The openSUSE Board is pleased to announce a number of new openSUSE members and we reached currently 330 openSUSE members. See the list below or just browse the membership list for more details. We’re happy that we accomplished another round of approvals and want encourage everybody who shows continued and substantial contribution to the openSUSE project to apply for membership. Please note that contribution can be made in any areas of the project like bug reporting and triaging, translation, user support on any communication medium, promoting openSUSE by giving openSUSE talks and presentations, coding and packaging and others. Apart of an @opensuse.org email address and other benefits all openSUSE members are eligible to vote for Board seats and we’ll have 2 Board seats running for re-election in October ‘09.

How to become a member? See here for details.

The openSUSE Board wants to thank all people contributing to openSUSE and helping to make the openSUSE project more community driven from day to day.

List of new members

Andreas Ernst (aeps)
Axel Braun (docb)
Carolina Acevedo (caro_acevedo)
Chuck Payne (terrorpup)
crane cai (cranecai)
David Haller (dnh)
Dominik Heidler (dheidler)
edy purwanto (edypurwanto)
Fred Blaise (chapeaurouge)
Glenn Doig (doiggl)
Greg Freemyer (gregfreemyer)
Grozdan Nikolov (microchip8)
James Willcox (snorp)
Jan Karjalainen (jankarjalainen)
Jason Ferrer (jetchisel)
jean-christophe baptiste (phocean)
Karsten Keil (kkeil)
Luis Lastra (llastra)
mao huanxue (vsu)
Marco Mendoza (secomlinux)
Michal Hrusecky (-miska-)
Michal Seben (mseben)
Michal Svec (msvec)
Olli Tuominen (otuominen)
Rainer Sigl (SiglRainer)
Rajesh Ganesan (ganesanrajesh)
Raymond Wooninck (rwooninck)
Rasmus Plewe (rasmusplewe)
Robert Schweikert (rjschwei)
Sid Boyce (sboyce)
Siegfried Olschner (sdolschn)
Stanislav Brabec (sbrabec)
Stephan Kleine (bitshuffler)
Stephen Holmes (stephen_holmes)
Suresh Jayaraman (sjayaraman)
Vittorio Manfredini (vitsoft)

Please see below the Meeting Minutes of the openSUSE Board. We welcome any feedback and recommend to use the opensuse-project mailing list so more people can participate. As always the openSUSE Board is reachable through board@openSUSE.org

Board Meeting July 01, 2009
7pm – 8:45 UTC

Participants:
Michael Löffler (michl)
Bryen Yunashko (suseROCKs)
Pascal Bleser (yaloki)
Stephen Shaw (decriptor)
Hendrik Vogelsang (henne)

List of topics:
- membership approval still way to slow as it is a manual process and we don’t have anybody who could enhance users.opensuse.org, This might be a good project for hackweek project.
- Creation of an openSUSE foundation. Work in progress. Was a bit slowed down through vacation and events.
- Ambassador program has had a good start and has lots of enthusiasm and activity.
- Opening of factory – done. Groups are now forming up.
- hack week, Hackweek IV will be held from July 20-27, product in openFATE to be used to get people together

Board Meeting July 14, 2009
7pm – 9:15 UTC

Participants:
same as above

List of topics:
- membership approval, this time the Board members promised to vote, michls proposal to add a third vote automatically where already 2 same votes exist was denied. (side note – the Board delivered on this promise, meanwhile all requests from the last import are worked through, we have around 30 new openSUSE members and the next requests are imported to be worked through)
- openSUSE Foundation, the bylaws are drafted by a Novell employee with strong interaction of zonker and michl, as there were several questions by other Board members about the foundation michl will get Alan with the openSUSE Board in direct contact to answer those questions more efficiently
- some tech talk started by decriptor, baseline most important to have the latest stuff regardless if it adds value to the users – just joking

Next Board Meeting July 27

Please see below the Meeting Minutes of the openSUSE Board. We welcome any feedback and recommend to use the opensuse-project mailing list so more people can participate. As always the openSUSE Board is reachable through board@openSUSE.org

June 3, 7-9:15pm UTC
Participants:
Stephen Shaw, (decriptor)
Federico Mena Quintero, (federico1)
Hendrik Vogelsang, (henne)
Michael Löffler, (michl)
Bryen Yunashko, (suseROCKs)
Pascal Bleser, (yaloki)
Joe Brockmeier, (zonker)

List of topics:
* Ambassador program
Announced and already pretty many people signed in for it.

* Foundation
Zonker and michl will meeting with a Novell expert on such stuff on Monday June 9 to evaluate which possibilities we have and which way openSUSE should take.

* Membership requests
We are too lame, 15 requests out of the last round are waiting for more than 4 weeks for final approval now. Just another 70 requests were imported into the tool today.

* open openSUSE Factory for contribution
Henne drove this project inside Novell for a while now and we had at the Board several discussions around it. Meanwhile it is announced and is an important step to bring the whole project ahead.

* openSUSE Board presence at the openSUSE conference
There need to be a strong Board presence but in a very interactive way so no big presentation but rather round table conversations about the status of the project and its future.

* read and write access to news.openSUSE.org?
The Board suggest to extend the group of people with read and write access for news.opensuse.org. Anyone interested please send a mail to board@opensuse.org and as for write access or even suggest another person to get it. Approval body will be the openSUSE Board.

* Federico resigned due to work over load, Stephen Shaw (decriptor) is the uprunner and takes over his seat