February 2011 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-project] Proposal for adapting the trademark guidelines
by Cornelius Schumacher 01 Jun '11

01 Jun '11

We had a couple of discussions in the past about how to improve the openSUSE trademark guidelines (see e.g. http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Trademark_guidelines or https://features.opensuse.org/311039) One of the main issues with the current guidelines is that it's very strict about derivatives, and doesn't easily allow people using openSUSE as a base for their own systems, to keep a visible association with openSUSE. So attached is a proposal how to adapt the trademark guidelines and provide a better solution to this issue. It also contains a few smaller clarifications. It's based on the input I was able to gather from the Wiki, openFATE, mailing lists and some personal feedback. It's a draft, so feedback is welcome. The central change is to allow people to create variants of openSUSE and use a "Based on openSUSE" branding under more liberal conditions than now. We would provide a specific branding for that, which keeps the relation to openSUSE, but is done in a way to not be confused with the branding of the official openSUSE distribution. Technically this would be a set of branding packages, which can be used instead of the default branding of the official distribution. Please let me know, if there is additional feedback on the proposed changes, so we can incorporate that, and then move forward with getting the needed approvals to officially adopt the improved guidelines. In parallel to that we can look into doing the proposed branding packages. Attached is the proposed text for the revised guidelines, and the diff to the current official version. -- Cornelius Schumacher <cschum(a)suse.de>

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[opensuse-project] WebYaST User Guide
by Kostas Koudaras 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

I was asked by a new formed Linux Magazine to look for some great tools of the openSUSE project so that I can write some articles about them. I thought about OBS and WebYaST. I let someone else from the Greek community to make the OBS article due to his experience with that tool and I start looking for more information about it today and I found the webYaST user guide that was published today!!! I read it and it is a really great guide. Now I am thinking in making a Greek team to translate it so my question is when I will finish the translation where can I publish it? And if its possible to get informed about the changes that might become so that I can upgrade the translated guide. That's it for now 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 For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Removing openSUSE 11.1 Packman repositories
by Pascal Bleser 07 Mar '11

07 Mar '11

We're going to remove the openSUSE 11.1 Packman repositories from our primary server and, hence, also our mirrors [1]. If you would like to keep a copy (for whatever reason, as they're unmaintained), make sure to pull the tree BEFORE MONDAY (2011-02-28). The reason, obviously, is that openSUSE 11.1 has gone End-Of-Life since mid-January [2], and as we're restructuring our repositories [3], we do need quite some extra space right now and don't want to put too much of a burden on our mirrors (there are a few rsync mirrors in there too). [1]Packman mirrors: http://packman.links2linux.de/MIRRORS.html [2]11.1=EOL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg… [3]http://dev-loki.blogspot.com/2011/02/packman-service-interruption-and.html [4]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync cheers -- -o) Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser(a)opensuse.org> /\\ http://opensuse.org -- I took the green pill _\_v FOSDEM XI: 5 + 6 Feb 2011, http://fosdem.org

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[opensuse-project] Packman repository switch
by Pascal Bleser 27 Feb '11

27 Feb '11

As I wrote about [1] a couple of days ago, the Packman team has been busy migrating to a new openSUSE Build Service instance as well as, while we were at it, changing the repository layout [1]. We've been putting quite some steam behind the effort and we finally have reached a point where everything is working great (for us as packagers) and where the most used packages have been added and re-built on our new openSUSE Build Service instance, as well as having been published in our new repositories [2], including on all our mirrors [3]. On Wednesday (2011-03-02), in CET evening, we will delete the old repositories. We will create symbolic links to make the old URLs point to the new repositories (e.g. 11.3 to openSUSE_11.3), in order to make the old URLs still work perfectly fine. But it will also mean that there are a lot of packages that were in the old repositories that are not in the new ones, as we didn't migrate everything yet, and didn't migrate everything on purpose. Indeed, it is also a good opportunity for us to get rid of old cruft which we added many years ago and isn't used by anyone any more, or even anyone in the first place. At the same time, I will change the list of repositories that show up in YaST's "community repositories" module in order to reflect the new layout, with the option of picking only some of our repositories, and not just the "big one" (for details, please refer to [1]). Of course, once performed, I will duly announce it. So if you do run into a package you were used to get from us and which doesn't show up in the Packman repository any more, please let us know by sending us an email to our mailing-list at packman(a)links2linux.de (no need to register first, just send an email to that address, in English or German). Sorry for the inconvenience that move might create, but it will definitely help us because we will hopefully have a little less packages to maintain (because no one is using them), and also make the service a bit swifter for you to use, as there will be less RPM-MD metadata to download on each refresh. [1]http://dev-loki.blogspot.com/2011/02/packman-service-interruption-and.html [2]http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_11.4 [3]http://packman.links2linux.org/MIRRORS.html cheers -- -o) Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser(a)opensuse.org> /\\ http://opensuse.org -- I took the green pill _\_v FOSDEM XI: 5 + 6 Feb 2011, http://fosdem.org

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[opensuse-project] Packman service interruption and migration
by Pascal Bleser 27 Feb '11

27 Feb '11

The Packman website and repositories are going to be broken and in the works for several days (possibly up to a week) starting tonight at 20:00 CET, during which the following services will not be available, or only sporadically: * the Packman website itself: http://packman.links2linux.org * the Packman repositories, except "Essentials" (see "new repository layout" below) The reason is that we are performing a major migration of our services to * the latest version of the openSUSE Build Service (we were still using an old version) * a new layout of our repositories, to enable a more fine- grained control over what parts of Packman should be used (see below) In order to try to keep a minimum service going during that time, you may use and point people to our new repositories, that already contain the "Essentials" part, which are almost complete with the bare minimum everyone needs (mplayer, vlc, libraries, ...). The URLs for the new repositories are as follows: * http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_11.3/ * http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_11.2/ * http://packman.inode.at/suse/Factory/ * http://packman.inode.at/suse/SLE_11/ There are no .repo files there yet, so adding one of these is done as follows: zypper ar -n packman http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_11.3/ packman (obviously adapt the URL to your openSUSE version) You may also use one of our mirror sites, as they already have our new repositories: ftp://packman.links2linux.de/pub/packman/MIRRORS New repository layout --------------------- As has been announced (including here), we have had a discussion back in December about whether and how we should reorganize the layout of our repositories. Up to now, and for many years, it has always been "one big repository", which had pros and cons: * good: easy to use, just add onr repository and be done with it * good: easy for us to manage * bad: you get everything and the kitchen sink, including packages that are duplications of stuff from other repositories, specifically from build.opensuse.org (which didn't exist when Packman was created), and potential conflicts with those * bad: large metadata files to synchronise (although zypper has become pretty fast at that) We came up with a solution to this, as more and more people requested having split repositories, in order to control what they want to use from Packman: * we will have four repositories instead of one: Essentials, Multimedia, Games and Extras * Essentials will be the bare minimum to get your multimedia experience on openSUSE going (libraries, MPlayer, vlc, ffmpeg, ...) * Multimedia will contain additional applications that are not available for openSUSE or only in a crippled build, such as avidemux, etc... * Games are, well, games, although we will try to move most of what may be hosted on build.opensuse.org to the games project there * Extras is all the rest In order to provide the best of both worlds or, rather, still provide you with the old option of adding everything, we are using a little trick and are running "createrepo" on the top-level directory, which results in having repository metadata that contains all the packages from all the above mentioned repositories without having to duplicate the RPM files on our server. Hence, to make it short and less technical, you can still also use the "old way" too. As an example of what needs to be added to zypper, once the migration is complete and .repo files are available too: * add the Essentials repository: zypper ar -r \ http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_11.3/Essentials/Essentials.repo * add the "everything" repository: zypper ar -r \ http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_11.3/packman.repo I will announce our progress on my blog at http://dev-loki.blogspot.com -- which is also aggregated on http://planet.opensuse.org -- and will obviously post another announcement here once our migration is complete. In advance, sorry for the inconvenience, and thank you for your understanding. We are convinced that our move will not only provide us with a better infrastructure, but also improve your experience with Packman and openSUSE. cheers -- -o) Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser(a)opensuse.org> /\\ http://opensuse.org -- I took the green pill _\_v FOSDEM XI: 5 + 6 Feb 2011, http://fosdem.org

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[opensuse-project] GSOC Ideas
by Manu Gupta 27 Feb '11

27 Feb '11

Hi All Mentor Organization Registration starts tomorrow, so if you think you need to add more details to your idea, do so. If you have a wonderful idea then add it to the idea wiki page. Also add yourself as a mentor. If its a fate feature, add a link to it Heres the link http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GSOC_2011_Ideas Thanks a lot Regards Manu -- 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 from openFATE for GSOC that are looking for mentors
by Kostas Koudaras 26 Feb '11

26 Feb '11

Hi all, We have copied some ideas we found interesting on openFATE to the openSUSE GSOC 2011 ideas page and we are looking for people to mentor for those. Take a look at http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GSOC_2011_Ideas and if you are able to mentor something add your name for it. Remember, if you'd like some fresh blood in your project or have some task to be done for which you don't have time, GSOC is a great opportunity! Our deadline is next Monday already so hurry! Cheers, 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 For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Re: [opensuse-kde] KDE meeting on 2nd March 15UTC
by Karsten König 24 Feb '11

24 Feb '11

Am Mittwoch, 23. Februar 2011, 16:49:59 schrieben Sie: > On Wednesday 23 February 2011 09:14:03 Karsten König wrote: > > The next openSUSE KDE Team meeting will be held on Wednesday, > > 3rd March at 15:00 UTC. > > According to my calendar March 3 is a Thursday -- care to > ammend the above? > > sc Oh right, yes the meeting is on 2nd of march, Wednesday! Sorry for the confusion =( Karsten -- 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] [GSoC] Custom Distro ideas
by Vincent Untz 24 Feb '11

24 Feb '11

Hey, I think we shouldn't have ideas about custom distros listed for GSoC: the ideas themselves are cool, but they're not appropriate for GSoC projects. A GSoC project implies development of code and most of the custom distros ideas are about integrating different components together, in the right way; but not about code. I'm afraid that listing those ideas when we apply might lower our chances of being accepted... Opinions? Cheers, 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] Board and Project Meetings are now merged
by Bryen M Yunashko 23 Feb '11

23 Feb '11

In an effort to consolidate our meeting times and encourage more community participation in discussions relating to the growth and future of our beloved openSUSE Project, the openSUSE Board has begun a new era of merging both the openSUSE Project and openSUSE Board meetings. We will now, henceforth, conduct both meetings simultaneously at 19:00 UTC We encourage everyone to come out and join our meetings because without you, there is no Project. :-) Your feedback is important and your ideas and involvement is the backbone of our community. Our next merged meeting will be on March 9 and will continue every two weeks as usual. We look forward to your participation! The openSUSE Board -- 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] KDE meeting on 3rd March 15UTC
by Karsten König 23 Feb '11

23 Feb '11

Hello everybody! Our planned meeting for today is pushed back one week as most people lack time or are unable to attend, there was no opposition to a one week delay in the channel. The next openSUSE KDE Team meeting will be held on Wednesday, 3rd March at 15:00 UTC. For discussion this week: * announcement and marketing rally for 11.4 (remur_030) Generic all-time topics: * old action items * status report * Q&A, misc Further items are appreciated; please add them and your IRC nick to http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:KDE_Meetings Please use http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2011&month=3&day=… to get the time of the meeting in your time zone. The meeting will happen in #opensuse-kde IRC channel on irc.freenode.net (feel free to add yourself to the list of people who should be notified before the meeting, at http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:KDE_meetings_ping_list) Everyone is welcome to join in and participate! -- 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] F-spot does not import video
by Carlos E. R. 22 Feb '11

22 Feb '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, In 11.2 f-spot imports both videos and photos from my camera. In 11.4, it only imports photos. Is this intentional? If it is configurable, where? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk1kH9gACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UhZQCfQslZIizuyJ2GuXnc4/5ehSa9 tqoAnAlt2DNgoTUPIWqvR1Intk2bDpew =YXqG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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] GSOC
by Jos Poortvliet 22 Feb '11

22 Feb '11

Hi all, Soon organizations will be able to submit their application to Google for the Summer of Code 2011! It would of course be awesome if openSUSE could be part of this. So it is time to start putting proposals in; add ideas, offer to mentor them - but if you're interested we also need people to help out organizing the GSOC2011! Manu Gupta already prepared an extensive GSOC wiki page: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GSOC_2011 Ideas & mentors can be added on this page: http://en.opensuse.org/GSOC_2011_Ideas Go in, add ideas & your name as mentor! Cheers, Jos

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22 Feb '11

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[opensuse-project] Facebook Counter for 11.4
by Raul 21 Feb '11

21 Feb '11

Friends, This time we will not appl. to facebook? http://apps.facebook.com/opensuse-counter/ Hugs, -- Raul Libório http://rauhmaru.blogspot.com/ rauhmarutsªhotmailºcom openSUSE Member | Linux User #4444581 "There are only 10 types of people in the world - Those who understand binary, and those who don't." -- 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] ERROR 404 (Not Found) - Factory Release Notes
by Malcolm 21 Feb '11

21 Feb '11

Hi Could someone please fix the 'Release Notes' link at the bottom of the page http://software.opensuse.org/developer/en It does however head off to a http://www.suse.de address, should this not be modified to an openSUSE one? -- Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890) SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.32.27-0.2-default up 7:54, 2 users, load average: 0.09, 0.12, 0.08 GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 260.19.26 -- 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 statistics
by Rajko M. 21 Feb '11

21 Feb '11

This topic is of interest to all openSUSE contributors, so the choice of mail list. Statistics are important, as they let us know where to focus efforts to improve wiki and distribution. http://en.opensuse.org/Special:PopularPages http://en.opensuse.org/Special:Statistics 1. Main Page ‎ (855,498 views) 2. Portal:Distribution ‎(428,440 views) 3. Package repositories ‎ (236,467 views) 4. Portal:11.3 ‎(236,428 views) 5. Additional package repositories ‎(226,989 views) 6. Derivatives ‎(222,337 views) 7. SDB:Live USB stick ‎(208,982 views) 8. SDB:Download help ‎(138,494 views) 9. Portal:Documentation ‎(125,758 views) 10. openSUSE:Browse ‎(113,149 views) Main Page ‎(855,498 views) Lead in number of views, but having it as a home page in the browser can create bigger numbers views then actual number of visitors. Never changing page is not the best presentation of wiki and distribution. It doesn't show dynamic of the project which is lately increased few times. Items that never change are used in regular propaganda to bring boredom and force people to migrate elsewhere. The other extreme is too high dynamic of changes that force people to learn basic navigation on every visit and push them to the sites with some predictable elements. I don't know what is absolutely the best, but we can try to have: Left: as is, static list of links - learn once and use many times Center top: very short intro to the project (not necessarily exactly what it is, but catchy few words. Center: news; one to two lines with links to actual articles, images (quality) Right: fast access to the most popular articles which is changing slowly over the time Portal:Distribution ‎(428,440 views) The largest number of visits has page with information about distribution. How people make to this page would be interesting to see how important are links in the Main Page, and how many people used side bar that is available from any page. Package repositories ‎(236,467 views) Obviously people are interested in software, and how to get it. Page is somewhat confusing. It lists repos that are included by default. It has type of repo as basic division (oss, non-oss, debug, source), and openSUSE releases as secondary, while we refer to release as a first in many other places. Using release as base is better as underscores that release should be treated as whole, separate unit, from another release. Portal:11.3 ‎(236,428 views) It looks good. It would be interesting to see how people came to this page. Knowing the path visitors used to find the page should help to improve browsing. Lesser clicks is always wise idea. Additional package repositories ‎(226,989 views) It looks good, but the listing that will list all repos per release would benefit users. It will make life easier for new users that want to add repos to the release at hand. Derivatives ‎(222,337 views) It is interesting how popular is "something different". Sort of the topics is a bit strange, needs some thinking and fitting in the wiki visitor workflow. "Build your own" as a first topic? That should be logical step if you can't find anything that fits you. SDB:Live USB stick ‎(208,982 views) It is obvious that "Live USB stick" is very popular method to install distro. Price drop for USB memory sticks, and no problem booting with recent computers makes them attractive replacement for many users. Problem is that page is quite hard to read after many additions. Improvements should be split between "SUSE Studio Image Writer" for windows, making all iso files hybrid and the article itself. SDB:Download help ‎(138,494 views) It looks good, the only improvement is to give explicit link to http://software.opensuse.org very early on the page. Portal:Documentation ‎(125,758 views) Yes, people look for paperwork to read. It needs a bit of maintenance, otherwise looks good. openSUSE:Browse ‎(113,149 views) Popularity of this page tells that many visitors want overview. They either got lost, think there is something missing. Page should be named "Site map" and openSUSE:Browse should be redirect for compatibility with old-en.opensuse.org. Of course that there is much more material for thoughts below the first 10 pages. For instance: 11. Screenshots (112,501 views) should give very good impression as many are looking there to find out will they install it or not. 16. Wine ( http://en.opensuse.org/Wine ) with 96,705 views, indicates that many users are trying to run windows applications. Migration instructions are on position 160. http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:How_to_migrate_from_Windows which tells they are not source of information that leads to Wine page. http://en.opensuse.org/Application_equivalents is No. 119. so that is not the source of interest for Wine too. In one word, Windows users have very little help to migrate to openSUSE, and they are the largest group of computer users. -- 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] License and copyright issues that openSUSE Weekly News team are coming up against now
by Satoru Matsumoto 21 Feb '11

21 Feb '11

Hello mates, we, openSUSE Weekly News (OWN) team are now facing license and copyright issues. There are some things which are not clear to us. Although most of the issues affect just OWN, I think those issues should be shared by whole project. Sascha, editor in chief of OWN have proposed that we should publish OWN under CC BY-SA 3.0 license [1]. @Sascha Please explain the reason why you think it is better to publish OWN under that license including: * What kind of benefits can we expect by applying CC BY-SA 3.0 license? * Why should we apply CC BY-SA 3.0 instead of other similar licenses? <Explanation from Sascha> The CC BY-SA helps us to give a clear License with clear Restriction. If we publishing under CC BY-SA or another CC License everyone can use our Weekly News, write anything from his content, and republish it. And BTW: Ubuntu and Fedora Newsletters are under CC BY-SA too. BTW2: But this is set on the bottom of every Site inside the normal Site. The GFDL which is used by openSUSE is a good License too. But it is needed to paste the whole License inside every new produce. If we're using CC then is a Link enough. </Explanation from Sascha> What are the points that are not yet clear enough? # Please do not confound copyright with license. * For contents on Wiki, license is clearly specified: "All content is made available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.2 ("GFDL") unless expressly indicated otherwise."[2] But how about contents on other *.opensuse.org sites? * Can we include contents, of which licenses aren't clearly mentioned, in OWN and publish under CC BY-SA 3.0 license? Or, should we "expressly indicate otherwise" the license of each article, even if the article is from news.o.o, lizards.o.o, lists.o.o and planet.o.o? (If we should do so, we have to "expressly indicate otherwise" the license of almost every article, because most of the articles now on OWN are from those sites or external news sites or private blogs. But if 90% of the contents are not under CC BY-SA or any other clear license, do we really need to publish OWN under that license?) * Which country's copyright law and guidelines should we refer to? <from Sascha> In Germany we have the "Citiation Law", who says, that everyone can paste from every written document into a new one. But it can't be used for the whole document, just for a citiation (Maybe 3 Paragraphs or so...) Exists any similar Law in other Countries too? </from Sascha> * Can current drawing (citation) from external sites or personal blogs be considered "legitimate"? (This is closely related to the above question.) - As far as I refer to Japanese copyright law and guidelines, our current style doesn't meet the requirements for "legitimate quotation". - For example, if AuthorA wrote an article titled "About B" on SiteC that says "I love cats. In particular, I love kittens, because they are so cute! But some don't like cats." ... -- Our current style: "SiteC/AutherA: About B" - "I love cats. In particular, I love kittens, because they are so cute! (...)" cannot be considered legitimate quotation. This style may be considered "reprint" and if there is a mention "all rights reserved" on the original SiteC, we are not allowed to reprint except otherwise specially permitted. --- And this means, that we cannot "reprint" articles from *.opensuse.org except Wiki (contents on Wiki are published under GFDL), because we can read the mention "© 2010 Novell, Inc. All rights reserved." on the bottom of each page on those sites. -- If we introduce the original article like: "SiteC/AutherA: About B" - In this article, AuthorA is making out "I love cats. In particular, I love kittens, because they are so cute! (...)". I totally agree. I think kitten is the most cutest animal on earth! -- this can be considered legitimate quotation. # Therefore, Ubuntu people don't just "copy & paste" parts of articles from external sites in their Weekly News. When they introduce an article from external site, they are going to write an introductory article by themselves and include citation from original article in it. * How can we solve these problems? - Can we ask Novell to apply CC BY-SA 3.0 license for every content on *.opensuse.org including Wiki? If that'll be OK, most of the problems will be solved. -- In that case, do we need Contributor License Agreement [3] to explain that all the contributed documents on *.opensuse.org will be published under CC BY-SA 3.0 license? -- But still, how we can deal with articles which are aggregated on planet.o.o wouldn't that clear. Will all the authors accept that their articles will be published under CC BY-SA 3.0 license? * How should we deal with articles from external sites in OWN? Alternatives may be: - We won't introduce articles from external sites anymore. - We will just introduce sites name, authors name, title and link URL with short comment (For example: "In this article, the author explains how to ...") by editors. - When we introduce an article from external site, editor will write an introductory article for that as Gertjan does for Forums section now. (I think this is the best option. But in order to do so, we need much more help.) We need all those points to be clear. Suggestions and proposals are welcome. [1] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/ [2] http://en.opensuse.org/Terms_of_site#Copyright_notice [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributor_License_Agreement Best, -- _/_/ Satoru Matsumoto - openSUSE Member - Japan _/_/ _/_/ Marketing/Weekly News/openFATE Screening Team _/_/ _/_/ mail: helios_reds_at_gmx.net / irc: HeliosReds _/_/ _/_/ http://blog.zaq.ne.jp/opensuse/ _/_/ -- 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] Re: [opensuse-announce] Help the Project. Spread openSUSE DVDs!
by Carlos E. R. 20 Feb '11

20 Feb '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2011-02-18 17:08, Henne Vogelsang wrote: ... > To be able to do this comfortably the openSUSE Project, with the help of > its sponsors, produces special promotional DVDs that contain live > versions of both the KDE and GNOME desktops to try and which can also be > used to install the a complete system. Those DVDs are perfect for > introducing people to Linux and openSUSE. The openSUSE version included, > 11.3, has all the qualities a newcomer wants. As it is a DVD, you could also include a copy of the update repo. There is a lot of space... > The openSUSE Project - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk1frEEACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UB9ACfT7Namypaym19BUZ7GMYnI2po i4sAoJQXCTpURladfwNBcGhl+Lu7ey16 =TdVO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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] CC (english-us and others) versus GFDL
by pistazienfresser (see profile) 19 Feb '11

19 Feb '11

There are several different versions of the Creative Commons licenses (CC) that are not only translated but adapted to different legal systems (hopefully with success). So the 'probability' (to phrase it politely and cautious) that e. g. a German-Germany CC would be rated valid in relation between a German User/Consumer and (a) German legal person (or natural person/many natural persons working together) would be much higher than for a text under the only existing and not translated nor adapted only (US-)English version of the actual GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). I assume that the according relations may exist with Japanese-Japan versions of the CC ... etc. And also at least the de and en Wikipedia are using (at least first and foremost - e. g. once there was dual licensing in the de.Wikipedia). I think more special informations are already posted in this mailing-list [in relation to the terms of the German wiki - if not all deleted in the time after that ...], are available via a common search engine, in a library of a bigger court or an university or just by paying some Euro/Dollar/... to a law related data-base (de: beck-online, juris, etc.) . Regards Martin Seidler (pistazienfresser) -- - openSUSE profile: https://users.opensuse.org/show/pistazienfresser -- 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] Need Help: LibreOffice
by Kim Leyendecker 18 Feb '11

18 Feb '11

Hello friends! I created a article about LibreOffice in the german wiki. But I need help to make the article to a usable help for users: http://de.opensuse.org/LibreOffice If you can help, please help! cheers kdl -- Kim Leyendecker (kimleyendecker(a)hotmail.de) openSUSE Ambassador powered by openSUSE 11.3 | KDE | Kernel-desktop 2.6.34-12 | using Tumbleweed This mail was composed under Linux Have you tried SUSE Studio? Need to create a Live CD, an app you want to package and distribute , or create your own linux distro. Give SUSE Studio a try. www.susestudio.com. -- 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 user statistics
by Gabor Kum 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

Hi there, Does the openSUSE Project have any statistics about how many people are using the distribution and where? I know that nobody knows it for sure, but do you have some numbers? Thanks in advance, -- Gabor Kum www.kumgabor.hu -- 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] Xfce live CD
by Kim Leyendecker 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

G´day geckos! I searched a Xfce live CD of openSUSE 11.3 but I hadn´t found something till now. Is there any live CD? I´m creating one of my one with SUSE Studio. If there isn´t a live CD yet, is there any body who´s interesting in doing one for 11.4? cheers kdl -- Kim Leyendecker (kimleyendecker(a)hotmail.de) openSUSE Ambassador powered by openSUSE 11.4 RC1 | KDE 4.6 | Kernel-desktop 2.6.37-20.1 | using Tumbleweed This mail was composed under Linux Have you tried SUSE Studio? Need to create a Live CD, an app you want to package and distribute , or create your own linux distro. Give SUSE Studio a try. www.susestudio.com. -- 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 KDE meeting 10th February 2011
by Karsten König 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

Heya, we just had our kde meeting, the next meeting will be on 23rd February, 15:00 UTC in #opensuse-kde on the in the freenode irc network. See http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:KDE_Meetings for futher details. == Old Action Items == * wstephenson to contact i18n team with regards to openSUSE guides. ''Not done'' * javier to further explore the live cd listings on kde-apps. ''Done, Beineri gave him access to the account'' * all Check kde packagekit frontend http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:KDE_11.4_packagekit ** ''sebas: testruns turned out ok on different machines, no dup'' ** ''rabauke: could use a way to start yast inst_source, would prefer more visual feedback'' ** ''wstephenson: zypp backend still troublesome'' * all test phonon-gstreamer + pulseaudio combo ** gstreamer has a few shortages regarding equalizer and fading ** pulseaudio still seems to cause troubles * wstephenson make phonon 4.4.4 pkgs ''Done'' == Status Report == * opensuse 11.4 rc1 is propagating to the mirrors with kde 4.6.0 * wstephenson: Fosdem, cleaned up UI jargon strings upstream, started looking at gross memory leaks too, 11.4RC1 submissions, bluedevil stuff, fixes all over the board * tittiatcoke: Updates Unstable based on the KDE packages that moved to GIT * testing results for Factory covered == 11.4 stabilization == * nasty nvidia bug affecting x86 users https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=648718 ** most reports hint at a suse related problem in qt applications * wstephenson is swamped fixing bugs left and right * bug entry triage can use more hands == Q&A == ''meeting time again'' * no opposition to biweekly on wednesday, 15 UTC * meetings should take no longer then 2h == Action Items == * wstephenson to contact i18n team with regards to openSUSE guides. * wstephenson, duncanmv fix packagekit-zypp some more * anaumov study packagekit-zypp * cb400f patch in icons from kupdateapplet * all test phonon-gstreamer + pulseaudio combo * remur_030 bring up triage strategy on list * discussion on repo naming etc to deferred to next meeting -- 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] Countdown counter for 11.4
by Pascal Bleser 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

The openSUSE release countdown is available for openSUSE 11.4 (remaining days computed towards the currently planned release date of 2011-03-10 at 14:00 UTC). It is available in 3 sizes and many languages to promote openSUSE on your site or blog. Instructions and details are on the wiki: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Countdown NB: the "wide" size is still pending, will finish it ASAP cheers -- -o) Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser(a)opensuse.org> /\\ http://opensuse.org -- I took the green pill _\_v FOSDEM XI: 5 + 6 Feb 2011, http://fosdem.org

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