May 2011 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [opensuse-project] How we will use the GSoC money
by Alan Clark 17 May '11

17 May '11

Looks like we have 3 very good proposals on the table: 1) purchasing SSDs for OBS 2) a Packman server. 3) use the money to sponsor our mentors to come to the openSUSE conference... > Then put the proposals up and have a members only vote. (I do think > this should be members only.) I'd like the Mentors to weigh in with their preferences since the money will be a result of their efforts. Alan -- 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 Lizards for FrosCon 2011
by Jan Krings 17 May '11

17 May '11

Hey Lizards, on August 20th/21th, there is the "Free and Open Source Software Conference" in St. Augustin near Cologne (Germany). Until now, without openSUSE. I have no problem to organize the booth, but atm. I'm the only person from the openSUSE Community, who want to go to the FrosCon. And alone, it makes no sense. The deadline for the Call of Projects is the 23th May 2011. So we have not much time to decided if there is a openSUSE booth or not. If there is another person who wants to helps me I'm happy. More are of course better. http://www.froscon.de/index.php?id=41&mid=154&ret=15&L=1&L=1 Greets Jan Krings -- 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] [reminder] openSUSE Project Meeting tomorrow at 18:00 UTC
by openSUSE Meeting Reminder 17 May '11

17 May '11

Hello all, The biweekly project meeting will be held tomorrow at 18:00 UTC in #opensuse-project on freenode. Everybody is invited to join and participate! Find out what time the meeting will be in your timezone: http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=18&month=5&year=2011&h… Agenda of the meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Project_meeting#Agenda_for_the_next_meeting If you cannot participate and want a specific question to be answered during the meeting, please add your question to: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Project_meeting#Questions_Section Minutes and logs of previous meetings can be found at: http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/ Thanks, -- openSUSE Meeting Reminder -- 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 2011 CfP open!
by Jos Poortvliet 16 May '11

16 May '11

Dear friends, On Sunday the 11th of September it will be that time again: the openSUSE Conference starts. And of course we want an exciting program. Today, the proposal submission time starts and you have until July 11th to let us know what you want to discuss at the conference! The openSUSE Conference 2011 will happen from Sunday 11th to Wednesday 14th of September in Nuremberg, Germany. This date shouldn’t conflict with too many other conferences. We’ll be open for registration and a pre-party on Saturday night! The website on conference.opensuse.org is being updated still and we’ll let you know once you can register. We expect about 500 visitors this year and hence had to find a new location. A perfect spot was found in a previous industrial complex from AEG named ‘Zentrifuge‘. This cultural center might not be the ‘usual’ space for an IT conference but offers a very creative and open space, currently used for art and music. Exactly right for the openSUSE Free Software gathering! The committee is looking for a wide range of talks and sessions from Free Software contributors, however openSUSE related topics are obviously our focus. To simplify the wide range of activities one could plan, we have created three different sessions following the Read/Write/Execute theme. For Read-Only there are talks with the traditional slides and 5-10 minutes Q&A at the end. For Write there are the BOF sessions where discussions can take place. Finally, in Workshops the Execute bit can be set! Each session will last 40 minutes but for complicated subjects it is perfectly OK to ask for 2 consecutive or non-consecutive discussion or workshop slots! For more information about the format and how to give a talk, organize a Discussion/BOF or give a workshop, please refer to our guidelines for speakers[1]. Authors are also advised to consult the code of conduct[2] before submitting their paper. [1]http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference_Planning_2011_guidelines_for_s… [2]http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Code_of_Conduct The proposals can be submitted to cfp(a)opensuse.org Deadline for the submission is July 11th 2011. We look forward to your proposals! Cheers, The oSC 2011 Paper Committee

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Re: [opensuse-project] anti-harassment policy at oSC 2011
by pistazienfresser 15 May '11

15 May '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Mon, 9 May 2011 17:31:50 +0200 > Von: Jos Poortvliet <jos(a)opensuse.org> > An: opensuse-project(a)opensuse.org > Betreff: [opensuse-project] anti-harassment policy at oSC 2011 > Hi all, > > I'd like to have a code of conduct or anti-harassment policy at our > conference, see for reasons my latest blog at > http://blog.jospoortvliet.com > > I made a draft: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Code_of_Conduct > > Please, any input is more than welcome! But read before replying, there is > a > FAQ already so don't ask what is answered there ;-) > > Cheers, > Jos Hello all also, I made some small changes to Jos's draft and added the number of the Frauennotruf Nürnberg e.V. ( ca. en: Women's Distress Call - registered voluntary association ) Compare for possible cases to call this independent organization (also anonymous calls possible): http://www.frauennotruf.info/beratung_unterstuetzung.html (page is in German language) If wanted I could call and ask in what languages there would be someone for guidance. Regards Martin -- -- - Martin Seidler - openSUSE profile: https://users.opensuse.org/show/pistazienfresser -- Empfehlen Sie GMX DSL Ihren Freunden und Bekannten und wir belohnen Sie mit bis zu 50,- Euro! https://freundschaftswerbung.gmx.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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Re: [opensuse-project] anti-harassment policy at oSC 2011
by Jos Poortvliet 11 May '11

11 May '11

On 2011-05-11 pistazienfresser wrote: > 2011/5/9 Jos Poortvliet <jos(a)opensuse.org> > > > Hi all, > > > > I'd like to have a code of conduct or anti-harassment policy at our > > conference, see for reasons my latest blog at > > http://blog.jospoortvliet.com > > > > I made a draft: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Code_of_Conduct > > > > Please, any input is more than welcome! But read before replying, > > there is a > > FAQ already so don't ask what is answered there ;-) > > > > Cheers, > > Jos > > Hello all also, > > I made some small changes to Jos's draft and added the number of the > Frauennotruf Nürnberg e.V. ( ca. en: Women's Distress Call - > registered voluntary association ) > > Compare for possible cases to call this independent organization > (also anonymous calls possible): > http://www.frauennotruf.info/beratung_unterstuetzung.html (page is in > German language) > > If wanted I could call and ask in what languages there would be > someone for guidance. > > Regards > Martin Thank you very much, Martin! I really appreciate it.

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[opensuse-project] openSUSE Weekly News 175 coming soon...
by Sascha Manns 11 May '11

11 May '11

Hello Mates, don't worry about this mail. I just would like to remind that our next openSUSE Weekly News 175 comes out at Saturday evening (UTC +2). Until Saturday 08:00:00 (CEST) +0200 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 open-slx Community & Support Agent openSUSE Membership Comitee openSUSE Marketing Team Web: http://saigkill.homelinux.net German Community Portal: http://community.open-slx.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] Can we get on this
by Chuck Payne 11 May '11

11 May '11

Guys, Please read the following like it is increable, only thing is I wish we could replace ubuntu with openSUSE. Since I am not a programmer, what would it take to put openSUSE on this? What I think would be great is we could do like the OLPC, maybe. Change $50 for one, then a person get ones, and child gets the other. Just a thought. Pup -- (678) 636-9678 ----------------------------------------- Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- openSUSE -- en.opensuse.org/User:Terrorpup openSUSE Ambassador/openSUSE Member skype,twiiter,identica,friendfeed -- terrorpup freenode(irc) --terrorpup/lupinstein Register Linux Userid: 155363 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] Heads-up on openSUSE conference 2011
by Andreas Jaeger 06 May '11

06 May '11

This is not an official announcement. This is meant as a heads up to inform you of the progress we have made in selecting a venue and date and as a kick-start for other activities around the openSUSE conference. We have to finalize some questions with the proposed location now and once everything is clear, "official" announcements will be made - if you like our proposal;) After reviewing several potential locations, we propose that the 2011 openSUSE conference be held at a very cool location, the Zentrifuge in Nuernberg, Germany. The conference dates will be September 11th to September 14th, 2011. Robert Lihm, Klaas Freitag, Oliver Fecher and myself have been scouting locations for the openSUSE conference for the past several weeks. We looked at several places and feel that this location will provide the best venue for this years conference. We are very excited about the potential that this location offers. This years conference will be larger than ever. The event will include experts from the SUSE Labs developers (mainly kernel, GCC and Samba developers). In past years SUSE Labs has held their own conference. This year we plan to do the conferences together with more attendees, content and collaboration. * Location: Zentrifuge Nuernberg This is an independed culture centre for the greater Nuernberg region, it's located in the previous industry complex from AEG. It's not an "usual" place for IT conferences, but a place where art projects happen in a very creative and open space. We will use their main room for the keynotes and use some other rooms in the building for the seminars. URL: http://www.zentrifuge-nuernberg.de/ The location has a good public transportation to the city centre and I was suprised to see the motto of the complex which is "Creating communities". We'd like to use the location to make some kind of cool art event there as part of the conference. Klaas will send some ideas later. * Join us at a cool location! Zentrifuge will be a great conference location but will require more help from the community members than previous years. Oliver, Klaas and Robert have some great visions for the Zentrifuge and committed to help making it cool - and knowing them, I'm convinced we can do it. Btw. Oliver is our local facilities expert and also responsible for setting up Novell and SUSE parties and events for quite some time. I would not do Zentrifuge without having him on board - I'm delighted that he will help us! * Our next steps Right now we're checking the feasibility of Zentrifuge and also ask for your help. We need a local team of people willing to help to make the conference a real unforgetable event in an unusual place, afterwards people will say "Wow, cool FOSS events happen in Nuremberg now instead of Berlin" :) The next days we will go again to the location and try to get everything sorted out for signing a contract with the location. * Sponsoring We're also seeking sponsors. We're already in discussion with Attachmate for funding and expect them to be the main sponsor but others are welcome and needed. * Summary Here's our proposal: Time: 11th to 14th September, 2011 Location: Zentrifuge Nuernberg Will you join and help us? Volunteer through the wiki (http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference_Planning_2011) Let's move forward with call for paper, slogan etc so that we can announce this publically to a broader context once we have been again at the location and finalized it, Andreas Klaas Oliver Robert -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE aj(a){novell.com,suse.com,opensuse.org} Twitter/Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) 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] LinuxTag Berlin Tickets
by Henne Vogelsang 06 May '11

06 May '11

Hey Peepz, we have still some 4-Day-Tickets left for LinuxTag. If you're interested let me know. Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, openSUSE. Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -- 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] 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 Weekly News 174 coming soon...
by Sascha Manns 04 May '11

04 May '11

Hello Mates, don't worry about this mail. I just would like to remind that our next openSUSE Weekly News 174 comes out at Saturday evening (UTC +2). Until Saturday 08:00:00 (CEST) +0200 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 open-slx Community & Support Agent openSUSE Membership Comitee openSUSE Marketing Team Web: http://saigkill.homelinux.net German Community Portal: http://community.open-slx.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] 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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[opensuse-project] [reminder] openSUSE Project Meeting tomorrow at 18:00 UTC
by openSUSE Meeting Reminder 03 May '11

03 May '11

Hello all, The biweekly project meeting will be held tomorrow at 18:00 UTC in #opensuse-project on freenode. Everybody is invited to join and participate! Find out what time the meeting will be in your timezone: http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=4&month=5&year=2011&ho… Agenda of the meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Project_meeting#Agenda_for_the_next_meeting If you cannot participate and want a specific question to be answered during the meeting, please add your question to: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Project_meeting#Questions_Section Minutes and logs of previous meetings can be found at: http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/ Thanks, -- openSUSE Meeting Reminder -- 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] Attachmate
by Trifle Menot 02 May '11

02 May '11

I looked at the recent archive and did not see any discussion of Attachmate yet ... maybe people think it doesn't matter. But I think it does. SJVN at ZDNET reports: > SUSE will be headquartered in Nuremburg, Germany and will be run by > Nils Brauckmann, President and General Manager http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/attachmate-reveals-novell-suse-linux-… As for the opensuse project, Jeff Hawn (Attachmate CEO) said to SJVN: > SUSE sponsorship and participation in key open-source projects is > a fundamental element of the business. This commitment is driven by a > desire to contribute to and collaborate with the community in a way > that fosters the success of open source technologies overall and > creates the greatest value for our customers. The openSUSE project is a > great example of vibrant and healthy collaboration. SUSE sponsorship > and participation in projects like openSUSE creates great value for the > community and also for SUSE customers who benefit from the innovations > and advancements we create together. I believe he means it. Attachmate has many years experience coexisting with Microsoft, and with IBM in the mainframe world. They know how to survive and prosper in the midst of a hostile environment. Attachmate's executives are smart money managers. I expect they will compete against Red Hat better than Novell ever did. And that makes me more optimistic for the future of opensuse than Novell ever did. -- 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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