March 2011 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-project] Fwd: GSoC : Karma Plugin for OpenSUSE Connect
by Kartik Mandaville 31 Mar '11

31 Mar '11

Hey, I am a third year undergrad at MIT, Manipal, India doing CSE and I want to discuss the "Karma plugin for OpenSUSE Connect idea" [1] The idea is to award Karma points for contribution to OpenSUSE. The karma points will be given through wiki edits, bugzilla entries, planet.opensuse.org posts, distribution changelogs and possibly other sources. Also, we would implement a feature so as to send karma points to another user in order to recognize his work. Also, we would integrate this in the API so that the karma points can be fetched easily. >From Michal's blog post[3] : So basic idea of this project is to create different kinds of karma and collect as many information as possible automatically. So we will have wiki karma that will grow with every wiki page edit. We will have marketing karma growing bigger with every tweet and blog post. Packager karma getting bigger with every change submitted to the openSUSE. So this project will be not only about displaying and managing karma points but also about collecting statistics from various different services. As we know that the Connect is based on Elgg, so we need to develop a plugin for Elgg which supports all these features. Michal Hrušecký would be mentoring this idea. Have a look at his blog posts : [2] and [3] I will be shortly sending my proposal here and would love to get feedback. What do you guys think of the idea ? Regards, Kartik Mandaville Founder, AutoBudder MIT, Manipal | Tech Lead - Let Me Know Ph No. : +91 9008420482 ( Manipal ) ( Current ) +91 9650130969 ( Delhi ) http://www.mkartik.com Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn Do you forget to wish your friends ?? Use AutoBudder on FB [1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GSOC_2011_Ideas#openSUSE_Karma_plugin_for_o… [2] http://michal.hrusecky.net/2010/08/ideas-about-karma-in-opensuse-connect/ [3] http://michal.hrusecky.net/2011/03/gsoc-2011-ideas-karma-plugin-for-opensus… -- 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] OBS for Android - GSOC Prospective student
by Varun Thacker 30 Mar '11

30 Mar '11

Hi, I'm Varun Thacker , a Computer Science student from Manipal Institute of Technology , India. I was going through the openSUSE GSOC 2011 ideas page and found the OBS for Android App interesting. OBS is a great tool and i love working on mobile applications . A android specific improvement would be to optimize it for tablets. I installed the OBS app on my Android phone and found one bug- I noticed that when you click on the login button(I changed orientation to type in landscape mode )- a white screen appeared and I had to press back to click Login again. I had faced a similar problem and this did the trick - In the AndroidManifest file in the adding android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden" did the trick. I am a active member of our college's Linux Users Group (http://lugmanipal[DOT]org/) and have actively participated in FOSS activities in India, attending Pycon India 2009 and FOSS.IN in 2010. In December 2010 I helped an Indian Institute of Technology , Delhi professor in coding for his research paper on the Quadratic Assignment problem. This march I took part in Startup Weekend Bangalore (http://bangalore.startupweekend[DOT]org/) . By the end of the weekend this is what our team made - http://www.makemytripfast[DOT]in/ . -- Regards, Varun Thacker http://varunthacker.wordpress.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] Applying for GSoc fillup-ng & Introduction
by Christos Bountalis 30 Mar '11

30 Mar '11

Hello, My name is Christos, i am student from Greece. I am in my final year of my studies for a BSc in Computer Science.I am thinking of applying for the GSoc idea "fillup-ng". I have read the description of the project,the required knowledge and the man pages of fillup and i think i can make. Even thought i have joined before mailing lists of open source communities(made some translations for gnome), it is the first time i will join as a developer (if i am finally accepted as a gsoc student). I have quite a time now the desire to contribute something back, and hopefully i will be able to do so even in a very small part. That is the main reason for applying to for gsoc, i really want to learn how to work with such a big community of people and be part of one. Well i will write more in my application just thought it would be nice to introduce myself on the list too. I have already been in the irc #opensuse-project my nickname there is mpounta. P.S. I would really need more information about fillup before i make my application so any suggestions on useful material i could read would be very nice. Best Regards, Christos Bountalis -- 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 Release versioning - Poll on last three options
by Andreas Jaeger 30 Mar '11

30 Mar '11

The poll on SurveyMonkey on how to version the openSUSE distribution release is now closed, you can see the results here. The winner is the "old school" (like currently but only counting the right number until 3), followed by "Fedora style" (just integers) and "Ubuntu style" (2 digits year "." 2 digits month). The openSUSE members only poll is now live on connect until April 04, 2011. Please select your favorite option URL of the poll is: https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/polls/read/a_jaeger/12979/opensuse-release-… URL of votes on SurveyMonkey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx?sm=ZMyUjEimqUeLGFeX8Kmq_2baNaoqX9TRhoTN… Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj(a){novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- 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] Linux Tag 2011 in Berlin?
by Jan Krings 29 Mar '11

29 Mar '11

Hi Folks, I heard there is a openSUSE booth at the LinuxTag 2011 in Berlin, but I don't find a Wikipage. So I made one. :) http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:LinuxTag_Berlin_2011 Please add your name in the list if you want to help or organized the booth and add details of event. I would like help out at the booth. The only problem is the expensive accommodations in berlin. Are there good experiences from recent years? Jan -- 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: new python obs library (osc code cleanup)
by Marcus Hüwe 29 Mar '11

29 Mar '11

Hi, my name is Marcus Hüwe and I'm currently enrolled at the University of Paderborn where I'm studying computer science. I spend most of my freetime with hacking on osc and from time to time on other buildservice components. My plan for this year's GSoC is to write a new python obs library which is independent of osc and can be used by other clients as well. For the details see the attached "python_obs_lib.txt" file. Marcus

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[opensuse-project] Google Summer of Code 2011
by Max Usachev 29 Mar '11

29 Mar '11

Hello! My name is Max Usachev. I'm a graduate degree student of Belorussian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics. I looked at openSUSE projects and find them very interested for me. I want to take part in 'GTK+ client for smolt' and 'Complete spec-cleaner' projects. A little bit about me and my skills: I already took part in Google Summer of code in 2009. I was working on porting Mnemosyne [1] to Maemo [2] platform (from PyQT to PyGTK). I learned a lot about Python programming and UI development using PyGTK. I have finished the project succesfully and the applicaton in Maemo extras repository. [3] You can find the code in my Github repository [4]. I have strong knowledges in Python language and standard libraries. Some skills in developing web-based application using Djando, WSGI. I have good skills in PyGTK library. I works with Git and SVN control version systems. I use Linux as main operating system and have some skills in administrating it. Main areas in which I programming are: UI developing, scripts, parsers (XML, HTML and other custom formats, algotihms) and many others. I am sure, that my knowledges and ambitions will help me to do this projects very well. [1] - http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/ [2] - http://www.maemo.org/ [3] - http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/mnemosyne/ , http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/mnemosyne/ [4] - https://github.com/umax/pomni Br, Max Usachev -- 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] Accepting mentors
by Cornelius Schumacher 29 Mar '11

29 Mar '11

Student application period is open, so it would be nice, if mentors could see the applications. Is somebody of the admins accepting mentor requests in Melange? By the way, there is a mailing list gsoc-mentors(a)opensuse.org, which was used to coordinate mentors last time we participated in the summer of code. It probably would be a good idea to use it again. -- Cornelius Schumacher <cschum(a)suse.de> -- 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] Presentation: Paul Chobert for GSoC
by Paul Chobert 29 Mar '11

29 Mar '11

Hello, My name is Paul Chobert, I'm student in an Engineering school in Strasbourg, France. I am passionate in new technologies and especially in web technologies. If you wonder why I'm posting on this mailing list, it's because I read on GSoC idea list that you are looking for students with good web programming skills and creativity. I'm very interested in OBS Android idea because it uses technologies I love (Ruby on Rails, jQuery Mobile, HTML5), and OBS is a great tool. I'm also interested in the End user oriented web interface of OBS to make it more social, and improve contacts between developers and users. I have one question about OBS : Will ODS for end users be a kind of Github for distribute package for users rather than source code for developers? Thanks. -- Paul Chobert barodeur on freenode paul(a)chobert.fr -- 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: first step as a mentor?
by Greg Freemyer 29 Mar '11

29 Mar '11

All, I put myself down as a potential mentor for one of the opensuse GSOC ideas. I had a student reach out to me. What are the first steps I need to do? note: Per a earlier note, I tried to go to http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/mentor/request/google/gsoc2011/opensuse and register myself as a mentor, but that page doesn't seem to exist. Thanks Greg -- 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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