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/
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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
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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
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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/
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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.
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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
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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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!
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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!
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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/
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