April 2009 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-project] Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting Wednesday April 22 at 13:00 UTC
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 18 Apr '09

18 Apr '09

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place Wednesday April 22nd at 13:00 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[2]. 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[3]. 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[4]. 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[5]. All project meetings and team meetings should be listed there. [1]: http://bit.ly/Tb6zE [2]: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Project_Meeting_2009-04-22 [3]: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About [4]: http://www.irchelp.org/ [5]: 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] Please add your appointments to the news.o.o calendar !!
by Jan-Simon Möller 18 Apr '09

18 Apr '09

Hi from the Weekly News Team ! Please use the built-in calendar of news.o.o and post your appointments for meetings/events there, too. To do this: login to news.o.o and create a new post for your appointment, scroll down to the event-editor and fill in the needed values. Background: we use the ical-feed als reference for the weekly newsletter ! Best regards, Jan-Simon -- 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] BugBuster team ?
by Rajko M. 18 Apr '09

18 Apr '09

It appear, from many posts on mail lists, as urgent need to organize effort on bug solving, so I propose to create team of people willing to work on that. Purpose: Helping developers in bug handling. Picking issues on bugzilla, mail lists, forums, and working on them in cooperation with developers. Advantage: Friendly bug reporting for users. Lesser load on developers for trivial tasks to triage bugs and ask users for often asked information, education of users what is necessary. Task on hand: Actively ask people that already report bugs to join team. I'm not sure on acceptance of BugBuster term, so I didn't create wiki page. -- 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] openSUSE wiki search
by Rajko M. 17 Apr '09

17 Apr '09

The opensuse wiki search needs improvement. Today I tried: http://en.opensuse.org/Special:Search?search=community+week&go.x=0&go.y=0&g… and perfectly present web site that has small difference to search term: http://en.opensuse.org/CommunityWeek gave me trouble. At the same time Google search did not have that problem. I moved CommunityWeek to Community Week, so our wiki search works fine now, but we either have to develop better search ('inventing hot water' comes in mind), or incorporate Google search and be over with. What do you think? PS. This is probably decision that needs some approval beyond wiki maintainers, so it is posted here. -- 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] Localized Live CDs
by Javier Llorente 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

Hello! Following Jean Cayron's howto make a localized openSUSE 11.1 Live CD (thanks Jean!), I made one myself. In my case, I didn't have to follow steps 14 and 15, except for editing .profile Anyways, my ISO is too big (717.8 MB). Any suggestions on what packages to remove that are not very important? Tomorrow I will make the ISO without the *-en stuff. Another thing... are there any plans to host localized live CDs on opensuse.org? I think that this would help spread the word about openSUSE. :-) Greetings, Javier -- Javier Llorente openSUSE 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] group calendar: is it possible?
by James Tremblay aka SLEducator 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

I was wondering is there a way for there to be a calendar we all can subscribe to? Could it be a central calendar for all groups\projects to post to ? -- James A. Tremblay openSIS Product Specialist http://www.os4ed.com e-mail james "at" os4ed.com Registered Linux user #440182 openSUSE-Education founder http://en.opensuse.org/education e-mail sleducator "at" opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-project] About opensuse-gsoc, mentors and proposals
by Alberto Passalacqua 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

Hi Ricardo, first of all, thanks for your reply and for your approach too. I think you should retry next year, with a detailed proposal. In the meanwhile, you can start to know people in the openSUSE community and the developers at Novell that work on openSUSE. It doesn't hurt for sure to you and to them, if you are intentioned to take part to the GSOC initiative in the future. Plus your idea were actually appreciated by two of them already! Another little tip: a polite email to poke someone is not against the netiquette, and actually shows you are interested. The guys at openSUSE/Novell are very busy, so a direct contact is much more effective than the ML in my opinion. If you need "lessons on how to poke people", feel free to ask to suseROCKs. He is the expert! :-) Best wishes, and stay around :-) Il giorno lun, 13/04/2009 alle 21.37 -0400, Ricardo Cornet ha scritto: > No, I did not contact them. As I said in the previous mail, I > misundersttod of Cornelius Schum more of as support/encouragement than > actual mentorship interest. And Michael Loffler mail was also a miss for > me. I once again thought that the people interested on mentoring would > be on the mailing list and if interested would contact me and telling me > explicitly so. > > I did not want to be overly aggressive on contacting every single > person. That included PM people on irc when they were available. > > Later thanks to suseRocks on freenode I got Coly Li mail and the > assurance that is was ok to contact people directly. So at least I was > able to talk a little with someone about a proposal, the extend of > details, etc. > > So I hope this truly serves anyone looking on the mailing list archives > on the future. > > Also the mailing list faq give me a feeling of "beware of what you do" > attitude regarding nettiquete. :-) > > Well I know better for the future now. > > Ricardo Cornet -- 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] Request for open suse Goodies
by Rohit Gupta 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

We the students of 'Kalyani Govt. Engg. College' (Kalyani, WB, India) are keenly interested in learning GNU/Linux and have made some efforts to use and learn. we are now conducting a 'FreedomFest' on April 18, 2009 in our college. This is the inauguration of 'GNU/Linux User Group of KGEC' followed by FOSS events. The outline of the program to be conducted are as follows: 1. inauguration by Principal 2. Talks on 'Why FOSS' 3. Linux workshop and how-to session The Mailing List of our GLUG is: http://groups.google.com/group/kgeclug The whole event is a student initiative of our college and we need open suse support. We request open suse to send us some goodies for our event. Regards: Rohit Gupta KGEC -- 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 opensuse-gsoc, mentors and proposals
by Ricardo Cornet 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

I wrote five proposals for opensuse in gsoc. I published a brief summary of the proposals right here and sit expecting feedback and mentors. My bad. My mistake. I was too dreamy and walking on the clouds. I got a few lines of feedback to my easy yast proposal, but nothing else. Until yesterday when I was told on a comment on a proposal that I needed to elaborate more on implementations matters. That bother me. Because the process as I understood it was me + other people, debate and ideas and then final draft. To elaborate without any discussion or contact other than unidirectional comments is not simple without mind reading abilities. I made the proposals short and simple to read, leaving out details until I got more feedback and could refine them. I have many ideas between simple/traditional to radical. I made my proposals deliberately short for the sake of brevity and simplicity. And also made short for flexibility. To start with a "from where do we start and how far are we going to go" approach. A fresh start. It is opinion that the process is not transparent enough. Not because of obscurity, but because of distance. Perhaps my proposals are poor and without merit. Perhaps my approach and expectations from the process and the community were set to high. Perhaps I got it all wrong all the way. But a the very least I would like to know if that were the case. Sorry for any broken grammar/english. Its 4:34AM and I have to finish some other things and prepare to travel. It's Semana Santa holidays on my country and that means I'm out of the net until at best saturday, at worst monday. I would like to know your opinions by then if possible. Thanks for your time. Ricardo Cornet. -- 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] Ideas for openSUSE Community Week
by Satoru Matsumoto 13 Apr '09

13 Apr '09

Hi listmates, There was an "unofficial(?)" meeting about upcoming 'openSUSE Community Week' yesterday. Although most of the details are still WIP and the official announcement about that will be posted later by Micheal or Zonker, I came up with some ideas and would like to show them here. - Countdown banner for openSUSE Comminity Week How about creating a countdown banner for openSUSE Comminity Week as we did for the release of 11.1. http://counter.opensuse.org/11.1/small.en.png I don't know exactly how I can create such a banner, but IIRC, Pascal created the one for the release of 11.1. If we have such a countdown banner, don't you think we can spread the word all over the web with it ? - Community "theme" or "slogan" for 11.2 contest As I posted to -marketing list in past times, how about organizing the contest for 'Community "theme" or "slogan" for 11.2' during the openSUSE Community week ? http://lists.opensuse.org/archive/opensuse-marketing/2009-02/msg00010.html ...Or, should I wait for the official announcement ? 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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