On 23 February 2016 at 05:54, Manu Gupta <manugupt1@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I have a question. Why are the financials a private matter for the board and why cannot they be shared with the community? I am confused about this a bit.

Thanks

Hi Manu, Most decisions involving money often include a third party and discussing such decisions in public could have a negative impact to otherwise good relationships with those organisations, events, and companies. More importantly than that, openSUSE's primary sponsor is SUSE, a publicly traded company in the UK. Therefore there are significant financial regulations and potential legal liabilities involved in any public declaration of finances. While the owner and the specific legislation is different since your time on the Board, the end result is the same, the Board will not be discussing detailed financial matters in public. However, we do (and will continue to do so) speak about when our sponsors make things possible with their kind financial support of the Project - for example SUSE's recent sponsorship of new OBS and openQA hardware. And (while this has never happened) if there is ever a time that something the Project wishes to do is hindered by a lack of money, that is something the Board will talk about as part of searching for sponsors Generally speaking, I don't like the Board or the Project spending too much time worrying about money - Through the generosity of SUSE and our other sponsors we always seem to manage to find the money needed for the activities we are organising. Let's focus on what we want to do, get that organised and bootstrapped, and if money is an issue then you can rely on the Board to work with our sponsors or help find new ones to work out how to make it happen. Regards,

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Richard Brown <RBrownCCB@opensuse.org> wrote:

...

Meeting Minutes 8th Feb 2016 3PM CEST

These minutes were approved in the Board Meeting on 22nd Feb 2016

Present Everyone

Topics Board Meetings Face to Face Board Meeting KDE Statistics

Board Meetings Board discussed the idea of recording Board Meetings hangouts. Due to the sensitive and private nature of some of the discussions (financial, personal, conflict resolution) it was decided to *NOT* record Board meetings regularly. Meeting minutes however will be noted, with Board Members taking turns to do so Public Board meetings to discuss particular topics will be done on request, with IRC being the most likely tool for the job (though Jangouts could be an alternative) AI: Michal to take next meetings minutes

Face-to-Face Board Meeting The Board will have it's annual face to face board meeting in Nuremberg in March - provisional dates at 19-20th March This Board meeting is the primary opportunity for the new Board to meet each other and discuss the big topics for the year. We therefore want YOUR suggestions for those topics Existing ones already on our radar include priorities for next year

• The TSP - Status and possible improvements
• Event & Project Sponsorship - Reviewing last years, setting

• Community, Communication and Marketing - After the last year of wide Technical change in the Project, it seems logical to spend this year focusing on addressing the other aspects of the Project, changing what needs to change, and addressing 'organisational debt' in areas where we haven't spent enough effort lately. The Board intends to discuss, identify areas of possible improvement, and hopefully push things in that direction.

KDE The Board discussed the situation with KDE Project Their decision to create a competing distribution is a concern, as are some other discussions happening within the KDE community. The openSUSE KDE Team have the full support of the Board and the board agreed to work closely with our KDE Team to make sure they feel supported, and help them any way they can with any discussions with upstream KDE.

Statistics Richard met Fedora's Statistics expert at FOSDEM. There seems to be interesting opportunities to work together and improve the quality of the statistics available in both Projects. Looking forward to see what comes of those opportunities going forward

To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org

-- Regards Manu Gupta

-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org