August 2010 - openSUSE Boosters - openSUSE Mailing Lists

mentoring for ucosp
by Jos Poortvliet 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

Gents, I dunno if the other mails came through, as I got a bunch of bounces for unknown reason(s) but here is another try. It is about a university program in Canada where students can work on FOSS for grades for a semester. It's about 8-10 hours a week for a couple of months, nothing huge, but nice. We would need to provide mentoring and junior jobs for them. Question is: can we? I heard you were working on this, so maybe you can answer that question :D Received from Andrew Louis: Hi Jos, thanks so much for your email. I just replied to Lydia in another thread about a KDE project. What do you have in mind for something openSUSE-related? What we need right now are basically mentors (esp someone who can come to Toronto from October 1-3 for our code sprint) and a good project idea suitable for a team of 5-10 upper year computer science students to work on. Any ideas? If we want to make this happen though, we have to move fast as students will begin to pick which projects they want to work on soon. Worst case: we try this for January. Another question (and I hope this is not too off-putting): would Novell be able to help the program out by sponsoring the travel costs of a few students to come to Toronto? We're still in need of a bit of financial help to make sure it happens. Thanks so much in advance, Andrew -- Andrew Louis Undergraduate Capstone Open Source Projects Program Administrator http://ucosp.ca On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hey there, > > We, as in the openSUSE community, got a request from a student to be > mentored for your Undergraduate Capstone Open Source Projects. We'd love to > help him, what do we need to do? > > Moreover, if you want I can easily get you in contact with other communities > like KDE and GNOME, both of which already have extensive mentoring > infrastructure in place due to Google Summer of Code (and KDE has the Summer > of KDE project as well). > > Let me know. > > Greetings, > > Jos Poortvliet > > openSUSE Community Manager for Novell -----------------------------------------

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Fwd: Re: openSuSE summer-of-code analog
by Jos Poortvliet 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

See below.So this dude (and maybe others) are looking for junior jobs. And I've heard from some prusnak dude here in the office that you're working on that. What can I do to get this guy a mentor? Cheers, Jos BTW I already attemped to contact the ucosp.ca organisation, sorry for being so pro-active :D Check their site out, we can be the 'creme de la creme' there, as there is little competition. ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: openSuSE summer-of-code analog Date: Tuesday 17 August 2010, 20:39:31 From: Edward Bassett <edward.bassett(a)ualberta.ca> To: Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet(a)gmail.com> HI, Jos. Thanks for the quick reply. I didn't actually have anything concrete in mind, unfortunately. I actually only just thought of asking you guys about this and figured I'd better act quickly and think afterwards. ;) Details are available here: ucosp.ca - including info about what the Project would be committing itself too. There's a link there too to what's been done in the past, to give you an idea of scope. Does anything spring to your mind as being something that would benefit from some undergrad love? Where is the best place for me to go looking for outstanding work? I wouldn't mind something KDE-related. Note that classes start in 3 weeks, so I really haven't left you much time. (Sorry!) There's a possibility that I could do this in the term beginning in January instead. That would give you more time to get organized. But I have a guaranteed slot in the program right now, and I'm not sure that I want to risk that just for the *possibility* of doing it next term. As to me, I'm far from a whiz at programming, but I'm no slouch either. I get good marks, but don't have a lot of experience. Cheers, -Edward On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday 17 August 2010 18:25:54 Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote: > >> Forwarding you to Jos. > >> > >> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Edward Bassett > >> <edward.bassett(a)ualberta.ca> wrote: > >> > Hi, Zonker. > >> > I know this isn't your job anymore, and I apologize for spamming you, > >> > but I'm hoping that you can point me to the correct contact. > >> > I'm an undergrad, and my university (University of Alberta) is > >> > participating in an open-source-development-for-credit program > >> > (ucosp.ca) - think of it as something like Google Summer of Code. > >> > I wouldn't mind doing something with openSuSE under this program. > >> > The project would have to provide a mentor and some direction (more > >> > details at the website above). > >> > > >> > Thanks, > >> > -Edward > > Thanks Joe! > > Hi Edward, > > Sounds exciting. What did you have in mind? > > cheers, > > Jos -----------------------------------------

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Egbert's Week 33
by Egbert Eich 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

Egbert's Week 33: - caught up on email - successfully survived an update to 11.3. As usual it took a few hours until everything was working as expected again - this time it was less painful than before though. - had a meeting with Klaas. - Improved infrastrucutre to better cope with email/IRC information flooding. - Continued the discussion with AJ regarding a strategy for openSUSE: AJ feels we are closer together are actually talking about the same things but just don't fully realize this. - Dragged some SUSE Labs people into finally speaking up about their feelings regarding a strategy. - Met and had a beer with our new community manager. More L3 stuff to be taken care of: #462283 xdm issues on SLE11 SP1 - took over as this seems to be related to a problem with finding the correct ID for authentication. Work in progress. #628346 Issues with dual monitor support. Work in progress. #626657 Xvnc CPU utilization too high during connection. Still work in progress. #604720 NLPOS9 configuration issues for evtouch driver. Resolved. This Week: ========== Hoping for my internet connection to become stable again. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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Week Report prusnak cw 32
by Pavol Rusnak 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

What I did: * vacation What I plan to do: * prepare great Connect hacking session for FrOSCon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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Workreport
by Henne Vogelsang 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

Hi, i did finish the wiki milestone. I Started to explore a {news,lizards,spotlight,planet.o.o) replacement on the basis of wordpress and a few plugins. Attended Jos introduction. Talked with Jos, Cornelius, Klaas and AJ about the strategy discussion as this was a hot topic in the discussion we had during Jos introduction. I plan to get into Elgg and think about all the connect.o.o features Pavol collected on openSUSE:Connect and how they will fit into the overall structure of *opensuse.org. Finally i plan to have a nice HackMeck at FrosCON with the guys :) I am blocked by nothing. Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, openSUSE. Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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Standup 2010-08-16
by Henne Vogelsang 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

present: egbert, freitag, michal, cwh, tom, will, pavol, robert missing: vuntz, coolo, lubos * General ** off-site The off-site is postponed to next year. A bunch of us meet next weekend at FrosCON, we all meet in October at the openSUSE conference and December is a very slow month anyway. So there actually is no need to do a off-site in this year. ** FrosCON Klaas will send around travel details. We still need more exposure for this as we did not attract contributors to the hackmeck yet. So Henne will try to get us on the froscon frontpage. He also brings hardware for the server part (machine+switch). Pavol will prepare/give an introduction to elgg talk on Saturday and Pavol Michal and Egbert will prepare documentation about deploying Ellg and writing plugins. ** Internal Stuff Klaas had to do another timesheet and work report reminder... ** milestone assignment openfate: freitag, vuntz, cwh, eich junior jobs: wstephenson, llunak, coolo connect: michal, prusnak, henne, tom ** What are the boosters up to posts on news.o.o The last blog post is still missing so this action item stays with wstephenson * standup ** Junior Jobs *** We learned how the whole KDE infrastructure is setup. *** We plan to collect build validation errors from the OBS so people can get experts in fixing those. *** We are blocked by vacation of some squad members. ** openFATE *** We tried to summarize what we did in a blogpost http://lizards.opensuse.org/2010/08/06/status-openfate-milestone/ *** We plan to divide the missing pieces among the developers and fill the last gaps in the concept with PM *** We are blocked by conference organization and vacation in PM ** connect *** We learned Elgg and thought about the karma algorithm we want to use. *** We plan to prepare for the froscon hackmeck by providing documentation about installing elgg and hacking plugins. *** We were blocked by preparing and running the release party ** wiki *** We made the wiki spam proof together with Matthew and worked together with the German wiki team on Help:Translation and dewiki.o.o. With this the milestone is done and we will concentrate on another milestone. *** We plan to work on another milestone ;) *** We were blocked by nothing Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, openSUSE. Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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work report week 32
by Christopher Hofmann 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

Hi Folks! What I did: - coninued working on driverupdate service - updated another machine to 11.3 - boosted people from the desktop4education project. They need documentation for KIWI integration in buildservice. That docu is completely missing. Quite a good project, by the way: http://d4e.at Christopher -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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work report #32
by Thomas Schmidt 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

What I did last week: Wiki: - fixed login problem and email validation: unvalidated users now see a unobtrusive message window asking for email validation - Include lokalized bento navigation in language wikis FATE: Add new projects, help solving hardware failure Greetings -- Thomas Schmidt (tschmidt [at] suse.de) SUSE Linux Products GmbH :: Research & Development :: Tools "Don't Panic", Douglas Adams (1952 - 11.05.2001) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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work report wstephenson kw 32
by Will Stephenson 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

* Prepared massive online update for KDE in 11.3 * Tested upgrade modes for KDE 4.5 * Tested KDEPIM fixes * Troubleshooting in kate 4.5's * Updated soprano package * Strategy discussion * Social media and responded to press about openSUSE 11.3 KDE 4.5 * Trained up Jos P on OBS and SUSE Studio Plans: * Start the JJ sprint * get Sept travel sorted out * Froscon -- Will Stephenson, KDE Developer, openSUSE Boosters Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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Work report Klaas Freitag cw 32/2010
by Klaas Freitag 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

Work report Klaas Freitag cw 32/2010 [RED] [AMBER] [GREEN] - FROSCon organization * Travel and hotel etc. - people management bits - openSUSE Conference organization * Call for papers ended, looks good * worked on priorization of talks * worked on proposals for schedule * meeting - Fiddled again with studio to get a Kraft appliance. Still no success because of nasty KDE probs :-(( - Meetings with the new community manager Jos and discussions about openSUSE strategy - Other bits and peaces -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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