April 2011 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[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] GSoC 2011: Bug reporting tool.
by Mihnea Dobrescu-Balaur 18 Aug '11

18 Aug '11

Hello, I'm applying at this year's GSoC to work on the bug reporting tool [0]. I've made my list of features to implement but, before I finalized my proposal, I thought it would be a good idea to ask you, guys: Is there's any particular feature that you wish to find in the openSUSE bug reporting tool? Thank you! Mihnea Dobrescu-Balaur [0] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GSOC_2011_Ideas#Bug_reporting_tool_for_open… -- 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] 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] oSConference: Theme & Program Planning
by Bryen M. Yunashko 06 May '11

06 May '11

This is one of probably several threads that will come out in the very near future revolving around the upcoming openSUSE 2011 Conference planning. This thread specifically focuses on discussion of the theme and program offered during the conference. Discussions beyond this topic should run in a separate thread or we'll end up with crazy threading. :-) Background: openSUSE Project will host its third annual openSUSE Conference at a site and date that has not been selected yet. The first conference, in September of 2009 focused on project discussions and addressing various aspects of governance. It was a more "internal" conference, but did have several good sessions as well. The second conference, held October 2010, came with an official theme "Collaboration Across Borders" and was much more session-oriented with 1 hour sessions on each topic. We extended beyond our internal community and invited others to join and collaborate on topics of mutual interest. Both were very good events in their own unique focus. Theme: What should be the theme of this year's conference? In yesterday's Project meeting on IRC it was expressed that we've already succeeded in using the collaboration theme and we should look beyond that for this coming event. Focus: In conjunction with the theme, how should the conference be structured? 2009 had a blend of sessions (not that many) and unconference where people created topics on-site and we had meetings that were set in 2-hour blocks. 2010 focused more on sessions (I believe we had 70?) and were pretty much pre-established before arriving on site. Though there was some flexibility to change a few things as needed. As we are time-constricted in getting everything properly prepared, I will create a deadline for ideas on Theme and Focus. Set for April 15. At that point, the CFP Team will evaluate the recommendations we all give here and apply it to the Call for Papers. Call for Papers: While date of conference/theme/focus greatly impact our CFP, we should nevertheless move forward and begin planning on the CFP call itself. CFP announcement should go out no later than April 27th with a probable deadline of mid-to-late July. We need volunteers to join the CFP Committee. If you are interested, please visit http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference_Planning_2011#Teams and add your name to the Program Committee. Thanks all! Bryen M Yunashko -- 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 Conference CfP - what kind of sessions?
by Jos Poortvliet 04 May '11

04 May '11

Hi all, I haven't had any feedback on the draft CfP [1] I wrote nor on the guidelines for speakers [2]. Both had a couple of questions and concerns on the top which need answering, let me replicate the most important of them here. * do we schedule Discussions (as I've called the RW/BoF/Unconference style sessions) fully in advance? Or do we keep the CfP open until the conference? Or do we reserve a certain number of spots for at-the- conference scheduling? I vote for all three: keep the CfP open for these, schedule in advance but keep some slots for at the conference. * I think we should have workshops too. Then we have listen-participate- learn: Talks (traditional one-way), Discussions (bof/unconference/barcamp), Workshops. * 50 minute sessions make sense, with 10 min to change rooms? * It makes sense to allow Discussions and Workshops to ask several 1 hour slots imho... Yes? Furthermore, I believe Alan or Bryen will send a request to this ML for ideas on subjects for the conference (keep the treads separate pls). [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp [1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference_Planning_2011_CfP [2] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference_Planning_2011_guidelines_for_spe… [3] Let's see what we can do for this conference with the following _assumptions_: *1 big room for talks and 4 smaller rooms *read-only talks only in the big room *discussions in 2 rooms *workshops in 1 room *1 suselabs room *We have 4 days *Starting at 9 with a 30 min keynote *keeping things up until 16:30 (as we have cool ideas for things after *that time) *a 1 hour lunch break and 2 30 min coffee breaks (10:30-11, 12-13 and 15:00-15:30) We can have 5 slots per day per room. That means up to: 1 keynote per day, 4 total 5 talks/day, 20 total 5 workshops/day, 20 total (but several will last 2-4 hours so count on more like 10 workshops in total 10 Discussions/day, 40 total 5 SUSE Labs sessions/day, 20 total. Yep, counted very well, 84 total slots, probably like 75 sessions to be scheduled in total.

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Re: [opensuse-project] Balsam Professional & Balsam Enterprise
by Kim Leyendecker 30 Apr '11

30 Apr '11

Am 21.04.2011 16:32, schrieb Jos Poortvliet: > > On 2011-04-21 Kim wrote: > > > Am 21.04.2011 02:07, schrieb Pascal Bleser: > > > > So you guys are doing what we've been asked specifically_not_ to > > > > do because it would harm Novell's business ? > > > > > > Please tell me the reasons why it would harm Novell´s business? > > > > > > > > > Well, it wouldn´t harm Novell´s business. Do it harm Red Hat when > > > there´s a free clone of their RHEL? No, the oposite is the case. > > > Actually, it does harm RH's business to some extend. At least they > believe so themselves. > > > > Novell would get a bigger community which supports SLE. Why? Because > > > I can free download the clone, and get the updates. > > > You can download SLE for free already to test it. > yes, but you won´t get updates, right? This is the point. > > > > So I can test > > > the clone how long I wanted to test it and then buy a "real" SLE. > > > I´m already familiar with SLE and would be more secure to use it. > > > > > > That´s the way how the RHEL/CentOS-modell runs. > > > But not because Red Hat wants that but because they can't stop it. > Of course they can stop it. If you look at the GPL, you only have to make your source code available to your clients. So, they could do it so, if they want but with CentOS they get a free bugfinding community. So why handle it different? > > > > And by the way, there many users who really want some kind of SuSE > > > Professional for middle companies like SuSE has offered in the past. > > > a SLE Server license costs 290 euro per year, nothing for even a small > company. A desktop license starts at 47 euro/year. Not too bad? > Well, the cost are really low, I have to say, but for this I can also use openSUSE 11.1 feat. Evergreen. So Evergreen is a harm to Novell´s business too... thanks -- Kim Leyendecker (kimleyendecker(a)hotmail.de) openSUSE Ambassador / openSUSE Wiki Team DE HAVE A LOT OF FUN! http://www.opensuse.org | http://www.suse.de 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] Google Summer of Code Projects for openSUSE
by Vincent Untz 29 Apr '11

29 Apr '11

Hi all, As you might have read in the news [1], openSUSE is welcoming 16 students for the Google Summer of Code this year. This is truly exciting both because of the projecs themselves, but also because this is great opportunity to work with new people! You can see the list of projects that were accepted at the end of this mail or go read the news.opensuse.org post [1]. In the next few days, students will introduce themselves and their project on this list, so make sure to be nice to them and to not scare them away ;-) We all want to create a positive environment for our students to successfully complete their project, after all :-) Please heartily welcome our students! Vincent [1] http://news.opensuse.org/2011/04/28/opensuse-happy-to-welcome-16-gsoc-stude… ============= Add ext4 snapshots support to snapper (Piyush) http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/piyushnim1710/17… Archlinux backend for OpenSUSE Build Service (Nikolay Rysev) http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/madgnu/13001 Command line client for Suse Studio Abstract (Ratan) http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/ratan/11001 Create a testsuite for btrfs features (Aditya) http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/adityadani/24001 Creating a browser-based user interface test-suite (Stoyan Dimkov) http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/sdimkov/11001 Entomologist UI Changes/improvements. (David J Williams) http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/redache/8001 Fillup-ng (Christos Bountalis) http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/mpounta/10001 Heroku like solution for SUSE Studio (Bjørn Arild Mæland) http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/bma025/10001 ICC Device Profile Repository (Sebastian Oliva) http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/tian2992/9001 new python obs library (osc code cleanup) (Marcus Hüwe) http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/mhuewe/13001 openSUSE Build Service (OBS) for Android (Justine Leng) http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/justineleng/14001 PackageKit backend and AppStream integration for Software Center (Alex Eftimie) http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/alexef/8001 Porting Wubi to OpenSUSE (weijie yang) http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/ericyang/10001 SaX3 (manugupt1) http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/manugupt1/12001 Separating and Porting YUI library to other operating systems (Linux Based) (N.B.Prashanth) http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/nbprashanth/22003 SUSE bug reporter (Mihnea Dobrescu-Balaur) http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/mihneadb/18001 -- 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] Looking forward to the openSUSE conference, respond with recommended topic areas
by Alan Clark 29 Apr '11

29 Apr '11

Planning has begun for this years openSUSE conference. Though a date hasn't been confirmed, there is still much to do and preparations that can be made. We really want to include as many community members as possible in the conference preparations, in leading the presentations and participating at the event. At last weeks program committee meeting, it was determined that the conference needs to build and strengthen our community as well as invite collaboration with other people and projects. To best accomplish this it is critical that the conference focus on topic areas that are of most interest to you, and so we are asking for your input. We, as the program committee, are reaching out to ask for your input to 2 questions: 1) What do you consider to be the top two or three current or upcoming topics, (e.g. in terms of technology major undertakings and tasks) that need to be addressed soon, and where one or more sessions during the conference could be helpful for collective brainstorming 2) To engender collaboration with the openSUSE.org project, who are the top two or three people/projects from outside of openSUSE.org that should be invited to the conference for close collaboration? To join the preparations and to stay apprised of the latest plans, contribute at: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference_Planning_2011 regards, openSUSE Conference Program Committee -- 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] New questions for people of openSUSE
by Kim Leyendecker 29 Apr '11

29 Apr '11

Dear all! Because there were some discussions[1] about the questions of "people of openSUSE". To solve this issue and make the interviews maybe "community-created" I created this page for adding your desired questions. For any other information, please read the wiki-page and write your quesitons on it :D Any questions? Okay, I´ll be there for you ;) http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:People_of_openSUSE/New_questions thanks [1] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2011-03/msg00537.html Kim Leyendecker (kimleyendecker(a)hotmail.de) openSUSE Ambassador / openSUSE Wiki Team DE HAVE A LOT OF FUN! http://www.opensuse.org | http://www.suse.de 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] Question about en.opensuse.org
by Rob Price 29 Apr '11

29 Apr '11

Hello, I was wondering if it would be possible to suggest a link for your website at; http://en.opensuse.org/opensuse:how_to_get_to_the_conference Our site Frixo (http://www.frixo.com/) is a road travel reporting website, that provides our users with the most up-to-date road traffic information. Our data is updated every 5 minutes using sensors placed on motorways and common A / B roads. I feel it might be a useful resource for your readers. Many thanks for your consideration. Kind Regards, Rob Rob Price robprice(a)frixo.com http://www.frixo.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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