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[opensuse-project] Indonesian OpenSUSE Community Launching Free Blog Offer for OpenSUSE Lover
by Masim "Vavai" Sugianto 30 Apr '08

30 Apr '08

Hi All, Just want to let you know that we are here in Indonesian OpenSUSE Community launching new feature : Free blog service for OpenSUSE lover. We launched this feature after short discussion with OpenSUSE fans on the monthly meeting last month. With this feature, we currently offer 7 feature to support our goal : increasing OpenSUSE user in Indonesia at the end of 2008. The feature we currently offer are : Mailing List, Support Forum, Tutorial, Planet Aggregator, Online Support, Free mail service (accountname(a)opensuse-id.org) and free blog service. Both are using our mother language, Bahasa Indonesia. We hope we can helped and increasing more OpenSUSE user. Please take a look at http://opensuse-id.org. Sorry for the inconvenience with our language. -- Best Regards, Masim "Vavai" Sugianto /************************************************************/ Blog (ID) : http://www.vavai.com/blog/index.php Blog (EN) : http://www.vavai.net Community : http://www.opensuse.or.id Commercial : http://toko.vavai.biz Email : vavai(a)vavai.com /************************************************************/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 11.0 Greeter, Desktop Icons, Bookmarks
by Stephan Binner 30 Apr '08

30 Apr '08

Hello, string freeze for openSUSE 11.0 is coming up in two week so it's again rather late to decide how we want the distribution point back to the project sites. - Shall we keep the setup with two different desktop icons (one starting the first-time openSUSE greeter and one pointing to http://help.opensuse.org)? - What greeter text? Shall it directly link to http://forums.opensuse.org? - Shall browser bookmarks have forums.o.o, shop.o.o and buildservice.o.o? - Is www.opensuse.org the best browser start page or do we want to have something like other distros which include some web search etc.? are some of the questions which come to my mind. Bye, Steve --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] STATUS:Communication/Wiki/Events
by Martin Lasarsch 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

Hi * Events - Orbit IEX - Zürich, Switzerland, 20-23.05 http://www.orbit-iex.ch/htm/e_willkommen.htm openSUSE counter on the Novell booth - Linuxtag, 28-31.05 Berlin http://en.opensuse.org/LinuxTag * Communication - KDE Meeting - Wednesday 2008/04/30 18:00 UTC (20:00 CEST) -- 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] grub-0.97 patch errors
by Bergwolf 22 Apr '08

22 Apr '08

Hi, all I'm a student currently proposing for an opensuse gsoc project (http://en.opensuse.org/Summer_of_Code_2008#enable_ext4_file_system_as_boot_…) This project aims at enabling ext4 file system as grub legacy boot partition for opensuse and others. I downloaded the grub source package from http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/repo/src-oss/suse/src/grub-0… After decompressing it, I found eventually several patches for old grub-0.93, and grub-0.95 etc. Surprisingly, even some grub-0.97 patches don't work well, such as disk-by-ID: $cat disk-by-ID diff -Burbp grub-0.97.orig/lib/device.c grub-0.97/lib/device.c --- grub-0.97.orig/lib/device.c 2007-03-16 14:15:52.000000000 +0100 +++ grub-0.97/lib/device.c 2007-03-16 17:19:59.000000000 +0100 @@ -869,7 +869,11 @@ write_to_partition (char **map, int driv len = strlen(dev); pnum = ((partition >> 16) & 0xFF); - if (isdigit(dev[len-1])) + if (strncmp (dev, "/dev/disk/by-id/", 16) == 0) + { + sprintf (dev + len, "-part%d", pnum + 1); + } + else if (isdigit(dev[len-1])) { /* It is obviously some RAID disk: "/dev/<dsk>/c0d0" . "p1" */ sprintf (dev + len, "p%d", pnum + 1); $patch -p0 < disk-by-ID patching file grub-0.97/lib/device.c Hunk #1 FAILED at 869. 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file grub-0.97/lib/device.c.rej My questions are: are these old patches applicable to grub-0.97? Does grub running in opensuse10.3 really uses these patches, or just some of them? I know that grub legacy is no longer under development, but since I'm working on an opensuse project, I need to consult the opensuse community to make sure that my ext4 patch cooperates with other patches when it comes out. Thanks, Bergwolf --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Re: [opensuse-project] End of life - what does it mean ?
by Klaus Kaempf 22 Apr '08

22 Apr '08

Everyone, can we please get back to the thread topic: Does 'end of life' (resp. end of support) for a distribution have to result in its removal from the openSUSE build service ? >From the feedback on opensuse-buildservice, I have the impression that most participant want a 'freeze' and not a 'remove'. Comments ? Klaus --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] unsubscribe
by Karlheinz Franke 22 Apr '08

22 Apr '08

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[opensuse-project] openSUSE wiki status fo indexing
by Rajko M. 21 Apr '08

21 Apr '08

First this post is directed to project list because indexing openSUSE wiki is very important for the health of a openSUSE project and I would like to have attention from the most active members of the openSUSE project. Wiki is for the largest number of openSUSE users first source of information, before they go to the forums, mail lists and IRC. There was few attempts to organize indexing of openSUSE wiki, but due to current size of the wiki, indexing project is, for relative small wiki team and lack of experience in development of ways to access information, to big task. Part of the problem is that wiki was initially setup as 'all in one' source of information, translation tool, development, help etc, ie. collaboration platform for very diverse activities, where anybody can, and is encouraged to contribute. That brought a large diversity of topics and number of articles, which is good, but sometimes they are just sitting there unused, and that is the problem. Searching with built in search, or Google for the opensuse.org domain gives some help in this, but as any search it is not ideal for everybody, as precondition for successful search is that person knows something about topic. This leaves users that are making first steps in openSUSE and Linux out, and that is the category that we would like to have as easy entrance as possible. Someone mentioned in one of project meetings that we need information architect. It is very much truth, but I have no idea where to look for person that has experience and time to devote to the openSUSE wiki, or better to say, development of openSUSE information system. -- Regards, Rajko http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] End of life - what does it mean ?
by Klaus Kaempf 21 Apr '08

21 Apr '08

Hi, there's a vivid discussion on opensuse-buildservice about the consequenses of "end of life" announcements to the buildservice. See http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-buildservice/2008-04/msg00185.html The question was raised if it is possible to keep older distributions available for download (e.g. unsupported.opensuse.org) and building. Adrian pointed to opensuse-project to get this question answered. Klaus --- 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] propose a xen or general virtualization mailing list
by Stephen Shaw 18 Apr '08

18 Apr '08

Here it is henne :) Stephen / Decriptor --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] Membership cancellation
by Alberto Passalacqua 17 Apr '08

17 Apr '08

Dear All, how can we cancel our openSUSE membership? Thanks in advance, Alberto --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Fwd: [opensuse-project] propose a xen or general virtualization mailing list
by Stephen Shaw 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

> > "Stephen Shaw" <sshaw(a)decriptor.com> wrote: > > > > > Here it is henne :) > > > > > > Stephen / Decriptor > > > > > An opensuse-virtualisation ML sounds like a good idea. I'm not so sure > > that there would be enough traffic for one of the specific products > > (Xen/VirtualBox/Qemu/KVM/VMware/OpenVZ). I am possibly wrong > > (wouldn't be the first time) but it's my tuppence worth :) > > > > Regards, > > > > Andy > > > > I agree and would really like a list for virtualization. > > Warm Regards, > Claes Backstrom > email opensuse-virtual-subscribe(a)opensuse.org to get on the list opensuse-virtual(a)opensuse.org Stephen Sorry didn't send this to the list the first time --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Re: [opensuse-project] End of life - what does it mean ?
by Plinnell 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

On Tuesday 15 April 2008 22:37:14 Marcus Meissner wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:34:42PM +0200, Jan-Simon Möller wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 15. April 2008 21:58:29 schrieb Per Jessen: > > > Klaus Kaempf wrote: > > > > there's a vivid discussion on opensuse-buildservice about the > > > > consequenses of "end of life" announcements to the buildservice. > > > > > > > > See > > > > http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-buildservice/2008-04/msg00185.html > > > > > > > > The question was raised if it is possible to keep older distributions > > > > available for download (e.g. unsupported.opensuse.org) and building. > > > > Adrian pointed to opensuse-project to get this question answered. > > > > > > You said it very well on -buildservice: > > > >>I think we should differentiate between > > > >>- supported > > > >>and > > > >>- available for download/build > > > >> > > > >>I do not see anyone asking for ongoing support and maintenance. But I > > > >>do see requests for availability. > > > > > > I agree completely. I see no reason why the availability of a > > > particular product should be tied to the active Novell/openSUSE product > > > support life cycle. > > > > I agree, too. > > > > And for discontinued releases i would vote for preserving it in the > > build-service one more term (e.g. 10.1 until 10.2 is discontinued). > > So people have the opportunity to softly migrate. > > Btw, > > the buildservice could be used by community members to provide > security update services even after we discontinue it. > > Just needs some volunteers. ;) > > Ciao, Marcus > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi, While I would not want to discourage anyone from picking this up - it is a worthwhile goal. I think it is instructive to see what happened to : http://fedoralegacy.org/ I did not participate in that project, but had to admin a few servers running old versions of RH and FC until they could be migrated to newer hardware and a fresh OS. Some comments: Even with the participation of some RH staff, there were only a few dedicated folks to help with packaging and testing. Backporting some fixes in increasingly older versions can be difficult and you can have regressions. From what I observed, the weakest link was testing, in that is was hard get people to test on a variety of systems and platforms. Frankly, while I really did appreciate the legacy teams effort's applying updates, it could be a bit scary knowing how little testing sometimes was done to important bits (mySQL, Apache, PHP and kernels). Especially, when the server is not onsite. Having a choice of applying a possibly botched update or leaving it unpatched is not a happy one. I'm not sure how much support would come from Novell, but I would not be surprised to learn backporting fixes is a major consumer of engineering resources. I seriously doubt this could be done without some major push from Novell. That said, while it might not be a happy choice for all, if you need long term support, SLES/SLED is the way to go. It is not free, but I can say my clients are very satisfied and not one has dropped them for alternatives - even free ones. In sum, supporting this is more than just making some extra space on servers and mirrors, it takes a serious effort by some folks who are above average in packaging and understand security thoroughly - especially on the server side. Just my humble 0.02, Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] STATUS:Communication/Wiki/Events
by Martin Lasarsch 15 Apr '08

15 Apr '08

Hi i have to apologize for not posting for a long time, i was just to busy with conferences etc ... * Events - Linuxtag, 28-31.05 Berlin. A wip page with more information: http://en.opensuse.org/LinuxTag I'm happy to announce that the openSUSE day will be this year on Saturday. We still need support at the booth, please send me an email if you want to help us. - some guys from the LUG Marl will be at the hobbytronic, 16-20.04.2008. Not really focused on openSUSE, but they will spread DVDs and make some talks: http://linuxwiki.de/LugMarl/Hobbytronic2008 * Communication - KDE meeting tomorrow: http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Meetings * Wiki - everything on hold until we have an updated wiki version online -- 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] openSUSE 11.0 Countdown
by Pavol Rusnak 13 Apr '08

13 Apr '08

Good news everyone! Billy Juliani sent me beatiful design of countdown timers. I created PHP code which prints numbers into them and the result can be seen here: http://en.opensuse.org/Countdown . We hope you like it. Hyperlink now points to http://en.opensuse.org/Roadmap but I can change it to any better page later. It would be great if someone took his/her time and created a new wiki page - with a list of new killer features of 11.0 and call for beta testers - information for community how to test beta releases. -- Best Regards / S pozdravom, Pavol RUSNAK SUSE LINUX, s.r.o Package Maintainer Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xA6917144 19000 Praha 9, CR prusnak[at]suse.cz http://www.suse.cz --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] Technical Questions about OpenSUSE
by Hamed Janzadeh 12 Apr '08

12 Apr '08

Hi All, I am a new member in this mailing list. I have some technical questions about Remastering the OpenSUSE. I am wondering if I could ask my questions here, or I have to join some specific mailing lists? My current questions are around adding a new language support in Yast2 and changing the BootSplash in the INITRD of the Installation DVD. Thanks, Hamed --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 GNOME meeting (2008/04/10)
by Rodrigo Moya 10 Apr '08

10 Apr '08

Factory testing mw updating GNOME to 2.22.1 No big problems found recently Torrent decision Monsoon will be the default client with transmission on the media should people have issues with it GSoC We have some applications, mentors need to pick the best ones mentors, if you haven't registered at http://code.google.com/soc/2008/mentor_step1.html do it now Policy review Not many comments on the wiki page (http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Desktop_Policy) AI: vuntz: send mail to the mailing list about policy review Wishlist review mybudget, mugshot and twitter available in home projects Should be defered until 11.1 because of close to 11.0 Putting packages in G:C should be always the 1st step, to get wide testing Main menu performance work All performance patches submitted to 11.0 Need to be submitted to 10.3 Leak fixes for other modules also done, will be submitted to 11.0 Another 1 or 2 performance weeks for main-menu would help GDM status We're staying with 2.20 for 11.0, 2.22 has some issues still 2.22 branch will be available on the build service Compiz/Xgl update Patch to simple-ccsm to replace appearance capplet patch being submitted soon Move of gnome-xgl-switch to xgl package and gnome-xgl-settings being removed Hardware database will be moved to xgl package also Patch upstreaming update No progress this week, next week back to normal rhythm New but untagged patches are being submitted, please TAG ALL PATCHES!!! AI: rodrigo to send mailing lists patch policy for gnome packages AI: rodrigo to add a note to all .spec files about tagging -- Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo(a)novell.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Re: [opensuse-project] openSUSE 11.0 Countdown
by Francis Giannaros 10 Apr '08

10 Apr '08

On 10/04/2008, Yannik Stadelmaier <phos4(a)phos4.de> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Francis Giannaros schrieb: > > On 10/04/2008, Robert Lihm <rlihm(a)suse.de> wrote: > >> Hej Guys. > >> > >> > >> Is there a "The one and only openSUSE 11.0 Conter" version, which could be > >> announced/placed on the 1. Wiki page? > > > > Hopefully we'll be able to announce the availability of the > > countdown.o.o one on news.o.o very soon (just waiting for the DNS now > > I believe). > > > > Kind thoughts, > > What about this one here: > http://dev-loki.blogspot.com/2008/04/110-countdown-banner.html Yes, that's the one that's going to be used on countdown.o.o, though we will also probably link to other countdown ideas as well. Kind thoughts, -- Francis Giannaros http://francis.giannaros.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] RE: How to be a contributor to OpenSuse
by Reggie Buckner 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Is there a way to get help on how to contribute to OpenSuse? I am a computer major college student and I dont even know how to begin. Reggie Buckner _________________________________________________________________ Pack up or back up–use SkyDrive to transfer files or keep extra copies. Learn how. hthttp://www.windowslive.com/skydrive/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refre… 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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Re: [opensuse-project] Request for advice and help from OpenSuse Community
by Jordi Massaguer 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

Shashank, that is a very very very interesting initiative! Personally I am not sure I can help a lot here, but I'll do my best. First thing could be to discuss your ideas on a public mailing list, like in here, and make know people that you are organizing that (like you are doing). However I see that there are only 3 days left, not much time to change anything. So, one thing you could do is write a small report when the event is finished, with some pictures, and if you post it on http://techfreaks4u.com/123/ I will blog about that for sure. good luck! jordi massaguer i pla http://jordimassaguerpla.blogspot.com/ lin.cat: Serveis professionals en linkat http://www.lin.cat ----- Mensaje original ---- > De: Shashank <shashank.personal(a)gmail.com> > Para: opensuse-project(a)opensuse.org > Enviado: lunes, 7 de abril, 2008 11:25:16 > Asunto: [opensuse-project] Request for advice and help from OpenSuse Community > > Respected Community Members, > We are group of students who deeply believe in principles of Open > Source, and in true spirit of freedom, we love to share our ideas / > knowledge with others .This is what motivated us to form a Linux user > group in our university (Jaypee University of Information > Technology,India), when we found out that our passion had caught on > with other students and people were taking interest in Open Source & > Linux in general. That was two years back. > After toiling for 2 years thence, we have been able to include our > events in our universities main Cultural Festival "Le Fiestus" only > this year. The events vary from "Hacking Challenges" to "Quiz"; though > small in number we expect the events to be more attractive and bigger > in upcoming years. > After Formation of Linux User Group, awareness of Open Source and > Linux in general has increased manifold, and we are taking small steps > toward complete shift towards Linux. > Due to popularity of Linux, our university decided to provide an > opt-in course to students for making students aware of Linux. > We are even trying to take this knowledge outside confines of our > university and make local computer vendor in our region sell Linux > laptops and Desktops. > All these factors contributed to what we see today in our university, > a healthy viewpoint of students towards Open Source without any > misconception, to further this cause the idea of organizing event in a > cultural fest was born, but without any prior organizing experience we > felt bit marooned. > More than fifty percent of our Linux users are OpenSuse users, that > made OpenSuse community natural choice for us to ask for help. We have > an open Request for OpenSuse Community and Linux community at large, > of helping us in our nascent steps of making Linux a natural concept > as freedom rather than just an alternative to Microsoft Windows. > > Regards > Shashank Singh > Founding Member > Jape university of information Technology Linux User Group (Jlug) > Waknaghat > Solan > Himachal Pradesh > India > > P.S: > Related links: > University Website: http://juit.ac.in/ > Cultural Festival Website: http://www.juit.ac.in/lefiestus/index.php > Juit Linux User Group Event's List: http://events.techfreaks4u.com/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org > > ______________________________________________ LLama Gratis a cualquier PC del Mundo. Llamadas a fijos y móviles desde 1 céntimo por minuto. http://es.voice.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] Request for advice and help from OpenSuse Community
by Shashank 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

Respected Community Members, We are group of students who deeply believe in principles of Open Source, and in true spirit of freedom, we love to share our ideas / knowledge with others .This is what motivated us to form a Linux user group in our university (Jaypee University of Information Technology,India), when we found out that our passion had caught on with other students and people were taking interest in Open Source & Linux in general. That was two years back. After toiling for 2 years thence, we have been able to include our events in our universities main Cultural Festival "Le Fiestus" only this year. The events vary from "Hacking Challenges" to "Quiz"; though small in number we expect the events to be more attractive and bigger in upcoming years. After Formation of Linux User Group, awareness of Open Source and Linux in general has increased manifold, and we are taking small steps toward complete shift towards Linux. Due to popularity of Linux, our university decided to provide an opt-in course to students for making students aware of Linux. We are even trying to take this knowledge outside confines of our university and make local computer vendor in our region sell Linux laptops and Desktops. All these factors contributed to what we see today in our university, a healthy viewpoint of students towards Open Source without any misconception, to further this cause the idea of organizing event in a cultural fest was born, but without any prior organizing experience we felt bit marooned. More than fifty percent of our Linux users are OpenSuse users, that made OpenSuse community natural choice for us to ask for help. We have an open Request for OpenSuse Community and Linux community at large, of helping us in our nascent steps of making Linux a natural concept as freedom rather than just an alternative to Microsoft Windows. Regards Shashank Singh Founding Member Jape university of information Technology Linux User Group (Jlug) Waknaghat Solan Himachal Pradesh India P.S: Related links: University Website: http://juit.ac.in/ Cultural Festival Website: http://www.juit.ac.in/lefiestus/index.php Juit Linux User Group Event's List: http://events.techfreaks4u.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 11.0 Countdown
by Pavol Rusnak 05 Apr '08

05 Apr '08

Hello all! I found out that Ubuntu has nice way to promote their new release - small banner which informs how many days are left before new version is out. See http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/countdown for details. This banner also links to information page about distribution features and _mainly_ to beta releases which can attract more testers. I think it would be nice if openSUSE had something similar. I would created it by myself but unfortunately I don't have time right now. -- Best Regards / S pozdravom, Pavol RUSNAK SUSE LINUX, s.r.o Package Maintainer Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xA6917144 19000 Praha 9, CR prusnak[at]suse.cz http://www.suse.cz --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 GNOME meeting (2008/04/03)
by Rodrigo Moya 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

Introduction People want to discuss building more community members and contributions JP out next week AI: schedule community contribution discussion April 17 Factory testing Usual round of updates this week Bad kernel update bug is fixed No wireless at all for some people (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=376742) Missing esound problem, will be fixed with a Provides:esound in pulseaudio Other testing requests: xdg-user-dirs-gtk, packagekit, gdm Google Summer of Code We have a bunch of applications AI: Federico to bring plan for accepting applications to opensuse-project AI: federico1 to ensure we accept GSoC applications properly before deadline Torrent default app decision Monsoon seems the more dynamic app, good response from its maintainer Transmission seems to have a better UI, actively developed, although a bit mac centric BitTorrent-gtk very basic but should work for basic needs AI: add both monsoon and transmission, monsoon as default AI: suseROCKS to run tests with both apps AI: FunkyPenguin to package Transmission today AI: vuntz to move Transmission and monsoon to autobuild and drop gnome-btdownload Policy review http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Desktop_Policy contains a huge table with the gconf keys we change Once completed, we'll discuss every change AI: vuntz, rodrigo to define new policy patch tags Wishlist review Please respond to the thread, especially in the case of any new packages that might be needed Pattern review After discussion on the list, we should be able to compile a list of packages to be dropped from the CD pattern For base patterns, bring up discussion on opensuse-factory Main menu performance work Magnus' 3-liner patch shrinks main-menu startup time by more than half Main-menu is reading ~/.recently-used.xbel twice at startup, should be easy to fix and reduce time by 0.1 sec more Now starting up in under 1.5 seconds GDM status GDM not shipped in GNOME 2.22 is now up to 2.21.9, should be ready for 11.0 Test packages at https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=home:hpjansson:11.0-testing (might need the ConsoleKit package from that repo also) Some configurability regressions still present, might be a problem for deployments Background image + gtkrc for login dialog for basic theming Compiz/XGL update 'Enable desktop effects' option in appearance capplet now in FACTORY Discussion upstream for a distro-agnostic fix, but will take some time Need to decide on dropping gnome-xgl-settings once the functionality to switch XGL/AIGLX is in yast AI: vuntz to hack something quickly in gnome-wm to start the correct WM in all cases (ie when the session is not saved) PackageKit update PK testing info is on the wiki now (http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/11.0/Testing) Test it and let Scott know of any problems Patch upstreaming Not much progress this week because of package review, but some upstreamed patches were removed this week, so number of patches continues going down 756 patches still remaining as of today Task update suseROCKS will send confirmation for tasks when moving off RTM to wiki Should we continue including task updates in the meetings? It should be already covered in each topic -- Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo(a)novell.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Board election proposal
by Andreas Jaeger 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

We had today a public openSUSE board meeting and came up with the following proposal. If you like to see stuff added to it, or changed, please speak up - the board will vote on this in two weeks time. * Only openSUSE members may vote, each member having one vote. * Special role for the first election: Each openSUSE member can vouch for one person that should be part of the openSUSE community and this person can vote, too. * Special role for the first election: After the announcement - and before the election - there will be a 4 week period where people can apply to be openSUSE members in order to vote. * An openSUSE election team will be created. It consists of 3 people. Neither of them can be elected as openSUSE board member. * The openSUSE board will ask on the opensuse-project mailing list for volunteers for the openSUSE election team and select appropriate candidates. At least one member of the election team will be a Novell employee and at least one member will not be a Novell employee. * The openSUSE board election period is two years and every year half of the board will be elected. For the first election, the Novell and non-Novell members with the most votes will be elected for two years, the second runners for one year. * openSUSE board members can serve for up to two consecutive election periods. After that they have to pause for one year. * openSUSE members will be choosen by the openSUSE election team. The openSUSE board may be contacted when anybody considers the decision was wrong, and the board may overrule the membership decision. 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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