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[opensuse-announce] Upcoming #opensuse-gnome Meeting 2008/09/11 16:00 UTC
by JP Rosevear 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '08

Hi all GNOME addicts, The next openSUSE-GNOME project meeting will take place at the official #opensuse-gnome IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE-gnome) on upcoming Thursday: 2008/09/11 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST) For an overview what time this is in different timezones, use: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=11&month=09&year=2… This meeting is meant to discuss the latest developments in and around openSUSE-GNOME. Please review your topics on the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/Current as soon as possible. For general info about our IRC meetings read: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About For a general technical introduction to IRC (Internet Relay Chat) see http://www.irchelp.org/ ;(not affiliated with openSUSE) or enter "IRC help" into your preferred search engine. The network we use is freenode - for more information on this, including how to find a server, visit http://freenode.net/;(not affiliated with openSUSE either). Have a lot of fun .. JP Rosevear (on behalf of the openSUSE-GNOME team) -JP -- JP Rosevear <jpr(a)novell.com> Novell, Inc. -- 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] Last Call for openSUSE Board Candidates
by Marko Jung 10 Sep '08

10 Sep '08

The openSUSE Project is looking for a few good leaders, and voters! As already announced by AJ [1], the board founded the election committee for the first openSUSE board election. The committee is now seeking candidates and encouraging openSUSE contributors to sign up for membership. The election committee encourages all openSUSE contributors to apply for an openSUSE membership [2] to gain voting rights, and to consider running for a position in the board [3]. Being a member of the first community elected board is an unique opportunity to help the openSUSE Project mature and grow. There are only two weeks left to get this done - application deadline ends September 24th, 12:00 UTC. Find the full schedule and much more information on the election wiki pages [4]. The openSUSE board leads the overall project and provides guidance and support existing governance structures, but doesn’t direct or control development, since community mechanisms exist to accomplish the goals of the project. The board consists of five members, four elected by the openSUSE members (2 Novell and 2 non-Novell) and a Novell appointed chairman. Pascal Bleser [5] and Andreas Jaeger [6] have written some blog posts on the first year of the board and gave some interesting insight views on what should be done next. This is going to be a very important year in the growth of the openSUSE Project, and we want to start it off right. Whether you want to run for a board seat, or just vote for the candidates you trust to do the best job, don’t wait! The deadline for board candidacy and to have openSUSE membership approved in time for the election is less than two weeks away! The newly elected board members will serve for up to two years, starting first week of November. openSUSE membership is granted to those who have made continued and substantial contributions to the openSUSE Project. Members are approved by the openSUSE Board, and membership must be submitted by September 24th for members to be eligible to vote in this election. If you have any questions, feel free to contact the election committee: election-officials(a)opensuse.org [1] Announcement of the election committee http://news.opensuse.org/2008/08/24/opensuse-election-committee-founded/ [2] How to become an openSUSE member http://en.opensuse.org/Members#How_to_Become_a_Member [3] How to stand for a position in the openSUSE http://en.opensuse.org/Board_Election/2008#Phase_0:_Notification_of_Intent_… [4] openSUSE board election wiki page http://en.opensuse.org/Board_Election/2008 [5] Pascal's blog on the openSUSE board http://dev-loki.blogspot.com/2008/09/about-opensuse-board-and-elections.html http://dev-loki.blogspot.com/2008/09/opensuse-board-and-elections-part-2.ht… [6] Andrea's blog on the openSUSE board http://lizards.opensuse.org/2008/09/06/opensuse-board-election-comments/ -- with kind regards, Marko Jung, Operations and Services SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nürnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) mjung(a)suse.de - http://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] KDE in openSUSE 11.1 and beyond
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 09 Sep '08

09 Sep '08

After receiving a great deal of feedback on the issue of KDE 3.5 inclusion in openSUSE 11.1, the KDE team has decided to take the following course of action. * KDE 3.5 will be part of the DVD media for openSUSE 11.1, though we may need to slim the package selection for 3.5 sightly. * KDE 3.5 will not be included on the main desktop selection page, but will be included with other desktop environments and window managers like Xfce, WindowMaker, etc. * This will be the last release with KDE 3.5 packages maintained by the current KDE team. We are not opposed to continued development of KDE 3.5 by the community, however, and would be happy to work with contributors who are interested in packaging KDE 3.5.x for future releases of openSUSE. * KDE 3.5 will not be included on 11.2 "official" media or in the release repository for 11.2, but the community certainly has the option of creating KDE 3.5 packages in the build service, and creating live CDs with KDE 3.5 packages for 11.2. * The Novell KDE team will only be addressing P1 (high priority) bugs for KDE 3.5.x from this point forward. Again, this does not preclude community contributors from supporting KDE 3.5.x, and we encourage them to do so. We'd like to thank all the people who helped provide constructive feedback while we evaluated the best course for the next release of openSUSE. While we know that no solution is guaranteed to make every user happy, we think that we've reached the best compromise for openSUSE 11.1 and beyond, to ensure a smooth transition. Now that we have a clear path, we welcome any contributors who wish to help out. Please join the #opensuse-kde channel or speak up on the opensuse-factory list if you have any questions about how to get started with testing and packaging. -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager jzb(a)zonker.net http://zonker.opensuse.org/ http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ -- 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 - 2008/09/10 - 16:00 GMT
by Martin Lasarsch 09 Sep '08

09 Sep '08

Hi, The next openSUSE project meeting will take place at the official #opensuse-project IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE-project) tomorrow: 2008/09/10 16:00 GMT For an overview what time this is in different timezones, use: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=10&month=09&year=2… This meeting is meant to discuss the latest developments in and around openSUSE. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Project_Meeting_2008-09-10 as soon as possible. Also, if you cannot attend the meeting, but have questions you want to see discussed, please add them to the meeting wiki page as well. For general info about our IRC meetings read: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About For a general technical introduction to IRC (Internet Relay Chat) see http://www.irchelp.org/ ;(not affiliated with openSUSE) or enter "IRC help" into your preferred search engine. The network we use is freenode - for more information on this, including how to find a server, visit http://freenode.net/ ;(not affiliated with openSUSE either). -- with kind regards, Martin Lasarsch, Core Services SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nürnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) martin.lasarsch(a)suse.de - http://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] Reminder: openSUSE Marketing Meeting today
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 09 Sep '08

09 Sep '08

The openSUSE Marketing team is having a meeting today in the #opensuse-project channel on Freenode at 17:00 UTC (other times here: http://tinyurl.com/6gcfvh) The agenda as of now includes: * Introduction * Reports * Helping Hands * openSUSE TV * New * Improving openSUSE start page: Discuss Robert Lihm's redesign * Improving the How To Participate page * Q&A Further items are welcome, please add them to the agenda at: http://en.opensuse.org/Marketing_Team/Meetings/Marketing_Meeting_2008-09-09 Again, the meeting happens today at 17:00 UTC, please join us and participate! Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager jzb(a)zonker.net http://zonker.opensuse.org/ http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ -- 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 37
by Jan-Simon Möller 06 Sep '08

06 Sep '08

We are pleased to announce: Issue 37 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * Hack Week III Judging * Novell OpenPR Blog: Zonker Blogs * Board election * Hackweek review * Jigish Gohil: Spin openSUSE Live CD or USB stick image “easily” * Stephan Binner: New KDE Four Live-CDs [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/37 Last weeks issue: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/36 Have a lot of fun! -- Jan-Simon Möller -- 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] Hack Week III Judging
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 04 Sep '08

04 Sep '08

Now that Hack Week III is over with, we're ready to judge the entries. If you'd like to be considered for the judging, make sure your idea has been registered on ideas.opensuse.org (or updated if you registered it, but would like to update the info since you registered.) The categories for this Hack Week include: - Best cross-pollination team Awards the team that really wouldn't have been working together if it weren't for hack week. People from different groups coming together. - Top 3 award Instead of picking a "best overall project" we'll pick the best 3. - Funniest project Goes to the one that makes us smile. The judges are: Andrew Wafaa, Brady Anderson, Hendrik Vogelsang, Andreas Jaeger, Lars Murowski-Bree, and myself. The deadline for updating ideas.opensuse.org is Friday night. Prizes are to be announced, but the fame and glory will be unsurpassed. Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager jzb(a)zonker.net http://zonker.opensuse.org/ http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ -- 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 Community Meeting - September 3rd, 18:00 UTC
by Dirk Müller 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

The next openSUSE KDE Community Meeting is coming up tomorrow, Wednesday Sep 3rd at 18:00 UTC. Please note that we're back to the original schedule :) The current list of scheduled topics is: * old action items * compositing defaults (on/off, KWin/Compiz) * 11.1 planning * Bug squashing day * misc Further items are welcome; please add them to http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Meetings Please use http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9&day=3&year=200… to get the time of the meeting in your time zone. The meeting happens in #opensuse-kde on irc.freenode.net. You're welcome to join and participate! Greetings, Dirk -- 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 36
by Jan-Simon Möller 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

We are pleased to announce: Issue 36 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * Hack Week III * openSUSE Election Committee Founded * openSUSE at Utah Open Source Conference * T&T: Accelerate your build speed with Icecream * linux.com: A video tour of openSUSE 11 (with KDE 4 desktop) [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/36 Last weeks issue: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/35 Have a lot of phun! -- Jan-Simon Möller -- 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] No project irc meeting this week ...
by Martin Lasarsch 26 Aug '08

26 Aug '08

Hi Because of Hackweek there will be no irc project meeting this week. -- with kind regards, Martin Lasarsch, Core Services SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nürnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) martin.lasarsch(a)suse.de - http://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 at Utah Open Source Conference
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 25 Aug '08

25 Aug '08

openSUSE at Utah Open Source Conference See the openSUSE Project at the Utah Open Source Conference this week! The Utah Open Source Conference is going on August 28 through August 30 at the Salt Lake Community College. [http://2008.utosc.com/] The openSUSE Project will be hosting a table to show off the latest and greatest in openSUSE, and Novell and openSUSE also will have several speakers/talks on the agenda including: * Aaron Bockover: Banshee Media Player [http://2008.utosc.com/presentation/117/] * Brian Merrel, Sanford Armstrong: Linux accessibility efforts at Novell [http://2008.utosc.com/presentation/124/] * Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier: How to bootstrap a community [http://2008.utosc.com/presentation/103/] * Andrew Jorgensen: openSUSE Build Service [http://2008.utosc.com/presentation/18/] As part of Hack Week, we'll also have a room set aside for Hack Week III participants [http://blog.utos.org/2008/08/19/novell-hack-week-coming-to-utosc-2008/] so you can watch the hacking in real time. The schedule runs from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. local time Thursday and Friday, and from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Saturday. See the full schedule on the UTOSC Web site: http://2008.utosc.com/speaker/schedule/, and the events and activities here: http://2008.utosc.com/pages/events/ We're also looking for more booth volunteers. If you'd like to help with the openSUSE booth, please contact me about times and availability during the show. Thanks! -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager jzb(a)zonker.net http://zonker.opensuse.org/ http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ -- 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] OpenOffice_org 3.0-beta available (call for testing)
by Petr Mladek 25 Aug '08

25 Aug '08

Hi, I’m happy to announce that the first OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta packages are available in the Build Service OpenOffice.org:UNSTABLE project. The package version is 3.0.0.1. It is based on the upstream ooo300-m3 milestone. Call for testing: We kindly ask any interested beta testers to try the package and report bugs into bugzilla.novell.com, see below for more details. Note that the package is still a beta version and might include even serious bugs. Therefore it is not intended for data-critical usage. A good practice is to archive any important data before using it, ... Where to get it: The list of installation repositories can be found at http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories#OpenOffice.org_… Installation problems: There are some problems with the version update on older distributions. You might need to select the right version by hand, see http://en.opensuse.org/OpenOffice#Dependencies_During_Update IMPORTANT The packages with localizations are renamed from OpenOffice_org-<lang> to OpenOffice_org-l10n-<lang>. Also the localized help content is split into the optional OpenOffice_org-help-<lang> packages. Finally, the American localization is split into extra packages OpenOffice_org-l10n-en-US and OpenOffice_org-help-en-US. We are sorry, the 64-bit packages are not available for SLED10 and openSUSE-10.2. You could install the 32-bit (i586) packages there. We hope to solve the build problems within the following weeks. Bug reports: Please report the bugs into https://bugzilla.novell.com/ for the product "OpenOffice_org 2.0". Do not forget to mention enough information about the problem, see http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:OOo. Known bugs: + mono extensions does not work Changes in this version: The GO-OO project changes are listed at http://svn.gnome.org/svn/ooo-build/tags/OOO_BUILD_3_0_0_1/NEWS General information about the build: The build is based on the GO-OO project. It includes lots bug fixes, features and optimizations in compare with the regular OpenOffice.org build: * better startup performance * improved VBA interoperability * improved import filters (OOXML, WordPerfect) * additional import filters (SVG, WordPerfect Graphics, Microsoft Works, ...) * native KDE Open/Save dialog * WebDAV locking * new 3D slide transitions * multimedia in Impress via GStreamer * multiple formula syntax (Calc A1, Excel A1 and Excel R1C1) * ... , see also http://go-oo.org/discover/ -- Best Regards, Petr Mladek software developer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s. r. o. e-mail: pmladek(a)suse.cz Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 952 190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/ -- 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 35
by Jan-Simon Möller 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

We are pleased to announce: Issue 35 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * openSUSE 11.1 Alpha2 is available * Hack Week III is almost here! * openSUSE to add SELinux Basic Enablement in 11.1 * Masim Sugianto: Linux Distribution Popularity Across the Globe [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/35 Last weeks issue: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/34 Have a lot of phun! -- Jan-Simon Möller -- 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] Hack Week III is almost here!
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

Hack Week III is almost upon us! Novell is once again sponsoring Hack Week, from August 25th through August 29th, and we want the openSUSE community to be in on it! What's Hack Week? Hack Week is a chance for Novell's developers to work on Innovation Time Off (ITO) projects, uninterrupted by normal hacking duties. This helps provide an opportunity for Novell's developers to work on innovative new projects they might not normally be able to work on. Since most of the projects developed during Hack Week are open source, this also benefits the community by providing new code. During Hack Week, developers can work on any project of interest. So far Hack Week has spawned a number of impressive projects and improvements, such as Debian package support in the openSUSE Build Service, Tasque, Giver, and many others. For HW3, we'e encouraging members of the openSUSE community to get involved as well, either by working on their own Hack Week projects, or by collaborating with Novell developers to create or enhance open source projects. To post your ideas or see what others are working on, visit ideas.opensuse.org. We'll have awards for several Hack Week projects, including best overall project, and the coveted First Penguin Award. As part of the effort to expand Hack Week outside of Novell, we're bringing several community members to Novell offices to work with Novell developers on HW3 projects, and we'll be hosting a Hack Week room at the Utah Open Source Conference [http://2008.utosc.com/pages/home/] next week, August 28 through August 30. For questions or comments on Hack Week, please contact Andreas Jaeger [aj(a)opensuse.org] -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager jzb(a)zonker.net http://zonker.opensuse.org/ http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ -- 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: Helping Hands Hosts the F-Spot Developer Team
by Bryen 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

Just a friendly reminder that tomorrow, Friday August 22, Helping Hands will host the F-Spot Developer Team with their presentation of 10 Things You Didn't Know about F-Spot. Place: #opensuse-gnome in the IRC Freenode network. When: Friday, August 22nd, 2008 Time: 14:30 UTC About Helping Hands: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/HowTos Thanks and see you all there! Bryen -- 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 11.1 Alpha2 is available
by Christoph Thiel 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

Hi everyone, openSUSE 11.1 Alpha2 is available and ready for testing. This time it is actually installable and bootable ;) But you'll need to be quick and select the right boot option from the bootmenu. Due to bug #418619, "Failsafe" is the default boot option. Please make sure to always select real "openSUSE 10.0.42 - 2.6.26-14" option! On x86_64, please make sure to always disable the image-based installation from the summary screen, before the actual instllation starts! There will be no LiveCD with this Alpha, but we are planning on doing an Alpha2plus LiveCD next week. openSUSE 11.1 Alpha2 is available from http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1-Alpha2/iso/ Please also refer to http://software.opensuse.org/developer for further details and all the direct links. Known issues / workarounds: - image-based installation on x86_64 will not work without problem, as the images on the ISO don't match the RPMs. You'll get errors around "unable to remove pam-config". Workaround: always disable image-based installation on x86_64! - Bug 418619: Failsafe kernel is default in menu.lst Important: Please make sure to boot the right kernel -- failsafe can cause trouble on some maschines - Bug 418592: gdm doesn't start on some maschines - Bug 418577: Bootloader: cannot update the dynamic configuration policy - Bug 418729: Could not find /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_... - various AutoYast-related bugs * Bug 418574: AutoYast is ManualYast in 2nd stage * Bug 418707: Firewall services still enabled although disabled in Autoyast profile * Bug 418568: uuidgen missing Happy testing, Christoph -- Christoph Thiel, Tech. Project Management, Research & Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- 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] Helping Hands: 10 Things You Didn't Know about F-Spot
by Bryen 19 Aug '08

19 Aug '08

This week, the Helping Hands Program is proud to host "Ten Things You Didn't Know about F-Spot" presented by the F-Spot Developer Team. This event will be held on Friday, August 22nd at 14:30 UTC in the #opensuse-gnome IRC Channel on the Freenode Network. Each week, the Helping Hands program hosts presentations about various applications and features you can find on your openSUSE installation. FOr more information and to volunteer, visit http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/HowTos See you all there! Bryen Yunashko Helping Hands Coordinator -- 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 at FrOSCon!
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 18 Aug '08

18 Aug '08

Join the openSUSE Project this weekend, Saturday August 23, and Sunday August 24, at third annual FrOSCon [http://www.froscon.org] FrOSCon is a two day conference on Free Software and Open Source, taking place at the Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in Sankt Augustin near the cities of Bonn and Cologne. Come to the openSUSE booth to meet other openSUSE community members, and get your own copy of the openSUSE 11.0 DVD if you don't have one already! You can also catch Marko Jung's talk on his concept of a trust system for the openSUSE Build Service on Sunday, at 11:15 a.m. in lecture room HS5. In addition to the openSUSE-related activities, the whole conference program features many highlights. On Saturday, Andrew S. Tanenbaum will give a keynote on "Minix 3 - A Reliable and Secure Operating System", held at 12:45 in HS1 Tanenbaum is a professor of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. He became famous as developer of the system Minix. In 1992 he caused a sensation by criticizing Linux as an obsolete operating system. On the second day of the conference, PHP inventor Rasmus Lerdorf will give his keynote titled "Simple is hard." Lerdorf will talk about the trouble of finding a simple solution and the increasing affinity to comlexity which causes problems in performance, scalability, and security. If you'd like to help with the openSUSE booth at FrOSCon, we're still looking for additional volunteers. Please contact Marko Jung [http://en.opensuse.org/User:Markojung] -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager jzb(a)zonker.net http://zonker.opensuse.org/ http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ -- 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 34
by Stephan Binner 18 Aug '08

18 Aug '08

Issue #34 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! [0] In this week's issue: * Announcing ENOS 2008 * Join the openSUSE Proofreading Team * Announcing Hack Week III * openSUSE TV [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/34 Have a lot of fun... -- 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] Helping Hands Reminder: Inkscape with Jimmac on Friday
by suserocks＠bryen.com 14 Aug '08

14 Aug '08

As a reminder, this week's Helping Hands will host Inkscape presented by Jimmac at 14:30 UTC in the #opensuse-gnome channel on the FREENODE IRC Network Friday, August 15. For more informationa bout the Helpign Hands project and how you can get involved, please visit http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/HowTos. Thanks, Bryen Yunashko Helping Hands Coordinator -- 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] Inkscape - The next Helping Hands Event
by Bryen 11 Aug '08

11 Aug '08

On Friday, August 15, at 14:30 UTC, Helping Hands is proud to host Inkscape, presented by our very own jimmac. He'll introduce you to some of the cool graphics tricks you can do on your desktop. This event will be held in the #opensuse-gnome IRC channel on the FreeNode network. For more information on the Helping Hands project and to read transcripts from past events, visit http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/HowTos. Thanks and see you there! Bryen Yunashko openSUSE Helping Hands Coordinator -- 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] Announcing Hack Week III
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 07 Aug '08

07 Aug '08

Novell is once again sponsoring Hack Week -- and we want you to be in on it! Hack Week III (HW3) runs from August 25th through August 29th. What's Hack Week? Hack Week is a chance for Novell's developers to work on Innovation Time Off (ITO) projects, uninterrupted by normal hacking duties. This helps provide an opportunity for Novell's developers to work on innovative new projects they might not normally be able to work on. Since most of the projects developed during Hack Week are open source, this also benefits the community by providing new code. During Hack Week, developers can work on any project of interest. So far Hack Week has spawned a number of impressive projects and improvements, such as Debian package support in the openSUSE Build Service, Tasque, Giver, and many others. For HW3, we're encouraging members of the openSUSE community to get involved as well, either by working on their own Hack Week projects, or by collaborating with Novell developers to create or enhance open source projects. We are sponsoring travel for a limited number of contributors. If you're interested in working on a project in person, please contact Andreas Jaeger (aj(a)suse.de) by August 12th. We will also be announcing ways for community contributors to participate in Hack Week III remotely, stay tuned to news.opensuse.org and opensuse-announce for details. -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager jzb(a)zonker.net http://zonker.opensuse.org/ http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ -- 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] HELPING HANDS Reminder: Friday is Banshee Day!
by Bryen 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

Just a friendly reminder that on Friday, August 8th, the developers of Banshee will present Banshee in all its glory. Please, come one and come all to find out more and take the chance to grill these guys with your hard-hitting questions about how Banshee works. This Friday, at 14:30 UTC in the #opensuse-gnome IRC channel on the Freenode network. See you there! Bryen Yunashko -- 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 Community Meeting, Wed Aug 6th, 16:00 UTC
by Dirk Mueller 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

Hi, The next openSUSE KDE Community Meeting is coming up tomorrow, Wednesday Aug 6th at 16:00 UTC. Please note that this is two hours earlier than initially planned. The current list of scheduled topics is: * old action items * Status (kdepim update? KDE 4.0.x updates?) * KDE 3.x on 11.1 planning * Bug squashing day * misc Further items are welcome; please add them to http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Meetings Please use http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=8&year=200… to get the time of the meeting in your time zone. The meeting happens in #opensuse-kde on irc.freenode.net. You're welcome to join and participate! Greetings, Dirk -- 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] Upcoming #opensuse-gnome Meeting 2008/08/07 12:00 UTC ( please check times for your location thoroughly )
by Casual J. Programmer 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

Hi all GNOME addicts, The next openSUSE-GNOME project meeting will take place at the official #opensuse-gnome IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE-gnome) on upcoming Thursday: 2008/08/07 12:00 UTC (14:00 CEST) For an overview what time this is in different timezones, use: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=07&month=08&year=20 08&hour=12&min=0&sec=0&p1=0 This meeting is meant to discuss the latest developments in and around openSUSE-GNOME. Please review your topics on the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20080807 as soon as possible. For general info about our IRC meetings read: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About <http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About> For a general technical introduction to IRC (Internet Relay Chat) see http://www.irchelp.org/ <http://www.irchelp.org/> ;(not affiliated with openSUSE) or enter "IRC help" into your preferred search engine. The network we use is freenode - for more information on this, including how to find a server, visit http://freenode.net/ <http://freenode.net/> ; ( not affiliated with openSUSE either). Have a lot of fun .. Casual J. Programmer (on behalf of the openSUSE-GNOME team) -- 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] HelpingHands: Next Event-Banshee
by Bryen 04 Aug '08

04 Aug '08

Each week, the openSUSE Helping Hands project introduces a new topic in IRC where users can come to learn about a particular application or service and directly ask questions about that application. This week, HelpingHands is proud host Banshee-Presented by the Banshee Development Team led by Aaron Bockover. Where: #opensuse-GNOME IRC channel on the Freenode Network When: Friday, April 8 at 14:30 UTC Next week: HelpingHands will host Inkscape-Presented by openSUSE's very own Designer-Extraordinaire, Jimmac. We hope to see you all there as we continue to bring new and exciting topics each week to further enhance your openSUSE experience. Bryen Yunashko Helping Hands Coordinator -- 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 33
by Francis Giannaros 03 Aug '08

03 Aug '08

Issue #33 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! [0] In this week's issue: * KDE 4.1 Released With openSUSE Packages and Live CD * Help Create the Artwork for openSUSE 11.1 * Reminder: openSUSE Day at LinuxWorld Expo * Banshee 1.2 Released [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/33 Have a lot of fun! -- Francis Giannaros http://francis.giannaros.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] Reminder: Helping Hands today at 15:30 UTC
by Bryen 01 Aug '08

01 Aug '08

Just a friendly reminder that today's Helping Hands session will begin at 15:30 UTC (approximately 4 hours from the timestamp of this email.) Today's presentation will be led by Federico Mena Quintero and our topic is Multi-Screening. Find out how you can enable multiple monitors or projectors to your computer. Bryen -- 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 Day at LinuxWorld Expo next week!
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 30 Jul '08

30 Jul '08

Join the openSUSE Project for a day of fun and FOSS at the LinuxWorld Expo! On Wednesday, August 6th, the openSUSE Project will be holding its first "openSUSE Day" in North America, in conjuction with the LinuxWorld Expo at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. We'll have a full day of presentations about the openSUSE Project, KDE, GNOME, the Linux kernel, the openSUSE Build Service, and much more. Come by and learn all about openSUSE, pick up an openSUSE 11.0 DVD and some of the fabulous door prizes -- We'll be giving away two Chumby's (must be present to win) and tons of openSUSE swag -- including openSUSE t-shirts, caps, and other big prizes. The schedule runs from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., including an openSUSE Birds of a Feather at 4:15 p.m. See the full schedule at: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Day_at_LinuxWorld_Expo. We will also have a booth in the .Org area at LinuxWorld, so stop by and say hi and learn all about openSUSE. Attendance is free, and if you're registered you also have access to the show expo floor. To register, go to http://linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/register//SN335015. Select the openSUSE Community Day and sign up. Want to help with the openSUSE Day or help staff the openSUSE booth in the LWE .Org Pavilion? We'd love to have you! If you'd like to get involved, speak up on the opensuse-marketing list or contact Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier (zonker(a)opensuse.org) -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager jzb(a)zonker.net http://zonker.opensuse.org/ http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ -- 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] Upcoming #opensuse-gnome Meeting 2008/07/31 16:00 UTC ( please check times for your location thoroughly )
by Casual J. Programmer 30 Jul '08

30 Jul '08

Hi all GNOME addicts, The next openSUSE-GNOME project meeting will take place at the official #opensuse-gnome IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE-gnome) on upcoming Thursday: 2008/07/31 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST) For an overview what time this is in different timezones, use: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=31&month=07&year=2… This meeting is meant to discuss the latest developments in and around openSUSE-GNOME. Please review your topics on the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20080731 as soon as possible. For general info about our IRC meetings read: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About For a general technical introduction to IRC (Internet Relay Chat) see http://www.irchelp.org/ ;(not affiliated with openSUSE) or enter "IRC help" into your preferred search engine. The network we use is freenode - for more information on this, including how to find a server, visit http://freenode.net/;(not affiliated with openSUSE either). Have a lot of fun .. Casual J. Programmer (on behalf of the openSUSE-GNOME team)

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[opensuse-announce] Reminder: Kernel bug squashing day (today)
by Lars Marowsky-Bree 29 Jul '08

29 Jul '08

Hi everybody, I am pleased to announce, on behalf of SuSE's kernel teams, the first openSUSE Kernel bug squashing day: Wednesday, July 30th 2008; that is: as of now! Our goals are: - Reduce the number of (openSUSE) kernel bugs in Novell's bugzilla; - Clean out all those ancient and no longer valid bugs; - Identify duplicates; - Upstream as many of the bugs (and patches) as possible; - For the remaining bugs, help their triaging and resolution along. - Help test and review fixes. No bug is sacred! Interested members from the openSUSE community are invited to join us on irc.freenode.net, channel #opensuse-kernel for live coordination and participation on that day; the SUSE kernel teams will be there too, and we look forward to challenging bugs and successful cooperation. Regards, Lars -- Team lead Kernel, SuSE Labs, Research and Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." -- Oscar Wilde -- 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] Next Helping Hands Session: Multi-Screening
by Bryen 29 Jul '08

29 Jul '08

Do you want to connect two monitors to your computer? Or perhaps you have a laptop and you'd like to hook up a projector to it? Find out how to make it work at our next Helping Hands session, presented to you by Federico Mena Quintero. This coming Friday, August 1, 2008 at 15:30 UTC in the #opensuse-gnome IRC channel on the Freenode network. The Helping Hands project is a weekly presentation series designed to introduce you to all the cool things you can do on openSUSE. Past presentations have included general GNOME Tips and Tricks, OpenOffice, and Evolution. And we have many more exciting events just around the corner. If you'd like to volunteer to be a Helping Hands presenter on your favorite topic or a coordinator/organizer, please feel free to contact me. Thanks and see you all on Friday! Bryen -- 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 - 2008/07/02 - 14:00 CEST (12:00 GMT)
by Martin Lasarsch 29 Jul '08

29 Jul '08

Hi The next openSUSE project meeting will take place at the official #opensuse-project IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE-project) tomorrow: 2008/07/30 14:00 CEST (12:00 GMT) For an overview what time this is in different timezones, use: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=30&month=07&year=2… This meeting is meant to discuss the latest developments in and around openSUSE. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Project_Meeting_2008-07-30 as soon as possible. Also, if you cannot attend the meeting, but have questions you want to see discussed, please add them to the meeting wiki page as well. For general info about our IRC meetings read: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About For a general technical introduction to IRC (Internet Relay Chat) see http://www.irchelp.org/ ;(not affiliated with openSUSE) or enter "IRC help" into your preferred search engine. The network we use is freenode - for more information on this, including how to find a server, visit http://freenode.net/ ;(not affiliated with openSUSE either). btw: congratulations KDE team! http://news.opensuse.org/2008/07/29/kde-41-released-with-opensuse-packages-… -- with kind regards, Martin Lasarsch, Core Services SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nürnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) martin.lasarsch(a)suse.de - http://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] KDE 4.1 Released With openSUSE Packages and Live CD
by Stephan Binner 29 Jul '08

29 Jul '08

Original openSUSE News story: http://news.opensuse.org/?p=963 8<--------------------------------------------------------------------------- KDE 4.1 Released With openSUSE Packages and Live CD The KDE team today released KDE 4.1 [1]. The KDE developers, including the openSUSE KDE Team, have been working on it for the last six months. Lots of feedback from people trying out KDE 4.0 has gone into KDE 4.1, filling most of the gaps people experienced with the 4.0 releases. See the release announcement [2] for more information and screenshots KDE 4.1 Packages, openSUSE-based KDE 4.1 Live CD Regular KDE 4 Packages [3] and an openSUSE-based KDE Four Live CD [4] have been available throughout the whole cycle, and final versions of them are also available now. On openSUSE 11.0 you can use 1-click-install to get the KDE 4.1 desktop environment (for openSUSE 10.3 follow link #3): http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/d/dd/Kde4-ymp.png Or you can choose to install a more basic KDE 4 desktop. Developers can also optionally install the KDE 4 build dependencies: all the packages you need to have installed for compiling KDE 4.x from source (experts only). [1] http://dot.kde.org/1217341401 [2] http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.1/ [3] http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/KDE4 [4] http://home.kde.org/~binner/kde-four-live -- 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 32
by Stephan Binner 26 Jul '08

26 Jul '08

I am pleased to announce: Issue 32 of openSUSE Weekly News [0] In this week's issue: * openSUSE 11.0 Survey * openSUSE 11.0 PromoDVD * openSUSE 11.1 Alpha 1 is Available * Bugzilla: Changed Definitions * One Year of openSUSE News * Andrew Wafaa: Lug Radio Live 2008 Report [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/32 Last week's issue: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/31 Have a lot of fun... -- 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] Short downtime of master download server
by Peter Poeml 25 Jul '08

25 Jul '08

There will be a brief outage of download.opensuse.org and stage.opensuse.org in about half an hour. It should be functional again after a few minutes. Apologies for any inconveniency this may cause. Peter -- Contact: admin(a)opensuse.org (a.k.a. ftpadmin(a)suse.com) #opensuse-mirrors on freenode.net Info: http://en.opensuse.org/Mirror_Infrastructure SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE 11.1 Alpha1 is available
by Christoph Thiel 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

Hi everyone, openSUSE 11.1 Alpha1 is available -- but beware, this is an Alpha with very rough edges! While testing this on a Thinkpad R51, the system didn't boot after first stage installation. We are still looking into this issue (#411937). In addition to that, the default GNOME installation will complain about a missing package (providing gnome-session-branding)[1]. With the current bootloader issue, using the DVDs for installing is not recommended, until we have a workaround. Please try the LiveCDs instead! openSUSE 11.1 Alpha1 GNOME LiveCDs: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1-Alpha1/iso/cd/openSUSE-11.1-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1-Alpha1/iso/cd/openSUSE-11.1-… openSUSE 11.1 Alpha1 KDE4 LiveCDs: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1-Alpha1/iso/cd/openSUSE-11.1-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1-Alpha1/iso/cd/openSUSE-11.1-… Please refer to http://software.opensuse.org/developer for further details and all the links. Happy testing, Christoph [1] missing package is available from: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1-Alpha1/hotfix/ -- Christoph Thiel, Tech. Project Management, Research & Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- 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] Upcoming #opensuse-gnome Meeting 2008/07/24 16:00 UTC ( please check times for your location thoroughly )
by JP Rosevear 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

Hi all GNOME addicts, The next openSUSE-GNOME project meeting will take place at the official #opensuse-gnome IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE-gnome) on upcoming Thursday: 2008/07/24 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST) For an overview what time this is in different timezones, use: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=24&month=07&year=2… This meeting is meant to discuss the latest developments in and around openSUSE-GNOME. Please review your topics on the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20080724 as soon as possible. For general info about our IRC meetings read: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About For a general technical introduction to IRC (Internet Relay Chat) see http://www.irchelp.org/ ;(not affiliated with openSUSE) or enter "IRC help" into your preferred search engine. The network we use is freenode - for more information on this, including how to find a server, visit http://freenode.net/;(not affiliated with openSUSE either). Have a lot of fun .. JP Rosevear (on behalf of the openSUSE-GNOME team) -- JP Rosevear <jpr(a)novell.com> Novell, Inc. -- 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] Upcoming #opensuse-gnome Meeting 2008/07/24 16:00 UTC ( please check times for your location thoroughly )
by Casual J. Programmer 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

Hi all GNOME addicts, The next openSUSE-GNOME project meeting will take place at the official #opensuse-gnome IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE-gnome) on upcoming Thursday: 2008/07/24 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST) For an overview what time this is in different timezones, use: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=24&month=07&year=2… This meeting is meant to discuss the latest developments in and around openSUSE-GNOME. Please review your topics on the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20080724 as soon as possible. For general info about our IRC meetings read: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About For a general technical introduction to IRC (Internet Relay Chat) see http://www.irchelp.org/ ;(not affiliated with openSUSE) or enter "IRC help" into your preferred search engine. The network we use is freenode - for more information on this, including how to find a server, visit http://freenode.net/;(not affiliated with openSUSE either). Have a lot of fun .. Casual J. Programmer (on behalf of the openSUSE-GNOME team)

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[opensuse-announce] PromoDVDs arrived
by Martin Lasarsch 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

Hi Again we have some nice, new and shiny PromoDVDs, now with openSUSE 11.0. The main goal is to spread them. Some examples: - you organize or take part of an event - you want good software in your school/university - you have a local LUG meeting To make the process easier Andreas Bauer created an order tool for it, just head over to http://software.opensuse.org/promodvd and enter your request there. The old order process, sending mails to me or marketing@whatever is now obsolete. Everything you need to know is explained on that page. If you want information about the PromoDVD in general: http://en.opensuse.org/PromoDVD -- with kind regards, Martin Lasarsch, Core Services SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nürnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) martin.lasarsch(a)suse.de - http://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] KDE Community Meeting, Wed May 23rd, 1800 UTC
by Will Stephenson 22 Jul '08

22 Jul '08

Hi all The next openSUSE KDE Community Meeting is tomorrow, Wednesday May 23rd at 1800 UTC. Any agenda items are welcome; please add them to http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Meetings . The current list of topics is: * KDE 4.1 feedback session * Ongoing 11.1 feature review * Bug policy update (in case you're seeing a lot of priority changes) * Upcoming Novell Open Audio visit to KDE - any topics you would like to see discussed? We at the KDE Team at openSUSE hope to see you! Venue is as usual, #opensuse-kde on irc.freenode.net at 18:00 UTC. IRC newbies welcome (I know that thread on opensuse@ are reading this ;). Please use http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=7&day=9&year=200… to get the time of the meeting in your time zone. best regards Will Stephenson -- 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] Kernel bug squashing day on 2008-07-30
by Lars Marowsky-Bree 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

Hi everybody, I am pleased to announce, on behalf of SuSE's kernel teams, the first openSUSE Kernel bug squashing day: Wednesday, July 30th 2008. Our goals are: - Reduce the number of (openSUSE) kernel bugs in Novell's bugzilla; - Clean out all those ancient and no longer valid bugs; - Identify duplicates; - Upstream as many of the bugs (and patches) as possible; - For the remaining bugs, help their triaging and resolution along. - Help test and review fixes. No bug is sacred! Interested members from the openSUSE community are invited to join us on irc.freenode.net, channel #opensuse-kernel for live coordination and participation on that day; the SUSE kernel teams will be there too, and we look forward to challenging bugs and successful cooperation. Regards, Lars -- Team lead Kernel, SuSE Labs, Research and Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." -- Oscar Wilde

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE 11.0 Survey online
by Martin Lasarsch 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

Hi After nearly a month of the openSUSE 11.0 release we want to know what you think about it. This time we will offer 20 prices, an original openSUSE T-shirt and a sunny green baseball hat. If you want take part of the raffle, don't forget to enter your email at the end. The survey takes only a few minutes, you can find it here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=E93z30BzP6FRP2V_2bpx73qA_3d_3d As usual we will post the results when it's finished. -- with kind regards, Martin Lasarsch, Core Services SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nürnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) martin.lasarsch(a)suse.de - http://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 Weekly News, Issue 31
by Jan-Simon Möller 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

We are pleased to announce: Issue 31 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * Next Helping Hands Event * www.opensuse-tutorials.com * Hubert Mantel: openSUSE Gets the JeOS * People of openSUSE: Bryen Yunashko * Pascal Bleser: Reporting Packman package bugs * Jigish Gohil: New Compiz plugins [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/31 Last weeks issue: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/30 Have a lot of phun! -- Jan-Simon Möller -- 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 - 2008/07/16 - 16:00 GMT
by Henne Vogelsang 16 Jul '08

16 Jul '08

Hi, The next openSUSE project meeting will take place at the official #opensuse-project IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE-project) today: 2008/07/16 16:00 GMT For an overview what time this is in different timezones, use: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=16&month=07&year=2… This meeting is meant to discuss the latest developments in and around openSUSE. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Project_Meeting_2008-07-16 as soon as possible. Also, if you cannot attend the meeting, but have questions you want to see discussed, please add them to the meeting wiki page as well. For general info about our IRC meetings read: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About For a general technical introduction to IRC (Internet Relay Chat) see http://www.irchelp.org/ ;(not affiliated with openSUSE) or enter "IRC help" into your preferred search engine. The network we use is freenode - for more information on this, including how to find a server, visit http://freenode.net/ ;(not affiliated with openSUSE either). Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, openSUSE. Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -- 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] Upcoming #opensuse-gnome Meeting 2008/07/17 16:00 UTC ( please check times for your location thoroughly )
by Casual J. Programmer 16 Jul '08

16 Jul '08

Hi all GNOME addicts, The next openSUSE-GNOME project meeting will take place at the official #opensuse-gnome IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE-gnome) on upcoming Thursday: 2008/07/17 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST) For an overview what time this is in different timezones, use: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=17&month=07&year=2… This meeting is meant to discuss the latest developments in and around openSUSE-GNOME. Please review your topics on the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20080717 as soon as possible. For general info about our IRC meetings read: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About For a general technical introduction to IRC (Internet Relay Chat) see http://www.irchelp.org/ ;(not affiliated with openSUSE) or enter "IRC help" into your preferred search engine. The network we use is freenode - for more information on this, including how to find a server, visit http://freenode.net/;(not affiliated with openSUSE either). Have a lot of fun .. Casual J. Programmer (on behalf of the openSUSE-GNOME team)

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[opensuse-announce] Next Helping Hands Upcoming Event
by Bryen 15 Jul '08

15 Jul '08

This Friday, July 18th, Helping Hands will host yet another exciting presentation. Things You Didn't Know about Evolution, presented to you by the Go-Evo Developer Team. This will be your chance to learn some cool stuff about Evolution and ask those nagging questions you've always wanted to ask. So come on down to the #opensuse-gnome IRC channel on the Freenode network this Friday, July 18th at 14:30 UTC. See you there! Bryen -- 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 30
by Jan-Simon Möller 10 Jul '08

10 Jul '08

We are pleased to announce: Issue 30 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * openSUSE Build Service 1.0 Released * Announcing openSUSE Day at LinuxWorld Expo * People of openSUSE: Joe Brockmeier * openSUSE Build Service Trust concept * John Anderson: Get build dependencies with zypper * Michal Zugec: Network Documentation [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/30 Last weeks issue: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/29 Have a lot of fun! -- Jan-Simon Möller -- 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] Announcing openSUSE Day at LinuxWorld Expo
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

Join the openSUSE Project for a day of fun and FOSS at the LinuxWorld Expo! On Wednesday, August 6th, the openSUSE Project will be holding its first "openSUSE Day" in North America, in conjuction with the LinuxWorld Expo at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. We'll have a full day of presentations about the openSUSE Project, KDE, GNOME, the Linux kernel, the openSUSE Build Service, and much more. Come by and learn all about openSUSE, pick up an openSUSE 11.0 DVD and some of the fabulous door prizes -- including openSUSE t-shirts, caps, and other big prizes. The schedule runs from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., including an openSUSE Birds of a Feather at 4:15 p.m. See the full schedule at: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Day_at_LinuxWorld_Expo. Want to help with the openSUSE Day or help staff the openSUSE booth in the LWE .Org Pavilion? We'd love to have you! If you'd like to get involved, speak up on the opensuse-marketing list or contact Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier (zonker(a)opensuse.org) -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager jzb(a)zonker.net http://zonker.opensuse.org/ http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ -- 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 Build Service 1.0 Released
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the 1.0 release of the openSUSE Build Service. The 1.0 release provides all the features necessary to support building openSUSE in the public build systems and allowing direct contributions to openSUSE from all contributors. Developers can now submit contributions to openSUSE directly at build.opensuse.org. The openSUSE Build Service allows developers to create and maintain packages for openSUSE and many other Linux distributions, including CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Mandriva, Red Hat, and Ubuntu. With the 1.0 release, the openSUSE Build Service expands its scope to building the entire openSUSE release, and provides everyone with the same access and transparent interface to work on the openSUSE distribution. The openSUSE Build Service has offered a simple collaboration system since its inception for groups to work closely together on packages or solutions stacks. The 1.0 release improves on existing functionality to allow the Build Service to scale to larger projects like openSUSE's Factory distribution, and to allow building openSUSE's stable releases in the open. What the changes mean for contributors: * Anyone can find a package's working copy as maintained by the official packager or packaging team. Contributors can submit changes against the working copy. * The submission handling and notification system has been put in place, allowing any contributor to request a merge of their changes to a project. * Quality assurance happens before contributions are merged. Test builds of a suggested change are accessible to anyone. * Improved branch handling. It is easy to set up a branch of a package. The branch will build in the same way as the original package, but can be modified. * Source handling is improved in 1.0. It's now possible to easily maintain a branch, and modifications are stored without creating a full copy. This makes it easier to maintain features based on the latest copy of package. The Build Service builds the latest packages, including modifications, automatically. The majority of this functionality is implemented on the server side. The rest can be implemented by the various Build Service clients, so that contributors can take advantage of the new features. The Build Service team has also introduced a number of smaller improvements and bugfixes to make the system more scalable and usable. The openSUSE Build Service is now considered "feature complete" for collaboration. The Build Service team is looking for additional feedback on improving the openSUSE Build Service as it will now be the standard tool for working on the distribution. For more information on the openSUSE Build Service, visit http://build.opensuse.org/. If you would like to discuss the Build Service please use the opensuse-buildservice(a)opensuse.org mailing list. The Build Service also has an active IRC channel, #opensuse-buildservice running on Freenode. -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager jzb(a)zonker.net http://zonker.opensuse.org/ http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ -- 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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