July 2007 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-project] openSUSE Guiding Principles - 2nd draft
by Martin Lasarsch 21 Sep '07

21 Sep '07

Hi, Here is the next version of the guiding principles, the 2nd draft. Cornelius fixed some bugs and changed other stuff from your feedback. I guess it makes sense to start a new thread, the old one is at http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2007-05/msg00208.html If this is new for you, i suggest to read also the old thread. It's also available on the wiki: http://en.opensuse.org/Guiding_Principles Let's discuss the new version ... -- 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

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[opensuse-project] One-click to IRC on 10.3: status ?
by Pascal Bleser 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A while ago, a few of us IRC folks have tried to push having a one-click .desktop icon that would take users directly to #suse in 10.3 While the idea seems to be divisive amongst people, I would like to know what the state of things is wrt that @Novell. I've heard that Michl is against it, and given his position, I presume that's a "no-no" veto. If so, could someone (preferably Michl himself) explain the reasoning behind it? Afraid of people misbehaving ? We have ops. Afraid of it getting "out of control" ? Make it clear that it is "community support" and not an official Novell channel, and trust the community. Being very much in favour of having that one-click-to-#suse thingy, I would appreciate (to put it mildly) having some feedback and if it's veto'd, I'd like to hear the reasons. Thanks. cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <pascal.bleser(a)skynet.be> <guru(a)unixtech.be> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGre7/r3NMWliFcXcRAjtTAJ9dZuD4WHecAETMTScC4FmiwlTSzgCeNuiT zmgZox5Q5CPgzLD9xEo+Fj8= =tTtU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] 'People of openSUSE' – Final set of questions
by A.K. 30 Jul '07

30 Jul '07

Hi, this is the final set of questions for 'People of openSUSE'. Thanks for your contributions! Please introduce yourself! (Hints: age, birthday, place of birth, location, occupation, family status, children, pets etc.) Nickname(s) Homepage / Blog Favorite season: spring, summer, autumn or winter? Motto Tell us about the background to your computer use. When and why did you start using openSUSE/SUSE Linux? When did you join the openSUSE community and what made you do that? In what way do you participate in the openSUSE project? What especially motivates you to participate in the openSUSE project? What do you think was your most important contribution to the openSUSE project/community or what is the contribution that you're most proud of? When do you usually spend time on the openSUSE project? Three words to describe openSUSE? Or make up a proper slogan! What do you think is missing or underrated in the distribution or the project? What do you think the future holds for the openSUSE project? A person ask you why he/she should choose openSUSE instead of other distribution/OS. What would be your arguments to convince him/her to pick up openSUSE? Which members of the openSUSE community have you met in person? How many icons are currently on your desktop? What is the application you can't live without? And why? Which application or feature should be invented as soon as possible? Which is your preferred text editor? And why? Which famous person would you want to join the openSUSE community? Which computer related skills would you like to have? The Internet crashes for a whole week – how would you feel, what would you do? Which is your favorite movie scene? Star Trek or Star Wars? What is your favorite food and drink? Favorite game or console (in your childhood and nowadays)? Which city would you like to visit? What is your preferred way to spend your vacation? Someone gives you $1.000.000 – what would you do with the money? If traveling through time was possible – when would we be most likely to meet you? There's a thunderstorm outside – do you turn off your computer? Have your ever missed an appointment because you forgot about it while sitting at your computer? Show us a picture of something, you have always wanted to share! You couldn't live without... Which question was the hardest to answer? Currently I am looking for suggestions, which people should be interviewed first. Regards, Anica --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Questions for 'People of openSUSE'
by A.K. 28 Jul '07

28 Jul '07

Hi, my name is Anica and I currently do an internship here at Novell in the openSUSE project. I think that the people behind the openSUSE project, the members of the openSUSE community, should become a little more visible to each other. Therefore I am planning to do several interviews with different community members (i.e. the 'People of openSUSE') about their involvement in the project and also about their personal life and interests. The interviews will always contain the same set of questions and will be published on openSUSE.org. Here are some possible questions for an interview (this is really a first draft!): Clear and brief: Age Place of birth Location Occupation Family status Mainly used distribution Preferred desktop Favorite application Hardware Homepage / Blog Favorite season: spring, summer, autumn or winter? ... Questions related to the openSUSE project: What made you join the openSUSE community? How do you participate in the openSUSE project? What motivates you the most to participate in the openSUSE project? When do you mainly spend time for the openSUSE project: in your spare time, at work, at the weekend, at night etc.? What do you think about the future of the openSUSE project? How many members of the openSUSE community have you ever met in person? Without which existent application you couldn't live? Which nonexistent application should be invented as soon as possible? Tell us about your computer history! ... Personal questions: Worst movie ever seen? Name your favorite movie scene! Worst television commercial ever seen? Do you watch any TV series? Star Trek or Star Wars? Cinema or DVD? What's your favorite food? Favorite toy in your childhood? Favorite (video) game console (in your childhood and today)? What do you do in your spare time? What's your preferred way to spend your vacation? What was the most exiting experience in your life? May your share an embarrassing experience? Someone transfers you $1.000.000 from his bank account – what would you do with the money? The Internet crashes for one week – how would you feel, what would you do? There is a thunderstorm – do you turn off your computer? Which (famous) person would you like to meet (irrespective if still alive or not)? Have you ever spilt some beer (or some other drink) on your keyboard/computer? You can't live without... Which one was the worst question? ... End of suggestions... I would like to know what you think about the questions above, which ones you like, dislike, hate or if you have a better wording for a question. And feel also free to suggest some more questions (or topics) who should be asked in the interviews. Last but not least, which kind of pictures are you willing to publish on openSUSE.org (pictures of you, your pets, your desk, your car, your desktop, your house etc.)? If somebody would like to support me with the interviews and maybe even consider to take over in a couple of months - let me know. Thank you for participating! Regards, Anica --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] FYI: Call for Translations
by Andreas Jaeger 27 Jul '07

27 Jul '07

FYI, I send this to the opensuse-translation mailing list. Please discuss there if you're interested, Andreas There have been several requests from community members on the mailing lists to join language teams for the languages Brazilian Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish and Traditional Chinese. We have now decided to open up the translation process completely and not put any restrictions on it. Therefore I invite you to create language teams for those eight languages mentioned above, join one of the existing teams or start a new language team for a language we currently do not support. If you're interested, please mail on the opensuse-translation mailing list which team you like to create - or join! We currently have 55 languages - and I would like to thank everybody involved with these. It's impressive to see those translations, especially for those languages where I would not directly expect that many openSUSE users! Thanks a lot! Additionally I propose to have during the installation slide show a slide with the following content: openSUSE Localization The openSUSE project is a community project and many individuals are involved in bug fixing, packaging, testing, documentation and also localization. Localization for openSUSE specific software is done by different language teams and the localization portal is reachable under http://i18n.opensuse.org/ . Each translation teams should then add a new sentence to this parargraphwith e.g. in German "Die deutsche Übersetzung wurde durchgeführt von Karl Eichwalder und Andreas Jaeger " (translated back to English: "The German translation has been done by Karl Eichwalder and Andreas Jaeger" - assuming Karl and myself did the work). What do you think about this? Should we add this slide? Should we do it differently? We're a little bit late with this announcement - sorry about that. We will try to stretch every deadline to get localized packages into 10.3 and especially Karl Eichwalder and Stephan Kulow will help you to move this forward! Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform/openSUSE, aj(a)suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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[opensuse-project] Next week, next alpha
by Stephan Kulow 24 Jul '07

24 Jul '07

Hi! As not everyone might follow the recent changes of the wiki, I'd like to tell you quickly that we'll release next week's alpha to the public. I hope we can sort out all blockers till then. The factory tree looked ok to me this morning. But I hope to have a new sync with a fixed syslog-ng soonish - for the impatient ones I suggest http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/syslog-ng/ Greetings, Stephan -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] openSUSE 10.2 PromoDVDs
by Martin Lasarsch 23 Jul '07

23 Jul '07

Hi We just fixed more or less our schedule until 10.3 will arrive, and we have still some openSUSE 10.2 PromoDVDs. This is your chance, we offer them to you! For what? - you have a local linux/it event in the near future - you are in a LUG - you are the computer guy/gal at school/university - you already promote openSUSE in another way - maybe some other reason ... I don't want to send out some DVDs for personal use, so please answer only if you can really spread them. The intention is to give them away to openSUSE/Linux beginners ... Please send your request directly to me, including: - subject: PromoDVD - if possible an url of the LUG/event/school/university - number of wanted DVDs - reason why you want the DVDs - Address a sort email is enough ... First come first serve, no promises ... More information about the PromoDVD: 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-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Special Repos?
by mesmero 20 Jul '07

20 Jul '07

Will there be special update repositories for the final 1-CD-KDE\GNOME-openSUSE 10.3 version? The packages become splitted at the moment, as it was announced. Later this implicates splitted update packages too. Are there already ideas, how to handle this problem? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Re: [opensuse-announce] news.opensuse.org goes live
by Nikolay Derkach 19 Jul '07

19 Jul '07

В сообщении от Thursday 19 July 2007 15:07:15 Andreas Jaeger написал(а): > We are happy to announce our new news.opensuse.org website. This news > portal will provide the latest openSUSE news. We will continue to > send important announcements to the opensuse-announce mailing list, > but they should also be added to http://news.opensuse.org as well. > > Comments on the news articles is open for everybody, just for > contributing new story, you need to have an account. If you like to > contribute, contact admin(a)opensuse.org - and if you like to submit a > story without an account mail to news-submit(a)opensuse.org. > > We also have a calendar (with .ical) for events and other important > openSUSE events. > > In general, for blogs of openSUSE folks, I'd like to point to the > Planet SUSE agregator (reachable via http://www.planetsuse.org) and > say a big thank you to James Ogley for running this service for > several years now! > > Andreas I've maintained localization of openSUSE News at opensuse.org for about a half a year. Does the recent news portal assume a posibility of localised news? -- Regards, Nikolay Derkach --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Re: [opensuse-announce] news.opensuse.org goes live
by jdd 19 Jul '07

19 Jul '07

Andreas Jaeger wrote: > We are happy to announce our new news.opensuse.org website. This news > portal will provide the latest openSUSE news. We will continue to > send important announcements to the opensuse-announce mailing list, > but they should also be added to http://news.opensuse.org as well. > > Comments on the news articles is open for everybody, just for > contributing new story, you need to have an account. If you like to > contribute, contact admin(a)opensuse.org - and if you like to submit a > story without an account mail to news-submit(a)opensuse.org. > > We also have a calendar (with .ical) for events and other important > openSUSE events. > > In general, for blogs of openSUSE folks, I'd like to point to the > Planet SUSE agregator (reachable via http://www.planetsuse.org) and > say a big thank you to James Ogley for running this service for > several years now! > > Andreas I fail to see why this is necessary. news are usually of no interest soon after they become known :-) mostly, reading the subject I thought it was the opening of a news-groups server and this should be really good (having a news group in sinc with the lists - or will gmane work now?) to be back on the news subject, do you think the portal should become a "recent pages" replacement? jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://gourmandises.orangeblog.fr/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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