openSUSE board meeting minutes July 8

Board Meeting Monday 2024-07-08 14:00 CEST

     Present: Doug, Gerald, Neal, Simon, Shawn, Patrick
     Missed:
     Guests:

 From Previous Meetings

     We never made a formal decision on the policies for Permanent bans.

Syncing after openSUSE Conference

     Shawn could not attend in person
     Gerald attended on Thursday, then sick and stuck in bed the 
following days :-(
     Those present in person report many constructive discussions.
     Talk generally perceived well.
     Only one member noting "If the name changes I'll leave".
     Several raised a desire to consider alternate names to "Geeko(s)".
     General feedback at the event was people were fine with renaming 
part of the talk at oSC24, less so with a removing the commuity brand 
outlook and splitting up the projects
     Discord/Matrix/IRC feedback has generally been ambivalent. A fair 
bit of narrative of "being forced" by SUSE.
     It seems that there is enough positive desire within the community 
to a good extent since this shouldn't just be the board driving 
proposals.
     It seems that more contributors are open to the idea of changing 
then the general userbase, at the same time there are some more SUSE 
employees that are less likely to want to change.
     Board to await the maturation period for the community to discuss 
before moving forward with a planning/phased approach

Action Item: Gerald, statement from the board after discussion dies 
down.