February 2009 - openSUSE Announce - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-announce] Reminder: openSUSE project meeting - 2009-02-25 - 17:00 UTC
by Andreas Jaeger 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

The next openSUSE project meeting will take place at the official #opensuse-project IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE-project) tomorrow: 2009-02-25 17:00 UTC (18:00 CET) For an overview what time this is in different timezones, use: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=14&month=01&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_2009-02-25 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). 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] openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 60
by Jan-Simon Möller 24 Feb '09

24 Feb '09

We are pleased to announce: Issue 60 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * Open Letter to the openSUSE Community * Andrew Wafaa: Ciao For Now And Bonne Chance Amigos * Lars Vogdt: Why the Buildservice is currently not for endusers * Miguel de Icaza: Mono Runtime Debugging * Jonathan_R: Getting YaST to read your own community repos The openSUSE Weekly News is also available in: Chinese [1] German [2] (delay), Hungarian [3] , Indonesian [4], Italian [5], Japanese [6], Polish [7], Portuguese [8], Russian [9]. Spanish [10] and NEW! : French [11] [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/60 [1] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/60/chinese [2] http://de.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE-Wochenschau/60 [3] http://hu.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Heti_Hírmondó/60 [4] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/60/indonesian [5] http://it.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Newsletter_Settimanale/60 [6] http://ja.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/60 [7] http://pl.opensuse.org/Tygodnik_openSUSE/60 [8] http://pt.opensuse.org/Notícias_da_semana_no_openSUSE/60 [9] http://ru.opensuse.org/Еженедельные_новости_openSUSE/60 [10] http://es.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/60 [11] http://fr.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Lettre_Information/60 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-GNOME Hack Days Schedule!
by Bryen 24 Feb '09

24 Feb '09

The openSUSE-GNOME Team is proud to announce its Hack Day Series for the next two months. These events are designed to get the community involved in the various processes that make everything hum so wonderfully. These events will be held bi-weekly on Thursdays, coinciding with our regular weekly team meetings. They are all day events with a scheduled coordinator monitoring the channel throughout the day. All hack days will occur in the #opensuse-gnome channel on the Freenode Network. We welcome everyone to join us. And don't be intimidated if you don't think you know how to do certain tasks. There will be experts around to guide you. Below is our schedule: (Please note that topics of each hack day may change as we get closer. For updated information, subscribe to news.opensuse.org's calendar.) 26-February-2009 Wiki Hack Day Cleaning up all -GNOME related pages on the openSUSE Wiki site. This includes updating old pages, removing or adding pages, rearranging, etc. I will be chairing this day. 12-March-2009 Spec File Day Cleaning up our packages and ensuring consistency of our packages across the board. 26-March-2009 GNOME:Stable Day Upgrade all packages in GNOME:Stable repository to the latest stable 2.24 version. 09-April-2009 (To be determined) 23-April-2009 Patch from Upstream Day By this date, GNOME 2.26.1 should be released and we'll update packages in GNOME:Factory/Backports. Looking forward to seeing you all there! -- 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] download.opensuse.org undergoing maintenance
by Peter Poeml 21 Feb '09

21 Feb '09

Hi, download.opensuse.org is undergoing database maintenance today (Saturday afternoon morning, 21st of February). Since I don't know when this message will be moderated, I may already be finished when you read this. Basic functionality is there, but if you encounter some errors please just retry in a few hours. Please contact admin(a)opensuse.org with any queries. Peter -- Contact: admin(a)opensuse.org (a.k.a. ftpadmin(a)suse.com) #opensuse-mirrors on freenode.net Info: http://en.opensuse.org/Mirror_Infrastructure SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development -- 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 18 Feb '09

18 Feb '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 {Feb 21 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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[opensuse-announce] Next GNOME Meeting - 2009 February 19, 2200 UTC
by Bryen 18 Feb '09

18 Feb '09

It's time for our next openSUSE-GNOME Meeting in the IRC Channel #opensuse-gnome on the Freenode network. This will be held at 22:00 UTC on Thursday, February 18. In this meeting, we will discuss Magnus's email discussing wiki cleanup and possibly organizing a Wiki Hack Day. We'll also discuss other hack fests as appropriate and needed, including bug squashing, etc. We look forward to see you there! -- Bryen Yunashko openSUSE Board 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 59
by Jan-Simon Möller 17 Feb '09

17 Feb '09

We are pleased to announce: Issue 59 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * Special Edition about FOSDEM 2009 * OpenOffice_org 3.0.1 final available * Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel: Product Creation with the openSUSE Build Service * Henne Vogelsang: Fosdem talk about collaboration features and Contrib * kamilsok: installing 64bit Java on openSUSE 11.1 The openSUSE Weekly News is also available in: German [1], Hungarian [2] , Indonesian [3], Italian [4] (delay), Japanese [5], Polish [6], Portuguese [7], Russian [8] (delay). Spanish [9] and NEW: Chinese [10] [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/59 [1] http://de.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE-Wochenschau/59 [2] http://hu.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Heti_Hírmondó/59 [3] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/59/indonesian [4] http://it.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Newsletter_Settimanale/59 [5] http://ja.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/59 [6] http://pl.opensuse.org/Tygodnik_openSUSE/59 [7] http://pt.opensuse.org/Notícias_da_semana_no_openSUSE/59 [8] http://ru.opensuse.org/Еженедельные_новости_openSUSE/59 [9] http://es.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/59 [10] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/59/chinese 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 18th February, 17:00 UTC
by Lubos Lunak 17 Feb '09

17 Feb '09

The next openSUSE KDE Team meeting will be held tomorrow, Wednesday 18th February, at 17:00 UTC. The current list of scheduled topics is: * old action items * status report * calls for testing * bugzilla screening, upstreaming bugreports * meeting minutes * 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=18&month=2&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 Weekly News FOSDEM 2009 special / review
by Jan-Simon Möller 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '09

We are pleased to announce: A special openSUSE Weekly Newsletter issue covering our activities @ FOSDEM 2009. See http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/FOSDEM2009 . 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] Next openSUSE Project Meeting on February 25
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 11 Feb '09

11 Feb '09

Hi all, We have no new items on the agenda for this week, and didn't send a reminder announcement, so we're not holding today's (February 11th) meeting. The next openSUSE Project meeting will be on February 25 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 CET). If you have topics or questions, please add them to the wiki for the next meeting. (Reminder: Meeting announcements and schedules can be found here: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings) Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager: http://zonker.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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