Distributions quote of the week

Date:
Wed, 06 May 2026 13:20:30 +0000

Description:
2,442 days is a fair amount of time, and that's how long I had been
on the openSUSE Board as its chair when I started this note. That journey began on August 19th, 2019, and it ends today as I am
stepping down as chair of the openSUSE Board. It's been an intense time for most of it just a bit calm the last
year and a half. A time of joy and frustration, anger occasionally
and rewarding more often than that. During those years we have seen SUSE and openSUSE carve out from Micro
Focus (escalations on the IT side included); a global pandemic; SUSE go
public and return to private; the arrival of Rancher, NeuVector, and
Losant; four CIOs and four (and de facto more) General Managers for Linux
at SUSE; repeated discussions on the logo and name of our project; the creation of Geeko Foundation; people move on and others step up; seven
board elections; board meetings become public; passionate debates and
growing pains; web site refreshes; the number of distros and tooling
around them grow and evolve; and quite a bit more. If I can leave one piece
of advice, it is to embrace open, non-violent
communication and trust both given and received. I encourage more lateral sharing (of accomplishments, changes,
challenges, calls for collaboration) between the cells and bodies
that make up openSUSE, and above all applying the PRINCIPLE OF CHARITY.
That is, giving others the benefit of the doubt, assuming good
intentions, and looking for real value in their perspectives. Does that
always come easy? Absolutely not. Does it make a difference? A lot. Gerald Pfeifer

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