Archive:Board meeting 2022-08-15

Board Meeting Monday 2022-08-15 13:00 CEST

• Present: Gerald, Axel, Mau
• Guests: Doug, Emily, Luna/bittin
• Excused: Attila, Syds

openSUSE.Asia Summit: questions from organizers

• https://code.opensuse.org/board/tickets/issue/50
• https://groups.google.com/g/opensuseasia-summit/c/K-IIGC6SZms
• AI Doug: respond re sponsoring
• AI Mau:: check with Attila about co-presenting a keynote at Asia summit. Mau 50/50 maybe traveling
• AI Gerald: respond that Mau/board are looking into

openSUSE moderation Team update

• Announcement and community meeting presentation postponed. WIP. No update at the moment

Tornado Cash situation and the consequences it could have for Free Software/openSUSE

• Discussion about the specific issue and whether/how to respond as project.
• Next step: send an email to project@ ML to inform about what happened and the consequences to free software, to start a discussion also about GitHub and source code infrastructure.
• Doug agreed to write such a email:
• https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/project@lists.opensuse.org/thread/SBZ3NSI27TN5WBJRIU6UJSHER3XLHO3M/
• Axel is talking with the FSFE
• Big thanks to Doug for raising this!

openSUSE Foundation? Update

• Patrick sent an email with a number of good data point.
• Gerald will answer with a follow-up thoughts, questions,..., hopefully getting more discussion going.

Meeting closed at 13:48 CEST