Archive:Board meeting 2025-06-24/25

Board Meeting Monday 2025-06-24/25 14:30 CEST

• Present: Ish, Jeff, Shawn, Simon, Gerald
• Excused:
• Missed: Rachel
• Guests: Patrick (partially), Doug (partially)

Location

• This board meeting was held in-person at the SUSE offices in Nuernberg

Agenda

Tues

• Conference 2026

Wed Start at 11

• Asia Summit
• Governance / Structure
• Rename (private)
• Board Slot at the Conference (Friday 18:00)

Discussions

• Conference
  • Switch away from OSEM - Maybe to pretalx
  • Potential co-ordination opportunity with Fedora Flock
  • Potential co-ordination with SUSE Labs, not same day.
  • Also looking at timing with devconf.
  • Membership system
    • Simple would be through auth system: AI: Jeff to figure it out.
    • Ish will continue to work on a frontend for the existing database, it can then be migrated to auth when its ready.

• Discussion around auth
  • SUSE IT has been consulted, and there doesn't appear to be any immediate compliance issues with having community run Auth (for community services), there are still some other issues to discuss, such as Bugzilla
  • NB: At the openSUSE conference, SUSE IT presented a talk about the future of authentication, which allows the project to maintain its own metadata but ownership of the system and liability for GDPR compliance stays with SUSE

• SELinux Policy Issues
• Currently Policy is maintained with no community visibility, please see https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1240341

• Gerald: Discussion of Membership types.
  • Active
  • Emeritus
  • Stepped down/away/...
  • Expelled
  • Deceased

• OPI in OBS- AI: Jeff

Conference talk

• Membership rules update - Gerald
• Membership Tooling - Ish
• Governance Update - Jeff
• Jeff, SUSE's Technical Directions, Point release