# Board Meeting Minutes 25 July 1600 CEST ## Present - Richard Brown - Chair - Bryan Lunduke - Kostas Koudaras - Gertjan Lettink - Andrew Wafaa (Treasurer) ## Absent - Tomas Chvatal - Work - Michal Hrušecký - Moving home ## General Items ### oSC 17 Partnerships oSC 16 was a great success in part because of the wide selection of interesting Keynote speakers and Partners involved in the conference. We want to build on that success, which means we need to start thinking about who to involve with oSC 17 already. Next Board Meeting will be focused on this, and we will be inviting both Roland Haidl (Director of Operations & Communities at SUSE) and Douglas DeMaio (openSUSE Marketing Manager) to discuss this with us. ### Mailinglist Moderation Tomas sent a formal warning to a misbehaving mailinglist poster. Warning recieved a mixed response from the contributor. Board decided to continue to encorage and positively reinforce good behaviour. ### TSP Lots of positive feedback from users of the TSP for oSC 16 One bit of feedback from SUSE's finance team - Please submit applications in only one currency AI: Andrew to discuss with Ancor about changing the application to stop 'split currency' applications. ### openSUSE Asia Board has confirmed the amount of SUSE's sponsorship for openSUSE Asia with the openSUSE Asia team ### Trademark Request The Board have heard from the members with the outstanding Trademark request. Local legal requirements complicate our proposed solution. Negotiations ongoing. ### Membership Tidyup No action as Michal is busy moving house ### Infrastructure The Board remains concerned about ongoing Infrastructure issues. Board notes that some efforts have been made to improve the situation with www.opensuse.org and other Provo hosted openSUSE services, but would like to see a sustainable long term solution. Recent changes to www.opensuse.org are still not deployed. The Board has noticed some progress on tickets to admin(a)opensuse.org. AI: Richard to continuing having regular meetings with Roland and Lars to drive progress in this area. ### SLE Packages The Board has spotted a number of cases in Leap 42.2 Alpha 2 where packages inherited from SLE are newer than the ones available in Tumbleweed or Devel Repos. Reminders seem to have helped, but problem still ongoing. AI: Richard to send both general and directed reminders internally at SUSE to remind them of the SUSE company policy to contribute to Tumbleweed before/in parralel/in sync with their work on SLE. ### KDE The Board is very pleased to see Plasma 5.8 has been declared an LTS release, but notices it's estimated release date is possibly too close to Leap 42.2 estimated release date to make it's inclusion easy. As an LTS Plasma release seems to be a natural choice for a distribution like Leap, the Board will happily support in any way it can, any efforts from both the openSUSE Project and upstream KDE to investigate whether we can somehow integrate Plasma 5.8 before the release of Leap 42.2. ## 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 ### 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 retiring connect.opensuse.org and doing the Membership tooling and maintenance. 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, nextCloud and Kolab about closer relationships. Had some good chats at oSC 16. *Bryan to keep driving* 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(a)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(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org