November 2011 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[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] Starting a LUG in Den Bosch, The Netherlands
by Emilien Klein 19 Nov '11

19 Nov '11

Hi the openSUSE community, We are setting up a LUG in Den Bosch, The Netherlands. I was wondering if people from your community would be interested in joining us. We plan to have our first meeting on Tuesday, Noverber 29th, 2011. Please get in touch with me if you'd be interested. And please do transfer this message to your eventual contacts in the Den Bosch area (FYI it's between Eindhoven, Tilburg and Utrecht). Thanks, Emilien -- 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] Some Questions about OwnCloud and Mirall
by Kostas Koudaras 19 Nov '11

19 Nov '11

Hi I use a lot the dropbox application in order to share various files between me desktop and notebook and in order to have instant access to my shared data from other systems or in order to share some of my data to other users. I was very happy when I read that openSUSE 12.1 will be supporting OwnCloud, although I never tested so far. I read the http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:OwnCloud also I went to the OwnCloud page and saw the demo and I really liked it but I did not understand a few things. 1) Does OwnCloud gives you a free storage like Dropbox and how many MB/GB is that? 2) Do I have to firstly install OwnCloud or by installing Mirall I will be ok? 3) Is Mirall on any of the Community repos or is it available only by one click install? I have the 'basic' repos on my desktop and I could not find it there. Thanks in advance Kostas - http://opensuse.gr http://amb.opensuse.gr http://own.opensuse.gr http://warlordfff.tk me I am not me ------- Time travel is possible, you just need to know the right aliens -- 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] Running for the openSUSE Board (2011)
by Andrew Wafaa 18 Nov '11

18 Nov '11

As was announced[0] last month, the Board is looking for some new blood. As such I intend to run for one of the available seats. Yes people, your lovable FunkyPenguin is hoping to be able to represent you and all your crazy ideas (I've got some of those myself ;-) ). I know of a few other candidates that are running, and they're fine upstanding folk of the openSUSE community. I believe you should think long and hard about who you would like to represent you. The Board is in place for you, the community, and as such it is up to you to say whom you would like to represent you. For those that don't know me: I'm known as FunkyPenguin on IRC, I often wear a kilt, I've been a contributor to openSUSE for at least five years and been a user for much much longer. As part of my contributions I was very active in the GNOME team, I helped to bring the now defunct MeeGo UI to openSUSE, and lately I'm helping to port openSUSE to ARM, as well as general packaging of bits and bobs. I'm a fairly no-nonsense kind of chap, and I will say things as I see them (I will endeavour to ensure I take people's sensibilities into account too). I also like to believe I'm an approachable person, so if you want to speak to me off the grid then that's fine too, although I do prefer open communication. So for now in the words of Porky Pig, that's all folks! I'll be speaking to you (and hopefully not at you) soon. Andy 0 = http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2011-10/msg00126.html -- Andrew Wafaa IRC: FunkyPenguin GPG: 0x3A36312F -- 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] help!!!!!
by Jos Poortvliet 18 Nov '11

18 Nov '11

Heya all, As you might have noticed, one of the coolest things in openSUSE 12.1 is ownCloud/mirall. We have a SDB page explaining what it is and how to install it: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:OwnCloud Go, read, if you dont know yet! In short, it integrates ownCloud in your desktop (GNOME/KDE/whatever). Now for today, we had planned an extensive article to explain ownCloud to our users and give them some more pointers on the what, how and why. Unfortunately, this did not work out as ownCloud installation still has a small issue: it requires not only the Network repository but also a ruby gem from the rubygems repo (see the SDB page). Klaas (who works most on mirall) is unfortunately not well and as you know I am not smart enough to fix something like that. Moreover, I am at LinuxCon and there is no wireless here - I can only check what happens on the web once or twice a day. But we feel not comfortable, releasing this without an easy way to install it. It would just give openSUSE a bad image, while we are using mirall and ownCloud to show how cool we are! So, we need help. A few people have to get together and try to fix this repo mess. Either by including the rubygems repo in the one-click-install (thats a simple and easy fix, yes), or find another way around it (no idea how). Then update the SDB wiki page and next time I check online, I will look if that page has been updated - if so, I will incorporate the changes in the news article about ownCloud and publish it! Instead, if you have a fix, you can also ping the news@opensuse team and ask them to publish the article of course. Please, help make openSUSE rock :D thanks, Jos -- 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] Sign Up Mentors For Google Code-in
by Manu Gupta 17 Nov '11

17 Nov '11

Hi All, Its time to sign up for becoming mentors at Google Code-in. To do so, 1. Please Create your profile at http://www.google-melange.com/gci/profile/mentor/google/gci2011 And send me or Matt Barringer your username / email Id with which you registered yourself. We will add you as mentors to openSUSE. This needs to be done very fast as contest begins from Monday. Thanks a lot -- Regards Manu Gupta -- 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] Weekly News Issue 202 is coming soon...
by Sascha Manns 17 Nov '11

17 Nov '11

Hello Mates, don't worry about this mail. I just would like to remind that our next openSUSE Weekly News 202 comes out at Saturday evening (UTC +2). Until Saturday 17:00 UTC you can propose Articles, Links and all such stuff for integrating into the Weekly News. For people who don't want to write it in XML, you can use our Pad: http://os-news.ietherpad.com/2. I've planned to send this Mail each Wednesday to remind on the Weekly News. Have a lot of fun -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns Community & Support Agent open-slx GmbH Web: http://community.open-slx.de -- 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] 12.1 is out!
by Jos Poortvliet 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

Hey all, Congratulations on a great job - openSUSE 12.1 has been synced to the mirrors and is available for general consumption! Read the announcement on news.opensuse.org: http://news.opensuse.org/2011/11/16/opensuse-12-1-all-green/ Read our Product Highlights: http://en.opensuse.org/Product_highlights Download it: http://software.opensuse.org/121 and Have a lot of fun!

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[opensuse-project] OBS in the product_highlights
by Jos Poortvliet 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

Heya all, Last year our Product Highlights only talked about what we officially ship in the OSS repo and on the DVD. This year, I couldn't help but add a few really cool things we're doing outside of our normal repo's, including the cloud stacks (OpenStack, OpenNebula and Eucalyptus), ownCloud and Calligra. I'm getting some requests to add more things. Now the stuff above either has been around for a long time, is really VERY cool, is better than what we ship or accidentally didn't make it in. But yes, we could add more. Like a mention of the awesome Games repository. Of course, with disclaimers and all - but it would be perceived as 'part of openSUSE 12.1'. At least as add-on services. Now I know many of you object to talking up non-official repos and things. And we hide the 'home' projects on OBS by default when searching for a reason. Personally, I think we should still talk those things up a lot more. Our competition does it (PPA's are like home projects, not even on the level of our more 'official' things like the Networking or Cloud repo's) and as users still have to go through extra effort to get it (and we warn them) I don't think it will do harm. Meanwhile, right now it can be quite hard to locate stuff... So without further ado my proposal. - we add info and a link to semi-offical repos like Games or security in the relevant section of the highlights - Only maintainers/packagers from one such repos are allowed add it. That way THEY decide if their repo is ready, or useful for the general public. - They can add many or as little warnings and disclaimers they like but the marketeers will fix wording etc to make it all look consistent. - We do NOT mention home projects; only projects which have a number of people working on them! All this does NOT mean you should not get your stuff in Factory. That is still the only way to really get talked up and noticed by the vast majority of our users! But this DOES give our users a bit more exposure to the cool stuff you all do on OBS. And it makes our release a tad more exciting! Obviously we have to decide quickly but it is a big change... I therefor ask you to already add the repo's and info, if desired, to the opensuse.org/Product_highlights page. Meanwhile we discuss on this list and decide before Tuesday next week. If, at that point, there seems to be no consensus for doing this, I will remove the added links. We delay to 12.2 if it seems to need more discussion. If we agree to do it, I keep the changes in and make sure the press knows about this. About the decision making process - some still seem to think SUSE makes decisions here. Rest assured, it does not, I just came up with this proposal because people ask me about this. And all opinions will be equal, but the opinions from those who do significant work on these extra repositories will be more equal than others. Cheers, Jos -- 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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15 Nov '11

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