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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Weekly News 138 is out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

We are pleased to announce: Issue 138 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * Andreas Jaeger: Revising the Board Election Rules * Sebastian Kügler: Demystifying Akonadi * Will Stephenson: openSUSE Boosters at FrOSCon, Day 2 * Rares Aioanei: openSUSE Kernel Review * Wolfgang Rosenauer: Call for testing: Firefox 4.0b4 on KDE (and in general) For a list of available translations see this page: http://wiki.opensuse.org/Weekly_news#Translations [0] http://news.opensuse.org/2010/08/28/opensuse-weekly-news-issue-138- is-out/#more-4073 -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns open-slx.com openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.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 Weekly News 137 is out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

We are pleased to announce: Issue 137 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * Sirko Kemter: Improve artwork openSUSE 11.4 * Javier Llorente: KDE Release Party in Madrid * Softpedia/Lucian Constantin: Critical Vulnerability Silently Patched in Linux Kernel * Tips4Linux.com: Convert eBooks in Linux * opensource.com/Ruth Suehle: Ready to be an open source contributor but don't know where to start? For a list of available translations see this page: http://wiki.opensuse.org/Weekly_news#Translations [0] http://news.opensuse.org/2010/08/22/opensuse-weekly-news-issue-137- is-out/ -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns open-slx.com openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.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: OBS scheduled downtime on Saturday 2010-08-21
by Marcus Rueckert 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Hi openSUSE Users On Saturday, August 21th from 09:00 AM CET to 03:00 PM CET, our infrastructure vendor will be shutting down services in the Nuremberg (Germany) data center to allow for a scheduled maintenance of the main power supply. As result, general network connectivity from and to the location will not be available. * http://build.opensuse.org * http://software.opensuse.org * http://svn.opensuse.org * http://community.opensuse.org * http://education.opensuse.org * http://powerpc.opensuse.org * http://boosters.opensuse.org * http://board.opensuse.org * http://users.opensuse.org * http://hermes.opensuse.org * http://notify.opensuse.org * http://retro.opensuse.org * http://connect.opensuse.org * http://crashdb.opensuse.org * http://gallery.opensuse.org * http://shop.opensuse.org * http://help.opensuse.org * http://i18n.opensuse.org * http://apparmor.opensuse.org * http://count(er|down).opensuse.org * http://gcc.opensuse.org * http://license.opensuse.org * http://xgl.opensuse.org * http://pluginfinder.opensuse.org The staging version of these sites will be similarly affected. Please spread the news about this, so that we can keep user disruption to a minimum. Apologies for inconveniencies this may cause. Please contact admin(a)opensuse.org with any queries. Your openSUSE Admins -- openSUSE - SUSE Linux is my linux openSUSE is good for you www.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] openSUSE KDE Team Meeting - Thursday 19th August, 16:00 UTC
by Will Stephenson 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

The next openSUSE KDE Team meeting will be held today, Thursday 19th August, at 16:00 UTC. Sorry for the late announce but we were busy doing kool stuff for you ;). The current list of scheduled topics is: * old action items * status report * keep kdebase3 etc for 11.4? what's left depending on kdelibs/base3? * Stop fixing KDE3 packages/repos since it is perceived as maintaining, e.g. here http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2010-08/msg00763.html but there were other occurrences as well. * repositories specific for KDE SC 4.5 * KDE Four Reloaded image call for testing/feedback * Q&A, misc Further items are welcome; please add them http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:KDE_Meetings Please use http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=19&month=8&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-kde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help(a)opensuse.org -- Will Stephenson, KDE Developer, openSUSE Boosters 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]
by Rupert Horstkötter 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

-- Rupert Horstkötter open-slx Community Manager openSUSE Board Member http://open-slx.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] KDE Bug Triage (13th-16th of August)
by Javier Llorente 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

Hello there, It’s my pleasure to announce the next KDE Bug triage :-) It will begin next Friday (13th) and end on Monday (16th). The aim of this bug triage is to help make KDE a bit better. You don’t need to have any special skills. The most important thing is that you’re interested in helping us to clean the bug list so developers can focus on fixing the bugs! So, let’s squash bugs together! Join us in the #opensuse-kde IRC channel on Freenode :-) For more info on bug squashing KDE, take a look at http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Bug_Squashing_KDE To see a list of open bugs go here (automatically generated). http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Bug_Squashing_KDE_bugreports Happy KDE bug squashing! -- Javier Llorente

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE GNOME Meeting - August 6th, 2010 - 1300 UTC
by Sankar P 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

Hi, The openSUSE GNOME team will be conducting their first community meeting, after the 11.3 release, on August 6th, 2010 - 1300 UTC. The rough agenda and the stakeholders are: - openSUSE 11.3 Release: A summary and discussion of what went right/wrong (DimStar, Vuntz, Captain_Magnus) - GUADEC Update (Vuntz) - Current Repositories organization (Vuntz) (how to get GNOME 2.30 packages in 11.2, 11.3 etc.) - 11.4 Focus and plans (The 3 champs - Vuntz, Captain_Magnus, Dimstar) - Update about Meego (FunkyPenguin) (FCrozat will also be pulled in to make him feel at home ;-) ) - GNOME Pet Peeves summary and followup plan (Atri ?) - oS-GNOME A11y goals and plans for 11.4 (decriptor/sshaw, suseROCKS?) - World Domination (all of us) - Q & A - Conveying of action-items to opensuse-gnome mailing list. (Metalgod) The agenda is not static and feel free to raise any new items, during the meeting. The meeting will happen at #opensuse-gnome IRC channel on irc.freenode.net and you are welcome to participate. Sankar http://psankar.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 Weekly News 135 is out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 08 Aug '10

08 Aug '10

We are pleased to announce: Issue 135 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * We’re a happy family – The Boosters are hiring! * Miguel de Icaza: MonoTools 2 for VisualStudio has been released * Jos Poortvliet: Just started... * h-online/Thorsten Leemhuis: What's new in Linux 2.6.35 * KDE strategy for openSUSE For a list of available translations see this page: http://wiki.opensuse.org/Weekly_news#Translations [0] http://en.opensuse.org/Weekly_news -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns open-slx.com openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.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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