Board/Meetings/20081210

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Dec 10th, 8pm - 10:20pm CET Participants: Federico Mena Quintero (federico1) Hendrik Vogelsang (henne) Michael Löffler (michl) Bryen Yunashko (suseROCKs) Pascal Bleser (yaloki) Joe Brockmeier (zonker), for the first hour

Advisory Board (zonker)

Proposal get reviewd by Novell's lawyers and then up to the project mailing list

Awarding good people

We should award outstanding contributors and good poeple Everybody agreed, just with what and how to find all valuable contributors?

openSUSE conference (zonker)

probably September '09 in the Nuremberg area Zonker clarified that all openSUSE talks will be public. But there migth be a few Novell internal talks (eg. company processes)

FOSDEM

- We should have a talk with the Board, kind of or meet and great (in our dev room) - there is probably an open source project track where openSUSE would fit to participate -> best to contact mlasars on that (AI: yaloki)

• Creation of thoughts page

Done in the Board wiki

Board blog

Some feel the board should have its own blog or a seperate channel to communicate. As spotlight.opensuse.org already exists its kind of a simple task to enlarge this to the openSUSE Board. An zonker is not lonely anmore. Everybody agreed to do so. AI: henne to make this happen

Board's public presence

To increase Board's presence in the community and visibility in the public we agreed on having a public Board Meeting in January together with the project meeting

Board articles

Rotate each board member to write an article on a topic the board agrees to speak to the public on. Bryen writes up an review 2008, the rest will review and should be sent out soon

Old AIs

• AI henne, post meeting logs to board wiki

Henne had an issue and didn't do it but will mail them around

• michl to write thank you letter

letter written but not sent out, waiting for the flash lights

Members approval

46 queued up again, should be down to 0 latest end of the month We'll meet on Dec 17th to go through them

Contrib repo

http://en.opensuse.org/Talk:Contrib This turned out in a long, constructive discussion. Meanwhile already announced, http://news.opensuse.org/2008/12/17/get-going/