March 2011 - openSUSE Ambassadors - openSUSE Mailing Lists

talk at or visit Linux Open Administration Days
by Jos Poortvliet 11 Apr '12

11 Apr '12

Hi all, April 16-17 in Antwerp, Belgium, the Linux Open Administration Days will take place. This free event offers a chance for LPI certification as well as meeting and talking to linux sysadmins. There is a call for presentations here: http://www.loadays.org/content/call-presentations If you want to go and give a talk there about openSUSE tech - that's be awesome. If you can't afford to go there due to travel or hotel costs, let me know, we might be able to work something out ;-) cheers, Jos

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Report: SUSE Studio talk
by Tim Serong 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

Hi All, I gave a talk on SUSE Studio yesterday at the SAGE-AU[1] Tasmanian chapter meeting. This is a monthly lunchtime meeting, this time with five attendees besides myself (generally there's maybe 5-15 people present, but they're all sysadmins, so it's a good technical audience). The slides, an audio recording of the talk, a tarball of screenshots, and the demo appliance I built are all now linked off http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Presentations#SUSE_Studio The response was positive with comments about it being a very good interface, and that people would try it out and/or tell others that they work with about Studio. I also took the opportunity to hand out my last two openSUSE 11.3 DVDs, and a bunch of bookmarks. Feedback on the slides/presentation is of course welcome :) Regards, Tim [1] http://www.sage-au.org.au/ -- Tim Serong <tserong(a)novell.com> Senior Clustering Engineer, OPS Engineering, Novell Inc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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openSUSE Marketing Materials and openSUSE:Presentations pages
by Kostas Koudaras 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

Hello to all openSUSE Marketing people and Ambassadors out there Currently I am working on openSUSE:Marketing materials (http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Marketing_materials) What I would like is either the links or the actual files of materials like 11.4 posters, fliers, the Cheat-cube, the paper-penguin Carlos made(I actually need the .svg file from that to make it more neutral so everybody can use it and adjust it to his/her needs) as long as other stuff that exist around so that I can gather them all and upload or link them to the Marketing Materials page. I am also giving links from git so if something I asked is actually there please let me know since I haven't seen all of git yet. Also banners in English or any other language needed ;-). I want to focus on ending if possible that page so that people who want to make an event or set up a booth and want to print some material, to be able to find everything there(at least the basics) without getting lost in the wiki.If anyone want's to help, feel free. Also maybe Jos should consider in printing some of this stuff (like the cheat-cube) and send that along with DVD's, stickers and other promo material since it's a really cool thing to have ;-) Just a thought... I also accept to send me presentations to upload them to openSUSE:Presentations (http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Presentations) I know that many of you have one or two or more that it is not uploaded there, Just send me the files by e-mail and I will upload them and maybe write a few words about it. Again especially presentations that are not in English needed. Come on people, lets roll Hope to hear and get something from all of you Marketing people and Ambassadors out there Kostas Koudaras -- http://opensuse.gr http://amb.opensuse.gr http://own.opensuse.gr http://warlordfff.tk me I am not me ------- Time travel is possible, you just need to know the right aliens -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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openSUSE 11.4 PromoDVDs coming soonish - Organizing Country Coordination
by Andreas Jaeger 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

PromoDVDs of openSUSE 11.4 will soon be available. In the past we had a few ambassadors that distributed them on demand to folks in their country like Sankar P (is there a wiki page for this?). Sankar, could you tell us a bit what you did so that others know what this means, please? If you're interested in handling PromoDVDs for your region, please speak up. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj(a){novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi 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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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GNOME3
by Bryen M. Yunashko 02 Apr '11

02 Apr '11

Folks, As you know, GNOME 3 will be coming out *very* soon and soon after that, we will be providing GNOME3 with 11.4. We will even be shipping LiveCDs to GNOME Foundation with GNOME3 built in. GNOME Foundation is doing a lot of work to organize the launch of GNOME3. But like any other project, there's never quite enough launch parties. We also have our own launch parties (yes some will continue on in the next months ahead even if March 10 was our launch date.) I think it will develop strong goodwill between projects if we can either plan co-launch parties with GNOME Foundation or, in regions where there is no one to have GNOME3 launch parties, consider offering a 11.4 launch party and invite GNOME3 to join in on the launch party. Or, if a GNOME Ambassador is not in your area, consider doing it yourself. I am certain that the GNOME Foundation will appreciate and remember the support that openSUSE has given to raising visibility. GNOME is one of several important desktops that openSUSE provides and we should show our appreciation for the hard work that upstream projects do that help make our own Project even better. Both GNOME and openSUSE are equally generating good noise out there right now. Combined, we can take that noise to a higher level. Along this same vein, I mention GNOME3 because it is just around the corner. But in fact, we should definitely look for other opportunities to co-launch with other projects whose software we use to make openSUSE as awesome as it is today. Any other interesting launches coming up that we should think about? Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Marketing Team -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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Welcome our new ambassador From USA
by Kostas Koudaras 31 Mar '11

31 Mar '11

Hi ambassadors Today the list is now officially on FIRE, three new ambassadors, from three different continents ready to work hard about the openSUSE Project. Last(at least so far :-) ) but not least, a friend some of us made in SCaLE were he offered help in our booth there and the ambassador in California I promised that I would find ;-) (Thanks Izabel Valverde for the help on that). Please all give a warm welcome to Drew Adams, the new openSUSE ambassador from California-USA.Below you can learn more about him and his relationship with openSUSE as he told us in his own words. > * What have you done already for openSUSE? > I have helped install openSUSE on several systems for new users. Also I have > helped answer questions as they come up. > * What are your plans for promoting openSUSE? Please tell us what you > want to do the next 6 months. > I have found a fellow openSUSE fan in the area and he and I have been > talking about doing talks about openSUSE at the local Linux and UNIX user > groups. Also I have been in talks with a few people about the possibility of > doing a podcast for openSUSE. > * Are you ready to start promoting openSUSE? > I am VERY ready to promote openSUSE and can't wait to officially be part of > the ambassador team. > * What do you think is the best kept secret of openSUSE? > I think it has to be the 1-click-install. Linux users from other distros are > always impressed by the one click installs after I show them openSUSE. But > really there are so many well kept secrets about openSUSE that I love > showing or telling people about (things like OBS, SUSE Studio, the power and > speed of Zypper, etc....) > * Why do you love to do this? > I LOVE UNIX!! I think everyone should use a Unix system because of the power > Unix can provide to the user. And there is not better Unix kernel than Linux > and there is no better Linux distribution than openSUSE... therefore in my > mind everyone should use openSUSE > * How did you start with with Linux/openSUSE? What is your level of > experience? > I have been using Linux about 7 or 8 years now but I didn't start getting to > know the shell until about 3 years ago. I started using Linux on a > distribution called Lindows and eventualy ended up using Ubuntu and PC-BSD > after Xandros bought Lindows/Linspire. Then after using Ubuntu and PC-BSD > for about a year I came to openSUSE and have used it with few exceptions > ever since. I have been studding to be a Unix/Linux admin and consider my > skill level to be intermediate. -- http://opensuse.gr http://amb.opensuse.gr http://own.opensuse.gr http://warlordfff.tk me I am not me ------- Time travel is possible, you just need to know the right aliens -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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openSUSE 11.4 PromoDVDs shipping
by Andreas Jaeger 31 Mar '11

31 Mar '11

Hi, you can order now openSUSE 11.4 PromoDVDs via http://software.opensuse.org/promodvd . I cannot handle any other ways of ordering than the above web page - it helps to scale the shipment much better. We're still trying to improve the process - and are in the process of ordering more material to ship. I'll do my best to fullfill all requests in a fair way but please bear with me, the ordering process takes quite some time and with limited material and time, I have to make some tough choices . I'm looking forward to your requests - and also to the public stories you tell us on what you did with the PromoDVDs! Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj(a){novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi 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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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Welcome our new ambassador from Spain
by Kostas Koudaras 29 Mar '11

29 Mar '11

Hi openSUSE Ambassadors Please all give a warm welcome to Miguel Branco, our new ambassador from Spain. Below you can learn more about him and his relationship with openSUSE as he told us in his own words. * What have you done already for openSUSE? I'm a KDE upstream translator for galician language and I've done some work on opensuse localization. Aside from that, I've converted my whole family and some friends to openSUSE ;) * What are your plans for promoting openSUSE? Please tell us what you want to do the next 6 months. I plan to promote openSUSE at local LUGs and events on my region. I'm goin to try to reach other openSUSE users I know and stablish a local openSUSE group. * Are you ready to start promoting openSUSE? Of course :) * What do you think is the best kept secret of openSUSE? A World domination plot?. * Why do you love to do this? I've been involved in LUGs for the last 5-6 years and I love meeting people and solve their problems. As I love openSUSE, this looks like a lot of fun. What I love the most is using KDE, and openSUSE is the best KDE distro. * How did you start with with Linux/openSUSE? What is your level of experience? I started using opensuse after the first release. I had tried other distros before (mainly fedora based) because at some point I got realy upset with Windows and needed a real computing solution. Linux offered me just that. Now I'm an advanced user. I know a bit of linux administration, some bash scripting, perl programming... though not much really. I'm a biologist and now I study a master degree in bioinformatics. openSUSE is my working platform. -- http://opensuse.gr http://amb.opensuse.gr http://own.opensuse.gr http://warlordfff.tk me I am not me ------- Time travel is possible, you just need to know the right aliens -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Selected for GSoC 2011
by Jos Poortvliet 27 Mar '11

27 Mar '11

On 2011-03-19 Helen wrote: > On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 6:05 AM, Manu Gupta <manugupt1(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All > > > > I am too excited and am righting in a lot of joy. Congrats to all > > openSUSE is selected for GSoC more to come later :D let me enjoy > > now > > > > > > -- > > Regards > > Manu Gupta > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org > > What wonderful news. Congratulations and many thanks to the members > of the team who put together the proposal, and to those stepping up > to be mentors for the program. Really looking forward to seeing the > program in progress! Well, this was just step one. Now we need to go to universities and spread the word about this, try to get students to come up with good plans! The more serious proposals we have, the more likely it is we get a good number of slots from Google. In Nurnberg a group of ppl went to the university to hang up posters. I hope they are willing to put the sources online so other ambassadors can follow this example?!? Moreover, I have written a text which might be used on a folder to inform students about GSOC, see attached. Feel free to translate and use it, comments are welcome! If you need artwork, find it at the links below (in SVG format, you can use Inkscape to create something with it or translate it): http://gitorious.org/opensuse-artwork/opensuse- artwork/trees/master/posters http://gitorious.org/opensuse-artwork/opensuse- artwork/trees/master/flyers http://gitorious.org/opensuse/art/trees/master/00assets/poster As I personally also would like to hang up some posters/GSOC stuff at the university here, so if anyone creates a nice A4 flyer/poster out of the text I have attached and the graphics above, that'd be awesome* :D Would also be nice to have for next year... Have fun and get us some students ;-) Cheers, Jos > Helen * It would also ensure I don't have to fire up Inkscape and embarash myself with my horrible graphics/design/layouting skills... About Free Software, Google Summer of Code and openSUSE or: how to have more fun this summer! This summer you can spend your time in a way that is both more productive and more fun. Instead of bringing drinks around or cleaning rooms, you can do some coding in an exciting and innovative project while getting paid for it! About Google Summer of Code Each year, Google pays hundreds of IT students around the world to spend their summer writing code for a Free Software project. If you get selected, you'll be mentored by an expert in the area you'll work in while getting paid $5000 upon successful completion of your project. About Free Software "Free" or "Open Source" software is developed by companies and volunteers together instead of within just one company. And unlike 'normal' software, the Free Software license allows you to study, modify and freely share the code! Companies like IBM, Google, Facebook, HP, Intel and many others make extensive use of Free Software to provide better, cheaper products than the competition. Your mobile phone (Android, MeeGo or Symbian), your router at home - but also the super computers doing cancer research or the servers of pretty much every major website. Almost all of those run Linux or another Free Software operating system. And you can run it too, if you like. On a server at home or even on your desktop. About openSUSE openSUSE is one of the largest Linux distributions, well known for its focus on working together and having fun. We do more than 'just a Linux distribution', however. We create cool technology to help software developers distribute their software not just on openSUSE but also other Linux distributions like Ubuntu and Fedora. And on susestudio.com you can build your own, custom Operating System with a large selection of software entirely from a web browser - and download it as VM or USB stick image! Set yourself apart from the masses... Free Software offers more freedom for the users but also lower prices and better products for companies. Free Software developers and sys admins therefor are popular and on average earn 40% more than the 1000th Java or Microsoft engineer. ... and have fun doing it You'll notice Free Software offers a far more interesting world to work in than the average software company. Free Software is much more dynamic, offers more freedom in your work and brings more opportunities to learn and have fun at the hundreds of conferences and meetings all around the world! Find more info about: Google Summer of Code: http://code.google.com/soc/ openSUSE and GSOC: http://en.opensuse.org/GSOC_2011 Free Software: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/

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Re: [openSUSE-SV] efectos del intel_iommu=off?
by cheperobert 24 Mar '11

24 Mar '11

.... reenvio a la lista, llego al privado El día 24 de marzo de 2011 09:53, paul gonzalez <bboy2009(a)gmail.com> escribió: > el problemas es que el algunas ocasiones la portatil trabaja demasiado lento > en el entorno grafico como a nivel 3 > investigue y me di cuenta que era ese problema en cuanto a la actualizacion > del BIOS no se se podrá por que no tengo instalado Güindos instalado , sino > que lo virtualizo > aqui dmesg: http://paste.opensuse.org/36345112 Veo este mensaje: ******** No AGP bridge found ******** Supongo que estas usando IOMMU desactivado Parece que todo es problema con tu Hardware, en relación al mensaje "Your BIOS is broken; DMAR reported at address 0!", te dejo dos enlaces donde te explican y comentan que hay que hacer. http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=255912 https://fedoraproject.org /wiki/Common_F12_bugs#Systems_fail_to_boot.2C_USB_is_not_functional.2C_network_adapter_fails_to_work_.28or_possibly_other_symptoms.29_due_to_imperfect_handling_of_BIOSes_with_broken_IOMMU_handling Es para Fedora, pero mas que todo es documentación general Saludos > > El 24 de marzo de 2011 16:47, cheperobert <jrobertoalas(a)gmail.com> escribió: >> >> El día 23 de marzo de 2011 23:07, paul gonzalez <bboy2009(a)gmail.com> >> escribió: >> > Saludos a todos >> > recientemente me he encontrado con un problema con kernel que al parecer >> > es >> > un problema de hardware con cierto tipo de equipos hp >> > "importante este problema no daña el hardware y esta en mucha versiones >> > tales como fedora 12 hasta la 14 " segun lo que he podido investigar >> > este problema se da con arquitectura x86_64 el resto esta libre , ademas >> > hacen resaltar que el problemas no es directamente del kernel sino >> > del tipo de bios que usa el hardware una de las soluciones >> > que exponen es >> > poner este parámetro intel_iommu=off a la hora de arrancar >> > de aquí mi duda que repercusiones podría tener lo digo por aquello de >> > las >> > ACPI >> > he buscado pero no encontrado mucha información no se si alguien me >> > pudiese >> > ayudar >> > link de la opción https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495603 >> >> Supongo que no te daría ningún problema, salvo algunas advertencias >> pero de la BIOS no del Kernel. ¿Sera que existe una nueva >> actualización para el Bios que usas? >> >> Al parecer este parámetro es indispensable que lo tengas activado, >> cuando manejas maquinas virtuales o grandes cantidades de memoria en >> simulación. >> >> ¿que errores te da?, porque podríamos reportar un bugzilla para que se >> le busque una solución, o nos puedan dar una recomendación mas clara. >> >> Saludos >> >> > -- >> > Un libro es una ventana hipocrita, pero siempre es bueno ver dentro de >> > ellas >> > >> > -- >> > "Millones de ideas, una conclusión: openSUSE" >> > -- >> > Para dar de baja la suscripción, envía un mensaje a >> > opensusesv+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com >> > Para obtener más opciones, visita este grupo en >> > http://groups.google.com/group/opensusesv?hl=es?hl=es. >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> -- >> Linux codigo abierto: >> Millones de personas en el mundo con mentes abiertas >> no pueden estar equivocadas > > > > -- > Un libro es una ventana hipocrita, pero siempre es bueno ver dentro de ellas > -- -- Linux codigo abierto: Millones de personas en el mundo con mentes abiertas no pueden estar equivocadas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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