# Board Meeting Minutes 16 May 1600 CEST ## Present - Richard Brown - Chair - Michal Hrušecký - Tomas Chvatal - Gertjan Lettink - Andrew Wafaa ## Absent - Kostas Koudaras - Family Bereveament - Bryan Lunduke ## General Items ### Travel Support Programme We have 13 Applications for oSC 16. 3 of them from GSoC students, 1 from a GSoC Mentor. Budget forecasts look promising, so we expect to be able to sponsor them all, though the exact level is still to be determined. AI: Andrew to confirm some details with Izabel ### Infrastructure Board is 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. The Board is also concerned by the long lead time on tickets to admin(a)opensuse.org. ### openSUSE Asia The Board have seen a draft of a proposal for openSUSE Asia. Proposal looks good, but we are waiting feedback on a few points AI: Richard to Chase. ### Trademark request The Board is still waiting for response about possible compromise agreement for outstanding Trademark request. ## 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 Board to put stuff on wiki regarding rules/scope of Treasurer *Gertjan to take care of this by the next meeting* ### 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* 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(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