19:01:14 #startmeeting 19:01:14 Meeting started Wed Nov 3 19:01:14 2010 UTC. The chair is henne. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 19:01:14 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic. 19:01:24 #meetingtopic openSUSE Board Meeting 19:01:25 * rhorstkoetter is here 19:02:02 our beloved michl is here! 19:02:12 #meetingtopic openSUSE Board Meeting 19:02:12 * rhorstkoetter hugs michl 19:02:13 moin, moion 19:02:33 michl: honey is much appreciated by the family btw 19:02:33 * henne kicks bugbot 19:02:49 michl: thanks again 19:02:54 rhorstkoetter: glad to hear ;-) 19:02:58 #chair michl suseROCKs rhorstkoetter yaloki prusnak 19:02:58 Current chairs: henne michl prusnak rhorstkoetter suseROCKs yaloki 19:03:34 the agenda for this meeting is 19:03:37 rhorstkoetter, we have to be careful now... people misunderstand when we say "hone" and "michl"... we're referring to the food, not his woman. :-) 19:03:54 suseROCKs: certainly :) 19:05:07 1. openSUSE Foundation 19:05:08 2. Where do we need to improve ? 19:05:08 3. Questions & Answers 19:05:22 henne: ha, that's not the current one 19:05:35 Creation of an election committee is missing 19:05:45 oh i thought that was an old topic 19:05:50 okay then 19:06:14 3. Creation of an election committee is missing 19:06:18 just add one more topic... Election Committee 19:06:25 4. Questions & Answers 19:07:19 okay? 19:07:25 henne: yes 19:07:29 henne: Sir, yes, Sir 19:07:40 here 19:08:10 only one missing is yaloki 19:08:15 so first topic 19:08:21 #topic openSUSE Foundation 19:08:57 henne, I think you need to op bugbot before you can #topic 19:08:58 yaloki: can you provide the latest version of your foundation presentation from the conference ? 19:09:20 hm 19:09:25 #undo 19:09:25 Removing item from minutes: 19:09:29 #topic openSUSE Foundation 19:09:40 oh i thought it still was. sorry 19:10:05 yaloki: can you provide the latest version of your foundation presentation from the conference ? 19:10:13 probably the one and ONLy time I'll ever be able to give henne techie advice :-) 19:10:28 yaloki: you're around ? 19:10:43 So is there any movement on Novell Hill since our face to face discussion? 19:11:15 I'll set up a meeting with Jos and Alan to go ahead 19:11:30 suseROCKs: you're welcome to join 19:11:33 go ahed with what? 19:11:47 suseROCKs: the legal shmoo 19:11:55 ahh 19:12:05 bylaws, legal advice, election rules 19:12:07 etc. 19:12:09 the bylaws? 19:12:38 michl: do you need any help here? afaik we opted for german e.V. which I investigated earlier 19:12:39 basically getting the paperwork started so we have something to review and cheer/complain about. That's good. 19:12:41 henne: yes, any foundation needs bylaws 19:12:56 really? 19:13:02 * henne is shocked 19:13:40 rhorstkoetter: you're welcome as well to join 19:13:42 i think we should take this task back to us now 19:14:03 michl: will it be a ml discussion or what have you thought of? 19:14:07 so add everybody to this meeting 19:14:20 henne: yes, whole Board 19:14:44 rhorstkoetter: we discussed the foundation and shaped it already prior and during the conference 19:14:50 ok we're getting a little convoluted here.... or at least starting to... 19:14:51 yeah i think so. i mean we already drafted 0.000001 of the bylaws right? 19:14:59 so we have kind of a clear picture which is shared with Alan as well 19:15:26 the idea here is to hand over what we've discussed to the lawyers and answer any additional questions they may have and then let them do the grunt work and give back to us to review if we like it 19:15:39 so next seep is to get this in form and get legal advise 19:15:41 michl: I see. question is, you'd like to go ahead and I may help with the legal stuff cause that actually is what I'm specialized from a profession point of view 19:16:01 suseROCKs: basically yes. just that we're not "finished" with what we hand over 19:16:04 rhorstkoetter: you have a profession ? 19:16:06 ;-) 19:16:09 michl: I'd just like to know if we'll discuss on ml, have an IRC meeting or what? 19:16:29 rhorstkoetter: thats what we're trying to figure out :) 19:16:37 henne, ok what else did we need to finish up? refresh my memory 19:17:06 suseROCKs: bring all we wrote down on the board in NUE to one document 19:17:09 michl: yes, I'm on the home stretch of being "master of business administration and electrical engineering" while I specialized in commercial law and computer science 19:17:12 JFYI 19:17:14 :) 19:17:22 suseROCKs: we need to put it into form and phrase some of it 19:17:24 rhorstkoetter: thank you 19:18:02 do we really need another meeting for that? 19:18:12 henne: I vote for a ml discussion then. assigning tasks and collaborate/contribute 19:18:18 henne: no meeting needed 19:18:21 can't we just draft the bylaws on a piratepad or wiki page? 19:18:29 henne: +1 19:18:33 and discuss via mail 19:18:39 henne: that's what I'd propose as well 19:18:56 so it seems we have a consensus :) 19:19:02 yes 19:19:05 prusnak: seems so 19:19:31 who's starting piratepad? michl? 19:19:49 * michl can 19:19:56 michl: awesome 19:20:55 http://piratepad.net/openSUSE-Bylaws 19:21:18 Bylaws? Nebengesetze? 19:21:32 eh? 19:22:12 rsca: yes 19:23:39 okay, anything else to discuss on this topic right now ? 19:23:40 er no, it's Satzung (makes a lot more sense) 19:23:46 ok can we increase the pace here? 19:23:59 henne: is that you writing ? 19:24:10 michl: seems so 19:24:10 if so English would be the preferred language 19:24:28 sure. translate it :) 19:24:44 michl: i think we need german bylaws in the end 19:24:45 somewhat scary to look henne writing in realtime ;) 19:25:04 these are just the paragraphs from a standard german bylaw document 19:25:11 we have to start with something :) 19:25:16 so i would use german and me+bryen can googletranslate 19:25:17 michl: writing german e.V. bylaws in German makes more sense IMO 19:25:25 prusnak: +1 19:25:33 prusnak: or learn German 19:25:35 :) 19:25:38 You need to retain a German version though 19:25:49 rhorstkoetter: okay, but then we need to throw prusnak, suserocks and alan out of the team before 19:25:59 michl: not at all 19:26:12 michl: there is a tool called google translate 19:26:17 hm, why? i can look at machinetranslated text and give feedback as well 19:26:20 Google Translate is... suboptimal 19:26:21 imo we should start the fun in a language all understand and then translate it 19:26:29 yes 19:26:46 im also for writing the initial stuff in english and then translate it 19:26:48 if we'd sketch it in English, we need to translate back to German 19:26:52 I'm not sure I'd rely on Google Translate for important legal documents. But I digress... we'll deal with that as the time come. For now... pick up the pace dudes! 19:27:30 suseROCKs: +1 19:27:39 put back the text and I'll deal with it 19:27:43 we would obviously not use google translate to translate it to german ;) 19:28:03 just for the protocol: I think it makes way more sense to prepare the document in German in that particular case 19:28:16 rhorstkoetter: why? 19:28:16 henne: certainly not :) 19:28:32 i'm fine with both ideas 19:28:39 rsca, have we met before? 19:28:54 suseROCKs: not in real life as far as I can recall 19:29:13 wait 19:29:28 I saw you at the conference, but that's about it 19:29:29 henne: it's uncomparable harder to first search for english translations of german "fachbegriffe", just to translate them back afterwards 19:29:36 just my opinion 19:29:55 for a german e.V. bylaw it's important to have a good german document in the end 19:30:04 it is similarly hard to start with Simple English and look up the German specific forms. Direction doesn't really matter. 19:30:17 uhh guys.... 19:30:23 i don't think that we need to phrase a lot the specialized sections 19:30:27 the important matter for now is to focus on the content... not the language! 19:30:30 rhorstkoetter: FYI - the recommended lawyer we shall use doesn't speak German afaik 19:30:36 Make sure we have all the relevant points we want included for the lawyers to work on 19:30:40 michl: lol 19:30:58 suseROCKs: +1 19:31:14 michl: I hope he's at least aware of German law 19:31:28 that'd be desirable IMO 19:31:32 :-D 19:31:46 I'm sure they'll engage with a german lawyer just to be on the safe side.... 19:31:52 okay can we vote which way we do it? 19:32:05 We can deal with this as the time comes.... For now... we review our points on piratepad and move on! 19:32:18 A: english first then translate to german 19:32:24 and since English is the only common language all 6 of us speak, we do English :-) 19:32:32 B: german first and non-english speakers use google translate 19:32:46 * michl strongly recommends A 19:32:52 * suseROCKs begs for A 19:32:58 I vote for B (just in that special case cause of reasons outlined above) 19:33:28 * prusnak B 19:33:34 arrgh 19:33:39 A :) 19:33:44 ok, voted 19:34:09 Good thing Yaloki isn't here to vote B or we'd be in trouble.... 19:34:22 suseROCKs: then chair picks :) 19:34:53 :-) 19:35:01 ok voted upon... now move on? 19:35:45 suseROCKs: yes pleaaaaaaaaaase 19:36:17 okay so anything else we need for the foundation? 19:36:20 36 minutes to argue language is ridiculous 19:36:37 henne: not for now - we just need to push it forward 19:36:52 suseROCKs: unfortunatelly I fully agree with you 19:37:31 it is like it is 19:37:38 next topic then 19:38:04 #topic Where do we need to improve? 19:38:13 has items for this 19:38:27 This is possibly more of a -project meeting topic than board but... 19:38:29 then go ahead :) 19:38:45 please rmember these must be actionable 19:38:53 I'd like to propose that we do as Jos has been begging for... setting up our own openSUSE piratepad. Its getting extremely difficult to keep track of all the stuff we have out there 19:39:13 and semi-along those lines... maybe we should start combining the -project and -board meetings since they have some overlap 19:39:44 how exactly will our own etherpad help us to keep track of all the stuff ? 19:40:05 * rhorstkoetter just wonders who "j.eng" actually is 19:40:05 it wont and its a major battle with nasty java stuff 19:40:23 we already investigated this and everyone who could ran away screaming... 19:40:26 as I understand it, we can manipulate it to be better tracked. Right now, we get random numbers in the URL's and then its like uhh... where do we go if we lost our bookmarks, etc. 19:40:40 we should put the links in the wiki 19:40:40 ok 19:40:48 not in the bookmarks, just my 0.02$ 19:41:19 or just don't use the random numbers in the URL 19:41:35 that would take away all the fun :-) 19:41:42 you can use whatever padname you want 19:41:50 but as you've said its already been investigated, so its moot and we can move on 19:41:54 rhorstkoetter: a community member :) 19:42:22 huh? what's the community member in reference to? 19:42:36 suseROCKs: I guess henne himself 19:42:40 to j.eng 19:42:47 suseROCKs: seriously. you can go to piratepad.net/suseROCKs-own-little-pad and make it yours 19:43:02 anything else where we can improve ? 19:43:11 wait 19:43:13 and henne seriously... you pointed out its been investigated... I take your word for it and its off my mind now :-) 19:43:22 there was a second part :) 19:43:35 yes second part :-D combining meetings 19:43:40 yes 19:43:40 ah 19:43:47 i actually like that 19:44:03 * prusnak too 19:44:26 -project meetings have been too dry, and board meetings are more interesting but lack attendance. Put the two together and we boost ticket sales :-) 19:45:19 there is one problem. -project meetings have no decision making 19:45:23 we have 19:45:29 all the better to have both together 19:45:48 instead of... oh we gotta ask the board... let's wait until their meeting later that we can't actually make it to... 19:45:50 but we can't decide for -project topics 19:46:00 for most of them that is 19:46:07 that is fine 19:46:14 all depends on the situation. We'll deal with it as we can 19:46:35 and we explicitly make clear that there are "two" meetings. 1st half is project and second half is board 19:46:37 thats how i roll. lets do it :) 19:47:02 we need to find a good time, though 19:47:02 and lets also kill the 12:00 meeting 19:47:29 prusnak, a good time probably needs to be better determined after the election. For now we just start to move towards that goal 19:47:37 also we should set a fixed time for the "second half" 19:48:23 rhorstkoetter, sure, but I don't want that to become an excuse for board members to only show up at the second half. Board members need to be more observant of -project stuff, and that includes me 19:48:54 suseROCKs: so you want to wait for the elections for this? 19:49:01 suseROCKs: I honestly have no time to attend -project + -board .. at least not regularly 19:49:25 thus I'd like to have a fixed time for second half 19:49:39 i think we should wait for the elections 19:49:49 and then to discuss with new people 19:49:51 either you manage to attend both and if not you know a precise time for -board 19:49:54 ok 19:49:57 ok 19:50:05 but we like the idea, that is good 19:50:21 but if we need to find a time for a combined meeting we need to talk to way more people then to the new board members 19:50:23 prusnak: definitely, makes perfect sense 19:50:53 henne: how much timeshift is in between currently? 19:50:54 henne, thus the "move towards" and "finalize after elections" thingy :-) 19:51:12 suseROCKs: you're in a hurry? 19:51:17 suseROCKs: which directly translates to "postpone" for me ;) 19:51:28 ok 19:51:34 which is ok 19:51:44 rhorstkoetter, hurry is relative in the molasses pace we go by around here at times :-) 19:52:04 it's always postpone this postpone that 19:52:12 suseROCKs: what is mol? i understand the second part of the word :) 19:52:29 prusnak, LOL 19:52:35 "1 mole of a pure substance has a mass in grams equal to its molecular mass" 19:53:07 thanks smarty pants :) 19:53:14 rsca, you need to read more Archie comic books instead of science textbooks :-) 19:53:18 may we stay on topic? IMO it'd be a good opportunity to "move" the meetings together, i.e to get rid of the time in between 19:53:24 rsca: we are a elected (somewhat) democratic body. things take time :) 19:53:37 See I always said aristocracies work best! 19:53:38 rsca: I agree. postponing doesn't help to much 19:53:52 ok guys... listen 19:53:55 s/to/too 19:54:03 rsca: who cares what you say. shut up and write the bylaws slave! 19:54:08 ;) 19:54:08 はい。 19:54:24 henne identified that we need to talk to way more people on the -project side. So let's talk to them and find ideal times... then when the new board comes along... we present the ideal times and boom... we move on! 19:54:35 yes 19:54:43 anything we can fix now? 19:55:05 nope... those were my two thoughts. 19:55:12 sooner than in 3 months i mean 19:55:14 I think we need to move on to the next topic which is WAY more pressing ATM 19:55:27 fine with me 19:56:08 okay then next topic 19:56:21 #topic Election Officials 19:56:30 where are we with this? 19:57:10 how do one apply for being an EO? 19:57:10 Did we find any interesting candidates for the committee at the conference? 19:57:48 prusnak, in the past, we basically just asked people to volunteer directly. But this time I'd like to put out a call. Let more people know they can apply. 19:58:10 but first, I want to know if anyone has gotten some kind of a list so far of interested applicants. michl? 19:58:20 suseROCKs: nope 19:58:29 volunteer directly = write an email to board@o.o 19:58:31 ? 19:58:41 works for me 19:58:51 i asked how it was 19:58:54 not how it should be 19:59:02 how much volunteers do we actually need in total? is this decided yet? 19:59:10 no how it was was we asked people directly... "Wanna join?" 19:59:20 5 should be good 19:59:37 the more the better 19:59:39 and should have at least one member from previous committee to ensure consistency 20:00:10 ok so here's my proposed thoughts: 20:00:25 1. Advertise the team and ask people to apply 20:00:36 I'd say we put out a call at news + @project if we'd like to go for the apply thing 20:00:39 2. Be clear about what's involved in the job 20:00:48 3. Set a deadline for application 20:01:10 * rhorstkoetter likes that 20:01:12 4. Declare when we intend to have the election. (Keep in mind an election is also a membership drive so we must take that into consideration as well) 20:01:29 Questions? 20:01:42 when to have the election should be up to the EO's 20:01:47 i think 20:01:50 the rest is cool 20:02:07 well I think we wanted to declare Jan 1 as our consistent board transition date annually 20:02:45 I think prusnak might be able to bette answer us if we're more equipped with the new membership group to quickly go through the membership applicaiton spike we get before elections 20:02:53 suseROCKs: we may set this as a "latest date" to EO 20:03:06 yes of course 20:03:16 still, I second what henne said. let's leave the decision to EOs 20:03:47 just remember, we've been slipping further and further with each election cycle 20:03:55 we can also help the MOs with the membership drive 20:04:13 suseROCKs: yes, we'll be ready :) 20:04:16 suseROCKs: you see. we're postponing too often 20:04:18 its still our job. we just outsourced it :) 20:04:19 first one was October...second one was jan. at this rate, my term will never expire :-) 20:04:39 henne, sure. 20:04:53 so who writes the call to action? 20:05:04 so... first what's the deadline for applying for EO? 20:05:15 this should go out yesterday 20:05:17 Nov 14? 20:05:40 nov 14 is ok 20:05:57 second... who wants to field the applications? 20:05:59 yes. either people apply directly or they never will 20:06:04 can't be me cuz I'll be traveling yet again 20:06:25 "field" ? 20:06:28 just send them to board and we deal with them in the next meeting? 20:06:56 that would mean deadline can also be nov 17. 12:00 UTC 20:07:22 henne: you want to deal with them during the meeting? 20:07:46 yes. with the applications 20:08:39 I probably won't be at that meeting anyway, so you gusy are on your own :-) 20:08:52 prusnak, "field" as in coordinate, handle, answer, etc. 20:09:48 i guess we can manage that... 20:10:04 yes, just post to board@o.o 20:10:37 ok 20:10:45 i'll post it tonight 20:11:07 news... -project ML.... where else? forums? 20:11:31 news. opensuse-announce and announce forum 20:11:45 hmm 20:11:46 twitter 20:11:56 yeah I already took into my mind's account socnet stuff 20:12:03 but announce? 20:12:27 I'd like to see project folks be able to respond to the email and ask questions if they have any in a more visible place. Announce is one-way only 20:12:47 thus announce is more limiting than news.oo and forums 20:13:09 you can set a reply-to to opensuse-project 20:13:39 it is an announcement right? 20:14:12 hmm I'll have to figure out how to change that on my client for just one specific email... Will look at it 20:14:57 i can do the -announce mail for you once you have posted to news.o.o 20:14:59 no problem 20:15:02 reply-to is just normal field like To or Cc 20:15:20 ok 20:15:27 anything else on this topic? 20:15:51 nah sounds fine 20:16:10 an hour and 15 minutes so far for a lightweight agenda. What happens when we have a major topic like the community asks us to invade the Falkland Islands? We gotta speed up :-) 20:16:31 it is like it is 20:16:35 last topic then? 20:16:37 suseROCKs: no problem, we then just call Maggie Thatcher 20:16:52 I like the invading falkland islands topic 20:16:53 she knows how to deal with such stuff 20:17:01 let's discuss it 20:17:01 :-) 20:17:24 well I'll be in the general area next week. Do you want me to scout for ideal beach landing sites? 20:17:45 suseROCKs: please do 20:18:07 so the last topic is ... ? :) 20:18:07 and send photos to board@o.o 20:18:25 #topic Question and Answers 20:18:32 rhorstkoetter, Dude, you're thinking of Bikini Island. That's in the Pacific 20:18:34 any other questions? 20:18:41 or ad-hoc topics to discuss? 20:18:49 rsca, surely you have questions for us :-) 20:19:18 suseROCKs: I'm not that focused on one Island or the other. I just like the idea of "openSUSE island" 20:20:11 * suseROCKs thinks Royboy would like the idea of an openSUSE island too... A place to dump us :-) 20:21:31 okay no other questions or topics? 20:21:57 then lets end this meeting boys 20:22:07 i'm a man! 20:22:39 thanks mom for driving the meeting 20:22:46 henne, A suggestion 20:22:47 #endmeeting