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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Conference Keynote announcement - Register today to attend!
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 30 Jul '09

30 Jul '09

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the first confirmed keynote for the first-ever openSUSE Conference. The openSUSE Conference is an opportunity for openSUSE contributors to attend talks, workshops, Birds of a Feather sessions, and collaborate together face to face. The conference will be held from September 17 through September 20 in Nürnberg, Germany. Register today[1] to reserve your spot! The opening keynote will be given by Leslie Hawthorn of Google. Leslie is a program manager for Google's Open Source Programs Office, and community manager for the Google Summer of Code. The topic of the keynote is "Mentoring for Fun and Profit," and the full description can be found on the openSUSE Conference Web site. The openSUSE Conference is for anyone and everyone making a contribution to openSUSE. Whether you’re a developer, packager, translator, artist, or ambassador, you belong at the openSUSE Conference if you want to help promote, improve, and influence the openSUSE Project. The conference will have two daily tracks[2] of pre-planned talks, plus “BarCamp” style tracks for attendees to plan and provide their own content. Scheduled talks include: * openSUSE Build Service and Cross-Platform Packaging: Peter Linnell * Git in the openSUSE Build Service: Andreas Gruenbacher * openSUSE & Moblin: Michael Meeks * Building Commercial Grade Appliances with SUSE Studio: Marcus Moeller The openSUSE KDE team will be holding a full program of contributor workshops and sprints during the openSUSE Conference. We’ll also be celebrating Software Freedom Day on Saturday, September 19th with Open Day — a full day of introductory sessions for users new to Linux, open source, and openSUSE. Register Today! ================ If you haven't registered yet, do it today! Attendance is free, but we do have limited capacity at the venue, and other logistics require a good headcount prior to the event. Be sure to register today[1]! Conference Details: ==================== * Dates: 17 September through 20 September. * Location: Tagungszentrum BFW Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany. * Cost: Free to attend. More to come! More keynotes will be announced shortly, and keep watching News.opensuse.org[3] and the opensuse-announce mailing list for further updates on the openSUSE Conference. We'll see you in September! [1]: http://conference.opensuse.org/registration/ [2]: http://conference.opensuse.org/schedule/ [3]: http://news.opensuse.org/ -- 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 GNOME Team Meeting 30-07-2009
by Luis Medinas 29 Jul '09

29 Jul '09

Hi everyone! The GNOME Team will have the weekly meeting next 30th, July at 17hUTC on the usual place, #opensuse-gnome @ irc.freenode.net. Everyone is welcome to participate and for so just join our irc channel. See our meeting topics[1]: Topics * GNOME repositories on Build Service status * 11.2 Features * GNOME/Ideas/11.2 * Discuss what should be the default torrent client for 11.2 * Discuss what should be the default messaging client for 11.2 * Discuss if we can add more social network support on GNOME * http://features.opensuse.org * Discuss if there's a point of having a default desktop on openSUSE (opensuse project discussion) * Bug Triage * http://tinyurl.com/cxknu3 * Q/A 1- http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20090730 -- 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 Today
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 29 Jul '09

29 Jul '09

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place today (Wednesday July 29) at 16:00 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 at: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Project_Meeting_2009-07-29 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. 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. 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. All project meetings and team meetings should be listed there. [1]: http://is.gd/1Swp2 -- 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 #81 is out
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 28 Jul '09

28 Jul '09

We are pleased to announce: Issue 81 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * Call for openSUSE Core Test Team * Hackweek IV * Linux.com/Rob Day: The Kernel Newbie Corner: Building and Running a New Kernel * openSUSE Forums: How to Recover Home Partition? * Ubuntuforums.org/Leif Sandvik: Howto; Firefox profile in RAM for increased speed and stability For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/81/Translations [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/81 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] Ready to Rumble: openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 4 Released
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

Looking for some summer fun? Try the latest milestone release for openSUSE 11.2! Milestone 4 is hot off the openSUSE Build Service and ready for your testing pleasure.This release includes updates to KDE, GNOME, NetworkManager, Samba, YaST, and many other updated packages. This is a Milestone Release, one of several that lead up to the 11.2 final release in November. It may not be suitable for production systems, but is ready for contributors who want to help with testing and development for 11.2. Changes Since openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 3 ======================================= Lots of changes since the M3 release! The live CDs can now be deployed using USB sticks -- which is particularly important for netbook computers without CD or DVD drives. The live CDs now contain mc, and the KDE live CDs include YaKuake. And YaST has a new Qt-based Control Center. Other updates and changes: * Linux kernel 2.6.30.2 * CUPS 1.3.10 * NetworkManager 0.7.1 * Samba 3.4.0 * Firefox 3.5 * KDE 4.3 RC1 * Qt 4.5.2 * Qt Creator 1.2 * Seamonkey 2.0a3 * VirtualBox 3.0 beta 2 A more complete list can be found on the wiki[1] and an updated list of Factory packages can be found on DistroWatch[2]. 11.2 is looking fantastic. Want screenshots? We've got 'em! Check out the shots here[3], and/or add your own. Most Annoying Bugs ================== As this is a milestone release, 11.2 m4 does contain a few bugs that we know about, but should not stand between courageous contributors and release testing. The big bugs in 11.2 M4 are: * Bug #525243:[4] Booting the live CDs in VirtualBox, you'll get 800x600 resolution at start, no matter what was selected at boot. * Bug #522025:[5] X does not display properly in VirtualBox initially. This can be worked around by switching to a virtual console (Ctrl+F1) and then switching back to X (Ctrl+F7). * Bug #525094:[6] Some packages are missing from KDE live CDs, including plasma-addons and OpenOffice_org-kde4. * Bug #496505:[7] Live-CDs will not boot from USB if system has a CD-ROM drive. * Bug #515529:[8] During installation, an empty error box is shown during the bootloader config, but it does install properly. You can track the Most Annoying Bugs on the wiki[9] along with 11.2 development. Testing! Testing! Testing! ========================== As you can see, 11.2 M4 does have a few annoying bugs that we know about -- but there may be more lurking somewhere in the release that haven't been found yet. If you want to make sure 11.2 final is free of Most Annoying Bugs, we'll need your help finding, reporting, and fixing those hidden bugs. Holger Sickenberg has put out a call for testing team members. If you're interested in doing some heavy testing on openSUSE, check out Holger's announcement[10]. Get Milestone 4 Today! ====================== What are you waiting for? Grab the milestone release today! Downloads are available at software.opensuse.org/developer/[11] now. [1]: http://en.opensuse.org/Factory/News [2]: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=suse [3]: http://en.opensuse.org/Screenshots/11.2_Milestones [4]: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525243 [5]: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522025 [6]: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525094 [7]: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496505 [8]: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515529 [9]: http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_11.2_dev [10]: http://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/07/24/call-for-opensuse-core-test-team/ [11]: http://software.opensuse.org/developer/ -- 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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[opensuse-announce] Call for openSUSE Core Test Team
by Holger Sickenberg 24 Jul '09

24 Jul '09

Original source: http://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/07/24/call-for-opensuse-core-test-team/ In addition to well-developed code, testing is a major part of ensuring a rock-solid openSUSE Linux distro. To make sure testing of openSUSE 11.2 (and beyond) are done in a well-organized way, we're improving the way the openSUSE Core Test Team works together to ensure top quality for openSUSE. In the next couple of days Milestone 4 of openSUSE 11.2 will be available. This is a very good moment to have a closer look into the next openSUSE release: some new features are already implemented and there is enough time to fix reported problems. Thus we are looking for 15 members of the openSUSE Community that are willing to contribute to the openSUSE project by joining the openSUSE Core Test Team and operate in the following areas: * Check if new features are implemented and working as requested * Have a deeper look into the install and update system of openSUSE and ensure a broad hardware coverage * Creating, improving and executing test cases for various areas of the distribution Repository for test cases and tracking system for all test results will be Testopia, the test case management extension of Novell's Bugzilla. Members of the Core Test Team will get access to the openSUSE test plans and will so be able to contribute. Beside storing test results they are also able to create or modify test cases. If you are really interested in joining the openSUSE Core Test Team and willing to spend a reasonable amount of time to move the openSUSE project forward please get in contact with Holger Sickenberg <holgi at suse.de> providing following information: * Your Linux experience * Previous testing experience, if any * Areas you are interested in testing The number of members is limited to 15 at the moment to ensure we are able to adequate support everyone of them. We will add more once we've figured out in the smaller group whether everything works. Of course everybody is still able to contribute to the openSUSE project by testing parts of the distribution. Enabling the openSUSE Core Test Team will not have any impact on that. Further information on testing is available at http://www.opensuse.org/Testing . We are looking forward to your application. Deadline for applications is August, 15th 2009. -- 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 23 Jul '09

23 Jul '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 {7/25/09} 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 KDE Team Meeting - Thursday 23rd July, 16:00 UTC
by Lubos Lunak 22 Jul '09

22 Jul '09

The next openSUSE KDE Team meeting will be held tomorrow, Thursday 23rd July, at 16:00 UTC. The current list of scheduled topics is: * Status plasma notify firefox add-on and Firefox Oxygen skin * what to do about the 'show space information' * Package and evaluate automounter for 11.2. Maybe even contribute to it in order to make it work the way opensuse users are used to this kind of feature, i.e. the kde3 mounting options. [1] * Discuss pending todos before package/version freeze (eg KDE/Ideas/11.2 list) * Please add other topics here as they come up * 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=23&month=7&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, Issue #80 is out
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 21 Jul '09

21 Jul '09

We are pleased to announce: Issue 80 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * Register Today for the openSUSE Conference! * Lydia Pintscher: The Way to Amarok 2.2 * Sebastian Schöbinger : Adding a music profile with the KDE Energy Manager Plasmoid * Michael Andres: libzypp-6.10.4: Tune automatically created solver testcases (zypper dup) * Interviews from the LinuxTag @ Radiotux For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/80/Translations [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/80 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] Register Today for the openSUSE Conference!
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 16 Jul '09

16 Jul '09

The openSUSE Conference schedule[1] is up and registration[2] is open! Attending the openSUSE Conference is free, but registration is required. Lunch will be provided, so please be sure to sign up[2] early so we can get an accurate headcount. The openSUSE Conference is for anyone and everyone making a contribution to openSUSE. Whether you’re a developer, packager, translator, artist, or ambassador, you belong at the openSUSE Conference if you want to help promote, improve, and influence the openSUSE Project. The conference will have two daily tracks of pre-planned talks, plus "BarCamp[3]" style tracks for attendees to plan and provide their own content. Scheduled talks include: * OBS and Cross-Platform Packaging: Peter Linnell * Git in the Build Service: Andreas Gruenbacher * openSUSE & Moblin: Michael Meeks * Building Commercial Grade Appliances with SUSE Studio: Marcus Moeller The openSUSE KDE team will be holding a full program of contributor workshops and sprints during the openSUSE Conference. We'll also be celebrating Software Freedom Day on Saturday, September 19th with Open Day -- a full day of introductory sessions for users new to Linux, open source, and openSUSE. Conference Details: =================== * Dates: 17 September through 20 September. * Location: Tagungszentrum BFW Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany. * Cost: Free to attend. * Dress code: None, but clothes are mandatory. More to come! Keynotes will be announced shortly. Keep watching News.opensuse.org[4] and the opensuse-announce mailing list for further updates on the openSUSE Conference[5]. Don't forget, sign up today[2] and we'll see you in September! [1]: http://conference.opensuse.org/schedule/ [2]: http://conference.opensuse.org/registration/ [3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp [4]: http://news.opensuse.org/ [5]: http://conference.opensuse.org/ -- 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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