April 2011 - openSUSE Boosters - openSUSE Mailing Lists

work report cw 13
by Michal Hrusecky 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

What I did: * GSoC - students applications are open, students started contacting me more intensively - followed up discussions with students I already have - finished up blog posts about my GSoC ideas - results: - two students submitted their proposals for their projects - one more will submit this week as he was busy with Gnome Asia - discussed ideas with all students even with regards to their coding skills and I'm confident that they all enough skills and enthusiasm to make these projects successful. * followed up discussion regarding Elgg OpenID provider plugin - it exists, it works, unfortunately not on our server - works on my testing server - doesn't work on connect.opensuse.org - I blame iChain (iChain is responsible for everything these days, right?), but it will need some more investigation What I plan to do: * GSoC - this time, there will be hopefully not so much work left * bugs, bugs, bugs -- Michal HRUSECKY SUSE LINUX, s.r.o openSUSE Boosters Team Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xFED656F6 19000 Praha 9 mhrusecky[at]suse.cz Czech Republic http://michal.hrusecky.net http://www.suse.cz

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work report prusnak cw 13
by Pavol Rusnak 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

What I did: * started a discussion on opensuse-ruby about pushing gems to Factory - they're in a constant flux, it is better to keep them in d:l:r:e - users may use rvm as well * got positive feedback from Pascal about moving games packages from Packman to OBS - the rest of the maintainers seem to have no problem with that or they just don't care * GSoC administration What I plan to do: * import games packages from Packman to OBS * start Contrib discussions -- Best Regards / S pozdravom, Pavol RUSNAK SUSE LINUX, s.r.o openSUSE Boosters Team Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xA6917144 19000 Praha 9 prusnak[at]opensuse.org Czech Republic -- 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 13/2011
by Klaas Freitag 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

[RED] [AMBER] [GREEN] - april fooling, collaboration with an interesting group of poeple from all participating distros, created the canterbury project webside. - administrative stuff such as travel forecast, various mails etc. - Azubis - Hermes documentation updates - Hermes (herminator) login adopted to LDAP - again some Hermes packaging - GSoC advertising and students care - other useful Hermes 'consulting' for Meego related projects - Hermes diagnostics: went through the subscriptions with coolo and get clearified why he gets which emails - some discussions and readings about openAuth, the planned openSUSE authentication system - tried to get some activity around the new "based on openSUSE" design Planing for this week: - Some more Hermes cleanup - do more fuzz around GSoC topics -- 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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Proposal for Building, Managing Code Testing Ecosystem
by Tony Su 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

Hello Group, I was informed that this was the best place to submit a rather large and potentially influential openSUSE project. Through Bryen and the openSUSE marketing group, I came to understand that a call for Users willing to test code has been made. Along with one other in that group and considering my ongoing participation in the openSUSE Technical Help forums, the two of us are proposing building a state of art ecosystem of Users willing to test and assist in developing Code. Please take a few minutes to read the proposal I've posted at the following URL, the website is set to be accessible only by those who know the URL (it's not supposed to be publicly searchable) and although it's visible anonymously, editing requires logging in with a Google account. https://sites.google.com/site/projectcodedev/ Do be forthright with any opinion about the proposed Project, myself and anything else, I will take any comment constructively and after many years have seen and experienced just about anything that can and has been said in unmoderated as well as moderated forums. If the Proposal is deemed unsupportable, I might be disappointed but can accept that as well. :) Thank you, Tony Su -- 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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ambassador reports
by Jos Poortvliet 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

Hi boosters, The marketing team has been brainstorming on how to give ambassadors a tad more attention in openSUSE; motivate them to make a bit more noise; and reward them for what they do. Now we have a few ideas, but for one, we thought it might make sense to use connect. Yes, it could probably be done via the wiki and other ways but I know you guys have a hammer and might see this as a nail :D *what is the problem* the ambassadors _sometimes_ create event reports. We want those reports for several reasons: - to have an idea of what they are doing - to measure how much we do - to motivate others - to SHOW what we do Unfortunately, not so many event reports are made although we're fairly sure many events have openSUSE attendance. This is due to several issues. *First*, not all ambassadors are so connected to us - many are not 'official ambassador' or their English skills are minimal and they are not internationally involved. I will send a follow-up mail with ideas on how to solve that. *Second*, filling in an event report on the wiki is not exactly easy for many. Some send one by mail - which is fine but leaves little record. *Third*, the reports receive little visibility. They are mentioned somewhere in the weekly news if you're lucky and of course on the marketing ML, but that's it pretty much. Numbers in it are not saved, we don't realy do anything with it as there is no real easy record. *The solution?* Ideally, the reports would end up in a central place, some database... And ideally, they would be connected to the ambassadors - so they can build up a trackrecord of events they have visited. Once we have this we can also show reports on eg news.o.o in a feed box on the side for example, or on our homepage. We can analyze and use statistics (for promo), promote events, do monthly articles - all kinds of things. We have an events page on en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassador_events which suffers from similar issues - most people don't create a page because it is not easy and not localized. *connect.o.o* In short. We wonder - would Connect not offer a much better way of handeling events, event reports and the like? Would it not offer a better place for ambassador user accounts (with associated event reports as track records)? Culd it offer an easy place for ambassadors to add info for an event and afterwards add a report & pictures which we can then display in the planet feed (localized, if needed)? In case you think this is relevant, chuck and manu might have some time to help with this both in 'how to do it' (I would also love to think abou that) and the doing itself. Cheers, Jos

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week report #13
by Thomas Schmidt 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

What was up this week: - software.o.o: getting rid of flags for languages, use text - wiki: working on content and bugs - canterbury distribution - managing gsoc, have a good student application in melange now - moved office Greetings -- Thomas Schmidt (tom [at] opensuse.org) openSUSE Boosters Team "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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