openSUSE:Project meeting

This meeting is meant to discuss the latest developments in and around openSUSE. An IRC meeting is effective when we have the following ingredients:

1. We are looking for real time, highly interactive discussion
2. with a focus on decision making
3. on a topic that has had pre-meeting discussion on the mailing lists
4. and the right set of people are able to attend
5. with a summarized writeup published widely to include, at least, -project ML + news.o.o. to get more people aware and potentially interested in joining in on the conversations.

• Where: #openSUSE-project opensuse-project IRC channel
• When: On demand, preferably be announced on opensuse-project mailing list
• Who: Everybody!
• Moderator: All project meetings are moderated by a board member

Agenda

If you add things to the agenda make sure to leave your name and a detailed description of what you want to discuss. Especially if you can't participate yourself.

• Quick review of action items from last meeting (current chair)
• Any other topics? (current chair)
• Next meeting date & chair (current chair)

Minutes/Transcripts

Recent minutes and transcripts:

• July, 24th: openSUSE:Project_meetings 2021

Minutes and transcripts up to 2019 (included) you can find at https://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/

Chairing the meeting

Here are some notes that can be useful for chairs:

• First, make sure that bugbot can be used. See "IRC Technicalities" on the meetings page.
  • Useful commands are: #startmeeting, #chair, #topic, #info, #action, #undo, #endmeeting.
  • Someone needs to be able to give op to bugbot. If you can't do that, please ping the usual chair.
• General rules:
  • the meeting lasts one hour :-)
  • encourage people to talk, but try to keep the discussion focused and interesting (sometimes, you might need to interrupt some endless discussion).
  • don't forget to properly use the #topic, #info and #action bugbot commands to make sure we have proper minutes. People often forget to use #info, which makes the minutes useless, so don't hesitate to repeat what got said with #info to log that in the minutes.
• Before the meeting, gather information about the different agenda items so you can be a backup for each topic, in case the person who's supposed to deal with it is not present.
• Begin the meeting by welcoming people and reminding them about the current agenda. Ask if people have additional agenda items.
• Start each topic with #topic, and ask the person who raised the topic to introduce it and launch the discussion.
• End with a Q&A session.
• Update the topic of #opensuse-project to update the date of the next meeting.
• Send minutes to the opensuse-project mailing list.
• Clear agenda for next meeting in this wiki page.