Hi Augustin On 10 August 2012 08:50, Agustin Benito Bethencourt <abebe@suse.com> wrote:

Hi,

As you probably know, the team within SUSE supporting the openSUSE community is going through some changes. To begin with, I have joined SUSE as Team Leader [1] and we are hiring [2] to fill other vacant positions. Secondly, to reflect the team's increased responsibility for openSUSE within the company, we've dropped the term 'Boosters' to become simply 'the openSUSE team'.

We are concentrating our efforts on three main tasks. a.- 12.2 Release b.- openSUSE Conference and openSUSE Summit (especially the first one since it is larger) c.- Internal reorganization

a.- 12.2 Release

Those of you involved in the technical side are already aware that Ismail Doenmez is now part of the (virtual) Release Team, assisting Coolo with release management. This team is working alongside you on having the best possible openSUSE 12.2 release from the technical point of view.

The release process of openSUSE, like any other complex integration process, requires the participation of people from different teams and expertise areas. An open project combines community, SUSE and other professional contributions as well as external involvements like media production. This makes the management/coordination perspective even more complex.

One of the things we think is needed is to update the documentation related with the release. We thought it was the first step to go through the entire process, analyze it and improve it for future releases.

So, we are talking internally with the people involved in previous releases collecting what they did, trying to have a simple document as an early result. Yes, this is preventing some of us on focusing on "real release work" for a few days, but we hope that will save us time in the near future.

Whatever we do can only ever be partial if we do not take account of the huge amount of work on openSUSE done by the community.

So next week, we will publish a draft describing the release processes, so that you can give us input for an open release process. The goal is not to have a perfect document this first iteration, but a useful document. This draft will include the actual 12.2 release date. As you can see, we are aiming to meet the adjusted schedule.

b.- oSC'12

We will give you some update about the openSUSE Conference (from our perspective) later this month. Please ping any of the team members if we haven't done it by the end of August. Obviously you can ask Michal Hrusecky for details any time.

c.- Internal reorganization

SUSE is concentrating the professionals that work full time on openSUSE around a single team. So in addition to the technical support we usually provided, this team will also provide community, marketing and economic (coordination) support to the Free Software project. We will also serve as link to the service team, who takes care of the infrastructure, and other teams within SUSE which work is directly on indirectly related to the community.

The goal of this new configuration is: 1.- Simplify management and coordination. 2.- Increase community engagement. 3.- Improve efficiency.

We expect to provide a clearer view of how these changes can be executed during the openSUSE Conference. The idea right now is to use the event to collect as much input from you as possible. we will close our Action Plan afterward.

[1] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2012-06/msg00258.html [2] http://www.suse.com/careers

Saludos -- Agustin Benito Bethencourt openSUSE Team Lead at SUSE abebe@suse.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org

I'm sure I've said it already, but if I haven't, welcome aboard :-) Thank you for taking the time to communicate with the community on what is happening, and I hope it will continue. Historically, communication between SUSE and the community has been one of the weaker points, but has slowly been getting better. Things like this go a long way and are very much appreciated. If you can keep up the updates, it will help alleviate any stress and also potentially silence some of the detractors. We all know and accept (well OK some people refuse to do the latter) that you will have to make decisions that will upset some people, but being able to back your decisions up with clear and open facts communicated to everyone can have such a positive effect. Thanks and keep up the good work, Andy -- Andrew Wafaa IRC: FunkyPenguin GPG: 0x3A36312F -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Agustin Benito Bethencourt <abebe@suse.com> wrote:

Hi,

As you probably know, the team within SUSE supporting the openSUSE community is going through some changes. To begin with, I have joined SUSE as Team Leader [1]

Welcome! I hope you enjoy your new role. In fact, I'm sure you will, I've met so many amazing people via openSUSE.

and we are hiring [2]

A marketing writer! I wish I lived in the USA!

Secondly, to reflect the team's increased responsibility for openSUSE within the company, we've dropped the term 'Boosters' to become simply 'the openSUSE team'.

From a marketing POV, I'm glad to hear it - it always sounded to me a bit like a 'boy scout' club or something, not really reflective of the awesome work the team does.

The goal of this new configuration is: 1.- Simplify management and coordination. 2.- Increase community engagement. 3.- Improve efficiency.

Speaking from the periphery, this seems like an excellent idea and should see contributors efforts used more effectively. warm regards -- IRC: helen_au helen.south@opensuse.org helensouth.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org