October 2009 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-project] Self-Introduction - openSUSE Community Assistant
by Rupert Horstkötter 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

Hi, please let me introduce myself. My name is Rupert, I'm 28 and I'm currently on the home stretch of studying business administration and electrical engineering at Darmstadt University of Technology. I've been involved with the openSUSE Project for several years. I served as the Project Manager of the openSUSE Forums Merge, I initiated the openSUSE Forums section at the openSUSE Weekly Newsletter and I contributed as a moderator at the openSUSE Forums to the openSUSE community. I was employed twice at Novell/SUSE - as an Intern in Product Management in 2007/2008 and as a Workstudent for Community Architecture in 2008/2009. As of the 1st of October 2009, I'm sponsored by open-slx.com to work for the openSUSE Project as openSUSE Community Assistant. I'm really looking forward to collaborate with several openSUSE teams on improving openSUSE documentation and community resources - namely the openSUSE wiki, the openSUSE Forums, the SDB and other support information for openSUSE. My current focus is to work on a concept for the openSUSE wiki to improve the content quality, to enhance its usability and to improve its maintainability. Have a lot of fun! Rupert -- Rupert Horstkötter openSUSE Community Assistant http://en.opensuse.org/User:Rhorstkoetter Email: rhorstkoetter(a)opensuse.org Jabber: ruperthorstkoetter(a)googlemail.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] About counter.o.o: Where has "openSUSE 11.2" gone ?
by Satoru Matsumoto 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

Today, I realized that the words "openSUSE 11.2" has disappeared from the countdown images. e.c.: http://counter.opensuse.org/11.2/small.en.png Just for confirmation. Is this the intentional modification, or a sign of some trouble ? I myself like the previous counter with "openSUSE 11.2" and background better than current one. ;-) Best, -- _/_/ Satoru Matsumoto - openSUSE Member - Japan _/_/ _/_/ Marketing/Weekly News/openFATE Screening Team _/_/ _/_/ mail: helios_reds_at_gmx.net / irc: HeliosReds _/_/ _/_/ http://blog.geeko.jp/author/heliosreds _/_/ -- 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] Reworked Netiquette
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

Hello Mates, i've reworked our Netiquette [1] and have translated it to german [2]. Now my target is to make an regular (monthly) Posting to the Lists. I have prepared two Emails. One for the en Lists and one for the de Lists. But i would like to have an feedback for that idea. Is that good or should i don't do it? [1] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_mailing_list_netiquette [2] http://de.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_mailing_list_netiquette -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Member openSUSE Ambassador openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com ClaimID: http://claimid.com/saigkill -- 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] Google Talk Config with Kopete
by Jason Perlow 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

Kopete is nice. But Google Talk configuration should not have to be this annoying. To get Google Talk to work, you have to add "Jabber" in your accounts list, change the default port to 443, turn on SSL, set the default server to talk.google.com, and then plug in your name and password. Wouldn't it just be easier to have a "Google Talk" option that pre-sets this stuff? An end-user would probably just give up or try to use Pidgin or Empathy. -- Jason Perlow jperlow(a)gmail.com (201)735-5838 Twitter: http://twitter.com/jperlow Technology Columnist, ZDNet Tech Broiler (http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow) Blogger/Podcaster, Off The Broiler (http://www.offthebroiler.com) LinkedIn Public Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonperlow -- 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] Conference slides,
by Katarina Machalkova 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

Hola, so I'm probably the last one to submit link to my slides. Here they are: http://www.slideshare.net/hedgehogpainter/3-uis-for-the-price-of-one-code (thanks mvidner for poking me ;) ) hB. -- \\\\\ Katarina Machalkova \\\\\\\__o YaST developer __\\\\\\\'/_ & hedgehog painter -- 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] susestudio login
by James Tremblay aka SLEducator 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

Hey guys. I have had an active account in the susestudio and for some reason my login is failing. Who do I ask for help? SLEducator -- 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] Fwd: Distro Summit 2010: call for papers extended until 18 Oct 2009
by Vincent Untz 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

Hi, It'd be nice to have some openSUSE presence there! If you're interested but you have no idea what kind of topic to propose, we can certainly help you find something interesting to share during the summit :-) Cheers, Vincent ----- Forwarded message from martin f krafft <madduck(a)madduck.net> ----- Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:05:07 +0200 From: martin f krafft <madduck(a)madduck.net> To: distributions(a)lists.freedesktop.org Subject: Distro Summit 2010: call for papers extended until 18 Oct 2009 Please redistribute this call for papers. The deadline has been extended to 18 Oct 2009. =============== CALL FOR PAPERS =============== Distro Summit 2010 is a one-day technical conference with a strong focus on collaboration between Free Software distributions hosted at the linux.conf.au 2010. We are looking for proposals from any Free Software distribution, from the typical full distributions (both linux and non-linux) to the niche market derivatives. In spite of the strong focus on collaboration between Free Software distributions, topics may include packaging, maintenance, relationship with upstream developers, release management and QA. For more informtion, please visit: http://distrosummit.org. Important dates =============== * Call for papers ends: Wednesday 18 October 2009 * Announcing the schedule: Friday 2 October 2009 * Conference begins: Monday 18 January 2010 Presentation types ================== We will accept proposals for: * 25 minute standard-length presentations; * 50 minute long presentations. Session lengths include time for audience questions. We intend for standard-length presentation to make up the vast majority of our presentations. If you plan on submitting a proposal for a long presentation, a willingness to present a standard-length presentation will impact positively on your proposal. Submit a proposal ================= To submit your proposal, we'll need the following information: * Your name, contact details and a short biography; * Your proposal title; * Intended audience; * An abstract; * Presentation outline; * Presentation type (standard-length or long). To submit a proposal, or get more information, please write to cfp(a)distrosummit.org. Unfortunately, we cannot offer sponsorship for speakers. About the Distro Summit ======================= The Distro Summit 2010 is a one-day developer conference with a strong focus on collaboration between free software distributions hosted at the linux.conf.au 2010 (http://www.lca2010.org.nz). In addition to a schedule of technical, social and policy talks, the Distro Summit provides an opportunity for developers, contributors and other interested people to meet in person and work together more closely. Previous similar events have featured speakers from around the world. They have also been extremely beneficial for developing key free software software components and for improving collaboration and sharing between the different distributions. Target Audience =============== The Distro Summit is (mainly) a technical event, but this does not mean that the only target audience are developers and maintainers of free software distributions: the event will feature talks that range from the development to real-world use cases, going through marketing and the social aspects of the maintenance of free software distributions. -- Martin Krafft on the behalf of the Distro Summit organizers _______________________________________________ Distributions mailing list Distributions(a)lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- 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] Correction -- Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting Wednesday October 7, 2009 at 12:00 UTC
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

Hi all, Apologies - the project meeting is tomorrow, October 7th, not 10th as I wrote previously. Thanks! Zonker On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb(a)zonker.net> wrote: > The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place tomorrow (Wednesday October > 10th) at 12:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock[1]. As > always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-project channel on > Freenode. > > Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at: > > http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Project_Meeting_2009-10-07 > > Please add topics as soon as possible. Also, if you have questions for the > meeting, but can't attend (we know that the meeting times can't work for > everyone) please add them to the agenda as well. We also take live questions, > of course. > > For more on IRC meetings, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About. > > As always, we meet in #opensuse-project on Freenode. Fire up your favorite IRC > client and head over to #opensuse-project. > > Not familiar with IRC? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org. This > site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see > http://freenode.net/. > > Wondering what meeting times are? Check the openSUSE Meetings page[2]. All > project meetings and team meetings should be listed there. > > [1]: http://is.gd/40ttO > > [2]: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings > > -- > Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb(a)zonker.net> > openSUSE Community Manager: http://zonker.opensuse.org > Blogs: http://blogs.zdnet.com/community | http://www.dissociatedpress.net > Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb > http://identi.ca/group/opensuse/members > -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb(a)zonker.net> openSUSE Community Manager: http://zonker.opensuse.org Blogs: http://blogs.zdnet.com/community | http://www.dissociatedpress.net Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb http://identi.ca/group/opensuse/members -- 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] Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting Wednesday October 10, 2009 at 12:00 UTC
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place tomorrow (Wednesday October 10th) at 12:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock[1]. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-project channel on Freenode. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Project_Meeting_2009-10-07 Please add topics as soon as possible. Also, if you have questions for the meeting, but can't attend (we know that the meeting times can't work for everyone) please add them to the agenda as well. We also take live questions, of course. For more on IRC meetings, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About. As always, we meet in #opensuse-project on Freenode. Fire up your favorite IRC client and head over to #opensuse-project. Not familiar with IRC? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/. Wondering what meeting times are? Check the openSUSE Meetings page[2]. All project meetings and team meetings should be listed there. [1]: http://is.gd/40ttO [2]: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb(a)zonker.net> openSUSE Community Manager: http://zonker.opensuse.org Blogs: http://blogs.zdnet.com/community | http://www.dissociatedpress.net Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb http://identi.ca/group/opensuse/members -- 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] Default Firewall Behavior / SMBclient
by Jason Perlow 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

Ok. I'm just going to get this out of the way now that I have installed Milestone 8. http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow/?p=11243 I am sick, utterly sick and tired of having to install the SAMBA packages and then punch a hole through the firewall with the Samba Server config tool in YAST2 just to make smbclient and network browsing on the desktop function. openSUSE has been doing this as default behavior for the last several releases. Yes, I know how to fix it. All of us who are power users know how to fix it. But your average end-user has no clue on how to fix this. Many of them will simply say, "Crap, I can't get my network functioning. Maybe Ubuntu wont be broken" Ubuntu, who is openSUSE's prime competition, has functioning SMB networking by default. http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow/?p=11218 Can we please, please, pretty please, make SAMBA installed by default with the appropriate firewall rules applied as default behavior? One thing we might want to consider for future openSUSE releases is something like that "Role-based" configuration GUI that Windows Server 2008 R2 has, that automatically configures a set of services based on the way the system is going to be used. http://content.zdnet.com/2347-17924_22-293601-293615.html?seq=12 This could also be done during installation, where the installer would give a choice of "Workstation / Developer Workstation / File Server / Web Server" and the choice would apply the right set of packages and firewall settings. By default, all of the Live CD versions should have SMB networking out of the box functioning. -- Jason Perlow jperlow(a)gmail.com (201)735-5838 Twitter: http://twitter.com/jperlow Technology Columnist, ZDNet Tech Broiler (http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow) Blogger/Podcaster, Off The Broiler (http://www.offthebroiler.com) LinkedIn Public Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonperlow -- 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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