February 2008 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-project] STATUS:Communication/Wiki/Events
by Martin Lasarsch 19 Feb '08

19 Feb '08

Hi * Events - Linux conf Tel Aviv (20.02) http://Chameleon.org.il - FOSDEM 2008 this weekend (23-24.02), see http://news.opensuse.org/2008/02/19/fosdem-2008-this-weekend/ http://en.opensuse.org/FOSDEM - Chemitzer Linux-Tage (1-2.03) http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2008/info/ talk booth (with beineri/tpatzig) - CeBIT (04-09.03) 2 openSUSE counters on the Novell booth in hall 2 openSUSE presentations on Saturday & Sunday at the Novell booth presentations at the Linuxpark * Wiki - waiting for the update, everything is until it's done on hold * Communication - Project meeting Wednesday, 20, 12:00 GMT - Gnome meeting Thursday, 21 - internal meetings with Zonker this week about various topics -- with kind regards, Martin Lasarsch, Core Services SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nürnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) martin.lasarsch(a)suse.de - http://www.opensuse.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] RFC: Topics for today's board meeting?
by Andreas Jaeger 18 Feb '08

18 Feb '08

Is there anything you like us to discuss today? So far on my agenda: * go through the queued requests for memberships Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform / openSUSE, aj(a)suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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[opensuse-project] Share about OpenSUSE Promotion Material
by Masim "Vavai" Sugianto 18 Feb '08

18 Feb '08

Hello OpenSUSE fans, Next month, March 29-31, Indonesian OpenSUSE Community (OpenSUSE-ID) invited by Al Azhar University of Indonesia, Jakarta, in the Open Source Event in their campus. We have a booth (well, a small booth but it's okay :-) ) and get a session to promoting OpenSUSE to the students. After discussing with OpenSUSE-ID members, we will go with a liveCD demo, offering and distributing free CD with a booklet of tutorial and brochure about OpenSUSE, stand up a seminar about current OpenSUSE feature, Next OpenSUSE 11 feature, KDE 4 and a short discussion about OpenSUSE capability in server areas. I need some comparison from similar events in another country, is there any missing point in our plan ? Some brochure example or a session-photos would be nice to share to us. Thank you. -- Best Regards, Masim "Vavai" Sugianto /************************************************************/ Blog (ID) : http://www.vavai.com/blog/index.php Blog (EN) : http://www.vavai.net Community : http://www.opensuse.or.id Email : vavai(a)vavai.com /************************************************************/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] fedora needs some deltarpm love :)
by Valent Turkovic 17 Feb '08

17 Feb '08

Hi, let me first introduce myself. I'm a Fedora contributor and Fedora Ambassador for Croatia, but I'm not directly part od Fedora board or Fedora Project. Still I would like to ask you for assistance in one matter that you have more experience dealing that Fedora - and that is deltarpm. Fedora 9 features list has Presto[1] on it - it is a yum plugin that handles deltarpms during updates. Currently the deltarpm integration is stuck because the infrastructure team is stuck[2] in its implementation. Is there some way in which you can help with your longer experience with handling deltarpm files so that this greatly needed feature comes on by default in Fedora 9? Is there some other list that is more specialized on this sort of topics that I would be better of trying elsewere? Cheers, Valent from Croatia. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeaturePresto [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/PrestoBuildsysIntegration -- http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] I got an idea
by Andres Silva 15 Feb '08

15 Feb '08

I am trying to advance the idea of making the kde4 style BESPIN the default theme/style for OpenSuse 11 and kde4. Oxygen does not have very appealing features so far and is being heavily worked on whereas bespin seems to have very innovative ideas and more configuration features. For this reason i am looking for OpenSuse developers that could work on this theme and improve it even more. Probably take it under its wings and make something much better than it is now. Please, send me an email back if you as a developer are interested and give me your opinion whether this could help O. Su. branding. Andy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] openSUSE Membership: a general comment
by Roger Whittaker 15 Feb '08

15 Feb '08

I've been following the thread about openSUSE membership with some interest. This is a general kind of meta-comment on that discussion. (I'm a Novell employee and SUSE old-timer, a constant user and promoter of openSUSE, a list-lurker, but not a contributor.) People who write about organisations often distinguish between personal power (which someone gains by virtue of their abilities, reputation, personal charisma and so on) and positional power (which someone has as a result of their job title, their place in the hierarchy etc). Open source projects have traditionally operated mostly on the basis of personal power: someone's position depends on what they have achieved, rather than any formal title or status. It's clear that a project like openSUSE (or Fedora, or Debian) needs some formal (and ultimately legal) system of governance, and a Board is welcome and necessary as a way of providing that, so long as its workings are transparent and open. But I'm slightly uneasy about the whole membership concept. When I try to analyse the reasons for that unease, I see that it's because a form of membership that has to be applied for and granted seems too much like positional power and therefore doesn't quite "feel right". -- ======================== Roger Whittaker roger(a)disruptive.org.uk http://disruptive.org.uk ======================== --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Re: [opensuse-factory] status report distribution week 5
by Stephan Kulow 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

Am Dienstag, 5. Februar 2008 schrieb Stephan Kulow: > * the DVD5 does not have any non-oss software on it - this will > allow for a simplified EULA - the non-oss medium will continue > to have the old EULA then Looks like Francis was the only one to actually read my status report and it caused some discussion at the end of the IRC meeting. So I would like to clarify some bits: - we won't take the non-oss repo away and it will be easy to download flash, acroread or your preferred application - we will continue providing a non-oss addon CD with a stricter EULA - we want to make the EULA _really_ simple in using only OSS, currently the EULA (if you read it) forbids you to distribute copies of your downloaded openSUSE - because of the non-oss software bundled So the question is: do we (as project) want to set a sign in making it a bit more difficult to install non-oss software or is the ease of use preferred over a simply license? We're very open for your feedback, but Michl, AJ and me as openSUSE management team would prefer to use open source only on the default medium. Greetings, Stephan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Minutes from 2007-02-04 board meeting
by Andreas Jaeger 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

Here are very brief minutes from the meeting we had last week. I hope I summarized everything correctly. Participants: Francis, Federico, Coolo, AJ * openSUSE community manager Short update about Joe and the hiring process. * Code of Conduct The proposal was reviewed and we decided to move forward with it. * Membership The "Members of openSUSE" document was reviewed and we decided to move forward with it. We decided to invite some community members also actively. AI: francis: Contact all people that took part i an "people of openSUSE" interview * openSUSE board presentation at FOSDEM AI: coolo, pascal, aj to sit together and prepare a proposal Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform / openSUSE, aj(a)suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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[opensuse-project] membership?
by jdd 09 Feb '08

09 Feb '08

Two questions/suggestions: * may be it should be usefull to speak about membership here http://en.opensuse.org/How_to_Participate * does every body writing for membership receive an answer? I don't really need an other e-mail, and don't use IRC, but as one of the first openSUSE... (I was to write member, but can't, how may we name the people that work for openSUSE since the beginning?) and fr.opensuse.org sysadmin, I think I should be a member... and I'm not in the list jdd -- http://www.dodin.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] IRC cloaks
by Francis Giannaros 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

One of the new things that we're trying to introduce is more @opensuse/ cloaks on Freenode. A few things remain which might be good to open up for discussion -- what cloak to give to openSUSE members? The two main options (as I see it) are: * Provide one standard IRC cloak that all openSUSE contributors/developers/translators/members would get. In this case I quite like @opensuse/<nickname> * On the other hand, would it be good to have some categorisation? Such as @opensuse/contributor, /developer, /translator? The second might be preferred since the first might not directly say why they have the cloak, or what specifically they're involved in. The first method is a lot less work, and you might avoid putting people into categories when they in reality overlap. Another issue: should @opensuse/user/<nick> be handed out to anyone who's asked for it and has signed the guiding principles? The hope is to eventually handle all IRC cloaks (and email addresses) through the user directory in the future. Thoughts? Regards, -- Francis Giannaros http://francis.giannaros.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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