openSUSE board meeting minutes February 27

= Board Meeting Monday 2023-02-27 13:00 CET =

* Present: Doug, Gerald, Maurizio, , Neal, Patrick
* Excused:
* Missed: Gertjan
* Guests: bittin (Luna), Marcel R (luriv)

== Minutes of Last Meeting ==

* Last meeting's minutes did not get publish yet.
* Plan now is to push it together with this week's.
    
== Continuation from last meeting's Foundation topic ==

* https://geekos.org/about-us/sponsorship/
* https://geekos.org/ 
* Next steps:
  1. Sponsorship for openSUSE Conference will go through Geeko foundation
  2. Update the openSUSE Conference website
  3. Establish minimum 3 trustees (aim is 5) of the Geeko Foundation  (Patrick is already a trustee
and openSUSE Board endorses Patrick's idea for Doug to be a trustee for the Geeko Foundation), as
board members
  4. Make announcement: Publish broadly later this week (or next)

== Conflict Resolution ==

Meeting closed at 14:45 CET


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= Board Meeting Monday 2023-02-13 13:00 CET =

* Present: Gerald, Syds, Patrick, Knurpht, Doug, Maurizio, Neal
* Excused:
* Missed: 
* Guests: Bittin (Luna), Axel, Stefan B

== Update from Patrick ==
* Patrick makes a presentation to the Board with observations and reality checks regarding the
foundation topic. 
* Makes some suggestions on what could/should be done and also presents what he already did.
** Patrick: At the moment the status is at very early stage: In order to kick start the real work
on a foundation I have created the skeleton of a non-for-profit business "The Geeko Foundation" in
the UK. I chose the UK because it was a simple process to register and low cost too. It can be
moved to another legal jurisdiction if required, however I felt having something now was very
important. 
** The registration process is now complete, and there should have a placeholder page on
geekos.org
** A bank account is in place.
** Geeko Foundation plans to sponsor the openSUSE Conference - with hopefully more events
throughout the year.

== private: Conflict Resolution ==

Meeting closed at 14:30 CET