On 15 October 2017 at 13:07, Knurpht - Gertjan Lettink
Op zaterdag 14 oktober 2017 23:20:07 CEST schreef Richard Brown:
What do we all think? My feeling is we should be friendly, get a better picture of what they want and then point them in the right direction so they can do it and/or work with the relevant package maintainers.
Yep from me.
-- Gertjan Lettink, a.k.a. Knurpht
As one of my Board colleagues accidentally sent his reply to this public list, I guess I'll explain what's going on a little earlier than planned Station X (https://stationx.rocks/), a Linux Laptop/Desktop vendor approached the Board investigating the possibility of doing things closer with openSUSE in the future. They're already shipping Leap and Tumbleweed devices, some of their team run openSUSE distributions themselves, but there are some obvious areas where the Projects advice and guidance could help smooth a few rough edges for them and their customers They're keen to contribute back to the distribution, they seem very passionate to ensure the pre-loaded distros they are using shine on their own merits, and don't diverge in ways that might make us uncomfortable. So the Board was discussing how best to get them started in the Project. Gertjan was replying to my opinion of how we should approach this. If you see Station X or Board members asking questions around the project or asking about specific hardware enablement stuff from package maintainers, now you know why ;) In addition and in a similar vein, we've been working in a similar way with Tuxedo Computers already (http://tuxedocomputers.com) and while they aren't quite shipping Leap on their hardware yet I was showing off a prototype of the hardware at SUSEcon ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6iZ5h1LAS0 ) and the laptop is actually on it's way to Beijing and then Tokyo for openSUSE Asia.. Was going to be a surprise..so..surprise! ;) If anyone has any ideas they want to throw into the ring regarding our projects collaboration with these and other hardware vendors, please feel free to use this unexpected thread to do so. - Rich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org