As of 23:00 UTC on 16 December, 2012, the openSUSE Project’s members
completed the Fifth election of the openSUSE Board. At stake were two
seats of the five electable seats. With 8 candidates, the community
definitely had a broad choice of qualified candidates to choose from.
In the end, the two top vote-getters were Raymond Wooninck (tittiacoke)
and Robert Schweikert, (robjo) respectively. They will join the
openSUSE Board on January 9th during the transitional meeting of the
regularly scheduled Project meeting heldon the Freenode IRC Channel at
17:00 UTC.
The Election Officials would like to congratulate all of thecandidates
for a great campaign season. These candidates included Matt Barringer,
Richard Brown, Carl Fletcher, Manu Gupta, Chuck Payne and Stefan
Seyfried. All of these candidates demonstrated a commitment to the
Project and exemplified the Guiding Principles which the Project, as a
whole, is founded upon.
We join the rest of the community in looking forward to an exciting year
to come as the new Board embarks on new initiatives and directions. And
we thank the community for giving us the opportunity to serve as members
of the election committee.
Sincerely,
The openSUSE Election Committee
- Izabel Valverde
- Thomas Schmidt
- Bryen M Yunashko
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Geekos all over the world,
we are very happy to inform you that next year's openSUSE Conference
(oSC13), the yearly get together of our community, will happen in July
in the beautiful city of Thessaloniki, Greece. oSC13 will bring together
a wide variety of Free and Open Source (FOSS) contributors to
collaborate on one of the major Linux distribution projects. In exciting
talks, workshops and social events our community will bring alive our
motto "Have a lot of fun".
We are entering the organization phase right now and have not yet
settled on an exact date and location but we will let you know once we
have that info. In the meantime how about you help us organize oSC13?
We need you at the kick off meeting!
To make this the most awesome conference ever, we are looking for people
who are willing to help out. We need you! There is a lot of organizing
to be done, logos to be drawn, websites to be designed, schedules to be
made, hotels to be booked, sponsors to be found and a million of other
things you can help with. So to kick off the organization team and to
get everyone on the same page we are going to meet this Thursday,
December 13th on IRC to discuss what we need to do and how we are going
to do it. If you're looking for a chance to give back to the openSUSE
community this is it!
When: 2012-12-13 at 15:00 UTC
Where: #opensuse-project on the freenode network
Who: Everybody who want's to make oSC13 great
If you, for whatever reason, can't participate but still want to help
you should subscribe to our conference mailinglist:
opensuse-conference(a)opensuse.org
we are going to post meeting minutes there and will use this list to
further organize oSC13.
Let's get going and make oSC13 in Thessaloniki the best conference ever!
Your oSC13 Team
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The excitement has been building for weeks and now the most important
phase of the openSUSE Board elections begins today -- Election Time!
Two seats are open for election by members of the openSUSE Project. The
first seat is vacated by Henne Vogelsang who has completed his two-term
limit. The second seat is currently held by Manu Gupta, appointed to
fill in for Peter Linnel who stepped down in August of 2012. Both seats
are for a two-year term that begins in January 2013 and ends in January
2015.
How to Vote:
If you are a current member of the openSUSE Project, you will soon
receive an email with instructions on how to vote via openSUSE Connect
polling system. You must be a member in good standing on or before 27
November 2012. If you have not yet received an email within the next 24
hours, please contact the Election Officials committee at
election-officials(a)opensuse.org.
Each eligible voter will be given two votes to cast, one for each seat
to be elected in this cycle.
Voting begins today and concludes at 23:00 UTC on 16 December 2012.
But I can't decide!:
With 8 excellent candidates running for two seats, we feel your pain.
Luckily, there's two ways to learn more about the candidates.
Option 1: Platforms and Blogs
Read the candidates platforms and blogs here. [1]
Option 2: Live Q&A Debate
Tomorrow, Thursday at 15:00 UTC [2] , candidates will gather in the
#opensuse-project channel on Freenode IRC network. A two hour session,
moderated by the Election Officials, this will be an opportunity for you
to ask questions live.
Can't make it, no problem. We will post transcript of the debate here.
Got a question you want to ask but can't make it? Post your question in
the original news posting of this article at [3].
Thank you,
openSUSE Election Officials
[1] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election#Candidates
[2] http://www.worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_UTC.aspx
[3]
https://news.opensuse.org/2012/12/05/2013-board-elections-begin-today/
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Hi all,
this is the next announcenment of changes in our packaging guidelines
have happened last month.
Content
===============
1.) Removed pages
2.) Updated Ruby guidelines
3.) Various small changes
4.) Boring diffstat
Removed pages
==============
Two new pages were added into Category:Packaging_documentation [1]
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_Lisphttp://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_vdr
however none of those has been properly announced on -packaging, neither
-factory as expected by guidelines change process[2]. Therefor I've removed
the Category:Packaging_documentation from them and will inform affected
users and ask them to go through the process.
Updated Ruby guidelines
=======================
This page has been the one, which got most updates
* how to build against ruby-common to get autogenerated
BuildRequires/Requires
* how to update gem packages to a new version
* how to deal with ommited BuildRequires generated by gem2rpm
* as well as more details about how they are automatically handled
see http://bit.ly/11vX52P for a detailed diff, if interested. Kudos to Adam
Spiers for such great changes
Various small changes
=====================
Several pages got minor editations, which does not fall into own
category, but should be mentioned
* added real-world example to OBS tips and trick page about using
multiple repositories [3]
* creating a changes got more examples and recommendations [4]
* fonts packaging page got some bugfixes [5]
Boring diffstat
===============
openSUSE:Build Service Tips and Tricks | 17 +++-
openSUSE:Build Service Tutorial | 4 +-
openSUSE:Build Service cross distribution howto | 2 +-
openSUSE:Creating a changes file (RPM) | 37 +++++--
openSUSE:Java RPM Macros | 3 +-
openSUSE:Package group guidelines | 4 +-
openSUSE:Packaging Fonts | 39 +++++---
openSUSE:Packaging Go | 2 +-
openSUSE:Packaging Java | 3 +-
openSUSE:Packaging Lisp | 118 +++++++++++++++++++++++
openSUSE:Packaging Lua | 4 +-
openSUSE:Packaging Multiple Version guidelines | 2 +-
openSUSE:Packaging Patches guidelines | 10 +-
openSUSE:Packaging Ruby | 102 +++++++++++++++++++-
openSUSE:Packaging guidelines | 9 +-
openSUSE:Packaging guidelines change process | 4 +-
openSUSE:Packaging scriptlet snippets | 2 +-
openSUSE:Packaging vdr | 91 +++++++++++++++++
19 files changed, 416 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 openSUSE:Packaging Lisp
create mode 100644 openSUSE:Packaging vdr
[1] http://en.opensuse.org/Category:Packaging_documentation
[2] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_guidelines_change_process
[3] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_Tips_and_Tricks#Adding_multip…
[4] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Creating_a_changes_file_%28RPM%29
[5] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_Fonts
Regards
Michal Vyskocil