February 2012 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-project] Greg K-H
by jdd 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

May be you know this already: Greg K-H join the Linux Foundation http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2012/01/leading-ker… jdd -- http://www.dodin.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] First Planning Meeting for openSUSE @ SUSECon
by Bryen M Yunashko 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

We are launching the Kickoff meeting to plan for the openSUSE Conference following SUSECon. This conference will be held in Orlando, Florida September 21-23. Meeting Information: #openSUSE-Project Freenode IRC Channel [1] Wednesday - 1 February, 2012 18:00 UTC (1 p.m. Eastern/10 a.m. Pacific) [2] Now what?: Please visit the wiki page which outlines our agenda, tasks and open questions. [3] Who should attend the kickoff meeting?: We strongly encourage people from US, Canada, Mexico and Central America to participate in the planning. We also encourage people from other parts of the world who may or may not attend but still have valuable 2 cents to contribute to the planning. :-) See you on Wednesday! Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Project [1] irc://freenode.net/#opensuse-project [2] Local Time http://bit.ly/AoLcg6 [3] Wiki Page: http://en.opensuse.org/SUSECon_Planning -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] SOPA blackout - I don't think openSUSE ought to be making political statements.
by Per Jessen 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

Just my opinion - I think openSUSE should stay far away from politics of any kind. It doesn't matter whether it might affect the project or not. If we had seen a discussion of SOPA on opensuse-general or -factory, it would have been fairly quickly relegated to opensuse-offtopic. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (-2.1°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Membership
by Robert Schweikert 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

All, During today's project meeting a discussion about openSUSE membership started, see earlier posts to the list for meeting minutes. While we have documented procedures (http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Members) on how to become a member, we do not have any guidelines about what it means to be a member in good standing. Additionally, the only way to get pruned from the list of members is to repeatedly violate the guiding principals or actively request removal. I am suggesting that the conditions for loss of membership are not sufficient. As briefly discussed in the meeting today we have about 500 or so members. Also in a recent meeting it was suggested that we have a large contingent of non active members. This would then explain why we end up with only 200 and some odd votes of 500 members for the board elections. As probably anyone who is a member of some club or association knows, there is always some condition, often a fee, that assures continued membership in said club or association. No I am NOT proposing a membership fee for openSUSE. However, I am proposing that we come up with a mechanism to prune our list of members and that there is no such thing as a "free" (as in I don't contribute) life time membership. I propose the following guideline: " On even years of membership anniversary (that would be year 2, 4, 6...) a member gets an automated e-mail. - If the e-mail bounces and there is no other means to contact the person than the person is removed as a member. - If the person does not respond within two weeks, another e-mail is sent. If after 2 additional weeks no response is received the person is removed as a member. A response to the received e-mail should include a short list of areas in the project where the member was active during the past two years. This can be verified by the membership team. With the response and verification membership continues. " I realize I am proposing more work for the membership committee, sorry. However, I would hope that this is not too much of a burden. With maybe 300 or fewer active members there would be on average less than 1 verification e-mail per day sent. In addition this is spread out based on anniversary date of membership, thus the additional verification should be small. Why would we as a project want to do this? IMHO, it is important that our members are active and contribute to the project. There is nothing gained for us as a project to accumulate a large number of members when the members are not active in the project and do not contribute. Having only members that are active also bestows more meaning on board election results and other votes we might have in the project. This goes back to my earlier comment and leads to a question, what does it mean when the board gets elected with a vote count that is less than 50% of the membership? (I am not implying that I am dissatisfied with the board). No direct answer to this question please. If we have only active project participants I would speculate that we will get participation of 80% or more. Last but not least this should create a perceived draw to become a member, as you can only be a member and remain a member if you contribute to the project. For the discussion, I'd like to ask that people stick to the topic and not go off on some tangent ;) I have added this as a topic to the next project meeting (Feb 8, 2012) and will provide a summary of the discussion on the wiki. The board can then make a decision on how to move forward on this proposal based on the summary, and hopefully board members will be following this thread. Later, Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU SUSE-IBM Software Integration Center LINUX Tech Lead rjschwei(a)suse.com rschweik(a)ca.ibm.com 781-464-8147 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Getting ready for Linux Audio Conference (LAC) in April
by Drew Adams 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

Hey Everyone, I just want to let you all know that Peter Linnell and I are working on contacting the Linux Audio Conference (LAC) and organizing the openSUSE presence there. Just to let everyone know where we are right now: I will be contacting the good folks at LAC either tonight or tomorrow (though I am going to try to contact them tonight). As soon as I hear back from them I will update the list on the status. If we have anyone is interested in the event they can check it out at http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2012/ and let Peter or I know. I don't know the format of the LAC as I have never been before, but as with any event, I'd love for us to have a good openSUSE team representing our community there. Stand by for updates ;) Drew Adams openSUSE Member & Ambassador Freenode Nick: druonysus eMail: druonysus(a)gmail.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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