April 2012 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-project] Introducing the Freight Train
by Jos Poortvliet 20 May '12

20 May '12

Hey all! As SUSE is gearing up for SLE 12, SUSE is doing more in openSUSE. Features like systemd and grub2 are examples and more will follow. That is good for openSUSE, but it can also lead to conflicts. Most of our engineers are involved in other upstream projects and know the drill of working with communities, but even then there's a risk that all this 'tramples' a bit over what we've been doing in openSUSE. That's called the 'Freight Train' effect, see [1] for a bit more background. We'd of course like to do what we can to smoothen this out and discussed this a bit with the openSUSE Boosters and some other people. One result was that we decided to set up a special mail address with a number of people where community members who get bitten by the freight train can yell at. Obviously the goal is to then investigate and do something about it. We try to have a small number of people on there, preferably including SUSE- ians from Nuremberg and Prague so they can approach people directly when needed and talk/hug/beat some sense in them and/or coach/guide. The team aims to help with TECHNICAL issues. Merge requests being ignored, patches rejected. It's not about solving bugs, helping users with questions, or doing something about personal conflics. There are other places for those! Right now, the team consists of AJ, Henne and myself - we'd like a SUSE volunteer from Prague. If anyone else is willing to step up, that's good too. Note that we look for technical people who know many community members and have some social and coaching skills. Some people might think there is or will be no problem - the mail address won't get much issues to solve so we can kill it off soon enough. We're fine with that! It might also get unrelated or other issues, which we'll try to relay those to the board, sysadmins or opensuse-project. [1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Freight_Train Love, hugs and all that, Jos P

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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] Question about openSUSE Summit
by andi robert 07 May '12

07 May '12

Since there is already a committee formed for this venue, I noticed on the page some items that might require some artwork done for it Materials Badges (Will be provided by SUSECon) Bag Program Guide T-Shirts Geeko Plushies Other Giveaways I am wondering if any of these will require the artwork team to create anything to display at the summit. Think also of possible branding for slideshows, door signs, stickers, etc. Please let us know. Thank you Andy (anditosan) -- 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] bad news: download.opensuse.org lost its filesystem
by Stephan Kulow 02 May '12

02 May '12

Hi, We face at the moment a rather critical problem - in download.opensuse.org's RAID 2 discs died at the same time, which means we can't restore the filesystem at all. Most stuff is copied somewhere else, but restoring it from scratch can take easily a day - we're talking about several TB. For now I redirect download.o.o to widehat.opensuse.org, which won't be able to hold the load for long - but it's better than spitting errors. Greetings, Stephan -- 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] Has openSUSE as a project approached Valve re the possible upcoming Steam for Linux?
by C 02 May '12

02 May '12

Steam for Linux has been floated a few times starting int 2010. A few days ago Phoronix posted some information about how far Valve has come with producing a Steam client for Linux, including showing a port of Left for Dead 2 running natively on Ubuntu. Today I spotted this: http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2012/04/canonical-in-touch-with-valve-to-ensure.… and this made me wonder... are we (as a project) also approaching Valve in some official capacity to ensure that this Steam for Linux client works "perfectly" on openSUSE too? Gamers are a huge driver in the adoption of technology, and a market segment we can't really afford to ignore. If this Steam for Linux client is released and is dependent on some library that is built only for Ubuntu, or is only released in DEB package format... well, we WILL be left behind in the rush. C. -- openSUSE 12.1 x86_64, KDE 4.8.2 -- 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: bad news: download.opensuse.org lost its filesystem
by M. Edward (Ed) Borasky 30 Apr '12

30 Apr '12

Is there a static list of US mirrors for the openSUSE Build Service repositories? I've got the Oregon State University mirror for the regular 12.1 repositories, but I have a bunch of OBS repositories I'm using for my current project. I don't want to hit "widehat" if there's a way I can find the files closer to home. -- Twitter: http://twitter.com/znmeb Computational Journalism Server http://j.mp/compjournoserver Data is the new coal - abundant, dirty and difficult to mine. -- 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] Contact?
by Carlos E. R. 30 Apr '12

30 Apr '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I was searching for the list of contacts at the opensuse.org page - found nothing. Also looked terms like "out of service". No luck. I know the page exists, I have seen it. I want to report that nntp:forums.novell.com is dead (two days). nntp:forums.opensuse.org survives. <7.4> 2012-04-27 22:43:34 Telcontar fetchnews 11242 - - warning: forums.novell.com: connection to 130.57.5.50 timed out <7.4> 2012-04-27 22:43:34 Telcontar fetchnews 11242 - - WARNING: some servers have not been queried! <7.4> 2012-04-27 22:58:34 Telcontar fetchnews 11875 - - warning: forums.novell.com: connection to 130.57.5.50 timed out <7.4> 2012-04-27 22:58:34 Telcontar fetchnews 11875 - - WARNING: some servers have not been queried! ... <7.4> 2012-04-29 01:33:35 Telcontar fetchnews 6214 - - warning: forums.novell.com: connection to 130.57.5.118 timed out <7.4> 2012-04-29 01:33:35 Telcontar fetchnews 6214 - - WARNING: some servers have not been queried! <7.4> 2012-04-29 01:38:34 Telcontar fetchnews 10220 - - warning: forums.novell.com: connection to 130.57.5.118 timed out <7.4> 2012-04-29 01:38:34 Telcontar fetchnews 10220 - - WARNING: some servers have not been queried! <7.4> 2012-04-29 01:43:35 Telcontar fetchnews 14402 - - warning: forums.novell.com: connection to 130.57.5.118 timed out <7.4> 2012-04-29 01:43:35 Telcontar fetchnews 14402 - - WARNING: some servers have not been queried! <7.4> 2012-04-29 01:48:34 Telcontar fetchnews 18713 - - warning: forums.novell.com: connection to 130.57.5.118 timed out <7.4> 2012-04-29 01:48:34 Telcontar fetchnews 18713 - - WARNING: some servers have not been queried! ... <7.4> 2012-04-29 15:43:42 Telcontar fetchnews 26979 - - WARNING: some servers have not been queried! <7.4> 2012-04-29 15:48:44 Telcontar fetchnews 27178 - - warning: forums.novell.com: connection to 130.57.5.118 timed out <7.4> 2012-04-29 15:48:44 Telcontar fetchnews 27178 - - warning: forums.novell.com: connection to 2600:806:310::102 failed: Network is unreachable <7.4> 2012-04-29 15:48:44 Telcontar fetchnews 27178 - - WARNING: some servers have not been queried! <7.4> 2012-04-29 15:53:43 Telcontar fetchnews 27341 - - warning: forums.novell.com: connection to 130.57.5.118 timed out <7.4> 2012-04-29 15:53:43 Telcontar fetchnews 27341 - - warning: forums.novell.com: connection to 2600:806:310::102 failed: Network is unreachable <7.4> 2012-04-29 15:53:43 Telcontar fetchnews 27341 - - WARNING: some servers have not been queried! - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk+dU5gACgkQtTMYHG2NR9V4KwCgkoRUUE6GKxKDpzcewqb62WWP qsUAnAjOEgUnUGundH8ULQ14IFx9duF2 =0NG4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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] bugreports
by Per Jessen 28 Apr '12

28 Apr '12

This thread is from -factory, but it applies to the project overall: Christian Boltz wrote: >> > Bugzilla is overpowered, I have issues without attention for years. >> >> In theory, yes, all issues probably should go via bugzilla. In >> practice, I know we don't work like that and that's why I said its >> worth discussing. We need to think about how we want to work. > > What about "force developers to read bugzilla mails/work on their > buglist regularly"? ;-) > > Bugreports getting dusty is a real problem, and I'd love to present a > nostrum how to fix that if I had one. I second that. The worst problem I have here is when someone picks up an ancient (>6 months old) bugreport and asks me for diagnostics , "could you try <something>?" or "please try with latest version". If I'm lucky, I'll remember which system, which configuration and which softeware I was testing, but more often than not, the system has gone into production, has been reconfigured for something else or is being used by somebodyelse. I'm considering simply closing my old reports as "CANTFIX" due to "NORESOURCES". -- Per Jessen, Zürich (13.8°C) -- 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] Bringing more scientific software to openSUSE
by Luca Beltrame 27 Apr '12

27 Apr '12

(please CC me, I'm not subscribed) Hello people, I've started talking to Alin to see whether more scientific software would be nice to have in openSUSE. In particular, one of the cool new features of the day (TM) in the life science sector is the so-called "Next generation sequencing"[1], and a lot of software has been developed to deal with such data. Most of these are command-line tools and some have... "exotic" build systems, so having them packaged would be definitely a plus for any scientist that's doing work in the field. While starting to work on such things myself, I noticed that a number of packages exist in openSUSE Build Service, but not in the science repository. Thus, after talking with Alin, it is our idea to have the author of the repository SR those to the science repo, and package the rest. Advantages? More openSUSE usage in the scientific field ;) Of course, more helping hands are always welcome. The list so far of things that we would strive to get included is: bowtie (packaged in home:dipe) bowtie2 (not packaged, needs to co-exist with bowtie, http://bowtie- bio.sourceforge.net/bowtie2/index.shtml) bwa (packaged in home:dipe) tophat (packaged in home:dipe) cufflinks (not packaged, http://cufflinks.cbcb.umd.edu/) samtools (packaged in home:dipe) pysam (python bindings to samtools, not packaged - http://code.google.com/p/pysam) HTseq (not packaged, http://www-huber.embl.de/users/anders/HTSeq/) FastX toolkit (not packaged, http://hannonlab.cshl.edu/fastx_toolkit/) BEDTools (not packaged, http://code.google.com/p/bedtools/) pybedtools (depends on bedtools, not packaged, http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pybedtools) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_generation_sequencing

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[opensuse-project] Friendly Summit CfP reminder
by Bryen M Yunashko 24 Apr '12

24 Apr '12

There's always something cool to talk about and I just wanted to take this moment to remind you all that the call for presentations for openSUSE Summit in Florida is currently open. We offer three tracks: - openSUSE Community - openSUSE Tech - Open World (non-openSUSE topics) You can lead a presentation, BoF, workshop, hacksession and more. To submit your presentation, please visit http://summit.opensuse.org/Call-for-papers/ If you don't feel you can do a session, nudge someone you know who can do it and get them to submit! :-) Thanks, Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Project -- 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] Can we go to SUSE con as well?
by Roger Luedecke 24 Apr '12

24 Apr '12

If we sign up for OSS can we go to SUSEcon as well? -- 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 Projects
by Matt Barringer 24 Apr '12

24 Apr '12

Hi, I'm pleased to announce our Google Summer of Code projects and students: * Ambassador/Event plugin for openSUSE Connect Athanasios-Ilias Rousinopoulos * Beautiful 1-Click Install Saurabh Sood * Complete AppStream/Software-Center Matthias K. * Improve the MongoDB destination driver for syslog-ng Eun Kyung * LTP: Fix/Implement automated kernel/glibc tests Marios Makris * openSUSE Karma plugin for openSUSE Connect Priyanka M * osc2 client Marcus Hüwe * Popularity contest for RPM (popcorn) Akshit Khurana * Redesign fdisk to be more extensible and implement GPT support Davidlohr Bueso * Scanny Piotr Niełacny * Upstream/Downstream Tracker N.B.Prashanth * writable snapshot support for ext4 snapshot Yongqiang Yang I think this will be a great summer :-) -- Matt Barringer, Software Engineer SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, DE GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)

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[opensuse-project] Including or not Java binaries in OBS
by Angelos Tzotsos 23 Apr '12

23 Apr '12

Hi all, There was a small discussion among Application:Geo project members about this issue today. I was asked to bring this issue to this list so that we can all discuss it. The problem: Currently it is forbidden to package binaries in OBS without building from source code. This causes issues when we need to build very complex Java applications or web applications (eg like Geoserver, Geonetwork, JOSM etc). In Java it is nearly impossible to build everything without bringing jar binaries in the game at some point (eg maven depends on itself to build). If we want to do this without binaries it would take a very large effort for many packages and it would be a dependency nightmare for packagers. On the other hand, the build.o.o instance has open source and transparency in mind, so the policy to request sources and not binaries is fair. The above points are a summary of the discussion so far not just my opinion. I would like to hear what everyone thinks and how we can make Java packaging easier for us. Regards, Angelos -- Angelos Tzotsos Remote Sensing Laboratory National Technical University of Athens http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos -- 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] An appliance from SUSE Studio fails to open Shell. I must log out first and relogin to fallback mode
by Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 20 Apr '12

20 Apr '12

Hello, As some of you know, I'm working on medical appliance. I faced some obstacles to setup a working livecd and I guess I passed those. The appliance I made is very simple with the browser and office. Nothing more. I tried to set it up on XFCE but failed many times. So with some help from Matt, Gnome version (which I know how to work with), is kind of at the end. The live cd [1], cannot open Shell at first boot. It says it failed and I better Log out. When I login, it goes to fallback mode. The questions I have are: 1. Can I make it open to Shell? If yes, how? 2. If 1 fails, how can I make it open ONLY in fallback mode? Don't forget, I'll use SUSE Studio for that. Thanks for your help. Stathis [1] http://diamond.vipfree.us/ISO/Medical_GNOME_desktop.i686-0.0.10.iso PASSWORDS root/medical medical/medical For openEMR is medical/medical -- http://iosifidis.co.cc or http://eiosifidis.tk http://eiosifidis.wordpress.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/eiosifidis Google+: http://bit.ly/IU5p3I Connect: https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/profile/diamond_gr Ένα γραμμάριο δράσης αξίζει ένα τόνο θεωρίας -- 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] Grab the Geeko by the Horns: The Boosters are Hiring
by Henne Vogelsang 20 Apr '12

20 Apr '12

Geekos! SUSE, our founder, partner and sponsor, has put out a couple of job openings for the openSUSE Boosters Team! Are you a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) enthusiast? Are you quick on your feet, a talented technologist? Are you hungry to learn new things and equally passionate about sharing your knowledge with your peers? Are you looking to turn what you love into your job? Then head over to suse.com, send in your resume and score the opportunity of a lifetime! The Boosters Team ------------------ The openSUSE Boosters, widely known as the Ecstatic Eleven, is a team of people helping contributors to take off in our project. No matter if an ambassador needs help with organizing an event, an admin needs assistance with implementing a new service, or a developer needs guidance to bring his code into our distribution: the Boosters are here to work with all contributors to reach their goals and to enable them to bring this project forward. But the Boosters are not a bunch of lone fighters; the team always works together, in an agile fashion, on its milestones and every member is equally important and responsible for the success – and of course for celebrating it. It is a team of young, clever, spirited people from different backgrounds, countries and talents that want to collaborate. A team that wants to make a difference in this world by helping each other and our project to become even more awesome. + You ----- As you can imagine the Boosters goal requires people who are willing to explore the vast possibilities a FOSS project like ours offers. Boosters are as comfortable in front of an huge audience on a conference as behind an editor in a GIT repository. As the possibilities to contribute to openSUSE are endless a Booster must be agile, open minded and willing to take on tasks that require to learn completely new things. Be it a programming language, an application framework, how to give an interview to the press or what questions to ask in a questionnaire survey. Boosters are not afraid of anything and there is nothing they are not willing to do to attract and nurture contributors. = Love? ------- Does that sound like it’s your thing? If yes, you will find a tight-knit team here that lives and breathes collaboration. A gang of FOSS aficionados that share your passion, hard workers and a wild bunch to have a lot of fun with. And equally important you’ll start with an employer that will bring your FOSS career forward: SUSE, which has been around for 20 years and is the original provider of the enterprise Linux distribution that powers thousands of organizations around the world across physical, virtual and cloud environments. A company that has been a leader and an active participant for years in tons of open source projects and open standards. Sounds great? It’s awesome, guaranteed! So what are you waiting for? Head over to suse.com/company/careers, check out the position and apply. We’re looking forward to hear from you! The Boosters -- Henne Vogelsang, openSUSE http://www.hennevogel.de Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -- 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: eat your own dog food
by Petr Tesarik 19 Apr '12

19 Apr '12

Moving this topic to the opensuse-project mailing list. Dne St 18. dubna 2012 14:23:20 Hendrik Vogelsang napsal(a): > Hey, > > oh boy... > > On 04/18/2012 01:27 PM, Lars Müller wrote: > > - try to push openSUSE to a more userfriendly level > > [...] > > > Therefore I suggest we offer each time we release a SUSE Linux > > Enterprise version (GA or SP) a code stream of openSUSE > > You really have to explain this one to me. Why do you think that, for > instance, SLE-11-SP2 is more userfriendly to the average user than > openSUSE 12.1? > > Or do you "just" think that the openSUSE release cycle is to short? We should make our minds once and forever. Either make openSUSE releases less often and maintain them for longer, or make a real rolling distro. It's a hard decision, but I believe we can't pretend we can do both, or any reasonable compromise. Keep in mind that a true rolling distro must not break things on a running system. My two cents, Petr Tesarik -- 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] 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] [reminder] openSUSE Project Meeting tomorrow at 20:00 UTC
by openSUSE Meeting Reminder 17 Apr '12

17 Apr '12

Hello all, The biweekly project meeting will be held tomorrow at 20:00 UTC in #opensuse-project on freenode. Everybody is invited to join and participate! Find out what time the meeting will be in your timezone: http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=18&month=4&year=2012&h… Agenda of the meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Project_meeting#Agenda_for_the_next_meeting If you cannot participate and want a specific question to be answered during the meeting, please add your question to: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Project_meeting#Questions_Section Minutes and logs of previous meetings can be found at: http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/ Thanks, -- openSUSE Meeting Reminder -- 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 : Self Introduction
by Mayur Dugar 14 Apr '12

14 Apr '12

Hi all, I am a pre-final year student at MIT Manipal, India and wanted to contribute to opensuse in GSoC 2012. I am interested in SUSE Studio Java Client SDK project. I have tried to understand the requirements of the project and worked on it a bit and details are mentioned in my proposal. I have already submitted my proposal on melange.Please do suggest changes if any.Currently am updating it too. I have been using openSUSE for more than two years and hence am eager to contribute to it. Am also an active member of LUGM (LUGManipal) for more than 2 and a half years. Regards, Mayur Dugar MIT Manipal INDIA -- 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 - SUSE Studio Java Client SDK‏‏
by 冯Cloud 13 Apr '12

13 Apr '12

Hi everybody, I am Xiaoyu Feng and I use the nickname "lucifer" for activities online: for GSoC and for IRC channels. Actually I am quite new to the world of open source development because I get started in computer science rather late I would say. Nevertheless, I would like to make my own contributions. I am now studying in a French "Grande Ecole", an engineering school. Due to the specialty of the French Higher Education System, I have had intensive courses on mathematics and physics during the first two years. For computer science, only Pascal was taught as a general introduction. School - INSA de Lyon (National Institute for Applied Sciences) Department - Telecommunications Year - 1st year in engineering education, 3rd year in overall higher education system Expected year of graduation - 2014 Programming languages that I have studied:C/C++, Java, php, SQL And I am ready and eager to learn new things. For GSoC 2012, I am applying for the project of SUSE Studio Java Client SDK. I would like to have your advice and help on this project because its goal is to facilitate development in Java. So I am keen to communicate with you in order to know what you think about it and how you would use it. There are several reasons why I would like to work this:First of all, I really have the enthusiasm for the code. I am interested in programming and I would like to progress in this field and in particular, in object-oriented languages like Java. Secondly, I really appreciate and support the idea of open source development. The best code come always from open source projects because everybody can bring in his own contribution. And the open source projects enable everybody to have the right to use high-quality software no matter rich and poor, thus break the monopoly of certain companies. To participate in the project requires enthousiasm for the code and the web. And to undertake the work however it does not need high-level programming skills. Therefore I think I am capable to achieve the success since I possess the qualities of a good GSoC participant. In addition, I am taking a course on Java this semester,and it will undoubtedly be beneficial. This is really a great opportunity for me. And I am looking forward to becoming part of the community and a member of you. Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you - the mentor or anybody else. Kindly Regards,Xiaoyu Feng

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[opensuse-project] GSoC mentors
by Robert Schweikert 13 Apr '12

13 Apr '12

If you have not already registered, please register as mentor. 1.) Goto http://www.google-melange.com/ and login 2.) Click on the "Register" button under "Mentors: .....". 3.) Enter your personal info 4.) Logout and return to http://www.google-melange.com/ and login agin 5.) Click on the "Apply" button under "Mentors: .....". 6.) Select openSUSE from the list 7.) click submit You have to be registered to review proposals, applications, and accept applications. The deadline for acceptance is next week Friday (April 20). 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

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[opensuse-project] LinuxWochen Wien 2012
by Michal Hrusecky 12 Apr '12

12 Apr '12

Hi, we've got openSUSE booth at Linuxwochen Wien[1] this year. This year conference happens at the same time at the same place as Libre Graphics Meeting, so it's going to be bigger than usual. Currently I'm the only one running the booth and I have several talks accepted, so I would really love if somebody can help me out with booth (especially as I don't speak German) :-D [1] http://www.linuxwochen.at/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=213&… -- Michal Hrusecky <Michal(a)Hrusecky.net> -- 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] openSUSE Conference 2012
by Michal Hrusecky 11 Apr '12

11 Apr '12

Hi everybody, as you probably already know[1], we are working on preparations for this years openSUSE Conference, which will happen in my home town - Prague. If you are excited about the conference and want to help and and want to know what's going on, you should be subscribed to the conference mailing list[2]. That's for general introduction. Now to the point. How can you help... If you take a peek at archive of openSUSE Conference mailing list, you'll see, that we were discussing central theme and motto of this years conference. Final decision will take place on Friday, but you still have some time to suggest something. I'll collect every suggested motto and present it on the meeting and we will choose from them (so deadline for suggestions is this Friday noon CEST). As we need to move forward, we also need to form CfP committee asap. On Friday we will have a main theme, we will do another announcement and as we are getting closer on finalization of venue as well, soon we will be able to announce CfP as well. And for that, we need CfP committee. What would you do? You'll read proposals and help to select the best of them in accordance with our conference motto (which we will have soon :-D ). So if you want to be part of that, put your name/nick (ideally with link to your personal page) to the wiki [3]! Overall, we've got a lot of things going on right now and you can expect a lot of happening soon. And don't worry, after the theme and central motto will be decided, we will ask for help from some artists as well ;-) [1] http://news.opensuse.org/2012/03/07/osc12-is-coming-to-prague-in-fall/ [2] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-conference/ [3] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference_volunteers#CfP_committee -- Michal Hrusecky <Michal(a)Hrusecky.net> -- 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] Wiki for KDE Colour Management Proposal (GSoC)
by Casian Andrei 09 Apr '12

09 Apr '12

Hello everyone, I have set up a wiki page for my proposal for this GSoC, regarding the implementation of ICC based colour management in KDE / KWin [1]. I have tried to make use of all of the great feedback in this ML thread [3]. Any comments and suggestions are welcome! There may be critical issues with the plan that I haven't noticed. Here's a short description of the project: This project is aimed at color correction for different outputs (monitors). This correction (only the critical part of it) would be implemented inside the compositor (i.e. KWin). The KWin rendering mechanism needs to be altered to enable colour correction. The changes to KWin will be kept at a minimum, so any tasks not directly related to colour correction will be implemented as separated from KWin as possible. KWin is large and complex, so preserving it's stability is crucial. The heavy work can be done by a KDED module that implements colour server functionality (like described in the XCM spec [2]), and most of the remaining work could be done by a KWin effect plugin (hopefully). The X Color Management specification [2] is designed to allow compositors implement color management in a simple way. libXcm helps applications, compositors or color servers adhere to the specification. The initial objective is to implement the baseline specification. This work with libXcm would be done by the proposed KDED module. I plan to extend the wiki if the proposal is accepted. It will be the place where progress reports will be posted, too, if it will be the case. Best regards, Casian [1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/OpenIcc/KWinCmProposal [2] http://www.oyranos.org/scm?p=xcolor.git;a=blob;f=docs/X_Color_Management.txt [3] http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=133214056131919&w=2 -- 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: Introducing myself and the MongoDB driver project
by Eun Kyung 07 Apr '12

07 Apr '12

Greetings, all. I am a graduate student studying Information Technology in Ireland, and I'm applying for this year's GSoC to work with the openSUSE community. I would like to take this opportunity to briefly introduce myself and the project. The project I hope to work on is "Improving the MongoDB Destination Driver for syslog-ng." As you know, syslog-ng, the leading logging platform for log collection and management, has been storing logs in MongoDB for quite a while, but due to a lack of thorough technical documentation on the implementation details, it's been challenging to improve the driver's functionality and speed. The goal of this project is to enhance the MongoDB destination driver for syslog-ng, to make it more robust, scalable and performant. One of the major tasks is to convert 'upserts' to 'inserts', which would make it possible to introduce support for inserting messages in bulk, further reducing the load on the database, and slightly reducing network traffic too. My application on melange is here: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/ekyung/1 Comments and feedback are always welcome. I'm confident that I will complete this project successfully and push my technical skills to the next level. I look forward to joining the awesome openSUSE community! Best regards, Eun Kyung -- 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 the MongoDB driver project
by Eun Kyung 07 Apr '12

07 Apr '12

Greetings, all. I am a graduate student studying Information Technology in Ireland, and I'm applying for this year's GSoC to work with the openSUSE community. I would like to take this opportunity to briefly introduce myself and the project. The project I hope to work on is "Improving the MongoDB Destination Driver for syslog-ng." As you know, syslog-ng, the leading logging platform for log collection and management, has been storing logs in MongoDB for quite a while, but due to a lack of thorough technical documentation on the implementation details, it's been challenging to improve the driver's functionality and speed. The goal of this project is to enhance the MongoDB destination driver for syslog-ng, to make it more robust, scalable and performant. One of the major tasks is to convert 'upserts' to 'inserts', which would make it possible to introduce support for inserting messages in bulk, further reducing the load on the database, and slightly reducing network traffic too. My application on melange is here: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/ekyung/1 Comments and feedback are always welcome. I'm confident that I will complete this project successfully and push my technical skills to the next level. I look forward to joining the awesome openSUSE community! Best regards, Eun Kyung -- 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 Proposal - openSUSE Karma plugin for openSUSE Connect
by Priyanka 07 Apr '12

07 Apr '12

Hi all, I am applying for the GSoC project "openSUSE Karma plugin for openSUSE Connect", under Michal Hrušecký. I have created the proposal, and ran it through Michal for his comments, and have made the changes that he suggested. The proposal is here: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/priyanka… It would be obliged, if others could also have a look, and let me know if there is anything that is amiss, or something that I should elaborate. Thanks a ton! :-) -- Priyanka M -- 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: GSoc Application: libdbi-less SQL destination for syslog-ng
by onguarde - 06 Apr '12

06 Apr '12

Hello! I'm applying for the above-mentioned project in GSoc. I've been in contact with my mentor for quite some time. He asked me send a post here. Looking forward to working with you! Here's the application. http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/onguarde… Regards Azri -- 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] Extending openSUSE Connect with Event Management and engaging features - GSoC Proposal
by Kartik Mandaville 06 Apr '12

06 Apr '12

Hello, Requesting feedback on http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/kar2905/… Regards, Kartik Mandaville Ph No. : +91 9650130969 ( Delhi ) +91 9008420482 ( Manipal ) http://www.mkartik.net Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn | GitHub Skype: kar2905 Do you forget to wish your friends ?? Use AutoBudder on FB Want to invest in Stocks without risk ?? Play StockAdda -- 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 the MongoDB driver project
by Eun Kyung 06 Apr '12

06 Apr '12

Greetings, all. I am a graduate student studying Information Technology in Ireland, and I'm applying for this year's GSoC to work with the openSUSE community. I would like to take this opportunity to briefly introduce myself and the project. The project I hope to work on is "Improving the MongoDB Destination Driver for syslog-ng." As you know, syslog-ng, the leading logging platform for log collection and management, has been storing logs in MongoDB for quite a while, but due to a lack of thorough technical documentation on the implementation details, it's been challenging to improve the driver's functionality and speed. The goal of this project is to enhance the MongoDB destination driver for syslog-ng, to make it more robust, scalable and performant. One of the major tasks is to convert 'upserts' to 'inserts', which would make it possible to introduce support for inserting messages in bulk, further reducing the load on the database, and slightly reducing network traffic too. My application on melange is here: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/ekyung/1 Comments and feedback are always welcome. I'm confident that I will complete this project successfully and push my technical skills to the next level. I look forward to joining the awesome openSUSE community! Best regards, Eun Kyung -- 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] 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] gsoc
by Rakesh Kumar 06 Apr '12

06 Apr '12

Hi, Here is my proposal http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/rakeshku… 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] Scanny - Security Scanner | GSoC 2012
by Piotr Niełacny 06 Apr '12

06 Apr '12

Hi there, I would like to present my proposal for GSoC 2012 http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/lte/1 I'm happy to answer any questions. -- Piotr Niełacny -- 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 - Beautiful 1-Click Install
by Saurabh Sood 06 Apr '12

06 Apr '12

Hi, I have completed my proposal for 'Beautiful 1-Click Install'. It would be great if it could be reviewed. I am open to changes and criticism Hoping to hear soon, Regards,. Saurabh Sood -- 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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RE: [opensuse-project] Re: GSoC 2012 - Beautiful 1-Click Install
by Will Stephenson 06 Apr '12

06 Apr '12

One can simplify the problem by assuming the user is one-click installing apps from existing repos in his system. I think the focus of this project should be a usable and elegant tool, and trying to solve all trust/safety issues is out of place here. Will

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[opensuse-project] GSoC 2012 proposal - LTP:Fix/Implement automated kernel/glibc tests
by Marioh mrs 05 Apr '12

05 Apr '12

I am applying for the GSoC project: LTP:Fix/Implement automated kernel/glibc tests. You can find my proposal here: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/marioh/1# Any comments thoughts on it are welcome :) Thanks marioh. -- 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] Open Build Service Brings Website Integration
by Jos Poortvliet 05 Apr '12

05 Apr '12

We're proud to announce that the Open Build Service, a system to collaboratively build and easily distribute packages for a wide variety of operating systems and platforms, has introduced the ability to integrate the intelligent OBS 'download package' page into websites. This is useful for projects who want to offer their users easy access to downloads for a wide variety of Linux (and non-linux) systems. Moreover, the Open Build Service 2.3 Release Candidate is out and the final release is near. Integration in Websites The Open Build Service installation provided by openSUSE keeps growing. The number of packages is now well over 170.000, with more than 32.000 developers using build.opensuse.org either for personal use, to provide packages for one or more Linux distributions publicly or to contribute to openSUSE. Many projects depend on the public OBS or their own, internal Open Build Service to get software to their users. Right now, developers need to move the packages from OBS to a place where they are easy to download, or point users to the repository. The project page on OBS usually provides a 'download' button but this page is clearly not designed for end users. We decided to do better and now provide a download page which can be properly integrated in any website. It offers several layers of integration, starting with a convenient multi-distribution download page one can link to or an iframe which can be included in a web page; to PHP and html objects one can use to really offer deep integration. New is also the option to also provide Appliances this way so those building OS images on OBS can provide access to them directly via the same interface. In Action The full functionality including the downloading of Appliances can be seen on the openbuildservice.org website which got a major redesign. David Rosca from the Qupzilla project, who was the first external developer to integrate OBS into his website, noted that it took only minutes to implement and told us: "It saves interested users an extra click to install the application and looks better at the same time." Upcoming OBS 2.3 release Besides this new functionality which is already available on build.opensuse.org, the upcoming OBS 2.3 release comes with many new features. The 2.3 release candidate was recently made available and the final release is expected within 2-3 weeks. The main features for the 2.3 release of the Open Build Service are the introduction of full product maintenance handling in OBS, offering all the tools required for the maintanance of a full Linux distribution. A second major feature is the ability to set projects upon creation to be private, closing off source and binary access from anyone not part of the project. The 2.3 release also fixes a vulnerability for XSS attacks. Other new features including tracking of bugzilla or CVE issues, web interface improvements, API improvements and a new dispatcher improving the build times for crucial projects. About the Open Build Service The Open Build Service (OBS) is a generic system to build and distribute binary packages from sources in an automatic, consistent and reproducible way. It can release packages as well as updates, add-ons, appliances and entire distributions for a wide range of operating systems and hardware architectures. The OBS, through it’s project model, has collaboration build in and will help users to harness the power of the open source development model. Learn more at www.open-build-service.org About openSUSE The openSUSE project is a worldwide effort that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. openSUSE creates one of the world's most popular Linux distributions, working together in an open, transparent and friendly manner as part of the worldwide Free and Open Source Software community. For more information, visit www.opensuse.org Links: The Open Build Service: http://www.open-build-service.org How-to on integrating the download page in a site basic: http://software.opensuse.org/download/doc Extensive: http://doc.opensuse.org/products/draft/OBS/obs-best- practices_draft/cha.obs.best-practices.upstream.html#id364653 Example of a download page on OBS: http://software.opensuse.org/download/package?project=openSUSE:Tools&packag… integration in download site of Qupzilla: http://qupzilla.com/download OBS 2.3 RC1 release announcement: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-buildservice/2012-03/msg00178.html OBS 2.3 release notes: https://github.com/openSUSE/open-build-service/blob/2.3/ReleaseNotes-2.3

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[opensuse-project] Popularity Contest for RPM(Popcorn) GSoC proposal
by Gaurav Sood 05 Apr '12

05 Apr '12

Hi all, I have taken up the project 'Popularity Contest for RPM' for GSoC 2012 under the openSUSE community. I have made progress with the project, and have been in steady contact with the mentor, Ionuț Arțăriși, who has guided me throughout the project. I have written the proposal for the project and I would like the review for the same, as we come to the business end of the application period. http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/gauravso… Suggestions and criticism is welcome..:) Hoping for a response, Gaurav Sood -- 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] GNOME Asia CFP out
by Manu Gupta 04 Apr '12

04 Apr '12

Hey all, Chung-Hung Huang ( sakana max ^^ ) just informed me about GNOME Asia Summit being out. If you are interested a nice place, loads of interesting to meet and fun. Here you can read the whole announcement http://sakananote2english.blogspot.in/2012/04/gnomeasia-2012-is-now-calling… -- Regards Manu Gupta -- 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] Google Summer of Code 2012: Introducing myself
by Praful Johari 04 Apr '12

04 Apr '12

Hi all, My name is Praful Johari. I am an undergraduate student at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati. I am interested in working on the project idea "Automated resizing of LVM filesystems" and have already submitted my proposal to melange. I am experienced in C/C++ programming languages, as I was interested in systems programming from the beginning of my college days. I am quite proficient in python and have developed many small utilities in it for fun. I am also an ardent openSUSE fan. I was looking for a chance to start hacking into its code and try to improve it or develop applications for it, and GSoC provided the perfect opportunity for me! I look forward to the day when the majority of the code in the OS will have atleast some contributions of mine. For this project, I have an idea to develop an application, which will aid in LVM extension and make life of users more easy. More details are on the melange site proposal : http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/praful/1 I have been in constant contact with my mentor, Petr Uzel, and with his help, have modified the original proposal idea greatly to reflect the ease of use for the users, a wider area of application, and the (possible) future integration into the OS itself. Looking forward to hearing from you all. Thanks! Cordially, Praful Johari openSUSE user nick: Neo_Optimus -- 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] Fwd: [GSoC] Advice on the studio API testing idea
by Kushagra Singh 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

Hi ! I'm a 4th year B.E. student from India. I was looking forward to being involved in the Google Summer of Code 2012 . While going through the project ideas for OpenSUSE, I found the SUSE Studio: StudioCheck automated test framework project to be something I would really like to work on. I have worked on testing web applications and service based applications using gherkin. I was hoping to get some guidance on the following. - A student is already allotted to this project. So is it still possible to work on this project? - Also I would like to know how would you like to frame our proposal. - If there is a way to understand the current level of abstraction implemented for the tests. Thanks for your help! Kushagra -- 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] [reminder] openSUSE Project Meeting tomorrow at 20:00 UTC
by openSUSE Meeting Reminder 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

Hello all, The biweekly project meeting will be held tomorrow at 20:00 UTC in #opensuse-project on freenode. Everybody is invited to join and participate! Find out what time the meeting will be in your timezone: http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=4&month=4&year=2012&ho… Agenda of the meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Project_meeting#Agenda_for_the_next_meeting If you cannot participate and want a specific question to be answered during the meeting, please add your question to: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Project_meeting#Questions_Section Minutes and logs of previous meetings can be found at: http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/ Thanks, -- openSUSE Meeting Reminder -- 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] KDE and openSUSE Announce Opening of CfP for Dedicated COSCUP Track
by Jos Poortvliet 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

COSCUP, the largest FLOSS conference organized by local communities in Taiwan, will feature a special track dedicated to KDE and openSUSE, jointly organized by these communities. The CfP team is happy to announce today that we're ready to accept your session proposals! At COSCUP 2011, several KDE and openSUSE contributors gave talks and presented ‘cool stuff’ at their booths. This year, we'll do even more! KDE and openSUSE will collaboratively organize a full two-day track at the upcoming COSCUP conference in August 2012. A CfP committee has been set up and proposals can be send in starting today. June 15 is the deadline for proposals which can be send to cfp(a)opensuse.org. Call for Papers The program committee is looking for presentations about KDE and openSUSE. Please note that the talks do NOT have to be related to both KDE and openSUSE. KDE and openSUSE happily welcome talks about KDE on other distributions or other (non) desktop technologies like GNOME or OpenStack on openSUSE. The committee suggests the following topics: * desktop technologies (d-bus, gstreamer, etcetera) * embedded and mobile * distribution technologies (packaging tools, build systems, etcetera) * challenges in adapting software to local needs (L10N, I18N) * cross-desktop and cross-distribution collaboration * cloud computing and integration into the desktop * or anything else you think the world should hear about! The call for papers ends on June 15. Please send in a proposal of about 200 words, accompanied by a ~50 words biography, in either English or Chinese, to cfp(a)opensuse.org before that date. Program committee The Program Committee for the KDE/openSUSE track at COSCUP consists of the following people: * Franklin Weng (KDE) * Aaron J. Seigo (KDE) * Sakana (openSUSE) * Al Cho (openSUSE) * Bryen Yunashko (openSUSE) * Greg Kroah-Hartman (the Linux Foundation) About KDE KDE is an international technology team that creates free and open source software for desktop and portable computing. Among KDE's products are a modern desktop system for Linux and UNIX platforms, comprehensive office productivity and groupware suites and hundreds of software titles in many categories including Internet and web applications, multimedia, entertainment, educational, graphics and software development. KDE software is translated into more than 60 languages and is built with ease of use and modern accessibility principles in mind. KDE4's full-featured applications run natively on Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows and Mac OS X. For more information, visit www.kde.org About openSUSE The openSUSE project is a worldwide effort that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. openSUSE creates one of the world's best Linux distributions, working together in an open, transparent and friendly manner as part of the worldwide Free and Open Source Software community. For more information, visit www.opensuse.org.

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[opensuse-project] Google SoC 2012 - student introduction
by Davidlohr Bueso 02 Apr '12

02 Apr '12

Hi, My name is Davidlohr Bueso and I am interested in working on the "Redesign fdisk to be more extensible and implement GPT support" Summer of Code 2012 project for openSUSE. I have already submitted my application and have been in contact with the project's mentor. I am a Phd. Computer Science (High Performance Computing) student at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and have been working on Linux development for some while. I believe that the benefits of this project will extend that of openSUSE users, but the entire Linux community can benefit from. I am attaching a plain text with is what already available on Melange, I am looking forward to your comments. Thanks, Davidlohr

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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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