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[opensuse-announce] Reminder: openSUSE status meeting 2007/02/07 18:00 CET (17:00 GMT)
by Martin Lasarsch 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

Hi The next openSUSE status meeting will take place at the official #opensuse-project IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE-project) this Wednesday at 2007/02/07 18:00 CET (17:00 GMT) 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/Status_Meeting_2007-02-07 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 GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nuremberg martin.lasarsch(a)suse.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- simply change to www.suse.de

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[opensuse-announce] Get Involved! Second openSUSE community meeting 2007-02-11 20:00UTC
by Francis Giannaros 03 Feb '07

03 Feb '07

Details: Date: Sunday - 2007-02-11 Time: 20:00 UTC Location: irc.freenode.net #opensuse-project Explanation: This is the second ever community meeting taking place, and it is run by openSUSE Community members who are not employed by Novell/SUSE. The main aims of this meeting are: - Update on the last Community Meeting - Inform of the current community participation - Kicking off new projects in the community This meeting is open to absolutely anyone and everyone in the openSUSE Community. One of the main goals, again, is to unify and centralise on the community efforts, so everyone's participation in this is quite vital. A core group of people have already agreed to attend. ----- Agenda: - openSUSE-Community.org - Feature/Project Tracking - Unifying the Community - Awareness of other Community projects - Let us know - Other - FOSDEM Talk - YaST Meeting - Brainstorming and Open Discussion More information on these items is available at: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Community_Meeting_2007-02-11 Regards, -- Francis Giannaros Web: http://francis.giannaros.org IRC: apokryphos (irc.freenode.net)

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE-community.org
by Jonh Arson 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

We now believe the site to be fully ready for all openSUSE community members to contribute to, so without further ado we proudly announce http://openSUSE-Community.org Many are still in the dark about the existence and purpose of the new openSUSE Community website, so here’s a little light. Many productive things came out of the first community meeting on IRC (http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Community_Meeting_2006-12-16/minutes). In the brainstorming section, one of these things was the decision to have a completely new resource for openSUSE users created content, a place where we can document the stuff that we perhaps can’t put directly onto openSUSE.org, such as Packman and guru, tutorials, restricted format issues, etc. There are many such sites, so we first assessed whether any of them was suitable. Currently there are many such resources around, but instructions for each particular thing are scattered over very many sites. This is confusing to a new user trying to find his way, counterproductive, and evidently creates quite a bit of duplication of effort. This is an issue related to the many micro-communities that openSUSE has, and we believe that in working on this issue, we can truly be more productive, while making documentation resources more accessible to new users. So we have decided to create a place where: (i) we won’t try to replace the great documentation on openSUSE.org, and reference wherever possible, (ii) integrate nicely with openSUSE.org (hence using mediawiki and have a similar looking style), and (iii) be organized and straightforward; and specifically, organized for different openSUSE versions. We invite all openSUSE users to contribute and use the pages on the website there, and hope that with the help of the entire community we can make it a truly valuable and unified resource, along with openSUSE.org. On behalf of many openSUSE Community members, Francis Giannaros

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[opensuse-announce] SUSE Style Guides Open to the Community
by Rebecca Walter 29 Jan '07

29 Jan '07

Because of increasing community interest in the style guidelines of SUSE documentation and program texts, these style guides are now released as an openSUSE project hosted by Novell Forge. These guides should apply to both internal and external openSUSE projects, so your participation can influence the future of texts in YaST and the official manuals, among other things. The guides are licensed under the GFDL to allow other projects to take advantage them. The project pages at http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Opensuse-style give more information about the project and provide HTML and PDF copies of the current guides. The appearance of the guides themselves is still a work in progress. There are some minor bugs in the build mechanics and fixes are needed to make the layout more friendly to the reader. Feedback about the project and the guides is welcome on opensuse-doc(a)opensuse.org. That mailing list will also host discussion of any future style concerns. Sincerely, Rebecca Walter

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.2 Live DVD available
by Adrian Schröter 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

The last piece of the openSUSE 10.2 distribution got released today. The Live DVD image has a size of 1.7 GB and can be used on every x86 compatible system with at least 512 MB of memory. It contains a base desktop system (KDE and Gnome) with applications for office, multimedia and internet usage. You can downloaded it via http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/iso/dvd/openSUSE-10.2-GM-Liv… have a nice weekend adrian -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany email: adrian(a)suse.de

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[opensuse-announce] New Mailinglists - networking/usability
by Martin Lasarsch 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

Hi We have two new mailinglists <opensuse-networking(a)opensuse.org> <opensuse-usability(a)opensuse.org> Both lists are a result of opening up our communication, they replace the internal lists we had so far. Beside the two new lists we also moved the internal packager list to the opensuse-packaging list. To subscribe to the lists, just send an email like this: opensuse-usability+subscribe(a)opensuse.org opensuse-networking+subscribe(a)opensuse.org For more information about the Mailinglists, please look at http://en.opensuse.org/Mailing_Lists http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate#Mailing_Lists -- with kind regards, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Lasarsch, Core Services SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nuremberg martin.lasarsch(a)suse.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- simply change to www.suse.de

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[opensuse-announce] Complete openSUSE Build Service under GPL available
by Adrian Schröter 24 Jan '07

24 Jan '07

From today on the openSUSE Build Service (OBS) is available under the GPL license for everybody. You can find the latest version of the source code in the openSUSE project at Novell Forge: http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?opensuse Everybody is invited to join the public development there. Additionally you can find experimental rpm packages at http://software.opensuse.org/download/openSUSE:/Tools/ which can be used to easily install and configure an OBS running on a single host. Be welcome to join the discussion of the future of OBS in our mailinglist at opensuse-buildservice(a)opensuse.org or at the irc channel #opensuse-buildservice on irc.opensuse.org (Freenode). Further details can be found at http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany email: adrian(a)suse.de

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[opensuse-announce] Reminder: openSUSE status meeting 2007/01/24 18:00 CET (17:00 GMT)
by Martin Lasarsch 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

Hi The next openSUSE status meeting will take place at the official #opensuse-project IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE-project) this Wednesday at 2007/01/24 18:00 CET (17:00 GMT) 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/Status_Meeting_2007-01-24 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 GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nuremberg martin.lasarsch(a)suse.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- simply change to www.suse.de

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[opensuse-announce] Reminder: openSUSE status meeting 2007/01/10 18:00 CET (17:00 GMT)
by Martin Lasarsch 09 Jan '07

09 Jan '07

Hi The next openSUSE status meeting will take place at the official #opensuse-project IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE-project) this Wednesday at 2007/01/10 18:00 CET (17:00 GMT) 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/Status_Meeting_2007-01-10 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 GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nuremberg martin.lasarsch(a)suse.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- simply change to www.suse.de

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE @ FOSDEM 2007 call for papers/speakers/participants
by Christoph Thiel 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

Hi everyone, After a very successful FOSDEM participation in 2006, we are happy to announce that the openSUSE project will be taking part at FOSDEM 2007! Besides representing openSUSE with a booth, we managed to get one of the greatly demanded "devrooms", to conduct sessions centered around the openSUSE project. So, first of all, what the heck is "FOSDEM"? Quoting fosdem.org: >> The seventh Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting is a 2 days event, organized by volunteers, to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source software. Taking place in the beautiful city of Brussels (Belgium), FOSDEM meetings are recognized as "The best Free and Open Source events in Europe. The event will take place *February 24th and 25th 2007* in Brussels (Belgium). FOSDEM 2006 attracted over 4000 visitors from all around the world. Entrance and attendance to the event is totally free of charge! << In 2006 we launched the openSUSE build service at FOSDEM and attended with more than 20 SUSE/Novell people. In fact, we had both a booth and a "devroom", which was used to conduct several presentations and community meetings. The overall response to our 2006 activities was very positive! [Proceedings are available from http://en.opensuse.org/FOSDEM2006] For 2007, we dare to challenge all of us, the community, to play a much more active role in making FOSDEM 2007 a great success. Therefore we would like to open a "call for papers" and encourage everyone to send proposals to the opensuse-project(a)opensuse.org mailing list. Proposals should be submitted by *January 15th 2007*. We will do our very best to support all community activities around FOSDEM. Please share your ideas, visions, and comments regarding a successful FOSDEM participation with us. FOSDEM will be the forum for open discussions about the future of openSUSE. We are looking forward to meeting all of you at FOSDEM 2007! A happy holiday season and a great new year to all of you! Your openSUSE team

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