March 2009 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

RE: [opensuse-project] vote for suse on the eucalyptus poll
by Andrew Wafaa 06 Apr '09

06 Apr '09

Stephen, As Pavol Rusnak mentioned earlier, all of Eucalyptus' target distros are handled by the Build Service. Surely we should be trying to convince them to use our service and enlightening them that by doing so enables them to have maximum reach with minimal effort. Regards, Andy -- Sent from a Nokia E71 Andrew Wafaa, openSUSE Member: FunkyPenguin. openSUSE: Get It, Discover It, Create It at http://www.opensuse.org . -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Shaw Sent: 30/03/2009 17:52:11 To: opensuse-project(a)opensuse.org; openSUSE Marketing; openSUSE Subject: [opensuse-project] vote for suse on the eucalyptus poll Lets make openSUSE more visible and vote up suse on the eucalyptus poll. http://www.micropoll.com/akira/mpview/564200-152224 The long and short is that eucalyptus is a private internal ec2 cloud. Thanks, Stephen PS. Sorry for the cross post. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)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] Sample article about new user experience.
by Rajko M. 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Just example what new users hit when they try Linux: http://blogs.computerworld.com/a_newbie_turns_to_linux Samba is notorious problem. It is not installed, user is not warned that it should be installed. Whoever wants more users, has to provide polish in areas that mass market is asking for. -- Regards, Rajko -- 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: ***Very Important***: Get Your Students to Submit their Proposals via the 2009 site *now*
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

>From the Google Summer of Code list - please read if you're involved or want to be. Thanks! Zonker ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: LH (Leslie Hawthorn) <lhospo(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 4:30 PM Subject: ***Very Important***: Get Your Students to Submit their Proposals via the 2009 site *now* To: Google Summer of Code Mentors List <google-summer-of-code-mentors-list(a)googlegroups.com> Hello everyone, Right now, we have about 2x the students registered on the site as we do number of proposals submitted. No doubt some of these student registrations are "spam" from folks who won't be submitting proposals. However, I am also hearing things like "We have six applications submitted to the GSoC 2009 site but we're discussing another 20 or so in our forums." I realize that many organizations are working with students to refine their proposal ideas on their mailing lists, wikis, etc. However, a proposal on a wiki, mailing list, etc. does not constitute an actual application for the program; the proposal must be submitted to the GSoC 2009 site. While doing review and refinement outside of http://socghop.appspot.com is a useful exercise, it doesn't allow us to accurately gauge the number of student proposals we're receiving for GSoC 2009. Please help us get an accurate sense of how many proposals will be submitted for GSoC 2009 by asking your students to submit their proposals to the GSoC 2009 site *now*. They are welcome to link to the wiki page, mailing list thread, forum topic, etc. where their proposals are under discussion and refinement as part of the proposal submission process.[0] In case folks are wondering, we want to get this data so we can decide if it's worthwhile to extend the student application deadline. We're pretty much set on "no, we won't be extending the deadline," but we need better data so we can assess if a deadline extension would be a good thing to do. We're still anticipating the usual "near to deadline application submission rush" that we see every year but we'd like to get a more accurate proposal count sooner rather than later. Cheers, LH [0] - http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/userguide#… --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Summer of Code Mentors List" group. To post to this group, send email to google-summer-of-code-mentors-list(a)googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-summer-of-code-mentors-list+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-mentors-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- -- 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] openSUSE Project at LinuxExpo in Prague
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

The openSUSE Project is bringing the green to Prague in April! The openSUSE Project will have a booth, demos, and several presentations at the LinuxExpo in Prague, April 15 and 16th at the Hotel Olympik Artemis. LinuxExpo is billed as the largest exhibition and conference for Linux and FOSS in Central Europe. VIP entry to the Expo is CZK 1,300, or CZK 1,200 if you register on the Web site. Other prices apply to one day entry, or for passes that don't come with materials and lunch. Presentations ============= In addition to openSUSE demos at the booth, openSUSE contributors will be giving two presentations as part of the LinuxExpo Programme. * Network Installation Fast and Simple: Katarína Machálková and Michal Žugec will be demonstrating using the network installation, installing to network disks (iSCSI), and remote installation over SSH. The presentation will also cover automatic installations with AutoYaST. * Making a Custom openSUSE Distro: Michal Hrušecký and Marek Stopka will cover use of the openSUSE Build Service, creating your own packages, cooperation with packaging team members, and creation of custom distros using SUSE Studio. openSUSE Discs and Giveaways ============================ We'll have openSUSE 11.1 DVDs available at the booth, as well as openSUSE t-shirts, stickers, and more. Interested in Helping? ====================== Want to help with the booth at LinuxExpo? Contact Katerina Olsakova [kolsakova(a)suse.cz] to make arrangements to get an openSUSE shirt and set up a schedule to meet and greet at the openSUSE booth. More info on the LinuxExpo can be found in English [1] and in Czech [2] on the LinuxExpo Web site. [1] http://www.linuxexpo.cz/?lang=1 [2] http://www.linuxexpo.cz/?lang=0 -- 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] vote for suse on the eucalyptus poll
by Stephen Shaw 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

Lets make openSUSE more visible and vote up suse on the eucalyptus poll. http://www.micropoll.com/akira/mpview/564200-152224 The long and short is that eucalyptus is a private internal ec2 cloud. Thanks, Stephen PS. Sorry for the cross post. -- 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] openFate screening team meeting - tomorrow
by Michael Loeffler 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

Moin, just as a short reminder we'll have tomorrow our openFate screening team meeting at 12pm UTC in IRC, Freenode channel #opensuse-project I put up a meeting page: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenFate_screening_team/Team_Meeting_2009-04-01 Please add content, questions etc. where necessary. Thanks M -- Michael Löffler, Product Management SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- 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 Meeting Minutes
by Michael Loeffler 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

Hi folks, plese find below the combined meeting minutes of 2 meetings of the openSUSE Board. Next Board meeting will be (was) held on March 25. For questions, topics the Board should address etc. please send an email to board(a)opensuse.org Best M Board Meeting Feb 25 9pm - 11pm CET, Federico Mena Quintero (federico3) Hendrik Vogelsang (henne) Michael Löffler (michl) Bryen Yunashko (suseROCKs) Joe Brockmeier (zonker) Board Meeting March 11 8:15 - 10pm CET Hendrik Vogelsang (henne) Michael Löffler (michl) Bryen Yunashko (suseROCKs) Pascal Bleser (yaloki) Meeting chair: michl Old AI's: spotlight AI: henne WIP - with IS&T Provo spotlight Member approval - henne and yaloki want to hack the thing that it becomes more efficient - for now another round of manually importing from users.o.o into the board wiki is needed Note: meanwhile approx 90 member requests are imported and get reviewed AI: henne/yaloki Improve IRC cloak and email address handling is it possible to let the cloak stuff be handled by somebody non-Novell? We need a second or third group admin to handle IRC cloaks beside of darix - yaloki volunteers to be the second group admin (called group contact) - federico/suseROCKs will ping or meet darix to get knowledge what has to be done and tries to attract some people helping darix AI: federico/suseROCKs Trademark guide lines The guide lines are meanhwile published. This is a first step in the right direction. Any improvements should be written down here: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Trademark_Guidelines_use_cases Anyone who is not covered by the trademark guidelines but wants to use the trademark should ask for usage at permission(a)novell.com. The openSUSE board has a major say to give permission or not. Novell legal will track and archive the requests. Current requests - ixsoft - openSUSE Education project - Benji's software portal - opensuse.ch - suseromania.ro downlaod.o.o outage (March 10) the board should be informed about outages We should improve communication in kind of: we have an issue, we're working on it, the service is back. Just without the live report style from an accident. hosting sw of projects at opensuse.org WIP - need additional hardware AI: michl/zonker to clarify who may sponsor this? openSUSE conference Please send any ideas to zonker. We need to set up a frame work (session, topics, key notes) this month, plan enough roome/time for free discussion. Then announce it and open the call for papers. first: organizational frame AI: zonker -- Michael Löffler, Product Management SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- 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] User installation choices/settings
by Rajko M. 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

There is a lot of discussions what software should be included in openSUSE, and what to offer as default. Many people, many opinions. I guess that long time ago offered predefined configurations can be solution. Every user can Export list of packages installed on his system. So, this can be one area where openSUSE users can help themselves and development team. Instead of endless complains in all possible directions, export you favorite selection and offer it as a sample, and, just as with screen savers, number of downloads will be the judge. This will remove a lot of guesswork, what people like and, after some time, there will be always some configuration that is close enough to choose from. I'm asking this to hear opinions how to do that. Where to upload files exported from YaST? How to check validity of files? Collect opinions, beside download numbers? How to make users aware of that? -- Regards, Rajko -- 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] [openFATE] Status "Unconfirmed"
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

Hello Mates, what means the Status "Unconfirmed" in the Features, and how can i confirm the Tickets? -- Sincereley yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service openSUSE Features Screening Team Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Project-Blog: http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/saigkill Private-Blog: http://saschasbacktrace.blogspot.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] HOWTO - localized live CD
by Jean Cayron 28 Mar '09

28 Mar '09

Hello, As promised, i made a HOWTO for the making of a localized openSUSE 11.1 LiveCD http://en.opensuse.org/Localized_LiveCD All comments and feedback are welcome. I use now SuseStudio so it's up to you to make the method better. Cheers, Djan, Walloon-team coordinator http://walotux.walon.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] Moving Planet SUSE?
by Vincent Untz 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

Hi, Just wondering, since it's not the first time that planetsuse.org doesn't work: was it ever discussed to move the planet to planet.opensuse.org? (yes, I know about http://planet.opensu.se/) Vincent -- 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] openSUSE Hack Week
by Bryen 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

A couple of Project meetings ago, we brought up the idea of having an online Hack Week, Essentially, we're looking at doing a full week of a variety of one day hack-a-thons in different areas of openSUSE projects. NOTE: Calling it a Hack day(week) doesn't mean you need to be a hacker. I surely ain't one. :-) By the way, credit goes to vuntz for thinking up this idea in the first place before it was proposed at the Project meeting. Anyway, tomorrow, we have another Project meeting and I thought it would be good if we posted this thread to the mailing list to generate some ideas from the community at large about good hack days. Each openSUSE team should come up with ideas for specific hack topics. Examples could be, bug squashing, packaging, wiki cleanup, documentation, and the list goes on. Our goal is to have a variety of topics available each day of the week so that on any day you wish, you can stop by and see a topic that may be of interest to you and join in. Another note: Don't be afraid to attend even if you don't know a particular subject. The purpose of hack week isn't to just to fix/clean up existing stuff, but also to empower ourselves as a community by broadening our knowledge. So... Be as creative as you want, or as crazy as you want, but start submitting ideas! Let the thread flow now... More details about Hack Week will hopefully be posted after tomorrow's meeting. So stay tuned! -- Bryen Yunashko openSUSE Board Member openSUSE-GNOME Team Member GNOME-A11y Team Member -- 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] WeeklyNews@TuxRadio.de
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

I'm happy to announce, that in this Week at Thursday between 18:00 and 19:30 CET on http://blog.radiotux de the openSUSE Weekly News 64 are sended in German Language. The Livestreams can be founded on the Page.The Weekly News are an fix Part of the RadioTux@HoRadS . We are working about the regularly sending of the Weekly News. -- Sincereley yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service openSUSE Features Screening Team Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Project-Blog: http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/saigkill Private-Blog: http://saschasbacktrace.blogspot.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] Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting Tomorrow (March 25)
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place tomorrow, Wednesday March 25th at 12:00 UTC (13:00 CET) 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_2009-03-25 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. 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://tinyurl.com/c7yfpq [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] [OpenFATE] Merge and Delete
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

Hello Folks, how can i merge Features, or mark as duplicate? Is it possible to delete an Feature? We have many Testfeatures, and i think we can delete it. Have a nice day... -- Sincereley yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service openSUSE Features Screening Team Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Project-Blog: http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/saigkill Private-Blog: http://saschasbacktrace.blogspot.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] [openFATE] What should we do for the next step ?
by Satoru Matsumoto 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

@openFATE Screening Team We had first team meeting yesterday and I'm very glad the openFATE Screening Team has been launched. Since I am not native English speaker nor good at typing and couldn't say much on the meeting, I'd like to post my opinions to this list. First of all, how about put the tag [openFATE] -- acronym [OF] or [OFS] would be good enough ;-) -- in front of the subject, like I did for this post, when the issue is specialized for openFATE Screening Team, such as an announcement of the next team meeting, etc. This helps preventing unnecessary confusions and listmates can easily know whether the issue is related to whole project or specialized for openFATE Screening Team. [What should we do for the next step ?] During the meeting, I felt we need to do a brainstorming about what we should and can do for openFATE and make things much clear. I think I'm not the only one who don't clearly understand what should be done for now. For example, we talked about setting tags to each features. Do we need some typical keywords for tags, such as installation, update, kernel, etc. ? Team members can freely and randomly set tags when they have time ? At the beginning of the meeting, Bryen asked: Are we still only allowing openSUSE members to enter requests? I'm also wondering why we have to restrict adding new features only to Members. Just because lack of human resources ? As long as I can understand, Members are just kind of contributers who approved by Board, but not delegates in any sense, because they are *not cosen* by other contributers and users. There are many contributers who are *not yet* Members. If they aren't given chances to add new features, IMHO, openFATE is half-openFATE. I'd like to advocate, even mere users should be able to add new features, because that is the first step for them to become contributers. Of cource I don't mean to blame project on that. What I want to say is: if there are some reasons why we have to restrict, we should provide convincing explanations. Finally, should we discuss such things on this list or prepare the Wiki page for that ? 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] Reminder: Student Application Period for GSoC Starts Today
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

Quick reminder: The student application period starts today for the Google Summer of Code 2009. (Note: please see the previous post on GSoC and openSUSE here: http://is.gd/o8Aa) If you'd like to work with openSUSE, be sure to sign up as soon as possible. The deadline is April 3rd. Quick details: * You must be **18 or older by April 20, 2009** to participate. * You must be a student, which Google defines as: an individual enrolled in or accepted into an accredited institution including (but not necessarily limited to) colleges, universities, masters programs, PhD programs and undergraduate programs. Basically, you need to be enrolled in an accredited educational institution of some kind. * You **do _not_ need to be a computer science student**. * You can be enrolled part-time. * You can take part if you're enrolled to start college as of April 20, 2009 - even if your term hasn't started yet. (So, if you're enrolled for the fall, you would be eligible.) * You **can participate again** if you participated in SoC previously. * Time: You should plan on spending a lot of time on your project. As Google says, "**you should expect your project to be your primary focus this summer.** If you have a great internship starting soon or you're planning a month long backpacking trip, you likely won't be a good candidate for the program." The rest is on the Google FAQ[1]: please do read it through! The deadline for student applications[2] is April 3rd. There's also a visual timeline[3] created by Christian Moore. Read all the FAQ and Google documentation, but still have questions? Ask on the opensuse-project list or drop me a note. [1]: http://is.gd/oyff [2]: http://is.gd/oyfO [3]: http://is.gd/oyaO -- 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] Regarding Google Summer Of Code Project
by sarguru 22 Mar '09

22 Mar '09

I am a B.Tech Information Technology (IV semester) student from National Institute Of Technology , Jaipur,India.I am interested in a project titled Configuration and Package Management Rollback . I have been using linux for quite a lot of time from now on and i have been sing open suse for almost a couple of years. I have found two or three ideas to proceed with the project including using LVM snapshots/making a separate directory(not usual/usr/bin or sbin ) and keeping the old configuration files when the update is done(for package management) etc., Even though the project doesnt involve heavy coding work i fel this is the project of high importance of degree of usefulness that it may provide people. I want to contact people who are working on related projects / potential mentors for the project(since the name of the mentor is not up in the list). Please mail me the possibility of this project being selected/things you require from me and so on. Thanks. Sargurunathan M Department Of Computer Engineering, Malviya National Institute Of Technology, Jaipur, India. -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ -- 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 Project Accepted to Google Summer of Code 2009
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 19 Mar '09

19 Mar '09

Once again, the openSUSE Project will be participating in Google's Summer of Code program! openSUSE was one of the 150 mentoring organizations accepted this year, and we're excited to have the chance to work with students on projects to improve the openSUSE distribution and its tools[1]. Mentoring ======== Now it's time to start signing up Mentors for the openSUSE Project. Mentors review the student applications and score them, work with students during the Google Summer of Code, and evaluate students performance. We're looking for committed mentors who will work with students closely and provide guidance not only on the project they're working on, but also help them integrate with the overall project and teach them how to work within an open source project. If you're interested in mentoring with the openSUSE Project, sign up before March 23rd[2]. You'll need to create a site-wide user profile[3] and send a request to become a mentor (or send me a note[4] with your user ID). Students ======= Working with the Google Summer of Code is a great way to earn cash over the summer while doing something rewarding and interesting, and contributing to the open source community. Students who complete the Summer of Code will earn $4,500 if they complete the program in good standing. (See the Google FAQ for the payment schedule[5].) The student deadline for Google Summer of Code is Friday, April 3rd. See the FAQ[6] for the full scoop. We're looking for students who can work on existing ideas[1] or bring their own[7]. If you have a great idea that fits within the openSUSE Project, please apply! If your proposal is accepted, expect to do a great deal of work over the summer. The time commitment is substantial, and we're aiming for 100% completion of projects this year. Ideas ===== There's still time to submit ideas[1] on the openSUSE wiki. Preferably, these will be from students or mentors who will work on the ideas -- but that's not a requirement. If you have a great idea, feel free to put it up. If you have questions about participating in the Google Summer of Code in general, check out the #gsoc channel on Freenode. If you have questions specific to the openSUSE Project, email zonker(a)opensuse.org[4] or ask on the openSUSE Project (opensuse-project(a)opensuse.org) mailing list. [1]: http://en.opensuse.org/Summer_of_Code_2009#Ideas [2]: http://preview.tinyurl.com/cd2b8c [3]: http://preview.tinyurl.com/asnxj2 [4]: mailto:zonker@opensuse.org [5]: http://preview.tinyurl.com/d6f46e [6]: http://preview.tinyurl.com/be4dlj [7]: http://preview.tinyurl.com/clxccy -- 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] openSUSE Build Service 1.5 Announced
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 19 Mar '09

19 Mar '09

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the 1.5 release of the openSUSE Build Service[1]. This release takes developers beyond just building packages. You can now build your own distribution using the openSUSE Build Service! The 1.5 release makes it possible to build entire releases within the build service. and export ISO images and FTP trees. All users can create images locally using "osc build," and permission can be granted to build images using the hosted build service as well. The openSUSE 11.1 release was built entirely in the openSUSE Build Service, and it's now possible for other projects to be created in the openSUSE Build Service as well. Whether you're creating a derivative distribution or product like the openSUSE Education CDs, the openSUSE Build Service now has you covered. Building Appliances and Live CD Images ================================= OBS 1.5 includes the ability to automatically calculate dependencies and create installable images, such as the live CDs[2] and network deployment images[3] for the openSUSE:Tools build hosts. In addition to ISO images, OBS 1.5 can create images for installable USB sticks, Xen images, and VMware images. Another benefit to the 1.5 release is the ability to create product add-ons, such as the openSUSE nonfree add-ons for 11.1. Experimental Features ================== OBS 1.5 also includes several experimental features added by the openSUSE Community, including: * Support for cross-architecture build support, added by Martin Mohring of 5e Datasoft as part of the work towards supporting the ARM architecture with openSUSE. * Package download on demand support thanks to Marcus Hüwe. * Filtering of build results via the Web monitor. This means that OBS users can view only relevant results - like failed builds or only builds targeted at specific distributions. These features are not considered production ready, but are available for developers looking to have early access to these features The OBS team is always looking for additional feedback and contributors to improve the openSUSE Build Service. To discuss Build Service development, subscribe to the opensuse-buildservice list [4], and see the #opensuse-buildservice channel on Freenode. [1]: http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service [2]: https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=KDE:Medias [3]: http://is.gd/o3Zu [4]: opensuse-buildservice+subscribe(a)opensuse.org -- 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] Looking for "case studies"
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 19 Mar '09

19 Mar '09

Hi all, The marketing team is looking for case studies, user stories around openSUSE: Basically, success stories of using openSUSE. More specifically, examples of openSUSE being used in an organization in interesting ways. Using openSUSE to replace proprietary software, or using customized versions of openSUSE in business environments, educational deployments, etc. We'd also welcome examples of using the openSUSE Build Service to solve problems. The wiki page is here: http://en.opensuse.org/Case_Studies (Thanks to Kevin Dupuy for starting the page based on the marketing team discussion). There's no time limit - feel free to add stories as you run across them (with permission from the organization, of course - some orgs might not want to disclose those types of details...). The really important thing is that we get a contact that's willing to talk about the use of openSUSE, as we might want to point reporters in their direction, quote them in official announcements, and so forth. Thanks! Zonker -- 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] Localized LiveCD
by Jean Cayron 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

Hello, I'm trying to make a localized liveCD in Walloon with kiwi and openSUSE 11.1. I managed to make a first testing ISO that's quite good but we might still work a bit on it and on the selection of programs. Announce (sorry it isn't in English) is there: http://walotux.walon.org/spip.php?article30 These were the main issues: - To add translations of minors language to your ISO you must add many packages like "bundle-lang-common" that ships many minor languages and make your ISO too big for a CD. My workaround was to copy the MO files directly to the sources of the image without using the packages. That works but is not very clean. - With kiwi, if you set a language to your live CD, it won't affect your Desktop that will remain in English. You have to change by hand the config files of KDE and ".profile". - Also a problem of keyboard (QWERTY), but I might find the trick. If some people are interested, I could make a post on it, in English, on my website. My two questions are: - Is/was there any plan to make live CD in other languages, mainstream or not? For mainstream languages (FR, ES, IT...) you could put a few languages on the same CD (as Mandriva does). I think on the official on is there only EN and DE. - Is there room on the openSUSE servers to host images of community liveCD such as mine, as long as they respect the new trademark guidelines? How do other projects? My ISO is for now hosted on TuxFamily. Thanks for your reactions and feedbacks. Jean Walloon-team coordinator -- 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] A personal note: On paternity leave soon...
by Andreas Jaeger 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

Next weekend we're celebrating the first birthday of our daughter and that's also the start for my two months paternity leave from Novell and openSUSE. I'll be back on the 22nd of May. During that time I plan not read my email regularly and plan not to be active in the openSUSE project. I might get involved in some discussions but don't count on it or expect me to do anything. I'm basically on a long vacation and my primary focus will be taking care of Jonna Ylvi - and also recharging my batteries, taking photos etc. I see a lot of good changes in the openSUSE project currently and look forward to engage fully again soon. 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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[opensuse-project] openFate screenning team first meeting tomorrow
by Michael Loeffler 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

Hi, the openFate screening team meets tomorrow on #opensuse-project at freenode at 12pm UTC. Look up for your time here: http://tinyurl.com/d49ggg Everbody interested in the progress of openFate is welcome to join. Feel free to add topics on: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenFATE/Screening_team Best M -- Michael Löffler, Product Management SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- 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] Linuxtage Chemnitz Report
by Adrian Schröter 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

Hi, we visited Linuxtage Chemnitz and presented openSUSE at the booth (Stephan Binner and me) and via talks. http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2009/info/ It was a good show, they say about 2600 people were visiting and it was indeed quite full, including good visited talks. Also a very nice building with enough place for the show. This is some collected feedback what we heard there (A lot of people brought their notebooks to get some stuff fixed): 1. We fixed quite a number of notebooks wireless lan support. It was always missing firmware of either Broadcom or Ralink cards. (The ones we are currently not be allowed to ship). openSUSE 11.1 comes even already a script which is doing this for Broadcom, but it is not obvious to find and to use. So we should definitily do something about this, coolo suggested to create an update patch doing this. 2. "How can I update to KDE 4.2" question came very often, but we are good prepared for this with our KDE4 wiki page, I think. 3. "Your KDE 4 looks like KDE 3" feedback (meaned as a complain), basically because of the Aya theming, including the grey desktop bar. 4. One Gnome user (it was almost a KDE show) came because of problems with yast-gtk (do I really need to click once for each update ?). Can be solved via Control+A combination. 5. External SATA disks are handled as internal (aka fixed-mounted) disks due to HAL/PolicyKit rules (which are not easy to change). This means they are not mountable via desktop/HAL. When people are not able to run mount manually, these disks are not supported by Linux from their point of view. Apart from this we got as usual these questions often as usual: * How new is this openSUSE / when will be the next release ? * What is relationship of openSUSE and Novell ? * What is the difference between openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise ? * No single discussion about the MS deal anymore, but general open discussions about patent issues in general and our view of this. Thanks got to the Linuxtage Chemnitz Team for this good show ! bye adrian -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE Linux Products GmbH email: adrian(a)suse.de -- 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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