March 2012 - 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] Fwd: openSUSE in Akademy-es
by Jos Poortvliet 10 May '12

10 May '12

Heya all, See below an invite for an openSUSE talk at Akademy-es! the CfP is wrong (they are fixing it) The event is from May, Friday 19 to Sunday 20th. Anyone able/willing to go? Email abenito at the KDE.org servers or talk to me! Cheers, Jos ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: openSUSE in Akademy-es Date: Wednesday 21 March 2012, 17:50:04 From: Agustin Benito (toscalix) <abenito@xxxxxxx> To: Jos Poortvliet (you know) CC: Other people Hi Jos, it would be great to have somebody from openSUSE giving a talk in [1]Akademy-es on May 20th in Saragossa. Its municipality uses openSUSE + GNOME so the person you send can also open a channel with them. It is the most advance migration project in small public administrations in spain (municipalities). On May 18th we will have some talks for wide audience. Since openSUSE does a great job with KDE, maybe talking about the news related with the destop and other services could be a good one. [2]Call for papers is open until April 23th. We expect about 80 people there. [1] http://es.kde.org/akademy-es2012/anuncio.php [2] http://es.kde.org/akademy-es2012/callforpapers.php Saludos -----------------------------------------

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[opensuse-project] Suse Studio Command Line Client (ssc) @ GSoC 2012
by Andrei Petre 19 Apr '12

19 Apr '12

Hello everybody, I take Cristian Mircea Messel's advice[1], and introduce myself. My name is Andrei Petre, I currently am in my second Bachelor year, studying in the field of Computer Science at Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania. I enjoy getting to know new people, and learning new things, to help improve my knowledge and myself, in general. I've read the ideas page from OpenSuse's GSoC and I searched mainly for projects containing languages that I already know, but I stopped at ssc[1], although I don't really know ruby; I recently started coding in it a bit (a very basic HTTP server in ruby[3], my very first ruby code, actually). I am familiar with python, java, c (strongest), c++ (some, not much), android (currently developing sth), so I think I could learn it, documenting myself for ~1week. Is this a problem, not being familiar with ruby? I would like to express my interest towards ssc project, as I liked the project's description and its idea. I too am a CLI kind of guy, and I use git[2], more locally than with github, though. Sorry, I am not an opensuse user (don't yell :P), I mainly use ubuntu, but I've been thinking of changing to arch / opensuse / fedora / deb. Anyway, sorry for long email and hopefully someone was patient enought to read it. Thanks! [1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GSOC_2012_Ideas#Suse_Studio_Command_Line_Cl… [2] https://github.com/andreip [3] https://github.com/andreip/HTTP-Server -- Andrei Petre -- 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] 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] Popularity contest for RPM (popcorn) : GSoC 2012
by Akshit Khurana 06 Apr '12

06 Apr '12

Hi, I am Akshit Khurana, third year Computer Science student at IIT Roorkee. I would like to work on the Popularity contest for RPM (popcorn) project.[0] I am a part of Information Management Group, in IIT Roorkee, which is a student body responsible for developing and managing all Internet and Intranet applications in IIT Roorkee, including the institute website and registration & placement portals.[1] One of the projects I have worked at IMG is Softwares application.[2][3] I have some experience in web development in python and django, so I would be fairly comfortable with Flask framework and SQLAlchemy. I've started reading about RPM from the links mentioned on the ideas page. I have got in touch with the project mentor Ionuț Arțăriși to know more about the project. He helped me to set up popcorn on my system to get started. Thanks, Akshit [0] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GSOC_2012_Ideas#Popularity_contest_for_RPM_… [1] - http://www.iitr.ac.in [2] - http://people.iitr.ernet.in/softwares/ [3] - http://djangoapps.herokuapp.com/softwares/ (if [2] is unavailable) -- 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] 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 promoters, coders or anyone who is interested in cutting-edge FLOSS technologies. The goal is to create a friendly and informative environment for people from different communities to make friends, learn new technologies and inspire each other. Open source software is supported by 3 groups: coders, users and promoters. This conference is aimed at all three groups. No matter whether you are a new user, a passionate promoter, mature developer or anywhere in between, you are welcome at COSCUP, the Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters! for COSCUP | GNOME.Asia 2010 and COSCUP 2011 there are 1,000 people together. ^__^ This Year (2012) openSUSE and KDE will get involved with COSCUP. We will have one individual track with 2 days. (About 14 presentaions) Date: 18-19 Aug, 2012 Country: Asia -- Taiwan We will have both booth and Conference in COSCUP 2012. We need your participate^^. For some good | interesting topic with openSUSE ( Yes, we will send call for paper as soon as possible <(_ _)> ) For booth -- We need your help. For anything else..... good to openSUSE Best regards sakana -- 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] Razor-qt instead of LXDE to our 12.2 DVD
by Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 01 Apr '12

01 Apr '12

Hello friends, I see that Razor-qt is inside our Factory repository for 12.2. I also see on the razor-qt mailing list that there's a huge progress with it. Since I'm not familiar with creating the DVD, I was wondering if it's possible to change LXDE with Razor-qt or if not, then add it as extra environment to the list. Stathis -- 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]
by Rakesh Kumar 31 Mar '12

31 Mar '12

Hi, Here is my proposal https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rujlY6Hr6YhiswGZJhI2By086tJch32giXYo1Gw… Will be very happy to receive any comments or suggestion. Thanking, Rakesh -- 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] Re: [opensuse-web] Wiki search left en.opensuse.org
by Wolfgang Hahnl 30 Mar '12

30 Mar '12

Am Donnerstag, 29. März 2012, 23:31:14 schrieb Rajko M.: > I tried to search some topics on the wiki and all I get is: > ---- > There were no results matching the query. > > Create the page "Kde troubleshooting" on this wiki! > ---- > > It doesn't matter am I logged in or not. We (de-Wiki) watched the same issues. For examble. If I search in the German Wiki for "Paketbau" I get no result, nothing, zero... But there are a lot of pages. I translate them currently. Only if I know the exact name of the page, than i will get a result. Is there anyone who can improve this tool? Best Regards Wolfgang openSUSE Member DE-Wiki-Team -- 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] GSOC 2012 - Introducing myself and ideas I am interested in
by Stathis Agrapidis 29 Mar '12

29 Mar '12

Hello everybody, My name is Efstathios Agrapidis (efagra) and I am a final year undergraduate student at the University of Macedonia [1] in Greece, where I study Applied Information Technology. I am currently an openSUSE user for the last two years and linux user since almost a decade (hoping from one distro to another), but really new to the beauty of the community behind such projects (one and a half year). I have mostly contributed to the greek part of the community by mentoring in this year's GCI, partitipating in events, translating software/weekly news/wiki, making presentations and I think this would be the best oportunity for me to start contributing in the software part of the distribution. >From computer languages I currently speak (I may say fluently) c/c++ and java. I am interested in software optimisation and parallelization and have worked with CUDA, opencl, MPI, and RMI. I have also studied a little about perl and python in the past that are required by some of the ideas, so I think I can catch up easily. As far as database languages is concerned I also know SQL and have worked with sqlite and MySQL. I should notice that I have a large learning apetite so any new knowledge that can and will come by partitipating in such an event is more than welcome and desired. I am not interested only in one specific project but in many and I need guidance on how to proceed, as I have different reasons for each idea. Below I am listing all of them line by line: SUSE Studio Java Client SDK Gtk Front End to Oyranos Redesign fdisk to be more extensible and implement GPT support On-demand Symbolic Memory Concolic Symbolic Execution LTP:Fix/Implement automated kernel/glibc tests Automatic resizing of LVM volumes and filesystems I am really excited about this. Greeting, efagra [1] www.uom.gr -- en.opensuse.org/User:Efagra -- 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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