[opensuse-project] openSUSE Board Meeting minutes 2019-04-16
Board meeting 16 April 2019, 2200 CEST Attendees: Richard, Gertjan, Marina, Christian, Simon, Axel Guest: Doug deMaio openSUSE Conference & sponsorships (Doug) Doug reported on the ongoing preparation of openSUSE Conference 2019 in Nürnberg. As we are not a legal entity it is difficult to collect sponsor money. Doug working on a workaround Shirts and Bags are about to be ordered Doug has raised already the point that at least a separate Account would be beneficial for the collection of donations Board should narrow down the options on an organization and have an open discussion during the public board meeting at oSC Joining organization like SPI despite the x% charge? Still the issue that there is basically nobody from openSUSE to sign a contragt with SPI - it would be SUSE management oSC 2020 Conference There is a sound proposal from a team in Albania who organized already other openSource meetings like LibreOffice conference. The community is young and motivated in Albania. Ideally we have new location decided by September. Foundation model A foundation (like the LibreOffice/Document foundation) needs at least 50k€ to start-up, e.V. does not need this amount of money. Both models require a legal registration, changes to statutes require court approval, basic settings, like being a non-profit organization may even not be changed at all LibreOffice/Document foundation started just from donations, and collected this 50k in a short amount of time. Discussion is ongoing, but looks like the e.V. is more empowering to the community. We will try to invite an insider from Document foundation for next meeting to learn about pros/cons of foundation model IRC/Discord/Telegram/Matrix/Chat structures Most services are interfaced between each other in between (e.g. project channel on discord and IRC). Different types of users are preferring different channels - in general the bridging of different chat technologies was accepted by the community Some more volunteers are needed as IRC admins. Simon to raise call on openSUSE News Proposal/decision for writing minutes Christian initiated the proposal: We should go round robin, with one exception: Those who did not send out minutes in time has to write next minutes. Accepted by all particiants Meeting ended at 2330 CEST For the minutes: Axel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org
Hi,
oSC 2020 Conference There is a sound proposal from a team in Albania who organized already other openSource meetings like LibreOffice conference. The community is young and motivated in Albania. Ideally we have new location decided by September.
This sounds great, begone duopoly of Prague and Nuremberg :D
openSUSE Conference & sponsorships (Doug) Doug reported on the ongoing preparation of openSUSE Conference 2019 in Nürnberg. As we are not a legal entity it is difficult to collect sponsor money. Doug working on a workaround Shirts and Bags are about to be ordered
Doug has raised already the point that at least a separate Account would be beneficial for the collection of donations
Board should narrow down the options on an organization and have an open discussion during the public board meeting at oSC
Joining organization like SPI despite the x% charge? Still the issue that there is basically nobody from openSUSE to sign a contragt with SPI - it would be SUSE management
Foundation model A foundation (like the LibreOffice/Document foundation) needs at least 50k€ to start-up, e.V. does not need this amount of money. Both models require a legal registration, changes to statutes require court approval, basic settings, like being a non-profit organization may even not be changed at all LibreOffice/Document foundation started just from donations, and collected this 50k in a short amount of time. Discussion is ongoing, but looks like the e.V. is more empowering to the community. We will try to invite an insider from Document foundation for next meeting to learn about pros/cons of foundation model
I'm glad to see discussions increasing in size every week, just like the previous board, this one doesn't seem to want to disappoint :P
IRC/Discord/Telegram/Matrix/Chat structures Most services are interfaced between each other in between (e.g. project channel on discord and IRC). Different types of users are preferring different channels - in general the bridging of different chat technologies was accepted by the community Some more volunteers are needed as IRC admins. Simon to raise call on openSUSE News
If you are an op in an Freenode IRC channel, and want to bridge with other communication platforms, please familiarize yourself with [1] if your channel has the +r flag set, and send me your irc nickname, channel name, and make sure you are currently labeled as op, not just +o (although +O is enough). If you are an admin of a Telegram group, and want to bridge with other communication platforms, please follow steps 1 and 2 in [2] and send me the id and the group name over email. As for the rest, Discord and Matrix are 100% bridged already, and we have not had any requests regarding Slack/XMPP bridges. If you wish to discuss the bridges, I'm on IRC (lcp), Matrix (@hellcp:matrix.org) and Discord (@LCP#0968) daily, even during the weekends.
Proposal/decision for writing minutes Christian initiated the proposal: We should go round robin, with one exception: Those who did not send out minutes in time has to write next minutes. Accepted by all particiants
The best change of the current board yet ;)
Meeting ended at 2330 CEST
For the minutes: Axel
[1] https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/wiki/End-user-FAQ#i-am-a... [2] https://t2bot.io/telegram/ LCP [Stasiek] https://lcp.world -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org
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Axel Braun -
Stasiek Michalski