Archive:Foundation
Welcome to the Foundation Portal edit
Over the past year and a half, there have been ongoing discussions and presentations from openSUSE community members formulating the merits of a non-profit foundation; to better fulfill the needs of the openSUSE community. The ideas and conclusions of those efforts are captured and converged on this portal.
Discussion points edit
This is the current state of the discussion around the creation of an openSUSE Foundation
Warning: All this info and the documents are DRAFTS that help the people who work together on forming the foundation to keep track of their work! They are in no way final and represent only the current state of the discussion
Information materials
- Historical Data
- Moderator: suseROCKS
- Status : Data gathering as needed
- Results :
- Nearly all the previous discussion have happened in the openSUSE:Board_meeting. You can find the transcripts on that page.
- Presentation the openSUSE:Board held at the openSUSE Conference 2010
- how the python foundation works
- Invitation to Contribute
- Moderator: AlanClark
- Status : Topic is now open for mailing list discussions and active document review
- Results :
By-laws
- Objective of the Foundation
- Moderator: henne
- Status : Topic is now open for mailing list discussions
- Results :
- The legal form of the foundation
- Moderator: AlanClark
- Status : Topic is not open for input yet
- Results :
- Membership - Condition and privileges of membership
- Moderator: mrdocs
- Status : Topic is not open for input yet
- Results :
- The Board
- Moderator: prusnak
- Status : Topic is not open for input yet
- Results :
Policies and Procedures
- Copyrights and Trademarks
- Moderator: suseROCKS
- Status : Topic is open for updates to the existing policy
- Results :
- Review and Update the Trademark Guidelines . (Here's a link to the current trademark guidelines)
- Also need to cover sponsor use of trademarks
- Financial Accounting
- Moderator: AlanClark
- Status : Topic is now open for mailing list discussions
- Results :
- Board Elections
- Moderator: rhorstkoetter
- Status : Topic is not open for input yet
- Results :
- Transition to the Foundation - launch plans,ratification, members meeting,...
- Moderator: TBD
- Status : Topic is not open for input yet
- Results :
Main page
All documents in this list are drafts.
All pages
Slideshow presentation with major bullet points
Archive
In the news edit
Discussion Rules edit
The discussion about the openSUSE Foundation happens on the mailing list
- opensuse-foundation@lists.opensuse.org - .
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Everybody that wants to be part of the openSUSE Foundation is encouraged to participate. We have agreed on the following rules for the discussion.
- In all of this we are trying to find compromise and consensus. This is not about getting it your way. We need to build something together!
- We discuss a single aspect of the foundation at a time. Not the whole foundation and all it's aspects at once. The list of items to discuss is tracked on the Wiki. We need to focus!
- We discuss these aspects by trying to make clear our intentions and by agreeing on the important points. Not by hammering out elaborated paragraphs of text. Bullet points first, formulations later. We need to keep track of the important matters.
- If you start a thread about an aspect you are the moderator for it. The moderator is supposed to have an eye on these rules, summarize and track progress, call an end to the discussion and present the results on the Wiki. We need results!
- The discussion is limited to arguments. That means if you agree you don't say anything. No "I like this!" mails. If you disagree with something you make an argument against it. No "I don't like this!" mails. We need to keep the length of the discussion to a minimum!
- We only re-visit a previous discussed topic if the _result_ of a discussion of another topic is that we need to. When we agree on something it's the way it is. We need to be able to rely on things!