November 2013 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [opensuse-project] Announcing candidates for the openSUSE board election 2013
by Carlos Ribeiro 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

Platform of candidates, is this already available? I'm so happy to see such good candidates and I wish all the best for every one. Waiting for the platforms, CarlosRibeiro 2013/11/18 Carlos Ribeiro <carlosribeiro(a)opensuse.org>: > Platform of candidates, is this already available? > > Pretty good candidates and i wish all the best for every one > > On Nov 18, 2013 2:55 PM, "Thomas Schmidt" <tom(a)opensuse.org> wrote: >> >> The openSUSE Election Committee is happy to announce the candidates for >> this years elections[0]: >> >> * Richard Brown >> * Bruno Friedmann >> * Kostas Koudaras >> * Sascha Peilicke >> * Andres Silva >> * Ish Sokuun >> * Jörg Stephan >> * Andrew Wafaa >> >> In the election there will be 4 seats to be elected, 2 for a 2 year term, >> and 2 for a 1 year term. >> From today on, the candidates have 2 weeks to do campaign until the >> election starts. >> >> Election timeline: >> * 2.12. Ballots open >> * 15.12. End of voting >> * 16.12. Announcement of the results >> >> All openSUSE members[2] are eligible to vote. >> >> With Honor >> This years Election Committee >> Harisankar P S >> Izabel Valverde >> Thomas Schmidt >> >> [0] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election >> >> -- >> Thomas Schmidt (tom [at] opensuse.org) >> "Don't Panic", Douglas Adams (11.03.1952 - 11.05.2001) >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org >> To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org >> > -- 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] Boarding please ... my openSUSE Board candidacy
by Bruno Friedmann 15 Nov '13

15 Nov '13

I'm pleased to inform our beloved Geeko's community about my intention to run for one seat at the openSUSE Board. For those who would like to discover a bit more about myself and what I published, I've collected a bunch of links at the bottom. I would like to engage the green blood inside me to "serve and protect" our great community. I will have to learn a lot, and hope to be inspired and guided by former and actual board members, in a hope to get the things done. What can I promise? Well I will do mistakes and success, make people happy and other grumpy. I will manage illusions and frustrations. What I want? Get our community stronger, increase the raise of our project and associated tools. How, well, I'm a big dreamer about team cross-collaboration, and the high values we share. What else? Prepare our product's future. Paint all people around us in Green (whatever the kind of green it is) More during phase 1 ... Rendez-vous after the 17th November. [1] http://en.opensuse.org/User:bruno_friedmann [2] https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/profile/bruno_friedmann [3] http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/bruno_friedmann/ [4] https://plus.google.com/u/0/109140068131989370067 [5] http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bruno-friedmann/1b/368/52 -- Bruno Friedmann Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch openSUSE Member GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 irc: tigerfoot -- 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 Board Candidacy
by Kostas Koudaras 15 Nov '13

15 Nov '13

Hello openSUSE After some serious thought I decided that I want to run for the board. My name is Kostas Koudaras (a.k.a. Warlordfff) and I am a man of action, serving the openSUSE Project for the past 5 years as an ambassador(among other things)... I was in the lead of the openSUSE ambassadors for many years and mentored a lot of ambassadors. Along with Richard Brown we made the new ambassadors program. I am also part of the Travel Support Program with Izabel Valverde. I write articles on news and am part of the openSUSE Marketing team. I am an openSUSE translator for the Greek language. Along with Stathis Iosifidis we started the Greeks openSUSE Community and this year I was in charge of organizing (along with Stella and Henne) the openSUSE Conference 2013 in Thessaloniki. Over the years I think I have proven that I am a man of action and I just make things happen. I run because I want to pass this to the board. I know that community is strong and people just have to realize that anything is possible around the openSUSE Project. Beyond all that I am a firefighter and August is always a bit hard month for me when it comes to time since most of August I am on some mountain without wifi, nevertheless if I get elected I will find some. I am also engaged to a wonderfull woman and I have a small hairy dog. All that said, I ask for your trust and your vote. Have fun Kostas 'Warlordfff' Koudaras -- --- \m/ --- http://opensuse.gr http://amb.opensuse.gr http://www.kde.gr http://warlordfff.tk --- \m/ --- me I am not I --- \m/ --- Time travel is possible, you just need to know the right aliens -- 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] download.opensuse.org IPV6 address breaks updates
by Gerald Pfeifer 15 Nov '13

15 Nov '13

I am seeing this with an openSUSE 12.1 system at home, and also a Factory system at work: % host download.opensuse.org download.opensuse.org has address 195.135.221.134 download.opensuse.org has IPv6 address 2001:67c:2178:8::13 And then, when running zypper patch or zypper up, I see Retrieving: repomd.xml [error] Download (curl) error for 'http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.1/repodata/repomd.xml': Error code: Connection failed Error message: Failed to connect to 2001:67c:2178:8::13: Network is unreachable Alas, my provider nor that network at work support IPv6. Still, my system has IPv6 enabled since roaming around on different networks, IPv6 may be present, or even necessary there. (This does not happen all the time, sometimes if I retry a bit later the system uses IPv4 and everything works.) Now, is this just a setup problem and I should simply and unconditionally disable IPv6? Or are some parts of our update or network stack in need of some adjustments? For the time being, unless this is just me running into this, should we disable IPv6 on download.opensuse.org? Gerald -- Dr. Gerald Pfeifer <gp(a)suse.com> || SUSE || Director Product Management -- 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 Board candidacy
by Ish Sookun 13 Nov '13

13 Nov '13

Hello folks, I am Nitin Sookun, also known as Ishwon or Ish, from Mauritius. I work as an Application Management Engineer at Orange Business Services & I am openSUSE Advocate since 2010. During the past years I have evangelized openSUSE by participating in various Linux Festivals\Seminars & presented the project. Since a few months I'm also organizing weekly Linux meetups where junior penguins are popping in. That way we had 5 new advocates from Mauritius & they are doing a great job promoting openSUSE in their workplace & university. I've also encouraged them to start their blog & write about their experiences. My openSUSE related blog posts can be found here : http://hacklog.in/category/linux/opensuse-linux/ Well ... That was a quick intro about me & activities in Mauritius. Being on the board, for me it'll be a chance to liaise with people & empower the Advocates. The geeko should rise everywhere, on stat pages, distrowatch, benchmark reports etc ... I have only recently started liaising with developers & graphic designers locally. As a board member I'll try to be the listening guy who can channel requests & ideas to the correct destination, bringing also new people into the project. I hereby submit my candidature to be considered :) Warm regards Ish Sookun - Geek by birth ... Linux by choice. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |H|A|C|K|L|O|G|.|i|n| +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ -- 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] Minutes of the openSUSE Project Meeting of November 13th, 2013
by Richard Brown 13 Nov '13

13 Nov '13

Here are the minutes of Today's meeting Regards, Richard Minutes: http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2013/opensuse-proje… Minutes (text): http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2013/opensuse-proje… Log: http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2013/opensuse-proje… =========================================== #opensuse-project: openSUSE Project Meeting =========================================== Meeting started by Ilmehtar at 15:04:45 UTC. The full logs are available at http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2013/opensuse-proje… . Meeting summary --------------- * action items review (Ilmehtar, 15:12:43) * ACTION: jospoortvliet to check with TSP about ability to deal with reimbursement of local materials (carried over from 30.10.2013) (Ilmehtar, 15:13:26) * ACTION: toscalix_ to discuss reimbursement of local materials with Ilmehtar and/or vuntz (carried over from 30.10.2013) (Ilmehtar, 15:13:44) * any other topic? (Ilmehtar, 15:15:55) * ishwon presenting on openSUSE and the Advocate program at Linux Festival in Mauritius http://linuxfest.lugm.org/ . no locally produced materials, but PCs with openSUSE will be available for visitors to see openSUSE (Ilmehtar, 15:17:52) * Screenshots, Features, Official Announcement and Features Guide are all done and sent to the press. Thanks to everyone who contributed! (Ilmehtar, 15:24:36) * Advocates are encoraged to share what they're upto - blog, post to the opensuse-ambassadors mailing list, spread the word! (Ilmehtar, 15:31:06) * Board elections (Ilmehtar, 15:34:32) * Board elections are soon! Candidates have until Sunday 17th November to announce their candidacy - We need more candidates! (Ilmehtar, 15:35:29) * Please either stand up for candidature or nominate someone who you think would be a good candidate (Ilmehtar, 15:35:57) * Nominations can be sent to election-officials(a)opensuse.org - Candidate announcements should be sent to both election-officials(a)opensuse.org and opensuse-project(a)opensuse.org (Ilmehtar, 15:37:04) Meeting ended at 15:44:38 UTC. Action items, by person ----------------------- * Ilmehtar * toscalix_ to discuss reimbursement of local materials with Ilmehtar and/or vuntz (carried over from 30.10.2013) * **UNASSIGNED** * jospoortvliet to check with TSP about ability to deal with reimbursement of local materials (carried over from 30.10.2013) * Everyone help with documenting new features and providing screenshots for the release, this is important to the release and its quality (carried over from 30.10.2013) People present (lines said) --------------------------- * Ilmehtar (34) * ishwon (14) * digitltom (7) * ancor (5) * bugbot (2) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 -- 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 15:00 UTC
by openSUSE Meeting Reminder 12 Nov '13

12 Nov '13

Hello all, The biweekly project meeting will be held tomorrow at 15:00 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=13&month=11&year=2013&… 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] openSUSE Board candidacy
by Richard Brown 12 Nov '13

12 Nov '13

Hello fellow Geekos! After 10 months serving on the Board, my current tenure on the Board is due to end this year. It's been a busy 10 months, during which time I've been involved in progressing the reform of the Ambassador/Advocate & Local Coordinator Programmes, monitoring the improvements to the Travel support programme, countless copyright requests and much more besides, all while maintaining my contributions to other parts of the project as a regular Geeko (GNOME & Branding in particular). With all that said, there is lots more work that remains to be done, which is why I'm announcing my intention to stand for (re)election to the openSUSE Board If you choose to re-elect me, my priority will be to continue to represent you all, our community of contributors, and to address the issues of greatest concern to you and our Project. I hope to encourage further empowerment of both the Board and the wider Community to take on responsibilities 'traditionally' held only by SUSE employees. I also wish to improve the working relationship between the Board and the openSUSE Team. As you may already know, as of last week I have become a SUSE employee. As I am working in QA, my 'day job' will continue to have relatively little to do with openSUSE, but given that openSUSE has been my hobby and my passion for something like 7 years, I am not intending to let my new employment change how I serve this community; Though obviously being surrounded by so many of our contributors in Nuremberg will hopefully make it easier for me to hear what's of interest to you :) I hope you trust me with your votes in a few weeks time. Thanks for all the fun, Richard -- 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 Board candidacy
by Sascha Peilicke 12 Nov '13

12 Nov '13

Hello fellow geekos, Let's start with a little introduction. I've been involved in the openSUSE project for more than 3 years by now while being amongst the top ten contributors to Factory for most of the time. I mainly develop the Python and Go stacks as well as OpenStack. Since I was part of the OBS team in the past, I still contribute from time to time to source services, OBS and osc. But I guess most contributors know me for my involvement in the reviewing process of Factory submissions and maintenance updates. After taking over this responsibility from darix and doing it alone for quite a while, I helped shaping up the review team we have today. As a result, the review process that was solely done by SUSE employees in the past shifted to a team that consists of both SUSE employees and community members. I also created and maintain openSUSE's Continuous Integration infrastructure that allowed to move formerly internal-only testing processes into the hands of the community. There, we're currently testing the OBS, our OpenStack packages and Yast. As a board member, I would like to continue on that route and help others opening up more of the processes and tools and transition them into the wider openSUSE community. I don't have an easy answer nor the authority to address challenging topics such as the foundation, but I believe in small, steady step. So if you choose to vote for me, you shouldn't expect just a talker or a regular meeting attendee, rather you would get our practical issues addressed. Uhm, that was a little longer than intended, so without further ado, I hereby would like to announce my candidacy for the openSUSE Board. -- With kind regards, Sascha Peilicke SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)

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[opensuse-project] Remind... openSUSE Board Election 2013
by Izabel Valverde 11 Nov '13

11 Nov '13

Hello! It's just a remind about the Elections period. [0] Until November 17th you are able to Standing up for candidacy or Nominate good candidates for the next Board. There will be 4 seats to be elected, 2 for a 2 year term, and 2 for a 1 year term. If you're not willing to run please consider to nominate someone who you would like to see on the Board. If you know someone please feel free to contact the election officials team to propose your candidate. [1] The time-line we decided for this years elections is the following: * October 28 - Start of standing up for candidacy, nominating candidates, apply for membership * November 18 - Start of candidates campaign * December 2 - Ballots open * December 15 - End of voting * December 16 - Announcement of the results If you are a openSUSE contributor but not a member yet, apply for membership until next November 17th to be part of the elections decision. [3][4] Thank you This years Election Committee Harisankar P S Izabel Valverde Thomas Schmidt [0] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election [1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election#Phase_0:_Notification_of_Int… [2] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Members [3] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Membership_officials#Process -- 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] openSUSE13.1/Wayland
by Ikey Doherty 11 Nov '13

11 Nov '13

Hello all, My name is Ikey Doherty, and this is me swiftly introducing myself to the mailing lists. TL;DR(re:life) Software engineer, made LMDE, ran SolusOS, killed it, creates software. Done. Checking through openSUSE 13.1 I can see that Wayland seems partially supported, however not through the GTK (and related libs) stack. Notably I can see that the following packages do not have wayland enabled (--enable-wayland-backend) * gtk3 * cogl * clutter As far as I can tell the only stopping point in this chain was enabling Wayland support in GTK3, due to an old patch (from gtk3.7) being used in the gtk3 package. I've pushed to Factory [1] in the hopes this will then allow the rest of the packages to have the Wayland backend support enabled. My reasons are entirely selfish, I need the Wayland backend active to test Budgie [2] via Weston on openSUSE13.1, but that aside, I cannot see any particular reason to not have the backend enabled, especially once you consider the fact that the GTK3 libraries are already dynamically linked to the wayland libraries. Happy to do this work myself, hit a bit of a roadblock in terms of "where do I push?" as there seems to be no pattern in what repository is used (gtk3 I had to use GNOME:Factory, clutter required openSUSE:Factory but indeed thats a lot of build deps I do not want to test on openSUSE13.1 as its about to become stable. Can't seem to submit cogl anywhere) Any help on quickly implementing Wayland support in openSUSE would be much appreciated! Kind Regards, Ikey Doherty [1] https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/206495 [2] http://ikeydoherty.github.io/budgie/ -- 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] Question for Upcoming Board elections
by Manu Gupta 11 Nov '13

11 Nov '13

Hi I have a question, if someone wants to stand for the elections, can he or she specifially apply for a one year or a two year team as there are 2 seats on one year term. -- 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] ну очень очень быстро
by roma-kuch 11 Nov '13

11 Nov '13

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[opensuse-project] GNU Health available on openSUSE
by Dr. Axel Braun 10 Nov '13

10 Nov '13

Hello, as one of the many results of the Tryton Unconference Barcelona 2013 [1], 08.-10.11.2013, we are happy to announce the availability of GNU Health [2] as precompiled package on openSUSE [3]. Unlike the installation from source, the GNU Health package from the Open Build Service [4] offers a one-click-install for installation of GNU Health and the depending packages (including the Tryton-Server) via YaST or zypper. Packages are currently available for openSUSE 12.2, 12.3, 13.1 and Factory. We will extend to other versions, SLES and Linux-distributions at a later point in time Check out the installation instruction on GNU Health Wikibooks [5], and good luck for keeping you community well and fit. Best regards, Axel Braun [1] http://tub2013.tryton.org [2] http://health.gnu.org [3] http://www.opensuse.org [4] http://build.opensuse.org [5] http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GNU_Health/Operating_System-Specific_Notes#Ins… -- Dr.-Ing. Axel K. Braun Member of openSUSE.org PGP Fingerprint: CB03 964D 1CFA E87B AA63 53F3 1BD6 F53A EB48 EF22 Public Key available at http://www.axxite.com/axel.braun@gmx.de.asc This mail was *not scanned* before sending. It was sent from a secure Linux-Desktop: ThinkPad T520 OS: openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) Kernel: 3.7.10-1.16-desktop KDE: 4.11.3

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[opensuse-project] openSUSE Board Candidacy
by Andres Silva 10 Nov '13

10 Nov '13

Hello, Many of you know me as “anditosan” and I have participated of the openSUSE project for a few years. I believe it is a good time for me to stand up for candidacy for the openSUSE Board. I have used SUSE and later openSUSE since 2000 and I still consider myself a novice knowing that openSUSE is ever evolving and our community is ever vibrant. New things for us are always around the corner. Believing that changes happen all the time and that being part of a coordinating body like the board will help my passion for innovation and Linux further itself into our wonderful community. I have participated mostly of the Artwork team creating promotional designs to further our brand, also to promote our releases, to change looks on our distribution and making our name a visual memory for our users. I have also recently joined the News team in making sure that our communications to the press and users is clear and attractive. But I would like to do more than this. I have also been a teacher, publisher, historian and an artist. I believe in communication as a means to making our project better. My intentions as a member of the board are to contribute with the communication of the board to the rest of the project. Helping in difficult situations that our members face and coordinating efforts to have our community aligned with clear objectives. I believe in openSUSE’s commitment to inclusion and I intend to take that further. I respectfully present my candidacy and rely on your votes to put my people experience to the test as part of the openSUSE Board. 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] openSUSE Board
by js＠johest.de 10 Nov '13

10 Nov '13

Dear madame or sir, i guess the timeframe is still up, so i would like to run as candidate for the openSUSE Board As an openSUSE board member i would like to improve on reliability and stability of openSUSE and make it more trustful for our users. I would like to add more money and power to our ambassadors cause they are the guys talking to all of our current, former and upcomming users. Cheers Jörg "johest" 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] Cinnamon screenshots
by Ish Sookun 09 Nov '13

09 Nov '13

Hello folks, I have updated "zypper" instruction for Cinnamon installation on openSUSE 13.1 : http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Cinnamon#Zypper I've also included some screenshots here : http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Cinnamon_Screenshots Cheers! Ish Sookun - Geek by birth ... Linux by choice. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |H|A|C|K|L|O|G|.|i|n| +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ -- 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] Question for Upcoming Board elections
by Robert Schweikert 06 Nov '13

06 Nov '13

On 11/06/2013 03:04 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Robert Schweikert <rjschwei(a)suse.com > <mailto:rjschwei@suse.com>> wrote: > > On 11/06/2013 01:38 PM, Manu Gupta wrote: > > Hi > > I have a question, if someone wants to stand for the elections, > can he > or she specifially apply for a one year or a two year team as there > are 2 seats on one year term. > > > Ultimately the Election Committee has to answer the question. My > interpretation is that the answer to your question is "No" > > The decision about who gets 1 or 2 year terms is based on the number > of votes each candidate receives. > > In this election the 2 highest vote getters will receive the 2 seats > with the 2 year terms and the next 2 vote getters will get the 1 > year term seats. > > That is my interpretation of the rule and not "official" the > Election-Committee has the final ruling on the interpretation of the > Election rules. > > HTH, > Robert > > > Logic dictates that someone running could state in advance that they are > only running for a one-year slot. Otherwise they might win a 2-year > slot, but then resign at the end of one year. That would be > counter-productive. I do not necessarily disagree, but changes to that effect would possibly require a change to the rules and that is a separate discussion. Implementing a change to the election guidelines right before the election is probably difficult and thus may be best addressed after the current elections have concluded. My $0.02 Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU SUSE-IBM Software Integration Center LINUX Tech Lead Public Cloud Architect 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] Starting openSUSE build for ppc64le architecture
by Dinar Valeev 06 Nov '13

06 Nov '13

Hi, I'd like to announce that I started to work on bringing openSUSE Factory to powerpc64 little endian architecture. This is the real architecture and not compatible with ppc64. I already sent pull requests to several projects. You can expect more patches, submit requests, pull requests coming for your project. Core have already support for that (gdb,gcc,libtool,binutils). Our build workers are capable to run little endian guests, plus third 7R2 machine is on the way to OBS network. That should help with increased build number. Have fun, Dinar -- 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)Standing for the openSUSE Board
by Andrew Wafaa 06 Nov '13

06 Nov '13

Aloha fellow Geekos! I was fortunate enough to have been elected to the Board two years ago, and as always when you have fun time flies. As such my current tenure on the Board is due to end this year. As the openSUSE project is something that I value, believe in and enjoy I would like to stand for re-election. I will not present my campaign yet but will do so as of the 18 Nov, but what I will say is this: As an existing Board member I believe I can add further to what we have done over the last two years and help continue the forward growth of the project. Being on the Board is not all Unicorns and Bunnies, there are some painful and somewhat ugly things thrown in there which can be daunting; but as I have experienced them already I feel I am better prepared to deal with any future gremlins and ultimately better serve you. The Board is here to represent you the community and not any corporate entity, yes I work for ARM Ltd. but ensuring ARM is a well supported architecture is not why I am running for re-election. I am running for re-election because I believe that I am one of the right people to help openSUSE prosper as a project and become a shining example of what an open project can achieve. Many thanks for your vote of confidence over the last two years, and I hope you continue to trust me with your votes in the near future. Kind regards and thanks for all the fun, Andy -- Andrew Wafaa IRC: FunkyPenguin GPG: 0x3A36312F -- 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] A message for board candidates
by Robert Schweikert 05 Nov '13

05 Nov '13

Hi, First we would like to thank the Election Committee for getting the election process rolling and announcing the time schedule. [1] For those of you considering candidacy for the openSUSE Board we thought that the following information may be useful to you. As a member of the board you obviously volunteer your time and we know you will do the best you can in making a positive contribution. While the future is unpredictable it would be great if you can take a peek into the crystal ball and see if you feel comfortable with making a 2 year time commitment. During your time on the board you are expected to participate in most IRC project meetings and the board calls that take place every other week (currently scheduled for 1 hour on Mondays.) You are also expected to participate in a face to face board meeting that usually takes place in Nuremberg at the SUSE office over a weekend shortly after the new board is formed and you are expected to participate in the openSUSE conference (end of April 2014). Last but not least you need to form opinions about project related things that are brought to the boards attention and volunteer for board activities. All of this is doable while working full time, obviously, but it has to be a priority. Just some food for thought, Your openSUSE Board [1] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2013-10/msg00063.html -- 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] Board Announcement
by Robert Schweikert 03 Nov '13

03 Nov '13

Hi, On November 1st, 2013 Richard Brown will start to work for SUSE. This will create an imbalance of SUSE employed elected board members over non SUSE employed elected board members. With Will's resignation we currently have 3 elected board members as opposed to the expected 5 board members. Two of the 3 will be employed by SUSE, thus constituting a 66% position on the elected board in favor of one company. This does not meet the guidelines for board composition. In order to meet the guidelines two additional SUSE employed elected board members (Richard and Robert) would have to step down leaving the board with 1 elected member, Andrew. But hen 1 company would hold 100% of elected positions on the board, also violating the guidelines. Thus, we do not consider this to be a workable solution. Another option is to appoint two new members that do not work for SUSE in short order. This has it's own complication with the ongoing election process. As we write this, we also realize that we have been violating the 40% rule for some time. Ever since Raymond decided to step down and his seat was not filled. The seat was not filled due to concerns regarding favoritism with respect to closeness to the election. Both concerns are valid now as well, of course. The past violation of this rule was an honest mistake and we apologize for the oversight. With the election pending we propose to continue as a 3 elected member board, with 2 seats held by SUSE employees (Richard and Robert) and one seat held by a member not employed by SUSE (Andrew), until the end of the year. The new board will take the reigns in January and the percentage rule will once again be upheld. Collectively we can jump through a number of hoops to move all the puzzle pieces in the proper location, the "what-if" scenarios could probably fill multiple pages. However, with the election period upon us, it is the board's opinion that this is not necessary. The decision ultimately rests with the community and we will follow the guidance provided in the discussion of this topic. Regards, Your openSUSE Board -- 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] Stepping down from the openSUSE Board
by Will Stephenson 01 Nov '13

01 Nov '13

The time has come for me to step down as an openSUSE Board member. I ran for the board on a platform of realistic goals for the Board but over the last years several factors have reduced my time for the openSUSE project considerably. First, I became a father for the second time last September (which while a very happy event, has proved rather more demanding than anticipated) and second, I left the openSUSE Team in April this year for an internal team at SUSE without any involvement in openSUSE. Thirdly, changes in how the openSUSE project is handled by SUSE shifted many new tasks to the Board. So in the last few months the time I have to meet my responsibilities to the Board has approached zero. As a result I would like to tender my resignation to my fellow Board members so that they can get on with organising the upcoming Board elections with a clear idea of who will be running. In closing I would like to thank my colleagues on the board, Vincent Richard, Robert and Andy for their work in facilitating the project's smooth running and most importantly in sincerely and determinedly representing the interests of the independent openSUSE project. Will Stephenson -- Will Stephenson, openSUSE Board, KDE Developer SUSE LINUX GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5 90409 Nürnberg Germany -- 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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