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.
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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?
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
>
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Ing. Alejandro Rodriguez || @LeX
Usuario Linux # 379802
openSUSE 11.0
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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
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