July 2011 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-project] How we will use the GSoC money
by Vincent Untz 18 Jul '24

18 Jul '24

Hi, (let's see how a public discussion about money goes :-)) The Google Summer of Code brings us great students, but also means that the openSUSE project will get $8000 (if I'm not mistaken) at the end of the summer. That's $500 per student. A while ago, I requested comments on my blog about what to do with the money, but didn't get any feedback. So I take this as "do what you feel is best", and this mail is about the plan. As a reminder, the main issue is that we will likely not have the openSUSE Foundation created in time for this. For instance, Google would like us to get some form filled before the end of June; this is not a mandatory timeline, but I think it shows that we won't be ready with the Foundation for that. The current plan is to give that money to another organization we feel close to, and I have two candidates in mind: - the Software Freedom Conservancy (http://sfconservancy.org/) it's a really nice org that provides a home for various cool projects (see http://sfconservancy.org/members/current/) and those projects help make openSUSE a great project. - the Desktop Summit (https://www.desktopsummit.org/) it's one of the biggest event this year, and this would help us have some more visibility (since we'd be sponsors, I guess). I'm sure they would welcome this to secure their budget. Note that an alternative solution would be to leave the money to Google for a future GSoC or similar program, but I feel it's better to use the money where it can make a difference today. Now, it's not too late to change the plan. If you have a better suggestion, please tell us. There's no need to argue forever about it, just explain why you think it's good. Keep in mind that if we cannot receive the money ourselves, this also means that we cannot use it to buy stuff for openSUSE. Pavol and I will take the final decision since we are the GSoC admins for openSUSE. Thanks, 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] 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] ssc - Weekly Update
by Ratan Sebastian 22 Aug '11

22 Aug '11

Hi, I'm working on the command line client for Suse Studio(ssc) project as part of GSOC 2011. I'll be posting weekly updates of the project on my blog [1]. There isn't much to check out now but in the coming weeks please do check in and leave feedback. Thank You. [1]: http://rxvl.in/tagged/ssc -- Ratan Sebastian -- 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] [gsoc2011] PackageKit, AppStream and openSUSE integration for Software Center
by Alex Eftimie 22 Aug '11

22 Aug '11

Hi everyone, I'm happy and a bit late to announce that my proposal, PackageKit and AppStream integration for Software Center has been accepted as a openSUSE GSoC project this summer. I'm planning to work incrementally, first by getting rid of ubuntu specific bits in s-c, then by abstracting backend classes, wrapping the pk API, and then adding new code/features, as described here: http://swarm.cs.pub.ro/~alexef/gsoc/proposal.html Your feedback is welcome! Alex -- 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 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] openSUSE Conference 2011 and LPI certification
by Stathis Agrapidis 01 Aug '11

01 Aug '11

Hello to all, I will be attending the conference at Nyremberg and I would like to participate in the exams (if they happen) for the LPI certification. Where can I look for more information? Actually, will it be possible to be examed for the certification? If yes, what should I do? Should I study something? Any help and useful resources will be appreciated. Thank you all in advance, Efstathios Agrapidis (efagra) -- 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] Utility of merging configuration sysconfig files
by Christos Bountalis 29 Jul '11

29 Jul '11

Hello to all people of openSUSE :), In the following link you can find my report on my gsoc project. http://cbounta.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/a-utility-for-merging-configuration… Best regards, Christos -- 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] Entomologist UI Changes - Weekly Report #10
by David Williams 29 Jul '11

29 Jul '11

Hi everyone, You can find the report at either [0] or down below as always. ---- REPORT TEXT BELOW ----- This week isn't as feature packed as previous weeks as I've been trying to figure out where to go from the initial iteration of the ToDo Lists. I've added a blueprint at[ 1] which details what I plan to do in the coming weeks. I hope it doesn't end up taking me the remainder of the GSoC time as I would like to start looking at QML integration but I think it's a killer feature for Entomologist to have so if it does then that's not a loss to me as I would really like to have it implemented. I've been working on adding iCalendar Export to the ToDo Lists and this revealed a few issues with the design choices as iCalendar requires details such as e-mail addresses and recipients to be included in the VTODO format. This is why I had to outline the steps needed to get fully functional calendar export to work and I think a lot of new UI changes need to be brought in to supplement that and to enhance the configurability of the ToDo Lists. Initial testing of the iCalendar exporting appeared to work in iCal as it added the Reminder but it would not sync with any of my cloud calendars that I have included. I think that this is probably iCal itself not supporting the sync of ToDo Lists (or Reminders in iCal parlance) rather than an issue with the format used. I've also used iCalendar validators to check it and it seems that the .ics files produced are well formed which, in all honesty, is the only thing I can really do. Adding little hacks for different services is not the way I want this project to go as it would a) increase the amount of code b) increase the complexity and c) it would break if something changed in each individual service. I think the best way to move forward is to take inspiration from the way that Trackers are organised out and build objects that inherit from a base WebDAV/CalDAV client and add the functionality required for API compatibility with various services. This would mean that we support generic WebDAV servers that a user specifies and that we catch a lot of the various services that exist without wasting lots of code trying to figure it out. The primary services I want to target for this feature are: Remember the Milk Google Calendar Generic WebDAV/CalDAV External clients - Evolution/Thunderbird/iCal/Outlook. I think Outlook might be a problem as a target as I'm not 100% sure it supports the iCalendar format correctly. If it does then great, but I don't have a way to actually test it as I don't own Microsoft Office on either a Mac or a Windows PC and I'm not going to pay for it as I would never use it outside of the testing it would need. I'm also not sure what calendar applications are popular on Windows but I'm assuming that Thunderbird/Google Calendar based things are pretty common so I think it's safe to target those. So it's the 10th week and I've got a lot more work to do but it should all be really interesting stuff to add and will be well worth the time it takes :). [0] - http://wp.me/pjdJf-5n [1] - http://trac.entomologist-project.org/wiki/ToDoListBlueprint Thanks for reading, David Williams Entomologist UI Changes.-- 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] DesktopSummit planning
by Jos Poortvliet 28 Jul '11

28 Jul '11

Hi everyone!!! As you might know, SUSE will sponsor the Desktop Summit Berlin, see: https://desktopsummit.org/press/sponsors-announced openSUSE will be there too, and visibly of course! We have people giving talks, bof's and all that, promoting a variety of technology and in general of course just participating in making the Desktop Summit great. As sponsor, SUSE not only is paying money for the DS but also provides some cool stuff: we have openSUSE beer and t-shirts for the Soccer Match on Sunday and we bring the SUSE Studio Kiosk with a number of USB sticks there so people can create their own OS-on-a-stick! Now the DS team is busy enough so we need to help out a bit. A few people need to help handling the beer - I'm sure we can get volunteers for that (yes, drinking allowed as long as you can still carry beer). And we need some help with baby-sitting the Studio Kiosk at the sponsor table! I'm sure if we all help out we can do this easily together. Please add your names to the wiki if you're coming and if you already know when you can help out, add your name there too: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:DesktopSummitBerlin Thanks in advance!!!! Jos

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[opensuse-project] openSUSE Weekly News 186 coming soon...
by Sascha Manns 27 Jul '11

27 Jul '11

Hello Mates, don't worry about this mail. I just would like to remind that our next openSUSE Weekly News 186 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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