November 2013 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-project] Factory development
by Jos Poortvliet 21 Nov '13

21 Nov '13

dear openSUSE Community, openSUSE 13.1 is out, Factory is ready for action. In the coming months there will be more development coming from the SUSE side due to SLE work. We'd like to remind you of the freighttrain(a)opensuse.org mail address, as introduced by AJ in his blog last year [1]. Have a lot of fun, The openSUSE Team [1] http://jaegerandi.blogspot.de/2012/04/opensuses-freight-train.html

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[opensuse-project] openSUSE 13.1 promodvds
by Ish Sookun 20 Nov '13

20 Nov '13

Hello folks, openSUSE 13.1 promodvd images don't seem to be available ... or is it me looking at the wrong place? See : http://download.opensuse.org/promodvd/ Regards, Ish Sookun openSUSE Advocate www.openSUSE.org - 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] Call for volunteers for the TSP
by Robert Schweikert 19 Nov '13

19 Nov '13

Hi all, We are in desperate need for 2 or 3 additional volunteers for the Travel Support Program. The Travel Support Program team decides on allocation of funds for those contributors requesting travel assistance to attend FOSS events, this includes our own events of course ;) There is a general process in place, the guidelines are written up and it is a job of helping to administer the requests, follow up with requesters and SUSE every now and then to see that things are moving. Izabel and Kostas are currently the only TSP administrators and obviously when Kostas disappears to keep Greece from going up in flames Izabel is alone. This is not the best solution, thus we'd like to add a couple of additional people to the team. Please step up, this is an important function to the project and has helped many people in the past to attend events to represent openSUSE that they could have otherwise not attended. If you are interested and want more information about what's going on your best source of information are Izabel and Kostas. Please consider stepping up and helping out. Thanks, 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] release is near!
by Jos Poortvliet 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

Heya all, The release is nearing. If you want to help in the marketing area, be sure to check out the article about that [1] and help out with our social media plan: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Social_media_launch_plan The idea behind the social media plan is that we have a list of people responsible for certain accounts and they send out the messages we prepared on the wiki page above. If, of course, there is no account for a certain language it is pointless to translate... Help is welcome, both in finding who can and will send those messages and in translation! /J [1] http://news.opensuse.org/2013/10/07/help-promote-opensuse-13-1/ -- 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] Announcing candidates for the openSUSE board election 2013
by Thomas Schmidt 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

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

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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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