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[opensuse-announce] Announcing openSUSE Day at LinuxWorld Expo
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

Join the openSUSE Project for a day of fun and FOSS at the LinuxWorld Expo! On Wednesday, August 6th, the openSUSE Project will be holding its first "openSUSE Day" in North America, in conjuction with the LinuxWorld Expo at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. We'll have a full day of presentations about the openSUSE Project, KDE, GNOME, the Linux kernel, the openSUSE Build Service, and much more. Come by and learn all about openSUSE, pick up an openSUSE 11.0 DVD and some of the fabulous door prizes -- including openSUSE t-shirts, caps, and other big prizes. The schedule runs from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., including an openSUSE Birds of a Feather at 4:15 p.m. See the full schedule at: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Day_at_LinuxWorld_Expo. Want to help with the openSUSE Day or help staff the openSUSE booth in the LWE .Org Pavilion? We'd love to have you! If you'd like to get involved, speak up on the opensuse-marketing list or contact Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier (zonker(a)opensuse.org). -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager jzb(a)zonker.net http://zonker.opensuse.org/ http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ -- 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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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Build Service 1.0 Released
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the 1.0 release of the openSUSE Build Service. The 1.0 release provides all the features necessary to support building openSUSE in the public build systems and allowing direct contributions to openSUSE from all contributors. Developers can now submit contributions to openSUSE directly at build.opensuse.org. The openSUSE Build Service allows developers to create and maintain packages for openSUSE and many other Linux distributions, including CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Mandriva, Red Hat, and Ubuntu. With the 1.0 release, the openSUSE Build Service expands its scope to building the entire openSUSE release, and provides everyone with the same access and transparent interface to work on the openSUSE distribution. The openSUSE Build Service has offered a simple collaboration system since its inception for groups to work closely together on packages or solutions stacks. The 1.0 release improves on existing functionality to allow the Build Service to scale to larger projects like openSUSE's Factory distribution, and to allow building openSUSE's stable releases in the open. What the changes mean for contributors: * Anyone can find a package's working copy as maintained by the official packager or packaging team. Contributors can submit changes against the working copy. * The submission handling and notification system has been put in place, allowing any contributor to request a merge of their changes to a project. * Quality assurance happens before contributions are merged. Test builds of a suggested change are accessible to anyone. * Improved branch handling. It is easy to set up a branch of a package. The branch will build in the same way as the original package, but can be modified. * Source handling is improved in 1.0. It's now possible to easily maintain a branch, and modifications are stored without creating a full copy. This makes it easier to maintain features based on the latest copy of package. The Build Service builds the latest packages, including modifications, automatically. The majority of this functionality is implemented on the server side. The rest can be implemented by the various Build Service clients, so that contributors can take advantage of the new features. The Build Service team has also introduced a number of smaller improvements and bugfixes to make the system more scalable and usable. The openSUSE Build Service is now considered "feature complete" for collaboration. The Build Service team is looking for additional feedback on improving the openSUSE Build Service as it will now be the standard tool for working on the distribution. For more information on the openSUSE Build Service, visit http://build.opensuse.org/. If you would like to discuss the Build Service please use the opensuse-buildservice(a)opensuse.org mailing list. The Build Service also has an active IRC channel, #opensuse-buildservice running on Freenode. -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager jzb(a)zonker.net http://zonker.opensuse.org/ http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ -- 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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[opensuse-announce] Next Helping Hands Event: OpenOffice - July 11th.
by Bryen 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

Our initial Helping Hands event on July 27th was a great success. And we're continuing that trend with our next scheduled event this coming July 11th. This week's topic will cover OpenOffice. We'll start off with a discussion about SVG Imports and Impression 3D Transitions. Very cooool stuff. And then we'll open up the floor so you can ask all kinds of questions about OpenOffice from the Go-OO Team. This event will be held in the #opensuse-gnome channel on the Freenode IRC Network on Friday, July 11th at 14:30 UTC. Next week, on July 18th, we'll have the Evolution Team come out and talk about 10 things you didn't know about the Evolution Client. See you all this Friday! Bryen M Yunashko -- 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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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE KDE Community Meeting - July 9th, 18:00 UTC
by Dirk Mueller 08 Jul '08

08 Jul '08

Hi, There's an openSUSE KDE Community meeting is coming up tomorrow, Wednesday, July 9th. We're back to or original schedule, the meeting starts at 18:00 UTC. Topics can be proposed also in advance on http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Meetings The current list of topics: * old action items * Review http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Ideas for openSUSE 11.1 Please join us if you're interested. We'll meet at #opensuse-kde on irc.freenode.net at 18:00 UTC. Please use http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=7&day=9&year=200… to figure out when this is in your time zone. :-) Greetings, Dirk -- 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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[opensuse-announce] Upcoming #opensuse-gnome Meeting 2008/07/10 skipped due to GUADEC
by Casual J. Programmer 08 Jul '08

08 Jul '08

Hi all GNOME addicts, The next openSUSE-GNOME project meeting will not take place as scheduled ( 2008/07/10 ) due to GUADEC Have a lot of fun .. Casual J. Programmer (on behalf of the openSUSE-GNOME team)

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[opensuse-announce] OpenOffice_org 3.0-alpha available
by Petr Mladek 04 Jul '08

04 Jul '08

Hi, I’m happy to announce that the first OpenOffice.org 3.0 alpha packages are available in the Build Service OpenOffice.org:UNSTABLE project. Unfortunately, the build has succeeded only on openSUSE 10.3, 11.0 and Factory-i586. You might expect the build for openSUSE-10.2, SLED10 and Factory-x86_64 with the next alpha (within 2-3 weeks). The package version is 2.99.21. It is based on the upstream dev300-m21 milestone. IMPORTANT: It is an alpha version and might include even serious bugs. It is intended for enthusiasts and beta testers. We will be happy if you could try it and report bugs. See below for the known bugs. The packages with localizations are renamed from OpenOffice_org-<lang> to OpenOffice_org-l10n-<lang>. Also the localized help content is split into the optional OpenOffice_org-help-<lang> packages. Finally, the American localization is split into extra packages. Where to get it: The list of installation repositories can be found at http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories#OpenOffice.org_… Installation problems: There are some problems with the version update on older distributions. You might need to select the right version by hand, see http://en.opensuse.org/OpenOffice#Dependencies_During_Update Bug reports: Please report the bugs into https://bugzilla.novell.com/ for the product "OpenOffice_org 2.0". Do not forget to mention enough information about the problem, see http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:OOo. Known bugs: + dictionaries are not found + help content is in found + the openSUSE branding is not available + mono extensions does not work Changes in this version: The GO-OO project changes are listed at http://svn.gnome.org/svn/ooo-build/tags/OOO_BUILD_2_99_21/NEWS General information about the build: The build is based on the GO-OO project. It includes lots bug fixes, features and optimizations in compare with the regular OpenOffice.org build: * better startup performance * improved VBA interoperability * improved import filters (OOXML, WordPerfect) * additional import filters (SVG, WordPerfect Graphics, Microsoft Works, ...) * native KDE Open/Save dialog * WebDAV locking * new 3D slide transitions * multimedia in Impress via GStreamer * multiple formula syntax (Calc A1, Excel A1 and Excel R1C1) * ... , see also http://go-oo.org/discover/ -- Best Regards, Petr Mladek software developer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s. r. o. e-mail: pmladek(a)suse.cz Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 952 190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/ -- 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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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 29
by Jan-Simon Möller 03 Jul '08

03 Jul '08

We are pleased to announce: Issue 29 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * openSUSE 11.1 Roadmap * Novell Client for Linux Public Beta for openSUSE 10.3 * People of openSUSE: Jan-Simon Möller * John Anderson: Find duplicate files by content not name * Lukas Ocilka: Package Search and One Click Install in YaST * Miguel de Icaza: Moonlight 0.7 is now Available [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/29 Last weeks issue: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/28 Have a lot of fun! -- Jan-Simon Möller -- 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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[opensuse-announce] Deadline to submit 11.1 GNOME Ideas
by Bryen 02 Jul '08

02 Jul '08

http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Ideas/11.1 The openSUSE-GNOME Team needs your ideas. In preparation for starting work on 11.1, the GNOME Team would like you to submit your ideas for what you would like to see in openSUSE 11.1. We have a deadline to accept ideas and assign them to appropriate team members by July 7th. Any ideas submitted after July 7th may or may not be included in 11.1 depending on available resources. Thanks and we look forward to your great ideas, Bryen -- 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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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE 11.1 Roadmap
by Andreas Jaeger 02 Jul '08

02 Jul '08

With openSUSE 11.0 out the door, it's time to start thinking about openSUSE 11.1. The public release of openSUSE 11.1 is scheduled for December 18, 2008, six months after the release of openSUSE 11.0. The full schedule for the release cycle is as follows: Thu, Jul 24 openSUSE 11.1 Alpha1 Thu, Aug 21 openSUSE 11.1 Alpha2 Thu, Sep 18 openSUSE 11.1 Beta1 - snapshot release Thu, Oct 02 openSUSE 11.1 Beta2 - snapshot release Thu, Oct 16 openSUSE 11.1 Beta3 - snapshot release Thu, Oct 30 openSUSE 11.1 Beta4 - snapshot release Thu, Nov 13 openSUSE 11.1 RC1 - snapshot release Thu, Nov 27 openSUSE 11.1 RC2 - snapshot release Thu, Dec 4 openSUSE 11.1 GM - final release Thu, Dec 18 openSUSE 11.1 public release This is, of course, a tentative schedule. Any critical or show-stopping bugs may delay betas and release candidates. Note that all release dates are on Thursdays. Check-in deadlines for base/core packages, or those that have a long list of dependencies, are on Fridays at 15:00 CET. The check-in deadlines for "leaf" packages are on Mondays preceding the release at 17:00 CET. Major areas of interest in this release include: * KDE: KDE 4.1 (TBD: KDE 3.5.x) * Continued improvement in the software update stack * GNOME 2.24 * Linux kernel 2.6.27+ Want to get involved? The start of a release cycle is a great time to get involved in openSUSE development. See the How to Participate page on the openSUSE wiki [http://en.opensuse.org/How_to_Participate] for details. See the full 11.1 roadmap on the openSUSE wiki here: http://en.opensuse.org/Roadmap/11.1 Note that Coolo and Michl are on vacation until the end of next week, so let's start the discussion on features once they are back, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform / openSUSE, aj(a)suse.de 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

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[opensuse-announce] Reminder: openSUSE project meeting - 2008/07/02 - 14:00 CEST (12:00 GMT)
by Martin Lasarsch 01 Jul '08

01 Jul '08

Hi The next openSUSE project meeting will take place at the official #opensuse-project IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE-project) tomorrow: 2008/07/02 14:00 CEST (12:00 GMT) For an overview what time this is in different timezones, use: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=02&month=07&year=2… 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_2008-07-02 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. 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

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