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