Archive:Board meeting 2020-01-21

Present: Axel, Christian, Gerald, Gertjan, Marina, Simon

FOSDEM

• Several of us (board members) are going to attend FOSDEM in Brussels, February 1st/2nd 2020.
• We'll also be attending the LibreOffice social dinner Saturday evening.

openSUSE+LibreOffice conference

• Refresher: October 13-16, 2020 in Nürnberg
• https://events.opensuse.org/conferences/oSLO

• A logo has been jointly selected by the openSUSE and LibreOffice teams; details to follow on news.opensuse.org.
• Going to use openSUSE infrastructure for call of papers.
• Looking for some volunteers on the organization team; if you are interested please reach out to Marina Latini <deneb_alpha@opensuse.org> and Douglas DeMaio <ddemaio@suse.com>.
• (Gertjan is going to help via IRC and with submission reviews.)
• KDE will celebrate their 24th anniversary on the first day of the event, so there may be opportunity for some joint celebration.

Marina has joined SUSE

• Since there's only a single elected SUSE employee on the current board this does not impact the constitution of the board.
• Marina is going to update https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board .

Minutes of this meeting

• We'll strive to do better going forward.
• Gertjan and Simon hope to send minutes for past board meetings out soon.

openSUSE Forums Move

• The move of the openSUSE Forums from Micro Focus IT in Provo to the openSUSE Heroes in Nürnberg is in the works.
• Gerald had to escalate syncing of the database which got stalled, hoping for resolution soon.

Board Election

• Board election is ongoing (190 voted at the time of the meeting).

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2020 proposal

• We received what looks like a nicely worked out proposal.
• AI all board members: review and provide feedback.