And just FYI (because a curious party asked) ;)
This meeting lasted 51 minutes. We schedule 1 hour for our bi-weekly meetings.
On 5 April 2016 at 15:04, Richard Brown
# Board Meeting Minutes 4th April 1600 CEST
## Present
- Richard Brown - Chair - Michal Hrušecký - Tomas Chvatal - Gertjan Lettink - Bryan Lunduke - Andrew Wafaa - Treasurer
## Absent
- Kostas Koudaras - Last minute emergency, contributed to some agenda items via email.
## General Items
### TSP Committe Proposal Izabel proposed a TSP committee for oSC16. As the Board are already working on figuring out a more streamlined future for the TSP the decision was made to forgo this option and accelerate our plans. Board discussed the idea of Andrew taking responsibility for the TSP immediately. Andrew needs full access to the TSP Application. Richard has mailed Ancor.
### openSUSE Asia Was approved at F2F meeting, the openSUSE Asia CFH commitee have been informed. The Board is looking forward to see proposals from candidate locations.
### oSC16 Preparation is progressing well. Growing number of sponsors! Famous FOSS Faces in attendance! Please help spread the word! CFP is still open! https://events.opensuse.org/conference/oSC16
### Trademark request The Board recieved a request regarding the use of the openSUSE trademark in a domain name. The Board & Legal team to discuss
### Piwik The Board now have access to statistics service running behind most *.opensuse.org services
## 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
For more context you can find details in the recent Face to Face meeting minutes at http://rootco.de/2016-03-20-board-meeting-f2f-2016-p1/
### DONE
Ludwig has mailed the Board with any other "Roles" which are suitable for the planned "openSUSE Release Team"
Douglas has updated the sponsorship guide *Michal would like a copy to give to potential sponsors*
Board has discussed proposed ideas for a special event linked with oSC with the oSC organisers *Announcement expected as soon as SUSE can talk about it*
Infrastructure is now a standing topic in regular meetings between Richard and Roland Haidl
Michal has sent email covering our intent to notify and tidy inactive members *Feedback recieved and incorporated into plans*
Andrew Wafaa, Treasurer has been added to board ML
Board to announced Treasurer to Project
Doug is now involved in internal SUSE Marketing meetings, so we can have better collaboration with SUSE Corporate Marketing.
Infra team has given the Board a fresh list of all openSUSE.org services
### WIP
Board + Ludwig to send a 'Call for Volunteers' for the "openSUSE Release Team" *Richard if he has time this week, Tomas next week if not*
Board is discussing some ideas with our various Desktop Teams
Michal is working on tooling and the process of retiring members *Draft list of people to be contacted has been produced. No obvious errors* *Nice mail to check if people want to remain a member needs to be sent. A mailinglist would be nice for the responses to go to.* *Michal working on detecting Forum activity*
Michal is retiring connect.opensuse.org and doing the Membership tooling
Kostas has taken care of the Negotiation regarding FOSSCOMM *Mostly done, but considered WIP to track it in next meeting*
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 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. Soruce is available in http://github.com/sysrich
### TODO
Board to request release-team@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
Board to put together a Sponsorship policy document
Richard to review/tune up filtering in current system so trademark enquiries don't get lost
Board to put stuff on wiki regarding rules/scope of Treasurer
Tomas will talk with Andrew and Marketing teams about possible Kickstarter
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