Improve IRC cloak and email address handling is it possible to let the cloak stuff be handled by somebody non-Novell? We need a second or third group admin to handle IRC cloaks beside of darix - yaloki volunteers to be the second group admin (called group contact) - federico/suseROCKs will ping or meet darix to get knowledge what has to be done and tries to attract some people helping darix AI: federico/suseROCKs

Trademark guide lines The guide lines are meanhwile published. This is a first step in the right direction. Any improvements should be written down here: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Trademark_Guidelines_use_cases Anyone who is not covered by the trademark guidelines but wants to use the trademark should ask for usage at permission@novell.com. The openSUSE board has a major say to give permission or not. Novell legal will track and archive the requests.

Current requests - ixsoft - openSUSE Education project - Benji's software portal - opensuse.ch - suseromania.ro

downlaod.o.o outage (March 10) the board should be informed about outages We should improve communication in kind of: we have an issue, we're working on it, the service is back. Just without the live report style from an accident.

hosting sw of projects at opensuse.org WIP - need additional hardware AI: michl/zonker to clarify who may sponsor this?

openSUSE conference Please send any ideas to zonker. We need to set up a frame work (session, topics, key notes) this month, plan enough roome/time for free discussion. Then announce it and open the call for papers. first: organizational frame AI: zonker