[ I wanted to wait a few days after this meeting so that the proper ] [ announcement of Syds goes out before these minutes, and then ... ] [ missed. Apologies. Note that the 2020-02-15 meeting was really short, ] [ just an informal chat, and we did not have one on 2020-03-01, so with ] [ this there's only one set of minutes outstanding. ] ==== Minutes of openSUSE Board meeting 2020-02-01 ==== Present: Axel, Gerald, Gertjan, Neal, Vinz Excused: Simon Minutes: Gerald Next: Neal == Treasurer == * Introduction Syds * Financial controller/accountant for 15 years, variety of businesses & freelance * "everything with computers and numbers" * openSUSE member since last year * General discussion on the role of treasurer * SUSE is willing to share opex budget spent on openSUSE with board AI Simon: reach out to Andrew (outgoing treasurer) before any announcement == Follow-up on Year End Survey == * Not everyone on the board could join, but all very positive about the initiative * Good conversations * No specific actions for the board as a body * Individually we do/will support == Communications == * A bit of confusion around upgrade of the forums software, which turned out to be a misunderstanding * Idea: It would be great if various team share somewhat regular updates (monthly to quartlery maybe) about all the goodness they do, WIP, and challenges AI Neal: approach other Heroes on the idea of some regular update == Leap 15.3 == * One of us mentioned some specific technical issues they saw * Suggestion to raise with openSUSE release engineering team