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[opensuse-announce] KDE 4.2 in openSUSE
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

The KDE Project released KDE 4.2 on Tuesday[1], and of course openSUSE packages were available in time for the release. If you missed the pointer from the KDE announcement info page[2], you can get your KDE 4.2 fix in a number of ways. Want to install KDE 4.2 on an existing system? Grab the packages via one-click install for openSUSE 11.1[3], openSUSE 11.0[4], or openSUSE 10.3[5]. You can also run the 4.2 packages in a Live CD, or install a fresh openSUSE 11.1-based system with KDE 4.2 packages from the Live CD found under http://home.kde.org/~binner/kde-four-live/[6]. You'll find x86 and x86_64 ISOs there. Thanks much to our KDE gurus for having this ready! If you want to run 4.2, no need to wait another minute -- grab the packages and have a lot of fun! [1]: http://kde.org/announcements/4.2/index.php [2]: http://kde.org/info/4.2.0.php [3]: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openS… [4]: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openS… [5]: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openS… [6]: http://home.kde.org/~binner/kde-four-live/ -- 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-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] HP Builds on the openSUSE Education Project
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

In December, HP announced that it would release a new desktop offering along with Novell[1] targeted at education customers. Part of the announcement is a repository of education applications "including math, art and word games, to improve student learning," which were based on work by the openSUSE Education project[2]. Novell and HP would like to formally acknowledge the community's contribution to HP's education repository and thank the openSUSE Education community for the work they have done to package and make available additional programs for open source education efforts. The openSUSE Education project provides an add-on CD for openSUSE so that schools will have the benefit of educational packages not shipped by default with openSUSE. The fact that HP has sought to include work from the Education project is testament to the outstanding quality of their work and the demand for open source education solutions. The additional repository was created for HP to provide a subset of the packages of those offered by the openSUSE Education project. HP and Novell chose to do this to limit any maintenance issues for the subset of packages offered commercially. We'd like to thank the Education project for its patience with Novell and HP while we establish a way to work on community repositories with commercial partners. As a first-time effort, there have been a few bumps and we've found a few areas where we can improve communication with openSUSE projects like the Education Project. This cooperation is particularly important as we all continue to push Linux and open source on the desktop and into "consumer" solutions. We need to work together as effectively as possible to offer well-polished open source applications that will appeal to end users who are new to Linux. Going forward, HP and Novell will work to collaborate more closely with the openSUSE Education project and support their efforts to deliver solutions for schools and provide the best experience for educational use. We'd also like to thank HP for offering open source to its educational customers. This is another small step towards world domination for Linux. Thanks again to the openSUSE Education Project for their hard work and patience! [1]: http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2008/081210a.html [2]: http://en.opensuse.org/Education -- 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-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] #issue 56 instead of 55 (was : Re: [opensuse] openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 55)
by Masim "Vavai" Sugianto 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

Hi, On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Jan-Simon Möller <dl9pf(a)gmx.de> wrote: > We are pleased to announce: > Issue 56 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] Just a little correction with the subject. It should be issue #56 as mentioned on the content of email. :-) -- Best Regards, Masim "Vavai" Sugianto /************************************************************/ Blog (ID) : http://www.vavai.com/blog Blog (EN) : http://www.vavai.net Community : http://www.opensuse.or.id /************************************************************/ -- 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 55
by Jan-Simon Möller 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

We are pleased to announce: Issue 56 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * FOSDEM 2009 * Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors * Novell\u2019s 2009 Technical Strategy and Process * NTFS-3g - writing to windows partition * Preview/Fix broken AVI files in openSUSE The openSUSE Weekly News is also available in: German [1], Hungarian [2] , Indonesian [3], Italian [4](delay), Japanese [5], Polish [6], Portuguese [7] (delay), Russian [8] and Spanish [9] (delay). [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/56 [1] http://de.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE-Wochenschau/56 [2] http://hu.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Heti_Hírmondó/56 [3] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/56/indonesian [4] http://it.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Newsletter_Settimanale/56 [5] http://ja.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/56 [6] http://pl.opensuse.org/Tygodnik_openSUSE/56 [7] http://pt.opensuse.org/Notícias_da_semana_no_openSUSE/56 [8] http://ru.opensuse.org/Еженедельные_новости_openSUSE/56 [9] http://es.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/56 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] openSUSE KDE Team Meeting - Wednesday 21th January, 17:00 UTC
by Lubos Lunak 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

The next openSUSE KDE Team meeting will be held tomorrow, Wednesday 21th January, at 17:00 UTC. The current list of scheduled topics is: * old action items (see http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Meetings/20090107) * status report * Q&A Further items are welcome; please add them http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Meetings Please use http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=21&month=1&year=20… to get the time of the meeting in your time zone. The meeting will happen in #opensuse-kde IRC channel on irc.freenode.net You are welcome to join and participate! -- 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-GNOME Team Meeting 22-January-2009
by Bryen 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

Since we had one +1 and no opposition to Captain_Magnus's proposal to alternate time shift meetings to 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month, we'll begin with this Thursday's meeting at 22:00 UTC. We have had very excellent turnout at each of these time-shifted meetings and this gives people globally more of an opportunity to be involved consistently. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=22&month=01&year=2… This week will be a more formal agenda meeting after the last two meetings' productive open-informal discussion. I'll leave JPR to come up with what he wants the agenda this week to address. If anyone else wishes to add topics to discuss at the meeting, please feel free to respond to this mail. After this week, we'll start using the http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meeting page formally again. Looking forward to seeing you all on Thursday. -- Bryen Yunashko openSUSE Board Member openSUSE-GNOME Team Member GNOME-A11y Team Member -- 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 55
by Jan-Simon Möller 19 Jan '09

19 Jan '09

We are pleased to announce: Issue 55 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * openSUSE Project Opens Feature Tracking with openFATE * openSUSE forums has reached 20K members * Wanted-Build Service Contributors * Joe Brockmeier: What happens with KDE with Qt license shift? * Katarina Machalkova: A fairytale about brave wizard QSplitter and evil ancient screen resolution from the last century The openSUSE Weekly News is also available in: German [1], Hungarian [2] , Indonesian [3], Italian [4], Japanese [5], Polish [6], Portuguese [7] (delay), Russian [8] and Spanish [9] (delay). [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/55 [1] http://de.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE-Wochenschau/55 [2] http://hu.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Heti_Hírmondó/55 [3] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/55/indonesian [4] http://it.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Newsletter_Settimanale/55 [5] http://ja.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/55 [6] http://pl.opensuse.org/Tygodnik_openSUSE/55 [7] http://pt.opensuse.org/Notícias_da_semana_no_openSUSE/55 [8] http://ru.opensuse.org/Еженедельные_новости_openSUSE/55 [9] http://es.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/55 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] Reminder: openSUSE Marketing Meeting 2009-01-20 17:00 GMT (18:00 CET)
by Martin Lasarsch 19 Jan '09

19 Jan '09

Hi The openSUSE Marketing team is having a meeting on Tuesday in the #opensuse-project channel on Freenode at 17:00 GMT, other times here: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=01&day=20&year=2… Please add topics to the agenda at: http://en.opensuse.org/Marketing_Team/Meetings/Marketing_Meeting_2009-01-20 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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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Project Opens Feature Tracking with openFATE
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 16 Jan '09

16 Jan '09

openSUSE Project Opens Feature Tracking with openFATE The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce that feature tracking and requests are now available to the larger openSUSE Community. The openSUSE feature tracking system, openFATE[1], is now live and accessible to anyone with an openSUSE account. Hosted at features.opensuse.org, openFATE will help the openSUSE community monitor and participate in the development process. Features that are tracked in openFATE are any proposals that the project wants to see introduced in order to improve openSUSE. For example: * Changes to the openSUSE theme. * The default system editor. * A new feature to allow automatic bug reporting. Anyone can use openFATE to view and discuss features, so long as they have an account. This will allow the openSUSE community to see how the releases evolve and participate directly in feature discussions. If you're an openSUSE Member, you can even add features in openFATE. While we can't accept every new feature, this enables members to propose features directly for consideration. (If you're an openSUSE contributor and haven't applied for membership, please do so soon!) Want to learn more about openFATE? Please see openFATE[2] on the openSUSE wiki. We'll also need help in screening features for future openSUSE releases. We'll be creating a volunteer team to help evaluate feature requests and help direct the future of openSUSE! If you'd like to participate, please add your name to the openSUSE Fate wiki under Screening Team. Thanks much to the following for their work on implementing openFATE and making it accessible to the entire openSUSE community: Thomas Schmidt, Klaas Freitag, Andre Duffeck, Michael Loeffler, Christopher Hofmann, Jürgen Weigert, and the entire tools team[3]. A lot of hard work has gone into opening this system, and it will be vital for improving openSUSE and enhancing community participation. [1]: https://features.opensuse.org/ [2]: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenFate [3]: http://en.opensuse.org/Tools_and_Services_Team -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager jzb(a)zonker.net http://zonker.opensuse.org/ http://blogs.zdnet.com/community/ -- 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] Weekly News Team Meeting
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

Hello, we are pleased to invite you (Editors/Translators) to the Weekly-News Team Meeting. The Topics from our Meeting are placed in: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/Meetings/Topics_current New Topics can included until Sat, 10h UTC ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Date: next Saturday {17. Januar 2009} Time: 12h UTC Channel: #opensuse-newsletter @ irc.freenode.net ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Collaborative editing can be done with gobby. A small howto is at: http://lizards.opensuse.org/2008/12/28/saschas-backtrace-gobby- collaborative-editor/ The Settings for our gobby Session can be requested via IRC or Mail (dl9pf(a)gmx.net) or by me. -- Sincereley yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Marketing Team (Weekly News) openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/saigkill -- 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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