People of Geeko!
we have exactly one month left to come up with talks for the FOSDEM
distro mini conf 2011. The topic is, as always, cross-distro technology
and affairs. Please if you maintain/contribute to or know about a great
technology that you think is underrated in the other distributions be a
nice FOSS developer and present it. Or you have a nice tangible idea how
distributions can work better together, speak up about it!
This is our chance to leverage the synergies between our own project and
all the other distributions. At the distro mini conf you get to learn
about how others solve the same problems we are facing and equally
important, you are able to draw in contributors to your project!
Please let me know if you have an idea about a great speaker/topic or
want to hold a talk yourself!
Henne
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Dear all,
'browser' is most likely one of the most universal words in our
society. I haven't checked years of background information, so feel
free to blame if somehow this was discussed/approached in the past.
To be short and objective... when I installed my system, I ended up by
bringing up Firefox. I took a minute to look at it and I got a Firefox
beta promo page and openSUSE.org tab. Both ways.... this 2 pages for
me (most likely for a lot of people out there) do not require much
interaction from the user and force him to go to the preferences and
change home page.
Anyway we could add like 'Ubuntu' does a search engine (like the evil
one) on the start page and some cool links like:
* openSUSE > the generic page that exists already on another tab.
* openSUSE Forums > kinda interesting and somehow a more human thing
for new comers.
* (Online) Documentation > Documentation sites.
* openSUSE Ambassadors > I think this one is _IMPORTANT_. High visibility.
If the browser initial page is useful... example: very used search
engine. Many won't change it, just by lazyness and because it serves
them... and we keep high visibility with our users.
Could anyone make such a thing happen?
(And all the other pages, like firefox beta or any other become
secondary, this means, they get a cool tab for themselves, but not the
first).
Please make this happen if you can.
Nelson.
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Hello everyone!
I was wondering if it would be possible to have the openSUSE Live CDs -
Iberian edition hosted by the openSUSE Project. By Iberian edition I mean the
openSUSE 11.3 Official Live CDs localised at least to European Portuguese
(pt_PT) and Castilian Spanish (es_ES). We would maintain the Live CDs
ourselves. The only problem I see now is that it would require more resources
on openSUSE's servers.
This is part of an initiative to promote openSUSE in the Iberian peninsula.
http://lizards.opensuse.org/2010/12/02/christmas-dinner-11th-december-aveir…
portugal/
Greetings,
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Hey,
I just wanted to share a few figures from the bug day that happened last
Saturday, and get feedback about it. As a reminder, the topic of this
bug day was the zombie bugs, that we wanted to either close or move to
11.3/11.4.
Figures
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Open bugs in: 10.2 10.3 11.0
Before: 40 162 526
After: 15 89 360
(note that you might get different figures if you look for the figures
yourself: for some reasons, some bugs are private :/)
At least 10 people participated (and I would think the right number is
more like 15), as far as I can tell by a quick look at my (now
incomplete) IRC log. Thanks to all of them!
We had a few more people joining #opensuse-bugs (which used to be
empty). Some already left it, but you're welcome to stay on that channel
:-)
Feedback
========
IMHO, this went quite well and we made good progress. Some people
already suggested to do another bug day next week! I don't think it was
decided yet, though.
To the developers: you probably got bug mails this week-end :-) Was
there any big mistake that was done? Are you happy with the way it went?
To participants, and potential participants:
- I'd love to hear from people here if the fact that it was on a
Saturday helped you or made it harder for you to participate.
- also, we produced only a small documentation [1] for this bug day. Is
there anything that we should add to this doc?
- anything else we could improve?
Thanks,
[1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Bug_Day
Vincent
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Dear sir
I am making an OS with opensuse 11.3 studio i wish to add an
activation data . means they have to buy activation key and the key is
for 3 user they can be activate unlimited times using same network.
so can you give information about it
Ruben
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Hello world
I would like you to know that I want to run as a candidate for the
board of openSUSE. I am a seasonal forest firefighter in my 'day' job,
so as you can understand, contributing for the common good is all I do
in my life.
I am into FOSS for a couple of years now but I am a man of action so
I do most of the things I plan and do not stay in plans.I am currently
the event manager of Association of Greek Users and Friends of FS /
OSS (GREEKLUG) and I was responsible for organizing the host and
speech of Richard Stallman here in Thessaloniki, which was a huge
success. I spend four days with him and I learned many things about
the meaning of Free Software, among other things, and got deeply
effected and motivated by his words.
I started working with openSUSE almost a year ago and I became
ambassador on that summer. Since I became ambassador I made quite a
few things about it, as I said a man of action. Me along with Stathis
'Diamond_gr' Iosifidis organized the Greek openSUSE community from
scratch. We re-activated the Greek IRC channel which was almost dead.
We started the http://amb.opensuse.gr so that the world can see our
actions as ambassadors. We were the openSUSE team at the 75th
International Trade Fair of Thessaloniki. We made a call for all Greek
Geekos to gather and for a community, although at that time (a few
months ago) almost every 'expert' told us that it would end up a great
failure, we never stopped fighting and finally we prove them wrong. We
recently started translating the openSUSE Weekly news and I am
responsible for gathering and checking the translation. We started
re-organize and translating the Greek wiki. We went to Athens were we
actually met suseRocks and spoke with him about several matters about
the community and the project.I went to several city’s all over Greece
in order to meet in person people of the Greek community because I
strongly believe that face to face communication builds actual trust
and I do whatever is possible to prove people that I truly deserve
their trust. Greek ambassador team trusted me to be the one
communicating the board if needed in order to separate jobs inside the
Greek community. I participated in several innovating events for
openSUSE like the Xariseto Free festival. I represented openSUSE to an
event at primary school in Thessaloniki for celebrating Software
Freedom Day 2010.
Beyond the Greek community I participate actively in the marketing
and the ambassador teams and I am trying to do the same at other teams
too. Andreas Jaeger recently trusted me to be the one of three at the
Ambassador Welcome Team. I probably forgot some of the things I do but
the general idea about me as a person and also my moto for my campaign
is 'Planning is good, but acting is better'. I totally believe in
team working and I think that I co-operate great with others. I am a
Hacker in life more than I am a hacker in programming,in fact I don't
know almost no programming at all nor I am good at solving technically
nature problems. I tend to like my disadvantages and use them as
actual advantages. I think outside of the box and try to think with as
much playful cleverness as I can get. I believe deeply in evolution
and I am not afraid to bleed my ego for evolution to come. I don't
stare at targets, I hit them till I get them and I never give up.
If you read the whole text above I truly thank you,if not I can
understand you ;-)
I hope for your support
Kostas Koudaras (Warlordfff)
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I just published the following at
http://lizards.opensuse.org/2010/11/22/please-note/:
I’m going on parental leave from December 14th to February 13th, 2011. My son
was born in January and now it’s my time to help a bit more out at home. My
wife has many plans for me and I have some myself as well including changing
diapers, some work at the house, celebrating christmas, showing off our kids
to their grandparents, aunts and uncles, getting my son settled in the
daycare, building a snow man…
I hope some days of vacation will be in there as well so that I can be
refreshed again when I return back to the Novell office to continue working
for openSUSE.
Right now, I try to find some people that take over some of my
responsibilities.
I will take care that everything I do which is important will be handled
during the time, e.g. even better reaction to PromoDVD shipping – and silently
hope that after the parental everything works far better without me than right
now ;)
So, you all have a short break from me. I don’t know how much time I’ll spend
online but I know I will not be in the office and don’t want to be fully
engaged during my leave. I’m looking forward to both
the parental leave and also to return – and will read regularly the openSUSE
planet to see what’s happening!
During my absence, Jacqueline Junghanns will take over and handle most of my
responsibilities. Some of you might know Jacqueline from the openSUSE
conferences which she helped to organize. I hand over the virtual mikrophone
to Jacqueline to introduce herself:
Jacqueline
Jacqueline
“Hi, my name is Jacqueline Junghanns and I can say that I am a SUSE dinosaur
as I had my ten year anniversary just a couple of weeks ago and I do not plan
to extinct any time soon ;) . I am very much looking forward to dive into the
openSUSE project because I already got the chance to help out “backstage” and
I am glad about this new opportunity. During my ten years I gathered
experience in various areas such as hardware certification and right now as a
team assistant for OPS.”
Sending of PromoDVDs
One thing I have handled in the past, is sending out of PromoDVDs and other
promotional material for events. We do have a good stock of openSUSE 11.3 DVDs
available and happily send them out for events. Please start using the address
promodvds(a)opensuse.org to request them – and right now Jacqueline and myself
will answer, later only Jacqueline.
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Just forwarded Chucks Mail to opensuse-project.
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Betreff: [election-officials] Notice of Intend
Datum: Mittwoch, 1. Dezember 2010, 09:44:10
Von: Chuck Payne <terrorpup(a)gmail.com>
Bis: election-officials(a)opensuse.org
Hi,
I like to throw my name in as a candidate for board of openSUSE. For
the past two years I have been helping out as Ambassador, but I have
been a SUSE user since 5.3. I love my work with openSUSE, and I want
to do more. I think my experince as System Administrator, End User,
Mentor, and Ambassador, plus years of experience would be a big plus
to board and to the community.
Sincerely,
Chuck "PUP" Payne
a.k.a terrorpup/lupinstein
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Hey openSUSE community, valued election committee,
Following up on the call for candidates, I'd like to let you know that I'm
intending to run for the openSUSE Board.
In my dayjob, I am responsible for user experience at open-slx, and will be
able to invest time on a regular basis into participating in the openSUSE
board. I have a degree in business science, which gives me some formal insight
into organisational processes, this has helped my work for the KDE e.V. in the
past, and it will surely be benefitial for openSUSE. I am 34 years old, and
live in Nijmegen, in the east of the Netherlands.
I have more than 4 years of experience in administering a Free software
project (I'm member of the KDE e.V. board since 2006), and during this period
have helped turning the KDE e.V. into an effective community representation
and supporting organisation, which in many ways acts as a role model to other,
similar organisations. The Geeko in me is about 9 years old, it started with
openSUSE 7.2, which got me hooked on Linux. After a period of trying all kinds
of Linuxen, I'm firmly back to openSUSE for about two years now.
openSUSE represents to me a technically excellent product with a friendly,
helpful and skilled community around it that is failing to realise its
potential, and in many ways is searching for orientation and a clear mission.
Aside from organisational topics, this process I'd like to facilitate.
My platform for the elections is to help set up the openSUSE e.V. (or rather a
legal representation of the community, as outlined in the current plans), and
to help the community through the process of becoming more independent from
Novell, which in my opinion is important for the growth and sustainability of
openSUSE as product and community. I'm a Free software dude by heart, and the
principle and ethics of the Free software community will be what drives my
decisions as executive. My experience as "cat-herder" will be beneficial in
the same way.
I do realise that my involvement in the openSUSE community has been fairly
transparant, following things from the sideline, stepping in actively here and
there, and certainly far from taking on any role as rock-star. I am planning
to further ramp up my profile, since that a) will make the members' decision
during the elections a lot easier, and b) it improves accessibility and
visibility of the TOTRoS (The Organisation That Represents openSUSE).
This email is just to let you know in advance that I'm intending to run for
the board. As I /also/ intend to go on vacation on Friday, I might appear
unresponsive until ~christmas. Still, I opted for letting everybody know early
on that I'm intending to run (rather than sending my note of intent to run
after christmas), as planning will likely make the work of the election
committee a bit easier.
Surely, if you've questions already, feel free to ask. I will, after returning
from vacation be more outgoing about my involvement with openSUSE and my ideas
and plans for the openSUSE board.
Thanks for your attention, and your support.
*jumps off the soapbox*
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