Hello Everyone,
I am throw my name in for Board. I know this is my third time, but
over the last year I have gain a lot of experience with working on the
board. I currently sit as the Community Manager for South East Linux
Fest. So not only do I have experience with board work. I know how to
work with other distro, groups, and on events. The last year working
with SELF as taught me a lot want it means to be a board member. That
is way, I am throwing my name again for the board elections.
I have helped over the pass couple years to set up events as
Ambassador for openSUSE, such SCALE, SELF, and Texas Linux Fest.
Though this last year I been quite, I have keep up-to-date on all the
releases. I have been working on Facebook. I have also been to a bit
of writing and hope to have two ebooks out next year that focus on
openSUSE.
I am System Administrator with over 15 years experience. I have work
from the help desk to NOC operator. During that time I have worked in
companies that I was a team with work member over all the world. I
love help others, I love to teach. One of the reason I been an
Ambassador. That is why I have ran for a position for the board over
the pass year.
I bring a lot of real world work experience to the board. I have a
very strong love for openSUSE.
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Hi,
I'm putting my name on the election list at the last minute :-)
== About Me ==
I've used Linux since the mid '90s (although, truth be told, I mostly
stuck with FreeBSD and BeOS on my desktops until the 2.4 kernel was
released). I've worked for SUSE/Novell since 2005, when Novell bought
Immunix, the company I worked for, and folded us all into the SUSE group.
A few years after that, I moved to Nuremberg to work on SUSE Studio.
My involvement in openSUSE has mostly been behind the scenes - I was a
mentor in our Google Summer of Code participation in 2011, an admin for
our Google Code-In participation that year, and an admin for GSoC in 2012.
I wrote the "imagewriter" program that a lot of people use to write live
openSUSE images to USB keys[1], and I also wrote the Android app for
viewing the openSUSE Conference and Summit schedules this year[2].
== Goals on the Board ==
I think that one of the biggest opportunities openSUSE is missing right
now is a program to connect interested people (students or not) with
mentors from our large pool of skilled community members. I don't mean a
schedule-based program like the Google Summer of Code, but a year-round
way to connect someone who is interested in working on a project that uses
Technology Y with someone who knows Technology Y and would be happy to
spend an hour a week as a mentor. Or someone who wants to package some
obscure application, or who wants to help translate software but doesn't
know how to start, etc.
That's something that has been kicked around as an idea for the last few
years, and it's certainly something that could be put in place by people
who are *not* board members, but perhaps if it were a board initiative, it
could get better traction.
== Summary ==
If you vote me on the board, I think I'd be a good choice. But if you
elect one of the other candidates on the list, I think they'd be a good
choice as well. It's a unique democratic situation - you can literally
choose a name at random from the list of candidates, and your choice will
be a good one.
Have fun,
Matt
[1] - http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Live_USB_stick#Install_ImageWriter
[2] - https://github.com/mbarringer/suseconferenceclient
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Hi all,
by popular demand (actually, it was only one: Lars Müller), I'm
announcing my candidacy for this year's openSUSE Board election.
Most people might already know me: I have been working at the SUSE
headquarters for almost 10 years, since 2009 I'm working for B1 Systems
as a Consultant and Developer.
My contributions are mostly packaging a few packages for openSUSE,
helping out on packman Build Service and always running current Factory
on my main work machine and reporting the bugs I run into.
To be honest, my picture of what is involved with being a board member
is vague at best, so I'm not going to promise much. But I'll try to do
my best :-)
Best regards, and dont forget to
Have a lot of fun...
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Hi,
First I'd like to thank Henne for nominating me and thus encouraging me
to run for a position on the openSUSE Board. Having thought about this
for a few days I have decided to take the plunge and run for one of the
2 openSUSE board positions up for election.
Below you can find a few words about me as an introduction. There is
some campaign time left and thus you will hear more about me and the
other candidates as we approach the elections. As I understand it there
will also be interviews with all candidates that will appear on news.o.o
in the next phase of the election cycle.
My name is Robert Schweikert and I am a user of openSUSE, a contributor
to the project, and a package maintainer. My focus of contributions
varies based on my perception of "current topics" and longer standing
issues and needs. Currently I am focusing on our package maintainer-ship
model, see my talks at oSC12 [1], [2]. I believe if we can address these
issues we can avoid future scheduling snafus. In the past I have
contributed to various governance discussions such as membership,
guiding principals and other topics. I also played a small role in
putting the openSUSE Summit program together for our first event in
North America.
As can easily be concluded from my e-mail address, I work for SUSE.
Within SUSE I work in the ISV Engineering team focusing on SUSE's
relationship with IBM at the Software level. I also help other ISVs with
issues they may have with their applications on SUSE. When IBM and ISVs
do not fill up my calendar I contribute to KIWI [3] and actively
participate in the LSB (Linux Standard Base) Working group [4].
On a more personal note, I live with my wife and two teenage children in
Massachusetts, USA, about 45 minutes outside of Boston. Whenever I get a
chance I ride the back roads of New England (as the North Eastern part
of the US is commonly known) on my Harley and once a year I take a
longer trip on the bike for a week or so to get away and let the Grey
matter between the ears rest/reset.
If elected to the Board I will try to encourage all board members to
take a bit more of an active role as a board. As a member of the
community I often have the feeling that the board is this hidden
amorphous entity that just drifts along in the flow of the project. I'd
like to see this change and have the board take on a more active role in
the community to guide the project, actively solicit involvement and
leadership in areas where action is needed. For example I think it would
be great if we as a community can stand up a mentor ship program. I
believe active leadership by the board would have a major positive
impact on such an initiative. I also believe in setting people up for
success and think the board can also help in this area. While
collectively we have done a great job in "making it easy" to contribute
we have also, IMHO, created many areas where "paralysis by choice"
exists and/or it is "hard" to contribute because "it is so easy" or
there is no guidance. I believe the board should take an active look at
those areas of the project and actively solicit ideas and action to
address the issues.
Thanks for your attention, let the campaigning begin ;)
Later,
Robert
[1]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5HFNVEVLSc&list=UUXPcicLBLCOpPEk-hC6yyzQ&in…
[2]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UqWwxXDu_Y&list=UUXPcicLBLCOpPEk-hC6yyzQ&in…
[3] http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:KIWI
[4] https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/en/LSB
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It's not too late to throw your hat into the ring and represent your
community on the openSUSE Board. The deadline to submit your intention
to run for the board is tomorrow, 27 November, 2012.
Please review the full details of our election procedures on our wiki
[1].
Being a board member is one of the many great ways you can help shape
the direction and future of the openSUSE Project. If you care and want
to give something back to the community, this is your chance.
Sincerely,
The openSUSE Election Officials Team
[1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election
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As we work on the next release of openSUSE. We would like to invite
our community to participate with ideas to guide our design team in
choosing artwork for openSUSE 12.3.
Right now, there are some ideas coming through. As designers, it is
important to find ideas, words, or concepts that can help guide our
thoughts into choosing artwork for 12.3. Please provide us with a max
of 3 design "thoughts," for example
1. Simplicity
2. Clarity
3. Light
Choose any 3 of these that can help describe our thought process.
If in doubt of what's appropriate to suggest, and not deviate too much
from our current styling guidelines, refer to
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Artwork_guidelines
Thank you
Andy (anditosan)
PS: In case you have not seen yet, please swing by our flickr page.
Our contributors have been hard at work taking pictures and making
images that can do for a good wallpaper.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/opensuse-artwork/
PS: For any further questions, please reach us on IRC at #opensuse-artwork
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http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2012/opensuse-proje…http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2012/opensuse-proje…http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2012/opensuse-proje…
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#opensuse-project: openSUSE Project Meeting
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Meeting started by vuntz at 17:01:05 UTC. The full logs are available
at
http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2012/opensuse-proje…
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Meeting summary
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* Update on inactive mailing lists (vuntz, 17:04:19)
* not done yet, mostly due to lack of time (vuntz, 17:06:26)
* henne will likely be the one dealing with this (vuntz, 17:08:07)
* Update on admin(a)o.o reactiveness (vuntz, 17:09:39)
* suggestion to create a backup admin for mailing list, so that
previous topic can be dealt with faster (vuntz, 17:10:05)
* some discussion about admin@ was summarized by christian:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2012-11/msg00033.html
(vuntz, 17:10:36)
* someone might step up soon to help with planet.o.o administration
(vuntz, 17:17:18)
* helping with ML might be possible only from SUSE people at the
moment (due to access restrictions) (vuntz, 17:18:41)
* ACTION: darix to ask henne about getting someone else to help with
administrating the mailing lists (vuntz, 17:25:25)
* LINK: https://github.com/openSUSE/wiki (digitltom, 17:29:06)
* status of wiki update: an attempt to update to 1.19 was in git, but
it didn't work, so everything went back to 1.17. The git branch
(repo: https://github.com/openSUSE/wiki) also got force-pushed :/
(vuntz, 17:32:02)
* ACTION: cboltz to ask scott about status of wiki update (vuntz,
17:33:31)
* Update on GCI (Google Code-In) (vuntz, 17:34:36)
* we're not participating this year (vuntz, 17:37:51)
* list of selected organizations:
http://google-opensource.blogspot.fr/2012/11/mentoring-organizations-for-go…
(vuntz, 17:38:03)
* we did a bad job at creating a list of ideas for students since we
didn't have any ideas :/ (vuntz, 17:38:27)
* next time, we will need to evaluate if there's interest for
mentoring students in GCI, so we can know if it's worth applying
(vuntz, 17:45:47)
* Status of Board elections (vuntz, 17:46:33)
* elections fully documented at
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election (vuntz, 17:49:49)
* already two candidates (vuntz, 17:49:56)
* people can apply to run, or nominate a candidate until November 27th
(vuntz, 17:50:25)
* Next meeting chair (vuntz, 17:58:00)
* LINK: http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Meetings has some info on how to
use bugbot (vuntz, 18:03:12)
* ACTION: vuntz to find a replacement chair in case he can't make it
for next meeting (vuntz, 18:03:48)
* ACTION: vuntz to write some short doc on what chairing involves, and
how to do it (vuntz, 18:04:02)
* Q&A (vuntz, 18:06:42)
* hendersj asking about handling op privs on #opensuse-forums; nobody
present knows, but darix or ircops(a)o.o should know (vuntz,
18:13:31)
* anditosan raises the topic of having a paid designer (from SUSE) to
work on openSUSE; vuntz will chat with toscalix to see if there's a
possibility for this (vuntz, 18:16:28)
* ACTION: vuntz to talk to toscalix about a paid designer for openSUSE
(vuntz, 18:16:43)
Meeting ended at 18:18:06 UTC.
Action items, by person
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* cboltz
* cboltz to ask scott about status of wiki update
* darix
* darix to ask henne about getting someone else to help with
administrating the mailing lists
* vuntz
* vuntz to find a replacement chair in case he can't make it for next
meeting
* vuntz to write some short doc on what chairing involves, and how to
do it
* vuntz to talk to toscalix about a paid designer for openSUSE
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* cboltz (25)
* tigerfoot (20)
* hendersj (15)
* darix (14)
* anditosan (10)
* digitltom (9)
* bugbot (5)
* nmarques (2)
* lnussel (1)
* malcolmlewis (1)
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Someone nominated me so:
Sure. I'll be happy to get involved.
Snarled up with work this week, but I'll put something together next week.
In the mean time. I'm Carl Fletcher
caf4926 in the forum, irc etc....
<en.opensuse.org/User:Caf4926>
<forums.opensuse.org/members/caf4926.html>
Yes, I'm one of the forum admin team. I keep pretty busy there. Use IRC too.
Plenty of guides and tutorials with my name on them.
I push openSUSE thru my Google+ account too
Regards to you all
Carl
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Hello,
The announcement for the next openSUSE Board election is done. Please
read http://news.opensuse.org/2012/11/13/the-board-election-2012/
Make sure that you are able to vote, or even better, able to run!
Best Regards,
Izabel Valverde
On behalf of Election Committee Team
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