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[opensuse-project] More Statistics
by Stephan Kulow 04 Sep '09

04 Sep '09

Hi, I updated my scripts to rescan the last 8 weeks of apache logs for 11.2 data (it took less than 3 days - we're talking 15G of compressed apache that needs to be evaluated and my poor workstation is doing alot of other stuff :) http://en.opensuse.org/Statistics now has preliminary 11.2 data (I will reset them when 11.2 is out, for now the goal is to test the statistics - I found already smaller problems caused by aria2c now having a longer user agent) Anyway, what we see is that there are around 1000 new factory installations per week and that's great - we can assume some do fresh installations into VMs, but the number still indicates a lot of factory users. And 11.1 is still growing, which is also good - as 11.2 will still take some time (and that will also mean that many will not switch to 11.2 as they just found the time to update to 11.1 :) But http://ktown.kde.org/~coolo/repos.png implies that the 11.1 hype is over, we reached again a limit we had before the 11.1 release of IPs accessing our servers (every IP counts only counts once for the oldest product). Then again, the traffic always goes down in summers (both the nothern and the southern hemisphere summer - some call the second summer christmas, but that is politically incorrect I guess :) The week in march when download.o.o was down (and I miss 60 hours of logs), had only half the IPs, so this is a neat reminder that dialup users make it impossible to guess how many users there are. We see on average 5 IPs pro cookie. So there are between 80.000 and 1.000.000 11.1 users - any more concrete number is only a guess I'm afraid. http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/42464.html claims their user base is 115% of the sum of total IPs for fedora. That again would give you 6,5 Million openSUSE 11.1 users and 9,2 Million users of 11.0 - And live cds are still a mistery - in 8 weeks there were only 9 live installations found, but that maybe because people do not do updates in these live installations. I have no other explanation atm, but that mistery is the reason I do this 11.2 logs parsing that early. 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] openSUSE Confernce Flickr Group
by Pascal Bleser 03 Sep '09

03 Sep '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've just created a Flickr group for the conference. If you have a Flickr account and upload photos about the conference, please join the group and add them to the group pool. The name of the group is "openSUSE_Conference_2009" and the URL is as follows: http://www.flickr.com/groups/osc09/ Note that the group is currently unmoderated, anyone can join. If there is abuse, I can still change it to "invite only". cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser(a)opensuse.org> /\\ http://opensuse.org -- I took the green pill _\_v FOSDEM::6+7 Feb 2010, Brussels, http://fosdem.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFKoCbXr3NMWliFcXcRArHwAJ9B8bQRwMJYkThY+026ADG70zCS7ACfeYAr y1SYEHinABw50CdZZM2eAgA= =yL1C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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] openSLES creation
by Michael Monnerie 03 Sep '09

03 Sep '09

I've read about on LWN.net, and I just want to say that I'd *love* to have such a distribution. I've seen people running away from openSUSE because Novell bought it, then later because of other open distributions having multi-year security upgrades. For that zillion of small servers out there, that should "just run" and are not so important to buy SLES, that would be the ideal solution. And a company having openSLES for the small servers will surely buy SLES for the important stuff. Currently, they buy at that other big red Linux company. So it will help, definitely. I'll unsubscribe now again, as I already receive too many e-mails anyway. I hope to see openSLES, or whatever it will be called, as it should fit my needs more that openSUSE. mfg zmi -- // Michael Monnerie, Ing.BSc ----- http://it-management.at // Tel: 0660 / 415 65 31 .network.your.ideas. // PGP Key: "curl -s http://zmi.at/zmi.asc | gpg --import" // Fingerprint: AC19 F9D5 36ED CD8A EF38 500E CE14 91F7 1C12 09B4 // Keyserver: wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net Key-ID: 1C1209B4

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[opensuse-project] Keynote Update: Lenz Grimmer to Keynote openSUSE Conference
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 03 Sep '09

03 Sep '09

The openSUSE Project is happy to announce that Lenz Grimmer will be delivering the opening keynote for the first-ever openSUSE Conference[1]. The openSUSE Conference will be held September 17 through September 20 in Nürnberg, Germany. Register today![2] Grimmer's keynote, "Working in a Virtual Community," This session will talk about the pros and cons of working in a virtual organization, some proven best practices and tools, and how everyone can benefit from this working environment. Grimmer will discuss how to build trust, passion, and self- motivation, and how communities can work in distributed environments. Leslie Hawthorn, Google's Program Manager for open source, was originally scheduled to deliver the opening keynote. Due to a schedule conflict, Hawthorn won't be able to attend the openSUSE Conference. She sends her regrets and hopes to attend an openSUSE event in the near future. Our closing keynote will be delivered by Gianugo Rabellino, Chief Executive Officer of Sourcesense[3] and member of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). The openSUSE Conference is an opportunity for openSUSE contributors to attend talks, workshops, Birds of a Feather sessions, and collaborate together face to face. The conference will be held from September 17 through September 20 in Nürnberg, Germany. Register today[2] to reserve your spot! The conference will have two daily tracks of pre-planned talks, plus "BarCamp[4]" style tracks for attendees to plan and provide their own content. Scheduled talks include: * Insights into openSUSE Infrastructure: Klaas Freitag * News from the GNOME Zoo: Vincent Untz * Samba @ openSUSE: Lars Müller Unconference ============= The openSUSE Conference will also have a major "unconference" component, where talks and sessions can be scheduled in BarCamp format. We'll have plenty of time for contributors to discuss and work on topics they're interested in face to face. Unconference planning is being done on the openSUSE wiki[5]. Want to lead a session? Jump in and edit the wiki! Register Today! ================ The conference is less than two weeks away. If you haven't registered yet, you need to do so today! Registration is at conference.opensuse.org/registration. We'll accept registrations up to the conference, but space is limited. We also have a limited number of t-shirts on hand. Registered attendees will get preference over unregistered attendees. Hotels and Getting There ========================= Time is running out to book your hotel for the openSUSE Conference. Limited space is still available in the venue. All registrants should have received information on booking hotel. Registrations are being made through Alexia Henrie (ahenrie at novell.com). More information on hotels[6] and directions[7] can be found on the Web site. [1]: http://conference.opensuse.org/ [2]: http://conference.opensuse.org/registration/ [3]: http://www.sourcesense.com/en/home [4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp [5]: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Conf_2009_Unconference [6]: http://conference.opensuse.org/where-to-stay/ [7]: http://conference.opensuse.org/getting-there/ -- 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] Power Outage in Nuernberg Office Sep. 12.-13.
by Lars Vogdt 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

From Sep 12 to Sep 13 we will have a power outage in the Nuernberg office. Downtime is planned from 2009-09-11 20:00 CEST (18:00 UTC) until 2009-09-14 10:00 CEST (08:00 UTC). So it might become a long weekend especially for developers - but we plan to avoid restrictions for endusers during this downtime. So far, the following services are definitively affected by this downtime: * Build Service * Mailing lists * ...and more Please have a look at the "downtime" wiki page to see the full list of affected hosts. Not affected: * <lang>.opensuse.org (all opensuse wikis) * forums.opensuse.org * irc.freenode.net/opensuse* channels * bugzilla.novell.com The discussion to host at least download.opensuse.org and static.opensuse.org somewhere else is work in progress. We plan no replacement for the other services as the downtime is not too large. We will try to reduce/disable building on build.opensuse.org on Thursday, so all mirrors should have "up-to date" packages over the weekend. With kind regards, Lars (on behalf of the openSUSE-Admins) -- 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] Conference: Keysigning Party
by Jan Weber 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

Hi @ll, here is more detailed information for the keysigning party during openSUSE conference: To take part: Send a signed message containing your keys fingerprint to: keysigning(a)luckylemon.de Deadline for key submission is: Sunday September, 13 at 12:00 UTC In order to have everything running smooth print the keylist from [0], final version will be up by Sunday September, 13 at 22:00 UTC, and follow the instructions in it! There will be two sessions, so everybody has the chance to participate, for the keysigning party during openSUSE conference in the unconference track: 1. Thursday 16:45 - 17:30 2. Saturday 16:45 - 17:30 As i am organizing the demo booths on saturday, i am searching for a volunteer to lead the keysigning party on saturday (don't be afraid it's easy), if you want to lead it drop me a mail. For more information on the keysigning party visit the wiki [1]. Looking forward to meeting you all, Jan [0] http://ksp.luckylemon.de/ksp-opensuse-conf-09.txt [1] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Conf_2009_KSP

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[opensuse-project] Conference: Open Day - Demo Points
by Jan Weber 01 Sep '09

01 Sep '09

Hi all, during the conference we will have the Open Day on Saturday, as all of you will know :). We are planning to have 4 Demo Points in the entrance area to the conference, to give visitors the chance to take a look at openSUSE and get there hands on it! This is a great chance to get in touch with our users and find out what they are expecting of openSUSE. In order to run these demo points we are now looking for volunteers to help man them! So if you are at the conference and have some spare time on saturday, take the chance to get in touch with interested people. From my point of view german is a plus in this case, not a must! Simply add yourself to the wiki: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Conf_2009_Demo_Booths and drop me a note! BTW it is not important that you are available all day, if you can spend an hour or two that's good too. Looking forward to many volunteers! Cheers Jan -- 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] Conference: Key Signing Party, anyone ?
by ml＠luckylemon.de 01 Sep '09

01 Sep '09

Hi, > I believe that we should take the opportunity of meeting in real > life to > also organize a key signing party at the openSUSE Conference. i think so too, it's a great opportunity! > Unfortunately, I'm too busy to coordinate it, which is a bit of work. I think i can manage this one and take care of it! As i am currently at work i don't have the time to work out the details right now, i will write a ore detailed announcement later today. But you can begin submitting fingerprints in a signed mail to keysigning(a)luckylemon.deif you like! Cheers Jan -- 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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