A Hack Week 25 project is looking to simplify how the openSUSE community manages memberships through a new platform called openSUSE Lounge.

The openSUSE Lounge project proposes a centralized system for maintaining member records, tracking membership status and supporting election-related tasks, all while reducing the manual workload placed on membership and election officials.

The platform is designed to give Member Officials a clearer, more efficient way to keep the member database accurate. Election officials could use the tool to export up-to-date voter lists, detect issues such as bounced credential emails and flag outdated or inactive accounts earlier in the process.

Longer-term plans may include allowing contributors to apply for membership directly through the interface, which could streamline onboarding and increase transparency for those seeking membership.

The prototype currently uses a Laravel backend paired with Tailwind CSS and Alpine.js for a lightweight interface. MariaDB powers the underlying data layer. A preview of the user interface was shared with the project through a pull request. More functionality is planned as Hack Week continues.

The project could provide a step toward modernizing membership management for the project and improve how the community maintains this data.

Hack Week, which began in 2007, has become a cornerstone of the project’s open-source culture. Hack Week has produced tools that are now integral to the openSUSE ecosystem, such as openQA, Weblate and Aeon Desktop. Hack Week has also seeded projects that later grew into widely used products; the origins of ownCloud and its fork Nextcloud derive from a Hack Week project started more than a decade ago.

For more information, visit hackweek.opensuse.org.

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