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[opensuse-announce] Announcing new openSUSE Board Members
by Andreas Jaeger 09 Dec '09

09 Dec '09

The election committee announces the three new members of the openSUSE board: * Bryen Yunashko (non-Novell seat) * Pavol Rusnak (Novell seat) * Rupert Horstkötter (non-Novell seat) These three will serve two-year terms beginning on December 22nd. Stephen Shaw and Bryen Yunashko have completed their terms on the Board. In addition to those seats, a new seat has been added to the Board effective with the inauguration of the new Board. The full Board will consist of: * Bryen Yunashko * Henne Vogelsang * Michael Löffler (chair) * Pascal Bleser * Pavol Rusnak * Rupert Horstkötter The election committee wants to thank Stephen Shaw for his tenure on the board and the new board members Bryen, Rupert and Pavol for stepping up and volunteering to serve on the openSUSE board. To get in touch with the board send an email to board(a)opensuse.org. The next board election will be starting October 2010. Andreas Jaeger Member of the openSUSE Election Committee -- 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

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE KDE Team Meeting - Thursday 10th December, 17:00 UTC
by Lubos Lunak 09 Dec '09

09 Dec '09

The next openSUSE KDE Team meeting will be held tomorrow, Thursday 10th December, at 17:00 UTC. The current list of scheduled topics is: * Bugsquashing * old action items * status report * Q&A, misc Further items are welcome; please add them http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Meetings Please use http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=10&month=12&year=2… 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 weekly News #100 out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 05 Dec '09

05 Dec '09

We are pleased to announce: Issue 100 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * openSUSE Board Election Update * Egbert Eich: The Future of SaX2 * Ben Kevan: KDE 4.3.4 Released – openSUSE Build Service * Linux Weekly News: Firefox locks down the components directory * Linux.com/minaev: Linux Desktop Search Engines Compared For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/100/Translations [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/100 Have a lot of fun! -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Member openSUSE Ambassador openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com ClaimID: http://claimid.com/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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[opensuse-announce] KDE SC 4.3.4 in KDE:KDE4:STABLE:Desktop; soon in 11.2 online update
by Will Stephenson 05 Dec '09

05 Dec '09

The KDE and maintenance teams are taking the unprecedented step of a point release update to KDE SC 4.3.4 in our 'STABLE' repository and from then as an online update to 11.2. Normally we don't do version updates in online updates, preferring to backport patches to the released version. I'll be straight with you; the impetus for doing this comes from putting 4.3.4 on an enterprise product and we don't want to maintain two 4.3 codebases, but we're confident that this is a good thing for openSUSE users, because: - 4.3.4 has 2 months' more upstream bugfixing in it, compared to 4.3.1. This includes a major Plasma performance bug fix. - 4.3.4 is the final planned release in the KDE 4.3 series and will therefore have the longest shelf life. It will be easier to apply future fixes from the KDE 4.3 branch to 4.3.4 packages than to 4.3.1 packages. - having 4.3.4 on an enterprise product gives us additional reasons (customers' money!) to fix bugs in it, benefitting openSUSE users too. - We are aware that any version update has the potential to include regressions, but: - 4.3.4 is a point release with only bugfixes and translation updates - we've seen a lot of use of the KDE:43 repo from 11.2 users without a lot more bugs - other distributions have already shipped 4.3.2 and are going to push point releases as online updates as well We have consulted the openSUSE maintenance team, who were in favour of this move. The online update will take place after a period of testing 4.3.4 on 11.2 in KDE:KDE4:STABLE:Desktop. The sole drawback to this that we're aware of is that this will be a large online update download; we hope you will agree the benefits will be worth it. Season's greetings! Will -- Will Stephenson, openSUSE Team 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

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[opensuse-announce] Update on openSUSE Board Election
by Andreas Jaeger 03 Dec '09

03 Dec '09

For the current 2009 election of the openSUSE board, we have three seats for election and three candidates running unopposed. As our existing election rules did not anticipate this scenario, the Election Committee has made the following decision: The seats up for election include one Novell-employed position and two non-Novell-employed positions. Pavol Rusnak is running for the Novell-employed seat and Rupert Horstkötter and Bryen Yunashko are running for the non_novell seats. The election committee will declare the candidates as elected by end of Monday, 7th of December, if nobody else steps up in the respective group to run for the election. Otherwise we will have an election in that group. This means that if further candidates for the non-Novell seats declare candidacy, we will do an election for these two seats - and if further candidates for the Novell seat step up, we run an election for that one seat - and if candidates for both step up, we elect all seats. So, here's the final call: If you're happy with the three candidates, thank them - and if not, step up and declare your candidacy by announcing it on opensuse-project(a)opensuse.org and election-officials(a)opensuse.org. You can find more information on candidacy and the election in general here: http://en.opensuse.org/Board_Election/2009 The Election committee is also open for comments on the election before the December 7th deadline when the Election Committee will declare and certify the winners. We'd like to thank Bryen, Rupert and Pavol for stepping up and volunteering to serve on the openSUSE board. For next election the election committee will adapt the rules to cover cases like this one. Andreas Jaeger Member of the openSUSE Election Committee -- 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

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[opensuse-announce] Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting Tomorrow (Wednesday, December 2nd)
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 01 Dec '09

01 Dec '09

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place tomorrow, Wednesday, December 2nd, at 12:00 UTC. The meeting time in all time zones are listed on the Fixed Time World Clock[1]. Project meetings are always held in the #opensuse-project channel on Freenode. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Project_Meeting_2009-12-02 Please add topics as soon as possible. Also, if you have questions for the meeting, but can't attend (we know that the meeting times can't work for everyone) please add them to the agenda as well. We also take live questions, of course. Logs of the meeting are posted to the wiki here: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Archive New to openSUSE's IRC meetings? For more on our IRC meetings and how they're run, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About. Not familiar with IRC? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/. Alternatively, you can log into the IRC meeting via a Web-based interface at webchat.freenode.net[2]. As always, we meet in #opensuse-project on Freenode. Fire up your favorite IRC client and head over to #opensuse-project. Wondering what meeting times are? Check the openSUSE Meetings page[3]. All project meetings and team meetings should be listed there. If you're interested in how the openSUSE Project is run and want to participate, please be sure to join us on Wednesday. See you there! [1]: http://bit.ly/8KQBRg [2]: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=opensuse-project [3]: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb(a)zonker.net> openSUSE Community Manager Get openSUSE 11.2! http://bit.ly/EOV8a Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- 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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