October 2011 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-project] How we will use the GSoC money
by Vincent Untz 18 Jul '24

18 Jul '24

Hi, (let's see how a public discussion about money goes :-)) The Google Summer of Code brings us great students, but also means that the openSUSE project will get $8000 (if I'm not mistaken) at the end of the summer. That's $500 per student. A while ago, I requested comments on my blog about what to do with the money, but didn't get any feedback. So I take this as "do what you feel is best", and this mail is about the plan. As a reminder, the main issue is that we will likely not have the openSUSE Foundation created in time for this. For instance, Google would like us to get some form filled before the end of June; this is not a mandatory timeline, but I think it shows that we won't be ready with the Foundation for that. The current plan is to give that money to another organization we feel close to, and I have two candidates in mind: - the Software Freedom Conservancy (http://sfconservancy.org/) it's a really nice org that provides a home for various cool projects (see http://sfconservancy.org/members/current/) and those projects help make openSUSE a great project. - the Desktop Summit (https://www.desktopsummit.org/) it's one of the biggest event this year, and this would help us have some more visibility (since we'd be sponsors, I guess). I'm sure they would welcome this to secure their budget. Note that an alternative solution would be to leave the money to Google for a future GSoC or similar program, but I feel it's better to use the money where it can make a difference today. Now, it's not too late to change the plan. If you have a better suggestion, please tell us. There's no need to argue forever about it, just explain why you think it's good. Keep in mind that if we cannot receive the money ourselves, this also means that we cannot use it to buy stuff for openSUSE. Pavol and I will take the final decision since we are the GSoC admins for openSUSE. Thanks, 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] talk at or visit Linux Open Administration Days
by Jos Poortvliet 12 Apr '12

12 Apr '12

Hi all, April 16-17 in Antwerp, Belgium, the Linux Open Administration Days will take place. This free event offers a chance for LPI certification as well as meeting and talking to linux sysadmins. There is a call for presentations here: http://www.loadays.org/content/call-presentations If you want to go and give a talk there about openSUSE tech - that's be awesome. If you can't afford to go there due to travel or hotel costs, let me know, we might be able to work something out ;-) cheers, Jos

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[opensuse-project] Announcing the openSUSE board election 2011
by openSUSE Election Officials 19 Nov '11

19 Nov '11

We are pleased to announce the openSUSE Board Election 2011. The Election Committee [1] has prepared the timeline for this year’s election. The election process consists of the following phases: October 28, 2011 - Start of standing up for candidacy, apply for membership Start to apply for an openSUSE membership [2] (in order to vote). Start to stand up for a position in the openSUSE Board or nominate another opensuse member for the board. November 25, 2011 - Start of campaign Announcing the candidates of this years election. December 2, 2011 – Ballots open December 16, 2011 – Ballots close – End of voting December 19, 2011 – Announcement of the results Announcing the results and new board members Seats to get elected In this election we will have three seats to get elected, as the election period of three board seats will be up for election. These seats are currently held by Rupert Horstkotter, Pavol Rusnak, and Bryen Yunashko. Of these three, only Pavol Rusnak is available to get re-elected. Call for candidates and nominations If you intend to run for the board or have any questions, please contact the Election Committee by sending an email to election-officials(a)opensuse.org. Also, if you want to nominate somebody else, tell the election officials and they will contact the nominated person and ask whether s/he is willing to run for the board. What is the openSUSE Board? The openSUSE board [3] consists of five members elected by the community and one chair person appointed by SUSE. It was setup to lead the overall project. It’s main tasks are: Act as a central point of contact Help resolve conflicts Communicate community interests to SUSE Facilitate communication with all areas of the community Facilitate decision making processes where needed. [1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election#Election_committee [2] http://en.opensuse.org/Members [3] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Step Up for Google Code-In
by Bryen M. Yunashko 12 Nov '11

12 Nov '11

Folks, Following the great results of the Google Summer of Code this year, we have a new opportunity in the coming months to bring in even more students into our community with the Google Code-In Contest. This is a contest aimed at pre-university students between the ages of 13-17 by providing them with a specific list of tasks to complete. You can read more about the program at http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2011. Our awesome Manu Gupta who lit the fire and revived our spirit for GSoC this year is at it again and lighting up our fires for Google Code In (GCI). You can see our own wiki pages here: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GCI http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GCI_Tasks How you can help: Visit the our task wiki page and add tasks you think would be good for students and helpful to our openSUSE Project. And even better, add yourself as a mentor to help guide these students who will be the future of our great community. Please notice that not all tasks must be coding-related. There's a variety of community/project/web-related tasks we can come up with for these students. Time is short and we need you to add to the task page soon. On November 9, we will hopefully be approved by Google and by November 21, these students will begin working until January 16, 2012. If you have any questions, please contact Manu or me and we'll be happy to be there for you! Sincerely, Bryen M yunashko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] [boosters] WIP: openSUSE Firefox Start Page
by Klaas Freitag 10 Nov '11

10 Nov '11

Hi, at git@github.com:rlihm/openSUSE-Start-Page.git (open blank.html !) you can find what we have so far as a proposal for a new browser start page for the openSUSE distribution. Currently there is only the 'net-version', no support for 'disconnected' computers. Please give us some feedback about the general appearance and the link collection. Does it meet the goal to five people a good and attracting start to openSUSE? What do you think? regards, Klaas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] [boosters] kanban board
by Thomas Schmidt 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

Hi all, as we had the request to find an open-source alternative to trello[1] that we can host ourselves I found kanban-board: http://code.google.com/p/kanban-board/ and installed a demo on my machine: http://guybrush.suse.de/?page=project&id=9 I think trello is much better, as kanban-board is missing some features of it such as: - assigning tasks to multiple users - commenting, voting, adding attachments to tasks - adding a checklist, labels to a task - setting a duedate Sending this here, as I won't be able to attend our meeting on monday. Have a nice weekend! Greetings [1] https://trello.com/board/obs-upstream-attraction/4e96a89544326f00003b4460 -- Thomas Schmidt (tom [at] opensuse.org) openSUSE Boosters Team "Don't Panic", Douglas Adams (11.03.1952 - 11.05.2001) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] openSUSE Medical Calling for Leadership
by Athanasios-Ilias Rousinopoulos 30 Oct '11

30 Oct '11

Hello Mates! openSUSE Medical here! Well i would to announce that "openSUSE Medical Calling for Leadership" a) Due to lack of time (i've began my Master Studies abroad) i've to give up from the project. I think that there are people who are able to lead the project and have more time available. So "Looking for openSUSE Medical Next Leader" b) Anyone interested in leading the project can reply to this e-mail or can post an e-mail to the <opensuse-medical(a)opensuse.org> Rousiopoulos Athanasios-Ilias -- Rousinopoulos Athanasios-Ilias -- About Me-- http://zoumpis.wordpress.com http://www.zoumpis.eu http://en.opensuse.org/User:Zoumpis http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Medical_team -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] icc.opensuse.org host access needed
by Kai-Uwe Behrmann 30 Oct '11

30 Oct '11

Hello, we would like to obtain a new ssh access to icc.opensuse.org. The maintainer is https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/profile/tian2992 and me as backup maintainer: https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/profile/bekun The public ssh is on the connect pages. thanks and kind regards Kai-Uwe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-project] Re: [opensuse-factory] The release notes/product highlights for 12.1
by Robert Schweikert 29 Oct '11

29 Oct '11

On 10/25/2011 03:00 PM, Per Jessen wrote: > Robert Schweikert wrote: > >>>> If we have a "Community" section in the release notes we can >>>> highlight projects such as KDE:KDE3 that are efforts by the >>>> community or individuals within the community and that are not part >>>> of the release as such. In this section we could also talk about >>>> other projects such as the Virtualization:Cloud projects that are >>>> not part of 12.1 proper but might be interesting to people looking >>>> at openSUSE. >>>> >>>> Hope this clarifies things a bit. >>> >>> Not really, but I look forward to further clarification of what is >>> community driven and what isn't. It is clear that some things are >>> not (KDE4, systemd come to mind), but it's all mostly hidden behind >>> the scene. >> >> Excuse me? >> >> How are KDE4 and systemd not community driven? > > Why don't you explain the opposite to me? What were the decision > processes involved in the focus-shift towards KDE4? OK, I'll be partially repeating what I said in the thread when we discussed systemd. Those who contribute to any given devel project within openSUSE determine the direction of the project by means of their contribution. If a given devel project such as the init system or KDE happens to have mostly contributors that also happen to work at SUSE than that's just the way it is. However, this does not preclude contributors that do not work for SUSE, there's no "SUSE employees only" project in openSUSE, to contribute to the devel project. With contribution one gets influence over the direction of the project. Those who do the work determine the direction. Then they submit to factory and if things work and are maintained the submissions generally get accepted into factory. As I mentioned previously, the maintainers of the devel projects generally follow the direction of upstream, thus the switch to KDE4 is quite logical as KDE3 was abandoned upstream. Similar for the init system, upstream development is moving to systemd. There is nothing that prevents someone from maintaining the init system in openSUSE, just don't expect it to happen by some miracle, it takes people to do it and if the people who maintain the startup processes decide that something new is better and they don't break what I am doing I have little grounds to complain. If something breaks I get an opportunity to contribute and I can file a bug. As long as I do not contribute to a given project I certainly have no grounds to bitch and complain about the direction the project takes. I certainly can voice my opinion, but that should occur in a well mannered tone. Later, Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU SUSE-IBM Software Integration Center LINUX Tech Lead rjschwei(a)suse.com rschweik(a)ca.ibm.com 781-464-8147 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] openStack in openSUSE 12.1
by Jos Poortvliet 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

Heya all, I noticed that SUSE is supporting openStack: http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/10/red-vs-green-suse-backs- openst.php Which is cool, I'm always happy to see SUSE contribute to great open source projects. It does make me wonder what the openStack status is in openSUSE 12.1. We might be able to give our SUSE friends some extra attention if we have a good openstack in openSUSE and can point people to that in our upcoming announcement :D Any info on this I would greatly appreciate. You can either go brain- dump here in the etherpad: http://ietherpad.com/12-1-release-notes or mail to me directly! Thanks, Jos

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