Hello Mates,
few weeks ago, the voting for a Name for the "Spokesperson" is over. The
voting goes to "Ambrassador".
But what is planned now?
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Hi,
as anticipated elsewhere I'm putting together a wiki page to collect
information on where help and contributions are needed in openSUSE.
The basic idea is to create a SINGLE page on the wiki where:
* users can find information on where their help is more needed,
and links to other pages where they can find more details on how
to start working on a certain task.
* developers and long term contributors can insert their needs in
terms of people necessary to do something.
In other words it is a sort of page to recruit volunteers, so that they
don't get lost in the wiki and on mailing-lists.
Ideally, when this page is ready, it should be linked in very visible
places, like news.o.o and in some part of the wiki home page (a blinking
neon light on it would help ;)), so that it can be easily found.
Of course all suggestions to improve the idea, and all comments are
welcome.
Currently the page is here: http://en.opensuse.org/Geeko_wants_you! and
it looks quite desert, because I just started to put it together. I will
add more stuff soon, but for the areas where help is needed, I need your
help!
Regards,
Alberto
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Hi,
this has been discussed recently already ---and still is, I believe---, but
in the light of the recent announcement, that openSUSE 11.2 is not exactly
around next corner, the issue should be given more attention, I think.
* Problem:
In order to bridge the long time until the next release, many of the more
advanced users are trying to find a way in order to enhance their KDE4
experience on 11.1. And let's be honest: No one in his right mind would
prefer 4.1.3 over 4.2.1 if given the choice.
Same goes for Gnome and XFCE I suspect, but I am not into those.
* Workaround:
So, the question would be how the openSUSE project will give those a home
who look for stability (as in "works reliably", not "doesn't change version
number") *and* improved features.
* Current "solution":
Installing KDE4 from factory is not exactly an option for productive
systems (even at home), since it is used for the development of upcoming
releases. Packages change too often, and small features working today break
tomorrow.
* Better solution:
Thus, instead of providing a better (i.e. more useable and reliable)
factory release, I'd vote for a new, prominently placed repository which
simply provides packaged versions of certain upstream projects: KDE4, Gnome
and XFCE should definitely be enough in order to cover 95% of the users.
* Objections, criticisms:
There should be no extra work spent with patching, since those repos would
contain pretty much plain vanilla upstream plus the usual branding.
Also, given e.g. KDE and Gnome release cycles, the packaging/updating of
the repo should happen only once every month, at the most. Announcements
for such updates should appear in news.opensuse.org, which would surely
increase the attention paid to that site, too.
* Comparison with competing projects/distributions:
This service is not so outstanding as it may sound: both Fedora and
Mandriva (semi-)officially provide updated packages for KDE 4.2 even when
they initially delivered 4.1.x, while openSUSE 11.x only offers updates
from Factory, which I would never propose here in my office and lab
environment, other than for myself.
* Impact on user base and reputation:
So, I feel that this would greatly improve our community orientation and
would meet the wishes and requirements of a very important and big part of
the openSUSE users, namely early adopters and the curious ones. Hobbyists,
quite simple. The rest is using Windows and MacOS, anyway, or enterprise
versions.
Providing an easy-to-find rolling-release repository and package the
upstream major and important minor releases for at least the most important
desktop environments shouldn't be impossible. If it is, we really have a
bad packaging concept...
http://en.opensuse.org/BrainStorming_Prague/Way_we_do_packaging_is_ineffect…
Sorry in advance for this long email. My excuse is that it just shows how
much I think that this is important and vital for keeping and growing our
user base.
Best regards from Freiburg,
Daniel Mader
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This is a hastily-written and underthought idea, but team idea came
when I was reading Coolo's letter on the proposed schedule. I, and I'm
sure I'm not the only one, would like to see more features and apps
developed here at openSUSE. It would be awesome to be able to read the
11.2 feature tour and read about some new innovative stuff that we've
developed.
In openSUSE 10.2 and 10.3, there were several original features
developed, however much of those actually came out of SLED. Since
then, we've mainly been implementing upstream. Nothing wrong with
that, but it would be nice to do some more innovation.
So here's my idea: push users to talk about features they want to see,
and add them somewhere (The GNOME Team has an Idea page, how about
KDE?); go through those pages, add the good ideas to openFATE, and
interested developers can start working on them.
As I said, this was a quick idea, so let's hear everyone's comments
and suggestions :-)
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The openSUSE Project is looking for a few good mentors for the Google Summer
of Code[1] 2009! The openSUSE Project was a mentoring organization last year,
and we're hoping to participate again in 2009. Organization signup starts
next week[2], and prospective mentors can sign up next week as well.
Signup starts March 9th[3] at 19:00 UTC/12:00 PST and ends March 13th at
19:00 UTC/12:00 PST. Accepted organizations will be announced on March 18th,
and there's a week (March 18 through 23) for organizations and students to
meet and discuss.
The student application period begins March 23rd, and ends April 3rd. All of
the dates are on the Google SoC FAQ and we'll be sending out announcements as
each of the important dates approach.
Right now, we're gathering ideas for the Summer of Code on the openSUSE
wiki[4]. (Thanks to Lukas Ocilka, Stanislav Visnovsky, and Jiri Srain[5]
for starting this!) Feel free to add your own ideas or help revise the
existing ideas.
Also, if you're interested in helping out, please add your name[6] to the
openSUSE GSoC '09 page.
In addition to mentors (and students...) we'll need help finding mentors,
reviewing GSoC applications, facilitating communication during GSoC, and so
forth. (Again, see the wiki!)
If you have questions about openSUSE and GSoC, ask on the opensuse-project
list.
[1]: http://code.google.com/soc/
[2]: http://preview.tinyurl.com/cgha8l
[3]: http://en.opensuse.org/Summer_of_Code_2009#Important_dates
[4]: http://en.opensuse.org/Summer_of_Code_2009#Ideas
[5]: http://preview.tinyurl.com/dx4qe9
[6]: http://en.opensuse.org/Summer_of_Code_2009#Organization
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Dear openSUSE-Project, dear "Contact Information"
(permission(a)novell.com)
With the release of the first openSUSE Trademark Guidelines [1], we see
the big advantage to get the problem around the covered topics
addressed. Thank you very much!
We, the openSUSE-Education project, are a small community driven project
aiming to optimize openSUSE for use at universities and schools as well
as for education usage by schoolers or students.
We've created "Add-on" Medias containing additional applications for
already released openSUSE distributions. We've also created some
manuals and HowTos (in the openSUSE-Wiki[2] and as PDF[3]) describing
how to add the Add-on Media to an installed openSUSE distribution and
use the additional software. Our repository is hosted by a server
available under the URL www.opensuse-education.org.
Regarding to your Trademark Guidelines, we've the following (permission)
questions:
1) Are we allowed to use the Name "openSUSE-Education" as Project name?
Note: our Add-on Media is called "openSUSE-Education 1.0 for openSUSE
$version"
2) Are we allowed to use the domain opensuse-education.org ?
Note: the homepage already contains a pointer that we're a community
driven project.
3) Are we allowed to use any openSUSE Logos|Mark on our project homepage
and documentation/presentations?
5) Are we allowed to use a modified form of the openSUSE-Logo ?
Currently, we've
* a small Gecko with a doctoral cap on his head [4]
* a full Gecko with this head and the "logotype" openSUSE-Education
6) Are we allowed to use our current CD-Cover for the Add-on Media as it
contains some "openSUSE" words in it?
7) Is it this right: we can create an installable openSUSE Media
containing our own addtiional applications - but we have to remove all
openSUSE Marks from it. ?
Looking forward to your reply.
With kind regards,
Lars (on behalf of the openSUSE-Education Team)
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The next openSUSE Project meeting will be Wednesday, March 11th, at
17:00 UTC on Freenode. Again that's:
2009-03-11 17:00 UTC
See all the timezones here: http://is.gd/lZgv.
This is going to be a fairly substantial meeting, so if you can attend
please do so! We'll be discussin the latest developments in and around
openSUSE. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at:
http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Project_Meeting_2009-03-11
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
http://www.irchelp.org/. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE.
For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/.
Please spread the word!
Best,
Zonker
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[english version below]
Moin,
die Chemnitzer Linux-Tage [1] finden am 14./15. März an der TU in
Chemnitz statt und das openSUSE Projekt ist wieder mit dabei. Wir
haben einen Stand [2] und werden Samstag 15 Uhr Interessantes zum
Projekt präsentieren [3].
Am Stand selbst gibt's natürlich Wissenswertes um das Projekt, die
Distribution und den openSUSE Build Service. Wir hoffen viele
Menschen aus der Community zu treffen und freuen uns, wenn wir noch
Unterstützung am Stand bekommen. Wer Interesse hat, bitte [4] hier
eintragen.
Gruß
Michael
[1] http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2009/info/index.html
[2] http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2009/live/plan.html
[3] http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2009/vortraege/plan.html
[4] http://de.opensuse.org/ChemnitzerLinux-Tage
Moin,
the openSUSE project will be present at Chemnitzer Linux-Tage [1] with
a booth [2] and one presentation [3] about the project on Saturday
March 14, 3pm.
At the booth you'll meet some openSUSE people showing you the latest
stuff around the distribution, the project and the openSUSE Build
Service. We hope to see many community people and having good
conversation.
Anybody wants to help at the booth? That would be very much
appreciated. Please go to [4] to let us know who you are and when
you're available.
Best
Michael
[1] http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2009/info/index_en.html
[2] http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2009/live/plan_en.html
[3] http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2009/vortraege/plan_en.html
[4] http://en.opensuse.org/ChemnitzerLinux-Tage
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Hello,
I have thought for quite some time to the idea of building a
community-based openSUSE testing team, and this seems to be the right
time to discuss of it.
The main idea is to create a group of stable testers to deeply test
openSUSE functionalities on their machines, in order to catch annoying
bugs earlier in the development stages, allowing the fixes to be done
and tested again in a more timely and less rushed manner.
It won't be easy, we need motivated volunteers and we have a lot to
learn to do it the right way, but I think it is worth the effort, if we
want to keep faith to the guiding principles, which states openSUSE aims
to be "the most usable Linux distribution" (and not the most cutting
edge one!).
I summed up the motivations, a short problem analysis about the current
status quo, and some proposal of solution in the attached slides so you
can comment them (thanks suseROCKs for the slide template).
All suggestions (and volunteers) are more than welcome, as well as some
help from Novell people currently involved in testing/quality assurance.
As I said we need to learn. ;-)
With kind regards,
Alberto
Hey guys I was wondering, is it a bug or just the way it is that when we
ask YaST to install AMP we no longer get
the "It Works" page? Maybe we should think about a default "Welcome to
openSUSE's implimentation of Apache2" page
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