openSUSE board meeting minutes March 28

Board Meeting Minutes 2022-03-28, 1330 CEST

Attendees: Gertjan, Syds, Mau, Axel, Attila, Emily, Doug, Neal, Gerald, Bill
Excused: 
Minutes: Axel

== General Topics ==

===Starting time===
As we regularly need more than an hour for our call, and Axel has a hard stop 
at 1430h, the start time of the meeting should be moved back to 1300 CE(S)T 
(Which is 1100UTC during summer time period)

All Board members are OK in moving the start time back to 1300 CE(S)T
(Neal considers moving to a different timezone)
AI: Axel to change invitation mail

===Vote on OpenLetter===
The Board intents to co-sign a letter to DPO in Europe (see https://
lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/project@lists.opensuse.org/thread/
YFK4JWMJDRDHUFVOGDNDA45IZ6SMVUAK/)

If this should happen 'on behalf of the project', a poll is required according 
to discussion in the ML.
Q: Do we go that way (which is time consuming), do we sign as board or do we 
sign individually?

Gertjan, Neal: Go with whatever is faster
Mau: for me signing as board is the same as on behalf of the project
Gerald: It's a task of every member, including board, to promote openSUSE. 
Once u are in a specific role, one needs to be a bit more careful

Agreement that we sign this as individuals. Each community member who want to 
sign this as well should drop a mail by Fri 08 Apr to board@l.o.o


===Role of the Board===
In the context of the above thread, the role of the board as such was 
discussed, as 'signing a letter' is not listed in the wiki as part of the 
role. 'Advocating openSUSE Linux' neither

Gerald: Current 'setup' does not allow to respond to inquiries / actions in 
less than 4 weeks
Bill: If I vote for the Board, do I not trust the board in that way?

Board understanding is that Board actions are by default not limited to the 
points listed in the wiki. That would limit the board more than a normal 
community member.

Neal: Fedora could make it to Laptops because Fedora council was able to pick 
this up. If oS needs a poll for everything, it will fail
Neal: Need to rephrase the board duties and give this to community approval

Fedora Council equivalent: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/council/ 

Syds: the election rule states: <br>Members of the openSUSE board shall act on 
behalf of all openSUSE contributors in the best interest of the openSUSE 
project. Although board members may be affiliated with companies or 
organizations that have an interest in the success of openSUSE, they will not 
be considered representatives of the companies or organizations with which 
they are affiliated. 

Emily: Board scope comes from guiding principles, so we would need to change 
the guiding principles https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Guiding_principles  
(needs some update, as very old)
Current situation is bad for the community as a whole, as we are somehow in a 
deadlock

Participants agreed to change this, as this would improve community
Proposal: Workshop during oSC22 for this (volunteer to submit workshop 
needed!)

This list was found at https://old-en.opensuse.org/Board_election/2009 on role 
of the board with link
http://zonker.opensuse.org/2009/11/18/what-does-the-opens... 
available via
https://web.archive.org/web/20091124235937/http://zonker....
2009/11/18/what-does-the-opensuse-board-do/

===Code of Conduct===
The Code of Conduct was reviewed with a few edits submitted and agreed apon by 
Gerald. A submission to the project mailing list will be made during the next 
community meeting. 

Neal updated the Code of Conduct.