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Board Meeting Monday 2025-08-04 14:30 CEST

  • Present: Gerald, Ish, Jeff, Shawn, Simon
  • Missed: Rachel
  • Guests: Lubos, MarcslR_FF, Patrick
  • Minutes: Gerald

Guidelines for Use of AI Tools

  • https://code.opensuse.org/board/tickets/issue/87
  • lkocman: Dirk suggested to make sure it's not in conflict with SUSE guidelines.
  • Original request was aiming at artwork generation based on negative feedback from Reddit. But it really should to be extended to articles, docs, code contributions as well.
  • For docs/artwork the biggest concern was to not lose some sort of personality touch via usage of generic, easy to recognize AI graphics or AI-monotone text.
  • github.com/openSUSE, src-o-o, code-o-o, gitlab of heroes is where we have a bit more control and can do recommendations for new projects. External projects are a different story.
  • Conclusion: Wait for SUSE AI policy which is work in progress.

Update after the meeting

  • Lubos reached out to people doing artwork requests and there is agreement to revisit existing yet abandoned https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Artwork on one of the Thursday meetings.
  • Gerald: thank y'all! :-)

Potential Hardware Donation

  • Patrick shared the following:
    • "The following equipment has been removed from part of [my company's] cloud infra due to a customer leaving.
    • It is now in storage in Zurich, Switzerland.
    • 1 x IBM v3700 V1 Storage array - SAS interface, 48 disks, mixture of SSD and SAS (largest drive is 1.8tb)
    • 1 x IBM v5000 V2 Storage array - fibre interface, 24 disks, mixture of SSD and SAS (largest drive is 1.8tb)
    • 3 x IBM x3550 M3 (1u) (used for NFS/backup)
    • 2 x IBM x3350 M4 (1u) (used for NFS/backup)
    • 4 x IBM x3550 M5 (1u) - most with 1tb+ RAM, (used for VM hosting) (2 with possible dual CPU)
    • 2 x IBM x3560 M5 (2u) - up to 1tb ram each (used for VM hosting)
    • 1 x IBM TS3200 tape autoloader, with 3 x LTO 5 drives (SAS interfaces from memory)
    • up to 6 x Juniper SRX240 routers
    • 2 x Juniper EX3300 48x1gb Switches (with 10gb uplink SFP)
    • 2 x Juniper EX2500 48x1gb Switches (with 10gb uplink SFP)
    • Most routers, switches and servers come with rackmount rails.
    • Most servers come with multiple NICs.
    • All servers equipped with licensed RSA2 adapters (offline remote access).
    • Cables! LOTS of cables.
    • We are deciding what to do with this equipment, given that it is mostly quite old, but still functional.
    • Perhaps the Heroes might be interested? Or alternatively the Geeko foundation could also host a limited) build service? My understanding is that Hetzner racks are quite cheap (in comparison to Equinix which is 5 nines)
    • Obviously moving it into Germany would require a van for a day or two if you wanted to do it on the cheap.
    • Thoughts and ideas are welcome."
  • SUSE has no need/good use for this equipment and cannot host it for openSUSE (Gerald, Jeff).

Refresh on topics discussed at the in-person meeting

  • Jeff needs to follow up on governance draft.
  • Jeff will initiate process to remove OPI from OBS.