This year, once again, openSUSE will be at the Southeast Linux Fest 8-10
June, in Charlotte, North Carolina. To make it extra special, this year
we will be a Silver Sponsor!
If you live in the area or if you've been meaning to head down South to
kick off the start of summer season, this is your chance to get in on
the action. I've just started a wiki page to organize this at [1].
Keep in mind its only a few minutes old and needs more love soon. :-)
Please respond here or email me privately, if you prefer, with your
interest to join our booth or give talks on behalf of openSUSE. And
hey, just so you know, if you've never done this kind of stuff before,
don't worry. We all started from somewhere. It'll be fun, we assure
you.
Bryen M Yunashko
openSUSE Project
[1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:SoutheastLinuxFest_2012
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The openSUSE board met for a day long meeting on March 22nd in
Nuremberg and via video link. We would like to report to the community
some of the goals and actionable items that resulted from that
meeting.
1. The members of the board discussed ways to make our communication
better. The most perceived problems are
A) requests to our private address (board(a)o.o) don't receive a
timely response and
B) the process how we reach decisions on requests is not well defined.
Although we are unable to respond to all requests with an immediate
resolution, the board will in the future provide an acknowledgment and
a time frame for an expected response. To ensure that, we are going to
implement some kind of ticket system for the board.
To solve the second problem we agreed that we are going turn down the
notch on voting a bit to make it possible for single board members to
address "simple" issues on their own. We rather want to act as what we
are, a group of friends, then voting on everything. This also
addresses the problem that it's not always clear what is a response
from the board and what is an opinion of a single board member. In the
future you get the groups formulated opinion from board(a)opensuse.org
and everything else are individual opinions. Additionally this makes
it easy to identify issues that are not "simple" and need further
discussion and most likely voting in either the project meeting or our
mailing lists.
2. We talked about what we think are the projects strengths that need
emphasizing right now and agreed to stress the fact that we are all
here to have FUN together. That we rather want to have a bit creative
ANARCHY without the need of complex, excessive bureaucracy and rules.
And that we are here to collaborate and help each other out, not to
make life harder for each other. We are going to make those points
abundantly clear in the near future and let them guide us in what we
do.
3. For starters one thing that all members of the board are tired of
is the mood, tone and behavior of certain people on our mailing lists.
It's seldom FUN, SIMPLE and COLLABORATIVE to bring up an issue on,
say, opensuse-project. We need to change this to get the mailing lists
back to being a productive, fun, collaborative place where we listen
to arguments and address problems in a constructive and open way. Each
and every one of us wants to discourage mailing list vandals who only
state opinions, while expecting someone else to make the fix. As a
board we invite the community to actively deter these unproductive
activities through social pressure. Making the lists fun will invite
existing contributors who aren't on the list(s) to join and to entice
new people onto the list(s).
4. The board members will continue to strive to ensure the project IRC
meetings are much more exciting, efficient and of value to the
community members by striving to:
1. Provide an agenda before hand so that all members are informed as
to what will be discussed
2. Only meet when there is an agenda
3. Time box the meeting to 1 hour with a proactive moderator tasked
with keeping the meeting on topic and within time boundaries
4. Get rid of general items(boring) and replace with specific agenda
items and reports.
5. Have the meeting moderator (rotating) be responsible for finalizing
the agenda, rejecting or deferring topics as required.
6. Hold project meetings at 20:00 UTC on every other Wednesday.
The board also reviewed the initial ideas covering the fiscal
management of community funds and the project sponsorship program.
These will be developed into proposals to be presented to the
community at a later date.
We thank the community for your continued support and look forward to
serving you.
The openSUSE Board
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Hi,
these are the minutes from the Boosters standup meeting where every
booster tells the others what he did, what hes planing to do and what is
blocking him from boosters work.
Milestone
----------
Get appstream onto 12.1
https://trello.com/board/appstream/4f156e1c9ce0824a2e1b8831
Name
* What did I do in the last week?
* What do I plan to do in the next week?
* What is blocking my participation?
Robert
* worked on the software.o.o card. mocked up stuff and discussed the
mockups.
* Implement the mockups in software.o.o
* n/a
Ismail
* Investigate how to integrate appstream into apper
* Work on the apper integration
* KDE security bugs. Worked on a talk for free software day in
Istanbul. prepare KDE 4.8.1 update in O:F
Vuntz
* Debug packagekit crashes for the large appdata.xml from factory
* Debug packagekit crashes for the large appdata.xml from factory
* upstream GNOME, GUADEC call for papers etc.
Christopher
* Integrate package metadata from app-data.xml into the debshot instance
* Integrate package metadata into the debshot instance
* n/a
Pavol
* Worked on the software center package.
* Get the package working with metadata from the OBS
* Worked through my reminder mails for factory
Nanuk
* nothing
* nothing
* mid-term exam. preparing presentation for the milestone for the
trainee meeting.
Coolo
* Worked together with Duncan on the software center code and zypp
backend.
* Work on the icon metadata concept
* Factory.
Tom
* Worked on the software.o.o backend to provide all the data we need.
Discussed the mockups on the mailing list.
* Implement the mockups
* nothing
Henne
* Talked to duncan about his experiences with the software center.
Talked to David Liang about gnome-appstore, appstream and OSC.
* Get the software center package working with metadata from the OBS
* Broken hand.
Michal
* nothing
* nothing
* KDE release party. mysql O:F packaging and bugreport. Prepare a talk
for OSCEPA. Participated in installfest.cz
Max
* investigate apper integration
* nothing
* participated in planing of the conference COSCUP in Taiwan
Henne
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Heya all,
There are about 27 ideas now on the GSOC ideas page. But if you really want
your favorite project to benefit from 3 months of full-time work by a student
- you can still get ideas on there!
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GSOC_2012_Ideas
Remember, the better and more ideas we have, the more students apply. And if
more students apply, we have more CHOICE which means we can pick the best,
most promising students and have the best results!
/Jos
Hi,
I'm Ershad Kunnakkadan, a second year computer science student from
India. I've been using openSUSE and I'm happy to be one of its
ambassadors.
I'm interested in extending the features of ssc under the mentorship
of Cristian Mircea Messel and add a version control in it to help
people conveniently build openSUSE based distributions from command
line. I started with Ruby a few months back and also I have been
learning the source of ssc according to the guidance of Cristian
Mircea Messel. If you are interested, you may please find my
currently little hobby project in Ruby on Rails here[1].
I would like to contribute to openSUSE as much as I can and I'm really
happy to be a part of openSUSE vibrant community.
Please see the following links to know more about me-
Blog : http://ershadk.com/blog
Github : http://github.com/ershad
Resume : http://ershadk.com/cv/ershadk-cv.pdf
Thank you very much.
[1] http://rornews.heroku.com
Sincerely,
Ershad
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On what bugzilla catergory do we fill bugs on packages served via
buildservice?
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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NELF, the Northeast Linux Fest (http://www.northeastlinuxfest.org/) is
just around the corner, thus if you happen to be in New England on March
17, or if you live in this part of the country stop by the openSUSE
table, and if you have some time stick around and represent our project.
Details:
Start: 9:00 A.M. March 17, 2012
Speakers: http://www.northeastlinuxfest.org/?q=node/68 including Jon
"Maddog" Hall
Location: Worcester State University
486 Chandler Street
Worcester MA
Hope to see you there.
Robert
P.S.: Nor'easter, Northeast, New England, what the hell am I talking about?
The North Eastern corner of the USA is often referred to as the
Northeast or New England. The New England region is composed of the
states of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New
Hampshire, and Maine. Nor'easter is the name we give winter storms
around here. These often dump a boatload of snow on the region. This
past Winter was unusually mild and I can report that we did not even
have one of these storms :)
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