November 2009 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-project] Promoting openSUSE 11.2 & voting for the openSUSE 11.2 promo DVD cover
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 06 Nov '09

06 Nov '09

As I'm sure most (hopefully all...) of you know, we'll be releasing openSUSE 11.2. If you'd like to help spread the word, there are a few quick and easy things you can do to help let people know about openSUSE: * Tweet or Dent about openSUSE: If you have a Twitter or Identi.ca account, be sure to follow the @opensuse account and re-tweet/dent announcements about openSUSE 11.2. One or two mentions per day by each openSUSE user could make a huge difference! (Please don't go overboard though -- one or two per day is good!) Make sure to use the openSUSE hash tag (#openSUSE) on Twitter so we can take a shot at getting on the "trending topics" list. * Mention the openSUSE release on Facebook, Linked-In and other social media sites. * See http://en.opensuse.org/Marketing/SocNet for additional tips on social media marketing. (And feel free to join in!) * If you have a blog, please be sure to take a few minutes to post about openSUSE. Original posts are great, but if you're feeling a bit of writer's block it's perfectly acceptable to copy the openSUSE announcement from news.opensuse.org when it's released and post that. (Please link back to the post, though!) * Once you've downloaded 11.2, please burn a copy or two (or three... or one hundred...) and pass them on to friends, family, co-workers, etc. who might benefit from using Linux. Also: through Sunday we're taking votes to decide what cover the openSUSE 11.2 promo DVD (the DVD we hand out at events, etc.) will have. We have three awesome designs from the community - help us decide which to pick here: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/2009/11/05/opensuse-dvdcd-cover-art-opinion… Thanks, and have a lot of fun! Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb(a)zonker.net> openSUSE Community Manager Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- 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] Developers motivation research
by M. Pith 05 Nov '09

05 Nov '09

Dear OpenSUSE mailing list members, We would like to ask your cooperation in a large-scale research on motivation factors of Open Source software developers. The research is performed for the Amsterdam Business School of the University of Amsterdam. Your participation would consist of completing an online survey to which we have linked below. Your participation is anonymously. The aim of the research is to better understand the motivations developers hold for joining and contributing to an Open Source project. The insights gained from this research would help the development of theory for Information Management and could help practitioners understand how and when to start or join Open Source projects. Next to this, the publication of this research will increase the exposure of the development of Open Source software within the academic environment. Please follow the link to the online survey. Our test audience has shown that completing the survey will take about 15 minutes. Your time is highly appreciated by us. http://bit.ly/Survey_Developers_Motivation Kind regards, Dr. Thomas Adelaar Mark Pith -This independent research is not related to the OpenSUSE project.- -- 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] Wiki Team Meeting 091030 - Meeting Minutes
by Rupert Horstkötter 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

Team, here are the meeting minutes for our Wiki Team Meeting #1 on Friday, the 30th of October 2009 at 17:00 UTC. We got started to discuss the usability concept for the openSUSE wiki. Please feel free to add important details I maybe missed. #1 – QA process: FlaggedRevs VS Sandboxing approach (Assignee: rhorstkoetter, Fsundermeyer?) We haven't finally decided (yet) which one (FlaggedRevs or Sandboxing) to implement as our QA process. There is a general tendency by the team to go for the sandboxing approach (and in parallel implement the wiki forum for reviewing purposes), but we'd like to give everyone another opportunity to voice their opinion at opensuse-wiki ML - rhorstkoetter is responsible to kickoff the discussion here. Furthermore, we're in general agreement that we need to implement the QA process and would appreciate to get a testing enviroment (FSundermeyer?) for both Sandbox and FlaggedRevs to be able to gather experiences with both of them. #2 – Guidelines (Assignee: rhorstkoetter, Shayon) Guidelines will be created to provide wiki editors an understanding about proper design, formulation, conception and syntax of wiki articles. The use of templates needs to explained and an overview about the implemented QA will be given. The content of Guidelines depends on several things we still need to agree on (e.g. The QA Process) and are therefore a working draft. Rhorstkoetter is responsible to come up with a draft in co-work with Shayon. We'll gather ideas at Wikipedia and ubuntuusers.de and see what's sufficient here for our Usecase – Licenses need to be discovered here for imaginable Re-Use. #3 – Frontpage/Portal (Assignee: rhorstkoetter, Shayon) We'd like to replace the current http://en.opensuse.org with a Portal to openSUSE documentation resources (the wiki) while offloading content from the current http://en.opensuse.org to http://www.opensuse.org – a two-column layout is desirable. Jbrockmeier requested to leave the sponsor links and move them to the right column if possible - rhorstkoetter will sync this with the webteam. Shayon is responsible for the development of http://en.opensuse.org/Portal_New, Rajko's contribution would be desirable here. We need to focus on proper categorization (provide as less categories at the main Portal as possible for usability purposes) while utilizing wiki-portals/projects for deeper hierarchies – see #4. Once this is done, the draft for the main Portal should be pushed to the marketing- and webteams for smooting out the design, language and overall appearence of the Portal. The guidelines will be prominently placed at the main portal. Finally we'd like to have an openSUSE-like http://tinyurl.com/y8gh6hj - just to get a general idea. #4 – Wiki-Projects/Wikipedia-like Portals (Assignee: Federico Mena, Petr, John) We'll implement Wiki-Projects and Wikipedia-like Portals for deeper content hierarchies (as a complement to the main Portal – see #3). We desire to create such Portals for the big openSUSE projects like KDE, Gnome, YaST, Education etc. as well as major categories. The exact concept is courtesy of Federico Mena and Petr (Booster effort). John is interested and welcome to contribute here. Federico's navboxes should be worked into this effort. Federico/Petr should keep in touch with Shayon to sync with the main Portal efforts (to ensure overall consistency) #5 – Strengthen the Wiki team (Assignee: rhorstkoetter) We'll reach out to the Community with an announcement "why (good) documentation matters". We'd like to raise people's attention on the importance of good documentation to the sucess of the openSUSE project and the convenience of the end user. Jbrockmeier proposed to come up with a mentoring program for wiki editors/contributors. Petr proposed the adoption of OBS Junior Jobs to wiki tasks. We're in agreement that a Wiki Team Member should work in a moderating, supporting and mentoring capacity - at least that's the major task (besides actual wiki editing) Wiki Team Members should focus on. #6 – MediaWiki Extensions (Assignee: FSundermeyer, cboltz) FSundermeyer requested input on http://en.opensuse.org/Wiki_Team/Requested_Extensions – cboltz already started a discussion at opensuse-wiki ML. We certainly desire to maintain as less extensions as possible. FlaggedRevs (see #1) and Semantic MediaWiki are well-maintained and thus possible to implement. Please jump into the discussion started by cboltz. #7 – Templates (Assignee: Shayon, John) Kálmán proposed http://tinyurl.com/ycwx8cj as an approach to give an overview about available templates and we decided to adopt this for the main wiki. The Overview page will be linked from within the Guidelines (see #2). Shayon is responsible to review existing templates and sort them as proposed by Kálmán. We need to think about obsolete templates, desired templates, etc. John is interested and welcome to contribute here. Some of the major wiki contributor unfortunately haven't managed to join the Meeting and their efforts are certainly needed and appreciated. Please contact the respective assignees of topics to jump in and contribute. That certainly applies to EVERYONE interested – we need a LOT of helping hands to make the openSUSE wiki a better place (and finally achieve openSUSE world domination, smile). Every helping hand contributing to this usability concept (which is a HUGE task) counts and is very welcome to join the efforts. JFYI, I just updated http://en.opensuse.org/Wiki_Team/Meetings and linked the Meeting transcript (thanks Shayon) and the agenda for archiving purposes and to give people the opportunity to review the Meeting (again). The minutes will be linked there as well asap. Thanks, 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] Initiative of openSUSE LTS/openSLES Status Nov 1 2009
by Boyd Lynn Gerber 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Hello, With the announcement http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-announce/2009-10/msg00013.html The really shows just how commited the openSUSE Management are with regrads to the community. I have to admit I was firmly in the openSLES camp prior to a few email discussions and the results of the above email. We now have the oportunity to now really be able to provide and openSUSE LTS with out a lot of obstucales. In the various talks we have had it appears the given the current economic climit, we could posssibly do more harm than good with an openSLES. Most of the members that have stepped up to be willing to do the security updates and back ports have come from the openSUSE community. There have been talks with the SLES managment and the ones that I thought would be behind such and effort right now see it as more of a problem; Natuarlly there are those that are the free-loaders, who do not steop up to the plate. Also I was in hopes of gaining support from Novell in the form of a free SLSE with updates so we do not in any way endanger current licenses. We need to take this all in mind with our decisison as to which initiative we choose. This is the current state. -- Boyd Gerber <gerberb(a)zenez.com> 801 849-0213 ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047 -- 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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