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[opensuse-announce] [Weekly News] Reminder: Team Meeting
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '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 {2.5.09} Time: 14:30h UTC Channel: #opensuse-newsletter @ irc.freenode.net ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -- Sincereley yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Marketing Team 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] openSUSE Weekly News, Issue #69 is out
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

We are pleased to announce: Issue 69 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 1 Released * People of openSUSE: Jan Engelhardt * Michal Vyskocil : How to track changes in packages: osc vc * Joe Brockmeier: The argument for free fonts * openSUSE Forums: Newbie KDE Questions For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/69/Translations [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/69 Have a lot of fun! -- Sincereley yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service openSUSE Features Screening Team Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Project-Blog: http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/saigkill Private-Blog: http://saschasbacktrace.blogspot.com -- 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 - Thursday 30th April, 16:00 UTC
by Lubos Lunak 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

The next openSUSE KDE Team meeting will be held tomorrow, Thursday 30th April, at 16:00 UTC. The current list of scheduled topics is: * Disable nepomuk/strigi by default * Default backend for nepomuk * KDE systemsettings' kdm settings are ignored (autologin etc.), which confuses users. * old action items * status report * calls for testing * 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=30&month=4&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 11.2 Milestone 1 Released
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 24 Apr '09

24 Apr '09

Lizard lovers, get ready to start your engines! The first milestone release for openSUSE 11.2 is now ready for your testing pleasure[1]. Please note: This is a milestone release. It's for openSUSE contributors who want to use the release for testing and development (or want a sneak preview of the 11.2 release), but it is not for production use. What's New in 11.2 Milestone 1 ======================== The 11.2 milestone 1 includes a number of new packages and improvements to the base system that are in development: * Linux kernel 2.6.29 * KDE 4.2.2 * GNOME 2.26 * Mono 2.4 * OpenOffice.org 3.1 beta 4 * Xfce 4.6 * Alsa 2.6.29 * Samba 3.2.8 _ In addition, the live CDs now use LZMA compression[2] and have German, French, Italian, Polish, and Russian translations. YaST's Qt package manager now has a configurable view layout, and Zypp's mirror handling should be more robust in this release. Ext4 is supported in this release, but not yet enabled for installation. **Additional Features Completed for 11.2 milestone 1** * 302485: sync GPT and MBR on MacBook (mactel)[3] * 302923: handle redirection to mirrors robustly[4] * 304429: package cache handling in YaST[5] * 305561: Install Debuginfo Package by build-id[6] * 305561: access table contents in YaST in more ways than just by push buttons[7] * 305803: improve command_not_found_helper speed[8] * 306230: Auto-Reset the screen settings in gnome-display-properties[9] You can track all features for 11.2 in openFate[10]. See more on Factory progress on the Factory Page on the openSUSE wiki[11]. Screenshots are available (and can be uploaded to) Screenshots/11.2_Alpha_0[12]. Getting Milestone 1 =================== The latest development versions are available from http://software.opensuse.org/developer/[1]. You can choose x86 or x86-64 DVDs or KDE and GNOME Live CDs. Testing ======= We all want openSUSE 11.2 to be the best release yet, and we need your help to get there. Please run the release through your usual routine, and let us know about any bugs or other issues that you find. Remember that this is a milestone release, and is not suitable for use on production systems. Though many openSUSE users can and do use the Factory distribution and/or testing releases for day-to-day work we want to stress that it's entirely possible that you will encounter serious bugs. See openSUSE.org/Testing[13] for more information on Testing. To follow the testing and development process, we suggest that you subscribe to the openSUSE-Factory mailing list, and join the #openSUSE-Factory channel on Freenode to discuss openSUSE development. [1]: http://software.opensuse.org/developer [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZMA [3]: https://features.opensuse.org/302485 [4]: https://features.opensuse.org/302923 [5]: https://features.opensuse.org/304429 [6]: https://features.opensuse.org/305561 [7]: https://features.opensuse.org/305680 [8]: https://features.opensuse.org/305803 [9]: https://features.opensuse.org/306230 [10]: http://bit.ly/f5J5Y [11]: http://en.opensuse.org/Factory/News [12]: http://en.opensuse.org/Screenshots/11.2_Alpha_0 [13]: http://opensuse.org/Testing -- 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] Reminder: Education Meeting today (2009-04-23) 17:00 UTC/GMT on #opensuse-edu
by Lars Vogdt 23 Apr '09

23 Apr '09

Hi, The next openSUSE-Education meeting will take place at the official #opensuse-edu IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/opensuse-edu) today at 17:00 UTC/GMT [1] This meeting is meant to discuss the latest developments in and around openSUSE-Education. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/Education/Meetings/Education Meeting 2009-04-23 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. Currently, we've just three topics: 1) Status of openSUSE-Education 1.0 2) Branding status 3) Status Live-Media ...and, as always, the number of open action items: currently 6 ;-) With kind regards, Lars [1]: click on http://www.worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_UTC.aspx?y=2009&mo=04&d=23&h… to convert the time to your time zone -- 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 Google Summer of Code Accepted Projects Announced
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

On Monday, Google announced the accepted projects for all of the Google Summer of Code organizations. The openSUSE Project has nine projects[1] that were accepted for the Summer of Code 2009. The following students have had projects accepted: * Eryu Guan: Porting openSUSE to MIPS platform * Marcus Huewe: Integrating oauth into the openSUSE Build Service * Peter Libic: Prototype git backend for OpenSUSE Build Service * Kusum Madarasu: openSIS-MySQL * Jan-Simon Möller: Porting openSUSE to ARM platform * Udit Sajjanhar: OpenID Support for openSUSE Build Service * Jeffrey Shantz: YaST Education Module * Peter Somlo: Synchronization with Mobile Devices * Mohit Verma: NLP+Voice UI system for the openSUSE desktop Of course, we received more than nine excellent proposals. While we couldn't accept every proposal that we'd have liked, we'd like to thank all of the students who submitted proposals. Also, a big thanks to all of the mentors who have volunteered to mentor, worked with students to answer questions about proposals, and provide guidance so far. The next step is the Community Bonding Period[2] to help students get acclimated with the project and learn how to work within the openSUSE Project. Some of our students are already long-standing members of the community, but please give all of them a warm welcome and any assistance they need in getting started. Coding starts officially on May 23rd. Let's get ready to have a great summer! [1]: http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/opensuse [2]: http://tinyurl.com/4w3kfm -- 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] openSUSE Weekly News, Issue #68 is out
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

We are pleased to announce: Issue 68 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * Call for Participations: openSUSE Summit 2009 * openSUSE at LinuxFest Northwest * People of openSUSE: Jean-Daniel Dodin * Google Summer of Code Status Update * Bryen Yunashko: Accessible Appreciation: The Sequel For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/68/Translations [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/68 Have a lot of fun! -- Sincereley yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service openSUSE Features Screening Team Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Project-Blog: http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/saigkill Private-Blog: http://saschasbacktrace.blogspot.com -- 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 Project Meeting Wednesday April 22 at 13:00 UTC
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 18 Apr '09

18 Apr '09

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place Wednesday April 22nd at 13:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock[1]. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-project channel on Freenode. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page[2]. 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. For more on IRC meetings, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About[3]. As always, we meet in #opensuse-project on Freenode. Fire up your favorite IRC client and head over to #opensuse-project. Not familiar with IRC? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org[4]. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/. Wondering what meeting times are? Check the openSUSE Meetings page[5]. All project meetings and team meetings should be listed there. [1]: http://bit.ly/Tb6zE [2]: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Project_Meeting_2009-04-22 [3]: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About [4]: http://www.irchelp.org/ [5]: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings -- 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] [Weekly News] Reminder: Team Meeting
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '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 {18.3.09} Time: 14:30h UTC Channel: #opensuse-newsletter @ irc.freenode.net ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -- Sincereley yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Marketing Team 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] Call for Participations: openSUSE Summit 2009
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

The openSUSE Project is opening the call for participation in the openSUSE Summit 2009[1], to be held September 17 through 20 in Nuremberg, Germany. We're looking for contributors to openSUSE, upstream projects, and members of the openSUSE community to participate[2]. The summit will be an opportunity to bring the openSUSE contributor community together to share ideas, experience, hack, and help guide the direction of the project. So we're looking to members of the community to give presentations, tutorials, and lead birds of a feather and panel sessions in several tracks: * Community: Marketing, translations, wiki, documentation, forums, and openSUSE governance. * Desktop: Topics related to the openSUSE desktop, including KDE, GNOME, Xfce, and applications. * Server: Use of openSUSE on the server or development of server applications. * Toolchain and System: The kernel, YaST, packaging, and openSUSE Build Service. * Open Day: Saturday will include a track for openSUSE users and people new to Linux. If you're interested in presenting at the openSUSE Summit, fill out the Call for Participation Form[3] with all of the details for your participation. We're accepting talks, tutorials, birds of a feather, and panel discussion submissions. (Birds of feather sessions will be scheduled after hours.) The summit will not be entirely composed of prepared presentations, so we will be accepting a limited number of proposals. Deadline ======== All proposals must be submitted by May 20th. To submit a proposal, fill out the form[3] before 12:00 UTC on May 20. [1]: http://bit.ly/NLIcy [2]: http://bit.ly/13y5n [3]: http://bit.ly/44B4Dv -- 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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