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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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