September 2008 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-project] openSUSE election status update
by Marko Jung 01 Oct '08

01 Oct '08

A bit longer than four weeks ago the board announced the first openSUSE board election. With the beginning of the next phase of the election process, I would like to give you a short status update. Since the initial announcement we raised the openSUSE member count by 50% to now 212 approved openSUSE members. I am impressed by the enormous interest in participating in our project. And we have a total of ten candidates running for a seat in the next openSUSE board: Non-Novell * Pascal Bleser * Peter Linnell * Tuukka Pasanen * Alex Rodriguez * Jakub Rusinek * Bryen Yunashko Novell * Marco Michna * Stephen Shaw * Henne Vogelsang * Federico Mena-Quintero Find platforms and contact details for all candidates in the openSUSE wiki: http://en.opensuse.org/Board_Election/2008#Candidates = What is next? = During the next two weeks, each of the 212 openSUSE members is able to give voting privileges for this election to another user (which is not an openSUSE member). This person should be an active contributor of the openSUSE community and needs an account at users.openSUSE.org which has been created before September, 1st 2008. The possibility to give franchise to another person is for you the perfect chance to get a friend or colleague more involved in the openSUSE project. Do not miss this opportunity and help us to get as much people as possible participating on the election! Unfortunately I used a wrong variable in the mail template for the first notification mail, the appointment of additional voters ends October 9th, 2008 at 12:00 UTC. Until ballots will open on October, 9th 2008 (12:00 UTC) we have now two weeks of campaigning, which should be mainly driven by the candidates themselves. Potentially there will be a public IRC debate with all candidates, but this is not set yet. If you are interested and have time to support us organizing it, please get in touch now! Concluding I would like to thank all candidates for standing, the openSUSE board for checking more than hundret membership requests, my colleagues from the election committee and Zonker for their great support. -- 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 (2008/09/25)
by Rodrigo Moya 25 Sep '08

25 Sep '08

11.0 updates https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=402864 needs some love Contrib and GNOME:Community Need to go over G:C and see what belongs in contrib (all packages not in the distro probably) Need some better explanation of the process of moving packages from repos GNOME guidelines needed AI: suseROCKS to write mail for general discussion Promotion of GNOME within the context of 11.1 Look at features for 11.1 and do screenshots and tutorials Plan to create a 1click install to get 2.24 Wiki work Small but productive meeting yesterday (http://en.opensuse.org/User:Hobbsc/GNOME_Wiki_Cleanup_Notes) New layout with a cleaner main page Mockup coming soon -> http://en.opensuse.org/User:Hobbsc/GNOME_Wiki_Mockup Pulseaudio Latest versions of PA and some tools in Factory A couple of upstream patches for 0.9.12 included in the submissions setup-pulseaudio script (for being called from yast2-sound to enable/disable PA system-wide) in submission, although a bit unstable still, please test Multiscreen PolicyKit helper to be added soon GDM / NetworkManager Some changes still cooking will be submitted soon Agenda for next meeting Next meeting time shifted meeting, but Asian people don't attend those meetings, so should we continue time-shifting? American evening meetings? -- 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] Announcing Candidacy for openSUSE Community Board
by Peter Linnell 23 Sep '08

23 Sep '08

Hi Folks, I would like to announce my intention to seek a board seat on the openSUSE Community Board. While I may not be as well known to the community as others, I will bring to the board significant OSS experience along with a viewpoint which I think will help to enhance openSUSE in the future. As "upstream", I see areas where distributions do well and where they can improve through better communications. Briefly my open source experience includes: Founding team member of Scribus (www.scribus.net) since 2001. Within Scribus I share responsibility for the project management and infrastructure, as well as acting as coordinator with other OSS projects, groups and media. Started and organized with others in the community, the Libre Graphics Meeting conference, LGM brings together open source graphics developers from all over the world to hack, plan and increase cooperation between the projects. LGM 4 will be held in Mid-2009. http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org Started OpenICC, on freedesktop.org to have a common workspace to develop open source color management tools and to work together on common standards. http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/OpenIcc Other projects I work on include: Fontmatrix (http://fontmatrix.net) - A powerful new cross platform/open source font manager. Podofo, Inkscape, Uniconverter and other graphics tools I test and package. Within the openSuse community, I started as one of the first non-Novell employees to test and use OBS - one of the community's unique assets. I have been active on IRC on a number of channels. along with project meetings and have been actively packaging applications and tools which have never been available before for openSuse or the enterprise versions. This is for both KDE and Gnome communities. Professionally I use and support both openSuse and SLES for clients over the world and appreciate its technical excellence and polish. Prior to re-entering the IT world, I worked in the international conference and events industry for almost ten years which involved working with multi- national staff and clients. This gives me a background in marketing and events which will help setting up (hopefully) a future openSUSE conference for the community. I will be blogging on http://lizards.opensuse.org in the future more of my thoughts on the future of openSuse. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to your votes! Peter Linnell --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] I can not send with my opensuse address to the list
by Carlos E. R. 23 Sep '08

23 Sep '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 If this email reaches the list, the problem has been solved, thus, ignore. If it bounces, I'll write again under my normal address and explain. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjWySIACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WP1QCfSwVD7W6SwQ8sXurrOOjcbW+D D/oAnR8EronfFm+Wu24mFsb8F7s+DmwF =yz9J -----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] Not Running for the openSUSE Board
by Francis Giannaros 23 Sep '08

23 Sep '08

Hi guys, Just a note that I won't be running for the next openSUSE board. Having graduated and in the process of getting a new job, I have increasingly less time to dedicate to openSUSE as you may have noticed. I hope to still contribute during any times that I can and I fully look forward to facilitating the transition of the new board coming in! 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] Intention of running for the Board
by Federico Mena Quintero 22 Sep '08

22 Sep '08

Hi, everyone, This short mail is just an announcement of my intention to run for the openSUSE Community Board for this election. I'm still writing my platform document: http://en.opensuse.org/Board_Election/2008/Platforms/Federico_Mena-Quintero I'll notify these lists once it is done :) Thanks, Federico --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] No candidacy from me
by Stephan Kulow 22 Sep '08

22 Sep '08

Hi, I already told the other board members and said it in the IRC meeting: I have too little free time to invest to run for the board. Maybe in another year or two. Greetings, Stephan --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] WARNING: Some (?) Broken openSUSE.org user mailadresses
by Andreas Jaeger 22 Sep '08

22 Sep '08

I just got a second notification that somehow the opensuse.org mail aliases for members are broken. We did a large sync yesterday so that all new members receive their adresses and it seems that something went wrong there. If you have problems, please tell me so that I know who has problems - and we're trying to figure out what went wrong and will fix it, 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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Re: [opensuse-project] WARNING: Some (?) Broken openSUSE.org user mailadresses
by Alex Rodriguez 22 Sep '08

22 Sep '08

2008/9/20 Alex Rodriguez <alexio44(a)opensuse.org.ni>: > 2008/9/20 Andreas Jaeger <aj(a)suse.de>: >> >> I just got a second notification that somehow the opensuse.org mail >> aliases for members are broken. We did a large sync yesterday so that >> all new members receive their adresses and it seems that something >> went wrong there. >> >> If you have problems, please tell me so that I know who has problems - >> and we're trying to figure out what went wrong and will fix it, >> > > Mine's not working =( > alexio44(a)opensuse.org > > Regards > > -- > Ing. Alejandro Rodriguez || @LeX > Usuario Linux # 379802 > openSUSE 11.0 > -- Ing. Alejandro Rodriguez || @LeX Usuario Linux # 379802 openSUSE 11.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] Notification of Intent to Run
by Tuukka Pasanen 20 Sep '08

20 Sep '08

Hi, I'm Tuukka Pasanen age 30 (Male) from Finland and very long time (open)SuSE user (since 5.2). I have tried many distros but allways somehow get back to openSUSE/SuSE. Manifesto: To make openSuSE more friendlier to embbeded developers come and use. To have such as massive RPM-base as Debian has (almos everything). Make every supported hardware work out of the box (That are in kernel;).. Thanks, Tuukka --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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