openSUSE Announce October 2007

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[opensuse-announce] REMINDER: KDE Team IRC Meeting TODAY at 17:00 UTC!

by Dirk Mueller

Dear openSUSE users, We`ll be meeting in our bi-weekly IRC meeting in the channel #openSUSE-KDE today starting at 17:00 o`clock UTC. Thanks to the feedback from the community we have new topics to talk about being listed on the KDE Meeting wiki page: http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Meetings in addition to discussing the brand new KDE 4.0 Beta4 release which we just pushed out via the openSUSE Buildservice. Don`t forget to join :-) We`ll read us, Dirk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

14 years, 6 months

[opensuse-announce] GNOME Meeting Thursday Nov 1 at ** 12:00 UTC (13:00 CET) **

by JP Rosevear

Greetings GNOME/openSUSE lovers, the GNOME team will be holding its next meeting this Thursday at 12:00 UTC (13:00 CET). Please note this is our once monthly time shift to accomodate participation in Asia and Australia. Confused? Try: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=01&month=11&year=2… In general we follow the project meeting guidelines: (http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About) outlined for the openSUSE project, except we use #opensuse-gnome as the IRC channel. Please add agenda items and questions to the meeting page. The week we will be experimenting with grouping hardcore development items at the end and having regular Q&A before that as well as setting time limits for each discussion point. Last meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20071025 Next meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20071101 Calendar of all meetings: webcal://news.opensuse.org/?ec3_ical Meeting info: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings Tasks: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Tasks -JP -- JP Rosevear <jpr(a)novell.com> Novell, Inc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

14 years, 6 months

[opensuse-announce] GNOME Meeting - Bluetooth Special! Thursday at noon EDT/18:00CST/1600 GMT

by JP Rosevear

Greetings GNOME/openSUSE lovers, the GNOME team will be holding its next meeting this Thursday at noon EDT/18:00CST/1600 GMT). As part of our experimentation with meeting format, this week we'll have Stefan Seyfried attend from the mobile devices team to discuss a little about the state of bluetooth (the bluez stack) and bluetooth in GNOME for 10.3 (not good) and in 11.0 (will be *much* better) followed by some QA. Last meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20071018 Next meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20071025 or http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/Current Meeting info: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings In general we follow the project meeting guidelines: (http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About) outlined for the openSUSE project, except we use #opensuse-gnome as the IRC channel. Please add agenda items and questions to the meeting page. The week we will be experimenting with grouping hardcore development items at the end and having regular Q&A before that as well as setting time limits for each discussion point. -JP -- JP Rosevear <jpr(a)novell.com> Novell, Inc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

14 years, 7 months

[opensuse-announce] Reminder: openSUSE project meeting - 2007/10/24 - 18:00 CEST (16:00 GMT) - *CHANGES*

by Martin Lasarsch

Hi, The next openSUSE project meeting will take place at the official #opensuse-project IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE-project) on Wednesday: 2007/10/24 18:00 CEST (16:00 GMT) This meeting is meant to discuss the latest developments in and around openSUSE. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Project_Meeting_2007-10-24 as soon as possible. Also, if you cannot attend the meeting, but have questions you want to see discussed, please add them to the meeting wiki page as well. *NEW*NEW*NEW* This will be the last project meeting in the fixed 18:00 CE(S)T timeslot. The meeting times after this will alternate: the meeting on 07.11.2007 will be at 13:00 CET, the meeting on 21.11.2007 at 18:00 again, 05.12.2007 13:00 and so on. If you are unsure when a meeting is just visit the meeting page at http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/ and/or watch the announce mails. With this change the openSUSE friends which are living in the eastern parts of the world (seen from Europe) like India, China, Australia (just to name a few) will have it easier to attend the meeting. For general info about our IRC meetings read: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About For a general technical introduction to IRC (Internet Relay Chat) see http://www.irchelp.org/ ;(not affiliated with openSUSE) or enter "IRC help" into your preferred search engine. The network we use is freenode - for more information on this, including how to find a server, visit http://freenode.net/ ;(not affiliated with openSUSE either). -- 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-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

14 years, 7 months

[opensuse-announce] Short downtime of download and buildservice infrastructure

by Dr. Peter Poeml

Hi, there will be a brief outage of the download and buildservice infrastructure today, scheduled at 11:30 UTC / 13:30 CEST. All systems should be functional again after a few minutes. Affected are software.opensuse.org download.opensuse.org rsync.opensuse.org, stage.opensuse.org, ftp.opensuse.org api.opensuse.org, build.opensuse.org (and a couple of other, but less visible hosts) Apologies for the inconveniency. Peter -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg)

14 years, 7 months

[opensuse-announce] GNOME Meeting Thursday at noon EDT/18:00CST/1600 GMT

by JP Rosevear

Greetings GNOME/openSUSE lovers, the GNOME team will be holding its next meeting this Thursday at noon EDT/18:00CST/1600 GMT). In following the lead of the project meeting, in future we will be altering meeting times to better allow for participation in Asia and Australia. The current proposal is to have the first meeting of each month moved. In general we follow the project meeting guidelines: (http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About) outlined for the openSUSE project, except we use #opensuse-gnome as the IRC channel. Please add agenda items and questions to the meeting page. The week we will be experimenting with grouping hardcore development items at the end and having regular Q&A before that as well as setting time limits for each discussion point. Last meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20071011 Next meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20071018 or http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/Current Meeting info: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings -JP -- JP Rosevear <jpr(a)novell.com> Novell, Inc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

14 years, 7 months

[opensuse-announce] GNOME Meeting Thursday at noon EDT/18:00CST/1600 GMT

by JP Rosevear

Greetings GNOME/openSUSE lovers. After holding a very successful first meeting, the GNOME team will be holding its next meeting this Thursday at noon EDT/18:00CST/1600 GMT). In general we will follow the meeting guidelines (http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About) outlined for the openSUSE project, except we use #opensuse-gnome as the IRC channel. Please add agenda items and questions to the meeting page. This particular meeting will be centered around 10.3 cleanup, 11.0 planning and the process/planning improvements for the team (ie having these meetings, and re-organizing the wiki like we've done over the past couple of weeks). Last meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20071004 Next meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20071011 or http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/Current Meeting info: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings -JP -- JP Rosevear <jpr(a)novell.com> Novell, Inc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

14 years, 7 months

[opensuse-announce] Reminder: openSUSE project meeting - 2007/10/10 - 18:00 CEST (16:00 GMT)

by Martin Lasarsch

14 years, 7 months

[opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.3 available

by Michael Loeffler

The openSUSE team proudly announces the availability of openSUSE 10.3. We're shipping all the latest open source packages that are available at time of launch. As highlights, we'd like to point out the latest desktops, GNOME 2.20 and KDE 3.5.7 plus KDE 4 preview, our MP3 support via gstreamer plug-in by Fluendo, a faster boot process, heavily optimised and improved package management, 1-click install option for additional software, OpenOffice 2.3, XEN 3.1 and VirtualBox 1.5 and, last but not least, our 1 CD installation which provides a small but fully loaded desktop. For all the news and impressive screenshots, have a look at http://news.opensuse.org/?p=400 It's available now to download at http://software.openSUSE.org in x86, x86-64, and ppc versions - from our mirrors and via bittorrent. The following ISOs can be downloaded: the 1 CD open source version with an add-on CD containing proprietary software, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader, RealNetworks RealPlayer, and Sun Java Runtime Environment. DVD ISOs for all architectures are available and contain the open source version plus proprietary add-ons. An installable Live CD will be released in October, and the Edu add-on CD [http://en.opensuse.org/Education] will show up in the same time frame. As usual, openSUSE 10.3 will be available in European retail channels as a boxed product. In North America, the box will be available through shopNovell [http://shop.novell.com]. Due to production lead times, boxes will start to show up on shelves and in online shops approximately on Oct 11th. Pre-orders can be placed here: http://en.opensuse.org/Buy_openSUSE We'd like to take this opportunity to thank the whole openSUSE community for tons of testing, feedback, contributions and over all participation in helping to make openSUSE 10.3 an awesome distribution. While risking missing out some important contributors, we'd like to spotlight some community members for their outstanding work: - Francis for Sneak Peeks [http://news.opensuse.org/?cat=17] - Beineri for his Quickies [http://news.opensuse.org/?cat=12] - Benji for the 1-click install [http://news.opensuse.org/?p=133] - Pascal and sPIN for community help [http://help.opensuse.org/] - All the community translators - http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Localization_Teams Our top 3 bug reporters for openSUSE 10.3 - Andreas Hanke - David Binderman - Casual J. Programmer Have a lot of fun! Christoph, Coolo, Michael PS: Planning or looking for an openSUSE 10.3 launch event? Check here: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_10.3_Launch_Party_Locations -- Michael Löffler, Product Management SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

14 years, 7 months

[opensuse-announce] GNOME Meeting Thursday at noon EDT/18:00CST/1600 GMT

by JP Rosevear

Greetings GNOME/openSUSE lovers. After holding a very successful first meeting, the GNOME team will be holding its next meeting this Thursday at noon EDT/18:00CST/1600 GMT). In general we will follow the meeting guidelines (http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About) outlined for the openSUSE project, except we use #opensuse-gnome as the IRC channel. Please add agenda items and questions to the meeting page. This particular meeting will be centered around 10.3 cleanup, 11.0 planning and the process/planning improvements for the team (ie having these meetings, and re-organizing the wiki like we've done over the past couple of weeks). Last meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20070927 Next meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20071004 or http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/Current Meeting info: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings -JP -- JP Rosevear <jpr(a)novell.com> Novell, Inc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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