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[opensuse-announce] Fwd: [opensuse-factory] Tumbleweed is now empty for 12.2
by Andreas Jaeger 06 Sep '12

06 Sep '12

Greg just announced the following for Tumbleweed, Andreas ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [opensuse-factory] Tumbleweed is now empty for 12.2 Date: Wednesday, September 05, 2012, 09:33:04 From: Greg KH <gregkh(a)linux.com> To: opensuse-factory(a)opensuse.org As part of the Tumbleweed lifecycle, with the 12.2 release of openSUSE, the openSUSE:Tumbleweed repo is now empty so that you can start out with a "clean" 12.2 release. It will stay that way for a few weeks for things to settle down with 12.2, and then will start to add packages back to it (new kernel, KDE 4.9, etc.) as time permits. So, if you wish to stay at 12.1 with Tumbleweed right now, I recommend NOT updating your system until you feel comfortable moving to 12.2. If anyone has any questions, please let me know. thanks, greg k-h -- ----------------------------------------- -- Andreas Jaeger aj(a){suse.com,opensuse.org} Twitter/Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn,Jennifer Guild,Felix Imendörffer,HRB16746 (AG Nürnberg) GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- 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 Project Releases openSUSE 12.2
by Christopher Hofmann 05 Sep '12

05 Sep '12

openSUSE Project Releases openSUSE 12.2 Latest community distro delivers a reliable, modern platform with improved performance and a polished user experience on top of an evolved infrastructure THE INTERNET, September 5, 2012 -- The openSUSE Project, a global open source community, announced today the general availability of openSUSE 12.2. The latest release delivers a reliable, modern and easy to use multi-purpose operating system with improved performance and a polished user experience on top of an evolved infrastructure. openSUSE 12.2 is the latest Linux distribution from the openSUSE project allowing users and developers to benefit from free and open source software in physical, virtual and cloud environments. “openSUSE 12.2 is the shining result of 10 months of global collaboration on Free Software,” said Jos Poortvliet, openSUSE Community Manager for SUSE. “The community has again delivered an important update for this long-established Linux Distribution, finding that exciting sweet spot combining the cutting edge with dependability.” openSUSE 12.2 brings performance enhancements with the latest kernel and system libraries as well as adoption of newly matured distribution technologies and polish to existing features. Performance enhancements openSUSE 12.2 leverages the latest distribution technologies to deliver greater performance and speed. The latest capabilities of systemd 44 make booting quicker. The Linux kernel 3.4 introduces a faster storage layer by preventing blocking of the system during large data transfers. The updated GNU C Library (glibc) version 2.15, speeds up many functions, especially on 64 bit systems. openSUSE ships with the latest version of the cross-platform application framework, Qt 4.8.1, making the desktop more fluid and responsive. Evolution of infrastructure openSUSE adopts the latest developments in Linux distribution technology as they mature. GRUB2 is the default bootloader laying the foundation for booting from LVM and btrfs partitions as well as support for UEFI Secure Boot. Plymouth version 0.8.6.1 provides flicker-free transitions and attractive animations during bootup. openSUSE 12.2 begins the process of revising and simplifying the UNIX filesystem hierarchy to improve compatibility across distributions while also making it easier for packagers and testers. Polished features openSUSE 12.2 delivers improvements to existing functionality to improve the overall user experience. The popular btrfs filesystem includes improved error handling and recovery tools, as well as the Snapper snapshot tool, GNOME 3.4 brings smooth scrolling to all applications and features a reworked System Settings and Contacts manager. KDE 4.8 includes a faster Dolphin file manager. XFCE 4.10 offers an enhanced application finder. In addition to the technical enhancements of openSUSE 12.2, the documentation team has made a major revision of the reference manuals, and has introduced changes to the authoring process to make it easier for community contributors to write openSUSE documentation. “We are proud of this release, maintaining the usual high openSUSE quality standards.” says openSUSE Board member Andrew Wafaa. “Our growth in the last two years means we have to work on scaling our processes. We're looking forward to the upcoming openSUSE conference on October 20 to 23, 2012 in Prague to gather as a community and discuss how we can evolve our current development in order to maintain quality while also making it easier to learn and work together.” For more details about the latest innovations in openSUSE 12.2 visit http://opensuse.org/12.2 Downloads can be found at http://software.opensuse.org/122 ### About openSUSE The openSUSE project is a worldwide effort that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. openSUSE creates one of the world's best Linux distributions, working together in an open, transparent and friendly manner as part of the worldwide Free and Open Source Software community. For more information, visit http://www.opensuse.org. About SUSE SUSE®, a pioneer in open source software, provides reliable, interoperable Linux and cloud infrastructure solutions that give enterprises greater control and flexibility. More than 20 years of engineering excellence, exceptional service and an unrivaled partner ecosystem power the products and support that help our customers manage complexity, reduce cost, and confidently deliver mission-critical services. The lasting relationships we build allow us to adapt and deliver the smarter innovation they need to succeed—today and tomorrow. For more information, visit us at http://www.suse.com. Press Contacts Agustin Benito Bethencourt openSUSE Team, SUSE abebe(a)suse.com Amie Johnson PR Manager, SUSE amie(a)suse.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 12.2 RC2 released for testing
by Will Stephenson 02 Aug '12

02 Aug '12

Today, the openSUSE project has published Release Candidate 2 of openSUSE 12.2, with a final release targetted for mid September. In the two weeks since the previous release candidate, a flurry of last minute fixes have arrived, mostly in higher level packages as the basic stack has been stabilised and locked. Read on for detailed coverage of the changes. In a late change to the layout of the release, it was decided to move many manuals and books off the DVD medium to save space. These are now part of a 'books' pattern which can be installed separately. Smaller low level fixes were made to systemd, kiwi, clicfs and udev. The kernel firmware package and PCI ID lists were updated with support for the latest hardware. GRUB2 saw fixes and a branding update for its terminal views. Mesa was updated to the latest version. Polkit privileges were relaxed slightly to allow all users to install online updates, when logged in. Several errors in PackageKit's zypp backend affecting the GNOME client were resolved. As security issues become apparent in the software versions to be shipped in 12.2 become known, fixes are proactively applied. This includes openjpeg and tiff libraries. libjpeg-turbo and libgadu received minor version updates, and crashes in libimobiledevice and gphoto2 were fixed. GPhoto2 also received the latest USB IDs for PTP cameras and devices. The base system saw some cleanups to the default filesystem package, including the removal of legacy symlinks to removable disk devices from very old versions of SUSE Linux, as well as many fixes in bind, patch updates and a security fix to bash, systemd improvements were made to autofs and rsync, the SSL feature of ntp was unbroken, and an AppArmor profile was added to colord. NetworkManager received a patch to enhance certificate checking in enterprise networks. Plymouth, the new splash screen in 12.2, had a version bump and received many minor fixes. IPv6 support was enabled in avahi. Mysql had an important bugfix that caused excessive disk usage on UPDATE queries, security fixes came to apache2, systemd support was fixed in tomcat, and postfix and kvm both saw minor version updates. YaST fixes were relatively minor: the bootloader utilities saw a few GRUB2 fixes, including support for adding failsafe kernel parameters, and the ntp tool had a couple of fixes including one that the ntp service is actually started when configured to do so. Developer platform updates came to gcc, llvm, python (2) and php5. Python 3 was updated to version 3.2.3. The intel video driver was updated to version 2.19.0, enabling new SNA and GLAMOR backends, and including many fixes to the default UXA backend. A critical bug was found and fixed that caused gnome-shell to crash after resume or suspend. lxdm, the LXDE display manager, received a bugfix preventing excessive CPU usage. A patch was added to XFCE's panel clock applet to show a calendar popup, and its netload applet was updated. KDE 3 was patched for udisks2 to properly unmount optical devices when a physical eject button is pressed. KDE 4 had a long-running mail duplication bug when using local filtering fixed, and USB sticks are now mounted with flush instead of async options, preventing an error on unmount when a long-running write is still in progress. GNOME saw many bugfixes across its packages, including inkscape, rhythmbox, Eye of Gnome, gnumeric, evolution, gnote, rednotebook, vinagre, virt-manager, texmaker, and gnome-screensaver. Gnome Shell was updated to 3.4.2 with many fixes, gtk went to version 3.4.4, and the accountsservice backend for Gnome Online Accounts also saw many improvements. Tap-to-click and disabling the touchpad while typing were set by default. Additional translated documentation was added to Gnucash. LibreOffice got a version bump, and its artwork and branding was updated to the final release versions. Finally, the translation teams have been hard at work and those have been integrated in 12.2, and the multinationalisation developers made fixes to input methods. Of course you're wondering how you can help. This can start with testing. Go to http://software.opensuse.org/developer/ , download the latest RC and try it out on your system! You can then check the most annoying bugs http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Most_annoying_bugs_12.2_dev to see if your problems are there, if not, you can see the list of bugs and/or file a new one in Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.novell.com/query.cgi?classification=openSUSE&field0-0-0=op… &type0-0-0=substring&value0-0-0=openSUSE If the bug you find is very serious, add it to the list of annoying bugs! If you are a packager (or want to be one!) there is of course also plenty to do. Fixing bugs in packages is a nice way of learning the ways of packaging (see the Packaging portal for documentation: http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Packaging ). You can read about how to do this: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:How_to_contribute_to_Factory via a simple set of steps which in openSUSE are commonly known as 'BURP-ing': http://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/05/16/have-you-burped-yet-today/ We'd like to thank everyone working on openSUSE for being so cool. As we're focussing on 12.2, no top-ten factory contributors this time but we might start releasing that number more frequently in the future ;-) -- Will Stephenson, openSUSE Board, Booster, KDE Developer SUSE LINUX GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5 90409 Nürnberg Germany -- 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] Outage of some openSUSE infrastructure on 2012-05-10 starting at 0:00 UTC for 3 hours
by Andreas Jaeger 09 May '12

09 May '12

Our Provo data center will take down a few server starting today at 6pm local time (MDT) which is 10th of May, 0:00 UTC. The downtime is expected to last for three hours. The following openSUSE services might be effected and thus not reachable at all: * all openSUSE wiki instances, e.g. en.opensuse.org * the wordpress instances like news.opensuse.org and lizards.opensuse.org * our forums at forums.opensuse.org -- Andreas Jaeger aj(a){suse.com,opensuse.org} Twitter/Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn,Jennifer Guild,Felix Imendörffer,HRB16746 (AG Nürnberg) GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- 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] Open Build Service version 2.3 released
by Adrian Schröter 03 May '12

03 May '12

The Open Build Service(OBS) version 2.3.0 brings new features esp. in the Maintenance and Release Management area and is the latest stable maintained version. It is recommended to update to this version to get improved security protections. It is also the first version which comes with official support offerings from our partner B1-Systems backed by SUSE. Please find the html version of this text here: http://www.open-build-service.org/2012/05/03/open-build-service-version-2-3… OBS 2.3 brings the functionality to maintain a released software product in an efficient and transparent way. This includes * Update coordination: One or more maintenance groups can decide if and when to start or release an update. This includes also the tracking of new, running and processed updates * QA and Review integration: The current state of an update is always visible and trackable. Review processes can be integrated * Release Management: Isolated build and tested updates can be released or revoked via OBS mechanism * Multiple code stream support: An issue can be handled for multiple code stream * Documentation support: The documentation of an update for the end-user is integrated This functionality is already used for doing the maintenance updates for the openSUSE distributions<. The features can be used all together or in parts for own products. In addition OBS 2.3 provides * A greatly improved web interface, including user management, syntax highlighted source editor and improved source diff review views * Improved Cross Build Support via Qemu * Functionality to hide entire projects * Issue tracking support, tracking documented fixes in external bugzilla, fate and CVE instances in packages. It is recommended to read the Release Notes before updating an instance. OBS packages can be found in the openSUSE Tools project or as an appliance which can be used on hardware or in VM. Your Open Build Service team Links ===== OBS home page: http://www.open-build-service.org Support: http://www.open-build-service.org/contact/ Release Notes: https://github.com/openSUSE/open-build-service/blob/2.3/ReleaseNotes-2.3 Download: https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=openSUSE%3ATools Appliance: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_Appliance The Team: http://www.flickr.com/photos/adrianschroeter/7135213251/ About Open Build Service ======================== The Open Build Service (OBS) is an open and complete distribution development platform. It provides the infrastructure to easily create, release and maintain software for openSUSE and other Linux distributions on different hardware architectures. It is developed under the umbrella of the openSUSE project, but is licensed under GPL and used by other open source projects like MeeGo, Mer, Packman or Tizen. It is also used by universities, ISVs and companies like Intel, Dell, SGI. -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE Linux Products GmbH email: adrian(a)suse.de -- 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 12.2 Milestone 3 is released
by Andreas Jaeger 12 Apr '12

12 Apr '12

Despite delays due to the move to a i686 desktop kernel for 32-bit systems, milestone 3 is finally available. This milestone brings progress on a number of features including GNOME 3.4, LibreOffice 3.5.2, Plymouth and more. Like the M2, there has been a bit of a delay getting this testing milestone out. Some kernel changes made it initially impossible to build the 32bit version of openSUSE but these have been fixed. Download it from software.opensuse.org/developer. As usual, a list of the most annoying bugs is being maintained and you can see the list of bugs and/or file a new one in Bugzilla. Read on for some details on the release and how to help! The roadmap aims Milestone 4 for April 26th. Factory development openSUSE, as you might know, is being developed in Factory. Factory is a project on the openSUSE Build Service against which you can build a package. If it works fine, you can submit it to Factory and keep it working there. List of build failures in Factory List of failures in Factory - help get rid of them! Status: in! Factory has now received the latest versions of GNOME 3.4, KDE SC 4.8.2 (with numerous KDE PIM bugfixes!) and finally LibreOffice 3.5.2 has landed as well. In a recent blog openSUSE contributor 'tittiatcoke' gave an update on Plymouth support in openSUSE. Plymouth itself is merged and integration into other packages is nearly finished, the issues are being worked out through some team efforts, for this milestone plymouth is not yet the default. The latest status can be tracked on this wiki page. Currently the team works on openSUSE branding to complete the new boot experience. The integration of grub2 as bootloader has seen further steps and we ask for testing of grub2. Unfortunately the LiveCDs cannot install grub2 in this milestone (see most annoying bugs for a workaround). Status: Close... We're very close to getting GCC 4.7 in - the latest status update concluded that a bug in GCC 4.7 blocks zypper from being build. This will be fixed in the 4.7.1 release expected in June but to facilitate testing a patch will probably be applied on 4.7.0 to have it in the next milestone. USRMove and tmp-on-tmpfs is still being debated, a final decision has not been made yet but it looks like we'll wait with this for at least another release. improved software search Improved software search Software search The software search improvements being tested over the last weeks have moved to software.opensuse.org and users looking for software to install on their openSUSE system can now enjoy the new UI, featuring screen shots and more extensive information about the applications available. Help out! Of course you're wondering how you can help. This can start with testing. Go to software.opensuse.org/developer, download Milestone 3 and try it out on your system! You can then check the most annoying bugs to see if your problems are there, if not, you can see the list of bugs and/or file a new one in Bugzilla. If the bug you find is very serious, add it tho the list of annoying bugs! If you are a packager (or want to be one!) there is of course also plenty to do. Fixing bugs in packages is a nice way of learning the ways of packaging (see the Packaging portal for documentation). You can read about how to do this here, via a simple set of stepps which in openSUSE are commonly known as 'BURP-ing'. openSUSE Factory workflow Factory Workflow If you're already a packager for openSUSE, don't forget to get your packages in Factory or start to maintain one! Thanks! We'd like to thank everyone working on openSUSE for being so cool. Special hugs to the top-ten factory contributors over the last 6 weeks (according to some scripting by AJ): Vincent Untz Stephan Kulow Dirk Mueller Dominique Leuenberger Jan Engelhard Sascha Peilicke Marcus Schäfer Ciaran Farrell Ralph Lang Cristian Rodriguez Note that the list above doesn't credit the hard work being done by the Packman team or people building packages outside of factory! -- Andreas Jaeger aj(a){suse.com,opensuse.org} Twitter/Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn,Jennifer Guild,Felix Imendörffer,HRB16746 (AG Nürnberg) GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- 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] Open Build Service Brings Website Integration
by Jos Poortvliet 04 Apr '12

04 Apr '12

We're proud to announce that the Open Build Service, a system to collaboratively build and easily distribute packages for a wide variety of operating systems and platforms, has introduced the ability to integrate the intelligent OBS 'download package' page into websites. This is useful for projects who want to offer their users easy access to downloads for a wide variety of Linux (and non-linux) systems. Moreover, the Open Build Service 2.3 Release Candidate is out and the final release is near. Integration in Websites The Open Build Service installation provided by openSUSE keeps growing. The number of packages is now well over 170.000, with more than 32.000 developers using build.opensuse.org either for personal use, to provide packages for one or more Linux distributions publicly or to contribute to openSUSE. Many projects depend on the public OBS or their own, internal Open Build Service to get software to their users. Right now, developers need to move the packages from OBS to a place where they are easy to download, or point users to the repository. The project page on OBS usually provides a 'download' button but this page is clearly not designed for end users. We decided to do better and now provide a download page which can be properly integrated in any website. It offers several layers of integration, starting with a convenient multi-distribution download page one can link to or an iframe which can be included in a web page; to PHP and html objects one can use to really offer deep integration. New is also the option to also provide Appliances this way so those building OS images on OBS can provide access to them directly via the same interface. In Action The full functionality including the downloading of Appliances can be seen on the openbuildservice.org website which got a major redesign. David Rosca from the Qupzilla project, who was the first external developer to integrate OBS into his website, noted that it took only minutes to implement and told us: "It saves interested users an extra click to install the application and looks better at the same time." Upcoming OBS 2.3 release Besides this new functionality which is already available on build.opensuse.org, the upcoming OBS 2.3 release comes with many new features. The 2.3 release candidate was recently made available and the final release is expected within 2-3 weeks. The main features for the 2.3 release of the Open Build Service are the introduction of full product maintenance handling in OBS, offering all the tools required for the maintanance of a full Linux distribution. A second major feature is the ability to set projects upon creation to be private, closing off source and binary access from anyone not part of the project. The 2.3 release also fixes a vulnerability for XSS attacks. Other new features including tracking of bugzilla or CVE issues, web interface improvements, API improvements and a new dispatcher improving the build times for crucial projects. About the Open Build Service The Open Build Service (OBS) is a generic system to build and distribute binary packages from sources in an automatic, consistent and reproducible way. It can release packages as well as updates, add-ons, appliances and entire distributions for a wide range of operating systems and hardware architectures. The OBS, through it’s project model, has collaboration build in and will help users to harness the power of the open source development model. Learn more at www.open-build-service.org About openSUSE The openSUSE project is a worldwide effort that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. openSUSE creates one of the world's most popular Linux distributions, working together in an open, transparent and friendly manner as part of the worldwide Free and Open Source Software community. For more information, visit www.opensuse.org Links: The Open Build Service: http://www.open-build-service.org How-to on integrating the download page in a site basic: http://software.opensuse.org/download/doc Extensive: http://doc.opensuse.org/products/draft/OBS/obs-best- practices_draft/cha.obs.best-practices.upstream.html#id364653 Example of a download page on OBS: http://software.opensuse.org/download/package?project=openSUSE:Tools&packag… integration in download site of Qupzilla: http://qupzilla.com/download OBS 2.3 RC1 release announcement: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-buildservice/2012-03/msg00178.html OBS 2.3 release notes: https://github.com/openSUSE/open-build-service/blob/2.3/ReleaseNotes-2.3

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[opensuse-announce] KDE and openSUSE Announce Opening of CfP for Dedicated COSCUP Track
by Jos Poortvliet 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

COSCUP, the largest FLOSS conference organized by local communities in Taiwan, will feature a special track dedicated to KDE and openSUSE, jointly organized by these communities. The CfP team is happy to announce today that we're ready to accept your session proposals! At COSCUP 2011, several KDE and openSUSE contributors gave talks and presented ‘cool stuff’ at their booths. This year, we'll do even more! KDE and openSUSE will collaboratively organize a full two-day track at the upcoming COSCUP conference in August 2012. A CfP committee has been set up and proposals can be send in starting today. June 15 is the deadline for proposals which can be send to cfp(a)opensuse.org. Call for Papers The program committee is looking for presentations about KDE and openSUSE. Please note that the talks do NOT have to be related to both KDE and openSUSE. KDE and openSUSE happily welcome talks about KDE on other distributions or other (non) desktop technologies like GNOME or OpenStack on openSUSE. The committee suggests the following topics: * desktop technologies (d-bus, gstreamer, etcetera) * embedded and mobile * distribution technologies (packaging tools, build systems, etcetera) * challenges in adapting software to local needs (L10N, I18N) * cross-desktop and cross-distribution collaboration * cloud computing and integration into the desktop * or anything else you think the world should hear about! The call for papers ends on June 15. Please send in a proposal of about 200 words, accompanied by a ~50 words biography, in either English or Chinese, to cfp(a)opensuse.org before that date. Program committee The Program Committee for the KDE/openSUSE track at COSCUP consists of the following people: * Franklin Weng (KDE) * Aaron J. Seigo (KDE) * Sakana (openSUSE) * Al Cho (openSUSE) * Bryen Yunashko (openSUSE) * Greg Kroah-Hartman (the Linux Foundation) About KDE KDE is an international technology team that creates free and open source software for desktop and portable computing. Among KDE's products are a modern desktop system for Linux and UNIX platforms, comprehensive office productivity and groupware suites and hundreds of software titles in many categories including Internet and web applications, multimedia, entertainment, educational, graphics and software development. KDE software is translated into more than 60 languages and is built with ease of use and modern accessibility principles in mind. KDE4's full-featured applications run natively on Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows and Mac OS X. For more information, visit www.kde.org About openSUSE The openSUSE project is a worldwide effort that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. openSUSE creates one of the world's best Linux distributions, working together in an open, transparent and friendly manner as part of the worldwide Free and Open Source Software community. For more information, visit www.opensuse.org.

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Summit website up and CfP started!
by Jos Poortvliet 29 Mar '12

29 Mar '12

The openSUSE community is happy to announce that starting March 29 the openSUSE Summit team will accept session proposals for the openSUSE Summit. The openSUSE Summit will take place from September 21-23, 2012 in Orlando Florida at the Caribe Royale Hotel. The proposal submission period ends on June 15, 2012 at midnight EDT. Final announcement of the program will occur on or before July 23, 2012. Starting today our website on summmit.opensuse.org is online and ready to inform you about our summit! The Summit aims to continue the tradition of fun and exciting gatherings for openSUSE in the Americas. We will deliver a bi-lingual event with some sessions offered in English and some in Spanish. In good openSUSE spirit we also want to make this event as welcoming as possible by inviting other projects to participate in the Summit. =Paper submissions= We hereby invite the openSUSE and wider Free Software community to submit session proposals for the openSUSE summit. The openSUSE Summit will have 3 tracks as outlined below. Presentations, BoF (Birds of a Feather) sessions and work shops are expected to align with the track topic. * openSUSE Community The openSUSE Community track provides information and discussion around the openSUSE community. Topics include but are not limited to Project governance and organization, ambassadorship and getting involved. * openSUSE Tech The openSUSE Tech track provides information, discussion, and hands on experience with the technology that makes openSUSE tick. Topics in this track include, but are not limited to the openSUSE development model, Packaging workshops, the Open Build Service, KIWI and more. * open World The open World track provides a platform to present your project, or listen to the interesting things our sponsors want to share. Topics in this track may cover demos and HowTos, FOSS project introductions, or other interesting topics from areas such as the "Maker movement". This is also the platform for cross-community collaboration with upstream or other Linux distributions. =Fun= The openSUSE Summit, by virtue of being an openSUSE event, has fun high on the agenda. Therefore, proposals that are "outside the box" of a "regular" software focused conference are encouraged. Collaboratively Building a Giant Paper Mache Geeko has already been proposed and rejected due to environmental concerns. =How to submit session proposals= Submit proposals for the openSUSE Summit using the registration and submission website at [1]. If you have not spoken at a previous openSUSE event, please create a new account to submit an abstract. The abstract submission should contain at least a 200 word description of the topic you plan to discuss, as well as a short (~ 50 word) description of yourself. *Please note:* All openSUSE events are governed by the openSUSE Code of Conduct [2]. The speaker guidelines [3] outline requirements for the submission of proposals and provide other valuable information for speakers. [1] http://bit.ly/HiXb2X [2] http://bit.ly/HmIqwJ [3] http://bit.ly/HiXydO

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Paste maintenance
by Michal Hrusecky 06 Feb '12

06 Feb '12

Hi everybody, due to the maintenance on the server openSUSE Paste is hosted on, it will be down on Saturday approximately form 11pm CET to early morning of Sunday (also CET). Sorry for the inconvenience. -- Michal Hrusecky <Michal.Hrusecky(a)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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