Annual Discussion with openSUSE Board

The openSUSE Board (Richard Brown, Gertjan Lettink, Christian Boltz, Sarah Julia Kriesch, Ana María Martínez Gómez and Simon Lees) will present the outcome of their last F2F meeting, where they started driving its collective agenda for the next year.

After that, everybody is welcome to ask questions, give feedback, make suggestions and present ideas.

Transcript

1. The Board
   board@opensuse.org
   Annual Blah Blah Blah
   

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2. The Board
   board@opensuse.org
   Annual Discussion with
   openSUSE Board
   

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3. openSUSE Board
   “Leads” the overall Project
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   Act as a central point of contact
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   Helps resolve conflicts
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   Facilitate decision making processes where needed
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   Communicates community interests to SUSE (and visa versa)
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   Initiates discussions about new project-wide initiatives
   

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8. Communication with the Board
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   Talk to us at board@opensuse.org
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   Add items to our agenda
   – https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE_talk:Board_meetings
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   Public discussions welcome on
   opensuse-project@opensuse.org
   

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9. Wiki Changes
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   Restructured Board information
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   Updated https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board
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   Board Meetings
   https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_meetings
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   Board Elections & Membership – Work in Progress
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   New Theme
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   We are adding an open license to news.opensuse.org
   

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10. Ambassadors/Advocates
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    Program was effectively defunct
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    Anybody can represent openSUSE
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    https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Events
    

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11. Mailinglists
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    New list opensuse-support@opensuse.org
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    Dedicated support mailinglist
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    Reducing noise on opensuse-factory@
    – “bugzilla-first”
    – opensuse-support@ for “I’m not sure if this is a bug” problems
    

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12. Feature Requests
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    openFATE is shutting down
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    Wasn’t actively being used by our developers
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    Report directly to upstream (via Bugzilla, GitHub, etc)
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    Work underway to document correct location for various
    openSUSE projects & components
    

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13. Private Bugs
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    SLE Bugs are private by default
    – This is a problem when we work together
    – We work together a lot
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    Temporary Solution – mail bugshare@opensuse.org
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    Long Term – SUSE are committed to finding a solution that
    works, without sharing customer data
    

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14. Friends of openSUSE
    openSUSE sponsors many different projects and conferences we
    would like to make this more obvious, if you know of other
    examples please tell us
    

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15. Partners
    

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18. Matrix
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    Decentralised open source chat / messaging service
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    Can be integrated with IRC and other protocols
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    We are considering adding a server to supplement our existing
    chat options
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    What do you think?
    

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19. Service Packs
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    Upgrading is one of the biggest concerns for inexperienced
    people
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    openSUSE has an amazingly smooth upgrade path
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    To help with preconceptions about upgrades, what about
    Leap 15 SP1 rather than Leap 15.1?
    

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20. Conference Organisation
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    The openSUSE Asia community is an exceptional example of how to manage
    organising conferences
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    They have a committee responsible for
    – The calls for locations and papers
    – Assisting the local organisation team
    – Finding sponsors
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    We would like to create one for the openSUSE Conference
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    If you’d like to be involved get in contact with the board
    

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21. Conference feedback
    

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22. Join Us at www.opensuse.org
    

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23. Agenda
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    Board intro 4 RICHARD 5 EVERYONE
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    Face to Face Meeting 6-7 RICHARD
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    Communication with the Board 8 ANA
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    Wiki changes, official pages, theme change 9 ANA
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    Ambassadors/Advocates winddown 10 SIMON
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    Mailinglists – opensuse-support@ / Factory policy 11 SIMON
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    openFATE/Feature Requests 12 SARAH
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    Studio source (Maybe) RICHARD
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    Private Bugs 13 CHRISTIAN
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    Projects 14 ANA
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    Partners 15 ANA
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    Matrix 16 GERTJAN
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    Service Packs 17 GERTJAN
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    Conference Location/Committee SIMON
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    Conference Feedback for next meeting ANA
    

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    Credits
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    Richard Brown
    rbrown@opensuse.org
    Design & Inspiration
    openSUSE Design Team
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    guidelines/
    

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