openSUSE board meeting minutes February 1

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==== Minutes of openSUSE Board meeting 2020-02-01 ====

Present: Axel, Gerald, Gertjan, Neal, Vinz
Excused: Simon
Minutes: Gerald
   Next: Neal

== Treasurer ==

* Introduction Syds
* Financial controller/accountant for 15 years, variety of businesses 
  & freelance
* "everything with computers and numbers"
* openSUSE member since last year
* General discussion on the role of treasurer
* SUSE is willing to share opex budget spent on openSUSE with board

AI Simon: reach out to Andrew (outgoing treasurer) before any announcement

== Follow-up on Year End Survey ==

* Not everyone on the board could join, but all very positive about 
  the initiative
* Good conversations
* No specific actions for the board as a body
* Individually we do/will support

== Communications ==

* A bit of confusion around upgrade of the forums software, which turned 
  out to be a misunderstanding
* Idea: It would be great if various team share somewhat regular updates 
  (monthly to quartlery maybe) about all the goodness they do, WIP, and 
  challenges

AI Neal: approach other Heroes on the idea of some regular update

== Leap 15.3 ==

* One of us mentioned some specific technical issues they saw
* Suggestion to raise with openSUSE release engineering team