#opensuse-project Meeting

Meeting started by rbrownsuse at 14:59:44 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

  1. TAG / Micro Focus Merger (rbrownsuse, 15:00:55)
    1. https://progress.opensuse.org/projects/opensuse-13-2-release/issues?set_filter=1&tracker_id=4 (coolo, 15:31:36)
    2. the SUSE executive team want to communicate their commitment to openSUSE (rbrownsuse, 15:32:20)
    3. SUSE will not be changing their name as a result of the merger (rbrownsuse, 15:32:38)
    4. there are no plans for SUSE to change their focus areas from their current - DataCenter, OpenStack Cloud, and Distributed Storage (rbrownsuse, 15:32:58)
    5. Micro Focus was interested in all of the TAG Business Units, but they definitely saw SUSE as a big area of growth (rbrownsuse, 15:33:34)
    6. SUSE's hosting of openSUSE's infrastructure will not change (rbrownsuse, 15:33:50)
    7. SUSE's HQ will remain in Nuremberg (rbrownsuse, 15:34:09)
    8. Michael Millar (VP Global Alliances & Marketing at SUSE) prefers coffee over tea and is persuading his colleagues in SUSE's executive team to run openSUSE 13.1 as their main desktop (rbrownsuse, 15:36:12)
    9. openSUSE 13.2's scheduled release date of 4th November 2015 should not change as a result of the Merger (rbrownsuse, 15:36:40)

  2. openSUSE 13.2 (rbrownsuse, 15:37:01)
    1. We need more community help for the 13.2 release - There is a list of open tasks at https://progress.opensuse.org/projects/opensuse-13-2-release/issues?set_filter=1&tracker_id=4 (rbrownsuse, 15:37:21)
    2. CORRECTION: openSUSE 13.2's scheduled release date of 4th November *2014* should not change as a result of the Merger (rbrownsuse, 15:38:19)
    3. We need serious help marketing/spreading the word about openSUSE 13.2. We would like to see articles about the upcoming Betas, and other exciting news about 13.2 such as What new things to expect in 13.2, and detailed articles on specific changes and new features. If you're interested in helping, please start by replying to the "openSUSE 13.2 Release" thread on the opensuse-project mailinglist (rbrownsuse, 15:52:41)

  3. Next meeting date (rbrownsuse, 15:58:59)


Meeting ended at 15:59:13 UTC (full logs).

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  2. coolo (23)
  3. Michael_Miller (16)
  4. Dominian (15)
  5. Fudus (5)
  6. amon0thoth1 (4)
  7. malcolmlewis (4)
  8. bugbot (2)
  9. einar77_work (2)
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  12. Ada_Lovelace (2)
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