February 2012

[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 … [View More]

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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] openSUSE and KDE in COSCUP Taiwan
by Max 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

Dear ALL: I am Max from Taiwan -- openSUSE ambassador and GNOME foundaion member too. ^__^ It's midnight in Taiwan. But I really happy to say "openSUSE and KDE will have one track( 2 days - 14 slot Presentations) at 18 - 19 Aug 2012 in COSCUP Taiwan" (I am sorry, I just make sure the date and slot today) What is COSCUP? http://coscup.org/2011/en/ COSCUP is the largest annual FLOSS conference organized by local communities in Taiwan. The conference has sessions for new users, enthusiastic … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] Evergreen release planning
by Wolfgang Rosenauer 13 Mar '12

13 Mar '12

Hi, within the Evergreen project http://en.opensuse.org/Evergreen we are planning to designate openSUSE 11.4 as the next Evergreen supported release. There are several reasons why 11.4 is a good candidate in our opinion and it even was my proposal in the beginning of Evergreen. Still we would like to hear your opinions and we actually are also looking for contributors to make the next Evergreen a success. The previous Evergreen releases 11.1 and 11.2 still had a "kind of experimental" flag … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] asking for GSoC vouch
by Peter Czanik 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

Hello, I'm Peter Czanik from syslog-ng upstream, openSUSE syslog-ng maintainer. This year we are also planing to join GSoC. As new to GSoC, we need somebody to vouch for us: "Are you a new organization who has a Googler or other organization to vouch for you? If so, please list their name(s) here." (http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2012/fa…) Could you help us with this? Bye, -- Peter Czanik (CzP)<czanik(a)balabit.hu> BalaBit IT Security / syslog-… [View More]

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[opensuse-project] Membership part II
by Robert Schweikert 29 Feb '12

29 Feb '12

Previously we discussed a proposal (http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2012-01/msg00381.html) about a potential for membership lapse. A summary of this discussion can be found on the wiki, http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Membership_lapse_summary Based on this summary and the last project meeting, see minutes http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2012-02/msg00064.html, I am putting forth the proposal below for further discussion, if further discussion is necessary. This, or a … [View More]refined proposal will be presented for a vote to project members for acceptance at some point in the, hopefully, near future. We agreed on soliciting a vote in the last project meeting. To recap, the goal driving this initiative is to provide a more equitable level between becoming a member and being a member, with focus on contributions. In order to become a member one has to contribute to the project and upon completing the membership application show these contributions to be verified by the membership committee. As always, please focus on the topic at hand, avoid rants, and be kind. Proposal: ======= At a time 4 month' prior to a member's even number year anniversary (that would be year 2, 4, 6...) attempts will be made to contact the member via the known e-mail address. Initial contact attempts will be automated to reduce work for the membership committee. The automated e-mail will contain a link to a web page that enables the member to check areas of contributions to the project. Submission of the form results in automatic membership "renewal" until the next even number anniversary of the member. Should the automated e-mail bounce 2 more automated attempts will be made to contact the member within 3 weeks of the initial automated e-mail. Should these automated attempts fail a member of the membership committee will make an attempt to locate the member via ML messages, IRC, and possibly other means such as social media. This is a best effort attempt to contact the member. Should the automated e-mail arrive (not bounce) but the web form should not get submitted, 2 more automated attempts will be made to contact the member within 3 weeks of the initial automated e-mail. Should these automated attempts fail a member of the membership committee will make an attempt to contact the member with a personal e-mail message or locate the member in IRC, Connect or other media. The member will be requested to submit the web form. This is a best effort attempt to contact the member. In the event that a member cannot be contacted in the 4 month time frame or a member is no longer contributing to the project the member will become an Honorary member. Honorary members retain their @opensuse e-mail address. However, honorary members may no longer participate in any voting activities that are open only to members. Resuming contributions to the project at any time will provide an honorary member with the opportunity to request reinstatement as a member to resume vote participation. ===== In conjunction with this proposal, I propose that we implement infrastructure such that initial contribution verification is simplified and ongoing contribution recognition is possible, see FATE 313229 https://features.opensuse.org/313229. This infrastructure would eliminate the need for contributing members to visit a web page to mark their contributions and membership "renewal" would take place automatically. In addition this infrastructure will reduce the tedious work the membership team completes today and thus will improve the processing speed of new membership applications. This proposal also requires the implementation of some basic infrastructure, or will put a good chunk of work onto the membership committee. Last but not least, please keep in mind that this is about contributions. Yes, voting is effected, but should not be the center of the discussion. Basically it is expected that members are interested in voting. If a large percentage of members do not vote this, in and of itself sends a clear message that there's something going on with the project. Thus, we do not need to discuss the "what if I don't want to vote..." or "voting should be mandatory..." arguments we have heard previously. Later, Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU SUSE-IBM Software Integration Center LINUX Tech Lead rjschwei(a)suse.com rschweik(a)ca.ibm.com 781-464-8147 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org [View Less]

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[opensuse-project] loadays
by Peter Czanik 28 Feb '12

28 Feb '12

Hello, I wonder, if anybody visited loadays ( http://loadays.org ) last year. What were your experiences? It's on my list of Linux admin focused conferences, where I could present syslog-ng. And could also help a few hours, if there is an openSUSE booth. CFP ends tomorrow ( http://www.loadays.org/content/cfp-load12 ). Bye, CzP -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Membership - Part n (and hopefully the last part?)
by Basil Chupin 28 Feb '12

28 Feb '12

I have tried to follow this thread started by Robert (for what reason is still beyond me, but nevertheless....). It had reached the stage of sheer boredom a while back in attempting to read posts in that "Membership" thread. Just before I started typing this message there were 84 posts concerning this "Membership" nonsense - and there is nothing else to call it but "nonsense". We are using Linux because we do not want to have other, monopolistic, anti freedom-to-choose-our-operating-… [View More]

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[opensuse-project] Boosters Sprint Meeting 2012-02-27
by Thomas Schmidt 27 Feb '12

27 Feb '12

Present: vincent, aj, wstephenson, henne, cwh, ismail, coolo, mrusecky, prusnak, nkrinner Missing: rlihm (vacation), maxli ------------------------------------------------------------------------ General Topics: - Henne can't type (fully back next monday) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Status Reports: Michal: Done: KDE release party prague, mysql changes for factory and 12.2, talked to fedora people about appstream: plan is … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] Good bye Marco Michna [daemon]
by Bruno Friedmann 26 Feb '12

26 Feb '12

I just learn today that our beloved fellow Marco Michna (aka [daemon]) pass away Thursday. He will miss us for sure. I already made a small post about it on my G+ profile, and I'm asking here if some good writers, can write few words about him. http://news.opensuse.org/2008/03/28/people-of-opensuse-marco-michna/ https://plus.google.com/u/0/109140068131989370067/posts irc : before quitting with message "Read error: Connection reset by peer" at Wed Feb 22 18:45:31 GMT 2012. Death notice … [View More]

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