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[opensuse-project] Feedack on community week welcome!
by Michael Loeffler 21 May '09

21 May '09

Moin, moin I just added a feedback section to the community week page: http://en.opensuse.org/Community_Week#Feedback Please add comments, what went good or not so good? What should be changed etc. ? Best M -- Michael Löffler, Product Management SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- 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] Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting Tomorrow
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 19 May '09

19 May '09

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place Wednesday May 20th at 12:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock[1]. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-project channel on Freenode. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Project_Meeting_2009-05-20[2] Please add topics as soon as possible. Also, if you have questions for the meeting, but can't attend (we know that the meeting times can't work for everyone) please add them to the agenda as well. For more on IRC meetings, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About[3]. As always, we meet in #opensuse-project on Freenode. Fire up your favorite IRC client and head over to #opensuse-project. Not familiar with IRC? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org[4]. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/. Wondering what meeting times are? Check the openSUSE Meetings page[5]. All project meetings and team meetings should be listed there. [1]: http://is.gd/Bsva [2]: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Project_Meeting_2009-05-06 [3]: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About [4]: http://www.irchelp.org/ [5]: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb(a)zonker.net> openSUSE Community Manager: http://zonker.opensuse.org Blogs: http://blogs.zdnet.com/community | http://www.dissociatedpress.net Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb http://identi.ca/group/opensuse/members -- 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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RE: [opensuse-project] Why many people don't support Guiding Principles ?
by Andrew Wafaa 19 May '09

19 May '09

Uwe, Not wanting to sound rude or anything, but you are slightly mistaken. The Guiding Principles apply to the *whole* of the openSUSE Project, not just the distro. This is one reason why it is important to get acceptance and understanding. Regards, Andy -- Sent from a Nokia E71 Andrew Wafaa, openSUSE Member: FunkyPenguin -----Original Message----- From: Uwe Buckesfeld Sent: 19/05/2009 17:39:27 Subject: Re: [opensuse-project] Why many people don't support Guiding Principles ? On Tuesday 19 May 2009 17:11:12 Dominique Leuenberger wrote: > Which part of the Guiding principles is so bad that it can't be accepted > (granted, for most people most things should just be considered as > 'normal'). As I said, most of the things written go without saying (Be nice to others, help others, spread the word, yaddayadda...) It's the tone. It sounds all oh so important. I have token oaths before, most of which deal with protecting freedom, courage, justice. Important stuff. But this here is just a freaking operating system. Put the guiding principles somewhere, no problem, but give me a chance to ignore them <G> Uwe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)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] Why many people don't support Guiding Principles ?
by Satoru Matsumoto 19 May '09

19 May '09

Hi listmates, as you can see the Statistics on User Directory[1], "2839 of 6775 users support the Guiding Principles[2]" ATM. I'm wondering why more than half of the registered users don't support Guiding Principles. I know most of YOU, who subscribed to this -project list, are supporting Guiding Principles and I may have asked to the wrong list, but I want to know the reason(s) why many people don't support Guiding Principles. How do you think about it ? If you haven't supported Guiding Principles yet and have some reasons why you don't want to support them, I'd like to hear your opinions. I myself do support Guiding Principles and believe that every ideals in the principles are very important for me. But, if someone can't agree with them for some reasons, IMHO, we have to know the reasons and improve our principles. [1] https://users.opensuse.org/ [2] http://en.opensuse.org/Guiding_Principles Best, -- _/_/ Satoru Matsumoto - openSUSE Member - Japan _/_/ _/_/ Marketing/Weekly News/openFATE Screening Team _/_/ _/_/ mail: helios_reds_at_gmx.net / irc: HeliosReds _/_/ _/_/ http://blog.geeko.jp/author/heliosreds _/_/ -- 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] Call for Participations: openSUSE Summit 2009
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 18 May '09

18 May '09

The openSUSE Project is opening the call for participation in the openSUSE Summit 2009[1], to be held September 17 through 20 in Nuremberg, Germany. We're looking for contributors to openSUSE, upstream projects, and members of the openSUSE community to participate[2]. The summit will be an opportunity to bring the openSUSE contributor community together to share ideas, experience, hack, and help guide the direction of the project. So we're looking to members of the community to give presentations, tutorials, and lead birds of a feather and panel sessions in several tracks: * Community: Marketing, translations, wiki, documentation, forums, and openSUSE governance. * Desktop: Topics related to the openSUSE desktop, including KDE, GNOME, Xfce, and applications. * Server: Use of openSUSE on the server or development of server applications. * Toolchain and System: The kernel, YaST, packaging, and openSUSE Build Service. * Open Day: Saturday will include a track for openSUSE users and people new to Linux. If you're interested in presenting at the openSUSE Summit, fill out the Call for Participation Form[3] with all of the details for your participation. We're accepting talks, tutorials, birds of a feather, and panel discussion submissions. (Birds of feather sessions will be scheduled after hours.) The summit will not be entirely composed of prepared presentations, so we will be accepting a limited number of proposals. Deadline ======== All proposals must be submitted by May 20th. To submit a proposal, fill out the form[3] before 12:00 UTC on May 20. [1]: http://bit.ly/NLIcy [2]: http://bit.ly/13y5n [3]: http://bit.ly/44B4Dv -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb(a)zonker.net> openSUSE Community Manager: http://zonker.opensuse.org Blogs: http://blogs.zdnet.com/community | http://www.dissociatedpress.net Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb http://identi.ca/group/opensuse/members -- 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] Community Week Summary
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 16 May '09

16 May '09

Hello Mates, now the Community Week goes to its end. I would like to remind, that it would be great, if every team gives an Summary from the whole Week: * Bug Days (How many Bugs was fixed), * Packaging Day (How many interests), * Marketing (what different Topics was, SocNet,...) * Weekly News (How many contributors, what is reached), * Features Team (how many interests,...) * Translation (how many contributors, what is reached) * Wiki -Team (What is reached) * Board (how many interests,. what was discussed) That would be great, if we can an big Summary. This are related for the Press, and i would like to make an Podcasts with the Summary. Have a nice weekend.... -- Sincereley yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service openSUSE Features Screening Team Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Project-Blog: http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/saigkill Private-Blog: http://saschasbacktrace.blogspot.com

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[opensuse-project] openSUSE-GNOME BugDay: Community Effort
by Christopher M. Hobbs 14 May '09

14 May '09

Greetings! Please join us for the openSUSE-GNOME BugDay code named "Community Effort" tomorrow (Friday 14 MAY 2009) at 1100EDT/1500UTC. We'll be squashing blocker, critical, and major bugs in 11.1 related to GNOME. More information can be found on the wiki: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/BugDays/20090514 A Gobby session will be announced at the beginning of the meeting to assign/close bugs. Should you have any questions, feel free to ask in #openSUSE-GNOME on Freenode, or email me directly. We hope to see you there! -- Christopher M. Hobbs [chobbs(a)siloamsprings.com] Network Administrator, City of Siloam Springs -- 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] Blog / post summaries about the activities of Community Week !
by Jan-Simon Möller 14 May '09

14 May '09

Hi ! Please blog or post short summaries about what the different subprojects did ! The Weekly News Team needs to know what cool activities we had ;) ! Best, Jan-Simon Weekly News Team -- 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] Wednesday openSUSE Community Week Sessions
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 13 May '09

13 May '09

The openSUSE Community Week[1] is going strong! The fun kicks up a notch Wednesday with sessions with the openSUSE Board and a workshop with the openSUSE Weekly News team, in addition to sessions with the GNOME and KDE teams, testing and QA, and much more. Our community week is a chance to get people from around the world together at the same time to focus on specific topics, and to transfer knowledge about openSUSE to help grow our teams. The idea is to cover topics to improve our community by broadening our knowledge, and to enable new contributors to openSUSE and open source. openSUSE Community Week runs from through May 17. openSUSE Community Week is a chance to get people from around the world together at the same time to focus on specific topics, and to transfer knowledge about openSUSE to help grow our teams. The idea is to cover topics to empower ourselves as a community by broadening our knowledge, and to enable new contributors to openSUSE and open source. As a reminder -- all sessions are being held in IRC[2]. If you need help getting started with IRC, see the openSUSE wiki for more[2]. The entire week's schedule can be found on the wiki[3]. Here's an overview of Wednesday's events: * Meet with the openSUSE Board at 07:00, 17:00, and 20:00 UTC in #opensuse- project on Freenode. * GNOME Wiki day from 08:00 to 22:00 UTC, with intro sessions at 08:00 and 16:00 UTC in #opensuse-gnome on Freenode. * KDE: KDE PIM session with Kevin Krammer from KDE PIM at 16:00 UTC in #opensuse-kde on Freenode. * The openSUSE Weekly News Team will meet at 12:00 UTC to 20:00 UTC to hold a workshop on creating an edition of openSUSE Weekly News. Held in #opensuse- newsletter on Freenode. * Getting started with openFATE at 08:00 UTC in #opensuse-project on Freenode. * Packaging and openSUSE Build Service Q&A in #opensuse-buildservice on Freenode. * How to get started with Testing and QA in #opensuse-testing on Freenode at 06:00 UTC. Check the schedule on the wiki for all sessions[4]. As always, there will be plenty of openSUSE contributors in #opensuse-project for general questions about openSUSE and getting started as a contributor. Sign in on Wednesday and **have a lot of fun**! [1]: http://en.opensuse.org/Community_Week [2]: http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate/IRC [3]: http://en.opensuse.org/Community_Week#Schedule [4]: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=94430984151 -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb(a)zonker.net> openSUSE Community Manager: http://zonker.opensuse.org Blogs: http://blogs.zdnet.com/community | http://www.dissociatedpress.net Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb http://identi.ca/group/opensuse/members -- 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] New Marketing Session added to Community Week
by Bryen 12 May '09

12 May '09

Folks, Tomorrow, 13-May-2009, at 19:30 UTC, the Marketing team has added a new session "Maximizing Social Networking for openSUSE." We'll be discussing our existing efforts with various services such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Digg, etc. and how we can improve our presence on those services. This should prove to be a very interesting session and I think something that we all can join the conversation on. See you all in #opensuse-marketing on the Freenode IRC Channel! -- Bryen Yunashko openSUSE Board Member openSUSE-GNOME Team Member GNOME-A11y Team Member www.bryen.com (Personal Blog) www.planet-a11y.net (Feed aggregator of the Accessibility Community) -- 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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